The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-05-20
Sitting with Jesus on His Throne.

Sitting with Jesus on HIS Throne.
The seventh promise to the Seven
Churches is: "To him that overcometh
will I grant to sit with me on my throne,
even as also overcame and am set down
with my Father on his throne" This is
far more than the "power over the ma
tions promised in the Epistle to Thya-
tira. That is share in the act of pow
er and judgment which shall end the con-
fict and crown the mediatorial triumphs,
and make the universe to ring with the
shouts of Alleluia; this is to share with
him in the peaceful and eternal glories
of the perfected kingdom which are to
follow his triumph. "Even as l also
overcame." He had personal conflict
here in the flesh on our behalf; he over
came the world, sin, death and hell, and
has been crowned with glory and honor
on the right hand of the Majesty on
high, as Mediatorial King, and there he
must reign till he hath put all enemies
under his feet. When he shall have done
this there is nothing more left for me-
diator to do-the mediatorial reign ceases.
But the fruits of that reign are eternal;
these are the body of his redeemed and
glorifed people who are in living and
eternal union with him. AS their living
Head he must ever reign in them, over
them,-and among them. This is his own
peculiar throne and his everlasting king
dom, as distinguished from his mediatorial
reign. They shall ever reign with him
over world redeemed, regenerated and
purified by the final sonAagration from
every vestige of the curse. In that new
heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness, in that one great city of
the living God descended from heaven,
every redeemed soul shall share in far
more glorious dominion than that origi-
nally conferred on Adam and lost by the
fall.
This is beautifully and expressly repre-
sented as sitting with Jesus on has throne.
The redeemed "shall reign forever and
ever" but not on throne inherited in
their own right but in his right who re-
deemed them; throne founded in sove-
reign grace and redeeming blood. "On
my throne;" the throne which belongs to
me as the reward, the final and eternal
result of my whole mediatorial work. 1t
is mine, but mine for my redeemed to oc-
cupy and rule over, world restored to
holiness and harmony. There is some
thing here which we are slow to conceive.
To rule and reign, as exercised here on
earth, so fully implies power to restrain
and prevent, if not to punish evil, that
we find it difficult to conceive of rule
where there is no evil to be restrained or
guarded against, and no enforcement Of
laws by the sanction of penalties. Yet
such is the rule promised. 1t is do
minion where one desire, one aim, one
will pervades every soul, and that will,
the will of the King himself. Then it is,
and only then can it be, that every soul is
king, every one reigns with Christ, for he
lives perfectly in each. Then shall ap-
pear the completeness of the union Of
Christ and his redeemed; one life, one
body, one throne. because I live ye
shall live ALSO" eff we suffer with him
we shall also reign with him." Then
shall this promise be fulfilled when he
shall say, "Come ye blessed of my Faith
er, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world. -
Then shall be realized the joyful hope Of
the crowned elders in the new song when
the Lamb took the seven sealed book
from the hands of him that sat upon the
throne. "We shall reign on the earth. !"
"They shall reign forever and ever
Ertract from a Lecture By Reu. DR..
Ramsey, of Bynch6urg, Va.