Jesus Will Give Us Eternal Life

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Jesus Will Give Us Eternal Life

Today's Text: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3

The Message:      The Lord Jesus said to His disciples when He was with them, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." He could have made disclosures which would have absorbed the attention of the disciples and caused them to lose sight of His former instruction that He wished to be the subject of their most earnest thought. But He withheld those things that they would have been amazed to hear, and that would have afforded them opportunity to cavil, to create misunderstanding and disaffection. He would give no occasion for persons of little faith and piety to mystify and misrepresent the truth, and thus create factions.      Jesus could have presented mysteries that would have given subject for thought and investigation for generations, even to the close of time. Himself the source of all true science, He could have led people to the investigation of mysteries, and age after age their minds would have been so thoroughly absorbed that they would have felt no desire to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of God.      Jesus well knew that Satan is constantly working to excite curiosity, and to busy people with conjecture. Thus he seeks to eclipse the grand and momentous truth that Christ wished to be ever prominent before their minds. "For this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."      There is a lesson for us in those words of Christ spoken after the feeding of the five thousand. He said, "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost." These words meant more than that the disciples should gather the broken pieces of bread into baskets. Jesus meant that they should mark His words, should study the Scriptures, and treasure every ray of light. Instead of searching for a knowledge of something that God had not revealed, they were carefully to gather up what He had given them.      Satan had tried to eclipse from human minds the knowledge of God, and to eradicate from their hearts the attributes of God.... That which God had revealed was misconstrued, misapplied, and mingled with satanic delusions. Satan will quote Scripture in order to deceive. He tried to deceive Christ in this way. So he still tries to deceive.... Christ came to adjust truths that had been misplaced and made to serve the cause of error. He recalled them, repeated them, ... and bade them stand fast forever.-Manuscript 32, 1896 (Manuscript Releases 17:20, 21).

Commentary: My friend, Satan ever works to draw the minds of men from a knowledge of God, leading their minds into paths of thought that corrupt the character and separate him from the only power that can save him.  Though Satan has numerous methods to distract and entice humanity to sin, he has been the most successful in leading professed followers of God to worship an altogether different god than the God of the Bible. Through the doctrine of the trinity, he has changed the One true God into a triune god that is made up of three co-equal and co-eternal beings, that destroys the gospel and directs the people to worship the Holy Spirit as a being unto itself, thus creating another way of salvation.  Because this false image of God uses the name of God, it is undetected by the Christian world.  It gives the believer the outward appearance of following God, but does not have power to save them.  They continue on in their sins while their consciences are quieted and they are satisfied in their condition before God. God gave us His Son that we could be redeemed from the condemnation of sin and from the power of sin in our lives, that we could be restored back into the image of God and have everlasting life.  That gift of eternal life is in the Son of God.  "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3).  "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (1 John 5:12).  Satan endeavors to separate us from the One true God and His Son Jesus Christ, by introducing a counterfeit Christ. My friend, the time is come for us to awaken from the deception that has been played upon us, and to heed the first angels message which is "Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." (Revelation 14:7).  The first angels message is calling us back to worship the Creator God; And who is the Creator of heaven and earth?  "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." (1 Corinthians 8:6). All things were created by the Father through the Son. Let us give honor and glory to God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

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