IN CHRIST RISEN

IN CHRIST RISEN

I am glad that you are proving in your solitude the eternal resources which are in Christ. If He be risen out from among the dead where are we? Are we among that from which He has risen, or are we with Him who has risen out of it? It is very clear, nothing can be more marked and definite, than that I cannot enjoy that which God has given me in His Son, and go on with that for which He was judged in the cross. If I do not see the fulness and nature of that which God gives, I cannot see the extent and completeness of my separation from that which was under judgment, and which has been judged in the cross of Christ. It is in the greatness of the one, that I am morally superior to the other. The effort to hook on the one with the other is simply because God’s gift in His Son is not enjoyed. If it were enjoyed the incompatibility ^[p. 87] of the two going on together would be plain enough. If I know what the “great supper” is, and have an appetite for it, I should not like or allow natural things to come in and divert my time and attention from it. There can be no reviving of that which was under judgment. Christ died under the judgment of it, and rose out of it, and we are in Him.