The Grave Cannot Hold God's Sleeping Saints

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

The Grave Cannot Hold God's Sleeping Saints

Today's Text: So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. Deuteronomy 34:5

The Message:      After sin entered the world Eden had been caught up from the earth, for God would not suffer it to feel the marks of the curse.... As Moses beheld that lovely garden [in vision], an expression of joy came over his countenance. But the servant of God was carried still farther. He saw the earth purified by fire and cleansed from every vestige of sin, every mark of the curse, and renovated and given to the saints to possess forever and ever. He saw the kingdoms of the earth given to the saints of the Most High....      In the new earth the prophecies that the Jews applied to the first advent of Christ will be fulfilled. The saints will then be redeemed and made immortal. Upon their heads will be crowns of immortality, and joy and glory will be pictured on their countenances, which will reflect the image of their Redeemer.      Moses saw the land of Canaan as it will appear when it becomes the home of the saints. John the revelator was given a view of this same land, of which he writes: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God."...      As Moses beheld this scene, joy and triumph were expressed in his countenance. He could understand the force of all that the angels revealed to him. He took in the whole scene as it was presented before him. His mind was firm, his intellect clear. His strength was unabated, his eye was undimmed. Then he closed his eyes in death and the angels of God buried him in the mount. And there he slept.      But it was not long before Christ came to raise Moses to life. As He stood by the grave and bade him come forth, Satan stood by His side, saying, "I have control over him. I tempted him and he yielded. Even Moses was not able to keep God's law. He has transgressed and has placed himself on my side of the controversy. He appropriated to himself the glory that belonged to God. He is my property, for by his sin he has placed himself in my dominion and in my power."-Manuscript 69, 1912 (Manuscript Releases 10:158, 159).

Commentary: My friend, each of us have sinned and placed ourselves upon the side of Satan, and he will not give us up to the Son of God without a fight.  He contends that we are his property and he has the right to do with us as he sees fit.  But we have an everlasting Savior, One who was tempted as we are, and yet He never yielded Himself to sin.  It is He that contends with Satan and says "The Lord rebuke thee." (Jude 1:9). Through the life of Jesus Christ we receive eternal life.  John 3:36 says "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:"  When we accept Jesus as our Savior we place ourselves on the side of Christ, not by our own merits, but by the merits of the Son of God.  This Satan cannot contend because he was not victorious over Jesus while He was on this earth.  Thus the victorious life that Jesus accomplished here on this earth is made available to us by faith.  "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" (Colossians 1:27). Unless we have the life of Christ living within our hearts, we cannot be saved, and He does this through the indwelling of His Spirit within our lives.  The false doctrine of the trinty teaches that the Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of Christ, but a being unto itself, and it is this spirit that lives within us.  Since this spirit is not the Spirit of Christ it cannot save us, for it is only "Christ in you" that we have the "hope of glory". My friend, God has given us light that we may not be deceived.  He has given us His testimony and the testimony of His Son, that we may know that the Father is the One true God and that He gives life to us through His Son, and that life is given to us by the indwelling of His Spirit within our hearts.  The light of truth shines upon the deception of the trinity, but unless we embrace this truth, we will be left in darkness, for Jesus said in John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light". May you accept the light that God has given to us, that we may embrace it and be saved. God bless,

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