Search for: The Spirit of Christ—true faith
1241 The Present Truth, vol. 10 June 21, 1894, page 389 paragraph 36
The Obedience of Faith .-Paul said that through Christ he had received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all nations. True faith is obedience …
1242 The Present Truth, vol. 10 June 28, 1894, page 404 paragraph 2
… of the gifts of the Spirit is evidence of the absence of the fulness of the Spirit; and that is the secret of the weakness of the church, and the great …
1243 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 9, 1894, page 499 paragraph 21
… is the nature of the Holy Spirit, for the word of God is the sword of the Spirit of God that can put the law of God into the heart of man. Therefore true circumcision …
1244 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 9, 1894, page 500 paragraph 7
… force of the promise, because the promise of God is only to those who have faith in Christ. “For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham …
1245 The Present Truth, vol. 11 January 3, 1895, page 2 paragraph 5
… followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. “The sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,” is almighty in the hand of him to whom it is the supreme rule of faith. It …
1246 The Present Truth, vol. 11 April 18, 1895, page 241 paragraph 7
… . To the world it appears as darkness, but to the eye of faith it is light. “If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,” writes Peter, “happy are ye, for the Spirit of glory …
1247 The Present Truth, vol. 11 May 16, 1895, page 311 paragraph 4
… to the confidence of mankind as the possessors of the true principles and practices of the Gospel of Christ. She has taken her stand upon the vantage ground …
1248 The Present Truth, vol. 11 October 31, 1895, page 690 paragraph 6
… faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all.” Ephesians 4:4-6. So as there is but one true God, the religion of Jesus Christ, whom He has sent, it is the only true religion …
1249 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 17, 1896, page 805 paragraph 2
… from the snare of the devil before it is too late, and show to the world, including the Turks, that Christianity means to be like Christ. We have full faith that …
1250 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 17, 1896, page 807 paragraph 2
… the light was “the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,” ( 2 Corinthians 4:4 ), so that we may know the ten commandments to be the literal …
1251 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 24, 1896, page 821 paragraph 6
… , is, “the Man Christ Jesus,” in whose heart is the law. He is the image of the invisible God, but the living image-the Living Stone. Coming to Him in faith, we also become …
1252 The Present Truth, vol. 12 December 31, 1896, page 836 paragraph 2
… by faith ( Romans 4:11 ); true circumcision, whose praise is not of men, but of God, is obedience to the law, through the Spirit ( Romans 2:25-29 ); it is complete distrust …
1253 The Present Truth, vol. 13 January 14, 1897, page 22 paragraph 4
… the church of Christ, which, as a whole, is “the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.” Ephesians 1:22, 23. So while the true theocracy is first of all in the heart of …
1254 The Present Truth, vol. 13 April 21, 1897, page 242 paragraph 10
… to the perfection of it. Only in Christ is the righteousness of the law ours; and true circumcision is to worship God in Spirit, to rejoice in Christ Jesus, and …
1255 The Present Truth, vol. 13 September 16, 1897, page 583 paragraph 1
… Holy Spirit, the blessed Paraclete, dwells in every soul that desires the life presence of God. In the development of faith and character, it is better, it is …
1256 The Present Truth, vol. 13 November 25, 1897, page 740 paragraph 8
… of faith-the confession of Christ-is the recognition and acknowledgment of the living truth that Christ dwells personally by the Spirit in the one making …
1257 The Present Truth, vol. 14 February 3, 1898, page 67 paragraph 2
… by faith alone, was in fact, really circumcised in heart “with the circumcision made without hands,” by the Spirit, before he received the outward mark, which …
1258 The Present Truth, vol. 14 March 10, 1898, page 149 paragraph 4
… in the same power in which Jesus worked. Thus it ought to be with every faithful servant of Jesus now. So, after the resurrection of Christ, those who examined …
1259 The Present Truth, vol. 14 July 7, 1898, page 419 paragraph 12
… of date to-day. From the time of the first solicitation to sin in the garden of Eden, until the end of the great controversy between Christ and Satan, the whole …
1260 The Present Truth, vol. 14 November 10, 1898, page 711 paragraph 1
… condition. The word which God puts into the mouths of them that trust Him is the word that is to “plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say …