THE LORD GUARDS HIS OWN TRUTH

THE LORD GUARDS HIS OWN TRUTH

I thank you much for your letter. I think the points in dispute are in a way insignificant only for the effort to ^[p. 103] reduce everything to the present scene, and thus to divert us from ‘that out-of-the-world condition’ to which we are called. Christ as He was on earth is the chief subject of the New Testament, but if I understand the scriptures this is only to prepare us for God’s calling, and that is, as He is, and where He is. I have been looking over the epistles in this connection. You get none of the second in Romans; you get a reference to it in 1 Corinthians 2, and in 2 Corinthians 3, 2 Corinthians 4, 2 Corinthians 5 and 2 Corinthians 12; an allusion to it in Galatians 6; you are led to it in Hebrews; none in Peter or James. In 1 John, it is where He is. Colossians and Ephesians lead us fully into it. I do trust souls may get helped.

The Lord will appear for His own truth, and the more He does the more our place surely is to retire. It is thus I have taken my illness from Him. Am I ready to be a dissolving view as He comes forth in His brightness and power?

It is plain that those who oppose are opposed to the out-of-the-world condition of things which cannot be reached but through death. Death is entered as one would enter a tunnel — a great dark room to all here, only to emerge into the light of life, where life is.