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Today's Date: Thursday, Dec. 27, 2001
"The humanity of the Son of God is EVERYTHING to us. It is the golden chain that binds our souls to Christ, and through Christ to God. This is to be our study. Christ was a real man; He gave proof of His humility in becoming a real man." Selected Messages, vol. 1, 244.
Today's Date: Sunday, Dec. 23, 2001
"...To meet the necessities of humanity, He took on Him human nature....Mysteriously He allied Himself to human nature." E.G. White, Fundamentals of Education, p. 400.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Dec. 22, 2001
"...He...clothed His divinity with humanity...that He might reach men where they were." E.G. White, Testimonies to Ministers, p. 177.
Today's Date: Friday, Dec. 21, 2001
"He laid aside His kingly crown and royal robe, and stepped from His high command to take His place at the head of a fallen race. Clothing His divinity with humanity, He came to a world all seared and marre with the curse, to become one with humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 11/06/01, p. 706, col. 2.
Today's Date: Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001
"...He...suffered every phase of trial and temptation with which humanity is beset." E.G. White, Ms. 35, 1895, p. 1.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001
"So Jesus was mede in the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Letter 0-54-1895, p. 25.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2001
"He came as a helpless babe, bearing the humanity we bear. 'As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same'...In His humanity He understood all the temptations that will come to man." E.G. White, Ms. 21, 1895, p. 3.
Today's Date: Monday, Dec. 17, 2001
"Jesus assumed humanity tht He might treat humanity...making all feel that His identification with their nature and interest is complete." E.G. White, GCBulletin, 1895, p. 338, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001
"What a strange symbol of Christ was that likeness of the serpent that stung them. This symbol was lifted on a pole, and they were to look at it and be healed. So Jesus was made in the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Letter 55, 1895.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Dec. 15, 2001
"He came as a helpless babe, bearing the humanity we bear." E.G. White, Ms. 21, 1895.
Today's Date: Friday, Dec. 14, 2001
"...(He) humbled Himself so that He might meet man in his fallen, helpless condition...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/17/95, p. 802, col. 1.
Today's Date: Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001
"He stooped to take human nature, in order to be able to reach man where he was." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/03/95, p. 769, col. 2.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001
"He took upon Him the likeness of sinful flesh, and was made in all points like unto His brethren." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/16/95, p. 292, col. 2.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2001
"...Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh, clothing His divinity with humanity." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/11/95, p. 227, col. 2.
Today's Date: Monday, Dec. 10, 2001
"....He came to the world in the likenes of sinful flesh..." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 3/07/95, p. 147.
Today's Date: Sunday, Dec. 9, 2001
"He was clothed with a body like ours..." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 2/05.95, p. 81.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Dec. 8, 2001
"(God) gave Him to the fallen race." E.G. White, AST 7/22/29, p. 1.
Today's Date: Friday, Dec. 7, 2001
"....by passing over the ground which man must travel...Christ prepared the way for us to gain the victory.--E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/27/97, p. 325, col. 3.
"The Commander of all heaven, He humbled Himself to stand at the head of fallen humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/20/99.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2001
"Christ....took our nature in its deteriorated condition." Signs of the Times, 6/09/98.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2001
Christ took our nature with all its attendant ills. E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/04/77.
Today's Date: Monday, Dec. 3, 2001
Christ took our fallen nature with all its temptations. E.G. White, Review and Herald, 3/09/05.
Today's Date: Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001
Christ took our nature with all its possibilities. E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/03/02.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Dec. 1, 2001
Christ experienced all the difficulties we experience. E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/28/91.
Today's Date: Friday, Nov. 30, 2001
Christ took all our infirmities. E.G. White, Review and Herald, 10/01/89.
Today's Date: Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001
"(Christ) humbled Himself, in taking the nature of man in his fallen condition, but He did not take the taint of sin." E.G. White, Ms. 1, 1893, p. 3.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001
"Everyone who by faith obeys God's commandments will reach the condition of sinlessness in which Adam lived before his transgression. E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 7/23/02.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001
"When Christ bowed His head and died, He bore the pillars of Satan's kingdom with Him to the earth. He vanquished Satan in the same nature over which in Eden Satan obtained the victory. The enemy was overcome by Christ in His human nature. The power of the Saviour's Godhead was hidden. He overcame in human nature, relying on God for power. This is the privilege of all. In proportion to our faith will be our victory." E.G. White, Youth's Instructor, 4/25/01.
Today's Date: Monday, Nov. 26, 2001
"In taking upon Himself man's nature in its fallen condition, Christ did not in the least participate in its sin." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/09/98.
Today's Date: Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001
"In the fullness of time He was to be revealed in human form. He was to take His position at the head of humanity by taking the nature but not the sinfulnes of man." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/29/01.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Nov. 24, 2001
"He took His stand at the head of the fallen race...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 6/15/05.
Today's Date: Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
"Christ is called the second Adam. In purity and holiness, connected with God and beloved by God, He began where the first Adam began. Willingly He passed over the ground where Adam fell, and redeemed Adam's failure." E.G. White Youth's Instructor, 6/02/98.
Today's Date: Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001
"(Christ) laid aside His royal robes, clothed His divinity with humanity, stepped down from the royal throne, that He might reach the very depths of human woe and temptation, lift up our fallen natures, and make it possible for us to be overcomers, the sons of God, the heirs of the eternal kingdom." E.G. White, Bible Echo, 4/15/89, p. 113, col. 3.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001
"The God of the universe has given our cases in judgment into the hands of His Son, one who is acquainted with our infirmities...He has taken our nature upon Him...." E.G. White, Bible Echo, 1/15/89, p. 17, col. 2.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2001
"...human weaknesses, human necessities were upon Him." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/24/94, p. 257, col. 2.
Today's Date: Monday, Nov. 19, 2001
"And as Jesus was in human nature, so God means His followers to be." E.G. White, Ms. 7, 1891, p. 1"
Today's Date: Sunday, Nov. 18, 2001
"Jesus is the 'daysman' between a holy God and our sinful humanity -- one who can 'lay His hand on us both.'" E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 8/24/91, p. 269, col. 3.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Nov. 17, 2001
"...with His human arm Christ encircles the fallen race, and with His divine arm He grasps the throne of the Infinite...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/18/92, p. 374, col. 3.
Today's Date: Friday, Nov. 16, 2001
"...He consented to take the habiliments of humanity, to become one with the fallen race." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/25/92, p. 391, col. 1.
Today's Date: Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001
"...He assumed the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 8/08/92, p. 616, col. 2.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001
"...He came in the garb of our humanity..." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 9/27/92, p. 610, col. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001
"...in His humanity He has become acquainted with all the difficulties that beset humanity." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/28/91, p. 257, col. 2.
Today's Date: Monday, Nov. 12, 2001
"He humbled Himself that He might meet fallen men where they were." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 7/21/91, p. 450, col. 1.
Today's Date: Sunday, Nov. 11, 2001
"...Christ is the Son of God, the Redeemer of fallen man." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/13/91, p. 117, col. l2.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Nov. 10, 2001
"Jesus clothed His divinity with humanity that He might have an experience in all that pertains to human life." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/24/89, p. 801, col. 2.
Today's Date: Friday, Nov. 9, 2001
"An angel would not have known how to sympathize with fallen man, but... Jesus can be touched with all our infirmities." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 10/01/89, p. 609, col. 3.
Today's Date: Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001
"He was made a child that He might understand the temptations of childhood, and know its weaknesses...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 9/30/89, p. 594, col. 1.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001
"He was to come as a man of sorrows, to bear the infirmities of humanity." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 7/08/89, p. 402, col. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2001
"Jesus also told them...that He should take man's fallen nature, and His strength would not be even equal with theirs." E.G. White, Spiritual Gifts, Vol. I, p. 25.
Today's Date: Monday, Nov. 5, 2001
"Through His humiliation and poverty Christ would identify Himself with the weaknesses of the fallen race...The great work of redemption could be carried out only by the Redeemer taking the place of fallen Adam...The King of glory proposed to humble Himself to fallen humanity...He would take man's fallen nature." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 2/24/74, p. 83, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, Nov. 4, 2001
"Christ condescended to take humanity, and thus He unites His interests with the fallen sons and daughters of Adam here below...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 1/21/73, p. 126, col. 1.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Nov. 3, 2001
"Christ was not in as favorable a position in the desolate wilderness to endure the temptations of Satan as was Adam when he was tempted in Eden. The Son of God humbled Himself and took man's nature after the race had wandered four thousand years from Eden, and from their original state of purity and uprightness. Sin had been making its terrible marks upon the race for ages; and physical, mental, and moral degeneracy prevailed throughout the human family.
When Adam was assailed by the tempter in Eden he was without the taint of sin. He stood in the strength of his perfection before God. All the organs and faculties of his being were equally developed, and harmoniously balanced.
Christ, in the wilderness of temptation, stood in Adam's place to bear the test he failed to endure. Here Christ overcame in the sinner's behalf, four thousand years after Adam turned his back upon the light of his home. Separated from the presence of God, the human family had been departing every successive generation, farther from the original purity, wisdom, and knowledge which Adam possessed in Eden. Christ bore the sins and infirmities of the race as they existed when He came to earth to help man. In behalf of the race, with the weaknesses of fallen man upon Him, He was to stand the temptations of Satan upon all points wherewith man would be assailed.
Adam was surrounded with everything his heart could wish. Every want was supplied. There was no sin, and no signs of decay in glorious Eden. Angels of God conversed freely and lovingly with the holy pair. The happy songsters caroled forth their free, joyous songs of praise to their Creator. The peaceful beasts in happy innocence played about Adam and Eve, obedient to their word. Adam was in the perfection of manhood, the noblest of the Creator's work. He was in the image of God, but a little lower than the angels.
In what contrast is the second Adam as He entered the gloomy wilderness to cope with Satan single-handed. Since the fall the race had been decreasing in size and physical strength, and sinking lower in the scale of moral worth, up to the period of Christ's advent to the earth. And in order to elevate fallen man, Christ must reach him where he was. He took human nature, and bore the infirmities and degeneracy of the race. He, who knew no sin, became sin for us. He humiliated Himself to the lowest depths of human woe, that He might be qualified to reach man, and bring him up from the degradation in which sin had plunged him." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 7/28/74, p. 51, col. 1.
Today's Date: Friday, Nov. 2, 2001
"Christ condescended to take humanity, and thus He unites His interests with the fallen sons and daughters of Adam hare below...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 1/21/73, p. 126, col. 1.
Today's Date: Thursday, Nov. 1, 2001
"Christ steps in between fallen man and God, and says to man, you may yet come to the Father...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 5/31/70, p. 186, col. 1.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001
"... Christ humiliated Himself to humanity, and took upon Himself our natures.... that ... He might become a stepping-stone to fallen men." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 5/31/70, p. 185, col. 2.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2001
".... He humbled Himself to take man's nature, that... He might reach man where he is. He obtains for the fallen sons and daughters of Adam that strength which it is imposssible for them to gain for themselves.... In Christ's humiliation He descended to the very depth of human woe in sympathy and pity for fallen man, which was represented to Jacob by one end of the ladder resting upon the earth...Angels may pass from heaven to earth with messages of love to fallen man..." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 8/18/74, p. 146, col. 1.
Today's Date: Monday, Oct. 29, 2001
"Our Redeemer perfectly understood the wants of humanity. He who condescended to take upon Himself man's nature was acquainted with man's weakness.... Christ took upon Himself our infirmities, and in the weakness of humanity He needed to seek strength from the Father." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 10/11/81, p. 1, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, Oct. 28, 2001
"Here (at the Lord's baptism) was the assurance to the Son of God that His father accepted the fallen race through their representative.... The Son of God was then the representative of our race." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/30/79, p. 85, col. 1.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Oct. 27, 2001
"Christ stooped to take upon Himself human nature, that He might reach the fallen race and lift them up.... (He) partook of our human nature, that He might reach humanity." E.G. White, Testimonies, vol. 5, 1882, p. 746, 747.
Today's Date: Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
"The majesty of heaven held not Himself aloof from degraded, sinful humanity." E.G. White, Testimonies, vol. 5, 1882, p. 346.
Today's Date: Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001
"...His work was in behalf of fallen man....He assumed our nature." E.G. White, Testimonies, vol. 5, 1882, p. 204.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001
"(Satan) told his angels that when Jesus should take fallen mans nature, he could overpower Him...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/30/79, p. 85, col. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001
"He had taken upon Himself the form of humanity with all its attendant ills...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/04/77, p. 1, col. 3.
Today's Date: Monday, Oct. 22, 2001
"Satan showed his knowledge of the weak points of the human heart, and put forth his utmost power to take advantage of the weakness of the humanity which Christ had assumed... Because the Son of God had linked Himself to the weakness of humanity...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/01/75, p. 161, col. 2, and p. 162, col. 1.
Today's Date: Sunday, Oct. 21, 2001
"Christ became sin for the fallen race.... Christ stood at the head of the human family as their representative.... In the likeness of sinful flesh He condemned sin in the flesh." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 5/06/75, p. 1664, col. 3.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Oct. 20, 2001
"What an act of condescension on the part of the Lord of life and glory that He might lift up fallen man." Review and Herald, 3/04/75, p. 159, col. 2.
Today's Date: Friday, Oct. 19, 2001
"God committed to His Son, in a special manner, the case of the fallen race." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/29/75, p. 163, col. 1.
Today's Date: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001
"The humanity of Christ reached to the very depths of human wretchedness, and identified itself with the weaknesses and wretchedness of fallen man...." Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, 8/04/74, p. 58, col. 1.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001
"He bore the weakness of humanity." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/09/1900, p. 290, col. 3.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001
"It was not a make-believe humanity that Christ took upon Himself. He took human nature and lived human nature... He was compassed with infirmities...
Just that which you may be He was in human nature. He took our infirmities. He was not only made flesh, but He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Letter 106, 1896.
Today's Date: Monday, Oct. 15, 2001
"Clad in the vestments of humanity, the Son of God came down to the level of those He wished to save... He took upon Him our sinful nature. Clothing His divinity with humanity, that He might associate with fallen humanity...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/15/96, p. 789, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001
"... He humbled Himself to become a member of the earthly family...and a brother to every son and daughtger of our fallen race." E.G. White, Ms. 58, 1896, p. 4.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Oct. 13, 2001
"... Christ has united fallen man to the infinite God." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/10/96.
Today's Date: Friday, Oct. 12, 2001
"(He) clothed His divinity in humanity in order to uplift the fallen race...." Ellen White, Review and Herald, 11/10/96, p. 709, col. 2.
Today's Date: Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001
"Christ, the spotless Son of God, honored humanity by taking upon Himself fallen human nature." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 9/29/96, p. 613, col. 1.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001
"Christ, the only-begotten of the Father, assumed human nature, came in the likeness of sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh." Signs of the Times, 7/02/96, p. 408, col. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2001
"....He would clothe Himself in the garb of humanity, and live the life of man from the very beginning... Christ assumed humanity, with all its humiliation and service...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 7/22/97, p. 435, col. 1, 2.
Today's Date: Monday, Oct. 8, 2001
"His humility did not consist in a low estimate of His own character and qualifications, but in humbling Himself to fallen humanity, in order to raise them with Him to a higher life." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 10/21/97, p. 645, col. 5.
Today's Date: Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001
"In order that the human family might have no excuse because of temptation, Christ became one with them." E.G. White, Signg of the Times, 10/14/97, p. 627, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Oct. 6, 2001
"As the Prince of Life in human flesh, He met the prince of darkness. .. Every temptation that could be brought against fallen humanity, He met and overcame. Had He not been fully human, Christ could not have been our substitute...Christ did nothing that human nature may not do if it partakes of the divine nature." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/117/97, p. 3, col. 2.
Today's Date: Friday, Oct. 5, 2001
"And as Jesus was in human flesh, so God means His followers to be." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/01/97, p. 196, col. 2.
Today's Date: Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001
""....Because Divinity alone could be efficacious in he restoration of man from the poisonous bruise of the serpent, God Himself in His only begotten son, assumed human nature and in the weakness of human nature sustained the character of God, vindicated His holy law in every particular." E.G. White, The Youth's Instructor, 2/11/97, p. 42, col. 2.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2001
"He knew that the enemy would come to every human being, to take advantage of hereditary weakness....And by passing over the ground which man must travel... Christ prepared the way for us to gain the victory." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/27/97, p. 325, col. 3.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2001
"He was subject to the frailties of humanity." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/22/97, p. 244, col. 3.
"He knows by experience what are the weaknesses of humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 10/07/97, p. 613, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, Sep. 30, 2001
"The human nature of Christ was like unto ours..." E.G. White, Ms. 42, 1897, p. 9. (Same as yesterday's but from another source).
Today's Date: Sabbath, Sep. 29, 2001
"The human nature of Christ was like unto ours..." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/09/97.
Today's Date: Friday, Sep. 28, 2001
"By taking upon Himself man's nature in its fallen condition... He was subject to the infirmities and weaknesses of the flesh with which humanity is encompassed...." E.G. White, Ms. 143, 1897, p. 3.
Today's Date: Thursday, Sep. 27, 2001
"(Christ) knows by experience what are the weaknesses of humanity, what are their wants, and where lies the strengths of their temptations; for He was tempted in all points like as we are, 'yet without sin.'" E.G. White, Ms. 15, 1897, p. 7.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2001
"Christ.... took our nature in its deteriorated condition." E.G. White, Ms. 143, 1897, p. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Sep. 25, 2001
"As the world's Redeemer, He understands all the experiences that humanity must pass through." E.G. White, Ms. 128, 1897, p. 11.
Today's Date: Monday, Sep. 24, 2001
"There should not be the faintest misgivings in regard to the perfect freedom from sinfulness in the human nature of Christ." E.G. White, Manuscript 143, 1897, p. 3.
Today's Date: Sunday, Sep. 23, 2001
"Jesus became... bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh... He was a man among men." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 9/20/98, p. 598, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Sep. 22, 2001
"It was compassion that led Him to clothe His divinity with humanity, that He might touch humanity. This led Him to manifest unparalleled tenderness and sympathy for man in his fallen condition." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 8/25/98.
Today's Date: Friday, Sep. 21, 2001
"In taking upon Himself man's nature in its fallen condition, Christ did not in the least participate in its sin." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/09/98, p. 2, col. 2.
Today's Date: Thursday, Sep. 20, 2001
"The Lord of glory clothed His divinity with humanity, and came to our world to endure self-denial and self-sacrifice, in order that th moral image of God might be restored in man." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 2/24/98, p. 115, col. 1.
"Today's Date: Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2001
"He assumed human anture, that He might elevate the human family... His every action had been in behalf of the fallen world." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 2/15/98, p. 101, col. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2001
"By taking our nature, He bound Himself to us through the eternal ages." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/27/98.
Today's Date: Monday, Sep. 17, 2001
"He took upon Himself fallen, suffering human nature, degraded and defiled by sin." E.G. White, Youth's Instructor, 12/20/1900, p. 394, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, Sep. 16, 2001
"The Lord Jesus Christ took upon Him the form of sinful man, clothing His divinity with humanity." E.G. White, Ms. 164, 1898, p. 1.
Today's Date: Sunday, Sep 16, 2001
"The Lord JEsus Christ took upon Him the form of sinful man, clothing His divinity with humanity." E.G. White, Ms. 164, 1898, p. 1.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Sep. 15, 2001
"Jesus was in all things made like unto His brethren. He became flesh, even as we are. He was hungry and thirsty and weary. He was sustained by food and refreshed by sleep. He shared the lot of man; yet He was the blameless Son of God. He was God in the flesh. His character is to be ours. The Lord says of those who believe in Him, 'I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.' 2 Corinthians 6:16.
Christ is the ladder that Jacob saw, the base resting on the earth,and the topmost round reaching to the gate of heaven, to the very threshold of glory. If that ladder had failed by a single step of reaching the earth, we should have been lost. But Christ reaches us where we are. He took our nature and overcame, that we through taking His nature might overcome. Made 'in the likeness of sinful flesh' (Romans 8:3), He lived a sinless life. Now by His divinity He lays hold upon the throne of heaven, while by His humanity He reaches us. He bids us by faith in Him attain to the glory of the character of God. Therefore are we to be perfect, even as our 'Father which is in heaven is perfect.'" E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, pp. 311-312.
Today's Date: Friday, Sep. 14, 2001
"In itself the act of consenting to be a man would be no act of humiliation were it not for the fact of Christ's exalted pre-existence, and the fallen condition of man... (He) clothed His divinity with humanity that He might meet man where he was..." E.G. White, Ms. 67, 1898, p. 4.
Today's Date: Thursday, Sep. 13, 2001
"As the image made in the likeness of the destroying serpents was lifted up for their healing, so One made 'in the likeness of sinful flesh' was to be their Redeemer. Romans 8:3." E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, pp. 174-175.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Sep. 12, 2001
"Satan had pointed to Adam's sin as proof that God's law was unjust and could not be obeyed. In our humanity, Christ was to redeem Adam's failure. But when Adam was assailed by the tempter, none of the effects of sin were upon him. He stood in the strength of perfect manhood, possessing the full vigor of mind and body. He was surrounded with the glories of Eden and was in daily communion with heavenly beings. It was not thus with Jesus when He entered the wilderness to cope with Satan. For four thaousand years the race had been decreasing in physical strength, in mental power, and in moral worth; and Christ took upon Him the infirmities of degenerate humanity. Only thus could He rescue man from the lowest depths of his degradation.
Many claim that it was impossible for Christ to be overcome by temptation. Then He could not have been placed in Adam's position; He could not have gained the victory that Adam failed to gain. If we have in any sense a more trying conflict than had Christ, then He would not be able to succor us. But our Saviour took humanity, with all its liabilities. He took the nature of man, with the possibility of yielding to temptation. We have nothing to bear which He has not endured." E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 117.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2001
"Notwithstanding that the sins of a guilty world were laid upon Christ, notwithstanding the humiliation of taking upon Himself our fallen nature, the voice from heaven declared Him to be the Son of the Eternal." E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 112.
Today's Date: Monday, Sep. 10, 2001
"He (God) gave Him (Christ) to the fallen race." E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 25.
Today's Date: Sunday, Sep. 9, 2001
"He left the royal courts of heaven, and clothed His divinity with humanity, that humanity might touch humanity, and that divinity might lay hold of the power of God in behalf of the fallen race." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 10/13/98, p. 643, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Sep. 8, 2001
"He (God) gave His Son to become bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh." E.G. White, Ms. 21, 1900, p. 2.
Today's Date: Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
"In all the afflictions of humanity He (Jesus) was afflicted." E.G. White, Ms. 21, 1900, p. 8.
Today's Date: Thursday, Sep. 6, 2001.
"It would have been an almost infinite humiliation for the Son of God to take man's nature, even when Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam He accepted the results of the working of the great law of heredity. What these results were is shown in the history of His earthly ancestors. He came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the example of a sinless life." E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 25.
Today's Date: Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2001.
"Christ did in reality unite the offending nature of man with His own sinless nature." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 7/17/1900, p. 449, col. 3.
Today's Date: Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2001
"Jesus came to the world as a human being that He might become acquainted with human beings...Adam was tempted by the enemy, and he fell. It was not indwelling sin that caused him to yield; for God made him pure and upright, in His own image. He was as faultless as the angels before the throne. There were in him no corrupt principles, no tendencies to evil. But when Christ came to meet the temptations of Satan, He bore the 'likeness of sinful flesh.'" E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 10/17/1900, p. 658, col. 2, 3.
Today's Date: Monday, Sep. 3, 2001
"He clothed His divinity with humanity, that He might bear ALL THE INFIRMITIES and endure ALL THE TEMPTATIONS of humanity." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/27/1900, p. 401, col. 3.
Today's Date: Sunday, Sep. 2, 2001
"When Adam's sin plunged the race into hopeless misery, God might have cut Himself loose from fallen beings....But He did not do this. Instead of banishing them from His presence, He came still nearer to the fallen race. He gave His Son to become bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh....In all the afflictions of humanity He was afflicted." E.G. White, Australaisian Record, 6\01/1900, p. 3, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sabbath, Sep. 1, 2001
"All the human family of God which Christ has taken into close relationship with His own humanity...." E.G. White, Ms. 89, 1900, p. 10.
Todays Date: Friday, August 31, 2001
"All the human family of God which Christ has taken into close relationship with His own humanity...." Ms. 89, 1900, p. 10.
Today's Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001
"The fallen nature of man is like the vine's tendrils grasping the stubble and rubbish. But Christ is represented as coming down from heaven and taking the nature of man, thus making it possible for the human arm of Christ to encircle fallen man...." E.G. White, Ms. 88, 1900, p. 3.
Today's Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
"Christ became one with the human family.... Thus He assured them of His complete identification with humanity." E.G. White, Ms. 53, 1900, p. 1.
Today's Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2001
"He placed Himself on a level with human beings." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/17/03, p. 370, col. 2.
Today's Date: Monday, August 27, 2001
"The Saviour came to the world in lowliness and lived as a man among men. On all points except sin, divinity was to touch humanity." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 1/07/04, p. 8, col. 2.
Today's Date: Sunday, August 26, 2001
"He clothed His divinity with humanity. He designed that the fallen humanity might touch His humanity." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 7/16/08, p. 8, col. 1.
Today's Date: Sabbath, August 25, 2001
"He laid aside His kingly crown and royal robe, and stepped from His high command to take His place at the head of a fallen race. Clothing His divinity with humanity, He came to a world all seared and marred with the curse, to become one with humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 11/06/01, p. 706, col. 2.
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Todays Date: Friday, August 24, 2001
"He was to take His position at the head of humanity by taking the nature but not the sinfulness of man." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/29/01, p. 339, col. 2. (Note that Ellen White does not equate sinful nature with sinfulness.)
Todays Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001
"God created Adam pure and noble, but through the indulgence of appetite He fell. Yet notwithstanding the great gulf thus opened between God and man, Christ loved the hopeless sinner. He left His royal throne, clothed His divinity with humanity, and came to our world to bridge the gulf which sin had made, and to unite divine power with human weakness...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/30/01, p. 66, col. 2.
Todays Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001
"Laying aside His royal crown, He condescended to step down, step by step, to the level of fallen humanity." E.G. White, General Conference Bulletin, 4/25/01, p. 422, col. 3.
Todays Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2001
"To keep His glory veiled as the child of a fallen race, this was the most severe discipline, to which the prince of life could subject Himself." E.G. White, Letter 19, 1901.
Todays Date: Monday, August 20, 2001
"The nature of God, whose law had been transgressed, and the nature of Adam, the transgressor, meet in Jesus, the Son of God, and the Son of man." E.G. White, Ms. 141, 1901.
Todays Date: Sunday, August 19, 2001
"He was made in the likeness of men;" 'found in fashion as a man.' He (Christ was in all things like unto us."
Todays Date: Sabbath--Saturday, August 18, 2001
"He (Christ) assumed human nature, and its infirmities, its liabilities, its temptations." E.G. White, Ms. 41, 1901, p. 2.
Todays Date: Friday, August 17, 2001
"We are compassed with the infirmities of humaity. So also was Christ. That He might by His ow example condemn sin in the flesh, He took upon Himself the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Ms. 125, 1901, p. 14.
Todays Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001
"As a representative of the fallen race, Christ passed over the ground on which Adam stumbled and fell." E.G. White, Ms. 126, 1901, p. 17, AFTER THE BAKER LETTER.
Todays Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2001
"A divine-human Saviour, He came to stand at the head of the fallen race...." E.G. White, Ms. 54, 1905, p. 4.
Todays Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2001
"Taking humanity upon Him, Christ came to be one with humanity... He was in all things made like unto His brethren. He became flesh even as we are." E.G. White, Ministry of Healing, 1905, p. 422. (Exactly the same in 8T 286).
Todays Date: Monday, August 13, 2001
"The Saviour took upon Himself the infirmities of humanity and lived a sinless life, that men might have no fear that because of the weakness of human nature they could not overcome." E.G. White, Ministry of Healing, p. 180, 1905, AFTER THE BAKER LETTER.
Todays Date: Sunday, August 12, 2001
"Christ brought to men and women power to overcome. He came to this world in human form, to live a man among men. He assumed the liabilities of human nature, to be proved and tried." E.G. White, Ms. 22, 1905, p. 2.
Todays Date: Saturday, August 11, 2001
"He took His stand at the head of the FALLEN race...."E.G. White, Ms. 58, 1905, p. 3.
If Christ took His stand at the head of the UNFALLEN race, in other words, if He took the nature of Adam before the fall, He could not have stood at the head of the FALLEN RACE.
Todays Date: Friday, August 10, 2001
"The Saviour came to the world in lowliness and lived as a man among men. On all points except sin, divinity was to touch humanity." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 1/07/04, p. 8.
Todays Date: Thursday, August 9, 2001
"He...came to our world to stand by the side of fallen beings...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/03/03.
Todays Date: August 8, 2001
"He clothed His divinity with humanity that He might stand among men as one of them...He came to bear the trials that we must bear." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/29/03, p. 258, col. 1, 2.
Todays Date: August 7, 2001
"It was necessary for Christ to clothe His divinity with humanity. Only thus could He become the Redeemer of the fallen race." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/14/03, p. 20, col. 1.
Todays Date: August 6, 2001
"...Christ is acquainted with our necessities and weakness." E.G. White, Australasian Record, 12/15/02, p. 1, col. 1.
Todays Date: August 5, 2001
"With His long human arm Christ encircles the fallen race, while with His divine arm He grasps the throne of the Infinite." E.G. White, Ms. 155, 1902, p. 16.
Todays Date: August 4, 2001
"....(He) clothed His divinity with humanity, that He might stand among the human family as one of them." E.G. White, Ms. 115, 1902, p. 16.
Todays Date: August 3, 2001
"Adam had the advantage of Christ, in that when he was assailed by the tempter, none of the effects of sin were upon him. He stood in the strength of perfect manhood, possessing the full vigor of mind and body. He was surrounded with the glories of Eden, and was in daily communion with heavenly beings. It was not thus with Jesus when He entered the wilderness to cope with Satan. For four thousand years the race had been decreasing in physical strength, in mental power, in moral worth, and Christ took upon Him the infirmities of degenerate humanity. Only thus could He rescue man from the lowest depts of degradation." E.G. White, Ms. 113, p. 2, 1902, AFTER THE BAKER LETTER.
Todays Date: August 2, 2001
"He (Christ) took the nature of man, will all its possibilities. We have nothing to endure that He has not endured." E.G. White, Ms. 113, 1902, p. 1. (After the Baker Letter).
Todays Date: August 1, 2001
"Satan claimed that it was impossible for human beings to keep God's law. In order to prove the falsity of this claim, Christ left His high command, took upon Himself the nature of man, and came to this earth to stand at the head of the fallen race, in order to show that humanity could withstand the temptations of Satan." E.G. White, Ms. 77, p. 3, 1902 (After the Baker Letter).
Todays Date: July 31, 2001
"The Son of God took human nature upon Him, and came to this earth to stand at the head of the fallen race. He dwelt on this earth a man among men." E.G. White, Ms. 11, 1902, p. 6.
Todays Date: July 30, 2001
"He took upon His sinless nature our sinful nature...." E.G. White, Medical Ministry, 1902, p. 181.
Many, even Adventists, do not see how Christ could take our sinful nature and remain sinless. It is because a sinful nature, surrendered to God, may, by the power of God, choose not to sin. Also, contrary to Augustine's Error of Original Sin, we are not born guilty of sin. We were made sinners by the sin of one man, because of the results of his sin, and not because we inherit the guilt of his personal sin. The depravity caused by Adam's sin, gave rise to sin in all men, but we do not share the guilt for his personal sin. We share the guilt in-so-far as we propagate any sin at all by personally choosing to sin when we know what sin is.
Todays Date: July 29, 2001
"Christ came to this world as a man...Our Saviour took the nature of man with all its possibilities.... In the wilderness Christ and Satan met in combat, Christ in the weakness of humanity.... Christ took upon Him the infirmities of degenerate humanity. Only thus could He rescue man from the lowest depths of degradation." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/03/02, p. 770, col. 3.
Todays Date: July 28, 2001
"That He might accomplish His purpose of love for the fallen race, He became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh....Christ might, because of our guilt, have moved far away from us. But instead of moving farther away, He came and dwelt among us, filled with all the fulness of the Godhead, to be one with us, that through His grace we might attain unto perfection... He revealed to the world the amazing spectacle of God living in human flesh...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 9/24/02, p. 610, col. 2, 3.
Todays Date: July 27, 2001
"That He might by His own example condemn sin in he flesh, He took upon Himself the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 9/03/02, p. 562, col. 3.
Todays Date: July 26, 2001
"Clad in the vestments of humanity, the Son of God came down to the level of those He wished to save. In Him was no guile or sinfulness, He was ever pure and undefiled, yet He took upon Him our sinful nature. Clothing His divinity with humanity, that He might associate with fallen humanity, He sought to regain for man that which by disobedience Adam had lost...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, August 22, 1907.
(Notice Ellen White's distinction between sinfulness and sinful nature.)
Todays Date: July 25, 2001
"He is a brother in our infirmities...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/18/02, p. 386, col. 1.
Todays Date: July 24, 2001
"He knows by experience what are the weaknesses of humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/16/02, p. 242, col. 3.
Todays Date: July 23, 2001
"He lived in the world the life that (men) must live." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/08/02, p. 18, col. 3. (After the Baker Letter).
Todays Date: July 22, 2001
"Our Saviour identified Himself with our needs and weaknesses." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/08/04, p. 12, col. 1. (After the Baker Letter).
Todays Date: July 21, 2001
"It would have been an almost infinite humiliation for the Son of God to take man's nature, even as it was when Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus accepted humanity as weakened and defiled by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam, He accepted the results of the working of the great law of heredity. What these results were is shown in the history of His earthly ancestors. He came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the example of a sinless life....
...into the world where Satan claimed dominion God permitted His Son to come, a helpless babe, subject to the weakness of humanity." E.G. White, Australasian Record, 12/15/03.
Todays Date: July 20, 2001
His divinity was veiled with humanity....So Christ was to come in 'the body of our humiliation,' 'in the likeness of men.'" E.G. White, Ms. 151, 1903, p. 3.
Todays Date: July 19, 2001
"Taking humanity upon Him, Christ came to be one with humanity. ...He was in all things made like unto His brethren. He became flesh, even as we are... In His strength men and women can live the life of purity and nobility that He lived." E.G. White, Ms. 99, 1903, p. 4.
Todays Date: July 18, 2001
"...(He) clothed His divinity with humanity, that He might take on Himself the weakness of human anture.... He was to suffer being tempted in all points upon which fallen men are tempted...." E.G. White, Ms. 107, p. 5, 1903.
July 17, 2001
"The Saviour came to the world in lowliness, and lived as a man among men. On all points except sin Divinity was to touch humanity." E.G. White, Ms. 9, 1903, p. 9.
"Christ, the second Adam, came in the likeness of sinful flesh." E.G. White, Ms. 99, 1903, p. 4.
Todays Date: July 15, 2001
"As Christ lived the law in humanity, so we may do if we will take hold of the Strong for strength. But we are not to place the responsibility of our duty upon others, and wait for them to tell us what to do. We cannot depend for counsel upon humanity. The Lord will teach us our duty just as willingly as He will teach somebody else. If we come to Him in faith, He will speak His mysteries to us personally. Our hearts will often burn within us as One draws nigh to commune with us as He did with Enoch. Those who decide to do nothing in any line that will displease God, will know, after presenting their case before Him, just what course to pursue. And they will receive not only wisdom, but strength. Power for obedience, for service, will be imparted to them, as Christ has promised. Whatever was given to Christ--the "all things" to supply the need of fallen men--was given to Him as the head
and representative of humanity. And "whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him,because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight." 1 John 3:22. The Desire of Ages, page 668, paragraph 4 Chapter Title: "Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled"
We are to obey and comply with the law. "Whatever was given to Christ--the 'all things' to supply the need of fallen men--was given to Him as the head and representative of humantity." ibid.
If we don't first understand that our obedience is predicated upon what He has already done as our head, that our ability to obey is based on His obedience, then we will look to our own flesh for power to do so. Obedience that comes as a love response to what He did for us and in knowledge of the facts of our position in Him is works of faith. Obedience that comes with thinking that we must do all we can and
that He will then make up the defecit, is works of the law--legalism.
Todays Date: July 14, 2001
"Christ became one with the human family--bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh...He pledged Himself to endure all the temptations that man must endure that He might know how to succor those who are tempted." E.G. White, Ms. 102, 1903, p. 7.
Todays Date: July 13, 2001
"The Saviour came to the world in lowliness, and lived as a man among men. On all points except sin Divinity was to touch humanity." E.G. White, Ms. 51, 1903, p. 4.
Todays Date: July 12, 2001
"The Son of God took human nature upon Him, and came to this earth to stand at the head of the fallen race. He lived here as a man among men." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/09/03, p. 70, col. 3.
Many try to point to the differences between Christ and humans, such as His being sired by the Holy Spirit. Truth is, that from the age of accountability on, one may choose to partake of the Divine Nature of Jesus Christ, at which point we have no excuse to be left bereft of any power with which Jesus availed Himself while in human form.
Todays Date: July 11, 2001
"He placed Himself on a level with human beings...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/17/03, p. 370, col. 2.
Today's Date: July 10, 2001
"The Saviour took upon Himself the infirmities of humanity and lived a sinless life, that men might have no fear that because of the weakness of human nature they could not overcome." E.G. White, Ministry of Healing, 1905, p. 180.
Todays Date: July 9, 2001
"In order to embrace every human being in the plan of salvation...He (Christ) came in the likeness of mankind." E.G. White, Ms. 110, p. 10, 1904.
Todays Date: July 8, 2001
"When this man came to Jesus, he was 'full of leprosy.' Its deadly poison permeated his whole body. The disciples sought to prevent their Master from touching him; for he who touched a leper became himself unclean. But in laying His hand upon the leper, Jesus received no defilement. The leprosy was cleansed. Thus it is with the leprosy of sin,--deep-rooted, deadly, impossible to be cleansed by human power. 'The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it: but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores.' But Jesus, coming to dwell in humanity, receives no pollution." E.G. White, Ministry of Healing, 1905, p. 70.
Todays Date: July 7, 2001
"...He came to stand at the head of the fallen race, to share in their experience from childhood to manhood." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 06/16/05, p. 8, col. 3.
Todays Date: July 6, 2001
"He took His stand at the head of the fallen race...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 6/01/05, p. 13, col. 2, 1905.
Todays Date: July 5, 2001
"...He came to stand at the head of the fallen race, to share in their experience from childhood to manhood." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 6/16/05, p. 8, col. 3, 1905.
Todays Date: July 4, 2001
"He took His stand at the head of the fallen race...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 6/01/05, p. 13, col. 2., 1905.
Todays Date: July 3, 2001
"He knows the weaknesses and the infirmities of the flesh." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 6/01/05, 1905.
Todays Date: July 2, 2001
"Equal with the Father, yet His divinity clothed with humanity, standing at the head of the fallen race...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/26/05, p. 264, col. 1, 1905.
Todays Date: July 1, 2001
"He came to be acquainted with all the temptations wherewith man is beset." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 3/09/05, 1905.
Todays Date: June 30, 2001
"...to meet the necessities of human nature He took humanity upon Himself... He...mysteriously allied Himself with fallen human beings." E.G. White, Councils to Parents and Teachers, p. 259, 1913.
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Todays Date: June 29, 2001
"He came in human form that He might come close to the fallen race." E.G. White, Ms. 33, p. 19, 1911.
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Todays Date: June 28, 2001
"...it is time that all Christians should wear His yoke, and work in His line, identifying themselves with human sympathy in the way in which He identified Himself with the fallen race." E.G. White, Australasian Record, 6/23/13, p. 2, col. 1.
Todays Date: June 27, 2001
"In order to save the fallen race, Christ, the Majesty of heaven, the King of Glory, laid aside His royal robe and kingly crown, clothed His divinity with humanity, and came to this earth as our Redeemer. Here He lived as a man among men, meeting the temptations that we must meet, and overcoming through strength from above. By His sinless life He demonstrated that through the power of God it is possible for man to withstand Satan's temptations." E.G. White, Ms. 49, p. 3, 1907, AFTER THE BAKER LETTER.
Todays Date: June 26, 2001
"He (Christ) took humanity upon Himself...He identified Himself with man's weakness...." E.G. White, Ms. 49, 1907.
Todays Date: June 25, 2001
"Clad in the vestments of humanity, the Son of God came down to the level of those He wished to save. In Him was no guile nor sinfulness. He was ever pure and undefiled; yet He took upon Him our sinful nature. Clothing His divinity with humanity, that He might assoicate with fallen humanity, He sought to redeem for man that which by disobedience Adam had lost...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 8/22/07, p. 8, col. 1.
Todays Date: June 24, 2001
"He emptied Himself of His glory, and clothed His Divinity with humanity, that humanity might touch humanity, and reveal to fallen man the perfect love of God." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 6/06/07.
Todays Date: June 23, 2001
"He is our Elder Brother, compassed with human infirmities, and in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." E.G. White, Ms. 9, 1906, p. 2.
Todays Date: June 22, 2001
"Made 'in the likeness of sinful flesh,' He lived a sinless life." E.G. White, The Watchman, 11/13/06, p. 9, col. 1, 1906.
Todays Date: June 21, 2001
"He identified Himself with our weakness...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times 7/15/08, 1908, p. 451, col. 2.
Todays Date: June 20, 2001
"He laid aside His royal crown, laid aside His royal robe, and came to this world, born of humble parentage.... He united in Himself Divinity and Humanity, that He might be the connecting link betweeen fallen man and the Father." E.G. White, Ms. 103, 1909, p. 2.
Todays Date: June 19, 2001
"He gave His only begotten Son to come to the earth as a little child and to live a life like that of every human being...." E.G. White, Ms. 49, 1909, p. 4.
Todays Date: June 18, 2001
"Christ in the weakness of humanity was to meet the temptations of one possessing the powers of the higher nature that God had bestowed on the angelic family." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 1/28/09, p. 7, col. 3.
So Christ not only met the temptations of humanity, but the temptations of the angelic nature also. Thus He proved that the third of the angelic host that mutinied with Satan, need not have fallen, which was also proved by the two-thirds that did not fall. Man and one-third of the angels chose to sin.
Todays Date: June 17, 2001
"He knows by experience what are the weaknesses of humanity...." E.G. White, The Watchman, September 1910, p. 541, col. 2.
Todays Date: June 16, 2001
"In behalf of the beings He had created, who had through sin become a fallen race, He stepped from the throne which He occupied as Prince of heaven, and clothed Himself with the garments of humanity." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 4/04/1900, p. 210, col. 3.
Todays Date: June 15, 2001
"...clothing His divinity with humanity...He came to live among fallen humanity." E.G. White, Signg of the Times, 6/13/1900, p. 371, col. 2.
Todays Date: June 14, 2001
"He endured every test that man will ever be called upon to endure. He met all the temptations which man will meet in his life experience." E.G. White, Ms. 196, 1899, p. 2.
Todays Date: June 13, 2001
"Christ's identity with men will ever be the power of His influence. He became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh.... He might have cut Himself loose from fallen beings. He might have treated them as sinners deserve to be treated. But instead, He came still nearer to them." E.G. White, Ms. 185, 1899, p. 2.
Todays Date: June 12, 2001
"He did not even take the form of an angel. 'Verily,' the apostle says, 'He took not on him the nature of angels, but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.'
Divinity took humanity, that humanity might touch humanity. He showed that humanity can keep the law." E.G. White, Youth's Instructor, 2/22/1900, p. 62, col. 2, AFTER THE BAKER LETTER.
Todays Date: June 11, 2001
"The Lord of life and glory humbled Himself to partake of human nature, that in and through Him the fallen sons and daughters of Adam may become united with God." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/30/1900, p. 341, col. 1.
Todays Date: June 10, 2001
"The Lord of life and glory humbled Himself to partake of human nature, that in and through Him, the fallen sons and daughters of Adam may become united with God." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/30/1900, p. 341, col. 1.
Todays Date: June 9, 2001
"Christ, who connects earth with heaven, is (Peter's) ladder. The base is planted firmly on the earth in His humanity; the topmost round reaches the throne of God in His divinity. The humanity of Christ embraces fallen humanity...." E.G. White, Testimonies, vol. 6, 1900, p. 147.
Todays Date: June 8, 2001
"Christ stooped to take man's nature, that He might reveal the sentiments of God toward the fallen race. Divine power was brought within the reach of all, that sinful human beings might reveal the image of God." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/16/1900, p. 305. col. 1. (After the Baker Letter).
Todays Date: June 7, 2001
"He, the majesty of heaven, disrobed Himself of His glory, and clothed His divinity with humanity, that He might pass through what humanity must pass through." E.G. White, Ms. 147, 1899, p. 5.
Todays Date: June 6, 2001
"He who was sinless, the perfection of heaven, came to our world in human likeness to reach humanity. When He came He ranked Himself among the poor and suffering ones, that He might become acquainted with fallen humanity...." E.G. White, Ms. 85, 1899, p. 4.
Todays Date: June 5, 2001
"Christ declared... no single principle of human nature will I violate." E.G. White, Ms. 65, 1899.
Todays Date: June 4, 2001
"... His only begotten Son, one equal with Himself, should stoop to human nature and reach man where He was." E.G. White, Ms. 23, 1899, p. 5.
Todays Date: June 3, 2001
"The commander of all heaven, He humbled Himself to stand at the head of fallen humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 12/20/99, p. 818, col. 1.
Todays Date: June 2, 2001
"...He took our nature, and in it lived a life of perfect obedience." E.G. White, Signs of the Times." 1/25/99.
Todays Date: June 1, 2001
"He took our nature, and in it lived a life of perfect obedience." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/25/99, p. 66, col. 3.
Todays Date: May 31, 2001
"Christ clothed His divinity with humanity that He might associate with the fallen race.... God has chosen that His only begotten Son shall come in the form of humanity to stand at the head of the fallen race...." E.G. White, Ms. 193, 1898, p. 1.
Today's Date: May 30, 2001
"Christ took upon Him the form of sinful man, clothing His divinity with humanity. But He was holy, even as God is holy. He was the sinbearer needing no atonement. Had He not been without spot or stain, He could not have been the Saviour of mankind. One with God in purity and holiness, He was able to make a propitiation for the sins of the world." E.G. White, Youth's Instructor, 9/21/99.
Today's Date: May 29, 2001
"He did in reality possess human nature...He was the Son of Mary, He was the seed of David, according to human descent.... to bring the fallen race into oneness with divinity, is the work of redemption." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/05/06.
Today's Date: May 28, 2001
"He is our Elder Brother, compassed with human infirmities, and in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." E.G. White, Ms. 9, 1906, p. 2.
Today's Date: May 27, 2001
"How often we have read over the description of Christ's baptism with no thought that there was any particular significance in it for us. But it means everything to us. It means that there can be no excuse for our living in alienation from God. You may claim much leniency because of your human nature, of your temptations and trials, and seek to excuse yourself for sin because of inherited tendencies, but Christ gave himself in behalf of humanity, and there is no reason for failure. Christ bore temptations such as you will never be called upon to bear. He suffered as you will never suffer. He knew all your griefs, he has carried your sorrows. He has made it possible for you to be an overcomer. Do not say it is impossible for you to overcome. Do not say, 'It is my nature to do thus and so, and I cannot do otherwise. I have inherited weaknesses that make me powerless before temptation.' We know you cannot overcome in your own strength; but help has been laid upon One who is mighty to save. When God gave his only begotten Son, he provided everything essential to your salvation. And 'he that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?' The resources of Heaven are open to us. We should believe this precious truth. And when the enemy comes in like a flood to discourage and to dishearten, the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him. When sorrows press you, cling closer to the Mighty One. Instead of faltering and losing faith, praise God that Jesus has died for you." E.G. White, The Signs of the Times, 06-17-89."
Today's Date: May 26, 2001
"Christ... humbled Himself as a man... He passed over the ground that every man must tread who takes His name...." E.G. White, Ms. 23, 1908.
Today's Date: May 25, 2001
"The Son of God laid off His Kingly crown and royal robe, and clothing His divinity with humanity, came to the earth to meet the Prince of evil, and to conquer him. In order to become the advocate of men before the Father, He would live His life on earth as every human being must... He would become one with the race....
Christ in the weakness of humanity was to meet the temptations of Satan." E.G. White, Ms. 117, 1908, pp. 3, 4.
Today's Date: May 24, 2001
"That He might accomplish His purpose of love, He became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh." (Several verses from Hebrews 2 quoted.)) E.G. White, The Watchman, 10/22/07, p. 676, col. 1.
Today's Date: May 23, 2001
"He who was commander in the heavenly courts...came as a little child to our world to experience all the ills that humanity is heir to." E.G. White, Ms. 99, 1908, p. 7.
Today's Date: May 22, 2001
"He left Heaven, and took His pace in the ranks of fallen beings." E.G. White, The Watchman 9/24/07.
Today's Date: May 21, 2001
"He humbled Himself, taking the nature of the fallen race... He knows by experience what are the weaknesses of humanity...and where lies the strength of our temptations." E.G. White, The Watchman, 9/03/07.
"Christ bore the sins and infirmities of the race as they existed when He came to the earth to help man...with the weaknesses of fallen man upon him.... Since the fall the race had been decreasing in size and physical strength, and sinking lower in the scale of moral worth...in order to elevate fallen man, Christ must reach him where he was. He took human nature, and bore the infirmities and degeneracy of the race."
Today's Date: May 19, 2001
"The humanity of Christ reached to the very depths of human wretchedness, and identified itself with the weaknesses and necessities of fallen man...." E.G. White, Selected Messages, 1958, vol. 1, pp. 267-268 (This entire chapter should be studied.)
Today's Date: May 18, 2001
"The humanity of Christ reached to the very depths of human wretchedness, and identified itself with the weaknesses and necessities of fallan man...." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, pp. 272-273.
"Through Satan's temptations the whole human race have become transgressors of God's law, but by the sacrifice of His Son a way is opened whereby they may return to God. Through the grace of Christ they may be enabled to render obedience to the Father's law. Thus in every age, from the midst of apostasy and rebellion, God gathers out a people that are true to Him--a people 'in whose heart is His law.' Isaiah 51:7." E.G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 338.
Today's Date: May 16, 2001
"We are caused to reflect upon her (EGW) frequent use of the word all in describing the human nature that Christ assumed:
All our infirmities--RH, 10/01/89.
All our difficulties--RH 4/28/91.
All our experiences--ST 11/24/87.
All its possibilities--ST 12/03/02.
All the temptations-- RH 3/09/05.
All points except sin--RH 1/07/04.
All its attendant ills-- ST 1/04/77.
All that pertains to hiuman life-- RH 12/24/89.
In all thing like His brethren--RH 5/01/92.
In all points like unto His brethren--ST 5/16/95.
And one of the most thought-provoking statements:
Just that which you may be, He was in human nature.--Letter 106, 1896." Dr. Ralph Larson, The Word Was Made Flesh, 271.
Today's Date: May 15, 2001
"God created Adam pure and noble, but through the indulgence of appetite He fell. Yet notwithstanding the great gulf thus opened between God and man, Christ loved the hopeless sinner. He left His royal throne, clothed His divinity with humanity, and came to our world to bridge the gulf which sin had made, and to unite divine power with human weakness." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/30/1901.
Today's Dae: May 14, 2001
"Raymond Bullas, AST, 10/06/47, (Quoting Ellen White) 'It would have been almost an infinite humiliation for the Son of God to take man's nature, even when Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam, He accepted the RESULTS of the working of the great law of heredity.'
"... Our first parents bequeathed to their decendants a legacy of temptation of sin. We pass through the same ordeal, and the Son of man ws not excepted...."
Today's Date: May 13, 2001
"That He might accomplish His purpose of love for the fallen race, He became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh....Christ might, because of our guilt, have moved far away from us. But instead of moving farther away, He came and dwelt among us, filled with all the fulness of the Godhead, to be one with us, that through His grace we might attain unto perfection.... He revealed to the world the amazing spectacle of God living in human flesh...." E.G. White, Signs of The Simes, 9/24/02.
Today's Date: May 12, 2001
The following E.G. White statement says that Christ took ALL OUR INFIRMITIES. Are our evil propensities part of our infirmity? And what sin of ours did Jesus NOT take upon Himself and overcome in sinful flesh?
"All that God and Christ could do has been done to save sinners. Transgression placed the whole world in jeopardy, under the death sentence. But in heaven there was heard a voice saying, I have found a ransom. Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, was MADE SIN FOR FALLEN MAN. 'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' Christ gave Himself as a ransom. He laid off His royal robe. He laid aside His kingly crown, and stepped down from His high command over all heaven, clothing His divinity with humanity that He might carry ALL THE INFIRMITIES AND BEAR ALL THE TEMPTATIONS OF HUMANITY." E.G. White, Letter 22, 1900. E.G. White Comments, Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7a, 469.
Advocates of liberal SDA New Movement theology seize upon the above statement from the Baker letter (Letter from EGW to Pastor Baker) and try to infer from this statement that Christ did not take our sinful propensities upon Himself and overcome them. In other words, they teach that Christ may have taken some of our sins and overcome them in the flesh, but not our evil propensities. What Christ did not partake of He did not overcome and was not tempted by! If Christ partook of sinful flesh, He was not exempted from its evil propensities else why did He take sinful flesh at all? What Ellen White meant was that Christ did not contribute to those evil propensities by personally sinning. This is the only way to interpret her statement without making it contradict scores of other statements by her on the Human Nature of Christ.
Today's Date: May 11, 2001
"Christ stooped to take upon Himself human nature, that He might reach the fallen race and lift them up." E.G. White, Australasian Signs of the Times, 11/14/27.
Today's Date: May 10, 2001
"He knows by experience what are the weaknesses of humanity...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 10/0797.
Today's Date: May 9, 2001
"In the gift of His son as a substitute and surety for fallen man, is an everlasting testimony to the world, to the heavenly universe, and to worlds unfallen. The wisdom of the divine purpose has shrouded in mystery the history of the earthly period of the life of Christ. Words can't express the greatness of the love of God for man, but Christ has revealed it in His life in humanity. Only by Himself assuming human nature and reaching down ,to the very depths of human misery could He lift the race from its darkness and despair." E.G. White, Youth's Instructor, 8/05/97., p. 242, col. 2.
Today's Date: May 8, 2001
"It would have been almost an infinite humiliation for the Son of God to take man's nature, even when Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam, He accepted the RESULTS of the working of the great law of heredity....
Our first parents bequeathed to their descendants a legacy of temptation of sin. We pass through the same ordeal, and the Son of man was not excepted...." E.G. White Quoted, Australasian Signs of the Times, 10/06/47.
Today's Date: May 8, 2001
"...by passing over the ground which man must travel...Christ prepared the way for us to gain the victory." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/27/97.
Today's Date: May 7, 2001
"The great work of redemption could be carried out only by the
Redeemer taking the place of fallen Adam...He would take man's fallen nature." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 2/24/74.
Today's Date: May 6, 2001
"In taking upon Himself man's nature in its fallen condition, Christ did not in the least participate in its sin." E.G. White Comments, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1131.
Today's Date: May 5, 2001
"And in order to elevate fallen man, Christ must reach him where he was. He took human nature, and bore the infirmities and degeneracy of the race." E.G. White, Review and Herald, July 28, 1874.
Today's Date: May 4, 2001
"...the flesh of itself cannot act contrary to the will of God." E.G. White, Adventist Home, p. 127.
This is how Jesus could inherit sinful flesh and not sin. Jesus had a human mind that did not yield to sin.
Today's Date: May 3, 2001
"He was made like unto His brethren, with the same susceptibilities, mental and physical." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 2/10/85.
(Roget's Thesaurus lists susceptibilities and propensities as synonyms.)
Today's Date: May 2, 2001
"Though He had all the strength of passion of humanity, never did He yield to do one singel act which was not pure and elevating and enobling." E.G. White, In Heavenly Places, p. 155.
Today's Date: May 1, 2001
"He who was one with the Father stepped down from the glorious throne in heaven, and clothed His divinity with humanity, thus bringing Himself to the level of man's feeble faculties.... The highest gift that heaven could bestow was given to ransom fallen humanity." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/11/88, p. 1, col. 1.
Today's Date: April 30, 2001
"We cannot conceive of the humiliation He endured in taking our nature upon Himself, Not that in itself it was a disgrace to belong to the human race...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 2/18/90, p. 97, col. 1.
Today's Date: April 29, 2001
"With His human arm He reached to the very depths of human woe, in order that He might lift up fallen man.... In assuming humanity, He exalted the fallen race before God...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 7/28/90, p. 429, col. 1.
Today's Date: April 28, 2001
"Jesus left the glory of heaven, laid aside His royal robes, and clothed His divinity with humanity, that He might uplift fallen man....Jesus freely devoted all His power and majesty to the cause of fallen humanity... perfection of character is offered to fallen man...." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/18/91, p. 157, col. 1.
Today's Date: April 27, 2001
The following statement appeared in Bible Readings for the Home, for 35 years--1914-1949, when it was expunged:
"In His humanity Christ partook of our sinful, fallen nature. If not, then He was not 'made like unto His brthren,' was not' in all points tempted like as we are,' did not overcome as we have to overcome, and is not, therefore, the complete and perfect Saviour man needs and must have to be saved. The idea that Christ was born of an immaculate or sinless mother, inherited no tendencies to sin, and for this reason did not sin, removes Him from the realm of a fallen world, and from the very place where help is needed. On His human side, Christ inherited just what every child of Adam inherited--a sinful nature. On the divine side, from His very conception He was begotten and born of the Spirit. And all this was done to place mankind on vantage-ground, and to demonstrate that in the same way everyone who is 'born of the Spirit' may gain like victories over sin in his own sinful flesh. Thus each one is to overcome as Christ overcame. Rev. 3:21. Without this berth there can be no victory over temptation, and no salvation from sin. John 3:3-7. Bible Readings for the Home, Copyright Review and Herald Publishihng Association, all editions 1914-1949, Pacific Press Publishing Association, page 173.
Today's Date: April 26, 2001
"The Lord Jesus Christ left His riches and His splendor in the heavenly courts and took humanity upon Himself that He might cooperate with humanity in the work of uplifting them." E.G. White, Manuscript 177, 1898, p. 4.
Today's Date: April 25, 2001
"He pitied poor sinners so much that He left the courts of heaven and laid aside His robes of royalty, humiliating Himself to humanity, that He might become acquanted with the needs of men, and help them to rise above the degradation of the fall." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 5/17/99, p. 322, col. 3.
Today's Date: April 24, 2001
"The Lord Jesus Christ left His riches and His splendor in the heavenly courts and took humanity upon Himself that He might cooperate with humanity in the work of uplifting them." E.G. White, Manuscript 177, 1898, p. 4.
Today's Date: April 23, 2001
"To save fallen humanity, the Son of God took humanity upon Him...He consented to an actual union with man...Christ did in reality unite the offending nature of man with His own sinless nature, because by this act of condescension, He would be enabled to pour out His blood in behalf of the fallen race." E.G. White, Manuscript 166, 18988.
Today's Date: April 22, 2001
"It is true that Christ at one time said of himself, 'The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.' John 14:30. Satan finds in human hearts some point where he can gain a foothold; some sinful desire is cherished, by means of which his temptations assert their power. But he could find nothing in the Son of God that would enable him to gain the victory. Jesus did not consent to sin. Not even by a thought could he be brought to the power of Satan's temptations. Yet it is written of Christ that he was tempted in all points like as we are. Many hold that from the nature of Christ it was impossible for Satan's temptations to weaken or overthrow him. Then Christ could not have been placed in Adam's position, to go over the ground where Adam stumbled and fell; he could not have gained the victory that Adam failed to gain. Unless he was placed in a position as trying as that in which Adam stood, he could not redeem Adam's failure. If man has in any sense a more trying conflict to endure than had Christ, then Christ is not able to succor him when tempted. Christ took humanity with all its liabilities. He took the nature of man with the possibility of yielding to temptation, and he relied upon divine power to keep him." E.G. White, The General Conference Bulletin, 02-25-95..
Today's Date: April 21, 2001
"The holy Son of God has no sins or griefs of His own to bear: He was bearing the griefs of others; on Him was laid the iniquity of us all. Through divine sympathy He connects Himself with man, and as the representative of the race He submits to be treated as a transgressor. He looks into the abyss of woe opened for us by our sins, and proposes to bridge the gulf of man's separation from God." E.G. White Comments, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7a, p. 462.
"He took upon Himself fallen suffering human nature, degraded and defiled by sin." E.G. White, Youth's Instructor, 12/20/1900.
Today's Date: April 20, 2001
"The central theme of the Bible, the theme about which every other in the whole book clusters, is the redemption plan, the restoration in human soul of the image of God. From the first intimation of hope in the sentence pronounced in Eden to that last glorious promise of the Revelation, 'They shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads' Revelation 2:4), the burden of every book and every passage of the Bible is the unfolding of this wondrous theme,--man's uplifting,--the power of God, 'which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57. E.G. White, Educaition, p. 125.
Today's Date: April 19, 2001
"Christ's life represents a perfect manhood. Just that which you may be. He was in human nature. He took our infirmities. He was not only made flesh, but He was made in the likenes of sinful flesh. His divine attributes were withheld from relieving His soul anguish or His bodily pains." E.G. White Comments, SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1124.
Today's Date: April 18, 2001
Ellen White says that Jesus ACCEPTED the RESULTS of heredity:
"It would have been an almost infinite humiliation for the Son of God to take man's nature, even when Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus accepted the RESULTS of the working of THE GREAT LAW OF HEREDITY. What these RESULTS were is shown in the history of His [Christ's] earthly ancestors. He came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the example of a sinless life." E.G. White, Desire of Ages, p. 49.
She says He [Christ] CAME WITH SUCH A HEREDITY as all His [Christ's] ancestors. If the doctrine of Original Sin was correct, and that HEREDITY included ORIGINAL SIN, IMPUTED SIN, then Christ would have inherited sin. But He clearly did not, because sin is not transmitted by the flesh of ancestors. Only the RESULTS of sin are transmitted by the flesh of ancestors.
Today's Date: April 17, 2001
"Christ assumed our fallen nature, and was subject to every temptation to which man is subject." E. G. White, Ms. 80, 1903.
If Christ assumed our fallen nature, He assumed our sinful flesh, because that is what our fallen nature has.
Today's Date: April 16, 2001
"In the person of His only begotten Son, the God of heaven has condescended to stoop to our human nature." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 3/17/04.
Today's Date: April 16, 2001
"... He humbled Himself, taking the nature of the fallen race." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 1/13/04
Today's Date: April 15, 2001
"His work was to unite the finite with the infinite. This was the only way in which fallen men could be exalted.... It was in the order of God that Christ should take upon Himself the form and nature of fallen man...." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 12/31/72, p. 119, col. 3.
Today's Date: April 14, 2001
",,,,[He] took our nature that He might understand how to sympathize with our frailty..." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 4/19/70, p. 139, col. 1.
Today's Date: April 13, 2001
"It was in the order of God that Christ should take upon Himself the form and nature of fallen man...(Note that Ellen White does not equate form with nature.) E.G. White, Spiritual Gifts, Vol. IV, p. 115, and The Word Was Made Flesh, Ralph Larson, p. 35.
Today's Date: April 12, 2001
"It was the expression of justice against sin that crushed out the life of the Son of God. It was the weight of sin that in the Garden of Gethsemane caused Him to sweat as it were great drops of blood, and that led Him upon the cross to cry, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' The sins of the transgressor were placed to Christ's account; but in His justice the love of God was manifested toward every human being." E.G. White, Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, 05-30-98.
"Jesus did not begin His ministry by some great work before the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem. At a household gathering in the little Galilean village, His power was put forth to add to the joy of a wedding feast. Thus He showed His sympathy with men, and His desire to minister to their happiness. In the wilderness of temptation He Himself had drunk the cup of woe. He came forth to give to men the cup of blessing, by His benediction to hallow the relations of human life." E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, 144.
Today's Date: April 11, 2001
"In his humanity Christ partook of our sinful, fallen nature. If not, then He was not 'made like unto His brethren.' was not 'in all points tempted like as we are,' did not overcome as we have to overcome, and is not, therefore, the complete and perfect Saviour man needs and must have to be saved. The idea that Christ was born of an immaculate or sinless mother, inherited no tendencies to sin, and for this reason did not sin, removes Him from the realm of a fallen world, and from the very place where help is needed. On His human side, Christ inherited just what every child of Adam inherits,--a sinful nature. On the divine side, from His very conception he was begotten and born of the Spirit. And all this was done to place mankind on vantage-ground, and to demonstrate that in the same way every one who is 'born of the Spirit' may gain like victories over sin in his own sinful flesh. Thus each one is to overcome as Christ overcame. Rev. 3:21. Without this birth there can be no victory over temptation, and no salvation from sin. John 3:3-7....
God, in Christ, condemned sin, not by pronouncing against it merely as a judge sitting on the judgment-seat, but by coming and living in the flesh, in sinful flesh, and yet without sinning. In Christ, he demonstrated that it is possible, by His grace and power, to resist temptation, overcome sin, and live a sinless life in sinful flesh....
In His humanity Christ was as dependent upon divine power to do the works of God as is any man to do the same thing. He employed no means to live a holy life that are not available to every human being. Through Him, every one may have God dwelling in him and working in him 'to will and to do of His good pleasure.' 1 John 4:15; Phil. 2:13." Bible Readings For the Home Circle, 1916 edition, p. 174.
Today's Date: April 10, 2001
"'God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.'
Satan declared that it was impossible for the sons and daughters of Adam to keep the law of God, and thus charged upon God a lack of wisdom and love. If they could not keep the law, then there was fault with the Lawgiver. Men who are under the control of Satan repeat these accusations against God, in asserting that men cannot keep the law of God. Jesus humbled himself, clothing his divinity with humanity, in order that he might stand as the head and representative of the human family, and by both precept and example condemn sin in the flesh, and give the lie to Satan's charges. He was subjected to the fiercest temptations that human nature can know, yet he sinned not; for sin is the transgression of the law. By faith he laid hold upon divinity, even as humanity may lay hold upon infinite power through him. Altho tempted upon all points even as men are tempted, he sinned not. He did not surrender his allegiance to God, as did Adam....
God was manifested in the flesh to condemn sin in the flesh, by manifesting perfect obedience to all the law of God. Christ did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. He corrupted not human nature, and, tho in the flesh, he transgressed not the law of God in any particular. More than this, he removed every excuse from fallen man that he could urge for a reason for not keeping the law of God. Christ was compassed with the infirmities of humanity, he was beset with the fiercest temptations, tempted on all points like as men, yet he developed a perfectly upright character. No taint of sin was found upon him.
Through the victory of Christ the same advantages that he had are provided for man; for he may be a partaker of a power out of and above himself, even a partaker of the divine nature, by which he may overcome the corruption that is in the world through lust. In human nature Christ developed a perfect character. 'For verily he took not on him the nature of angels' but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.' 'Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; tho he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him....
Christ has assumed the responsibilities of the human race, and the sins of all that believe are charged to him. He has engaged to be liable for them. He obeyed every jot and tittle of the law, to testify [to prove] before unfallen worlds, before holy angels, before the fallen world, that those who believe in him, who accept of him as their sin-offering, who rely upon him as their personal Saviour, will be advantaged by his righteousness, and become partakers of his divine nature..." E.G. White, Signs of the Times, January 16, 1896.
Today's Date: April 9, 2001
"In order to carry out the great work of redemption, the Redeemer must take the place of fallen man...
When Adam was assailed by the tempter, He was without the taint of sin. He stood before God in the strength of perfect manhood, all the organs and faculties of His being fully developed and harmoniously balanced; and He was surrounded with things of beauty, and communed daily with the holy angels. What a contrast to this perfect being did the second Adam present, as He entered the desolate wilderness to cope with Satan. For four thousand years the race had been decreasing in size and physical strength, and deteriorating in moral worth; and in order to elevate fallen man, Christ must reach him where he stood. He assumed human nature, bearing the infirmities and degeneracy of the race. He humiliated Himself to the lowest depths of human woe, that He might sympathize with man and rescue Him from the degradation into which sin had plunged Him.
'...Christ took humanity will all its liabilities. He took the nature of man with the possibility of yielding to temptation, and He relied upon divine power to keep Him..." E.G. White, The General Conference Bulletin, 02-25-95.
Today's Date: April 8, 2001
"When Christ came to this earth, He took man's nature. He 'was made of the seed of David according to the flesh.' Rom. 1:3. Of his own nature David says: 'Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.' Ps. 51:5. John tells us that Christ, the Word, was 'made flesh' (John 1:14), and Paul tells us that He was made 'in the likeness of sinful flesh.' Rom. 8:3.
The nature which Christ assumed, and the liabilities which He took when He came to this earth to rescue from the grasp of Satan what he had obtained at the fall, are thus stated by the apostle:
'For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; But He took on Him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.' Heb. 2:16, 17.
Thus the scriptures declare as plainly as words can do so, that when Christ came to earth. He took man's fallen, sinful nature. He was 'in all things made like unto His brethren.' He 'was in all points tempted like as we are.' Heb. 4:15. In doing this, He put Himself in man's place....
In taking human nature, Christ did not become a sinner. 'He assumed human nature, bearing the infirmities and degeneracy of the race.' 'He took the nature of man, capable of yielding to temptation.' He 'took humanity with all its liabilities.'" E.G. White, Front Page Editorial, Bible Echo, 11/22/93, cols. 2 and 3.
Today's Date: April 7, 2001
"The great work of redemption could be carried out by the Redeemer only as He took the place of fallen man. When Adam was assailed by the tempter, none of the effects of sin were upon him, but he was surrounded by the glories of Eden. But it was not thus with Jesus, for, bearing the infirmities of degenerate humanity, He entered the wilderness to cope with the mighty foe..." E.G. White, Bible Echo, 11/15/92, p. 338, col. 1.
Today's Date: April 6, 2001
"Well-doing is possible only through the grace imparted by God. Your own wisdom is foolishness with God. Your only safety lies in a daily repentance, a daily refusal to deviate from the principles of truth." E.G. White, Pacific Union Recorder, 02-16-1905.
Notice the date--1905! And some teach that Mrs. White's ideas on overcoming changed after 1888! Not in the least!
Todays Date: April 5, 2001
"In his efforts to reach God's ideal for him, the Christian is to despair of nothing. Moral and spiritual perfection, through the grace and power of Christ, is promised to all. Jesus is the source of power, the fountain of life. He brings us to His word, and from the tree of life presents to us leaves for the healing of sin-sick souls. He leads us to the throne of God, and puts into our mouth a prayer through which we are brought into close contact with Himself. In our behalf He sets in operation the all-powerful agencies of heaven. At every step we touch His living power." E.G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 478.
Todays Date: April 4, 2001
"When the intimacy of connection and communion is formed, our sins are laid upon Christ, His righteousness is imputed to us. He was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We have access to God through Him; we are accepted through the Beloved. Whoever by word or deed injures a believer, thereby wounds Jesus. Whoever gives a cup of cold water to a disciple because he is a child of God, will be regarded by Christ as giving to Himself." E.G. White, My Life Today, p. 11.
Today's Date: April 3, 2001
Grace as Power for Obedience: "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power." Eph. 3:7.
"By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name." Romans 1:5.
"God would have us quicken our powers by appropriating his grace and communicating it. Just in accordance with the GRACE IMPARTED will be the GRACE GIVEN US TO USE. We must work while the day lasts. Pure doctrines have been lost; and as the result, error has taken the field where truth alone should be. God's requirements are lost sight of. All that can possibly be done should be done to dispel the moral darkness." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 07-26-98.
We see clearly from the above statement that Grace is imparted and Grace is Given us to use. God would have us QUICKEN OUR POWERS by appropriating His Grace and communicating it. If we can quicken our powers by appropriating His Grace, I believe that this refers to grace as power for obedience, Rom. 1:5. Some cannot see or discern this device; this gift God has proffered, but that does not discount or do despite to the gift.
"But by repentance and faith we are justified before God, and through divine
grace enabled to render obedience to His commandments." E.G. White, The
Sanctified Life, p. 81.
Todays Date: April 2, 2001
"Has God given us a work to do? Has God bidden us to go amid opposing influences and convert men from error to truth? Why have not the men and women who have so frequently gathered to the large assemblies in Battle Creek put into practice the truth which they have heard? If they had imparted the light which they had received, what a transformation of character we would have seen! For every grace imparted God would have given grace. The work that has been done for them has not been prized as it should have been, or they would have gone forth into the darkened places of the earth and shed abroad the light which God has shed upon them. They would have given to the world the message of the righteousness of Christ through faith, and their own light would have become clearer and clearer, for God would have worked with them. Many have gone into the grave in error, simply becaause those who profesed the truth have failed to communicate the precious knowledge they have received. If the light that has shone in superabundance in Battle Creek had been diffused we would have seen many raised up to become laborers together with God. E.G. White Testimonies to Ministers, 255.
Todays Date: April 1, 2001
"Our precious Saviour is ours today. In him our hopes of eternal life are centered. He is the One who presents our petitions to the Father, and communicates to us the blessing for which we asked. He is the medium of prayer through which man speaks to God, and the medium through which God imparts blessing to humanity. He is the Intercessor and the Bestower. Here is the love of God made manifest, 'not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.' God has given assurance upon assurance, heaped gift upon gift, multiplied grace upon grace, and imparted his divine treasures to humanity, in order that we may believe the love that God hath for us. Beholding this love, John exclaims, 'Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." E.G. White, The Signs of the Times, 06-18-96.
Todays Date: March 30, 2001
"Christ could have done nothing during His earthly ministry in saving fallen man if the divine had not been blended with the human. The limited capacity of man cannot define this wonderful mystery--the blending the two natures, the divine and the human. It can never be explained. Man must wonder and be silent. And yet man is priviledged to be a partaker of the divine nature, and in this way he can to some degree enter into the mystery. This wonderful exhibition of God's love was made on the cross of Calvary. Divinity took the nature of humanity, and for what purpose?--That through the righteousness of Christ humanity might partake of the divine nature. This union of Divinity and humanity, which was possible with Christ, is incomprehensible to human minds. The wonderful things to take place in our world--the greatest events of all ages--are incomprehensible to worldly minds; they cannot be explained by human sciences. The powers of heaven shall be shaken. Christ is coming in power and great glory, but His coming is not such a mystery as the things to take place before that event. Man must be a partaker of the divine nature in order to stand in this evil time, when the mysteries of satanic agencies are at work. Only by the divine power united with the human can souls endure through these times of trial. Says Christ, 'Without me ye can do nothing.' Then there must be far less of self and more of Jesus." The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, p. 332.
Todays Date: March 29, 2001
"The Mind of Christ.--The Divinity of Christ is our assurance of eternal life. 'For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.' He, the sin-bearer of the world, is our only medium of reconciliation with a holy God. But there are some who deny the Divinity of Christ. They do not realize the sacredness of the Word of the infinite God. That Word opens to them the mystery of the incarnation of Christ. But unless the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness illuminate its pages, revealing by the Spirit the relation which Christ sustains to God and to humanity, it will remain a mystery to them, and will not be accepted as truth. But with this light upon it, those things that have been hidden for ages are revealed. Yet while the Word of God explains the doctrines of Christ, and clearly points out every step which it is essential for sinners to take in the plan of salvation, it does not satisfy the curiosity that would pry into those things which the Lord has reserved unto himself." E.G. White, The Youth's Instructor, 01-11-97.
Todays Date: March 28, 2001
"Courage, fortitude, faith, and implicit trust in God's power to save do not come in a moment. These heavenly graces are acquired by the experience of years. By a life of holy endeavor and firm adherence to the right, the children of God were sealing their destiny. Beset with temptations without number, they knew they must resist firmly or be conquered. They felt that they had a great work to do, and at any hour they might be called to lay off their armor; and should they come to the close of life with their work undone, it would be an eternal loss. They eagerly accepted the light from heaven, as did the first disciples from the lips of Jesus." E.G. White, Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 213.
Todays Date: March 27, 2001
"Christ did in reality unite THE OFFENDING NATURE OF MAN with his own sinless nature, because by this act of condescension he would be enabled to pour out his blessings in behalf of the fallen race. Thus he has made it possible for us to partake of his nature. By making himself an offering for sin, he opened a way whereby human beings might be made one with him. He placed himself in man's position, becoming capable of suffering. The whole of his earthly life was a preparation for the altar." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 7/17/1900.
Todays Date: March 26, 2001
"All that God and Christ could do has been done to save sinners. Transgression placed the whole world in jeopardy, under the death sentence. But in heaven there was heard a voice saying I have found a ransom. Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, was made sin for fallen man. 'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' Christ gave himself as a ransom. He laid off His royal robe. He laid aside His kingly crown, and stepped down from His high command over all heaven, clothing His divinity with humanity that He might carry ALL THE INFIRMITIES and bear ALL THE TEMPTATIONS of humanity." E.G. White, Letter 22, 1900. E.G. White Comments, Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7a, 469.
Todays Date: March 22, 2001
"Another dangerous error, is the doctrine that denies the divinity of Christ, claiming that he had no existence before his advent to this world. This theory is received with favor by a large class who profess to believe the Bible; yet it directly contradicts the plainest statements of our Saviour concerning his relationship with the Father, his divine character, and his pre-existence. It cannot be entertained without the most unwarranted wresting of the Scriptures. It not only lowers man's conceptions of the work of redemption, but undermines faith in the Bible as a revelation from God. While this renders it the more dangerous, it makes it also harder to meet. If men reject the testimony of the inspired Scriptures concerning the divinity of Christ, it is in vain to argue the point with them; for no argument, however conclusive, could convince them. 'The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' [ Cor. 2:14]. None who hold this error can have a true conception of the character or the mission of Christ, or of the great plan of God for man's redemption." E. G. White, The Great Controversy, 1888 Edition, p. 524.
Todays Date: March 21, 2001
Did Ellen G. White ever progress to the Augustinian Error of Original Sin? The following statement has led folk like Des Ford and disciples to make such a weak and erroneous conclusion while they ignore over 400 EGW statements to the contrary:
"Never, in any way, leave the slightest impression upon human minds that a taint of, or inclination to corruption rested upon Christ, or that He in any way yielded to corruption. He was tempted in all points like as men is tempted, yet He is called that holy thing. It is a mystery that is left unexplained to mortals that Christ could be tempted in all points like as we are, and yet be without sin. The incarnation of Christ has ever been, and will ever remain a mystery. That which is revealed, is for us and for our children, but let every human being be warned from the ground of making Christ altogether human, such an one as ourselves: for it cannot be. The exact time when humanity blended with divinity, it is not necessary for us to know. We are to keep our feet on the rock, Christ Jesus, as God revealed in humanity." E.G. White, Manuscript Releases Volume 13, The Baker Letter, p. 19.
It is the following words that lead folk like Des Ford to conclude that Ellen White's views on the human nature of Christ were progressive to the point that she finally concluded that we cannot obtain and retain sanctifying grace for overcoming, which is part of the Augustinian Error of Original Sin:
"...let every human being be warned from the ground of making Christ altogether human, such an one as ourselves: for it cannot be."
This does not mean that Christ did not come in sinful flesh, and that Ellen White changed her mind about that fact. This means that we should never imply that Christ had any personal bent or predilection to sin. This was impossible, because He never sinned, and in order to have a personal predilection or propensity to sin, He would first need to sin, and He never did sin. However, He took upon [projected upon] His human nature, all of our personal predilections, depravities, and propensities to sin, and overcame such in a sinful flesh body. It is a foregone conclusion that whatever Christ did not assume by way of our sinful nature, He did not overcome.
The Augustinian Error of Original Sin, would dictate that Christ was automatically a sinner if He took our sinful flesh nature, and that neither He, nor us, could have aspired to receiving grace, sanctifying power for the purpose of overcoming if either He or us inherited a sinful flesh body.
What Ford and cohorts are really implying is that Ellen White finally progressed to believe in the Augustinian Error of Original Sin, and that is a total falsehood!
Todays Date: March 20, 2001
"God and Christ knew from the beginning, of the apostasy of Satan and of the fall of Adam through the deceptive power of the apostate. The plan of salvation was designed to redeem the fallen race, to give them another trial. Christ was appointed to the office of Mediator from the creation of God, set up from everlasting to be our substitute and surety. Before the world was made, it was arranged that the divinity of Chirst should be enshrouded in humanity. 'A body,' said Christ, 'hast thou prepared me' (Heb. 10:5). But He did not come in human form until the fullness of time had expired. Then He came to our world, a babe in Bethlehem." E.G. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, 250.
Today's date: March 19, 2001
"Without the kingdom of God we are lost, we have no knowledge of God, and are without hope in the world; but salvation has been provided for us through faith in Jesus Christ. He is the treasure, and when the rubbish of the world is swept away, we are enabled to discern his infinite value. He says, 'I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.' The divinity of Christ was as a hidden treasure. At times when he was upon earth, divinity flashed through humanity, and his true character was revealed. The God of heaven testified to his onenes with his Son. At his baptism the heavens were opened, and the glory of God in the similitude of a dove like burnished gold hovered over the Saviour, and a voice came from heaven, saying, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' But the nation to whom Christ came, though professing to be the peculiar people of God, did not recognize the heavenly treasure in the person of Jesus Christ. They had had light upon light, evidence upon evidence. 'God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.' 'What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone; as it is written. Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offense; and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.' 'Esais is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." E.G. White, The Youth's Instructor, 08-22-95.
Todays Date: Sunday, March 18, 2001
"What an event was this when Christ placed himself in the position of Adam, and endured the test where Adam had failed, and by this act placed man on a vantage ground, in favor with God, where he might overcome on his own account through the merits of Jesus. In his name, through his grace, man may be an overcomer, even as Christ was an overcomer. In Christ divinity and humanity were united, and the only way in which man may be an overcomer is through becoming a partaker of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Divinity and humanity are blended in him who has the spirit of Christ. The apostle Paul writes, 'In all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.' 'We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time of need." E.G. White, The Youth's Instructor, 06-30-92.
Todays date: Thursday, Mar. 8, 2001
"In Christ there was a subjection of the human to the divine. He clothed His divinity with humaniity, and placed his own person under obedience to divinity. Satan had tempted Adam and Eve to believe that they should be as gods. Christ requires that humanity shall obey divinity. In his humanity, Christ was obedient to all his Father's commandments." E.G. White, Review and Herald, 11-09-97, pr. 10.
Todays date: Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2001
"Christ could have done nothing during His earthly ministry in saving fallen man if the divine had not been blended with the human. The limited capacity of man cannot define this wonderful mystery--the blending the two natures, the divine and the human. It can never be explained. Man must wonder and be silent. And yet man is priviledged to be a partaker of the divine nature, and in this way he can to some degree enter into the mystery. This wonderful exhibition of God's love was made on the cross of Calvary. Divinity took the nature of humanity, and for what purpose?--That through the righteousness of Christ humanity might partake of the divine nature. The wonderful things to take place in our world--the greatest events of all ages--are incomprehensible to worldly minds; they cannot be explained by human sciences. The powers of heaven shall be shaken. Christ is coming in power and great glory, but His coming is not such a mystery as the things to take place before that event. Man must be a partaker of the divine nature in order to stand in this evil time, when the mysteries of satanic agencies are at work. Only by the divine power unite with the human can souls endure through these times of trial. Says Christ, 'Without me ye can do nothing.' Then there must be far less of self and more of Jesus." The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, p. 332.
Todays date: Tuesday, March 6, 2001
"It is not possible for the heart in which Christ abides to be destitute of love. If we love God because He first loved us, we shall love all for whom Christ died. We cannot come in touch with Divinity without coming in touch with humanity; for in Him who sits upon the throne of the universe, Divinity and humanity are combined. Connected with Christ, we are connected with our fellow men by the golden links of the chain of love. Then the pity and compassion of Christ will be manifest in our life. We shall not wait to have the needy and unfortunate bought to us. We shall not need to be entreated to feel for the woes of others. It will be as natural for us to minister to the needy and suffering as it was for Christ to go about doing good." E.G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, p. 384.
Todays Date: Monday, March 5, 2001
"Satanic agencies confederated with evil men to lead the people to believe that Christ was the chief of sinners, and to make Him an object of detestation. But the priests and rulers failed to realize that in Christ, Divinity was enthroned in humanity. Christ's humanity could not be separated from His Divinity. Could one sin have been found in Christ, the world would have plunged into blackness and ruin. If Satan could have so bruised Christ's heel that He would have yielded to the physical torture, his triumph would have been complete. He could have shouted victory. The world would have been his kingdom. But Satan could only cause pain. He could not touch Christ's head unless Christ proved false to God. Satan and his angels united with the priests and rulers in mocking and deriding the Son of God. He filled them with vile and loathsome speeches. He imspired their taunts. But by all this he gained nothing. He was permitted to bruise Christ's heel, but Christ was bruising his head. By working through the priests against Christ, Satan was effecting his own downfall."
By the same process, Satan inspires current day church leaders to believe that those who warn them are the chief sinners, and they make every effort to make them the object of detestation.
Todays Date: Saturday, March 3, 2001.
"Christ... is the ladder. The base is planted firmly on the earth in His humanity; the topmost round reaches to the throne of God in His Divinity. The humanity of Christ embraces fallen humanity, while His Divinity lays hold upon the throne of God. We are saved by climbing round after round of the ladder, looking to Christ, clinging to Christ, mounting step by step to the height of Christ, so that He is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brothely kindness, and charity are the rounds of this ladder. All these graces are to be manifested in the Christian character; and 'if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.'" E.G. White, Maranatha, p. 84.
Todays date: Friday, March 2, 2001.
"In Christ, divinity and humanity were combined. Divinity was not degraded to humanity; Divinity held its place, but humanity by being united to Divinity withstood the fiercest test of temptation in the wilderness. The prince of this world came to Christ after His long fast, when He was an hungered, and suggested to Him to command the stones to become bread. But the plan of God, devised for the salvation of man, provided that Christ should know hunger, and poverty, and every phase of man's experience. He withstood the temptation, through the power that man may command. he laid hold on the throne of God, and there is not a man or woman who may not have access to the same help through faith in God. Man may become a partaker of the divine nature; not a soul lives who may not summon the aid of Heaven in temptation and trial. Christ came to reveal the source of His power, that man might never rely on his unaided human capabilities." E.W. White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, 408.
May God help and bless us all,
Ron Beaulieu
Todays date: Thursday, March 1, 2001.
"Study the character of Christ.--The Lord of glory stepped down from his throne, laid aside his kingly crown, his royal robe, and clothed his divinity with humanity, that divinity might touch humanity, that humanity might lay hold of divinity. Look at Christ's life, and make it, your study. For your soul's sake study the character of Christ. For our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich. This condescension on the part of Christ, was in the plan to redeem and restore the morl image o God in man, and to leave an example of self-denial and self-sacrifice, that the poor might not be despised on account of ther poverty, and that the rich might know that earthly wealth will never secure to any soul eternal riches and an immortal inheritance in the kingdom of God." E.G. White, The Gospel Herald, 01-01-99, paragraph 2.
Todays Date: February 28, 2001
Dear brothers and sisters,
"What an event was this when Christ placed Himself in the position of Adam, and endured the test where Adam had failed, and by this act placed man on a vantage ground, in favor with God, where he might overcome on his own account through the merits of Jesus. In His name, through His grace, man may be an overcomer, even as Christ was an overcomer. In Christ, Divinity and humanity were united, and the only way in which man may be an overcomer is through becoming a partaker of the divine nature....Divinity and humanity are blended in him who has the spirit of Christ. The apostle Paul writes, 'In all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest."...'We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." E.G. White, Sons and Daughters of God, p. 25.
The words "through His grace," mean through His imparted power man may become an overcomer by partaking of the divine nature. In His humanity, Christ relied moment by moment on the impartation of His Father's power for overcoming. By the merit of His Divine Nature and our partaking of such, we may be overcomers as Christ was. He is not short on grace power, either for justification or sanctification. However, the sanctification is continuing so that we always need a Saviour to save us from committing sin and to forgive our sins when we make mistakes or backslide into sin. It is then that we are to earnestly repent and again depend moment by moment on the grace power of Christ for power in overcoming. To refuse the power is to refuse the grace, the merit (benefit) of the gift of His Divine Nature.
Love to Jesus and all today and everyday,
Ron Beaulieu