No Temptation Could Induce the Savior to Sin

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

No Temptation Could Induce the Savior to Sin

Today's Text: But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Hebrews 1:8

The Message:      In the wilderness Christ endured trials human beings cannot comprehend. Here Christ was brought face-to-face with the subtle power of Satan, the fallen angel. The enemy pursued the same course with the Saviour that he did with Adam and Eve in Eden. He began by disputing the sovereignty of Christ. If you are the Son of God, he said, give me evidence that You are....      Well did Satan know who Christ was, for when the Saviour went to Gadara, the evil spirits in the two madmen there cried out, "What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" As Christ passed through the test of the second Adam, His beauty of character shone out through His disguise. Satan could see through His humanity the glory and purity of the Holy One with whom he had been associated in the heavenly courts. As he looked upon Christ, there rose before his mind a picture of what he himself was then. At the time he had beauty and holiness. Self-exaltation led him to strive for a place above Christ. But he had failed. Could he now carry out his design upon the enfeebled humanity of Christ? He knew that if he could induce Christ to yield one jot in His allegiance to His Father, he would have the world entirely in his power, and would be able to rule as only he in his changed spiritual nature could rule. But the One Satan was trying to overcome was the Lord of heaven, and all the efforts of the tempter were without avail. As Satan saw that he could not obtain the victory, he was aroused to malignant hatred....      Then Satan took Christ to the pinnacle of the temple, and told Him to cast Himself down.... Thus he tried to lead Him to commit the sin of presumption. He reminded Him of the ministration of angels. But no temptation could make the Saviour accept the challenge of the tempter....      The adversary seemed to have power to take Christ where he pleased, for he next took Him to an exceeding high mountain, and there presented before Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.... Then it was that divinity flashed through humanity, and the fallen angels saw Jesus glorified before them as He said, "Get thee behind me, Satan."...      As the Commander in the heavenly courts, Christ was accustomed to receive the attendance of angels. And at any time during His life on this earth He could have called to His Father for twelve legions of angels. But no bribe, no temptation to lead Him to manifest His divine prerogatives, could induce Him to deviate from the path of God's appointment.-Letter 7, 1900.

Commentary: My friend, the one thing that Satan hates is the fact that Jesus is the Son of God.  In the wilderness while Jesus was weak with hunger he sought to overcome the Savior by separating Him from the power of His Father.  If Satan could get Jesus to doubt as to who He was and get Him to work a miracle in His own behalf, the adversary of souls would have won in the conflict, and the plan of redemption would have failed and we would be lost. Satan uses the same tactic with us today.  By separating us from the Son of God, we can have no power to overcome him.  Today, for the whole of the Christian world, he has accomplished this by the introduction of the trinity.  The trinity is a false image of God and as such cannot save us.  The Scriptures declare in 1 Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;", while the trinity teaches that there are three god-beings in one god.  It further introduces another mediator between God and man in the form of the Holy Spirit, when the Bible clearly says that there is only one mediator the man Christ Jesus. In this way Satan has deceived the whole world to look away from the One true God unto a god of his own devising, thus he has separated us from our only source of power to overcome him. The trinity takes the Son of God and changes Him into God the Son.  While this may not seem to be different, it is.  In being the Son of God it shows that His authority comes from the fact that He is the Son of God and thus that His authority comes from His Father.  By changing His title to God the Son, it changes the source of His authority from the Father unto Himself.  If we are looking unto God the Son for salvation we are looking unto a altogether different being that is God unto Himself and not truly the Son of God. The trinity destroys the Father and Son relationship.  By claiming that the Father and the Son are co-equal and co-eternal it is saying that the Father and the Son have always existed and as such cannot truly be Father and Son, but only metaphors, or roles that each has adopted.  This view of God is a counterfeit and is spoken of in the Scriptures as the spirit of antichrist.  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 teaches that Jesus is not the Son of God but God the Son, and in this way denies that Jesus is the Son of God.  In like manner if Jesus is not the Son of God, then the Father is not a father.  The trinity, in denying the Son, also denies the Father as well.  The spirit of the trinity is the spirit of antichrist. My friend, if you have been deceived into believing that the doctrine of the trinity is who God is, then you have been separated from the only power that can give you victory over sin and as such you have been separated from the only power that can save you.  Now is the time to look away from the false god of the trinity and look unto Jesus the true Son of God that you may be saved today. God bless,

Video of the Week Jeroboam and the Historian - Daniel Mesa Daniel Mesa shows how the Seventh-day Adventist church has been corrupted by the trinity in the story of Jeroboam when the nation of Israel was split into two nations.