LIFE WHERE CHRIST IS NO. 2

LIFE WHERE CHRIST IS NO. 2

Many thanks for your letter. I feel the Lord has answered our prayers, and has, I trust, made His truth better known. No doubt (as some one wrote to me), ‘Those who were not valiant for the truth when they had the opportunity in the ———— matter are found opposing it now.’ I am thankful that you insisted that the sphere of eternal life is found through the acceptance of the judgment of the cross on sinful flesh and the world. I believe that nine-tenths found their assurance of salvation on the word “hath eternal life” rather than on the work of Christ, and this is the real cause of all this perturbation about “babes”. I think John takes Paul’s line when he speaks of the three grades — babes, young men, and fathers. If you study Philippians 3 you will see the different Greek words used, lambano to obtain, katalambano for taking possession of, and katantao to arrive at. J.N.D. used to say that Paul there was reaching on to everything, not perfected in anything yet. I hope we shall not be drawn away into criticisms, but may we seek more than ever to feed souls, and the better they are fed with the pure milk of the word the more surely will they grow up unto Him in all things.