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Daily Text
That which corresponds to this is also now saving you, namely, baptism, (... the request made to God for a good conscience,)—1 Pet. 3:21, NW.
After we have a good or clean conscience before God which relieves us of the consciousness of being condemned sinners and outside of his favor, we must keep our consciences good and clean. This requires more than mere faith in Christ's sacrifice. It requires real baptism into him now. Why? Because, though you may hear his name and confess to him with your lips, you can disown him by the way you live. You can show you do not belong to him by your works, works which are not like his example and which he never commanded as your Master and Owner, who bought you with his own blood. Jesus never had any consciousness of sin in himself. (John 8:46) So we must have the inward consciousness that we are not copying the world or keeping in friendship with it while we are in it but that we are sincere in what we are doing in a godly way, having more than just a form of godly devotion. W 11/15
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THE CONGREGATION OF GOD
MANY are the conflicting claims of numerous religious systems concerning "the church", about which so many good and heartening things are written in the Holy Scriptures . Some contend that their religious organization alone has exclusive right to represent God . They say that the individual seeking God's favor ...
