The Sermon on the Mount

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

The Sermon on the Mount

Today's Text: And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him. Matthew 5:1

The Message:      Christ's sermon on the mount was designed to enter into our everyday life. The commandments are so broad that they take hold of even our thoughts. But how few take heed to the words of our Saviour! Consequently we shall have objections to meet. Some will claim that they are wholly led by the Spirit, and consequently they have not much use for the law of God or any portion of God's Word. Those who claim great light and are not sanctified through the truth are dangerous people, but they can be easily tested. "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20....      We must expect to be assailed by the powers of darkness, but if we successfully resist, then there will be rejoicing in heaven. The souls of human beings are valued by the heavenly host.... We must not be under anyone's banner but Christ's.-Manuscript 45, 1886.      Christ spake as never man spake. To the multitude that listened to His sermon on the mount-His lessons illustrated by things with which they were familiar-the law of God, with its living, matchless principles, was brought home to their minds and consciences. Among the thousands who were converted in a day, after Christ had risen from the tomb and ascended to the Father, were the very ones who had heard and believed the words spoken on that occasion.      As Jesus stood among the people, clothed with the garb of humanity, He longed to unfold to His disciples the deep mysteries of the plan of redemption; but with sadness He was forced to say, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." The temporal, the earthly, was so mingled in their minds with the spiritual and the eternal that the sacred and heavenly were eclipsed....      The soul must be infused with the Spirit of the great Teacher if the mind would penetrate into the deep things of God. The truth will enlarge and enrich the mind. Its beauty, its purity, its holiness, [and] its invigorating power, will inspire the receivers, and they will not be content to be circumscribed in their work. The yearning soul will cry out after the living God, Show me Thy glory.-Manuscript 104, 1898.

Commentary: My friend, in the sermon on the mount, Jesus opened to the people the principals of heaven in a way that they could understand.  Though He longed to give them more, they were not prepared to receive it.  For many centuries the religious leaders had strayed from the truth and their minds were centered around the temporal glory that was to come at the second coming of Christ, that they were not prepared for His first coming.  Satan had artfully corrupted their religious experience such that they were not ready to receive the gift of the Son of God.   As in the time of Christ, so is it today.  Satan has artfully corrupted the religious experience of the remnant church today as he did in the time of Christ.  By supplanting the truth of the One true God with the doctrine of the trinity, he has corrupted the remnant people such that they are unprepared for the second coming of Jesus, and they are also not prepared to give the three angels message to the world. In order for the Lord to come again the world must be warned of His coming such that they have the opportunity to prepare.  Unless God has a people prepared to give the thee angels message, the message cannot be given.  This is as Satan has devised.  The three angels message is the last message of hope that is to go to a dark and dying world.  The first angels message is a message of preparation for the people of God saying, "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).  But the church no longer fears the One true God of the Bible, but has adopted the false god of the trinity, and as such the Spirit of God cannot attend this message. For many years the church has taught that the first angels message is a call for the people to come back and worship the God of creation by worshiping Him on the seventh day of the week, but this is only partially true.  While the day that we worship the Lord on is important, the God that we worship is more important.  Ezekiel 20:12 says "Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them."  The Sabbath is only a sign of our sanctification, but it is the LORD that sanctifies us. The trinity is a false picture of God and as such cannot sanctify us.  The first angels message calls us back to worship the One true God who is the Creator of all things.  1 Corinthians 8:6 says "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."  The Father is the One true God and by Him were all things created, and it is by Him that we are sanctified through His Son Jesus Christ.  The trinity destroys this picture of God and robs us of the sanctification that God desires for us to have, so that we may be filled with His Spirit and bring the last message of hope to the world. My friend, unless we are sanctified by the first angels message and come back to worship the One true God through His Son, we cannot give the message to the world.  Satan has thus far corrupted the image of God in the church by false doctrine of the trinity, but there is a remnant within the remnant that will give the true message to the world.  Will you be sanctified by the LORD that you may give this message to the world?  The Faithful and True Witness says "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent." (Revelation 3:19).  Will you repent and worship the One true God today? God bless,

Video of the Week Prove All Things - A Review by Nader Mansour "The Godhead: Joels Journey - Why I Left the Anti-trinitarian Movement." In this episode of Prove All Things, I review Joel's aforementioned video and test some of his claims. Is there enough evidence to abandon the Father & Son message? What solid proofs are there for the Trinity? Can we accept the Spirit of God to be a different person to God? These questions and more are covered in this episode.