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GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH. THE MAN CHRIST JESUS NO. 8

I can understand the difficulty of the two brothers. They will never see their way out of it until they accept that Christ is a new order of man — “the Man out of heaven”. Many think that because He was perfect in flesh and blood, that the Christian is to come to the same perfect Man. He was in the likeness of flesh of sin, but He knew no sin. The error at Plymouth was that He was connected with flesh of fallen man. They quite forgot that He was sui generis (of His own kind), and that He was made flesh in order to bear the judgment on man in flesh and blood. He, the perfect One, in the flesh bore the judgment on man, and judicially terminated that order of man, in the eye of God, on the cross. There the end of all flesh has come, so that He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one, wherefore He is not ashamed to call them brethren. Every believer is of His order, of His brethren — the fruit of the grain of wheat which had died. He is of a new order — out of heaven — and though He was ^[p. 131] altogether lovely in the eye of God here as a Man in flesh and blood, He gave up His life. He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and no one can walk here, as He walked, who is not in the power of His life. You cannot be like Him as He was here but as you are empowered by Him where He is. “Without me ye can do nothing”. You cannot imitate Him. You must come from Him in heaven to be like Him as He was on earth.

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