God made man perfectly holy and happy; and the fair earth, as it came from the Creator’s hand, bore no blight of decay or shadow of the curse. It is transgression of God’s law—the law of love—that has brought woe and death.
What are the two sources testify of God’s love?
Nature
Revelation
Even though transgression of God’s law has brought woe and death, God’s Love is Revealed
What has brought woe and death?
Sin
How has Satan tried to misrepresent God to sinners?
Satan led men to conceive of God as a being whose chief attribute is stern justice,—one who is a severe judge, a harsh, exacting creditor. He pictured the Creator as a being who is watching with jealous eye to discern the errors and mistakes of men, that He may visit judgments upon them
How Did Jesus represent God, while he was on earth?
How was Jesus able to reach man’s wants?
He took man’s nature
In his intercourse with people Jesus exercised what?
The greatest tact and thoughtful, and kind attention
What did Jesus denounce?
Hypocrisy
Unbelief
Iniquity
What broke the heart of Jesus, The Son of God?
The Burden of sin
The sense of Sin’s terrible enormity
Sin’s separation of the soul from God.
What was the medium through which Jesus could pour our His infinite love upon a fallen world?
Jesus Christ
Why was Jesus the only possible sacrifice for sin?
With what does Christ identify himself with?
The interest and needs of Humanity
What has Christ done for us besides the pardon of sins?
Ellen Gould White, Steps to Christ (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1892), 11.
