October 9, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
PETER’S LADDER IS CHRIST’S HUMAN-DIVINE NATURE
“Beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness charity(love).” 2 Pet. 1: 5-7, KJV (Read verses 1-11). Now this:
Point the youth [both in age and in the faith] to Peter’s ladder of eight rounds, and place their feet, not on the highest round [right away], but on the lowest, and with earnest solicitation urge them to climb to the very top.
“Christ is the ladder [or the stairway]. The base is planted firmly on the earth in His HUMANITY; the topmost round reaches to the throne of God in His DIVINITY.
“The humanity of Christ embraces FALLEN humanity, while His DIVINITY lays hold of the throne of God.
“We are SAVED by climbing round after round [in spiritual growth of character perfection], by LOOKING to Christ, CLINGING to Christ, MOUNTING step by step to the HEIGHT OF CHRIST [not any mortal] so that He is ‘made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.’
“Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness and charity/love are the ROUNDS OF THIS LADDER [or stairway]. All these GRACES are to be manifested in the Christian CHARACTER: ‘and if you do these things, you shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 2 Pet. 1: 10, 11.” – E. G. White, Vol. 6, Testimonies, p. 147.
Are you still climbing this ladder/stairway? Or have you stopped somehow, distracted, discouraged, dismayed or temporarily deceived? If so, immediately resume the ascent for the allotted time is soon to end! Bless all, NMF