When Sourly Tempted, Look to Jesus

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

When Sourly Tempted, Look to Jesus

Today's Text: And he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 1 Kings 19:4

The Message:      In all our afflictions, Jesus was afflicted. The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering. In this life we shall be proved whether we bear the test of God. When Satan's temptations come, we shall have a trial. Shall we be overcome by the bewitching power of Satan or shall we overcome Satan's temptations as Christ overcame them? Shall we have the mind stored with the heavenly treasures of truth, that we may be enabled to meet the adversary of souls with "It is written" as did Christ, and not with any of our impetuous speeches? Satan understands more of what "is written" than many a professed Christian, for he is a diligent student of the Scriptures, and his work is to pervert the truth of God, to lead people to disobedience and to neglect the searching of God's Word....      It is a great mistake to dictate to God. Elijah knew not what he said when he told God that he had enough of life and asked to die. The Lord did not take him at his word, for he had a work to do before he would be exalted and translated to heaven. Have we forgotten that Jesus, the Majesty of heaven, suffered being tempted? Jesus did not allow the enemy to pull Him into the mire of unbelief, or crowd Him into the mire of despondency and despair....      God hates sin. Satan's work is to allure to works of evil. How adroitly Satan worked with his bewitching power to fascinate the mind to choose sin rather than righteousness. The influence of one person on another had become dangerous because of Satan's leading and controlling the mind and pressing this influence of one over another in his own service. But the Lord Jesus, by the agency of His Holy Spirit, changes the order of things and takes the sins and guilt of the human race upon Himself, and draws people to Himself, and sanctifies and employs the human agent as His instrumentality to engage his powers to do an entirely opposite work than Satan advised....      "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you." How precious to the tempted soul is this positive promise. If those in trouble and temptation keep their eyes fixed on Jesus and draw nigh to God, talking of His goodness and mercy, Jesus draws nigh to them, and the annoyances that they thought almost unbearable vanish....      Troublous times are before us, but this is not to worry us. To be worried is to be unbelieving, but Christ invites you saying, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."-Letter 43, 1892.

Commentary: My friend, Satan ever seeks to distort and pervert the image of God that we may not be changed into His image.  He knows that those with whom he can get to look away from God will be overcome by his sophistries and temptations.  Therefore, in order to get the elect of God to receive the the mark of the beast in the last days, he must get them to look away from God.  He has done this by the supplanting of the One true God with the god of the trinity. The whole of the Christian world has accepted the false god of the trinity, and this is true of God's end-time church as well.  By supplanting the One true God of the Bible with the false god of the trinity he has artfully separated the people from their only source of strength in the last days. The condition of the church today is such that they have lost their peculiar righteousness and no longer reflect the lovely image of Christ.  They are naked because they do not have the righteousness of Christ but the false righteousness of the trinity.  This is why the church is wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. My friend, if we are to give the three angels message with the power of Christ to the whole world, we must have the righteousness of Christ.  We cannot receive this righteousness by looking unto the false god of the trinity.  We can only receive it by looking unto Jesus. May you look away from the deception of the trinity and unto the One true God through Jesus Christ today. God bless,

Video of the Week Pagan Origins of the Trinity - Nader Mansour Who are the gods of Babylon? What does that have to do with us in the last days? This presentation deals with the origins of one of the most fatal deceptions prepared for the last days. It might very well challenge you, but you will enjoy it.