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The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials: Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

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awakening power, such as can be found only in the<br />

preaching of Jesus Christ--His love, His<br />

forgiveness, His grace. Justification by faith is to<br />

be accepted by every soul, not according to some<br />

lifeless, dead idea, but according to the truth<br />

presented in the gospel. It is Christ that we need. It<br />

is Christ that every sinner needs. Let Him be<br />

presented in the Spirit and with power--Christ's<br />

humiliation, His meekness, and His lowly life of<br />

poverty, that every son and daughter of Adam<br />

might be made rich. He died our Sacrifice. He rose<br />

again from the dead. He ascended to heaven, and<br />

there intercedes in man's behalf that he might be<br />

brought to believe on Him whom the Father hath<br />

sent.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re have been so many discourses that have<br />

not had the fragrance of Christ's merits and His<br />

righteousness, that the gospel as it has been<br />

preached does not convict and convert souls. "God<br />

so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten<br />

Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not<br />

perish, but have everlasting life." We may dwell<br />

upon the punishing of every sin, and the awfulness

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