Believe that Christ Will Give Us Power to Overcome

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Believe that Christ Will Give Us Power to Overcome

Today's Text: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

The Message:      In your efforts to overcome, you will meet with many temptations; but if you continue to strive, Christ will give you great success. The more serious the trials, the more precious the victory you gain. If you will only flee to the Source of your strength, then you will receive a great blessing. But we must learn to cast all our cares upon Jesus Christ, who is our helper. All our sorrow and grief, take it to the Lord in prayer.      It is a great thing to believe in Jesus. We hear many say, "Believe, believe, all you have to do is to believe in Jesus." But it is our privilege to inquire, What does this belief take in, and what does it comprehend? There are many of us who have a nominal faith, but we do not bring that faith into our characters. The statement is made that the devil believed and trembled. While he was in heaven, he believed that Christ was the Son of God, and when upon this earth he was in conflict with Him here on the field of battle. He believed on Christ, but could this save him? No; because he did not weave Christ into his life and character. We must have that faith that works by love and purifies the soul, and this belief in Christ will lead us to put away everything that is offensive in His sight.      Unless we have this faith that works, it is of no advantage to us. You may admit that Christ is the Saviour of the world, but is He your Saviour? Do you believe today that He will give you strength and power to overcome every defect in your character? ... We are to grow up to the full stature of men and women in Christ Jesus, and we are thus growing up a precious temple unto the Lord. He says, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."...      It makes every difference with us whether we are living righteously or in sin. To some of us Christ may say that He is ashamed to call us brothers and sisters; but to those who are loaded down with burdens, the pitying Saviour stands right by their side to help them....      He took our nature upon Him, that He might come right down to us in the temptation wherewith we are beset.... Then shall we not accept Him as our Saviour? If you feel the wound and sting of sin, then it is for you to cry to the Saviour to help you.-Manuscript 5, 1886.

Commentary: My friend, the question of the last days is not simply what day we worship God on, but who you are worshiping.  The day that we worship on is important, but who we are worshiping is more important.  The three angels message begins with "Fear God, and give glory to him;" (Revelation 14:7).  In order to fear God we must know who God is.  The whole of the Christian world and many in the Seventh-day Adventist church are worshiping an altogether different god from the God of the Bible. For many Seventh-day Adventists the first angels message has become less about God and more about the day of worship.  Their preparation for the last days centers upon their Sabbath keeping as a sign of their allegiance to God.  But no about of Sabbath keeping can save us for it says in Ezekiel 20:12 "Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them."  The sabbaths were a sign, but it was the LORD that sanctifies them. In the last days, the great and final test will be on the day of worship.  Those who worship the One true God of the Bible will worship Him on the 7th day as commanded in the Scriptures, while those who receive the mark of the beast will worship god on the 1st day of the week.  In order to prepare not to receive the mark of the beast we must be worshiping the One true God, for it is only through Him that we are sanctified. The Seventh-day Adventist church no longer worships the One true God of the Bible, but are worshiping the false god of the trinity; the same god as the Roman Catholic Church.  The central doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church is the trinity, and from it flows all of its other teachings.  It makes no sense for us to call the world out of Babylon only to have them worship the same god as Babylon, but on the 7th day of the week. My friend, no amount of Sabbath keeping will save us, for it is the LORD that sanctifies us.  If we are worshiping God as a trinity, we are worshiping the false god of Babylon and will as readily receive the mark of the beast as if we were worshiping on Sunday.  It is only as we are surrendered to the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ that we can be sanctified and made white.  Overcoming sin can only happen if Christ is living within our hearts.  "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." (Ezekiel 36:26, 27).  This is true sanctification and it cannot be found in the trinity, nor in any day of worship.  It can be found only in Jesus Christ, the Son of One true and living God. God bless,

Video of the Week The Amazing Work of Christ in You - Dr. Allen Davis Part 3 of 6, A response to the trinitarian symposium held in the Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.  Dr. Allen Davis presents the most important message of the work that Jesus is to accomplish in all that are to be saved.