INTERVIEWING WITH THE LORD IN GLORY

^[p. 214] INTERVIEWING WITH THE LORD IN GLORY

The sense, though it be but for a moment, that Christ is enough for you — that is Jordan. You have had a spiritual death-bed. Then at Gilgal the flesh must be absolutely refused — put to death.

I gave two words yesterday — the sum of our wilderness learning, complete in Christ, and the body of sin annulled. These two things were abstractedly true of me the moment I was converted. I do not improve them one bit; but they are only true to me as I walk with God.

I was saying also that the two must be concurrent. A man might be taken up with one only, and thus make no progress. You may see one denouncing the old man, but that does not rid him of the old man. You may see another full of nice feelings respecting Christ, and yet there is no progress. Why? Because Christ as He is is not grasped or interviewed by the soul. If He were, He would gain place in me, and the old man would concurrently retire, and lose his hold on me in everything down here.

There is no real interviewing with the Lord in glory. When there is, Christ monopolises the heart, and everything else is displaced.

The height of your exaltation does not discourage you, if you are advancing to it, in the smallest way. Our exaltation is assured to us by the work of Christ, and yet many are discouraged because they are not experimentally moving on to it.