Jesus Presented Truth by Using Familiar Objects

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Jesus Presented Truth by Using Familiar Objects

Today's Text: All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables. Matthew 13:34

The Message:      The great Teacher proclaimed the truth to humanity, many of whom could not be educated in the schools of the rabbis, neither in Greek philosophy. Jesus uttered truth in a plain, direct manner, giving vital force and impressiveness to all His utterances....      The rabbis and teachers had virtually shut up the kingdom of heaven from the poor and the afflicted, and left them to perish. In His discourses Christ did not bring many things before them at once, lest He might confuse their minds. He made every point clear and distinct....      Christ was the originator of all the ancient gems of truth. Through the work of the enemy these truths had been displaced. They had been disconnected from their true position and placed in the framework of error. Christ's work was to readjust and establish the precious gems in the framework of truth. The principles of truth that had been given by Himself to bless the world had, through Satan's agency, been buried and had apparently become extinct. Christ rescued them from the rubbish of error, gave them a new, vital force, and commanded them to shine as precious jewels and stand fast forever. Christ Himself could use any of these old truths without borrowing the smallest particle, for He had originated them all....      As Christ presented these truths to minds, He broke up their accustomed train of thought as little as possible.... He therefore aroused their minds by presenting truth through the agency of their most familiar associations. He used illustrations in His teaching that called into activity their most hallowed recollections and sympathies, that He might reach the inner temple of the soul. Identifying Himself with their interests, He drew His illustrations from the great book of nature, using objects with which they were familiar. The lily of the field, the seed sown by the sower, the springing up of the seed, and the harvesting of the grain, the birds of the air-all these figures He used to present divine truth, for these would remind them of His lessons whenever they should afterward look upon them....      Although Satan has misrepresented God's purposes, falsified His character, and caused people to look upon God in a false light, yet through the ages God's love for His earthly children has never ceased. Christ's work was to reveal the Father as merciful, compassionate, full of goodness and truth.... The only begotten Son of God sweeps back the hellish shadow in which Satan has enveloped the Father, and declares, "I and My Father are one; look on Me and behold God."-Manuscript 25, 1890 (Manuscript Releases 13:240-243).

Commentary: My friend, in the time of Christ, Satan has so enveloped God in mystery and falsehood that the people could not see God.  Satan had so misrepresented His character that they could no longer see God as a loving father.  Jesus came that He could reveal the true nature of the Father and to recreate us in His image. Sadly the deception that Satan had done in the time of Christ is being done to the people of God today.  He has once again enshrouded God in mystery, but this time his deception is more cunning and complete.  He has artfully deceived the church into believing that God is a triune god rather than the One true God of the Bible. The trinity obscures the nature of God and enshrouds Him in mystery, misrepresenting who He is and destroys the father-son relationship.  By introducing the Spirit of God as a separate being from the Father and the Son, he has created a false image of God that has the look and feel of God, but separates us from the power of God to transform our lives. It is a law of nature that we are transformed by that which we behold, therefore as we look unto Jesus we see the Father and are transformed into the image of God.  By supplanting the One true God for the trinity, Satan has artfully replaced the image of God for a triune god which is made up of three individual god-beings who are God unto themselves but are also collectively God.  This image of God confuses the mind and does not transform us into the image of God. It is only by the Son of God that we can see the Father, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5).  The trinity denies this simply fact and destroys the father-son relationship, destroys the simply truth that God gave us His Son, and makes the Father out to be a liar.  God has forewarned us in 1 John 2:22, 23 that this would happen saying "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." My friend, do not be deceived any longer as to the true nature of God.  Look unto the only begotten Son of God that He may reveal to you our Father.  "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3). God bless,

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