Chapter 36—A Living Experience
The Lord of life and glory clothed His divinity with humanity to
demonstrate to man that God through the gift of Christ would connect
us with Him. Without a connection with God no one can possibly
be happy. Fallen man is to learn that our Heavenly Father cannot be
satisfied until His love embraces the repentant sinner, transformed
through the merits of the spotless Lamb of God.
The work of all the heavenly intelligences is to this end. Under the
command of their General they are to work for the reclaiming of those
who by transgression have separated themselves from their Heavenly
Father. A plan has been devised whereby the wondrous grace and
love of Christ shall stand revealed to the world. In the infinite price
paid by the Son of God to ransom man, the love of God is revealed.
This glorious plan of redemption is ample in its provisions to save the
whole world. Sinful and fallen man may be made complete in Jesus
through the forgiveness of sin and the imputed righteousness of Christ.
Power of the Cross
Jesus Christ laid hold on humanity, that with His human arm He
might encircle the race, while with His divine arm He grasped the
throne of the Infinite. He planted His cross midway between earth and
heaven, and said, “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men
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unto Me.” The cross was to be the center of attraction.
It was to speak to all men, and draw them across the gulf that sin
had made, to unite finite man with the infinite God. It is the power
of the cross alone that can separate man from the strong confederacy
of sin. Christ gave Himself for the saving of the sinner. Those whose
sins are forgiven, who love Jesus, will be united with Him. They will
bear the yoke of Christ. This yoke is not to hamper them, not to make
their religious life one of unsatisfying toil. No; the yoke of Christ is
to be the very means by which the Christian life is to become one of
pleasure and joy. The Christian is to be joyful in contemplation of that
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