HOLDING THE HEAD

HOLDING THE HEAD

No one really holds the Head until he has died with Christ. Much of the current teaching is simply derived from the study of Scripture. The great importance of holding the Head is that you get right direction; this you can never get from the study of Scripture alone; you may present a great many interesting things from Scripture, but they do not edify.

Edifying is adding a piece where the piece is wanted, so that you cannot know really what suits souls unless you come from Christ in the sphere of life the other side of Jordan. This is knowing Him as Head; it is there you “put on .. . bowels of mercies” (Colossians 3: 12); you may retort that there is very little ministry of this kind, but I believe ministry would be more effective if it were more to the needed point.

A brother writes to me that we ought to look for results. I quite agree; but there is no result beyond the truth that produces the result.

Many amongst us have no deliverance beyond the reckoning of faith, and this is evidently from imperfect teaching; and many again do not know what it is to come to the living Stone, because they think every believer is there; this again is from imperfect teaching.