He Who Made the Worlds Became a Helpless Babe

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

He Who Made the Worlds Became a Helpless Babe

Today's Text: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. Luke 2:40

The Message:      We cannot understand how Christ became a little helpless babe.... His face could have been bright with light, and His form could have been tall and beautiful. He could have come in such a way as to charm those who looked upon Him; but this was not the way that God planned He should come among the human family. He was to be like those who belonged to the human family and to the Jewish race. His features were to be like those of other human beings, and He was not to have such beauty of person as to make people point Him out as different from others. He was to come as one of the human family, and to stand as a man before heaven and earth. He had come to take our place, to pledge Himself in our behalf, to pay the debt that sinners owed. He was to live a pure life on the earth, and show that Satan had told a falsehood when he claimed that the human family belonged to him forever, and that God could not take the race out of his hands.      People first beheld Christ as a babe, as a child. His parents were very poor, and He had nothing in this earth save that which the poor have. He passed through all the trials that the poor and lowly pass through from babyhood to childhood, from youth to manhood....      The more we think about Christ's becoming a babe here on earth, the more wonderful it appears. How can it be that the helpless babe in Bethlehem's manger is still the divine Son of God? Though we cannot understand it, we can believe that He who made the worlds became, for our sakes, a helpless babe. Though higher than any of the angels, though as great as the Father on the throne of heaven, He became one with us. In Him God and humanity became one, and it is in this fact that we find the hope of our fallen race....      From His earliest year, Christ lived a life of toil. In His youth He worked with His father at the carpenter's trade, and thus showed that there is nothing of which to be ashamed in work.... Those who are idle do not follow the example that Christ has given, for from His childhood He was a pattern of obedience and industry. He was as a pleasant sunbeam in the home circle. Faithfully and cheerfully He acted His part, doing the humble duties that He was called to do in His lowly life. Christ became one with us in order that He might do us good.-Youth's Instructor, November 21, 1895.

Commentary: My friend, the very foundation of the gospel is "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." (John 3:16).  In order for God to give us His Son, He had to have a Son to give.  How the Son of God became a man is a mystery that God has not revealed to us, but what He has revealed we can accept by faith.  The Son of God was clothed with humanity, His divinity shrouded with flesh that His glory may be hidden from our view.  How beautiful it is that God sent His Son, who is the fullness of God, to die in our place, that we may be reconciled with Him. If Christ was not truly the Son of God it would make God to be a liar and destroy the whole of the gospel.  The trinity teaches that Jesus is not truly the Son of God, that it is just a role, or a title that one of the god-beings has assumed for our salvation.  In teaching this it destroys the father-son relationship and therefore our relationship with Him.  The doctrine of the trinity is the spirit of antichrist for it says in 1 John 2:22, 23 "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." Jesus, the divine Son of God, became a man that we may be saved.  He came that we could be freed from the condemnation of sin by His death, and that we may be freed from the power of sin by His perfect life.  As we accept Jesus into our lives, He comes into our hearts and transforms us into the very image of God.  The authority by which He does this is that He is the Son of God.  His authority does not come form the fact that He is God, but that He is the Son of God.  His authority comes from His relationship with the Father, and He seeks to connect us with Him.  "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5). The gospel teaches that the Son of God connects us with the Father, but the trinity teaches something different.  It introduces to us another mediator called "God the Holy Spirit", which, according to the trinity, is a separate being from the Father and the Son.  In this way it separates us from the Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and man. The trinity is a false image of God and as such cannot reproduce the image of God within us.  The Bible tells us that it is Christ that must live within us if we are to be saved.  "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:" (Colossians 1:27).  The trinity presents to us another Jesus, one who is not truly the Son of God.  The apostle Paul warned us in 2 Corinthians 11:3, 4 saying "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him." My friend, the trinity teaches us another Jesus, one who is not truly the Son of God, but God the Son.  The trinity beguiles us as Eve was beguiled by the serpent.  It is time for us to look away from the trinity and unto the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

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