MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL

MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL

I have been studying the gospel much lately. The tendency is to limit the work of Christ to the measure of the ^[p. 175] burden on our own consciences, instead of seizing by faith the fact that all that was against us — all the weight, as God saw it — has been removed in the cross to His infinite satisfaction. There can be no heart, or readiness for the ministry of the church, until the ministry of the gospel is fully known.

We had, thank the Lord, very good meetings; the gospel, the first morning; “Dead unto sin”, the second reading; Priesthood, the third; Intimacy or personal knowledge of Christ, the fourth. It was deeply solemn on “dead unto sin”, that while ordinary death is only death, yet in feeding on Christ’s death we pass out of death into life; and there is no other way into life.