NOTES ON SCRIPTURE 1895 NO. 20
NOTES ON SCRIPTURE 1895 NO. 20
If you have the death of the Lord truly before you, nothing can solace you but to know Him alive; thus you can always judge of the measure in which His death is before you, because as it is, so your one thought is to know Him alive. Thus it was with Mary [p. 64] Magdalene, and thus with the two disciples going to Emmaus. If we fully accepted His death here, we should not look for anything bright in the place where He died. This makes the assembly of such deep interest to us. He says, “I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you”; this is collective, He would come to the company. In verse 23 you have the way He comes to us individually, “We will come unto him, and make our abode with him”; He will have a place in your heart. But in verse 19 He comes to the company, and He says, “The world seeth me no more; but ye see me”. This is the first part, we are comforted. His own side is made known to us. We remember where He was in death, that is the past; but the present is to know Him as he is in the assembly. “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you”. The more you dwell on this, the greater and more deeply it will open out to you.