We are the Love-revealing part of Him. We are the part of Him that blesses and touches humanity. We are the part of Him that brings Eternal Life to lost man. He shared with us in His Incarnation. He became one with us. He gave us His kingly glory and became one with suffering, lost humanity. He was one with us in His Substitution. He shares with us; He shares our sins, our infirmities, our diseases. He took them upon Himself. The sharing was so real that He who knew no sin, became sin in order to become Identified with us, to come to our level. He not only had sin reckoned to Him, sin laid upon Him as the High Priest laid the sin of Israel upon the goat, but He actually became sin. We can hardly grasp the fact that Deity could become sin, but He did. He died spiritually. The Righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God. In the New Creation we shared with Him. He is the Head; we are the body. He has imparted Himself to us, and when He imparted Himself to us, He gave to us a new self in the place of our old self. That old, fallen, sin-ruled self was displaced and the new Jesus self, the New Creation self, the Godlike self, the self that is made in the image of Christ, became our new self. You see how utterly He shared with us; how much He became one with us. In Col. 3:1 he says, If, then, you have shared in Messiahs resurrection, aspire ever to the things on high, where Messiah is, throned at the right hand of God.”Let your thoughts dwell on things above, not grovel on the earth. You have died to things of earth, and your real life now has been hidden, by its union with Messiah, in the being of God. (Ways Trans.) Here we catch a glimpse of our utter oneness with Him, of the completeness of this union. What is more real than this; I am the vine, ye are the branches. (John 15:5). Here He shows us we are the fruit-bearing part of Him. We are the Love-revealing part of Him. We are the part of Him that blesses and touches humanity. We are the part of Him that brings Eternal Life to lost man. We are sharing in His Resurrection. The heart is thrilled. If we share in His Resurrection, we share in His victory over Satan: we share in His victory over sin. We have been raised together with Him. We are sharing His victory over the adversary. Then Satan knows that we conquered him in Christ, that we were with the Master when He put him to naught and triumphed over him, and put off from Himself the principalities and the powers, when Jesus made a show of Satan before his own hosts in the dark regions; that we shared with Him and were a part in that great victory. And did you notice, we are sharing in the things on High where Messiah is enthroned at the right hand of God? We are seated with Him. You see, in Eph. 2:6-8 we were raised together with Him; and then not only were we raised with Him, but we were seated with Him. Let me read from Ephesians (Ways Trans.) : Thrilled us with the same new life wherewith He quickened our Messiah. By free grace alone have ye obtained salvation and with Him He raised us from the dead, and with Him throned us in the high heavens. His expression throned us means we are seated as one with Him on the throne now. He is the Head of the Body; we are members of the Body. Where the Head is, the Body is. The authority that belongs to the Head belongs to the Body. Now you can understand Matt. 28:18: All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. All authority, all dominion. You understand now why He could put off from Himself the principalities and the powers. You can understand how He could make a show of them. He was the Master, with the Omnipotence and Ability of the Father. We share in that. He has given us the legal use of His Name. In that Name is invested all the authority the Father gave Him after His Resurrection. That Name is ours, and we have a legal right to use it. Oh, I wish that our hearts could take it in.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:03:12 +0000
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