"Professed Christians who enjoy gatherings of gaiety, pleasure, and feasting, cannot appreciate the conflict of Christ in the wilderness. This example of their Lord in overcoming Satan is lost to them. This infinite victory which Christ achieved for them in the plan of salvation is meaningless. They have no special interest in the wonderful humiliation of our Savior, and the anguish and sufferings he endured for sinful man, while Satan was pressing him with his manifold temptations.
That scene of trial in the wilderness was the foundation of the plan of salvation, and gives to fallen man the key whereby he, in Christ's name, may overcome.
All are personally exposed to the temptations that Christ overcame; but strength is provided for them in the all-powerful name of the great Conqueror.
And all must, for themselves, individually overcome.
If man stumbles and falls under the temptations of Satan, he is without excuse;
*for he has the disobedience of Adam as a warning,
*and the life of the world's Redeemer as an example of obedience and self-denial,
*and the promise of Christ that "to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne."
Signs of the Times 1878 E.G.W./Revelation 3:21
