Christ Our Helper and Redeemer

Thu Aug 5 05:17:46 PDT 2004

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  Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for July 28
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Christ Our Helper and Redeemer

As by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of 
one shall many be made righteous. Rom. 5:19. 

Because man fallen could not overcome Satan with his human strength, Christ 
came from the royal courts of heaven to help him with His human and divine 
strength combined. Christ knew that Adam in Eden, with his superior 
advantages, might have withstood the temptations of Satan, and conquered him. 
He also knew that it was not possible for man, out of Eden, separated from the 
light and love of God since the Fall, to resist the temptations of Satan in 
his own strength. In order to bring hope to man, and save him from complete 
ruin, He humbled Himself to take man's nature, that, with His divine power 
combined with the human, He might reach man where he is. He obtains for the 
fallen sons and daughters of Adam that strength which it is impossible for 
them to gain for themselves, that in His name they may overcome the 
temptations of Satan. . . . 

Adam and Eve in Eden were placed under most favorable circumstances. . . . 
They were without the condemnation of sin. . . . 

The Author of their existence was their teacher. But they fell beneath the 
power and temptations of the artful foe. Four thousand years had Satan been at 
work against the government of God, and he had obtained strength and 
experience from determined practice. Fallen men had not the advantages of Adam 
in Eden. They had been separating from God for four thousand years. The wisdom 
to understand, and power to resist, the temptations of Satan had become less 
and less, until Satan seemed to reign triumphant in the earth. Appetite and 
passion, the love of the world and presumptuous sins, were the great branches 
of evil out of which every species of . . . corruption grew. 

Our lives may seem a tangle; but as we commit ourselves to the wise Master 
Worker, He will bring out the pattern of life and character that will be to 
His own glory. And that character which expresses the glory--character--of 
Christ, will be received into the Paradise of God. 

Everyone who by faith obeys God's commandments, will reach the condition of 
sinlessness in which Adam lived before his transgression. 

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