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Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce
The purity, the holiness, of the life of Jesus as presented from
the Word of God, possess more power to reform and transform the
character than do all the efforts put forth in picturing the sins and
crimes of men and the sure results. One steadfast look to the Saviour
uplifted upon the cross will do more to purify the mind and heart from
every defilement than will all the scientific explanations by the ablest
tongue.
Forgiveness at the Cross—Before the cross the sinner sees his
unlikeness of character to Christ. He sees the terrible consequences of
transgression; he hates the sin that he has practiced, and he lays hold
upon Jesus by living faith. He has judged his position of uncleanness
in the light of the presence of God and the heavenly intelligences. He
has measured it by the standard of the cross. He has weighed it in the
balances of the sanctuary. The purity of Christ has revealed to him his
own impurity in its odious colors. He turns from the defiling sin; he
looks to Jesus, and lives.
He finds an all-absorbing, commanding, attractive character in
Jesus Christ, the One who died to deliver him from the deformity of
sin, and with quivering lip and tearful eye he declares, “He shall not
have died for me in vain.”—
Letter 102, 1894
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