THE LIGHT WHICH GOVERNS THE POSITION

THE LIGHT WHICH GOVERNS THE POSITION

1 Corinthians 11:23 - 28; John 20:19 - 26

There are certain facts that regulate us in the way of light in taking the Lord’s supper, and then there is certain light that regulates us after the Lord’s supper. One element of light after the Supper is that we are His brethren. We want to get into heavenly relationships after the Supper.

^[p. 356] The light which governs the position in the Lord’s supper is that the Lord is absent, we love one another, and we are in the scene of the Lord’s death, in the scene of contrariety where He died, where He was rejected.

Then Mary’s message is the light that governs the other position; we are entitled to move in that light; that is what we may call heavenly light. “Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God”. (John 20:17)

We remember Him as His disciples, as those called out of the world. The world has forgotten Him, but we have not forgotten Him. The history of the church shows the necessity for the Supper. The Lord has been forgotten. “As for this Moses, we wot not what is become of him”. (Exodus 32:1) Hence His request, “Do this in remembrance of me”. (Luke 22:19)

The light that Mary receives brings in the thought of brethren and of the Man who ascends, and that His Father is our Father. That light gives us the other position. We are in the sense of the heavenly position, and of His Father being our Father. If we keep in the light which governs that position we are saved from confusion.

Think of Him breathing into us and imparting to us His own life! Acts 2 is the external side; this is inward. Here (John 20) it is all pattern; it has reference to the fact that we have the same life as Christ has. John has the heavenly light — “Heavenly light makes all things bright”. This is normal Christian privilege. “Arise, shine, for thy light is come” (Isaiah 60:1) is Israel’s light, and it is a great thing to rise to the light that is for us.

Ex Reading at Dublin, May 14th, 1913.