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Members of God’s Household, October 2
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner stone.
Ephesians 2:19, 20
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The Lord Jesus is making experiments on human hearts through the ex-
hibition of His mercy and abundant grace. He is effecting transformations
so amazing that Satan ... stands viewing them as a fortress impregnable to
his sophistries and delusions. They are to him an incomprehensible mys-
tery. The angels of God ... look on with astonishment and joy, that fallen
men, once children of wrath, are through the training of Christ developing
characters after the divine similitude, to be sons and daughters of God, to
act an important part in the occupations and pleasures of heaven.
The Lord has provided His church with capabilities and blessings,
that they may present to the world an image of His own sufficiency, and
that His church may be complete in Him, a continual representation of
another, even the eternal world, of laws that are higher than earthly laws.
His church is to be a temple built after the divine similitude....
To His church, Christ has given ample facilities, that He may receive
a large revenue of glory from His redeemed, purchased possession. The
church, being endowed with the righteousness of Christ, is His depository,
in which the wealth of His mercy, His love, His grace, is to appear in
full and final display. The declaration in His intercessory prayer, that the
Father’s love is as great toward us as toward Himself, the only-begotten
Son, and that we shall be with Him where He is, forever one with Christ
and the Father, is a marvel to the heavenly host, and it is their great joy.
The gift of His Holy Spirit, rich, full, and abundant, is to be to His church
as an encompassing wall of fire, which the powers of hell shall not prevail
against. In their untainted purity and spotless perfection, Christ looks
upon His people as the reward of all His suffering, His humiliation, and
His love, and the supplement of His glory—Christ, the great center from
which radiates all glory.
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