11. As we work out our salvation, what things must we choose to lay aside to enable us to run the race set before us? Hebrews 12:1.
NOTE: ‘Every besetting sin must be put away. Warfare must be waged against it until it is overcome. The Lord will work with your efforts. As finite, sinful man works out his own salvation with fear and trembling, it is God who works in him, to will and to do of His own good pleasure. But God will not work without the co-operation of man. He must exercise his powers to the very utmost; he must place himself as an apt, willing student in the school of Christ; and as he accepts the grace that is freely offered to him, the presence of Christ in the thought and in the heart will give him decision of purpose to lay aside every weight of sin, that the heart may be filled with all the fullness of God, and of His love.’ Christian Education, page 111.
12. How are we shown that the work that Jesus begins in us will be completed? Hebrews 12:2. Compare Philippians 1:2; Hebrews 7:25.
NOTE: ‘All that man can do without Christ is polluted with selfishness and sin; but that which is wrought through faith is acceptable to God. When we seek to gain heaven through the merits of Christ, the soul makes progress. “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,” we may go on from strength to strength, from victory to victory; for through Christ the grace of God has worked out our complete salvation.’ Faith & Works, page 94.
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