PART WITH HIM

PART WITH HIM

I am lecturing on the formation and calling of the bride. I began on the resurrection. Second, Christ formed in you. Third, “Part with Me”. You cannot know Him as Priest except as you have part with Him. This is your ^[p. 41] side, and you cannot join Him in the assembly — His side, except you have part with Him; and until this is known, you cannot apprehend His interests as they are to Himself; and if you do not understand them in some measure as they are to Him, you have not part with Him. I think He first draws you into company with Himself as to yourself — sets you free from every pressure in His company; He liveth in you; and then He carries you on into the range and scope of His own interests, which you begin to learn in the assembly.

I find after all, that everything in your spiritual history depends on the gospel you have received. No one can know the liberty wherewith Christ hath made him free, who does not know first, that the blessed God has removed in the cross, to the fullest relief of His heart, and to His endless glory, all that man who was under His judgment, so that He can now receive the believer in the acceptance of the Beloved. As Christ is the glorified Man, your liberty is to be in moral keeping with this — the greatest and unalterable acceptance. You know the first by faith, and you are in the second by the Spirit of God.