LIFE ONLY KNOWN IN RESURRECTION

LIFE ONLY KNOWN IN RESURRECTION

I do not see that the disciples had the life “more abundantly” until after the resurrection. The eternal life was manifested in the Son and they were being prepared to ^[p. 184] receive it, but they did not receive it until He breathed on them. Everything in the Gospels as regards the state of the soul was only in pattern. The disciples were with Him, who was the eternal life, and in His company they were in a way tasting of it, but eternal life could not be a known possession to a man still under the judgment of death. When the judgment on man had been removed in the cross, He who removed it could communicate His own life, which never could have been done before, and no one had come from heaven until He came.

I feel as if the Lord were helping us to understand many things which we had accepted in the scriptures, but the size of which morally we had very little apprehension of at first. The more we see the more we have to see; it is the one and the same country and Person, but exploring and acquaintance with them have immensely increased them to us. I am cheered by your prosperity at ————. I have been grieved to hear that there has been an attempt more than once to assert right to minister in the assembly. This is simply republican. If not resisted in divine power it will increase.