Christ is our Only Ladder to Heaven

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Christ is our Only Ladder to Heaven

Today's Text: And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven ... And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said ... the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. Genesis 28:12, 13

The Message:      The ladder is the medium of communication between God and the human race. Through the mystic ladder the gospel was preached to Jacob. As the ladder stretched from earth, reaching to the highest heavens, and the glory of God was seen above the ladder, so Christ in His divine nature reached immensity and was one with the Father. As the ladder, though its top penetrated into heaven, had its base upon the earth, so Christ, though [He was] God, clothed His divinity with humanity and was in the world "found in fashion as a man." The ladder would be useless if it rested not on the earth or if it reached not to the heavens.      God appeared in glory above the ladder, looking down with compassion on erring, sinful Jacob, addressing to him words of encouragement. It is through Christ that the Father beholds sinful human beings. The ministering angels were communicating to the inhabitants of the earth through the medium of the ladder. The only way that people can be saved is by clinging to Christ.      We ascend to heaven by climbing the ladder-the whole height of Christ's work-step by step. There must be a holding fast to Christ, a climbing up by the merits of Christ. To let go is to cease to climb, to fall, to perish....      The question with men and women gazing heavenward is How can I obtain the mansions for the blessed? It is by being a partaker of the divine nature. It is by escaping the "corruption that is in the world through lust." It is by entering into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, laying hold of the hope set before you in the gospel.... It is by being in Christ and yet led by Christ, by believing and working-trusting in Jesus, yet working upon the plan of addition, holding on to Christ and constantly mounting upward toward God....      We point you to the mansions Christ is preparing for all those who love Him. We point you to that city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.... Climb step by step, and you will reach God above the ladder and the Holy City of God. None who will resolutely mount up on the ladder will fail of everlasting life. "For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."-Manuscript 13, 1884 (Manuscript Releases 19:353-355).

Commentary: My friend, it is only through our connection with Jesus Christ that we are saved.  That connection is not merely a knowledge of Him, but an intimate relationship that leads us closer and closer to God.  As a ladder connects us with that which it is connected to, so too does Jesus connect us with the Father.  Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, but unless we traverse the ladder we cannot come into connection with the One True God. We must take hold of the rungs of the ladder and step by step move closer and closer to the Father.  Each step in the ladder represents our progression towards perfection.  As we daily surrender our lives to Jesus, He will come into our hearts and perform the work of cleansing us from all unrighteousness.  But this process is not done entirely by Jesus, we have a part to play in it.  We must willingly surrender, and as we surrender, He will continue to cleanse us. The more that we experience this work in our lives, the closer we will become to the perfection that God desires in us.  The oil that was in the five wise virgins was the oil of the Spirit of Christ and when the message went out to meet the Bridegroom, they were prepared to meet Him, but the oil that the five foolish virgins had did not sustain them.  The same will be true in the last days.  The only oil that will see us through to meet the Bridegroom is the Oil of Jesus Christ who is truly the Son of God.  Any other oil will burn out when tried and tested. The belief in the trinity is a doctrine that does not represent Jesus as truly the Son of God from eternity past.  It does not teach that the Son of God had His beginning coming forth from the Father.  In this way it is not the oil of salvation, but foreign oil that cannot save us.  It is only as we look unto Jesus, the literal and natural Son of God, can we be saved. My friend, the doctrine of the trinity is foreign to the Word of God.  It presents to us a counterfeit god that is not the One True God as spoken of in John 14:3, but is a god that is made up of three beings.  This is pagan and is idolatry for there is only One True God and that is the Father, and He gives to us His Son that through Him we may come into a knowledge of Him, and by His sacrifice we may be saved. Wont you look unto the Jesus of the Bible, the real and literal Son of God that you may be saved? God bless,

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