Believe the Truth and Practice It

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Believe the Truth and Practice It

Today's Text: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26

The Message:      Jesus Christ is the Restorer. Satan, the apostate, is the destroyer. Here is the conflict between the Prince of life and the prince of this world, the power of darkness.... The world's Redeemer did not design that His purchased inheritance should live and die in their sins. What, then, is the matter? Why are so few reached and saved? It is because so many of those who profess to be Christians are working in the same lines as the great apostate. They let Satan devise and plan for them. He makes them apostates, disloyal to God, rebels against His precepts and laws. This brings severe, taxing labor upon the true Christian. He must convince the transgressor that he is a sinner, because "sin is the transgression of the law."      How much more might be done for Christ if all who have had the light and the truth set before them, and who profess to believe the Word, would practice the Word and adorn the doctrine of Christ our Saviour.... There are many earnest, prudent, warmhearted men and women who could do much for Christ if they would first give themselves to God and draw nigh to Him, seeking Him with their whole hearts....      As a people we have to meet that which Christ met. The lukewarm, the covetous, the self-righteous, the impure, were the chief stumbling blocks He had to encounter, and those who work with Him will find the same discouraging hindrances in their experiences.... All who engage in this work as colaborers with Christ must be willing not only to preach the truth but to practice it.... There will be no change made in the divine economy in order to bring about marked changes in the religious world. Men and women must arise to the emergency; they must receive the golden oil, the divine communication, in rich blessings. This will enable them to arise and shine, because their light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon them.      Those who claim to believe the Word of God, and yet cherish their own hereditary and cultivated traits of character, are the greatest stumbling blocks we shall meet as we present the grand, holy truths for this time. Those who believe present truth are to practice the truth, live the truth. They are to study the Word and eat the Word, which means eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God. They are to bring that Word, which is Spirit and life, into their daily, practical life. It is the bread from heaven, and it will give life to the world.-Letter 34, 1896.

Commentary: My friend, in the Christian world there are an abundance of professors; those who profess to be followers of Christ when their lives tell a altogether different story.  These have a form of godliness but they deny the power of God to transform their lives.  This is the condition of the remnant church of God.  They believe that they have the righteousness of Christ when in reality they are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Revelation 3:17).  They are in this condition because they are worshiping a false god that has the form of God, but is not, and as such they have a false experience of righteousness by faith. The source of this terrible condition is the churches belief in God as a triune God made up of three god-beings, when the Scriptures reveal that there is only One God, the Father, who has a Son.  "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" (1 Timothy 2:5).  By looking unto "God the Holy Ghost", which is a separate being from the Father and the Son, to mediate in their lives, they have accepted the spirit of Satan into their hearts.  This is why their profession of following Christ does not result in a transformed life. My friend, if we are to be saved, we must have the righteousness of Christ living within our lives.  Therefore, we must look away from the false image of God in the trinity, and look unto the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ.  Jesus says "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Revelation 3:19, 20). If you feel the rebuke of the straight testimony from the Faithful and True Witness, do not be offended, for the message is given to you out of His love for you.  Be zealous in your repentance and invite Him into your heart today, before it is too late. God bless,

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