OUR LORD'S MORAL GLORY
OUR LORD’S MORAL GLORY
Every moral quality of the Lord was of Himself. He derived nothing in that sense from man, He did not even get learning from man; the Jews said, “How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?” John 7: 15. Whatever moral quality we see in Christ as a Man down here upon earth, the perfection of faith or confidence, or allegiance, or devotedness, nothing was derived, all was of Himself. He became Man, and in becoming Man He beautified and adorned the humanity that He took; and every real trait of beauty in humanity in His case was of Himself; He took that state and form that He might glorify God in it completely. He was manna come down from heaven, and everything was carried out down here in heavenly grace, in that which was of Himself....
I see four points in Christ; I see manhood beautified and adorned here upon earth, so that God should be glorified in man; I see God glorified in man in the putting away of sin; I see in the resurrection man accepted; and in the exaltation of Christ, man glorified; Christ is in heaven the glorified Man; and that Man is to be the glory and delight of the christian ...
The quotations in the chapter (Hebrews 10) are taken almost exclusively from the Psalms. The quotations begin with setting forth One who is of God’s nature, and is viewed as in the relationship of Son to Him — who is the object of homage to angels — whose everlasting throne is based on proved discrimination between righteousness and iniquity — and who in contrast to all created things remains “the Same”, and His years do not fail. For the time, all is hid in Him in the place which He as Man is called to occupy provisionally at the right hand of God, but will be displayed when the moment shall have come for His foes to be made His footstool....
[p. 156] Thus we have before us that blessed divine Person, who, being the effulgence of the glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high....
There are two cardinal points connected with christianity; one is, that Christ is Lord; and the other, that the Holy Spirit is here. They are correlative. The Holy Spirit here is the proof of the place Christ is in. He has been sent down from heaven to report the glory of the Lord. Christ is Son over God’s house, but His real title to it is, that He is divine. The proof that Christ is divine is the place that He has as Man; to be such a Man He must be divine.