Here is the admonition, "Come ... and learn of me."  How difficult to enter the school of Christ by giving up our wills, and submitting to the will of our heavenly Father!  Christ knows our weakness.  He has given us promises to encourage us by the way, and is ever ready to bear our burdens for us if we will bring them to Him.  In Christ is all fullness and the Father has acknowledged Him as His Son and at His baptism the words were heard from heaven, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."  Through Christ we can gain access to the Father.  The door of heaven is ajar, and light will come to us as it did to Jesus Christ, and we can be lights to the world.  We must learn humility.  When this lesson is fully learned the yoke will rest easily upon us.  {3MR 72.3} 

Remember, brethren, in every perplexity, that God has angels still.  You may meet opposition; yea, even persecution.  But if steadfast to principle, you will find, as did Daniel, a present helper and deliverer in the God whom you serve.  Now is the time to cultivate integrity of character.  The Bible is full of rich gems of promise to those who love and fear God.  {LS 285.1} 

Young people who follow Christ have a warfare before them; they have a daily cross to bear in coming out from the world, and being separate, and imitating the life of Christ.  But there are many precious promises on record for those who seek their Saviour early.  Says the wise man, "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them."  Wisdom calls to the sons of men, "I love them that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me."  They will find that the "path of the just is as a shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day;" and at the last, the Judge of all the earth will give every one according to his works.  {RH, July 15, 1884 par. 13} 

No error can sanctify the soul; we must bear this in mind.  Sanctification comes not through error, but through belief of the truth.  We need to possess a faith that is based upon the sure word of promise.  {RH, September 30, 1909 par. 2} 

Divine sonship is not something that we may gain of ourselves.  Only to those who receive Christ as their Saviour is given the power to become sons and daughters of God.  The sinner can not,  by any power of his own, rid himself of sin.  For the accomplishment of this result, he must look to a higher Power.  John exclaimed, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."  Christ alone has power to cleanse the heart.  He who is seeking for forgiveness and acceptance can say only, -- "Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling."  {RH, September 3, 1903 par. 4} 

We trace Christ all through the Old Testament and the New.  "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.  I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.  And let him that heareth say, Come.  And let him that is athirst come.  And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."  {RH, June 8, 1897 par. 9} 

Here we have the Alpha of Genesis and the Omega of Revelation.  The blessing is promised to all those who keep the commandments of God, and who co-operate with him in the proclamation of the third angel's message.  "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.  I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."  That which Christ has spoken in the Old Testament is for all the world.  What he has said in reference to his commandments is not yea and nay, but yea and amen.  {RH, June 8, 1897 par. 10} 

Faith, saving faith, is to be taught.  The definition of this faith in Jesus Christ may be described in few words:  It is the act of the soul by which the whole man is given over to the guardianship and control of Jesus Christ.  He abides in Christ and Christ abides in the soul by faith as supreme.  The believer commits his soul and body to God, and with assurance may say, Christ is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.  All who will do this will be saved unto life eternal.  There will be an assurance that the soul is washed in the blood of Christ and clothed with His righteousness and precious in the sight of Jesus.  Our thoughts and our hopes are on the second advent of our Lord.  That is the day when the Judge of all the earth will reward the trust of His people.  {1888 495.3} 

(N)  Psalm 36:7 

How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

We have every evidence that the humble, contrite prayer offered to God is regarded as precious in His sight.  Not one is lost.  The promise is: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that  knocketh it shall be opened.  If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?  or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?  or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?  I f ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?"  [Luke 11:9-13].  {20MR 198.2} 

Here many who profess to be Christians will not bear the measurement of God; when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, they will be found wanting.  Dear brethren, "Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean, and I will receive you, and be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."  What a promise is this!  But we are not to lose sight of the fact that it is a promise based upon obedience to the command.  God calls us to be separate from the world, We are not to imitate or follow their practices, nor be conformed to the world in our course of action in any respect.  But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.  {RH, April 27, 1886 par. 9} 

Faithful to his promise, the divine One, exalted in the heavenly courts, imparted of his fulness to his followers on earth.  His enthronement at God's right hand was signalized by the outpouring of the Spirit upon his disciples.  By the work of Christ these disciples had been led to feel their need of the Spirit; under the Spirit's teaching they received their final preparation, and went forth to their life-work.  {RH, November 12, 1908 par. 10} 

No longer were they ignorant and uncultured.  No longer were they a collection of independent units or of discordant and conflicting elements.  No longer were their hopes set on worldly greatness.  They were of "one accord," of "one mind and one soul."  Christ filled their thoughts.  The advancement of his kingdom was their aim.  In mind and character they had become like their Master; and men "took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus."  {RH, November 12, 1908 par. 11} 

Then there was such a revelation of the glory of Christ as had never before been witnessed by mortal man.  Multitudes who had reviled his name and despised his power confessed themselves disciples of the crucified.  Through the co-operation of the divine Spirit the labors of the humble men whom Christ had chosen, stirred the world.  {RH, November 12, 1908 par. 12} 

All true obedience comes from the heart.  It was heart work with Christ.  And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses.  The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service.  When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience.  Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.  {DA 668.3} 

Sin can triumph only by enslaving the mind.  Christ came to our world to break the power of Satan, and emancipate the will of man.  He came "to proclaim liberty to the captives," to "undo the heavy burdens," and to "let the oppressed go free;" and he calls upon us to cooperate with him by entering his service, wearing his yoke, and lifting his burdens.  And, if we consent, he can and will so identify himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity with his will, that when obeying him, we shall but carry out our own impulses.  The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing his service.  {ST, November 19, 1896 par. 8} 

Through yielding to sin, man placed his will under the control of Satan.  He became a helpless captive in the tempter's power.  God sent His Son into our world to break the power of Satan, and to emancipate the will of man.  He sent Him to proclaim liberty to the captives, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free.  By pouring the whole treasury of heaven into this world, by giving us in Christ all heaven, God has purchased the will, the affections, the mind, the soul, of every human being.  When man places himself under the control of God, the will becomes firm and strong to do right, the heart is cleansed from selfishness and filled with Christ-like love.  The mind yields to the authority of the law of love, and every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.  The powers, hitherto "members of unrighteousness," and "servants of sin," are consecrated to the service of the God of love.  {AUCR, June 1, 1900 par. 10}