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He Calls Us to the Marriage Supper, December 15
Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb.
Revelation 19:9
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The Lord Jesus is making experiments on human hearts through the
exhibition of His mercy and abundant grace. He is effecting transforma-
tions so amazing that Satan, with all his triumphant boasting, with all
his confederacy of evil united against God and the laws of His govern-
ment, stands viewing them as a fortress impregnable to his sophistries and
delusions. They are to him an incomprehensible mystery. The angels of
God, seraphim and cherubim, the powers commissioned to cooperate with
human agencies, 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.
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. “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage
supper of the Lamb.
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