Sabbath School Today, Volume 9 - Paul E. Penno

take the righteousness of Christ as a free gift you are justified freely through
the redemption of Christ. What is faith? ... It is an assent of the
understanding to God's words which binds the heart in willing consecration
and service to God, Who gave the understanding, Who moved on the heart,
Who first drew the mind to view Christ on the cross of Calvary. Faith is
rendering to God the intellectual powers, abandonment of the mind and will
to God, and making Christ the only door to enter into the kingdom of
heaven." [11]
Please understand what this says: It is God who gives understanding; it
is God who moves the heart and draws the mind to the grasp the reality of
what took place on Calvary's cross. Like Abraham, all we can do is surrender
our will and say, "Amen"-we believe and agree with God that salvation is all
of Him and none of us.
Endnotes:
[1] Robert J. Wieland, The Knocking At The Door, p. 73 (1983).
[2] Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, July 24, 1894.
[3] Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings, p. 94; CFI ed. (2018).*
[4] Ibid., p. 56, emphasis in original.
[5] Ibid., p. 110, emphases in original.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Ibid., p. 109.
[8] Ibid., p. 71.
[9] Ibid., p. 109.
[10] Ellen G. White, Faith and Works, p. 24.
[11] Ibid., p. 25.
--Ann Walper
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