Morning Devotional Reading January 27, 2015 The temptation that was presented by Satan to our Saviour upon the exceeding high mountain is one of the leading temptations which humanity must meet. The kingdoms of the world in their glory were offered to Christ by Satan as a gift upon condition that Christ would yield to him the honor due to a superior. Our Saviour felt the strength of this temptation, but He met it in our behalf and conquered. He would not have been tested upon this point if man were not to be tried with the same temptation. In His resistance, He gave us an example of the course that we should pursue when Satan should come to us individually to lead us from our integrity....... No man can be a follower of Christ and yet place his affections upon the things of the world. John in his first epistle writes: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Our Redeemer, who met this temptation of Satan in its fullest power, is acquainted with mans danger of yielding to the temptation to love the world. Christ identified Himself with humanity by bearing the test upon this point and overcoming in mans behalf. He has guarded with warnings those very points where Satan would best succeed in his temptations to man. He knew that Satan would gain the victory over man unless he was especially guarded upon the points of appetite and the love of worldly riches and honor. He says: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon....... Christ sacrificed everything for man in order to make it possible for him to gain heaven. Now it is for fallen man to show what he will sacrifice on his own account for Christs sake, that he may win immortal glory. Any sacrifice that we may make sinks into insignificance when compared with that which Christ made in our behalf. Testimonies for the Church Volume Three : Page 477-481
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