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“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9
“For ‘if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new.’ 2 Cor. 5:17. That which was objectionable in
the character is purified from the soul by the love of Jesus. All selfishness is
expelled, all envy, all evil-speaking, is rooted out, and a radical transformation is

wrought in the heart.”
RH 7-22-1890
“Many who profess to follow Christ have not genuine religion. They do not
reveal in their lives the fruit of true conversion. They are controlled by the same
habits, the same spirit of faultfinding and selfishness, which controlled them
before they accepted Christ.

“No one can enter the city of God who has not a knowledge of genuine
conversion. In true conversion the soul is born again. A new spirit takes possession
of the temple of the soul. A new life begins. Christ is revealed in the character.”
RH 7-30-1901
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in
the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not

after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Rom. 8:3, 4
“While the law is holy, the Jews could not attain righteousness by their own
efforts to keep the law. The disciples of Christ must obtain righteousness of a
different character from that of the Pharisees, if they would enter the kingdom of
heaven. God offered them, in His Son, the perfect righteousness of the law. If they
would open their hearts fully to receive Christ, then the very life of God, His love,

would dwell in them, transforming them into His own likeness; and thus through
God’s free gift they would possess the righteousness which the law requires. . . . a
reproduction in themselves of the character of Christ.” MB 54, 55
“Nicodemus . . . searched the Scriptures in a new way, not for the discussion of
a theory, but in order to receive life for the soul. He began to see the kingdom of
heaven as he submitted himself to the leading of the Holy Spirit.” DA 175
“We may have flattered ourselves, as did Nicodemus, that our life has been

upright, that our moral character is correct, and think that we need not humble the
heart before God, like the common sinner; but when the light from Christ shines
into our souls, we shall discern the selfishness of motive, the enmity against God,
that has defiled every act of life. Then we shall know that our righteousness is

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