WITH CHRIST AND FOR HIM
[p. 33] WITH CHRIST AND FOR HIM
Luke 23: 39; 1 Corinthians 6: 19,20
The blessed Lord by the sacrifice of Himself so thoroughly removed all the judgment of God resting on the thief that He can say to him, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise”. From the deepest moral degradation here he is translated to the highest spot above. The thief has no hand nor act in his salvation. Jesus, blessed be His name, frees him from all the judgment on his body, and now his body is the Lord’s, and He will raise it a glorious body like His own glorious body. The body of every believer who is remaining on earth is “the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own, for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body”. First, you are so freed, to God’s infinite satisfaction, from all the weight of judgment which rested on your body in the sight of God, that you are raised from the lowest spot to the highest; and secondly, the body thus set free belongs to Christ, is a member of Christ to glorify Him by the Holy Spirit, marvellous grace! in the place where He died to redeem it.