With his own life Christ has bought man, and given him a probation in which to work out his own salvation. God asks his children to live a pure, holy life. He has given his Son that we may reach this standard. He has made every provision necessary to enable man to live, not for animal satisfaction, like the beasts that perish, but for God and heaven. God is not satisfied when human beings live merely a selfish life. Christ died that the moral image of God might be restored in humanity, that men and women might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. We are to use no power of our being for selfish gratification; for all our powers belong to him, and are to be used to his glory. He who does nothing to glorify God might better never have been born. Those who live merely an animal life are by precept and example teaching others to leave eternity out of their reckoning.

Kristus har købt menneskene med sit eget liv, og givet det en prøvetid til at udvirke sin egen frelse. Gud kræver af sine børn, at de lever et rent og helligt liv. Han har givet sin Søn, for at vi skal nå dette mål. Han har gjort alt, hvad der kunne gøres, for at gøre det muligt for mennesket at leve, ikke for kødelig tilfredsstillelse, ligesom dyrene, der forgår, men for Gud og Himmelen. Gud er ikke tilfreds når mennesker blot lever et selvisk liv. Kristus døde så Guds moralske billede kan gendannes i menneskene, så mænd og kvinder kan få del i den guddommelige natur, har undflyet fordærvelsen som er i verdens lyster. Vi skal ikke bruge vore kræfter for at tilfredsstille os selv; for alle kræfter til hører ham, og skal bruges til hans ære. Han som ikke gør noget for at forherlige Gud, var det bedre om han aldrig var født. Dem som blot lever et dyrisk liv lærer i forskrift og eksempel andre at lade evigheden være ude af deres planer.