THE LORD COMING INTO OUR MIDST

THE LORD COMING INTO OUR MIDST

As to your question ‘whether the Lord comes into our midst when we are gathered to Him’, my thought is, that when either a few or many saints, separated from association with evil, come together to recall the Lord in His death, that He comes to this company, makes His presence known, though not more than two or three may have faith to expect Him. Those who have come to Him, the Living Stone, can recognise Him; they know that they may see Him in His glory and have boldness to go in with Him to the holiest, and they see and seek Him there, not for their own individual state, but to be in company with Him, and they receive from Himself His present mind as to His present interests. I think the faith of two or three will draw Him into the midst.

^[p. 26] The disciples in John 20 were waiting for Him. I look upon that scripture as describing the pattern of the assembly characteristically. All that should characterise it was there in the very beginning, and therefore it is true to the end, and for every beginning.

Mr. Darby used to say that we ought to know when the Lord comes into the room — in our midst. I could better say, when He had left it — one feels that the sense of power has gone.

We remember Christ in death, but we know Him in glory. We know Him not only in the Jonah aspect, but also in the Solomon aspect.

... We had a warm discussion on the difference between the Lord’s Supper to us, and the remembrance of the Lord’s death by the millennial saints. ———— would insist that he could combine the benefits with the Benefactor. I, on the other hand, insisted that unless we are in the benefit of His death, we are not fit to be there; but we are there, not to think of our gain from His death, but to remember Him in death, and our hearts to be drawn out in love to Him.