THE SAVIOUR AND THE PRIEST

^[p. 27] THE SAVIOUR AND THE PRIEST

I have been pointing out the difference between the Saviour and the Priest. The Saviour’s work was on the earth, the Priest’s is in heaven. If we had only the Saviour we should in our infirmities look for His help, to be like Job under them. But when we know Him as Priest we are drawn away from the pressure and the scene of the pressure, to the solace we find in Him.... It is a great point that it is not the work merely that we have before our hearts but Himself. I see all through Luke’s gospel the great blessing which followed coming to Him. See chapters 7 and 17. There are three steps in Romans 3: 25: you come to Him and you have forgiveness; 2nd, you believe on God who raised Him from the dead; now you are justified, you are in the favour of God, you have received the Holy Ghost (Romans 4: 24, 25; 5: 1 - 5); 3rd, you are so assured that all that was contrary to God has been removed in the cross, that you can come to Christ in glory. Now you are in Christ, and the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made you free (chapter 8). Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, and the effect is, that beholding His glory you are transformed (2 Corinthians 3: 18).