All Called to be Children of God

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

All Called to be Children of God

Today's Text: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2

The Message:      First 1John 3:1-3 quoted. Here John has a view of the measureless love of an infinite God. John cannot find language to express it, and he calls upon the world to behold it. There were types and shadows that prefigured Christ in the Old Testament. Those who had been with Christ through His ministry recorded His works in the New Testament. For three and a half years the disciples were learning lessons from the lips of Christ, the greatest Teacher the world ever knew.... What brought Him here? Adam and Eve had transgressed the law of God in Eden....      Christ looked upon our world before He came to it, and He saw that Satan's power was exercised upon the human family. And because of the transgression of Adam he claimed the whole human family. He pointed to their calamities and diseases and reflected them upon God. He said God would have no mercy upon them and they might as well be under his control. Jesus had enlisted to give His own life for the salvation of the human race. He laid aside His royal robe and royal crown that He might clothe divinity with humanity....      Since the law of God was transgressed, the sentiment prevailed that it was impossible for human beings to keep the law of God.... The human and divine were combined in Jesus Christ. He came to our world to elevate humanity in the scale of moral value with God. He passed over the ground where Adam fell. He stood against the temptations of Satan and came off conqueror. He [Satan] approached the Son of God as an angel of light, just as he may tempt you.      Jesus Christ came off conqueror in the wilderness of temptation. When upon Jordan's banks, He offered such a prayer to heaven as heaven had never listened to before. His prayer penetrated through the darkness around Him and reached the highest heavens. The heavens were opened and the Holy Spirit, in appearance like a dove of burnished gold, descended upon Him, and from the lips of the Infinite One was heard these words, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." We have not understood how much this was saying to us. You are "accepted in the beloved."...      Christ came here to our atom of a world, and He honored it by taking human nature upon Himself. He honored humanity in the sight of all the created intelligences.-Manuscript 16, 1893.

Commentary: My friend, God sent His Son to fallen humanity in the garb of humanity, that by taking upon human flesh He may become as a man and overcome sin in our behalf.  It is only through our cooperation with the divine Son of God that we may overcome sin and be restored back into the image of God.  Though our human nature has been corrupted by sin, Christ who came in the flesh, has joined humanity with the divinity of God that we may be restored back into His image. Jesus when He was on this earth heard the testimony from the highest authority that there is; His Father declared "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:17).  This declaration coming directly from the mouth of God cannot be misunderstood.  Jesus was the divine Son of God clothed in humanity that He may reveal to us the image of the Father and to show His great love for us.  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16). This is the great foundation of the gospel that God gave to us His Son that He may die for our sins and make available to us His perfect life, that we may be brought back into harmony with the Father.  This beautiful picture of God's love for us is destroyed by the doctrine of the trinity, for it teaches that the father-son relationship is not real, that it is only a metaphor.  It teaches that the Son is not really a son, but that He has only taken upon Himself the role of a son.  If this is true then God is made out to be a liar because He has declared that He gave to us His Son. 1 John 5:9, 10 says "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son."  Sadly the Seventh-day Adventist church teaches that the Son of God is not literally or naturally the Son of God, but that it is only a metaphor, meaning not literally true.  Because the church has adopted the false doctrine of the trinity they are denying both the Father and the Son, for if the Son is not really a son, then the Father is not really a father. 1 John 2:22, 23 says "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.  Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."  The trinity denies the Father and the Son and as such is the spirit of antichrist.  The church has been corrupted by the wine of Babylon and as such is no longer being lead by the Spirit of God.  This is evident by the message of the Faithful and True Witness to the church of Laodicea saying "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" (Revelation 3:17). It is sad but true, the Seventh-day Adventist church which started out as the pure church of Philadelphia, has become the wretched church of Laodicea.  Jesus says "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3:20).  Because the church has accepted the doctrine of the trinity it has rejected Jesus as their leader and is being led by the spirit of antichrist. My friend, the church has been corrupted by the teaching of the trinity and unless we are zealous in our repentance, we will be spewed [vomited] out of the mouth of Jesus and be lost. May you look unto the Only true God through His Son Jesus Christ, that your eyes may be opened to the deception that has been played upon the church before it is too late. God bless,

Video of the Week The Gospel vs the Trinity - Imad Awde If you understand what the Trinity theology teaches, you will understand that it is an anti-Gospel theology; that it denies the foundation of the Gospel. Join Imad as he shares four foundational truths of the gospel and reveals how the Trinity denies each one of them.  This is a powerful message from Imad Awde.