Christ Is the Victor

Against the seemingly insuperable odds imposed upon Him by the conditions of the challenge, Christ emerged from the conflict with a total victory over Satan. He had accepted the human nature of fallen man, permitting Himself no advantage over us by reason of His divine parentage or by reason of a power made available to Him that is not equally available to us. The extremity of the conditions emphasize the enormity of victory.
He proved that God had not given a law that His created beings could not obey. He demonstrated that Satan’s accusations were false, and that the character as well as the government of God were without fault.
He showed us what could be done, and as our example He calls upon us to do the same thing in the same way, making use of the freely offered divine power. These two words, show and example, are the key words in this chapter.

Christ overcame Satan, showing us how we also may overcome. 1RH 342

Christ’s example is before us. He overcame Satan, showing us how we may also overcome. 4T 45

He came to show man how to obey, how to keep all the commandments. YI 514

He was made subject to Satan’s temptations, that He might teach you how to resist and overcome him; and He will hear you when you pray, and will help you. YI 66

By His life He showed that it is possible for man to keep the law. 4ST 129

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Christ knows all about our trials and temptations; for He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. Before the heavenly universe He showed that men can keep the commandments of God, and perfect a Christian character. YI 439

(Christ) came to show men that they may stand on vantage ground with God, keeping all the laws of His kingdom, acting out His will in love and kindness and loyalty, doing good and not evil. 4ST 207

Christ came to represent the Father, and to show in what tender relation we stand to Him. He showed that humanity can keep the law. YI 446

He came to fulfill all righteousness, and, as the head of humanity, to show man that he can do the same work, meeting every specification of the requirements of God. 1SM 211

Christ took human nature upon Himself to show us what God desires us to be. 4ST 369

(Christ) came to show that by receiving power from on high man can live an unsullied life. 4ST 288

Christ came to our world to show us how to live true, upright lives; and all who are Christians will carry out His principles. 4ST 114

The great Teacher came to our world to show men and women how to live so that in the great day of God it may be said of them, “Ye are complete in Him.” We are to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 4ST 130

Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are, that He might know how to succor those who should be tempted. His life is our example. He shows by His willing obedience that man may keep the law of God. 4T 294

Think of what Christ’s obedience means to us. It means that in His strength we, too, may obey. He came to this world to show us what God can do for us, and what we can do in cooperation with God. 4ST 388

God sent Christ to our world to show what human beings may become through the aid of divine grace. 5RH 524

He placed Himself at the head of the human race to show us how to live in a way that God can approve. YI 514

Christ came to this world, subject to His Father’s will, to show men

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and women what God desires them to be, and what, through His grace, they may be. He came to develop for man a perfect character. It is His purpose that we shall gain perfection, - not by keeping our eyes fixed on the defective lives of professing Christians, but by constantly beholding Him, the Sent of God, who in this world and in human nature lived a pure, noble, perfect life. 4ST 361

Lest we should make a mistake in regard to what the redeemed must be, He came to give in His life a revelation of the character God requires of His children. He came that we might have an example of what human nature may become by receiving Him as a perfect Saviour. He came to show us that we may be Christlike. 4RH 452

Jesus, our perfect pattern, has shown man the way to form such a character. Day by day, through the help of divine grace, he may be making a record which he will not be ashamed to meet in the Judgment. 2ST 133

He came to our world to show us how to live a pure, holy life. 2ST 400

The Saviour’s life of obedience maintained the claims of the law, and showed the excellence of character that obedience would develop. All who obey as He did, are likewise declaring that the law is “holy, and just, and good.” 4ST 509

He came to fulfill all righteousness, and, as the head of humanity, to show man that he can do the same work, meeting every specification of the requirements of God. Through the measure of His grace furnished to the human agent, not one need miss heaven. Perfection of character is attainable by every one who strives for it. 3RH 557

He loves you. It was because of this that He came from heaven to show you how to live a pure, true life. YI 521

Christ came to this earth to show the human race how to obey God . . . He obeyed in humanity, ennobling and elevating humanity by obedience. He lived in obedience to God, that not only by word of mouth, but by His every action, He might honor the law. By so, doing, He not only declared that we ought to obey, but showed us how to obey. 4ST 14

(Christ) is our Elder Brother. He came to prove that human beings can, through the power of God, live sinless lives. 4ST 398

Christ came to this world as a man, to prove to angels and to men that man may overcome, that in every emergency he may know that the powers of Heaven are ready to help him. 4ST 271

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What amazing love has Christ manifested in coming into the world to bear our sins and infirmities, and to tread the path of suffering, that He might show us by His life of spotless merit how we should walk, and overcome as He had overcome, and that we might be reconciled to God. 1ST 102

He came to be tempted as man is tempted, to pass through the vicissitudes through which human beings are called to pass, and to live a life of sinlessness, showing to all the “better part” that they may obtain by living for God, through the grace received from heaven. 4ST 406

Christ’s life is for our example. He shows in His willing obedience, how man may keep the law of God, and that transgression of the law, and not obedience to it, brings him into bondage. 1ST 69.

Christ here shows the object of His mission: To show man by His example, that he can be entirely obedient to the moral law, and regulate his life by its precepts. 1ST 68

All who have a true sense of the sacrifice made by Christ in leaving His home in Heaven to come to this world that He might by His own life show man how to resist temptation, will cheerfully deny self and choose to be partakers with Christ of His sufferings . . . It is only through obedience and continual effort that we shall overcome as Christ overcame. 3T 491

He consecrated Himself to God that He might benefit and bless others, to show that in every period of life the human agent can do the Master’s will. 4RH 108

Christ volunteered to lay aside His royal robe and kingly crown, and come to this earth to show to human beings what they may be in co-operation with God. 4ST 385

It is positively necessary for us to sit down sometimes, and think of how the Saviour descended from heaven, from the throne of God, to show what human beings may become if they will unite their weakness to His strength. 6RH 83

(Jesus) came to our world to give men an example of a perfect life. 6RH 74

Christ came to give to the world an example of what perfect humanity might be when united with divinity. 1SM 260

Christ has entered the world as Satan’s destroyer, and the Redeemer of the captives bound by His power. He would leave an example in

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His own victorious life for man to follow and overcome the temptations of Satan. 1SM 271

(Jesus) passed through all the experiences of man, from the manger to Calvary, at every step giving man an example of what he should be and what he should do. 2ST 481

Christ came to teach us how to live. He has invited us to come to Him, and to learn of Him to be meek and lowly of heart that we may find rest unto our souls. Because Jesus has lived our example, we have no excuse for not imitating His life and works. 2ST 499

He overcame in His human nature in order that you might have before you the power of His example. YI 189

Christ is our example. He came to earth to teach us how to live. 1ST 507

Christ lived a human life that He might be man’s example in all things. He endured temptation even as every human being must endure. He believed God, as we must believe. He learned obedience, even as we are required to learn obedience. And He overcame, as we must overcome. His path lay through manifold temptations; therefore, He knows how to succor those who are tempted. 4ST 153

. . . in man’s behalf, Christ met the specious temptations of Satan, and left to man an example as to how to overcome Satan in the conflict. 3RH 349

Christ has redeemed Adam’s disgraceful fall, and has perfected a character of perfect obedience, and left an example for the human family, that they may imitate the Pattern. 2RH 401

Christ had entered the world as Satan’s destroyer, and the Redeemer of the captives bound by His power. He would leave an example in His own victorious life for man to follow and overcome the temptations of Satan. 1RH 144

The conflict of Christ with Satan in the wilderness will be regarded with sacred interest by every true follower of Christ. We should have feelings of the deepest gratitude to our Redeemer for teaching us by His own example how to resist and overcome Satan. 1RH 159

While in this world (Jesus) lived a life of obedience to the commandments of God, leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps. YI 193-4

Christ came to pay the debt which the sinner had incurred by

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transgression, and by His own example to teach man how to keep the law of God. 2RH 75

This example He gave to the human race that they might in His strength render to God the obedience He requires, and in the end present themselves perfect before His throne. 4RH 224

We should study the life of Christ, cherish His spirit, and copy His example; then we shall be like Him, and His peace will rule in our hearts. And the more we become like Him, the more clearly shall we discern the temptations of Satan, and the more successfully resist His power. 2ST 59

The truth as it is in Jesus is an acquaintance with the holy, just, and good law of God, as this law is elevated, and its immutability demonstrated, in Christ. He magnified the law, expanded its every precept, and in His obedience left man an example, that he also may meet its demands. 3RH 541

Human nature of itself is utterly helpless before the wiles of Satan; but it is our privilege to plead with God for strength, and to receive it. Jesus has given us an example to show how we may meet and conquer Satan. 4ST 81

For Further Study:
1ST 451
2ST 36
2ST 441
3ST 190
3ST 300
4ST 123
4ST 156
4ST 213
4ST 214
4ST 383
4ST 443
1RH 341
2RH 383
3RH 41
3RH 183
3RH 403
3RH 623
3RH 624
4RH 288
4RH 549
5RH 262
5RH 422
6RH 442
YI 637
DA 122-3
4T 29

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