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"The beginning of faith is believing the truth that “God’s word” has inherent within it the power to create what it says. It is called the “beginning” of faith because one can believe this and still not act that way. ... However, believing that God exists and that His word has inherent within it the power to create what it says is the first step in the right direction."  Craig Barnes

Ellen G. White: (Following 1888)  

“The opposition in our own ranks has imposed upon the Lord’s messengers [Jones and Waggoner] a laborious and soul trying task; for they have had to meet difficulties and obstacles which need not have existed. ... Love and confidence constitute a moral force that would have united our churches, and insured harmony of action; but coldness and distrust have brought disunion that has shorn us of our strength” (General Conference Daily Bulletin, Feb. 28, 1893, p. 419; Letter, Jan. 9, 1893).

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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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Lesson 3: “All Have Sinned”

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By faith they do the commandments. Since the gospel is contrary to human nature, we become doers of the law not by doing but by believing. If we worked for righteousness, we would be exercising only our own sinful human nature, and so would get no nearer to righteousness, but farther from it. But bybelieving the ‘exceeding great and precious promises,’ we become partakers of the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:4, KJV), and then all our works are wrought in God. ...

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"Health and Healing”     Lesson 3: “Celebrating Spiritual and Physical Fitness”

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