Key Verse: "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." - 2 Corinthians 5:19 KJV
The great glory of our Immanuel is his essential glory.
When our faith can firmly grasp the Deity of our adorable Lord- and on this
precious doctrine may it never waver!- there is a corresponding confidence
and repose of the mind in each particular of His sacrificial work. Then it
is that we talk of Him as a Mediator, and love to view Him as the great
Sin-bearer of His people.
In vain do we admire His righteousness, or extol His death, if we look not upon Him in the glory which belongs to Him as essentially God. From this truth, as from a fountain of light, beams forth the glory, which sheds its soft halo around His atoning work. Oh, when, in the near view of death, memory summons back the past, and sin in battle array passes before the eye, and we think of the Lord God, the Holy One, into whose dreadful presence we are about to enter, how will every other support sink beneath us but this!
And, as the Holy Spirit then glorifies
Christ in His essential glory, testifying that the blood and righteousness-
the soul's great trust- are of the incarnate God, we shall rise superior to
fear, smile at death, and pass in peace and triumph to glory. Yes, reader,
we shall be satisfied with nothing short of absolute Deity, when we come to
die. And, in proportion as you find this great truth the substance of your
life, you will experience it the support of your death.
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