The conditions of eternal life, under grace, are just what they were in Eden--perfect righteousness, harmony with God, perfect conformity to the principles of His law. The standard of character presented in the Old Testament is the same that is presented in the New Testament. This standard is not one to which we cannot attain. In every command or injunction that God gives there is a promise, the most positive, underlying the command. God has made provision that we may become like unto Him, and He will accomplish this for all who do not interpose a perverse will and thus frustrate His grace. {MB 76.2} Jesus said, Be perfect as your Father is perfect. If you are the children of God you are partakers of His nature, and you cannot but be like Him. Every child lives by the life of his father. If you are Gods children, begotten by His Spirit, you live by the life of God. In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Col_2:9); and the life of Jesus is made manifest in our mortal flesh (2Co_4:11). That life in you will produce the same character and manifest the same works as it did in Him. Thus you will be in harmony with every precept of His law; for the law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. Psa_19:7, margin. Through love the righteousness of the law will be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Rom_8:4. {MB 77.3}
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