The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ — John Shaqi
The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus ChristGaebelein, Arno Clemens
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The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Jesus Christ -- Meditations; Jesus Christ -- Person and offices
But this will mean something else. It means separation. God's call
to His people is to stand aloft from all which dishonors His Son.
This means much in our days. How can we honor the Beloved One if we
have fellowship with that which dishonors Him? No child of God
should go on with any institution, school or church where the
written Word is set aside or belittled. The second Epistle of
Timothy, which has special reference to our times is very clear on
this separation. No one needs to wait for a special call from God to
act and separate from the corruption of Christendom. It is all given
before hand by the Holy Spirit. "From such turn away" (2 Tim.
iii:5). And those from whom God commands us to separate are persons
who have the form of godliness and deny the power thereof. Again it
is written: "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold
and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honor and
some to dishonor. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he
shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified and meet for the master's
use, prepared unto every good work" (2 Tim. ii:20-21). Hear the Word
of the Lord! Hear His call! Be faithful to Him! Keep His Word and do
not deny His Name! Honor and glorify Him who is our Lord whom we
soon shall see face to face.
Christ's Resurrection Song.
WHEN the blessed Lord appeared in the midst of His disciples and
they beheld the risen One in His glorified body of flesh and bones
and He ate before them, He told them that all things which were
written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets and _in the Psalms_
concerning Him, had to be fulfilled (Luke xxiv:44). While on the way
to Emmaus He said to the two sorrowing and perplexed disciples
"Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into
His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded
unto them all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." It
seems to us He must have then spoken much of the Psalms, these
wonderful prayers and songs of praise, with which His Jewish
disciples were so familiar. In the Psalms the richest prophecies
concerning Christ are found. There we behold Him in His divine
perfections as well as in His true humanity; in His suffering and in
His glory; in His rejection and in His exaltation. Oh that we, the
Lord's people, might read the Psalms more, so that the Holy Spirit
can reveal Christ more to our hearts. In many unexpected places we
can find Him in these songs. There is for instance the xxxvii Psalm,
so much enjoyed by the Saints of God. It contains such precious
exhortations to faith, to be patient and to hope. But in taking the
comfort of these blessed exhortations and their accompanying
promises, we are apt to overlook some verses which tell us of our
Lord. Verses 30-33 apply to Him. "The mouth of the righteous
speaketh wisdom and His tongue talketh of judgment. The law of His
God is in His heart; none of His steps shall slide. The wicked
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