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Chapter 18


Christ’s Victory Means
We Can Grow Into His Full



      Those who will permit God to work in them will grow up unto the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. YI 305

      The Lord does not design that we shall ever feel that we have reached to the full measure of the stature of Christ. 2ST 488

      Thus through the grace of Christ he grows to the full measure of a man in Christ Jesus. YI 612

      In doing this, the affections will become pure, refined, and sanctified, and they may grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. YI 200

      Now you are loudly called upon to be diligent in the use of every means of grace, that you may be transformed in character, and you may grow to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. 5T 267

      Every one who professes the name of Christ is required to grow up to the full stature of Christ, the Christian’s living head. 5T 264

      Those who are really beholding Christ will be changed into His image, even by the Spirit of the Lord, and will grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit of God will inspire men with love and purity; and refinement will be manifest in their characters. 3RH 120

      We shall attain to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus, only as the result of a steady growth in grace. 5T 105

      God designs that Christians shall grow continually, - grow up unto the full stature of men and women in Christ. All who do not grow stronger, and become more firmly rooted and grounded in the truth, are continually retrograding. 4T 556

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      As you make advances in the Christian life, you will be constantly growing up unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. In your experience, you will be proving what is the length and breadth, and depth and height, of the love of God, which passeth knowledge. 2RH 253

      Thus they become partakers of His image, and day by day grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ. 4ST 130

      Day by day they are growing up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. 4ST 249

      If we watch every word and action, that we may do nothing to dishonor the One who has trusted us, if we improve every opportunity granted to us, we shall grow into the full stature of men and women in Christ. 4ST 185

      Christ is the author and finisher of our faith; and when we yield to His hand, we shall steadily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour. We shall make progress until we reach the full stature of men and women in Christ. YI 322

      Those who are growing up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus, will become more and more like Him in character; it is impossible for them to do otherwise. YI 274

      It is the privilege of every Christian to grow up until he shall reach the full stature of a man in Christ Jesus. 5T 309

      God’s purpose for His children is that they shall grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ. 9T 153

      We still have the privilege of coming to the Source of light and power. We still may grow up unto the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. But in order to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus, you must meditate upon His love, you must talk of His power and extol His grace. 2RH 366

      Those who are connected with Christ will grow in grace, and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, to the full stature of men and women. 3RH 35

      The children of God are to grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. 3RH 290

      We are to wait, and watch, and work for Christ. Thus only can we attain to the full stature of men and women in Christ. 3RH 559

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      How many there are as weak as water who might have a neverfailing source of strength. Heaven is ready to impart to us, that we might be mighty in God, and attain to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. 4RH 140

      It is positively necessary for those who believe the truth to be making continual advancement, growing up unto the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. There is no time for backsliding and indifference. 6RH 61

      So the spiritual life is sustained by the use of those means that Providence has supplied. If the follower of Christ would grow up “unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ,” he must eat of the bread of life, and drink of the water of salvation. 6RH 166

      God has made it possible for His children to grow to the full stature of men and women in Christ; none need be dwarfed. 6RH 300

      We can never see our Lord in peace, unless our souls are spotless. We must bear the perfect image of Christ. Every thought must be brought into subjection to the will of Christ. As expressed by the great apostle, we must “come into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” We shall never attain to this condition without earnest effort. We must strive daily against outward evil and inward sin, if we would reach the perfection of Christian character. 1RH 319

      Every provision has been made that we may attain a height of stature in Christ Jesus that will meet the divine standard. God is not pleased with His representatives if they are content to be dwarfs when they might grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ. He wants you to have height and breadth in Christian experience. He wants you to have great thoughts, noble aspirations, clear perceptions of truth, and lofty purposes of action. 1RH 489

      True sanctification is carried into all the business of life. Pure thoughts, noble aspirations, clear perceptions of truth, elevated purposes of action, yearnings to attain to perfection, will be the experience of every real Christian. These have fellowship with the Father and with the Son. They are constantly increasing in the knowledge of God. They grow in reverence and trust and love; but while they are coming nearer and nearer to perfection of character, they will feel more and more deeply their unlikeness to Christ, and have greater distrust of themselves and greater dependence upon God. As these are growing up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus, they will be sought by others, and will be a help and blessing to all with whom they associate. The most Christlike professors are those who are the most kind, pitiful, and courteous; their convictions are firm and their

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characters strong; nothing can swerve them from their faith or allure them from their duty. 1RH 546

      The Lord wants every one of us to have a deeper, richer experience in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He desires that we shall grow in knowledge, not earthward, but heavenward, upward to Christ our living Head. How high, how great is this knowledge to be? - To the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. We cannot grow too much, we cannot gather up too many of the precious rays of light that God sends us. The Lord wants every one of us to be sanctified through the truth. 2RH 373

      Heavenly inspiration will have a part in the Christian experience, and we shall grow to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. It is growth in knowledge of the character of Christ that sanctifies the soul. To discern and appreciate the wonderful work of the atonement, transforms him who contemplates the plan of salvation. By beholding Christ, he becomes changed into the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. The beholding of Jesus becomes an ennobling, refining process to the actual Christian. 2RH 421

      Those who would have the character of Christ must practice His teachings. They must study the Pattern. Then they will reveal a Christlike character in their association with one another, and their united influence will be exerted in helping to transform the character of others. They will drink in the sympathy of Jesus, and exercise the same forbearance, supporting, encouraging, and animating one another in the work, each being a vital member of the organized body, allied to Jesus, growing up into Christ, the living head, unto the full stature of men and women. 2RH 524

      Day by day (church members) are to build their characters in accordance with Christ’s directions. They are to abide in Him, constantly exercising faith in Him. Thus they will grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ. 5RH 94-95

      Step by step we are to advance, ever receiving and imparting, ever gaining a more complete knowledge of Christ, daily approaching more closely the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. 5RH 329

      Those who will look long enough into the Divine Mirror to see and despise their unlikeness to the meek and lowly Saviour, will have strength to overcome. All who truly believe will confess and forsake their sins. They will cooperate with Christ in the work of bringing their hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong under the control of the Divine Will, so that sin shall not have dominion over them. Looking to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of their faith, they will be changed into His likeness. They will grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ. 4ST 203

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      We are to keep the Lord ever before us. Those who do this, walk with God as did Enoch, and imperceptibly to themselves, they become one with the Father and with the Son. Day by day a change is wrought upon mind and hearts, and the natural inclination, the natural ways, are molded after God’s ways and Spirit. They increase in spiritual knowledge, and are growing up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. YI 198

      As we walk day by day in the light He sends us, in willing obedience to all His requirements, our experience grows and broadens until we reach the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus. YI 635



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