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The Saving Power Of Jesus, March 8
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
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Our precious Saviour has invited us to join ourselves to Him and unite our
weakness with His strength, our ignorance with His wisdom, our unworthiness
with His merit.
Rigid precision in obeying the law would entitle no man to enter the kingdom
of heaven.
There must be a new birth, a new mind through the operation of the Spirit of
God, which purifies the life and ennobles the character. This connection with God
fits man for the glorious kingdom of heaven. No human invention can ever find a
remedy for the sinning soul.
There must be a power working from within, a new life from above, before
men can be changed from sin to holiness. That power is Christ. His grace alone
can quicken the lifeless faculties of the soul, and attract it to God, to holiness....
The idea that it is necessary only to develop the good that exists in man by nature,
is a fatal deception. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.”
1 Corinthians 2:14
.... Of Christ it is written, “In him was
life; and the life was the light of men”the only “name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved.”
John 1:4
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Acts 4:12
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Paul the apostle ... longed for the purity, the righteousness, to which in himself
he was powerless to attain, and he cried out, “O wretched man that I am! who
shall deliver me from this body of death?”
Romans 7:24
, margin. Such is the cry
that has gone up from burdened hearts in all lands and in all ages. To all, there
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is but one answer, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.”
John 1:29
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