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"The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing.  To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended."       

Ellet J.Waggoner                                                         

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Sabbath School Today

 With the 1888 Message Dynamic

Lesson 11: The Election of Grace

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“In Romans 11 the apostle very forcibly illustrates the way in which the promises to Israel could be fulfilled, even though all the literal descendants of Jacob should forfeit their right to the inheritance. In the first and second verses he declares that God has not cast away his people. This might lead us to suppose that literal Israel are yet the chosen people of God, if he did not say in verse 5 that those that remain are ‘according to the election of grace.’ Then he represents Israel by an olive tree. Some of the branches have been cut off, and the Gentiles, a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. This grafting is contrary to nature, for the grafts partake of the root and fatness of the tame olive tree into which they are grafted, and bear the same kind of fruit. He warns those who are thus grafted in not to boast, since they stand only by faith, and that as the natural branches were broken off because of unbelief, so they may likewise be removed. The Jews, the natural branches, may become part of the tree, but if they do, it will not be as original branches, but as spiritual grafts. Thus the people of Israel are only a spiritual people,—those who are Christ’s,—‘and so all Israel shall be saved’” (The Present Truth, “The True Israel,” July 5, 1888). -Ellet J. Waggoner

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Redemption for Jew and Gentile - Romans 9 Verse-by-Verse

 A Verse-by-Verse Study of Romans 9

 

From the 1888 Message Perspective

 

"The theme of Romans 9 is God’s everlasting covenant. God promised Christ as the Guarantor of His covenant and He elected the whole human race to be saved. Strict Calvinism teaches that God elected a special few to be saved. Islam, too, has its version of Allah’s sovereignty of election. Arminian Protestantism says, God has offered salvation to everyone if they do something right first and believe. Paul taught the Truth of the Gospel: God has already given the election of salvation to everyone."  -- Paul E. Penno
 

Sabbath School Today

  With the 1888 Message Dynamic

Lesson 10: Redemption for Jew and Gentile

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"True obedience flows from a heart completely unified with Christ by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. At the cross, believers refuse to be assured by their own strength, but with Christ, submit their spirit to Him in faith that He will fulfill His promises to true Israel."      - Arlene Hill           

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Sabbath School Today

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Lesson 9:  Freedom in Christ

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“So the law as it is in the person of Christ is the law of the Spirit of Life. So he [the believer] takes the life of Christ, and gets the perfection of the law as it is in Christ, and serves Him in spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."  

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We Are Not Convinced

When “the powers that be” are “a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well” (Rom. 13), then it is the Christian’s duty and delight to yield obedience to them; but when they turn aside and make themselves a praise to evildoers and a terror to them that do well, then our answer is always found in the answer to the rulers in Acts 4:19: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.”  Ellet J. Waggoner

Do the Dead Know?

"And so we say that the man, who, in contradiction of the Bible, declares that the dead are conscious, is on the high road toward declaring, in contradiction of the Bible, that the spirits of the dead may appear to and communicate with the living, and of finally denying the whole Bible."

The Necessity of Forgetting

"So much is said in the Bible about remembering, that many are in danger of losing sight of the fact that it is a duty sometimes to forget."

"One reason why so many fail to make advancement in the Christian life is because they have never learned how to forget"  Ellet J. Waggoner