THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION

THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION

We had a reading on the gospel, which was very good. The preaching of the resurrection was pressed. You cannot speak of a man risen without including that he died. Many have found relief on believing that Christ died for them who have not seen that our old man is crucified with Christ in the eye of God. Christ’s death (figuratively the Red Sea) is our way out of the death which is on us; thus we are clear before God of the man under His judgment, and we are received by Him on the ground of Him who was raised from the dead by the glory ^[p. 65] of the Father. In the gospel we know that God has removed the man under His judgment in the cross, and now He can be just and the justifier of every believer in Jesus.

Many a one would be quite satisfied to know that his sins were pardoned and to live as a forgiven one here in the life of the flesh. They do not see that where sin abounded grace did much more abound. In fact, the gospel which would be most acceptable is the one which would reinstate man in favour with God on the earth, as typified by the two goats (Leviticus 16). There is an immense difference between the acceptance set forth in the antitype of the two goats without the bullock, and the one with the bullock.