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Chapter 17


Christ’s Victory Means
We Can Reflect His Likeness



      We can, we can reveal the likeness of our divine Lord. We can know the science of spiritual life. We can glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits, which are His. Christ has shown us what we may accomplish through cooperation with Him. “Abide in me,” He says, “and I in you.” 6RH 234

      You may reflect the beauty of the character of your risen Lord, who, tho He was rich, yet for our sake became poor, that through His poverty we might be made rich.

      It is possible for us to reveal the likeness of our divine Lord. 4ST 413

      By beholding Him, you will become changed into His likeness. 5T 201

      Christians must be like Christ. They should have the same spirit, exert the same influence, and have the same moral excellence, that He possessed. 5T 249

      By the power of Christ they must be changed into His likeness, and reflect the divine attributes. PP 278

      But when you ask for the spiritual blessings you so much need in order that you may perfect a character after Christ’s likeness, the Lord assures you that you are asking according to a promise that will be verified. YI 186

      Those who have the greatest deformities of character, may have the greatest grace. The highest seat will be awarded to those who, through appropriating the promises of God to themselves, attain the greatest likeness to Christ. 2ST 179

      Those who, with contrite hearts, search the word of God for truth, will receive a blessing from God. Their characters are formed after

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the divine similitude. The mind is in a state of continual advancement. By beholding they become changed into the divine likeness. 3RH 481

      There is power in Christ to redeem the mental and moral character, and to mold the man after the divine likeness. 3RH 592

      When we are planted in Him, we shall grow in likeness to Christ’s character. 3RH 312

      We can, we can reveal the likeness of our divine Lord. We can know the science of spiritual life. We can honor our Maker. 5RH 91

      By beholding Him they will be changed into His likeness. 5RH 49

      The remedy for unlikeness to Christ, for giving occasion for your good to be evil spoken of, is to live humbly, to keep looking unto Jesus in prayerful watchfulness, until changed into the likeness of His beautiful character. 3RH 357

      . . . if we walk humbly with God, working the works of Christ, our characters will become like that of our Lord; and when we most nearly reflect the likeness of Christ, we are giving the greatest honor to God. 2RH 444

      Beholding the character of Christ, we would become changed into His likeness. 5RH 537

      God desires that every one of us shall be susceptible to the influence of the Holy Spirit, by which we may be fashioned into the likeness of the Divine. 5RH 299

      Divinity needed humanity, that humanity might afford a channel of communication between God and man, and humanity needed divinity, that a power from above might restore man to the likeness of God. 3ST 24

      The eye of faith sees Him ever present, in all His goodness, grace, forbearance, courtesy, and love, those spiritual and divine attributes. And as we behold, we are changed into His likeness. 6RH 304

      Where are those who understand what it means to be partakers of the divine nature, and to escape the corruption that is in the world through lust? If you are partakers of the divine nature, you will day by day be obtaining a fitting for the life that measures with the life of God. Day by day you will purify your trust in Jesus and follow His example, growing into His likeness until you shall stand before Him perfect. 5RH 488

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      We are not to be anxious about what Christ and God think of us, but about what God thinks of Christ, our Substitute. Ye are accepted in the Beloved. The Lord shows, to the repenting, believing one, that Christ accepts the surrender of the soul, to be molded and fashioned after His own likeness. 2SM 32-33

      Jesus came to our world to bring divine power to man, that through His grace, we might be transformed into His likeness. When it is in the heart to obey God, when efforts are put forth to this end, Jesus accepts this disposition and effort as man’s best service, and He makes up for the deficiency with His own divine merit. 2ST 395

      While with penitence and humble trust we meditate upon Jesus, whom our sins have pierced and our sorrows have burdened, we may learn to walk in His footsteps. By beholding Him we become changed into His divine likeness. And when this work is wrought in us, we shall claim no righteousness of our own, but shall exalt Jesus Christ, while we hang our helpless souls upon His merits. 1RH 251

      Keep looking to Jesus. He is your strength. By steadfastly beholding Him, you will be changed into the same likeness. YI 522

      Christ’s life on earth is a perfect reflection of the divine law. In Him is life and hope and light. Behold Him, and you will be changed into the same likeness, from character to character. 4ST 512

      No man can look to Christ without being strengthened and uplifted. By beholding Him, we are changed into His likeness, and cherish the same spirit. 4ST 407

      We are perfected by beholding Christ. Changed into the same likeness, from character to character, we are made complete in Him. 4RH 320

      Man needs power outside of, and beyond, himself to restore him to the likeness of God, and to enable him to do the work of God; but this does not make the human agency unessential. Humanity lays hold upon divine power. Christ dwells in the heart by faith; and, through cooperation with the divine, the power of man becomes efficient for good. 4ST 335

      It is the unity of Christ’s followers that convinces the world that God has indeed sent His Son to die for sinners, to make them partakers of His perfection, changing the sinful heart, and forming the character after the divine likeness. 4RH 539

      Christ is waiting for us to give ourselves to Him. Then He will mold and fashion us after the divine likeness, taking the things of God, and

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showing them to us. And as we behold the beauty of the Saviour’s character, we shall grow more and more like Him, until at last God can say of us, “Ye are complete in Him.” 4ST 282

      Those who choose Christ as their leader, grow daily more like Him. “Strengthened with all might by His Spirit,” they form characters that will win for them entrance into the holy city. 4ST 322

      We must know the love of Christ in our individual experience. This love in the soul will purify the entire being and renew it in the likeness of God. More and more familiar are we to become with Christ’s divine human life; we are to make it ours by personal experience, until it can be said of us as it was said of Him, “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity.” 4ST 471

      Never can we in our own strength obtain the victory over temptation. But he who trusts in Christ, and submits to the guidance of His Spirit, will grow daily into the likeness of God. YI 515

      . . . he who feels that he is not his own, and keeps his eyes fixed on Jesus, will grow into the likeness of the Saviour, his will becomes one with Christ’s, and his influence for Christ is constantly increasing. 2ST 470

For Further Study:
1RH 304
2RH 509
2RH 587
3RH 544
4RH 196
5RH 120
6RH 210
5T 105



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