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All power and glory belong to God, but Christ is the power of God and the shining of His glory. God has spoken in Him, and still speaks, the word that creates. All things are upon Him. Everything that affects one of God's creatures affects God Himself, for their life is His life. The sin and the pain that afflict us, make God weary. Everything that man has done was done with God’s life, and therefore committed upon God; and God has shown and still shows His willingness that it should come upon Him, by patiently continuing His life to sinful men, and not cutting them off from the face of the earth. But Christ, who bears all things, upon whose life are all sins, has given His life, and thereby made an atonement for all sin. “Now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.” Hebrews 9.26. Now His life is clear; no one can charge God with complicity with sin, although it was committed with His life. He hates sin, and so He destroys it in giving up His own life. Thus He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world, for He bears the sins of the world. For His own sake He blots out sin, and since His life is our life, we necessarily get the benefit of the transaction.”

In Christ, by the faith of Jesus, the believer keeps the commandments of God, which is the righteousness of God. Thus the keeping of the commandments of God is the free gift of His righteousness received solely by the faith of Jesus - the very faith that Jesus excercised on earth to overcome the world.

This is an unforgetable 'Collection' on the faith of Jesus! 

Having "faith in Jesus," is not the same as having the "faith of Jesus."

"Here are those who have endured to the end; who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."  Revelation 14.12

"The flesh is just the same in a converted man that it is in a sinner, but the difference is that now it has no power, since the man yields to the Spirit, which controls the flesh."

We now come to the conclusion of the whole matter. In the eighth chapter of Romans the epistle reaches its highest point. The seventh has presented to us the deplorable condition of the man who has been awakened by the law to a sense of his condition, bound to sin by cords that can be loosened only by death. It closes with a glimpse of the Lord Jesus Christ as the One who alone can set us free from the body of death. This brings us to the state of freedom from condemnation.

 

Library Articles

When men are convinced of a truth, and are looking for some way to avoid yielding obedience to it, they have a powerful ally at hand to help them. We are told that as the enemy nears the time when his work will be cut short by the coming of the Lord, he will work “with all unrighteous deception among those who perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (2 Thess. 2:10). ~Ellet J. Waggoner

"For this Gentile woman to come to the point where there was no “self” left in her means that she saw in Christ the principle of the cross. She was a follower of Christ in self-denial. She was experiencing with Him the principle of corporate repentance. In order for “self” to be denied, the Holy Spirit reveals everything there is whether out in the open or hidden beneath the surface. It is to see the sins of others as my own sins. This is our Day of Atonement repentance—the deeper meaning of our sanctuary truth—to which Jesus our priestly healer is leading us as a remnant people." ~Paul E. Penno

 

"How do we get it? —By faith. How else could we get it? Since it is impossible for any to get righteousness by the deeds of the law, it is evident that it must come by faith, as a gift. And this is in keeping with the statement that “the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Someone says that it doesn’t seem possible that we could get righteousness in this way. But think a moment; “sin” and “righteousness” simply denote our relation to God."  ~Ellet J. Waggoner

"I believe in the reality of the “wrath of God.” But where does it come in? As I see it in Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy, God is not wrathful because men have rebelled against Him nor even because they crucified His Son. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” is His attitude toward that sin of mankind. His wrath will blaze forth when at the last the wicked attempt to exterminate God’s people! This is a willful, conscious re-crucifixion of Christ. The purpose of the second coming of Christ is that of a rescue operation, not a punishment expedition. The destruction of the wicked when they see His face is incidental."  ~Paul E. Penno

 
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit; by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water” ( 1Pet. 3:18-20).