HEBREWS AND EPHESIANS

HEBREWS AND EPHESIANS

As to our readings at ———— we read Hebrews for two hours every evening, and Ephesians for two hours every morning. In the former the truth of our present position as God’s people on the earth came out well. As were the sons of Aaron, so are we the consecrated companions of our High Priest who is greater than Moses and greater than Aaron, the great Priest over the house of God. Through Him we have entrance into the holiest. The Lord in the midst of the assembly leads our hearts into His things, in moral correspondence with Himself. Hence we are running the race on to Him in heaven, while our testimony is outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

As in Hebrews we are true to a heavenly calling, and are moving on to heaven, so in Ephesians, as belonging to heaven, united to Christ there, we are in heart there, and descriptive here of the heavenly Man in all the details of daily life, in such spiritual power that we withstand all the wiles of the devil, that is, we are in moral armour, and also in unceasing dependence on God, praying for the proclamation of the mystery of the gospel.

In the one, through the effect of being in Christ’s company we are running on to heaven, and here outside the camp bearing His reproach; while in the other, being united to Christ in heaven, we are descriptive of Him here in every detail and able through His power to maintain our heavenly portion in moral superiority to all the wiles of the devil.