RECONCILIATION LEADING TO UNION (5)
RECONCILIATION LEADING TO UNION (5)
There was opposition before Christ came; then it was to turn them to idolatry. Now a Man has come who can dislodge and destroy Satan. We should know the present character of the opposition. He is a vanquished foe if you are in heavenly power. A ‘dispensation’ is whatever God is set for at the time.
Simply holding to the objective side and to what has been done for you, ignores the Spirit. Is the subjective side all attainment? No, what is wrought for me is arrived at in me, is enjoyed by the Spirit.
Light (objective) first - then the Spirit’s work (subjective).
Faith (objective) is not appropriation (subjective).
Christ - Spirit The Ephesians had lost the sense of union; the top shoot is the first to wither. You can never lose the Spirit’s work. Appropriation is by love, and priesthood is a question of affections. Many have thought themselves in possession of what they only had a title to.