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Temperance
difficulty. The weaker and more helpless you know yourself to be,
the stronger will you become in His strength. The heavier your
burdens, the more blessed the rest in casting them upon your Burden
Bearer.—
The Ministry of Healing, 71, 72
.
Power to Meet Every Temptation
—He who truly believes in
Christ is made a partaker of the divine nature, and has power that he
can appropriate under every temptation.—
The Review and Herald,
January 14, 1909
.
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 obtained 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 might overcome the temptations
of Satan.—
Redemption, or the Temptation of Christ
, 44.
Help for Self-Inflicted Disease
—Many of those who came to
Christ for help had brought disease upon themselves; yet He did
not refuse to heal them. And when virtue from Him entered into
these souls, they were convicted of sin, and many were healed of
their spiritual disease as well as of their physical maladies.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 73
.
Power to Free the Captive
—Over the winds and the waves, and
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over men possessed of demons, Christ showed that He had absolute
control. He who stilled the tempest, and calmed the troubled sea,
spoke peace to minds distracted and overborne by Satan.
In the synagogue at Capernaum, Jesus was speaking of His
mission to set free the slaves of sin. He was interrupted by a shriek
of terror. A madman rushed forward from among the people, crying
out, “Let us alone; what have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of
Nazareth? art Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee who Thou art,
the Holy One of God.”