Mortals Can Overcome Only Through Christ

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Mortals Can Overcome Only Through Christ

Today's Text: I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. Revelation 3:12

The Message:      Never will the human family-redeemed by the example of the Sent of God, the only begotten of the Father-understand and fully comprehend the terrible conflict waged with deceptive, alluring power and concealed, deadly hatred by Satan against our Lord when He lived upon earth. After the battle of the great day of God shall take place, when the power of rebellion is forever broken and Christ's mediatorial work in its magnitude is represented so plainly that all of the redeemed of God's family shall, with clear comprehension, understand the mission of His Son as the mediatorial remedy to make of the fallen race a repentant, humble, meek, reclaimed order of beings-then there will be seen developed the difference between the person that serveth God and the one that serveth Him not.      Rebellion will exist in our world until in heaven are spoken the words "It is done." Rebellion in the church is caused by its members feeling opposed to God and to His terms of salvation. Human beings want abundant room to express themselves and to attract attention. They do not know or understand that they are working out the plans of Satan. If they refuse to see and to become enlightened, if they refuse to be instructed, they reject the mediatorial remedy that has been given to save the sinner-not in sin but from sin. For the express purpose of saving sinners was the remedial work of Christ planned.      When Christ first announced to the heavenly host His mission and work in the world, He declared that He was to leave His position of dignity and disguise His holy mission by assuming the likeness of a man, when in reality He was the Son of the infinite God. And when the fullness of time was come, He stepped down from His throne of highest command, laid aside His royal robe and kingly crown, clothed His divinity with humanity, and came to this earth to exemplify what humanity must do and be in order to overcome the enemy and to sit with the Father upon His throne.... He made it possible for Himself to be buffeted by human agencies inspired by Satan, the rebel who had been expelled from heaven.      As the head of humanity, Christ lived on this earth a perfect, consistent life, in conformity with the will of His heavenly Father.... Always uppermost in His mind and heart was the thought "Not My human will, but Thy will, be done."-Letter 303, 1903.

Commentary: My friend, our human will must be surrendered to Jesus that He may reign upon the throne of our hearts.  The human heart is at war with the principals of heaven and unless we fully surrender our hearts to Jesus, we are in rebellion against Him.  The reason why there is so much strife in the church today is because we are not fully surrendered to Jesus.  The majority of the church is only partially surrendered to God, not willing to yield whole control to the Son of God, yet a partial surrender is no surrender at all.  Outwardly it may appear that we are on the side of Christ, but only a true surrender will yield the thoughts and desires of our hearts to God.  We must allow Jesus to reign supremely in our lives. The life that the Son of God lived here on this earth can only be manifested in our lives if we are fully surrendered to Jesus.  "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 teaches that the Holy Spirit is a separate being from the Father and the Son, and it is by the Holy Spirit that we are to overcome sin in our lives.  But if this is true then it is not the person of Jesus Christ living within us but the spirit of another being; one that does not know what it is like to battle with sin in the flesh, nor has overcome sin.  This doctrine goes against every principal of the gospel and connects us to a power that is not of God. It is only by the Spirit of Christ living within our hearts that we may gain the victory over sin.  The victory that Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, wrought out in humanity He makes available to us through the indwelling of His Spirit, not the spirit of another.  It is only through the mediation of the Holy Spirit of the Son of God that we are saved, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5). My friend, if we are to be brought into harmony with the will of God, we must be surrendered to the power of God in our lives.  It is a fact that we are surrendered to one of two powers in this great conflict.  We are either surrendered to the power of God, or the power of Satan.  Today the church has been deceived into believing that the trinity is God, and many are being corrupted by its deceptive power.  And when the light of truth from the Word of God shines upon this deception, many reject the light and are left in darkness. My prayer for you is that you will not reject the light of truth given to us straight from the mouth of God in His word saying "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,

Video of the Week Trinity Salutations - Nader Mansour Does the Trinity ever send salutations? Nader Mansour examines the New Testament evidence in this study to see the understanding of all the NT authors. There's a consistent and persistent pattern that emerges. The Trinity never greets anyone.  This is part 1 of a 2 part study. Presented at the Wellington NZ camp, April 2018