There is no easy road out of a nature of sin into a holy nature. It is vain to try and patch up a scheme which will relieve us of our share of the tragedy of sin--or to put it another way, the travail for the birth of the sons of God. The Redeemer suffers, but He does not suffer in our stead--He suffers in our behalf, [[Greek: hyper] not [Greek: anti]]. He makes His appeal of love to us to share His life as He shares ours. It is Paul’s goal--a flying goal, surely--“to know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.” The boldest word which comes from his pen was: “I rejoice in my sufferings _on your behalf_; and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ _in my flesh_, for His body’s sake, which is the Church.” (Col. 1, 24.) It is not repeating His words that saves us, it is reliving His life, co-dying, and co-rising with Him, and entering with a radiant joy, caught from His face, into the common task of redeeming a world of sin to a kingdom of love and holiness. In that great book of spiritual symbolism--the Book of Revelation--those who overcome are builded, as pillars, into the Temple of God, and He writes His new name upon them. The new name is Redeemer. Those who have come up through great tribulation and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb are builded in as a permanent part of the Temple, where God reveals Himself, and they share with Him in the great redeeming work of the ages.