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Matchless Love, September 16
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be
one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and
hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:22, 23
.
O what love, what matchless love! Fallen human beings may become so
closely united with Christ that they are glorified with Him. On this earth they have
followed in His footsteps, laboring as He labored for the souls for whom He died,
and when He comes to claim His own, they enter in to His joy, sitting with Him at
His table in His kingdom. “Where I am,” He says, “there shall also my servant
be” (
John 12:26
)....
What a wonderful thought it is that we, poor, fallen sinners, can become one
with Christ, partakers of His divine nature, through His grace refined, purified,
glorified. We may overcome, and sit down with ... Christ. We are to be conformed
to His image. He loves, and He will help us. We are to be passive in His hands.
We have His promise. We hold the title deeds to real estate in the kingdom of
glory. Never were title deeds drawn up more strictly according to law, or signed
more legibly, than those that give God’s people a right to the heavenly mansions.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” Christ says: “ye believe in God, believe also in
me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also”
(
chap. 14:1-3
)....
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All who will may come under the covenant promise. Precious is the price
paid for our redemption—the blood of the only begotten Son of God. Christ
was tried by the sharp proving of affliction. His human nature was tried to the
uttermost. He bore the death penalty of man’s transgression. He became the
sinner’s substitute and surety. He is able to show the fruit of His sufferings and
death, in His resurrection from the dead. From the rent sepulcher of Joseph rings
forth the proclamation, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in
Me, and do the works of righteousness that I do, are justified, sanctified, made
white and tried. They have obtained godliness and eternal life.”
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