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Outcast?
`Whatever
may have been your past experience, however discouraging your
present circumstances, if you will come to Jesus just as you are,
weak, helpless, and despairing, our compassionate Saviour will meet
you a great way off, and will throw about you His arms of love and
His robe of righteousness.’ (AG9)
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`As the shepherd loves his
sheep, and cannot rest if even one be missing, so, in an infinitely higher
degree, does God love every outcast soul.' (COL187) |
`The
relations between God and each soul are as distinct and full as
though there were not another soul upon the earth to share His
watchcare, not another soul for whom He gave His beloved Son.’
(SC100)
`God
estimates man not by the circumstances of his birth, not by his
position or wealth, not by his advantages in educational lines, but
by the price paid for his redemption. However misshapen has been
his character, although he may have been counted as an outcast among
men, the man who permits the grace [unmerited kindness] of Christ to
enter his soul will be reformed in character and will be raised up
from his condition of guilt, degradation, and wretchedness. God has
made every provision in order that the lost one may become His
child. The frailest human being may be elevated, ennobled, refined,
and sanctified by the grace of God.’ (SW31)
`Men may deny the claim of
God's love, they may wander
from Him, they may choose another master; yet they are God's, and He
longs to recover His own.’ (COL187)
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