Partakers of the Divine Nature
Jesus rested upon the wisdom and strength of His heavenly Father.
He declares, “The Lord God will help Me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: ... and I know that I shall not be ashamed.... Behold, the
Lord God will help Me.” Pointing to His own example, He says to us,
“Who is among you that feareth the Lord, ... that walketh in darkness,
and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon
his God.”
“The prince of this world cometh,” said Jesus, “and hath nothing
in Me.” There was nothing in Him that responded to Satan’s sophistry.
He did not consent to sin. Not even by a thought did He yield to
temptation. So it may be with us. Christ’s humanity was united with
divinity; He was fitted for the conflict by the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit. And He came to make us partakers of the divine nature. So
long as we are united to Him by faith, sin has no more dominion
over us. God reaches for the hand of faith in us to direct it to lay fast
hold upon the divinity of Christ, that we may attain to perfection of
character.—
The Desire of Ages, 123
(1898).
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