Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-10

plea; that on the Mount of Olives when He had
just left the temple for the last times and that in
the Chamber where he ate His last Passover, and
instituted His Supper They were all like the
Epistles addressed to Christians and each mad
the grand object of bringing Christians into the
full manhood of Christian life. The first was on
the law and lifted up the law out of the rubbish
of the ages and held it up as Moses did the two
tables, in its purity, as It came from the hand of
God, end in its spiritual power as applicable to
the thoughts and intents of the heart and 80
prepared the way for the work of the Holy Spirit
to write this law in its full purity and power in
the heart: In us not over us, there is world
wide difference In means the propulsive
power Of the law Of love Oyer-means the
binding power of the law of obligation. The
second on leaving the temple was concerning the
Judgment and 1t unfolds first the principle OF
stewardship for Christ as Lord, and second that
of loyalty to Christ as King. Oh how impressively
it does this parallels andin the final awards,
and the reasons for them.
These principles, as thus unfolded are also
in preparation for the Spirits work of putting
them into the soul. In, not over. In, they are
bondage. The third discourse was on the life,
the higher life, the abiding life, the full manhood
of life ITSELF and unfolds the way to attain 1t as
clearly as words divinely spoken can do it, and is
thus the complement, the completeness OF the
other two and Of all before it's Christ by faith
The power too, by which Christians are
brought up into this life is indicated and prom
isedgthat of the Holy Ghost Pentecost sealed
all the previous and preparatory work, wrote the
law of love and the principles OF stewardship
and loyalty in the hearts of the 1870, and was
followed by the extension Of this grand and
glorious experience to multitudes in and after
the Apostolic times. and gave them the power
by which they fought and conquered and won
the day.
Here is our basis, the Apostles, our Lord him
self being the chief cornerstone. On this
foundation we build. God grant us to build not
with hay, wood and stubble, to have our edifice
burned up, but Of gold, silver and precious
stones, to endure forever
1t will be helpful to us in grasping the princi.
Piles of the higher life, if we bear in mind that
CHRIST IS OUR LIFE.
Life, whether lower or higher, Is not thing
impaired like money or property, but q thing
entered into like matrimony. Married life can
only be enjoyed by the bride by her marriage
with the bridegroom. Never, never apart from
him. To enter into married life the bride must
accept the bridegroom's offer, and give herself
to him as his bride in a lifelong union with him.
So and 80 only can she become one with him,
bone of his bone. and flesh of his fiesh- 30 Is it
between us and Chriet. Accepting Christ at his
offer, and giving ourselves to Christ at his invi-
tation, we are united to him and become one
with him. We in him, he in us, and he is our
Christian life.
Another thing no less helpful, il always re-
membered, is that Christ offers Himself to us
in the promise. He does not como to us bodily
and throw himself into our arms, but he comes
in his spiritual invisible presence and power in
the promise. So Christ is nigh thee in thy heart
and on thy tongue in the word we speak. He is
| to be accepted on his promise, not on signs not
on evidence or previous experience or feelings,
or any other demonstration. but on the ground
| that he has promised and will perform has
given himself to us and il ours. From this it
| follows that he can be accepted only by faith.
| He is in his promise. His honor, his love, his
l h foit bia xviad nil nliphtad in
his promise. Therefore, he says believe and be
saved Take me and you have me! And having
me you have life
In these things and Indispensable to them,
there is another thing which we call conseera-
| ton, but which seems to me better expressed by
the term giving one self to Jesus. To be wholly
/ the Lords we must be given up to keep the
| whole law, and to be his stewards in everything
as our Lord and his subjects as our King, but thai
is not enough; we must give ourselves to him
| 10 be his own, to work in us and by us, and tc
| dwell in u.s. possess us, as not even the husband
possesses his wife.
If one wooed as bride should say yes, ant
| enter into covenant and write it down and sea
it before God on her knees, to be faithful
steward in all her wooer's house. and faithful
servant in all his interests and should fail to Civ!
him herself, would she, could she, be his wife
Never till she had given herself to him. never
Now it is principle in this matter that ont
cannot give more than he takes, nor yet TAX
more than he gives.
1t is so in matrimony, it is SO III Christian life
husband may bestow more heart than the wifi
gives back, or the wife moro than the husband
reciprocates, but the one who bestows least cal
| appropriate and enjoy no more than iS given.
is precisely so in the union Of the soul wit
| Jesus we may try to give more than we take
but shall take it back if we do. We may try t
take more than we give, but never can do it,.
To take Christ wholly we must give ourselye
wholly to him. To give ourselves wholly to hir
| a,d ate oil take him wholly
: own. Then again, is a fact that one may civ
| and take in this matter in one great relation
Christ and think that tits all while ct in anothe
relation equally great it is not done at all. As
Christ as his atoning Savior and take Christ an
have Him for Justification, and yet not take
| the matter of keeping and purifcation unto Goo
and 80 fail of sanctiicaton by faith, and the
set about to get 1t by striving instead OF trustin
Out of this often comes another thing whic
j, ia puzzle to many and a stone of offence
9 some. second experience 30 like to the fir
that one may be known from the other only
; the object pursued and obtained in each as diffe
: ent from the other. In the one Christ is mac
) of God righteousness to the soul, and the oth'
sanctifcation But out of this whole matter
experience, the first and the second alike, sor
I; make an object of pursuit instead of Christ al
9 so meet with many disappointments. The prol
II ise is seek the Lord and ye shall lind him, =
= seek an experience and ye shall find that.
= London when seen is not at all the London !
i, agined by the voyager whilst sailing over
u ocean. No more is the salvation we have
y Christ what we had imagined beforehand. Se
y Christ and ye shall find him.. Believe in Chr
Y and ye have him. He will take care of your
~ perence.
4 There is one question about this whole mat
=. to be answered. What is it we attain when
ie give and take in full measure? Christ.
10 attain or accept and have Christ as a full Sayi
axIII sa prru and xva
v where with us in all his loving wisdom and poy
ne to save us to the uttermost and fill us with Hi
az self. He is unfolded to us by the Holy Gho
and in him We have the Father also to DIV
ng God, the body of Christ, members in P
u tcular the bride of the Lamb, and He Ii
5h in us and we in him in this sweet, swe
h- blessed, blessed, wonderful union. But wha
to temptation? Does he save you from temI
ton? Do you get beyond thata No: Oh
tn was tempted. We do not get beyond Chr
st. But we have Christ with and within us to m
dy a way of escape, give us the victory, overcd
the world, cruelty the flesh and bruise ga
lor under our feet. As to sin what? Much OF
by Levitical law is devoted to sacrifices for SIN
ok, ignorance. We are not so presumptuous at
suppose we see ourselves as God sees us,
to are free from sins of ignorance.
lid But praised be our Lord Jesus Christ He 9
800 give us dominion over sin and does free us 4
its bondage. He is our emancipator from sil
dy, He was from condemnation. He destroys
the works of the devil and gives us complete yic
she over the flesh and the world.
nrs What as to growth Fully in Christ we ar
our normal position, for full and unobstru
hes growth and fr,litage, and so instead OF its b.
.est the end Of growth it is the full beginning.
ses fuller the life the greater the growth. Life
creation not development, and growth is
unfolding of life. Christ in US is our life.
non unfold this life we need to breathe and eat
the drink breathe the Rhena, the spirit eat
har drink the bread and water of life, Christ,
~ then we have only to pour forth the Ii
ith streams of this inner life in the sweet exel
in of all Christian living and testifying and reioi
,est and working, praying. And, o how We shal
filed filled, filled day by day, with all the full
of God What of such scriptures as charg
to strive, watch, fight, work, &c2 First III
stand them, then give them full play. Striv
MAN enter in at the strait gate? Yes Who is the {
Christ Then make sure of it that you trut
him not in your own strivings Watch?
watch for your Lord. Fight Yes fight the
tion fight of faith. Stand fast ? Yes stand fas
iord the faith. Work out +? Yes for it is God
ians worketh in. Yes he will work in you all the
Q is all of his will, all of his Joy peace, power,g
and
true Yu,h.
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