We Are Laborers Together with God

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

We Are Laborers Together with God Today's Text: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 1 Corinthians 3:9 The Message:      There never will be a time in the history of the church when God's workers can fold their hands and be at ease, saying, "All is peace and safety." Then it is that sudden destruction cometh. Everything may move forward amid apparent prosperity; but Satan is wide awake and is studying and counseling with his evil angels another mode of attack where he can be successful. The contest will wax more and more fierce on the part of Satan, for he is moved by a power from beneath.      As the work of God's people moves forward with sanctified, resistless energy, planting the standard of Christ's righteousness in the church, moved by a power from the throne of God, the great controversy will wax stronger and stronger, and will become more and more determined. Mind will be arrayed against mind, plans against plans, principles of heavenly origin against principles of Satan. Truth in its varied phases will be in conflict with error in its ever-varying, increasing forms, and which, if possible, will deceive the very elect....      There is danger now of our losing sight of the important truths applicable for this period of time, and seeking for those things that are new and strange and entrancing. Many, if reproved by the Spirit of God through His appointed agencies, refuse to receive correction, and a root of bitterness is planted in their hearts against the Lord's servants who carry heavy, disagreeable burdens. There are men who teach the truth, but who are not perfecting their ways before God, who are trying to conceal their defections, and encourage an estrangement from God. They have not the moral courage to do the things that it is for their special benefit to do. They see no necessity for reform, and so they reject the words of the Lord and hate Him who reproveth at the gate. This very refusal to heed the admonitions that the Lord sends gives Satan every advantage to make them the bitterest enemies of those who have told them the truth. They become falsifiers of those who have borne to them the message of the Lord.-Manuscript 92, 1897 (Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 406-408).      Our work must be an earnest one. We are not to fight as those who beat the air. The ministry, the pulpit, and the press demand people like Caleb, who will do and dare, people whose eyes are single to detect the truth from error, whose ears are consecrated to catch the words from the faithful Watcher. And the Spirit from the throne of God will make itself felt upon a degenerate Christianity, a corrupt world, ready to be consumed by the long-deferred judgments of an offended God.-Manuscript 92, 1897 (Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 407). *Note: I have added in the parts that were left out by the compilers for what ever reason, that the true sentiment of the author may be seen.  These parts are underlined. Commentary: My friend, we are living in the last days of earths history, and the message that we are to cooperate with the Lord in is to bring the last message of hope to a dark and dying world.  But if we are to bring this message to the world we must first be sanctified by its message.  The first and second angels messages are messages of preparation for Gods people.  The first calls us back to worship the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ, and the second is to call us out of the fallen churches of Babylon. It is sad but true that the Seventh-day Adventist church which professes to be the remnant church of God has become one of the fallen churches of Babylon.  It has forsaken Christ as its head and has accepted the false god of the trinity.  While it still retains many of the beliefs that were established by God through the pioneers, they have been corrupted by the trinity.  This falling away was foretold by the Faithful and True Witness in His message to the Church of Laodicea. The position of Christ to the Laodiceans is on the outside seeking to gain entrance into the hearts of His people.  If Christ is on the outside, then who is leading the church?  It is the same spirit that leads the fallen protestant churches, and as such all of the abominations that have come into the protestant churches is now coming into the SDA church. My friend, the message from the Lord is "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Revelation 18:4).  The close of probation for the church is just before us.  The message of the Faithful and True Witness must be heeded, else we will be spewed out of His mouth and be lost. May you turn from the worship of the false god of the trinity unto the One true God through His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless, Video of the Week The Legal Universe (Wenatchee) - David Clayton A message from David Clayton at a Camp Meeting in Wenatchee, June 2018.