MARCH 14TH, 1898

MARCH 14TH, 1898

^[p. 12] MY DEAR —, — ... I think you ought not to refrain from breaking bread, if your heart desires to be thus in fellowship with His own, and if you know and love the Lord as the One who has saved you and put away your sins. I might say in reference to this, If you tarry till you’re better, you will never come at all, The flesh will never be improved. Thank God, it has been condemned and has passed away from before His eye in the death of Christ, so that God is perfectly free to regard us in all the perfection of Christ. It is on this very ground that we break bread. We remember the Lord in that wondrous love in which He died for us. His precious love shines out in the very place where all our sin, and everything that we are as in the flesh, was removed to the glory of God. We break bread in remembrance of Him who in love has cleared us of everything. It is not what we are that we think of, but of Him whose love has reached us through His death. He has made an end in death of all that we were as in the flesh, that we might be in eternal association with Himself as His brethren. He has sanctified us by His death that we might enter into the blessedness of being “all of one” with Him, Hebrews 2: 9. And He is not ashamed to call us brethren, not because the flesh is improved but because He has removed it altogether by His death.

With much love in the Lord,

Yours affectionately in Him,

March 14th, 1898.