The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 405

; ;

OUR STATUS

365

of living with the reformers by faith, he tries to live

found

by the things

in himself.

And from

this

men must

Much more than

grace.

return.

forsake justification by faith

this is to

This leads us back to •

in the political

principle be applied to the

Kingdom

Rome

this is to sever the artery of

realm must the sacred

of heaven, that to our Sover-

eign King and Judge alone belongs the prerogative, by His decision, absolutely to determine our state of righteousness or of unrighteousness.

The sovereignty which reposes in an earthly king is only borrowed, derived, and laid upon him, but the sovereignty of the Lord our God is the source and fountainhead of all authority and of all binding force. If it

belongs to the very essence of sovereignty, that by the

ruler's decision alone the status of his subjects is determined, then it

must be

clear,

and

can not be otherwise than that this very

it

authority belongs originally, absolutely, and supremely to our God. Whom He judges guilty is guilty, and must be treated as guilty;

whom He declares just is just, and must be treated as just. He entered Gethsemane, Jesus our King declared to His disciples " Now are ye clean through the word which I have spoken

and

Before

:

unto you."

And

this is

ever remain

so.

Our

not upon what

we

His declaration even now, and it shall forour place, our lot for eternity depends nor upon what others see in us, nor upon

state,

are,

what we imagine or presume ourselves to be, but only upon what God thinks of us, what He counts us to be, what He, the Almighty and Just Judge, declares us to be.

When He

declares us just,

counts us just, then shall not

lie,

and ours

we is

when He

when He who altho we lie in

thinks us just,

are by this very thing His children

the inheritance of the just,

in like manner, when He pronounces us Adam, when in Adam He counts us subject to condemnathen we are guilty, fallen, and condemned, even tho we dis-

the midst of

sin.

And

guilty in tion,

cover in our hearts nothing but sweet and childlike innocence. In this way alone it must be understood and interpreted that the Lord Jesus was numbered with the transgressors, altho He was holy that He was made sin, altho He was the living Righteousness and that He was declared a curse in our place, altho He was Immanuel. In the days of His flesh He was numbered with transgressors and sinners. He was put in their state, and He was treated accordingly ;

Deze tekst is geautomatiseerd gemaakt en kan nog fouten bevatten. Digibron werkt voortdurend aan correctie. Klik voor het origineel door naar de pdf. Voor opmerkingen, vragen, informatie: contact.

Op Digibron -en alle daarin opgenomen content- is het databankrecht van toepassing. Gebruiksvoorwaarden. Data protection law applies to Digibron and the content of this database. Terms of use.

Printen