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“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
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“Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all unto me.” Judgment; this world; its prince, not the Lord Jesus, but Satan; his ejection. Then Another before us—One come down from heaven—the humbled Son of man, to be lifted up upon the cross—God's blessed Object for faith, who shall draw all, not Jews only, but Gentiles also—to Himself. By this same One, God in all His holy nature glorified, and revealed as the everlasting Blesser of mankind!
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How earnestly the apostle Paul desired that the saints, yea, all saints should be in the intelligence of his stewardship of the mystery which had been hidden in God from the beginning of the world. For to him it was given, as he says, to fill out the word of God. Without the revelation of this mystery, the whole counsel of God could not be known. It is now revealed. And he desired the saints' full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of it.
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Did ever man see such lowliness as was manifested in the Lord Jesus? Faith, and only faith, can say, “We beheld His glory.” A glory never before seen on earth, not now visiting, but dwelling amongst us, not a creature, but the Creator “Emmanuel, God with us.”
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Now that redemption is accomplished, the cleansing power of Christ's precious blood is made known which renders the believer fit for the light of God's presence into which he is brought with a purged conscience. He is therefore responsible to walk according to the light in which God is.
