[349] THE THIRD ANGELS MESSAGE.—NO. 18. ——— ELDER A. T. JONES. ——— (Continued on page 348.) LET us look at that a little further. When Christ had our human nature, he was there in his divine self; but didnt manifest any of his divine self in that place. What did he do with his divine self in our flesh when he became ourselves?—His divine self was always kept back— emptied—in order that our evil, satanic selves might be kept back—emptied. Now in the flesh he himself did nothing. He says: Of mine own self I can do nothing. He was there all the time. His own divine self, who made the heavens, was there all the time. But from beginning to end he himself did nothing; himself was kept back; he was emptied. Who, then, did that which was done in him? The Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works, he speaks the words.—Then who was it that opposed the power of temptation in him in our flesh?—The Father. It was the Father who kept him from sinning. He was kept by the power of God; as we are to be kept by the power of God. 1 Peter 1:5. He was our sinful selves in the flesh, and here were all these tendencies to sin being stirred up in his flesh to get him to consent to sin. But he himself did not keep himself from sinning. To have done so would have been himself manifesting himself against the power of Satan, and this would have destroyed the plan of salvation, even though he had not sinned. And though at the cross the words were 247 said in mockery, they were literally true: He saved others; himself he cannot save. Therefore he kept himself entirely out; he emptied himself; and by his keeping himself back, that gave the Father an opportunity to come in, and work against the sinful flesh and save him and save us in him. That is the mystery of God: Christ in you, the hope of glory; God manifest in the flesh. It is not simply Christ manifest in the flesh; it is God manifest in the flesh. For when Jesus came in the world himself, it was not Christ manifest in the flesh; it was God manifest in the flesh; for he that hath seen me, hath seen the Father.
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