Through Divine Aid We Can Be Victors Against Satan

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Through Divine Aid We Can Be Victors Against Satan

Today's Text: Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57

The Message:      It is at an immense cost that we have been placed on the high vantage ground where we can be liberated from the bondage of sin, which has been wrought by the fall of Adam.... Never can we understand the value of the human soul until we realize the great sacrifice made for the redemption of the soul upon Calvary. Adam's sin in Eden plunged the human race into hopeless misery. But in the scheme of salvation a way has been provided for all to escape if they comply with the requirements. A second probation has been granted by the sacrifice of the Son of God. We have a battle to fight, but we can come off victor through the merits of Christ's blood.      God saw that it was impossible for us to overcome and gain the victory in our own strength. The race has ever been growing weaker in every succeeding generation since the fall, and without the help of Christ we cannot resist the evil of intemperance. How thankful we should be that we have a Saviour and that He consented to lay off His royal robes and leave the royal throne, and to clothe His divinity with humanity and become a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief....      After His baptism, He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness and was tempted of the devil. Christ commenced the work of redemption just where the ruin began, and the future welfare of the world depended on that battle fought by the Prince of life in the wilderness. Thanks be to God that He came off victorious, passing over the same ground where Adam fell and redeeming Adam's disgraceful failure. Satan left the field of battle a conquered foe. This victory is an assurance to us that through divine help we may come off victorious in our behalf on our own account in the conflict with the enemy....      Satan felt that all the power of this fallen planet was in his possession, but when Christ came to measure strength with the prince of darkness, Satan found One who was able to resist his temptations. The words of Christ are, "The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me."... All heaven was watching the result of the controversy between Christ and Satan.... Now the question is, Will we take advantage of the situation and come off more than conquerors through Him who loved us?-Manuscript 26, 1887.

Commentary: My friend, we have a two-fold problem with sin.  First is that we have sinned, and second is that we have no power to stop sinning.  Jesus came that we could be forgiven of our sins and have power to stop sinning.  Our salvation is not just forgiveness of our sins, but is also victory over them.  1 John 1:9 says "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."  Forgiveness is not enough to save us, we must also overcome sin in our lives if we are to be saved. The sacrifice that God made by giving us His Son was not just to die in our place, but also to live within us that we may overcome sin; to restore us back into the image of God.  Without the Spirit of Christ living within us, though we are forgiven, we will continue to sin until He comes in the clouds of glory, but at that time it will be too late.  Therefore, we must gain the victory over sin before the close of probation, and that victory only comes through the indwelling of Jesus within our hearts. Satan well knows that if the Spirit of Christ lives within His people, he will have no power over us.  Therefore it is his decided aim to separate us from the only One that can resist him, and he has artfully done this through the trinity.  By introducing the Holy Spirit as another being, separate from the Father and the Son, he has deceived the whole of the Christian world into accepting a being that cannot give them victory over sin.  The Scriptures tell us in 1 Corinthians 15:57 that victory over sin is only through Jesus Christ.  "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."  If the Holy Spirit is not the Spirit of Jesus Christ, then it cannot give us victory, for our victory is only through the Son of God. My friend, Jesus is the only one that can give us victory over sin because He was the only one who gained the victory over sin in the flesh, and it is only by Christ living within us that we may have victory over sin.  The trinity robs us of total victory and deceives us into believing in another being who has not been tempted in the flesh and has not gained the victory over sin.  Those who continue to trust and believe in the doctrine of the trinity, even though God has shown them through His word that it is false, will find out too late that they have believed a lie.  As the implementation of the mark of the beast is pressed upon them, they will not have gained the victory over sin and will be overcome by the great and final test. May you heed the warning of the Faithful and True Witness to the church of Laodicea today. God bless,

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