Are We Prepared for Christ's Return?

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Are We Prepared for Christ's Return?

Today's Text: He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. John 1:10

The Message:      All that the world could endure of their Redeemer was the few years He was with them upon the earth, and they wanted to get rid of Him almost as soon as His mission commenced.... The question that every one of us has to settle is: Am I prepared for the coming of the Son of man? If you have accepted your Saviour by living faith, if you have repented of your sins, then you are in a position of acceptance with God so that if Christ should come you would meet Him in peace....      Let us notice the steps that the Son of man had to take in order to carry out the plan of salvation. He stepped down from the royal throne, laid aside His royal robes, clothed His divinity with humanity, and consented to come to this world. This world-right here-was to be the field of battle where Christ and Satan, the prince of this earth, should engage in conflict. And the question to be settled was How could God be just and true to His law and yet justify the sinner? This could be done only by the sacrifice of the Son of God....      It was difficult to uproot Satan from the affection of the angels in heaven. He took the position that the law of God was against the heavenly intelligences, and the warfare and controversy between Christ and Satan was started in heaven and is going on in the earth to the present day. The controversy between Christ and Satan was witnessed not only by the heavenly intelligences but by all the worlds that God had created. Here the power arises that claims to have the right to change times and laws-it is the man of sin. But does he have power to change times and laws? No; because God's law is written in the tables of stone, engraven with His own finger, and placed in the temple of God in heaven. That great moral standard will be the criterion that will judge every being upon the face of the earth, both dead and living....      Christ went into the wilderness of temptation to bear the severest temptations, He was tempted in all points as Adam was tempted, and He passed over the very ground where Adam stumbled and fell.... Christ was now to stand where Adam stood, bearing humanity and overcoming in behalf of the race where Adam fell. And Christ withstood the test on every point; He resisted on the point of appetite.... He was tempted upon the point of ambition, and presumption, and He overcame the enemy on these points.... The Saviour of the world overcame and obtained the victory on every point.-Manuscript 11, 1886.

Commentary: My friend, the whole of the gospel centers upon the fact that God gave of His Son, that He could live a perfect life and die in our place.  We must accept the gift that God gave of His Son by faith, and the life that the Son of God wrought out here on this earth must be manifested in our lives.  If we are to be ready for the second coming of Jesus, He must be living within our hearts by His Spirit. The doctrine of the trinity, which has been recently adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist church, destroys the gospel for it denies that Jesus truly is the Son of God.  It teaches that the Son has always existed along with the Father, but if this is to be true then the Son is not really a son, for how can a son be the same age as the father?  The trinity claims that it is just a role that He has assumed and is not literally true, and as such destroys the father-son relationship and makes God to be a liar.  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. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also." The trinity changes the Son of God with God the Son and as such changes the point of our salvation.  The authority of the Son of God is in the fact that He is the Son of God, but the authority of "God the Son" comes from the fact that he is God unto himself and as such denies the testimony and authority of the Father. If we are to be prepared for the second coming, we must have the Spirit of Christ living within our hearts, but the trinity teaches that the Holy Spirit is a separate being from the Father and the Son, and that it is the being of the Holy Spirit that is to live within us, not the Spirit of Christ.  The Scriptures tell us in Colossians 1:27 "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:", and that eternal life is in 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). My friend, the trinity destroys the whole of the gospel and leads us to believe and worship an altogether different God from the One true God of the Bible.  It introduces to us another mediator in the form of "God the Holy Spirit" and separates us from Christ as our mediator.  If we are to be prepared to meet Jesus in the clouds of glory, we must turn away from the trinity and look unto the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

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