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From Heaven With Love
“Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the govern-
ment shall be upon His shoulder.” God has adopted human nature
in the person of His Son, and has carried it to the highest heaven.
The “Son of man” shall be called, “Wonderful, Counselor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah
9:6
. He who is “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,”
is not ashamed to call us brethren.
Hebrews 7:26
;
2:11
. Heaven is
enshrined in humanity, and humanity is enfolded in the bosom of
Infinite Love.
The exaltation of the redeemed will be an eternal testimony to
God’s mercy. “In the ages to come” He will “show the exceeding
riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus”
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in order that “the manifold wisdom of God” might be made known to
“the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places.”
Ephesians
2:7
;
3:10
, RV.
Through Christ’s work the government of God stands justified.
The Omnipotent One is made known as the God of love. Satan’s
charges are refuted, and his character unveiled. Sin can never again
enter the universe. Through eternal ages all are secure from apostasy.
By love’s self-sacrifice, earth and heaven are bound to the Creator
in bonds of indissoluble union.
Where sin abounded, God’s grace much more abounds. The
earth, the very field Satan claims as his, will be honored above all
other worlds in the universe. Here, where the King of glory lived
and suffered and died, here the tabernacle of God shall be with men,
“and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.”
Revelation
21:3
. Through endless ages the redeemed will praise Him for His
unspeakable gift—Immanuel, “God with us.”
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