At Last We Shall See the King in His Beauty

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

At Last We Shall See the King in His Beauty

Today's Text: 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. Revelation 3:21

The Message:      If you feel a spirit of controversy with anyone, just go out somewhere and speak of the love of Christ to souls who need a testimony in favor of the truth. Speak of the loveliness of Christ, and the wicked spirit that has been in your heart will depart. What we need is an experience in overcoming the enemy, and in clinging to the Mighty One. We cannot afford to lose everlasting life.      I must tell you that heaven is to be sought for, to be prayed for, to be worked for. We cannot, with our unconverted traits of character, drift into heaven....      Do not spend time in controversy with those who bring up objections, for the enemy will suggest to other minds enough to occupy your time in combating them. Your strength is to keep to the affirmative. When the devil met Christ in the wilderness, Christ did not enter into controversy with him. Satan tempted Him to perform a miracle to create bread. Had Christ done this, He would have given the enemy a decided advantage, for Satan might have given a similar evidence of his own power....      So today, if people bring to you objections to the truth, and try to stir you up, do not become excited. Keep on the track of the affirmative. Affirm the truth, "Thus saith the Lord," and let me tell you, the enemy will soon desire to get out of your presence....      Let us lay aside the warfare the enemy would have us put on. Let us begin to work in earnest to overcome our hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil. Let us plead with God to take away the wicked propensity to faultfinding, and in its place to give us life and the love of Christ....      We have a heaven to win, and Christ wants us to have it. He died that we might have it. Every soul who is saved in the kingdom of God will give the glory to Him, not to any human being. Christ will open for us the golden gates; He will invite us to enter....      And we must enter heaven here below or we shall never enter the heaven hereafter. Right here on this earth we must begin to live the life of Christ, and then it will be a heaven to you and it will be a heaven to those who associate with you.... And at last you will see the King in His beauty; you will behold His matchless charms and, touching the golden harp, fill heaven with rich music and songs to the Lamb.-Manuscript 97, 1906.

Commentary: My friend, before we can see God in His beauty, we must overcome sin in our lives.  The one thing that separates us from God is our sins, therefore the Father sent His Son to die for our sins and to impart unto us His perfect life.  "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (1 John 5:11, 12).  The life that we are to live is the perfect life of the Son of God.  While it is impossible for us to live a perfect life in the flesh, we can through the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ living in us. Though the Son of God has taken upon human form that we may be united with God, He lives within our hearts through His Spirit.  It is not the Spirit of another being like the trinity teaches, but is the very Spirit of Christ.  The Spirit of God is the same Spirit that lives within the Son of God for Jesus said in John 14:10 "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.", and Ephesians 4:4-4 says "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." The trinity teaches that the Holy Spirit is an altogether different being from the Father and the Son and it is by the indwelling of that spirit that we are saved.  However the Scriptures do not support that for it says in Romans 8:9, 10 it says "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness."  Here it is plainly said that it is the Spirit of Christ that lives within us.  The Holy Spirit, also know as the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, or simply Spirit, all refer to the same Spirit, and that is the Spirit of God.  The trinity, by introducing the Holy Spirit as a different being from the Father and the Son, introduces another mediator between God and man, while the Scriptures tell us "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5). The Father and the Son share the same Spirit because the Son was brought forth from the Father (Proverbs 8:22-25) and is why He is called the only begotten Son of God.  The trinity teaches something that the cannot be supported by the Scriptures.  It teaches that there are three individual god-beings who make up the Godhead, while the Scriptures say that there is only one true God and that is the Father, and He is revealed to us through His Son.  "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." My friend, the trinity is a deception of Satan.  Its origins are pagan and is the central doctrine of the Catholic church.  Our early pioneers to include the prophet of God did not believe in the trinity and never changed their views.  The belief in the trinity crept into the church after their passing and only began to become prominent in the 1930's until it was finally voted in as a fundamental belief in 1980.  The church has been steadily corrupted since then and is the primary reason why there is so much apostasy in the church today.  It is time for us to awaken to our Laodicean condition and be zealous in our repentance to God. May you seek after the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. 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.