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We Are Sanctified by the Truth in Jesus

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

We Are Sanctified by the Truth in Jesus
Today's Text:
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17
The Message:

     Every soldier engaged in the spiritual conflict must be brave in God. Those who are fighting the battles for the Prince of life must point their weapons of warfare outward, and not form a hollow square and aim their missiles of destruction at those who are serving under the banner of the Prince Emmanuel. We have no time for wounding and tearing down one another. How many there are who need to heed the words that Christ spoke to Nicodemus, ... "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."...

     There are many who claim to be followers of Christ, whose names are enrolled on the church books, who have not been a strength to the church. They have not been sanctified through the truth.... It is not receiving the truth simply, but practicing the truth, that sanctifies the soul. Let those who would be sanctified through the truth search carefully and prayerfully both the Old and New Testaments that they may know what is truth....

     Those who are truly converted to Christ [must] keep on constant guard lest they shall accept error in place of truth. Those who think that it matters not what they believe in doctrine, so long as they believe in Jesus Christ, are on dangerous ground. There are some who think that they will be just as acceptable to God by obeying some other law than the law of God-by meeting some other conditions than those He has specified in the gospel-as if they obeyed His commandments and complied with His requirements. But they are under a fatal delusion, and unless they renounce this heresy and come into harmony with His requirements, they cannot become members of the royal family....

     Those who claim to be sanctified, and who give no heed to the words of divine authority spoken from Mount Sinai, make it manifest that they will not render to God the obedience that the Lawgiver requires...."Without me," Christ says, "ye can do nothing." Provision for our perfection is found in union with Christ. "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one."...

     What pleasure could [heaven] possibly be to souls who would not be drawn to Jesus in this life, to study His character and to be with Him in the life that is to come? They would prefer to be anywhere else than in the presence and companionship of Him in whom they have no delight. They did not know Him while in the world and could not learn to know Him in heaven.-Manuscript 40, 1894.

Commentary:
My friend, we are sanctified by the truth that is in Jesus Christ, the Son of the One true God.  Unless Jesus is living within our hearts, we cannot be saved.  Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me." (John 14:6), yet how sad it is today that the professed people of God are following another way: another spirit.  By the adoption of the doctrine of the trinity, the church is teaching another way of salvation through another medium called "God the Holy Spirit": a being that is not the Father and not the Son, but another being altogether.

We are sanctified by the Word, and that Word lives within the Son of God.  As we surrender our lives to Jesus, the Word lives within our hearts, and as the Spirit of God lives within the Son, we are sanctified by Him.  How many today are deceived into believing in a false sanctification and taking upon themselves a false righteousness in place of the truth that is in Jesus Christ alone?

The trinity is a false representation of God, and no matter how sincere the believer is, they cannot be sanctified by it.  They may believe in their heart that they are worshiping God, but in fact they are not.  Jesus said of them "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." (Matthew 15:8).  Their worship is in vain because God cannot accept their worship.  He has given to them the plain truth as it is in His Word, but they would not heed the truth that it is in it.  They accept the theories and doctrines of the church over a plain thus sayeth the Lord.  Those who persist in this path will be among those who say "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Matthew 7:22, 23).

My friend, it is time to search the Scriptures that you may who it is that you are worshiping.  Are you worshiping the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ, or are you worshiping a triune god that cannot be supported by the plain Word of God?  We are sanctified only by Jesus Christ, the Son of the One true God.  The question that you need to ask yourself is; who are you worshiping?

God bless,
Video of the Week

The Begotten Son - Metephor or Reality
The Begotten Son - Metaphor or Reality

Matt Dooley of Line of Truth Ministries shares a message that looks at the Scriptures to answer this most important question.  Is Jesus truly the Son of God, or is it only a metaphor or a title.

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