We Are to Live By God's Every Word

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

We Are to Live By God's Every Word

Today's Text: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matthew 3:17

The Message:      As Christ bowed upon Jordan's banks after His baptism, there was a bright light that descended like a dove of burnished gold and lighted upon Him, and from heaven was heard a voice saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." We read over these words, but do not take in their significance. We do not seem to understand their value to us. They are stating to you that you are accepted in the Beloved. Christ with His long human arm encircles the fallen race, while with His divine arm He grasps the throne of the Almighty, thus uniting earth with heaven, and fallen, finite human beings with the Infinite God. And this earth, which was divorced from heaven, is again united with heaven. A communication is opened with heaven through Jesus Christ [so] that the human race, which was fallen, is brought back again into favor with God. Here Jesus passed into the wilderness of temptation, and trial is brought to bear upon Him one hundred times more trying than that brought upon Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden....      If Adam and Eve had lived by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God, they never would have fallen, never lost the right to the tree of life. All who will live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God now will be brought back to the Eden home....      There is happiness, hope, and peace for the desponding. We cannot afford to give our God-given ability and devote it to the commonplace things of this earth. We want a faith that will grasp the promise set before us in the gospel....      I see matchless charms in Jesus. I never talk of any trials I cannot bear, or any self-sacrifice that I cannot make. I see One who died in my behalf, and He shall not die for me in vain. I will place myself in right relation to God, and I will have a right hold from above. I am not studying what the world will say of me, but my study is, Lord, how shall I please Thee? How shall I perform my mission in this world? ...      If we are overcomers at last, there are battles for us to fight, and we will find that the flesh warreth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. It is for us to say which will triumph.-Manuscript 16, 1886 (Sermons and Talks, 2:32-34).

Commentary: My friend, we are to live by every word the proceeds from the mouth of God.  As Jesus was coming up from the water at the Jordan, the Father testified that Jesus was His beloved Son and that He was pleased with Him.  The Spirit of God was manifested in the form of a dove as the very presence of the Almighty. The testimony of God is that Jesus was the Son of God.  Not a son only by the incarnation, but the only begotten of the Father from before anything was.  If we are to live by every word of God then we must believe that Jesus is the Son of God, yet nearly the whole of the Christian world has been taught that the father son relationship is only a metaphor and not literally true.  The trinity claims that the Son is only a role that one of the three god-beings of the trinity chose in order to represent their relationship to one another, yet the Scriptures tell us "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." (1 John 5:9, 10). Our salvation is found not just in the sacrifice of God in giving His Son, but also in the life that is in the Son, "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." (1 John 5:11).  The life that was wrought out for us here on this earth by the Son of God, taking upon Himself humanity, may be manifested in us as well by the indwelling of His Spirit in our lives.  Jesus said of this in John 17:3 "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."  If we cannot accept the plain testimony of the Father and the Son to open our eyes to the deception of the trinity, what more can be done for us? My friend, the trinity is a false image of God and it destroys the whole of the gospel that God gave us His Son, and replaces it with a god that cannot save us.  If we are to be saved we must believe the testimony that God gave us His Son. God bless,

Video of the Week Have You Met the God we Worship - Part 1 Part 1 of 6, Daniel Mesa and others from Pioneer Health and Missions present a response to the trinitarian symposium held in the Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.