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From Heaven With Love
with humiliation and rage, Satan was forced to withdraw from the
presence of the world’s Redeemer. Christ’s victory was as complete
as had been the failure of Adam.
So we may resist temptation and force Satan to depart from us.
Jesus gained the victory through submission and faith in God, and
by the apostle He says to us, “Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and
He will draw nigh to you.”
James 4:7, 8
. “The name of the Lord is
a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.”
Proverbs
18:10
. Satan trembles before the weakest soul who finds refuge in
that mighty name.
After the foe had departed, Jesus fell exhausted, with the pallor
of death on His face. Angels had watched their loved Commander
as He had endured the test, greater than we shall ever be called
to endure. They now ministered to the Son of God as He lay like
one dying. He was strengthened with food, comforted with the
assurance that all heaven triumphed in His victory. Warming to life
again, His great heart went out in sympathy for man, and He went
forth to complete the work He had begun; to rest not until the foe
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was vanquished and our fallen race redeemed.
Never can the cost of redemption be realized until the redeemed
stand with the Redeemer before the throne of God. Then, as the
glories of the eternal home burst upon our enraptured senses, we
shall remember that Jesus left all this for us; that for us He took the
risk of failure and eternal loss. “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor,
and glory, and blessing.”
Revelation 5:12
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