(N)  Psalm 54:4 

Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

1 John 4:18 

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

(N)  Psalm 56:13 

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

1 John 4:19 

We love him, because he first loved us.

(N)  Psalm 63:8 

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

1 John 5:3 

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

(N). Psalm 68:5 

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

The Son of God, heaven's glorious Commander, was touched with pity for the fallen race.  He entered into a covenant with God to save man, and to vindicate His Father's character as expressed in the law.  He came to the earth in the form of man to refute Satan's lie, that God had given a law which man could not keep.  He came to give Himself as a sacrifice for sin, thus revealing to the heavenly universe that the law is as changeless and eternal as is Jehovah Himself.  {ST, July 23, 1902 par. 11} 

There is a class who say, "I believe, I believe," and lay claim to all the promises which are given on condition of obedience; but they do not the works of Christ.  God is not honored by any such faith.  It is spurious.  Another class are trying to keep all the commandments of God, but many of them do not come up to their exalted privilege in claiming the promises that were given for them.  God's promises are for those who keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.  {OHC 119.4} 

"That he might sanctify the people with His own blood," Jesus "suffered without the gate," bearing the reproach.  "Let us go therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.  For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.  By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name ... Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ."  {ST, September 10, 1902 par. 8} 

It is through His merits, through an example of suffering, that the chosen disciples of Christ are fitted for every work of ministry and for every trial and discouragement in this work.  Looking unto Jesus -- His self-denying life, His sacrifice, His humiliation in their behalf -- they are ready to follow in His footsteps, to endure the cross, despise the shame, and go without the camp bearing His reproach.  The Holy Spirit makes them one with Christ, their divine Leader.  The truth enthroned in the heart sanctifies the soul, and the power and grace of God within manifests itself in the life as the power and wisdom of God.  {1SAT 292.3}

Those only who read the Scriptures as the voice of God speaking to them, are true learners.  They tremble at the voice of God, for to them it is a living reality.  They open their understanding to divine instruction and pray for grace, that they may obtain a preparation for service.  As the heavenly torch is placed in his hand, the seeker for truth sees his own frailty, his infirmity, the hopelessness of looking to himself for righteousness.  He sees that there is in him nothing that can recommend him to God.  He prays for the Holy Spirit, the representative of Christ, to be his constant guide, to lead him into all truth.  He repeats the promise, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name, He shall teach you all things." John 14:26.  {CT 450.1}

In the pathway of all who seek the crown, is the cross.  If we would become partakers with Christ of his glory, we must be willing to share with him in his sufferings.  If we would reflect his glorious image, we must be submissive to the divine molding; we must follow in the footsteps of the Man of Calvary.  God has claims upon every one of us.  He created us, he redeemed us with an infinite sacrifice.  He has promised the overcomer the great rewards of eternity.  Why do we cling to anything that is offensive to him?  Why not separate from every sin, and perfect holiness before him?  The only reward for sin is unutterable woe and death; but the righteous shall be at his right hand in fullness of joy, in his presence, where are pleasures forevermore.  {RH, September 16, 1890 par. 2} 

Satan knew that if Christ was indeed the Son of God, the world's Redeemer, it was for no good to himself, that the Lord had left the royal courts of Heaven to come to a fallen world.  He feared that his own power was henceforth to be limited, and that his deceptive wiles would be discerned and exposed, which would lessen his influence over man.  He feared that his dominion and his control of the kingdoms of the world was to be contested.  He remembered the words Jehovah addressed to him when he was summoned into his presence with Adam and Eve, whom he had ruined by his lying deceptions, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.  It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."  This declaration contained the first gospel promise to man.  {RH, February 24, 1874 par. 27}