Our Only Hope, Christ In You.

[Gibs]

I really apprediate Pauls testimony on the Gospel of Salvation. He made it clear how we are to reach the prize and how we can be enabled.

For sure without Christ within and allowing Him only to be the master in the soul temple and self killed or put down to the place we no longer cater to self is a must.

Gratification of self goes in for sin and the things of the world and Satan is easily the victor of us.

I found what I find to be a valuable read of EGW's on Paul that is very very good for us all to contemplate.

"Paul never forgot the responsibility resting on him as a minister of Christ, or that if souls were lost through unfaithfulness on his part, God would hold him accountable. "Whereof I am made a minister," he declared of the gospel, "according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God; even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: whereunto I also labor, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily." Colossians 1:25-29. {AA 368.2}

These words present before the worker for Christ a high attainment, yet this attainment all can reach who, putting themselves under the control of the Great Teacher, learn daily in the school of Christ. The power at God's command is limitless, and the minister who in his great need shuts himself in with the Lord may be assured that he will receive that which will be to his hearers a savor of life unto life. {AA 368.3}

Paul's writings show that the gospel minister should be an example of the truths that he teaches, "giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed." Of his own work he has left us a picture in his letter to the Corinthian believers: "In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich." 2 Corinthians 6:3, 4-10. {AA 369.1}

To Titus he wrote: "Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded. In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you." Titus 2:6-8. {AA 369.2}

There is nothing more precious in the sight of God than His ministers, who go forth into the waste places of the earth to sow the seeds of truth, looking forward to the harvest. None but Christ can measure the solicitude of His servants as they seek for the lost. He imparts His Spirit to them, and by their efforts souls are led to turn from sin to righteousness. {AA 369.3}

Many say it is impossible to overcome from continuing in sin. Yes it sure is if self and self gratification isn't killed.

Self must be put out of the soul temple as ruler there and by repentance and full surrender that Christ can take up the ruler in us. We cannot serve two masters, self and Christ.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

[Gibs]

Some more, as yes there is always more and this is also from Sister White.

OVERCOMERS WILL RECEIVE CROWN.

—"Let no man flatter himself that he is a successful man unless he preserves the integrity of his conscience, giving himself wholly to the truth and to God. We should move steadily forward, never losing heart or hope in the good work, whatever trials beset our path, whatever moral darkness may encompass us. Patience, faith, and love for duty are the lessons we must learn. Subduing self and looking to Jesus is an everyday work. The Lord will never forsake the soul that trusts in Him and seeks His aid. The crown of life is placed only upon the brow of the overcomer. There is, for everyone, earnest, solemn work for God while life lasts. As Satan’s power increases and his devices are multiplied, skill, aptness, and sharp generalship should be exercised by those in charge of the flock of God. Not only have we each a work to do for our own souls, but we have also a duty to arouse others to gain eternal life.—5T 70, 71. {Hvn 89.3}

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

[Gerr]

Since it was merely the Father in Christ, your title is a misnomer. Unless Christ had "life ORIGINAL, UNBORROWED, and UNDERIVED," you'd have NO hope in Him. Your title should have been, "The Father our only hope."

[Gibs]

Ah Gerry, since it is the Father in Christ makes it a truth because only the Father can claim that, and now since Jesus has the Wonderful One within fully, Jesus says is His God, the Father, yes now He too can claim all the attributes of the Father, they are of the same and one substance.

For sure, the Deity in Christ is the Father in Him. He states "I and my Father are one".

Also the one and only way Jesus could in truth proclaim "I am the first". Ah yes for we read "He possessed me in the beginning of His way". Proverbs 8:22.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.