To be near unto God - pagina 506

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'THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY." Christ

is

He

your King.

has been anointed

King not merely over Zion, the mountain

of his holiness; not merely King, after the earthly Zion

had been profaned, over God's kingdom m the No, Christ is also King over the persons earth. who are subject unto him. Our personal relation

word. to Christ can not be expressed in a single

When we

think of the guilt of is our ReconWhen we seek safety with Christ against ciler. the power of sin and of temptation, he is not our Reconciler, but our Redeemer. Or when we look labyto Christ for direction and guidance in the rinth of life, the selfsame Savior is not our Reconciler, not our Redeemer, but our Shepherd, who has gone before us in the way, and has left

It is sin,

many-sided.

which threatens doom, Christ

us an example.

But even this does not exhaust our manysided relation to our Savior. For that self-same Christ is also our glorified Head with the Father, the Lord before whom our knee must bend, and whom our tongue must confess; and therefore the King who has incorporated us with his people whose subjects we have become; and in whose palace we shall once be expected. The honorapr that the title of King is even so little accidental, great plea on Golgotha is at length fought out under it, and at the bar of Pilate the conflict between the Emperor of Rome and the Anointed One of God concentrated itself in the struggle for the honor of Kingship. 498

As announced

to

John

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