Power of God Available to Give Us Victory

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Power of God Available to Give Us Victory

Today's Text: His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. 2 Peter 1:3

The Message:      We are to be partakers of knowledge. As I have seen pictures representing Satan's coming to Christ in the wilderness of temptation in the form of a hideous monster, I have thought, How little the artists knew of the Bible! Before his fall Satan was next to Christ, the highest angel in heaven. How foolish then to suppose that he approached Christ in the wilderness in any such form as is given him in the illustration The Game of Life. Some have seen that picture. After the Saviour had fasted forty days and forty nights, "he was afterward an hungered." Then it was that Satan appeared to Him. He came as a beautiful angel from heaven, claiming that he had a commission from God to declare the Saviour's fast at an end. "If thou be the Son of God," he said, "command that these stones be made bread." But in Satan's insinuation of distrust, Christ recognized the enemy whose power He had come to the earth to resist. He would not accept the challenge, nor be moved by the temptation....      Christ stood by every word of God, and He prevailed. If we would always take such a position as this when tempted, refusing to dally with temptation or argue with the enemy, the same experience would be ours. It is when we stop to reason with the devil that we are overcome. It is for us to know individually that we are right in the warfare, to take the affirmative in the sight of God, and there to stand. It is thus that we obtain the divine power promised, through which we obtain "all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue."      There is such a thing as being partakers of the divine nature. We shall be tempted in a variety of ways, but when we are tempted we need to remember that a provision has been made whereby we may overcome.... Those who truly believe in Christ are made partakers of the divine nature and have power that they can appropriate under every temptation. They will not fall under temptation and be left to defeat. In time of trial they will claim the promises and by these escape the corruptions that are in the world through lust.      We think it costs us something to stand in this position before the world; and so it does. But what has our salvation cost the heavenly universe? To make us partakers of the divine nature, heaven gave its most costly treasure. The Son of God laid aside His royal robe and kingly crown and came to our earth as a little child.-Manuscript 99a, 1908.

Commentary: My friend, Christ came that we could be restored back into the image of God.  In order to do this we must overcome sin in the flesh.  The Son of God became a man that He could be tempted and overcome sin in the flesh, that He may give us His perfect life in place of our own.  Thus the way is open to us that we may overcome sin and be restored back into the image of God.  By His example and His power living within us we may overcome every sin.  It is only by partaking of the Divine nature of Christ that we may be restored back into the image of God. Satan knows that if we partake of Christ he will not have any power over us, therefore he seeks to keep us from partaking of the Divine nature of Christ.  By the false doctrine of the trinity, he has artfully deceived the whole of the Christian world to look unto God the Son in place of the Son of God, and such has separated us from the only power that can give us victory over sin. The whole of the Christian world is deceived.  Since their rejection of the message of God in 1844 they have been led by the spirit of Satan.  The Seventh-day Adventist movement followed Jesus from the holy place in the heavenly sanctuary to the most holy place and as such were following after the Spirit of Christ.  But from that time the church has turned back from following Christ to drink of the wine of Babylon.  By accepting the Trinitarian view of God, the church has looked away from the One true God unto the false god of the trinity.  By accepting this view of God over the view that the Scriptures reveal, the church is no longer being lead by God and this is evident by all of the corruptions that have come into the church today. The Seventh-day Adventist movement started as the church of Philadelphia, a church with no admonitions, but has become the church of Laodicea, a church with no commendations.  The message to the church of Laodicea is that they are lukewarm, that they are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Revelation 3:17).  How is it that the church which was once pure and undefiled, became a harlot?  It is because we have accepted the false god of the trinity in place of the One true God of John 17:3.  The church is wretched and miserable because they have not gained the victory over sin.  It has accepted the false righteousness of the trinity over the righteousness of Christ.  As such it is in need of white raiment. In order for the church to be of God, He must be leading it, but sadly He is not, for He says "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:" (Revelation 3:20).  If Jesus is standing at the door of His peoples heart it is because He is not in the midst of them.  He has been driven out by the false god of the trinity and He is seeking to come back in.  That is why the church is in such a wretched condition.  They do not have the righteousness of Christ, but the false righteousness of another god. My friend, the corporate SDA church is in apostasy and has lead nearly all of the people of God to worship a false god.  The trinity is the image of jealousy spoken of in Ezekiel 8, and unless we are sighing and crying for the abominations that have come into the church, we will not receive the seal of God.  It is high time that we awaken to the deception that has been played upon us and stand up for God that others may awaken as well. May we all look away from the false god of the trinity unto the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

Video of the Week The Jealous God - Allen Stump This presentation reveals that God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is a jealous God. "The close and sacred relation of God to His people is represented under the figure of marriage. Idolatry being spiritual adultery, the displeasure of God against it is fitly called jealousy" (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 306). In this study we see how the Bible reveals that God will not accept false worship.