A Study Guide to
Faith and Works
by
Ellen G. White
Copyright ©2011
by
The Ellen G. White® Estate, Inc.
Notes: Faith and Works: Readings From Nineteen Presentations in Whole or in Part
From 1881 to 1902 in Chronological Sequence; Sermons and Articles by Ellen G. White
is a book of "nineteen readings" (from) "her sermons and articles" (which) "consistently
outline the basic truths of salvation as embodied in the law and the gospel
" (page 11).
She has a "distinctive emphasis" in each reading on the topic of faith and works.
The numbers in parentheses () at the end of the sentences are to the page numbers
where the answers may be found.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE OF CHAPTER
PAGE
SOURCE
PUBLISHED IN
Forward
11
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Review and Herald
Ellen White Clarifies the
(Untitled Manuscript 36,
15
February 24 and
Issues
1890)
March 3, 1977
The Standard of True
Review and Herald
29
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Sanctification
March 8, 1881
Morning talk, General
Christ Our
Selected Messages
35
Conference session of
Righteousness
Book 1: pp. 350-354
1883, November 1883
Ellen White Clearly
41
Portion of sermon "The
Review and Herald
Draws the Lines
True Standard of
August 25, 1885
Righteousness," at
Worcester,
Massachusetts, July 31,
1885
Portion of morning talk,
Signs of the Times
Faith and Works
47
Basel, Switzerland,
June 16, 1890
September 17, 1885
From a report entitled
A Warning Against
"The Conference in
Review and Herald
Counterfeit
51
Sweden," in mid-June
October 5, 1886
Sanctification
1886
Portion of a talk at
How to Tell if God Is
Review and Herald
55
Copenhagen, Denmark,
Leading
April 3, 1888
July 21, 1886
Portion of a sermon at
God's Commandment-
South Lancaster,
Review and Herald
59
keeping People
Massachusetts, January
February 26, 1889
19, 1889
Sermon at Ottawa,
The Quality of Our Faith
63
Manuscript 1, 1889
Kansas, May 11, 1889
E. G. White Report on
Review and Herald
Response to the Ottawa
81
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July 23, 1889
Sermon
Obedience and
Signs of the Times
85
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Sanctification
May 19, 1890
Appropriating the
Review and Herald
91
(General article)
Righteousness of Christ
July 1, 1890
Faith and Works--Hand
Signs of the Times
95
(Portion of article)
in Hand
July 21, 1890
(Portion of article titled
The Experience of
"Christ the Way of Life";
Review and Herald
Righteousness by Faith
99
also in Selected Messages,
November 4, 1890
Outlined
Book 1, pp. 365-368)
Portion of manuscript
This is Justification by
published in The
103
Manuscript 21, 1891
Faith
Seventh-day Adventist
Bible Commentary, vol.
6, pp. 1070, 1071
Signs of the Times
Accepted in Christ
105
(Article)
July 4, 1892
Counsel to a Leading
Minister on the
Selected Messages
Presentation of the
111
Letter 44, 1893
Book 1: pp. 377-379
Relation of Faith and
Works
A Man May Be as Pure
Signs of the Times
in His Sphere as God is
115
(Portion of article)
June 20, 1895
in His
Opinions and Practices
Review and Herald
to be Conformed to
121
(Portion of article)
March 25, 1902
God's Word
Forward
1. "The plan for the __________ of _____ ________ is based on ______
___________ by ______ ______ of _________ ________________ ______"
(11)
2. When was the above lesson taught? (12)
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
3. Throughout the centuries, what has Satan offered in response to God's provision for
mankind's salvation? (12)
4. By what means has man used to try to "gain merit and salvation?" (12)
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. Why do many find "accepting salvation by faith...too easy?" What is a position taken
by "uncounted numbers?" (12-13)
6. Give the setting for the readings in Faith and Works. (13)
7. Write down the attitudes shown by people to the presentations by Elders E. J.
Waggoner and A. T. Jones at the General Conference held in Minneapolis in 1888. (13)
8. Give the response after the topic of righteousness by faith was presented in the
churches and from the writings of Ellen White. (13)
9. "The ___________ of _________ in the warmth of the ___________ of
_________ ______________ ____ ___ ________ ______ and _____
_________ by _____________ or _____________. It is a _________
___________ of _______ ___________ and ______ and ____ ___
_________ ________. It can become _______ over _____ ____________
________." (14)
Ellen White Clarifies the Issues
A general manuscript written in 1890 at the time of the ministerial institutes in Battle Creek, on file as
manuscript 36, 1890, and published in the Review and Herald, February 24 and March 3, 1977. This
vital clarifying statement forms an appropriate introduction to the eighteen presentations that follow,
arranged in chronological sequence.
10. What are the two classes that Ellen White mentions and what do they do to get that
way? (15)
11. What is in the comparison between the religionists and Seventh-day Adventists? (15-
16)
12. "Let _____ ______ be ______ ________ in ______ _____: If we _______
_______ as a _________, we must _______ ____ as a ______." (16)
13. How do "we evidence our allegiance to God?" (16)
14. "The _____ must be ________ into _________ ________ with the _____
___ ____." (16)
Belief and Unbelief
15. When a person who expresses skepticism and unbelief is under the conviction of
God, what happens? (17)
16. "The _________ which is __________ in the _____ has a ___________
______." (17)
17. Why must the roots of unbelief be torn up? (17)
Confused Ideas of Salvation
18. Why is sin "the most costly thing in the world?" (17)
19. Finish the sentence: For the salvation or loss of souls, "it will require the unerring
decision of One who has
" (18)
a.
b.
c.
20. Write down the danger for the people that Ellen White had been shown time and
time again over the years. (18)
21. How was the ministry affected? (18)
Through Faith Alone
22. "Salvation is ________ ______ ___ ______ _______ ______." (19)
23. What was the problem amongst the young ministers? (19)
24. How were they to overcome it? (19)
25. What would occur if man was able to receive salvation through his own faith and
good works? (20)
26. If man could not receive salvation by faith and good works, then how would he be
able to do so? (20)
Wholly of Grace
27. "Justification is _______ ___ ______ and ____ _________ by ____ ______
that _______ ____ ____ ___." (20)
28. As God has lent mankind all good things to be held in trust, what is expected of
mankind? (20-21)
God's Favor Slighted
29. What did man forfeit and not forfeit through his apostasy and rebellion from
God?(21)
30. Why was man not immediately destroyed? (21)
31. "Every gift is ________ with ____ ______ and ______ the ______ and
_______________ of ______ _______. ____ things _____ of ____." ... "Now
____ __ _____ can _____ ____ anything that is ________ ____." (22)
All Is of God
32. "The _________ belongs to ____." ... "The _______ ______ is God's." (22)
33. Give some of the work that the unfallen angels in heaven do. (23)
Creature Merit
34. How do mortals misrepresent "the truth as it is in Jesus?" (23)
35. What is it "they need?" (23)
They Need
Which Represents
1.
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
36. To cleanse the "earthly odor" from man's offering, what must be done? (24)
37. Finish the sentence: "The Lord Jesus imparts
" (24)
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
38. If people were able to give to God' s angels all of the good things in themselves as
merit or as having a part in a person's salvation, how would the angels react? (24)
39. "And ____ ______ that ____ can _______ to ____ will be ____ _____ _____
____________." (24)
What Man Cannot Do
40. "Man can achieve ___ _____________ _________ that _____ ____ ____
______." (24)
41. What were some of the ways men were preaching regarding conversion? (25)
42. "There is _______ in __________ ______________ ___ ______ as
________ ______ on ______. When ____ _____ the ______________ of
_______ as a free _____ you are __________ _______ through the
___________ ___ _______." (25)
43. Faith "is an _______ of the ______________ to ______ ______ which
______ the ______ in ________ _____________ and ________ to ____." ...
"Faith is __________ ___ ____ the _____________ _______, ____________
of the _____ and _____ to _____, and making _______ the ______ _____ to
______ into the ________ of _______." (25)
44. When men are trying to get their own salvation and hoping that Jesus will do the
rest, what do men need? (26)
God Works, and Man Works
45. How may men be overcomers? (26)
46. What must man do with the gifts that are given him? (26)
47. "We must ________ in _________ and in _________, to _____ in
___________. The law of the ______ and the ______ _______ makes the
_________ a ________ _________ _____ ____." (27)
Supernatural Power for Supernatural Works
48. Why do "many fail when they try to be successful laborers?" (27)
49. "Eternal life is ___ _________ _____." (27)
50. What will "solid faith" NOT do? (27)
The Standard of True Sanctification
Review and Herald article, published March 8, 1881.
51. "Sanctification is _________ _____ in __________ to ____ _____ of ____."
(29)
52. What do those who deliberately trample upon God's law claim? (29)
53. Why are they not allowed into heaven? (29)
54. God will not lower His Law to meet man's standard and man cannot do anything to
meet God's standard. Write down the solution. (29)
55. How come Christ had to die for us? (30)
Satan's Sophistry
56. What is Satan's sophistry with regard to the Ten Commandments and grace? (30)
57. "The doctrine ______ ________ ________, through ______, to ______ ____
____ is a ______ _________." (30)
58. "The sinner ___ ____ ______ ___ ____ _____, but _____ ____ _____." (31)
What Sin Is
59. "The soul _____ ______ ___ __________ of ____ _______ the _______
_____ _____ a _______ to _____ to _______." (31)
60. "The sinner _______ be __________ of ____ ______ unless he
____________ what ____________ ____." (31)
61. How is God's law a mirror? (31)
Condemned by the Light They Reject
62. "Those who ___ ____ ________ the ______ when ___ ___ ________
_______ _____ will be __________ ___ ___." (32)
63. Why are those who are seeking salvation only too often disappointed? (32)
Sugarcoated Spiritual Poison
64. Why are many "led to think that they are on the road to heaven?" Where are they
really going? (32)
65. "God has ______ ___ ____ _____ to be ____ ______." (33)
66. What excuse(s) that men make for disobeying God's law will be accepted on
Judgment Day? (33)
Christ Our Righteousness
(An 1883 Presentation)
Morning talk to ministers at the General Conference session held in November 1883, at Battle Creek,
Michigan. Published in Gospel Workers (1892 edition), pp. 411-415, and Selected Messages book 1, pp.
350-354.
67. Why do some of God's people "walk by sight and not by faith?" (35)
68. What are some of the hindrances to be removed when we come to God with
repentance and contrite hearts? (35)
1.
5.
2.
6.
3.
7.
4.
Merits of Christ Our Only Hope
69. Why were people not receiving blessings even though they "long desired and tried to
obtain" them? (36)
70. Jesus died to save us because we are/were unable to save ourselves. He "is our
_____, our ______________, our ______________." (36)
Look and Live
71. After the rebellious Israelites were bitten by poisonous serpents in the wilderness,
Moses was instructed to make a brazen serpent and lift it up. Anyone who had been
bitten lived when they looked at it. Many did not look and died. Why? (37)
72. If we are aware of our sins, what are we to do and not to do? (37)
73. What do some people believe they must do before they can receive God's blessing?
(38)
Repentance a Gift of God
74. Repentance, as well as ____________, is the _____ of ____ ________
_______. It is ________ the __________ of the _____ _______ that we are
__________ of ____ and _____ ____ _____ of _______." (38)
75. Even though people come to God for repentance, confession "and even believe that
their sins are forgiven," they fail to claim "the promises of God." Why is this? (38)
76. We can do ________, ___________ ________, to ________ __________
to _______ ______." (39)
77. "God _____ _______ ______ ____ that ______ ___ ____ _________
_______ in the _______ of a __________ ________." (39)
78. When #77 happens, what are some of the results? (39)
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
6.
Ellen White Clearly Draws the Lines
Portion of a sermon at Worcester, Massachusetts, July 31, 1885, titled "The True Standard of
Righteousness." Published in the Review and Herald, August 25, 1885.
79. "But let us _____ _____ ___ ___ that ______ _____ _______ and
________ ___ through ______ ________________." (41)
80. Why do many shun obedience to God's requirements? (41)
A Successful Deception
81. What is "one of Satan's most successful deceptions?" (41)
82. What are those who claim to be sanctified leaving out? (42)
83. "The ___________ of ________ _____ are _____ ___ ______ in ______
_____ that _____ _____ ____, unless they choose ______ rather than ______
because their _____________ ______ _____ the _________ rather than ____
______." (42)
84. "God's law is as __________ and ______________ as ____ __________.
Whatever ____ ____ ____ or ___ to _____ ___ _____ _____ ____ _______ its
_______ or ________ _____ from ______ ___________ to _____." (42)
None Enter As Commandment Breakers
85. "None who have had the ______ ___ ______ will ______ the _____ ___ ____
as ____________ _________." (43)
86. Who are those that make the claim of "holy, sinless lives?" Why? (43)
Just Two Classes--Obedient and Disobedient
87. How does the story of the sheep and the goats apply to the obedient and
disobedient? (44-45)
88. Why does Jesus call one class "workers of iniquity" even though they have
apparently done good things in Jesus' name? (45)
89. By what means are we to discern the sheep and wolves in sheep's clothing? (45)
Now, if There Was Ever a Time
90. "If ever there was a _____ _____ we _______ ______ and __________
______________, it is ____." (45)
91. Who will not be led astray by Satan's deceptions? (45)
92. Why do men choose fables and believe errors? (46)
93. What will be the results for them? (46)
94. Why do Satan and men seek to close the door that Christ has opened? (46)
Faith and Works
Morning talk at Basel, Switzerland, September 17, 1885. Published in Signs of the Times, June 16, 1890.
95. What is faith's foundation? (47)
96. "God's promises are ____ _____ _____ ___________." (47)
97. How are we to work together with God? (47)
To Wrestle, Labor, and Strive
98. How are we "to fight the good fight of faith?" (48)
99. When "in one way we are thrown upon our own energies," what are we to do? (48)
1.
5.
2.
6.
3.
7.
4.
100. "The Bible ________ that ___________ regarding ____ __________
________ upon our ____ _______ of _______. If ___ _______, the
_______________ _____ _______ upon __________." (48)
101. "The ____________ of ____ is _________ to ____ ____ ________ and
_________;" (48)
102. "Works ________ ______ are _____, and ______ without ______ is
_____." (48)
103. "If we are to _____ _______ for ____ _____, we must ______ _____ a
____________ of _____ ____ ___, that we may _______ and ______ ______
______ for ___________." (49)
104. "Faith and works will _____ ___ _______ _________ and ______ ___
___________ in the _____ of ___________ __________ __________." (49)
105. Why do we need more faith and a firmer hold from above? (49)
Jesus Makes Up for Our Deficiency
106. "There is ___ _______ for ____ or for __________." (49)
107. "When it is ___ the ______ to _____ ____, when ________ are ____
______ to _____ ____, Jesus ________ _____ ____________ and _______ as
______ _____ ________, and ___ ______ ___ for the ___________ with ____
____ _______ ______." (50)
108. Who will He not accept? (50)
A Warning Against Counterfeit Sanctification
From a report entitled "The Conference in Sweden" in mid-June 1886. Published in the Review and
Herald, October 5, 1886.
109. What was the warning that Ellen White had for "our people?" (51)
110. "The Bible is ____ _________ ___ ______ to _____ the _______ of ____
____ ________ _______________." (51)
111. Who did Ellen White warn against and why? (52)
What God Requires
112. What was the issue she was addressing? (52)
113. "It is _______ to ______ to _________ or ____________; these are
___________ _______. God's law is ____ _____ ________ _________ of
________. It is ___ _____ ____ _____ _________ is to be _______." (52)
114. Give the answers that "modern teachers of sanctification" and Jesus would give
concerning a person who had asked about salvation. (52-53)
115. How will true sanctification be shown? (53)
1.
2.
3.
4.
A Sanctification That Leads Away From the Bible
116. What class does the offended man who left a meeting on God's law represent? (53)
117. "It is ___ ____ ____ ___ ____ that ____ _______ is __________." (53)
118. Compare those who make boastful claims of holiness to those who do not. (54)
How to Tell if God Is Leading
Portion of morning talk at Copenhagen, Denmark, July 21, 1886, titled "Search the Scriptures."
Published in the Review and Herald, April 3, 1888.
119. What is the test to see if God is leading people who claim to be sanctified and holy
and that they are being lead and taught by Him? (55)
120. Why do the people Ellen White mentions here get truth mixed with error? (55)
121. Who are those who are danger in getting taken away with false doctrines? (56)
122. What is sin? (56)
123. Why are we to understand the Scriptures? (56)
Satan Will Work Miracles
124. How and why are we to fortify our minds with the truths of Scripture? (56-57)
God's Commandment-keeping People
Portion of a sermon at South Lancaster, Massachusetts, January 19, 1889, titled "In Him Is Light."
Published in the Review and Herald, February 26, 1889.
125. Finish the sentence: "God's commandment-keeping people" are those "who
ought
" (59)
1.
2.
3.
126. Why are "God's commandment-keeping people" not to stop receiving rich blessings
from God? (59)
127. Who are those who claim to receive blessings from God but "have no right to?" (59)
128. "Truth and righteousness _____ be __________ with the _____ of ____ as it
was ___________ ___ ______." ... "Every one of us _____ _____ on the _____
and ___ _______." (60)
129. What had the people been doing that put God "in a false light?" (60)
130. How were they to reverse this? (60-61)
131. How was the example of Moses used in this situation? (61)
132. Give examples of what the people had NOT been doing to show God's character.
(61)
The Quality of Our Faith
Sermon preached by Ellen G. White at Ottawa, Kansas, on Sabbath, May 11, 1889, just a few months
after the Minneapolis General Conference session, representing her simple, practical presentation of the
subject. On file as manuscript 1, 1889.
133. Read John 3:1-16. How do these verses tell us how to get to heaven? (63)
134. Write down the state of the disciples when Jesus had been crucified. (63)
135. Write down the state of the disciples when Jesus had been resurrected. (63-64)
136. The Pharisees and others in the disciples' time as well as people throughout time
interpreted the disciples' teaching that they had been with and learned of Jesus. What
other things were noticed? (64)
The Simplicity of Being Saved
137. "He who _____ ____ _____ of _________ ______________ _____ ___
_____ one moment that ___ _________ may _____ ____ his ____ _____. He
_____ ____ _____ until he has made a _________ ___________ before he may
_____ _____ _____ _________ ______________." (64)
138. How does a man repent and what brings him to do so? (64)
139. "The God of heaven is ________ _____ ______ ______ ____ ____ _____."
(64)
140. Give two examples of what a Christian believer who shows Christ in his character
might not do and yet still reach a person for Jesus. (65)
141. Name the two atmospheres that surround a person. Is there a third? (65)
You Can't Reason It Out
142. Why can't we reason out faith? (65-66)
143. Write down which is the best thing to do: test our thoughts and ideas by the Bible
or test the Bible by our thoughts and ideas. (66)
144. "If ever a _______ _______ ______, it is ______ ____ are _______ in the
_____ ________ _____ of this ________ ________." (66)
145. Finish the following sentences: "We want
" (66)
1.
2.
3.
4.
The Faith of the Paralytic
146. Besides the paralytic, who showed hope that he would be healed? (67)
147. What did the healing of the paralytic show to people? (68)
148. Why were the Pharisees not converted when the paralytic was healed? (68)
The Response to the Impotent Man
149. What "is the faith that we need?" (68)
The Brazen Serpent
150. How are we like the Israelites in the desert? (69)
151. What kind of faith are we to have? (70)
This Is Righteousness by Faith
152. What is it to believe? (70)
1.
2.
3.
4.
153. Did the young man really keep the commandments? What was he lacking? (70-71)
154. How did Christ show that one could keep the Law? (71)
155. "By _______ ______, by ________ _______ to God, and __________ upon
_______ _______, we are ________ with ____ ______________, and ___
____ ______." (71)
156. How do we "keep the commandments of God?" (71)
Not Saved in Indolence
157. Can a person be saved by doing nothing? Why or why not? (71-72)
158. What are that faith and love which work? (72)
159. Finish the second sentence: He has purchased me at an infinite cost, and He has
atoned for everything that is offensive to Him. I must
" (72)
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
6.
You Cannot Save Yourselves
160. How do we have an "inclination toward God?" (73)
161. It is the ______ of ____ that ________. It is the ______ of ____ that ______
___ by ____ ______ to ___________." (73)
162. Why weren't the people responding more and having the "quickening influence of
the Spirit of God?" (73)
The Crucial Point in the Great Controversy
163. "Satan is the _______ ___ ______." (73)
164. "Christ by ______ _____________ the ______ ___ ______ and ________
____________ to ______." (74)
165. What did Christ do at His Resurrection? (74)
166. Why did God give Lucifer a chance to show what his character was like? (74)
The Overcomer's Portion
167. What is our portion in the battle against Satan? (75)
168. How are we to be like Jacob in his battle with the angel? (75)
169. Write down the problem Ellen White was addressing here concerning the church.
(75-76)
170. Write down her solution. (76)
Believe Because God Says It
171. How did the believers' behaviours make their actions like the offering of Cain? (76)
172. "The Bible is to be _____ _________, the _______ ________ of ________
are to be _____ ______. You are to ____"
"You are to _____ ... and then you are
to _____"
"You are to _____ the mines of truth for new gems, for new diamonds,
and you will find them." (77)
173. Compare what the "papal power" states regarding Scripture interpretation and what
we are supposed to do. (77)
174. "God help us to be ______ _________." (77)
175. What are we to do before we believe what someone tells us is in the Bible? (77)
176. Describe "a living experience." (78)
Talk Faith, Live Faith, Act Faith
177. How are people told "to educate your souls in the line of faith?" (78)
178. How are we to be "the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)?" (78)
179. What is that which we are to put away that disgraces, "enfeebles and weakens the
church?" (79)
1.
4.
7.
2.
5.
8.
3.
6.
9.
E. G. White Report on Response to the Ottawa Sermon
Report of camp meeting at Ottawa, Kansas, printed in the Review and Herald, July 23, 1889, and in
Selected Messages, book 1, pp. 355-358.
180. Summarize how Satan had misrepresented God at the Kansas meeting. (81)
181. What truths were presented that were new to most of the people? (81)
182. Briefly summarize the experiences of some of the people at the meeting. (82)
The Laodicean Message
183. What is the Laodicean message? (83)
184. Write down how God's people have responded to this message. (83)
1.
7.
13.
2.
8.
14.
3.
9.
15.
4.
10.
16.
5.
11.
17.
6.
12.
185. "Let us _________ ____ __________ before ____; let us _____ the
________ of the _____ ________." (84)
Obedience and Sanctification
Article in Signs of the Times, May 19, 1890.
186. "Obedience to the ____ ___ ____ is _______________." (85)
187. "Sanctification is ____ an ______________ but a ____________ _____, as
__________ is ___________." (85)
Satan's Delusion and Snare
188. Why have some people said "that they cannot sin?" (85)
189. What are we to do? (86)
190. How are we to be like the Bereans? (86)
Two Lessons
191. What are the two lessons that are to be learned and why? (86)
192. Summarize how two groups learn these lessons. (86)
193. Compare true and spurious sanctification. (87)
194. Give the effects upon a person "when the grace of Christ is implanted in the soul by
the Holy Spirit." (87)
Not Boisterous or Untamable
195. "The peace of Christ is an ____________ ______, and it _____ ____ _____
those ____ ________ ___ bear the ______ of ___________ and
______________." ... "The peace of Christ ______ ________ the __________ of
______ _______ whom the ______ ________." (88)
196. Why should we doubt some of our experiences? (88)
197. Why should "we have reason for ceaseless gratitude to God?" (88-89)
Trust Not in Men
198. "Our faith is ____ ___ ______ in the ________ of ____ but in the ______ of
____." (89)
199. What "is the danger of trusting in men" even if they may do good things for God?
(89)
"Believe, Only Believe"
200. What was being preached in churches in Ellen White's day? (89)
201. Why was it criticized? (89)
202. What did the Lord require at that time and even now? (89)
203. Write down the idea that the Cross condemns in the world. (90)
204. How has Satan attempted to do away with the Cross? (90)
Appropriating the Righteousness of Christ
General article, "Spiritual Weakness Inexcusable," in Review and Herald, July 1, 1890. Portion in
Selected Messages, book 1, pp. 363, 364.
205. What are the promises that those who are of the world would find foolish? (91)
206. What does the world seek? (92)
a.
b.
c.
d.
207. How does Christ plan to direct the world from the things listed above? (92)
Called to Be Faithful Stewards
208. Compare how God and Satan plan to have worldly interests occupy a person's life.
(92)
209. What is a Christian's warfare against? (92)
210. By what means does God help man in the battle against Satan? (93)
The Cross of Calvary
211. "Through _______, ____________ as well as _______________ is
_________ for ____. The _____ that was _____ ___ ____ has been ________ by
the ______ of ________." (93)
212. Why must we "center our hopes of heaven upon Jesus alone?" (93)
213. "Genuine ______ _____________ the ______________ of _______, and
the _______ is _____ ___ __________ with _______; for he is _____ a
_________ of the _______ _______, and thus _________ and _________ are
_________." (94)
214. "He who is _______ to ______ ______ by ____ ____ ______ in ________
the ____ is ___________ ___ ______________." (94)
215. If we could save ourselves, what would happen? (94)
216. Give the problems with man's own offering. (94)
Faith and Works--Hand in Hand
Signs of the Times article, July 21, 1890, titled "What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?"
217. How do persons who believe they don't have to keep the Law see themselves? What
condition are they really in? (95)
Not Saved by Law Nor in Disobedience
218. "While we are to be in ________ with ______ ____, we are ____ ______ by
the ______ of the ____, yet we _______ ___ ______ ________ __________.
The ____ is the _________ by which __________ is _________." (95)
219. "Our _____ ___ _______ will be in ___________ to the ______ of ____
___________ of ____, and ___ ____ ____ is the __________ ___ ____." (96)
220. How does the gospel relate to the Law? Does the gospel give us licence to sin? (96)
A Doctrine Full of Deception
221. "Self-righteousness is the _______ ___ _____ ____; ___ __________ the
_____ _____ _______." (96)
222. What state are people really in when they "trust to their own righteousness?" (96)
The Test of Doctrine
223. What is a way to test all doctrine? (97)
224. "Although ______ ________ in the world, there is ___ _______ ____ ____
_____ _______ in __________." ... "All the _________ of ______ ______ may
___________ _____ is _________ of _____." (97)
225. Summarize "the rule for genuine sanctification (Romans 8:1-9)." (97)
The Experience of Righteousness by Faith Outlined
Portion of Review and Herald article, November 4, 1890, titled "Christ the Way of Life." Published in
Selected Messages, book 1, pp. 365-368.
226. "Repentance is ___________ _____ ______ and is ______ ___ ____
_______ as __________ ___ __________." ... "There is ___ __________
________ ___________." (99)
227. Briefly state the process of conversion and the result. (99-100)
228. "But ______ ____ can be _____, and yet ________ the _______ ________
the _______ of _______, ___ _____ can ______ his _____ with the _________
of _________ ______________ while ___________ ______ _____ or
___________ ______ _______." (100)
229. What has to take place before justification, and to retain that justification? (100)
230. To what point does faith have to reach and "is made perfect?" (100)
Faith the Condition of Promise
231. Summarize the roles grace and faith play. (100-101)
232. "Righteousness is __________ ___ ____ _____. The ____ ________
______________, and this the _______ _____ to the ____; but he is
__________ of __________ it." (101)
233. How is faith "accounted righteousness?" (101)
234. How are we to be saved in Jesus Christ? (102)
235. Why would Christ's words not be true if we could by any one of our own efforts be
saved? (102)
He Becomes Our Righteousness
236. How does Christ make up for our shortcomings plus become "our righteousness?"
(102)
This Is Justification by Faith
Portion of Manuscript 21, 1891, written February 27, 1891. Published in The Seventh-day Adventist Bible
Commentary, vol. 6, pp. 1070, 1071.
237. What is justification by faith? (103)
238. "Pardon and ______________ are ____ and ____ _____ ______." (103)
239. How does a 'rebel' become a 'subject' of Jesus Christ? (103)
240. "The _______ ____ ____, but he is ____ _____ ____ ________ ______.
His _____ _____, however, is ___________ _______ ____ and ______ in the
_____ ______ _______." (103)
241. "Justification is the _________ ___ _____________." (104)
Accepted in Christ
Article in Signs of the Times, July 4, 1892.
242. Who does "whosoever" apply to? (105)
243. Fill in the last words: "Christ is
" (105)
1.
5.
2.
6.
3.
7.
4.
244. What is "the intercession of Christ in our behalf?" (105)
245. Summarize each of the promises given in the following verses: (105-106)
John 3:16.
Hebrews 9:24.
1 John 2:1, 2.
1 John 4:10.
Hebrews 7:25.
James 4:8.
1 John 1:7.
1 John 1:9.
This Is Justification
246. "It is the ______________ ___ ________ that ______ the _________
_______ ___________ ___ ____ and ______ ____ ______________." (106)
247. What does the sinner "recently dead in trespasses and sins" now 'see?' (106-107)
248. "We have a _______ ________." ... "Jesus is ____ _______ ___
___________ _____ ____." (107)
249. Even though Christ is now in the holy of holies in the heavenly sanctuary
representing us, what are we not "to presume upon?" (107)
250. "Perfection through ____ ____ _____ _____ we ____ ______ _______."
(107)
251. What does "the soul who sees Jesus through faith" do and see? (107)
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
6.
A Truth Hard to Grasp
252. What is the 'truth' that is hard to grasp and why? (108)
253. "We have the ________ _____ ___ ____ that _______ is _____ unto us
______________, _______________, and ___________." (109)
Counsel to a Leading Minister on the Presentation of the Relation of Faith
and Works
Portion of a letter to A. T. Jones, April 9, 1893, letter 44, 1893. Published in Selected Messages, book 1,
pp. 377-379.
254. Summarize the problem that the minister was having. (111)
255. Summarize Ellen White's counsel on it. (111-112)
256. What were the conditions that the young man had to follow? (112)
Points to Guard
257. Summarize the additional counsel that Ellen White made to the minister. (112-113)
258. What plans are we and God to work on? (113)
Man May Be as Pure in His Sphere as God Is in His
Portion of article "Purifieth Himself" in Signs of the Times, June 20, 1895.
259. Give the hope and expectation that Christians will have at the Second Coming. (115)
260. How will those who wait for the Second Coming of Jesus seek to represent Jesus to
everyone? (115-116)
1.
5.
2.
6.
3.
7.
4.
Not Hearers Only, but Doers
261. What deception was Ellen White addressing that was also occurring in her day?
(116)
Not Like the Worldling
262. How will "the sons of God not be like the worldling?" (116)
263. If Christ is in the heart, where else will He appear? (116)
264. How will the truth transform a person? (116)
265. Give a brief description of the Second Coming. (116-117)
266. What will be the difference between the saved and the lost on the "great day of
God?" (117)
The Fate of Transgressors
267. Summarize what the apostle John saw of the transgressors at the Second Coming.
(117)
268. What is "the true definition of sin?" (117)
269. Why couldn't God alter His Law? What did He do instead? (117-118)
Christ's Righteousness Makes Obedience Possible
270. Why couldn't the sinner keep God's Law? How was this removed? (118)
271. What was Satan's purpose regarding the Law? (118)
272. How has he fooled the world concerning the Law? (118)
273. If the Law could have been made void, what would have been the result? (118)
274. How did Calvary vindicate the Law and not abolish it? (119)
Opinions and Practices to Be Conformed to God's Word
Selected from Review and Herald article, March 25, 1902.
275. What had people been showing when they were claiming to be sanctified? (121)
276. Write down what these people did when they had their experience tested by God's
Word. (121)
277. Briefly state what is sanctification. (121-122)
278. "The _____ ___ ____ is ___ ___ ____ ______, ____ the _________ or
______ of ____." (122)
Living by Every Word of God
279. "Christianity is simply _______ ___ ______ _____ that ___________ out of
the ______ ___ ____." (122)
280. Is our obligation to the Law any less if we are told not to keep it or that our fathers
did not? (122)
281. What are we to do with the light our fathers and we have received? (122)
282. "We shall be _______ __________ to the ______ that _______ _____ the
____-_______ in ____ ____; and ___ we _______ the ______, we shall be
_____ ____ and ______ ___ Christ Jesus." (122)