Living by Faith - White Raiment Evangelism

LIVING BY FAITH

(ORIGINALLY, NON MODIFIED TEXT)

E. J. WAGGONER & A. T. JONES

Living by Faith A companion book to Lessons on Faith.

Modernized, reworded, revised and modified version can be bought at

Legend: PT=The Present Truth ST=The Signs of the Times RH=The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald BE=The Bible Echo

Contents

1. THE KEEPING POWER.................................................4 2. LIGHT AND LIFE........................................................5 3. TRUE FAITH.............................................................6 4. THE CREATIVE WORD.................................................8 5. WEAKNESS AND POWER............................................10 6. OVERCOMING IN CHRIST............................................12 7. THE INDWELLING WORD............................................13 8. FAITH AND BREATH..................................................16 9. PRESENT SALVATION.................................................17 10. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE...............................................20 11. DESPERATELY WICKED............................................21 12. HEAR AND LIVE.....................................................23 13. THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS...................................25 14. EVE DISBELIEVED GOD............................................28 15. ANOTHER MAN.....................................................30 16. AS FREE AS A BIRD................................................31 17. JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS..................................34 18. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH..........................................36 19. THE HEALING TOUCH..............................................37 20. THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT......................................40 21. WHAT THE GOSPEL INCLUDES...................................43 22. THE COMFORTER...................................................44 23. PERFECTION YET GROWTH.......................................47 24. THE LIFE OF THE WORD..........................................48 25. THE WORKS OF THE FLESH......................................50 26. WHY DID YOU DOUBT?...........................................53 27. LIVING FAITH.......................................................54 28. DISCERNING THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED (JUDGING OTHER PEOPLE).........................................................56 29. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LIFE.......................................58 30. LET IT BE............................................................61 31. SAVED BY HIS LIFE................................................63 32. DON'T FORGET TO EAT...........................................66

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33. HAVE FAITH IN GOD...............................................68 34. LIVING BY THE WORD.............................................69 35. PRAYER..............................................................72 36. BEING JUSTIFIED....................................................74 37. SABBATH MIRACLES...............................................76 38. LIFE IN CHRIST.....................................................80 39. WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?...........................................81 40. PRESENT TENSE RELIGION.......................................85 41. A NEW CREATION..................................................86 42. A LESSON FROM REAL LIFE......................................88 43. MAKING MISTAKES.................................................91 44. CREATION AND REDEMPTION.....................................92 45. THE LAW AND THE LIFE...........................................94 46. WEAKNESS AND STRENGTH......................................97 47. CHRISTIAN GROWTH...............................................98 48. THE JUDGMENT...................................................101 49. THE FINAL CLEANSING..........................................103 50. "Let this mind be in you"..............................................104

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1. The Keeping Power

E. J. Waggoner

A power that is able to save is able also to keep. The apostle speaks of the believers as those "who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." 1 Peter 1:5. The faith that does not claim the power of God in the daily stress of sin is not a saving faith. Whenever we fall into sin, it is because for that moment our faith has let go of the Lord, and we are not believing in Him.

For "whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God"-whosoever is believing. It is not a thing accomplished once for all time, but a continual process, if only we were but constant in believing. And while believing, the power of God keeps. For we read, "We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but He that is begotten of God keepeth him, and the evil one toucheth him not." 1 John 5:18, R.V.

It is a blessed truth that the one who is believing is shut in by the arms of the Lord, and the evil one cannot touch him. There is refuge, a covert from the storm. Oh, that we might learn to abide in the shelter; for we know well enough by bitter experience that we have not power to keep ourselves-not for one moment.

In a world of sin and wickedness the one who is believing is being kept from the iniquity that surrounds him, that is even in his very flesh ready to spring upon him. When the three Hebrew captives were thrown into the furnace of fire, the fire had no power upon their bodies, "nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them." There was with them in the furnace One who had said, "I will be with thee," and "when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned."

He it is that is pledged to keep the believing one in the midst of the consuming fire of sin. We cannot endure it alone; we always fall, and the fiery darts strike into the soul. The prayer of David must be ours continually, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a constant spirit [margin] within me." Thank God, when our faith has not held Him fast, and we find the enemy has found us and touched us, there is still the promise following the injunction, "sin not." "And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." He looses and sets us free again. But He sets us free that we may hold steadfastly by a firmer faith to Him. In the bitterness of sin we are taught our own weakness and worthlessness, and in the sweetness of His forgiveness we are taught His power to save.

PT, May 3, 1894

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2. Light and Life

E. J. Waggoner One of the characteristics of light is that it may multiply itself indefinitely without diminishing itself in the least. A lighted candle may give light to a million candles, and yet its own light be just as bright. The sun supplies light and heat to this earth, and there is enough for all. Each individual gets as much benefit from the sun now as it was possible for anyone to get when the population of the earth was only half as great as it now is. The sun gives its whole strength to each person, and yet it has much heat and light as though it supplied no one. Jesus Christ is the Sun of righteousness, and the Light of the world. The light which He gives is His life. "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." John 1:4. He says, "He that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John 8:12. His life He gives for the world. All who believe on Him receive His life, and are saved by it. Just as the light of the candle is not diminished although many others are lighted by it, so Christ's life is not diminished though He gives it to many. Each individual may have it all in its fulness. The light shone in the darkness, and the darkness could not overcome it. His light could not be quenched. Satan could not take His light, because he could notattempt Him to sin. So He could lay down His life, He still had as much left. His life triumph over death. It is infinite life. So He is able to save them to the uttermost who come unto God by Him. Christ will dwell in His completeness in every one who will let Him. This is the mystery of the Gospel.

PT, October 6, 1892

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