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
tree, is now as Man in glory and there dwelleth in Him bodily the
fulness of the Godhead. It is all for us; we can now receive grace
upon grace, because of Him who is the Second Man, the Head of the
new creation and with whom God has made us, who believe, one. This
is the deep and yet simple Gospel. God gave His blessed Son, who was
forever one with Him, that through Him we might receive of the
fulness of the Godhead, grace upon grace. Brought to God in such a
way, washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God, we are receiving all we need. We
receive it not on our merit, because we labor or agonize for it, but
we _receive of His fulness_. But who can begin to tell out what that
is, grace upon grace? Pages upon pages might be written and filled
with the good things, the spiritual blessings, the joy, the peace,
the comfort, the power and the wisdom and many other things, which
are included in "grace upon grace." And after we mentioned all these
precious things, we would have to put the pen down and confess our
insufficiency to tell out the riches, the fulness and vastness of
"grace upon grace."
This expression brings a great cataract like Niagara to our mind.
Here we stand and behold the mighty waters rushing down. Oh! the
mighty rushing waters, who can measure them! What a vast,
inexhaustible supply! Water upon water dashing down. For ages this
has gone on. Hundreds of years, more than that, thousands of years
have witnessed the same mighty waters. Every day, every hour, every
minute, every second, every fraction of a second--incessantly
mighty rushing waters upon waters!
In the same way there is pouring forth out of His fulness, the
fulness of the Lord in Glory--grace upon grace. There is an
unlimited, inexhaustible supply of the water of life from Him who is
the life. For ages the saints of God, saved by grace, have received
grace upon grace. A never ceasing stream of grace has been flowing
forth and it has not impoverished the marvellous eternal supply.
Still it flows undiminished--still there is grace upon grace. Yea
it is grace upon grace by which God's people live. Every hour, every
minute, every second, every moment it is His grace, grace upon grace
which keeps us, surrounds us, flows upon us and overshadows us. And
the more we take and enjoy the more we learn to sing.
More and more, more and more,
_Always_ more to follow!
Oh, His matchless, boundless _Grace_,
Still there's more to follow!
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