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
Fellowship means to have things in common. And that is what God has
done. He has taken us through His Grace out of the fellowship in
which we are by nature, the things we have in common as enemies and
children of wrath and has called us into the fellowship of His Son.
And now called of God into this fellowship we have things in common
with His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. This brings before us once more
the old story, which never grows old, but is eternally new and
becomes more blessed the more we hear it. The Son of God, He who is
the true God and the eternal Life, came to this earth and appeared
in the form of Man. "The Life was manifested; and we have seen, and
bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with
the Father, and was manifested unto us" (1 John i:2). And He who is
the true God and the eternal life, by whom the worlds were made,
gave Himself for our sins. He came to give His life as a ransom for
many, to make propitiation for the whole world. He who knew no sin
was made sin for us and on the Cross peace was made. There in His
own body on the tree He bore our sins. All who believe on Him, who
have accepted Jesus as their Saviour, are taken out of that in which
they are by nature and are brought into Christ. And here we can with
praising hearts and full assurance sing of our blessed position in
Him.
Lord Jesus, are we one with Thee?
Oh height, oh depth, of love!
And crucified and dead with Thee,
Now one in heaven above.
Such was Thy grace, that for our sake
Thou didst from heaven come down;
With us of flesh and blood partake,
And make our guilt Thine own.
Our sins, our guilt, in love divine,
Confessed and borne by Thee;
The gall, the curse, the wrath, were Thine,
To set Thy ransomed free.
Ascended now, in glory bright,
Life-giving Head Thou art;
Nor life, nor death, nor depth, nor height
Thy saints and Thee can part.
But the fellowship of His Son into which the Grace of God has
brought us means more than this blessed new relation and the
positional truth that as believers we have been crucified with
Christ and that we are risen with Him. The life we possess as born
again is His own life. We possess the life of Him, who died in our
stead. Christ is our life. This means fellowship of His Son, we are
one with Him. We also possess His Spirit. The Spirit of Christ
dwelleth in us and we are "one Spirit with the Lord."
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