Salvation Placed Within Reach of Every Human Being

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Salvation Placed Within Reach of Every Human Being

Today's Text: Give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. 2 Peter 1:10

The Message:      Here is our life assurance policy [2 Peter 1:10]. Here we have the directions laid down as to how we shall secure the life that measures with the life of God.... Many profess the religion of Jesus Christ, but they do not live it. What is their profession good for? They might just as well trace their name in the sand-and how long would it stand?      The religion of Jesus Christ makes us better men and better women.... Christ came to our world to reshape the deformed character of humanity. It was a very crooked character. God wants us to be His sons and His daughters. He wants us, during the hours of probation here, to be fitted up with all these graces that He has presented "according as his divine power hath given unto us all things." Nothing is withheld that pertains unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Then the rich promise is that we shall be partakers of the divine nature. This means everything to us, to be a partaker of the divine nature.      What victories should we gain in this lifetime if Christ had not overcome point after point for us in the wilderness of temptation? Here the enemy met Him with the three great leading temptations wherewith we are beset.... Christ had instituted and framed the plan Himself that with humanity upon Him, He was to bear every temptation wherewith men and women are beset.      He was not to work a miracle so as to avoid suffering Himself, but He was to stand the test upon every point of appetite that could be brought to the human family.... If Adam had depended on the words of God in place of the words of a stranger, he would not have transgressed the law of Jehovah. Temptation will come to every one of us as it came to Jesus Christ, and what is our hope? We may be pressed sore with temptations, but we may overcome, because Christ has brought moral power within our reach.      Everything that pertains to godliness, everything that pertains to the salvation of the human soul, is to be placed within the reach of every human being upon the face of the earth. There is no excuse for one of us to falter and fail in any respect in the work of overcoming, for Christ has said, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne."-Manuscript 49, 1894.

Commentary: My friend, the chance to have our characters reformed in the image of God is a great privilege, and through Christ's life and power we may become sons and daughters of God through the partaking of His divine nature.  Jesus brought within reach of everyone the salvation the Father and the Son wrought out in eternity past, for the counsel of peace was between them both. When Adam was enticed into sin, he consented to accept the words of Satan over the words of God.  By partaking of the corrupting nature of Satan through the medium of his wife, his nature was corrupted and he fell into sin.  The problem that we now have with sin is not just that we have sinned, but that we have no power to stop sinning.  Our very natures have been corrupted by it.  Therefore, the only way that we can be saved is to have our whole natures transformed.  This can only happen by partaking of the divine nature that is given to us in the divine Son of God. In John 17:3 Jesus says "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."  The eternal life that we are to have is found only in the life of Jesus Christ.  "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." (1 John 5:11), "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5). For us to be saved we must be transformed by partaking of the divine nature of the Son of God, for in Him is the divine nature of God.  Satan knows that if he can get the people of God to look unto a counterfeit god we will not partake of the divine nature and be transformed.  The trinity is an altogether different god from the One true God of the bible and as such has no power to transform our lives.  I turns the Son of God into God the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of the Son and the Father, into God the Holy Spirit, an altogether different being from the Father and the Son.  By thus perverting God in the minds of the people, he corrupts their view of God and thus separates them from the only power that can save them. My friend, it is only by partaking of the divine nature of the Son of God that we can be transformed back into the image of God.  The trinity is a false representation of the One true God and as such cannot save us.  It presents to us a false righteousness and thus we lack the power to overcome sin in our lives.  Unless we look away from this great deception we cannot be saved. The time has come for us to heed the message of the Faithful and True Witness of the Son of God today. God bless,

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