EXTRACTS

There is, I think, a double judgment of God indicated. We find, first, the judgment of God as to responsibility where we are, and then, the judgment of God as to what can approach Him where He is, and as He is. Both are His judgments, but it is just the difference between the brass and the gold. The brazen altar was judgment as regards the responsibility of man where he was; he had to bring a sin-offering, and meet God according to his responsibility and failure in it. But the cherubim on the mercy-seat were all of gold, and that was approaching God according to what He was in Himself ... Just as the sinner comes to the brazen altar where the question of his previous responsibility is met, but he is not really clear and settled in his soul until he has passed right within the veil.

We cannot have the full value of righteousness unless we have to do with the gold, that is to say, unless we can walk in the light as God is in the light. I cannot now have merely my responsibility as a man met, I must go further than this.

J. N. Darby (‘Notes and Jottings’, pp.364, 365)

Things must be stated clearly. To speak of the truth of the assembly is not pretension or assumption! No, the Lord never did sustain pretension. To say He does not is nothing peculiar to the present moment, for He never did; but I cannot conceive of the Lord giving up the truth of His assembly, I mean in the sense of having the truth of it maintained down here in testimony to the end.

J. Pellatt (‘Closing Ministry’, p.132)

I think the effect of Paul’s ministry was to put everything in connection with Christ in glory, but then I think all that came out in Paul’s public ministry had been previously spoken of by the Lord when He was on earth.

F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol.5, p.325)

A brother has drawn our attention to the fact that the word by Mr. J. N. Darby, quoted from earlier periodicals in our February issue, is printed in ‘The Collected Writings’ (New Series only) Volume 32, p.407, entitled ‘Letter on Apostasy’.

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