THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS DEATH

THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS DEATH

Though I have a line in hand for you with reference to Abram and Lot, I think I had better comment first on the enclosed. It is evident that your aim is right, but, as far as I see, it cannot be said that you come from His side to remember Him in His death. J.N.D. says, and I believe it to be true, that it is on the earth, where He is not, that you remember His death. The true remembrance of His death was to close this scene completely to us. Israel were idolaters because they could in the absence of Moses eat and drink and rise up to play. The Corinthians had no sense of the absence of Christ — no true acceptation of His death, and that in eating the supper they were identified with His death. To my mind it is this — I see Him at the altar as having died, and with this fresh on my heart I join ^[p. 76] Him as one of the consecrated company at the door of the tabernacle where He is in glory, and go in with Him, and there I am associated with Him in His own blessedness in the presence of God in the holiest of all. It is as His brethren we accompany Him, and there could be no remembrance of sin there, for we are as He is. The sense of this is very feebly apprehended by us. I remember Him as He was here, I join Him as He is, a great Priest over the house of God.