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Sabbath School Today | with the 1888 Message Dynamic

Our unique 1888 message teaches just what the Bible says, “God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:17). Our evangelistic message is that Christ has reversed “the result of one [Adam’s] misdeed [which] was condemnation for all people, so the result of one righteous act [the cross] is acquittal and life for all” (Rom. 5:18, Revised English Bible). 

Faith, a Free Gift to All

By grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). By grace are ye saved, because it is the grace that is the favor of God that brings salvation. That favor being given freely and without measure to every one of us, bringing salvation to all, so the salvation of God is free to all men. To every one of us it is given freely, without measure and without reserve.    --Alonzo T. Jones

Boundless Grace Free to All

 

Do you want to be like Jesus? Then receive the grace that he has so fully and so freely given. Receive it in the measure in which he has given it, not in the measure in which you think you deserve it. Yield yourself to it, that it may work in you and for you the wondrous purpose for which it is given, and it will do it. It will make you like Jesus.  --Alonzo T. Jones

Sabbath School Today | with the 1888 Message Dynamic

God is holy. When the Son of God was born to Mary He was “that holy thing” (Luke 1:35). God created the angels holy (Matt. 25:31). The very nature of God is agape; therefore, His holiness is love (1 John 4:8). The law of God is a perfect description of His character. --Paul E. Penno

The Election of Grace: Romans 10 & 11 Verse-by-Verse

"But the first principle in God’s plan is that He begins the process of salvation and He ends it. Nothing begins with us. 11:35: “Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again?” If it could be said that man in any way initiates His salvation by doing something right like believing, then a reward might be expected. But that would not be true faith motivated by agape. That would be self-interested trust hoping for its due reward."  --Paul E. Penno

The Election of Grace: Romans 10 & 11 Verse-by-Verse

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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Goodness Leading to Repentance

“Why is there in the hand of a fool the purchase price of wisdom, since he has no heart for it?” Proverbs 17:16. Or, of what use to offer freedom from sin to a man incapable of appreciating goodness?  ~Ellet J. Waggoner

Under the Law

One of the peculiarities of the human mind is that while it readily grasps a pleasing story or a fable, it refuses to accept truth until it is compelled to.

Men wrest the Scriptures refusing to accept that Jesus took the nature of His brethern and instead cling for dear life to the fable that He came in Adam's nature before Adam sinned.