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Salvation to the Uttermost, March 13
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come
unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Hebrews 7:25.
What does intercession comprehend? It is the golden chain which binds
finite man to the throne of the infinite God. The human agent whom Christ
has died to save importunes the throne of God, and his petition is taken
up by Jesus who has purchased him with His own blood. Our great High
Priest places His righteousness on the side of the sincere suppliant, and the
prayer of Christ blends with that of the human petitioner.
Christ has urged that His people pray without ceasing. This does not
mean that we should always be upon our knees, but that prayer is to be as
the breath of the soul. Our silent requests, wherever we may be, are to be
ascending unto God, and Jesus our Advocate pleads in our behalf, bearing
up with the incense of His righteousness our requests to the Father.
The Lord Jesus loves His people, and when they put their trust in Him,
depending wholly upon Him, He strengthens them. He will live through
them, giving them the inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit, imparting to
the soul a vital transfusion of Himself. He acts through their faculties
and causes them to choose His will and to act out His character. With the
apostle Paul they then may say, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself
for me” (Galatians 2:20)....
The Lord will not leave His afflicted, tried children to be the sport of
Satan’s temptations. It is your privilege to trust in Jesus. The heavens are
full of rich blessings.... We have not because we ask not, or because we
do not pray in faith, believing that we shall be blessed with the special
influence of the Holy Spirit. To the true seeker through the mediation of
Christ the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit are imparted.17 [79]
17Letter 13, 1894.
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