Bible Class Outline: In Christ, No Condemnation

“THERE is therefore” (note the “therefore,” the divine reason for the security of God’s people) “now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” (Rom. 8:1.) Observe that all true believers are in Christ Jesus―it is the common standing for them.
IN CHRIST, MADE NIGH.
“In Christ Jesus ye” ―note the ye and we in the Epistle, the ye being the Gentile, the we the Jew― “who sometimes were afar off” (absolute strangers to God) “are made nigh by the blood of Christ.” (Observe the “in Christ,” who is in heaven, and the means whereby we are made nigh―His blood shed on earth.)
IN CHRIST, A NEW CREATION.
“If any man” (some might be religious, some profane) “be in Christ, he is a new creature.” (2 Cor. 5:17.) He is not an improved creature, an amended creature, but a new one.
IN CHRIST, CREATED UNTO GOOD WORKS.
“We are His workmanship” ―not our own formation― “created in Christ Jesus unto good works.” (Eph. 2:10.) We might have thought the text would end, “created unto glory!” No: to walk here even as Christ walked; to fulfil our little pathway even as God has pre­ordained.
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND.
“STILL more disturbing, perhaps, [to Car­dinal Manning] was the fear of the Jesuits. To promote higher studies was their special work and mission. They had ample means at their command. They were a well-organized and powerful body . . . already their influence over the more educated Catholic laity of England was firmly established… Other bishops did not share his prejudice. . . .” See “The Life of Cardinal Manning” —Purcell, Vol. II., p. 495.

Sunday Morning Texts
1.
Your Father knoweth. Luke 12:30
“OUR Father knoweth that ye have need of these things” ―the things of life’s necessity. What rest lies in this assurance! As a little child rests because it knows that its parent is aware of all its wants, so let us rest in our Father’s care.
2.
The Father of Mercies. 2 Cor. 1:3
What a gracious title of our God is this: “The Father of mercies”! He is the origi­nator―the First Cause of mercies. Our surroundings call for mercies every hour of every day. But He never fails in His mercies; His supplies are exhaustless. Yes; we love this His name: “The Father of mercies.”
3.
We cry, Abba, Father. Gal. 4:6.
It is the cry of our hearts―the joy-cry of the child. We have received the Spirit of adoption; the Holy Spirit of God is within us, and by Him we thus address our God. This cry is the outcome of consciousness that we are children of God—an evidence of the intimate relationship in which we are brought to God.
4.
My Father and your Father. John 20:17.
No human mind could have conceived such intimacy as this! The Son of God Himself has declared it. He would have it known to His own; He would have us live in the joy of it. Sin atoned for, death vanquished, peace made, and the believer brought into perfect intimacy with the Father and the Son.
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Father, I will. John 17:24.
“Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory which Thou hast given Me.” Nothing short of this will satisfy the heart and the love of Christ for us. Per­fectly at home, in perfect glory, and the perfection of the bliss, being with Christ, and seeing His glory.