All May Become Conquerors Through Christ

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

All May Become Conquerors Through Christ

Today's Text: Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 13:23

The Message:      We know that intemperance is in our world everywhere. There is no sin in eating and drinking to sustain us physically, and in doing that which is for our spiritual good. But when we lose eternity out of our reckoning, and carry these necessary things to excess, that is when the sin comes in. We see on every side such crime, such iniquity. Is it not time that we shall begin to study for ourselves? ...      Satan is represented by the serpent. The tempter is everywhere, on every side, and when God says ye shall not, what is the result? In many instances in the place of obeying the voice of warning, people listen to the tempter. And in the place of all the attractions that Satan presents they have woe and misery....      When Christ came into our world as a babe in Bethlehem, the angels sang out, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."... Satan with all his synagogue-for Satan claims to be religious-determined that Christ should not carry out the counsels of heaven. After Christ was baptized, He bowed on the banks of Jordan, and never before had heaven listened to such a prayer as came from His divine lips.... The glory of God, in the form of a dove of burnished gold, rested upon Him, and from the infinite glory was heard these words, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The human race is encircled by the human arm of Christ, while with His divine arm He grasps the throne of the Infinite One. The prayer of Christ cleaved right through the darkness and entered where God is. To each of us it means that heaven is open before us. It means that the gates are ajar, that the glory is imparted to the Son of God and all who believe in His name....      Christ entered into the wilderness with the Spirit of God upon Him, to be tempted of the devil.... Satan left the field as a conquered foe. Our Saviour passed over the ground and was victor....      What has He done for the human family? He has elevated us in the scale of moral value. We may become conquerors through our Sufficiency. There is hope for the most hopeless, in Christ.... What did Christ come here for? To represent the Father. What a heart of love and sympathy! ... When God gave His Son, He gave all heaven. He could give no more.-Manuscript 27, 1893 (Temperance, 283-287).

Commentary: My friend, our salvation and our victory is found only in the Son of God who came to this world, became flesh, was tempted as we are tempted, and gained the victory over sin, that He may impart that experience of victory in our lives.  He came that He might impart the perfect image of God within us that through Him we may walk upright, holy, and blameless. The victory that Christ wrought out for us is not something that we can follow in our own strength.  We must be born again; we must be have the Spirit of Christ living within us, that our whole natures may be transformed.  The victory that He has wrought out for is not just power to resist the temptations of Satan, but a total transformation of our whole natures from being sinful to being righteous.  Our carnal desires will no longer have dominion over us and His holy and righteous ones will become the desires of our hearts. To overcome sin in our lives is not about keeping the law of God, but its about putting on the righteousness of Christ, inviting Jesus to live within our hearts, that our very natures are transformed into His.  It's about partaking of the divine nature of the Son of God that we may be wholly transformed into His image. The reason why so many fail to gain the victory over sin is because they are trying to keep the law of God in their own strength.  They resist but are overcome because they have submitted their lives to a counterfeit god; a god that cannot save them.  The trinity separates us from the only power that can transform our lives.  By introducing the Holy Spirit as a separate being from the Father and the Son it teaches us to rely upon God the Holy Spirit to mediate and to give us victory over sin.  Nowhere in the Scriptures is it taught that the Holy Spirit is other than the Spirit of God and of Christ.  "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5). My friend, victory over sin can only be imparted to us by One who has gained the victory in sinful flesh, and that being is the Son of God who has come down in sinful flesh and was tempted by Satan, yet without sin.  That is why the Scriptures tell us that salvation is found only in the Son of God.  "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (1 John 5:12). Unless we have the Son of God living within our hearts, we do not have eternal life.  The salvation that the Father offers to us is only through His Son.  "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). God bless,

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