THE EARTHLY AND THE HEAVENLY

THE EARTHLY AND THE HEAVENLY

... Be assured you will find the snare of the day amongst us is to exalt the standing or status of the Old Testament saint in order to bring him so near to the New Testament saint that the heavenly character of the latter may be ignored, and that thus the great difference between them — one earthly, the other heavenly — is effaced. And thus Christendom has done effectually. What the church did at the earliest date when decline set in is the snare now to us to whom the Lord has committed the recovered truth. No Old Testament saint will be of the heavenly city though he will be in it; and this is an immense difference. The Old Testament saint could use anything on the earth for God’s service; we are precluded from using anything of man for God. We are confined absolutely and entirely to the one Man in heaven for motive, for joy, for life, for dictation, for direction in every detail of daily life.