- Foreword
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- Chapter 8—God's Commandment-Keeping People
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- The Simplicity of Being Saved
- You Can't Reason It Out
- The Faith of the Paralytic
- The Response to the Impotent Man
- The Brazen Serpent
- This is Righteousness by Faith
- Not Saved in Indolence
- You Cannot Save Yourselves
- The Crucial Point in the Great Controversy
- The Overcomer's Portion
- Believe Because God Says It
- Talk Faith, Live Faith, Act Faith
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- Chapter 15—This Is Justification by Faith
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Not Saved by Law Nor in Disobedience
While we are to be in harmony with God's law, we are not saved by the works of the law, yet we cannot be saved without obedience. The law is the standard by which character is measured. But we cannot possibly keep the commandments of God without the regenerating grace of Christ. Jesus alone can cleanse us from all sin. He does not save us by law, neither will He save us in disobedience to law.FW 95.3
Our love to Christ will be in proportion to the depth of our conviction of sin, and by the law is the knowledge of sin. But as we see ourselves, let us look away to Jesus, who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity. By faith take hold of the merits of Christ, and the soul-cleansing blood will be applied. The more clearly we see the evils and perils to which we have been exposed, the more grateful shall we be for deliverance through Christ. The gospel of Christ does not give men license to break the law, for it was through transgression that the floodgates of woe were opened upon our world.FW 96.1
Today sin is the same malignant thing that it was in the time of Adam. The gospel does not promise the favor of God to anyone who in impenitence breaks His law. The depravity of the human heart, the guilt of transgression, the ruin of sin, are all made plain by the cross where Christ has made for us a way of escape.FW 96.2