To be near unto God - pagina 508

on earth the King of God's kingdom can not be But with this the hkeness ends. That Christ is your king is as a figure of speech, so httle derived from earthly princes that on the contrary the kings in the earth are only imagebearers of his glory, and that true, real, actual kingship is never realized in a prince on earth, seen.

but

is

known

in Christ alone.

Head, Lord and King are but three rays of the selfsame glory. Head points to the inner relationship and sodality of your life, existence and inner being, with the life, existence and being of your Savior. Lord expresses that Christ owns you, that you are his property, that you belong to him, that he has redeemed you from the power of Satan, and that he has bought you with his blood. And only in this two-fold relation, because he is

your Head and Lord, he is also your King, who has taken you up into his Kingdom, incorporated

you with his people, made you sharer and rules you by his royal law of life.

in his lot,

You

are

his subject, but only because thereby you are a member of the body of which he is the head. This seems at first hearing an enigmatical union, is one which beautifully explains itself that body, and in it the significance of the head, and what under the head every member is, is clearly understood. Imagine man, to take a perfect instance, as in paradise he came forth from the hand of God. The clean, pure, beautiful body, and in that body the several members, in which it revealed itself, and its noble head, with the fullness of facial expression, with the fine, expressive features, with the animation that uttered itself in them. Thus only can we have

but

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