The Faith I Live By (1958)

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by  Ellen G. White

The Faith I Live By
Ellen G. White
1958
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Contents
Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
A Word to the Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
January—The Word and Works of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A Light for My Path, January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
My Defense in Temptation, January 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Its Promises Are Mine, January 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Lesson Book for All Mankind, January 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Bible From Heaven, January 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
All the Bible Inspired, January 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
An Infallible Revelation, January 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Mysteries We Cannot Fathom, January 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The Book That Endures, January 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Evidence of Experience, January 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Christ the Living Word, January 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Secret of Power, January 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Born of the Word, January 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Food for My Soul, January 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Life in God’s Word, January 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
A Table Set Before Me, January 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Linked to the Divine, January 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Origin by Creation, January 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Nature Speaks of God, January 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The Heavens Are Telling, January 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creation Not Evolution, January 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
All Nature Upheld by God, January 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Crowning Act of Creation, January 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
What Is Your Life? January 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Instituted at Creation, January 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
A Holy Memorial, January 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
A Special Sign, January 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Preparing for the Holy Day, January 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Sanctifed for Worship, January 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Happiest Day of the Week, January 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
To Be Kept in Eternity, January 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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Contents iii
February—The Three Dignitaries of Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Our Loving Heavenly Father, February 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
His Majesty and Greatness, February 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
A Personal God, February 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Holy and Reverend Is His Name, February 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Faithful and True, February 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
His Wonderful Love Expressed, February 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Perfect in All His Ways, February 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
God’s Gift to the Human Race, February 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
His Eternal Pre-existence, February 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
The Great “I AM”, February 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Creator Incarnate, February 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
His Blameless Life, February 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
He Died for Us, February 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Jesus’ Resurrection and the New Life, February 14 . . . . . . . 89
Third Person of the Godhead, February 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
The Gift of God to You, February 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
A Mysterious and Tender Presence, February 17 . . . . . . . . . 95
Agent in Redemption, February 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Comforter and Teacher, February 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
The Indwelling Spirit, February 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Grieve Not the Spirit, February 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
God Is Love, February 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
No Respecter of Persons, February 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Infnitely Wise and Good, February 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
The Divine Presence With Us Always, February 25 . . . . . . 108
His Gentle, Loving Care, February 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
The Saving Providences of God, February 27 . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Lover of All Men, February 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
March—Satan And The Great Rebellion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The Uprising of Rebellion, March 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Ambition Brings Sorrow, March 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Pride Comes Before a Fall, March 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Guard Against Untruthfulness! March 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Sin—Exceedingly Sinful, March 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Life or Death? March 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Rebellion Will Be Put Down, March 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Waywardness of Man, March 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
iv The Faith I Live By
The Way of Transgressors, March 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
First Promise of Redemption, March 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
A Saviour From Eternity, March 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
God’s Plan to Ransom Man, March 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Man’s Inability to Save Himself, March 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Our Angel Friends and Guardians, March 14 . . . . . . . . . . . 139
God’s Commandments Are Sure, March 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Tampering With the Commandments, March 16 . . . . . . . . . 143
Man a Free Moral Agent, March 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
In Harmony With Heaven, March 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Wondrous Things in God’s Law, March 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Jesus’ Example in Law Keeping, March 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
The Great Principle of the Law, March 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Our Helpless Condition in Sin, March 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
The Gospel for Both Dispensations, March 23 . . . . . . . . . . 155
Abundant Grace for Obedience, March 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
The Faith That Works, March 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
How Faith Is Made Perfect, March 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Do We Contradict Our Profession? March 27 . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Does Faith Cancel Obedience? March 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
The Great Element of Saving Power, March 29 . . . . . . . . . . 166
Praying for a Larger Experience, March 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
The Saving Power of Jesus, March 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
April—God’s Remedy For Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
The Saviour of Men, April 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
The Sinner’s Friend, April 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
A Wellspring of Life, April 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
My Guide and Pilot, April 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
The Sacrifcial Blood of Christ, April 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Justifed by His Blood, April 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Peace Through the Cross, April 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
A Glorious Substitution, April 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
A Perfect Atonement, April 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Type Meets Antitype, April 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Redemption and Forgiveness, April 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Self-righteousness Insuffcient, April 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Filled With His Righteousness, April 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
The First Steps in Justifcation, April 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Contents v
The Righteousness of Christ Suffcient, April 15 . . . . . . . . 193
His Righteousness Obtained by Faith, April 16 . . . . . . . . . . 195
Clothed in His Righteousness, April 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Proving the Will of God, April 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Faith Demonstrated by Works, April 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Sanctifcation the Work of a Lifetime, April 20 . . . . . . . . . . 202
A Hatred of Sin, April 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
“If Any Man Sin—”, April 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
The Test of Character, April 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
The Ladder to Perfection, April 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Joy and Peace in the Holy Ghost, April 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
What Is Faith? April 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Faith Comes Through the Promises, April 27 . . . . . . . . . . . 212
The Good Fight of Faith, April 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
The Just Shall Live by Faith, April 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Faith Is the Victory, April 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
May—Conversion And The New Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
True Sorrow for Sin, May 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Sincere Confession Essential, May 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
The Meaning of Forgiveness, May 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
The Sons and Daughters of God, May 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Forgiven as We Forgive, May 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Restitution Is Required, May 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Come Just as You Are, May 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
A Personal Pardon, May 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Union With Christ, May 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Help for the Poor in Spirit, May 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
A Change of Heart Needed, May 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Blessings on the Humble Man, May 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
A New Life Altogether, May 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Holiness of Life, May 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Strengthened by the Spirit, May 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Amazing Transformation of Character, May 16 . . . . . . . . . 248
Our Lord’s Example, May 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
“This Is My Beloved Son”, May 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Born of Water and the Spirit, May 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Baptized Into His Death and Resurrection, May 20 . . . . . . 256
Walking in His Steps, May 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
vi The Faith I Live By
When Rebaptism Is Appropriate, May 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Our Lord’s Command, May 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Changed by Beholding, May 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Taking Up Our Cross, May 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Developing Good Habits, May 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Unashamed of Jesus, May 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
The Right Exercise of the Will, May 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
The Sowing Time of Life, May 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Don’t Get Discouraged! May 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
A Life Insurance Policy for You, May 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
June—Here And Hereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Time a Precious Talent, June 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
A Cure for Idleness, June 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
The True Value of Money, June 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
An Aroused Conscience, June 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
A Living Benevolence, June 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Faithful in Little Things, June 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Source of All Life, June 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
He Cares for Us Every Minute, June 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
The Great Object of Life, June 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
One Lease of Life, June 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Behind the Scenes of Life, June 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Live While You Have a Chance, June 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Seeking the Heavenly Treasure, June 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
The Arrow of Death, June 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Light in the Shadows, June 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Our Blessed Dead, June 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Man a Mere Mortal, June 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Man’s State in Death, June 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
A Goodness in God’s Justice, June 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
The Portion of the Wicked, June 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Natural Immortality A Lie, June 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Now is God’s Time, June 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Christ the First Fruits, June 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Death Swallowed Up in Victory, June 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
A Special Resurrection, June 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
The Resurrection to Immortality, June 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
The Resurrection to Damnation, June 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326