Introduction In your hands you hold the key to your own salvation and the finishing of God’s work on earth. The blessing of justification by the imputed “righteousness which is of God by faith” cannot be over-estimated. To underestimate this precious blessing will be to make a mistake which will prove disastrous both for time and for eternity. The gospel of justification by Christ’s imputed righteousness is forever the rock of offense. The issue before every member, before every Christian is whether we will fall upon this Rock and be

The book of Hebrews takes up the theme of Christian perfection in the light of the incarnation, atonement, and intercession of Christ Jesus. “If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?…. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh to God” (Heb. 7:11-19). “The law

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH AS TAUGHT BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN and the S. D. A. SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS ON GALATIANS April-June 1990 John Henry Newman was born in London in 1801, the eldest of six children. His family had evangelical sympathies, and these evangelical roots had the strongest influence on his early life Newman entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1817 and was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College in 1822. While there, he began to relinquish the kind of evangelicalism he was acquainted with. A number of friends had a

DOES UNCONVERTED MAN HAVE LEGAL PROBLEM ? “Fallen man is Satan’s lawful captive.” T 1. 341. Isa. 49:24. “Through man’s sin, Satan had gained controlled of the human race.” P.P. 77. “As a result of Adam’s disobedience, every human being is a transgressor of the law,sold under sin, serving Satan.” S.T. 23-7-1902. “By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners.” Rom. 5:18. “The inheritance of children is that of sin.” C.G, 475. Because of Adam’s sin, every son and daughter of Adam is born a sinner. He is not born