We Can Always Rely Upon "Thus Saith the Lord"

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

We Can Always Rely Upon "Thus Saith the Lord"

Today's Text: If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it may be made bread.... If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence. Luke 4:3-9

The Message:      In the wilderness of temptation the riches of the world was the bribe presented to our Lord. Satan did not come to Him with his temptations until the human nature was weakened and was crying out its necessity....      Christ's humanity would have shrunk from that which awaited Him in the desert. But He came to the world so that by coming into close contact with him [Satan], He might wrest from the hands of the usurper the Lord's human heritage....      Satan knew that the personal controversy between the Prince of life and the prince of darkness had commenced, and he sought to overcome Christ in His physical weakness. The proof that Satan required was for Christ to accept the doubt and act upon it, thus showing that He entertained the doubt by giving the evidence that Satan desired. Had Christ complied with this suggestion of the enemy, his satanic majesty would still have said, Show me a sign, that I may believe you to be the Son of God. But not one of the signs specified was Christ to give. By working a miracle in His own behalf He would show that He questioned God. That sign that is greater than all miracles, a firm reliance upon a "Thus saith the Lord," was a sign that could not be controverted....      How artfully had Satan approached Eve in Eden! "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" Thus far every word that Satan spoke was truth, but his manner of saying them was a disguised contempt for the words of God. There was in his words of truth a covert negative, a denial, a doubt of the divine truthfulness. He sought to instill into her mind the thought that God would not do as He had said, that the withholding of such beautiful fruit was a contradiction of His love and compassion for them.      And now he seeks to inspire Christ with his own sentiments. "If thou be the Son of God." Thus he sought to imbue Christ with his doubts.... Would God treat His own Son thus?...      Temptations will arise [among some] to cause distrust of God and to question His love.... They become traitors, rebels against God, and accept the temptations of him whom they choose as their leader. They become a medium for Satan, a channel through which he communicates to other minds the doubts and infidelity with which he has imbued them.-Letter 3, 1897.

Commentary: My friend, as Satan had artfully caused Eve to doubt God in the Garden of Eden, so too has he artfully supplanted the One true God of the Bible with the counterfeit god of the trinity.  He has perverted and obscured the God of the Bible and has led nearly the whole of the Christian world to worship a false god.  He has taken a plain "Thus saith the Lord" and replaced it with a thus saith the church.  Jesus testified of His Father in John 3:16 saying "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  In order for God to send His only begotten Son, He must have a son to give.  While this is what the Scriptures teach, the trinity teaches that the Son is not really a son, but is only a metaphor, meaning not really true. The trinity teaches that the father and son relationship is only a metaphor and cannot be taken literally.  It claims that the divinity of the Son comes from the fact that He is God unto Himself and therefore is "God the Son", while the Scriptures declare that He is the "Son of God".  The trinity places His being God first and his role as the Son as secondary, while the Scriptures places the Son's authority from the fact that He is the Son of God.  According to the Scriptures the Sons divinity comes not from Himself, but from the fact that He is the Son; because He came forth from the Father. In denying the literal father and son relationship the trinity destroys the gospel that God sent His Son.  The plain truth of the Scriptures is that this is the spirit of antichrist.  1 John 2:22 says "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."  If we deny that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, then we are also denying that the Father is a father.  This is the spirit of antichrist and we make the testimony of God a lie.  1 John 5:9 says "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." Today the whole of the Christian world to include the Seventh-day Adventist church denies that Jesus is the Son of God.  They would have you place a "thus saith the church" over a plain "thus saith the Lord".  In denying that Jesus is the literal Son of God, they are denying the Father as well, and as such are of the spirit of antichrist. How can we sit idly by and not declare this great heresy before the people?  The reason why is because we have become complacent in our walk with God.  We have accepted the lie as truth and as such we are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." (Revelation 3:17).  The church today is truly in the Laodicean condition.  They have a form of godliness but deny the power of God to transform them.  They have not the righteousness of Christ but the righteousness of the false god of the trinity. My friend, now is the time to awaken from the slumber that has beset us all.  It is time to anoint our eyes with the eyesalve of the word of God, that we may see our true condition before God, that we may look away from the false god of the trinity and take upon the true righteousness of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. This is my prayer for us all today. God bless,

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