Ellet J. Waggoner
By what life are we saved?—By the life of Christ, and He has but one. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8). It is by His present life that we are saved, that is, by His life in us from day to day. But the life which He now lives is the very same life that He lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago. He took again the same life that He laid down. Think what was in the life of Christ, as we have the record in the New Testament, and we shall know what ought to be in our lives now. If we allow Him to dwell in us, He will live just as He did then. If there is that in our lives that was not in His then, we may be sure that He is not living it in us now. (The Present Truth 12, 31 (July 30, 1896), p. 496.)