Week EightDecoding the Covenants 71
inSight
Review the memory verse.
How does it apply to your
life this week?
After this week’s study of the
chapter, where is grace needed
in your life?
Where is grace needed in those
around you?
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AMAZING GRACE
“ ‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’ Through faith, irrespective
of feeling, Jesus, the Author of our salvation, the Finisher of our faith,
will, by His precious grace, strengthen the moral powers, and the
sinner may reckon himself ‘to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto
God through Jesus Christ.’ Simple faith, with the love of Christ in the
soul, unites the believer to God.” (Ellen G. White, Lift Him Up, 369.)
“Those who trust wholly in the righteousness of Christ, looking to
Him in living faith, know the Spirit of Christ and are known of Christ.
Simple faith enables the believer to reckon himself dead indeed unto
sin and alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. We are saved by
grace through our faith, and that not of ourselves; it is the gift of God.”
(White, Faith and Works, 91.)
“When the Christian takes his baptismal vow, divine help is pledged
to him. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit stand ready to work in
his behalf. God places at his command the resources of heaven, that he
may be an overcomer. His own power is small; but God is omnipotent,
and God is his helper. Daily he is to make known his wants at the
throne of grace. By faith and trust, by availing himself of the resources
provided, he can be more than a conqueror.” (White, Our High Calling,
157.)
“The grace given cost Heaven a price it is impossible for us to
measure. That grace is our choicest treasure, and Christ means that it
shall be communicated through us. It is sacred, in the name of Jesus,
to the saving of the soul. It is the revealing of the honor of God, an
unfolding of His glory.” (White, In Heavenly Places, 220.)
“Divine grace is the great element of saving power; without it all
human eort is unavailing.” (White, Evangelism, 629.)
“The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which
separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual
disorders, is selshness. There can be no returning to the Lord except
by self-denial. Of ourselves we can do nothing; but, through God
strengthening us, we can live to do good to others, and in this way shun
the evil of selshness. We need not go to heathen lands to manifest
our desire to devote all to God in a useful, unselsh life. We should do
this in the home circle, in the church, among those with whom we
associate and with whom we do business. Right in the common walks
of life is where self is to be denied and kept in subordination.” (White,
Testimonies for the Church, 2:132.)
“The Holy Spirit will be given to those who seek for its power and
grace and will help our inrmities when we would have an audience
with God. Heaven is open to our petitions, and we are invited to come
“boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and nd
grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). We are to come in faith,
believing that we shall obtain the very things we ask of Him.” (White,
God’s Amazing Grace, 217.)