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Seventh-day Adventists claim a visionary understanding of Christ's role in judging the dead. As a result, we have been so intensely occupieed with details about the judgment that we almost neglect Christ's mediation for the living. This one-sided emphasis has produced some problems. It has interfered with our understanding of Christ's ongoing efforts for our redemption, and how His inistry affects our relationship with Him. Even worse, it has allowed the growth of ideaas that, instead of stressing Jesus as the only source of saving righteousness for fallen man, actually make the believer's own behavior modification the measure of his standing with God. Dr. Helmut Ott, clears up the fog that obscures what Jesus is doing in the sanctuary. He portrays Jesus as the powerful mediator, silencing our accusers, removing our filthy garments, and covering us with the glorious robe of His righteousness. This is how he presents us to the Father--righteous by faith. Ott had three objectives in writing this book. First, to focus "attention on what Christ is doing today to secure the salvation of those who accept Him as personal Saviour." Second, to awaken the reader's "awareness of his personal need to depend on Christ's atoning death, redemptive victory, and all-sufficient righteousness, imputed to him by faith, for a right standing with God." And third, to bring a systematic structure to the many teachings we find on this subject in Ellen White's writings. In all three objectives he succeeds admiraly. - Introduction. 1. Christ Mediates for the Believer to Present Him--as an Individual Person--Perfectly Righteous to the Father. 2. Christ Mediates for the Believer to Make His Performance--His Obedience, Service, Worship--Acceptable to the Father. 3. The Mediation of Christ the Only Way to Saving Righteousness for All. 4. The Mediation of Christ the Only Way to Saving Righteousness to the Very End. 5. The Mediatorial Ministry of Christ Completed at the End of Probation. 6. Ellen G