In Our Time The Holy Spirit Will Come Again

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

In Our Time The Holy Spirit Will Come Again

Today's Text: Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. James 5:7

The Message:      We have taught, we have expected, that an angel is to come down from heaven, that the earth will be lightened with his glory. Then we shall behold an ingathering of souls similar to that witnessed on the day of Pentecost. This mighty angel comes bearing no soft, smooth message, but words that are calculated to stir the hearts of men and women to their very depths.... Are we, indeed, as human agencies to cooperate with the divine instrumentalities in sounding the message of this mighty angel who is to lighten the earth with His glory?      How great and widespread must be the power of the prince of evil, which can be subdued only by the mighty power of the Spirit. Disloyalty to God, transgression in every form, has spread over our world. Those who would preserve their allegiance to God, who are active in His service, become the mark of every shaft and weapon of hell. If those who have had great light have not corresponding faith and obedience, they soon become leavened with the prevailing apostasy; another spirit controls them. While they have been exalted to heaven in point of opportunities and privileges, they are in a worse condition than the most zealous advocates of error.      There are many who have been preparing themselves for moral inefficiency in the great crisis. They are wavering and undecided. Others who have not had so great light, who have never identified themselves with the truth, will, under the influence of the Spirit, respond to the light when it shines upon them. Truth that has lost its power upon those who have long slighted its precious teaching appears beautiful and attractive to those who are ready to walk in the light. The Spirit sets home the truth in such a manner as to arouse the conscience to discern and acknowledge the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. Men see themselves as transgressors of the law of God. By faith they behold the infinite love of God in the gift of Jesus to our world. By faith they see the sentence of condemnation erased and their names recorded in the book of life. They see the robe of Christ's righteousness presented to them, preparing them for the mansions above, that they may stand spotless before the Father. These are the things of Christ which the mind grasps, and which are food to the soul.            Amid the confusion of delusive doctrines the Spirit of God will be a guide and a shield to those who have not resisted the evidences of truth. He silences every other voice than that which comes from Him who is the truth and the life. God gives to every soul opportunity to hear the voice of the True Shepherd, to receive the knowledge of God and our Saviour. When the heart receives this truth as a precious treasure, Christ is formed within, the hope of glory, while the whole heavenly universe exclaims, Amen and amen.      We have absolute need of the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. We have no time to confer with flesh and blood. The power of Satan is apparently in the supremacy, he is seeking to convert all things in the world to his own purpose, to imbue human beings with his own spirit and nature. The conflict will be terrible. The minds and hearts of men seem surcharged with hostility against divine revelation; the passions are stirred with envy against purity and holiness and devotion to God and His requirements; the will is set like granite against all that is called God or that is worshiped. The confederacy of satanic agencies, united with evil men, are as instruments of unrighteousness, throwing their whole force into the battlefield, evil against good.           We have need of divine illumination. Every individual is striving to become a center of influence, and until God works for His people, they will not see that subordination to God is the only safety for any soul. His transforming grace upon human hearts will lead to unity that has not yet been realized, for all who are assimilated to Christ will be in harmony with one another. The Holy Spirit will create unity.      "He shall glorify me." [John 16:14.] "This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." [John 17:3.] The Holy Spirit glorifies God by so revealing His character to His people that He becomes the object of their supreme affections, and by making manifest His character in them. They see clearly that there was never any righteousness in the world but His, no excellence in the world but that derived from Him. When the Spirit was poured out from on high, the church was flooded with light, but Christ was the Source of that light; His name was on every tongue; His love filled every heart. So it will be when the angel that comes down from heaven having great power shall lighten the whole earth with His glory. May the Lord help His people to see and understand what is truth. -Letter 25b, 1892. (Emphasis added)

Commentary: My friend, in these last days Satan is using all of his deceptive powers to turn the remnant people away from the truth.  Through spurious doctrines he has led many to believe a lie, but the one deception that is above all others is the doctrine of the trinity, for by it he has deceived the whole of the Christian world.  By this doctrine, he has supplanted the One true God for the triune god of his own devising.  In this way he has deceived the elect of God to the point where they defend the triune godhead with all of their might, twisting and denying the plain evidences found in the Scriptures to the contrary. But in the last days, God will have a people that will stand up for the truth.  They will be sanctified by the truth and will bring the Laodicean message home to the professed followers of Christ.  This message, attended by the Spirit of Christ, will have an affect upon the people, and thousands who had previously resisted the truth, will unite with these messengers and bring the three angels message to the world with the power of God. Those leaders and people that continue to resist the message of God, will grieve away the Spirit and be left in darkness.  They have basked in the great light of truth but have not been sanctified by it.  They are rich and increased with goods and in need of nothing, but do not recognize that they are in great darkness, for they prefer darkness rather than the true light of God.  To these the Faithful and True Witness says thou art "...wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." (Revelation 3:17).  "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:" (Matthew 25:41). The leaders of the church have long hidden the truth from the people.  They had removed the worship of the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ, for the worship of the false god of the trinity.  Those who resisted and spoke out against them, were derided, ridiculed, and eventually disfellowed from the church.  This omega of apostasy spoken of by the prophet of God, has led many to become entangled in the web of Satan and loose their eternal salvation. My friend, the message of the Faithful and True Witness of God is going to the people of God today.  The pastors and leaders of the church are warning the people away from the message of the One true God, but they are working against the Spirit of God.  Do not be deceived any longer.  "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15), that you may be sanctified by Jesus.  "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" (Colossians 1:27). God bless,

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