Chapter 71—Christ Shares His Father’s Throne
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool.
Psalm 110:1
.
The love of the Father toward a fallen race is unfathomable, indescribable,
without a parallel. This love led Him to consent to give His only begotten
Son to die, that rebellious man might be brought into harmony with the
government of Heaven, and be saved from the penalty of his transgression.
The Son of God stepped down from His royal throne, and for our sakes
became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich. He became “a
Man of sorrows,” that we might be made partakers of everlasting joy.... God
permitted His beloved Son, full of grace and truth, to come from a world of
indescribable glory to a world marred and blighted with sin, shadowed with
the shadow of death and the curse.
Since Jesus came to dwell with us, we know that God is acquainted with
our trials, and sympathizes with our griefs. Every son and daughter of Adam
may understand that our Creator is the friend of sinners. For in every doctrine
of grace, every promise of joy, every deed of love, every divine attraction
presented in the Saviour’s life on earth, we see “God with us” (
Matthew
1:23
)....
By His humanity, Christ touched humanity; by His divinity, He lays hold
upon the throne of God. As the Son of man, He gave us an example of
obedience; as the Son of God, He gives us power to obey.... The Child of
Bethlehem, the meek and lowly Saviour, is God “manifest in the flesh” (
1
Timothy 3:16
).... “God with us” is the surety of our deliverance from sin, the
assurance of our power to obey the law of heaven....
In taking our nature, the Saviour has bound Himself to humanity by a tie
that is never to be broken. Through the eternal ages He is linked with us....
“Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:” ... (
Isaiah 9:6
). God has
adopted human nature in the person of His Son, and has carried the same
into the highest heaven. It is the “Son of man” who shares the throne of the
universe.... In Christ the family of earth and the family of heaven are bound
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