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When Pharisees denounced Christ's disciples for not observing their ceremonial excesses, He gathered all around Him and gave a vital principle of true faith. From this we learn the only valid approach to God, and may enter into new life and a walk with Him.

'Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.'

'Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?'

The supreme, sure statement that says everything that is important about life, its purpose, its chief problem and its highest experience and goal - knowing and walking with God. Nothing in life except this is certain and trustworthy. Here are nine words that transform lives.

Here are astonishing and unexpected words. A dying Saviour in extreme agony looks upon a vast crowd, screaming out insults, hatred and abuse, and prays, 'Father, forgive them!' Here is Christ's mighty love, the definition of forgiveness, and how the prayer is answered.

Justification by faith! What does it mean? It is the simplest yet the most profound teaching in the world. It is the most important thing anyone can know; the most surprising, the kindest, the most powerful, and the most costly (for God). It gives eternal life.

The great challenging question of the inspired Bible-writers of old - why? What are the motives that drive us away from God and His eternal plan for all who trust in Him? Here is why we recoil from Him, and all that we miss as a result.

'And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.'

'And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.'

'And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.'