"HE IS THY LORD, AND WORSHIP THOU HIM"
“[p. 235] HE IS THY LORD, AND WORSHIP THOU HIM”
We were speaking today of Isaac in Genesis 24, and let me remind you, dear brethren, that the servant’s name is not given, nor is it a mere domestic, as in an earlier chapter; it is the eldest servant in Abraham’s house; he is a man of importance. That is the point in regard to the servant in Genesis 24. But when Rebecca asks about Isaac, he says, “That is my master!”, not ‘my master’s son’, though Abraham was still alive. It is a tribute to Jesus; He is equal with God. If Abraham is master to the servant, so is Isaac master. That is how Scripture speaks. Let us not allow our minds to work in these things, let us follow the Scripture. So here, in Ephesians 5, if He presents the assembly to Himself, that is His deity — no one but a divine Person could do that. Adam did not present Eve to himself (although he was indeed a type of Christ). God presented her to Adam. But the Father does not bring the assembly to Christ here; Christ presents her to Himself. “He is thy Lord”, as is said in Psalm 45, “and worship thou him”. So we get these informal statements that testify to His personal glory; the Scriptures are full of them, so that we are built up in them, we breathe them, as it were; in the household of faith we breathe the testimony to the glory of Jesus.