Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

which were false, disobedience and transgression were introduced into our world. This
disobedience to God's express command, this belief of Satan's lie, opened the
floodgates of woe upon the world.--RH, Apr 5, 1898. {2MCP 562.1}
Nature Weakened.--The transgression of God's law brought woe and death in its
train. Through disobedience man's powers were perverted and selfishness took the
place of love. His nature became so weakened that it was impossible for him to resist
the power of evil, and the tempter saw being fulfilled his purpose to thwart the divine
plan of man's creation and fill the earth with misery and desolation. Men had chosen a
ruler who chained them to his car as captives.--CT 33 (1913). {2MCP 562.2}
God's Law Easily Understood.--There is no mystery in the law of God. The
feeblest intellect can grasp these rules to regulate the life and form the character after
the Divine Model. If the children of men would, to the best of their ability, obey this law,
they would gain strength of
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intellect and power of discernment to comprehend still more of God's purposes and
plans. And this advancement may not only be continued during the present life, but it
may go forward during the eternal ages.--RH, Sept 14, 1886. {2MCP 562.3}
Wonderful in Simplicity.--How wonderful in its simplicity, its comprehensiveness
and perfection, is the law of Jehovah! In the purposes and dealings of God there are
mysteries which the finite mind is unable to comprehend. And it is because we cannot
fathom the secrets of infinite wisdom and power that we are filled with reverence for the
Most High.--RH, Sept 14, 1886. {2MCP 563.1}
Perfect Harmony Between Law and Gospel.--There is perfect harmony between
the law of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. "I and My Father are one," says the
Great Teacher. The gospel of Christ is the Good News of grace, or favor, by which man
may be released from the condemnation of sin and enabled to render obedience to the
law of God. The gospel points to the moral code as a rule of life. That law, by its
demands for undeviating obedience, is continually pointing the sinner to the gospel for
pardon and peace. {2MCP 563.2}
Says the great apostle, "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid:
yea, we establish the law" (Romans 3:31). And again he declares that "the law is holy,
and the commandment holy, and just, and good" (Romans 7:12). Enjoining supreme
love to God, and equal love to our fellowmen, it is indispensable alike to the glory of
God and to human happiness.--RH, Sept 27, 1881. {2MCP 563.3}
A Complete Rule of Life.--God has given man a complete rule of life in His law.
Obeyed, he shall live by it, through the merits of Christ. Transgressed, it has power to
condemn. The law sends men to Christ, and Christ points them back to the law.--RH,
Sept 27, 1881. (HC 138.)
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