Emancipation Papers, Cain’s Sacrifice, Hills of Gilboa

This was to her the beginning of a new life, a life of purity and peace, devoted to God. In the uplifting of
this fallen soul, Jesus performed a greater miracle than in healing the most grievous physical disease; He
cured the spiritual malady which is unto death everlasting. This penitent woman became one of His most
steadfast followers. With self-sacrificing love and devotion she showed her gratitude for His forgiving
mercy. For this erring woman the world had only contempt and scorn, but the Sinless One pitied her
weakness and reached to her a helping hand. While the hypocritical Pharisees denounced, Jesus bade her,
"Go, and sin no more." {MH 89.2}
Jesus knows the circumstances of every soul. The greater the sinner's guilt, the more he needs the
Saviour. His heart of divine love and sympathy is drawn out most of all for the one who is the most
hopelessly entangled in the snares of the enemy. With His own blood He has signed the emancipation
papers of the race. {MH 89.3}

Brethren, shall we not all of us leave our loads there? and when we leave this meeting, may it be with the
truth burning in our souls like fire shut up in our bones. You will meet with those who will say, "You are
too much excited over this matter. You are too much in earnest. You should not be reaching for the
righteousness of Christ, and making so much of that. You should preach the law." As a people, we have
preached the law until we are as dry as the hills of Gilboa that had neither dew nor rain. We must preach
Christ in the law, and there will be sap and nourishment in the preaching that will be as food to the
famishing flock of God. We must not trust in our own merits at all, but in the merits of Jesus of Nazareth.
Our eyes must be anointed with eye-salve. We must draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to us, if we
come in his own appointed way. O that you may go forth as the disciples did after the day of Pentecost, and
then your testimony will have a living ring, and souls will be converted to God. {RH, March 11, 1890 par.
13}

Our Redeemer liveth to make intercession for us, and now if we will daily learn in the school of Christ, if
we will cherish the lessons He will teach us in meekness and lowliness of heart, we shall have so large a
measure of the Spirit of Jesus that self will not be interwoven into anything that we may do or say. The eye
will be single to the glory of God. We need to make special efforts to answer the prayer of Christ that we
may be one as He is one with the Father, He who declared Himself actually straitened while in the days of
His humiliation because He had many things to say to His disciples which they could not bear now. The
wonders of redemption are dwelt upon altogether too lightly. {15MR 26.3} We need these matters
presented more fully and continuously in our discourses and in our papers. We need our own hearts to be
deeply stirred with these deep and saving truths. There is danger of keeping the discourses and the articles
in the paper like Cain's offering, Christless. {15MR 26.4}