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Does God accept a person on the basis of their own holiness?

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Now not only the Word, whatever they want to say about It, that’s one thing or another. But we know we have the Scriptures right for we have the Holy Ghost as a Witness. That’s the Witness. So God looking down through the—the optical eye, as it was, and looked down through the—the—the magnifying glass and seeing the end from the beginning, why, He knew these skeptics would rise and try to twist the Word in and out and like that. So He said, “I’ll not leave you comfortless, but I’ll pray the Father, and He’ll send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. And he will abide with you until (1950…?) forever, (amen, that’s right, forever, all right), and He would declare and testify of Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.” So we have a wonderful witness of that tonight don’t we? That’s right. So what kind of a people should we be then? Why, we should be free and happy, and my, no condemnation, living above sin and disgrace, not by our own…?…but by Him. See? Not what we are but what He is. God don’t accept me for what I am. He accepts me for what Christ has done for me. It isn’t my holiness, my righteousness; it’s His. I have none to offer, but I just accepted His. Amen. So I know He’s pleased with that, for He said, “This is My beloved Son in Who I’m well pleased.” And He raised him up from the dead. And just as He raised Him from the dead, so shall we be raised, for we are his Bride, flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone, and we shall be with Him.

Believest Thou This?, 1951-10-03, New York, NY, §23

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Believest Thou This?, 1951-10-03, New York, NY, §23

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Title:
Believest Thou This?
Date:
October 3, 1951
Location:
New York, NY
Paragraph:
§23

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