ROMANS AND HEBREWS

^[p. 66] ROMANS AND HEBREWS

In Romans two things are complete. You are freed from all on your own evil side, and you are in the life of Christ, and in the power of the Holy Ghost your body is a living sacrifice. You are on God’s side, with the armour of light in a world of darkness. In Hebrews the question of sins is settled (chapter 1: 3). Then you are better off in approach to God than the Jew was; you have entrance into the holiest. Jesus is in the midst of the assembly. He is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession. He first helps us out of our infirmities — not sins; sins are settled in chapter 1. Now we are helped by Him, and that is not mere relief. We are so relieved that we are in company with Him — able, as freed from every blemish, to enter with Him into the holiest, where we not only hear His present mind, but we taste of heaven and heavenly power, and hence, as to our walk, we are occupied, not with our infirmities (as living on the earth), but with the obstructions between us and heaven. We are now in the race, by faith scaling the heights until we reach Him where He is (chapter 11 and 12). “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12: 2). Romans is more college learning to a saint. Hebrews more the harvest time — ingathering — packing in the fruits.

You do not get new creation properly in Romans, though you get newness of life.

The life is new, and it is Christ’s life, and this in connection with the lost state. Every one likes to have an easy conscience, but to be consciously in an entirely new order of life is very rare indeed.... We have “the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” in the wilderness, and you do not go further than this in Romans.