RECONCILIATION LEADING TO UNION (4)
RECONCILIATION LEADING TO UNION (4)
The Supper in Luke 14 is the celebration of divine grace: “Come in, that my house may be filled” - heavenly festivities before we go to heaven. Are you sick of the first man and sick of this place? Earthly favours divert us more than anything else. Sounds of joy awoke the elder brother.
In Hebrews 4 you are drawn by His Person away from this place and you run a race towards Him. The instances of faith in chapter 11 extend from acceptance (Abel) to the fall of Jericho’s walls. When [p. 26] He comes into the midst, He brings in the halo: “the holiest” for us; as to Him it is “heaven itself”.
John 14:2 shows that we do not belong to the place where he was rejected, but to the place where He is exalted. In Colossians 2: 20 we are dead to principles, and the Jordan involves being dead to things here. In Ephesians 2 we are united to Christ in heaven. No one can be heavenly in character till he knows union, heavenly tastes, enjoyments and power.
Christ liveth in me: state.
Christ dwelling in me: His interests are in my heart; Rebecca.
Christ in you: dead to sin on my side, and hope of glory on His side.