Key Verse: "As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things."
- 2 Corinthians 6:10 KJV
How do we possess all things? In possessing Christ who is
heir of all things. If we possess Christ, what have we not in him? We have
wisdom to teach us, righteousness to justify us, sanctification to make us
holy, and redemption to deliver us from sin, death, and hell. If we have
him, we have the favor and love of God; we have the pardon of our sins, the
reconciliation of our persons, the casting behind God's back of all our
backslidings, and a title to a heavenly crown. If we have him, we have
everything in him, for Christ is ours, and Christ is God's. Therefore in him
we possess all things. We shall have in providence things sufficient to
carry us to the grave. He will give us everything that is for our good, and
keep back nothing that is for our benefit. If we possess him, what have we
not in him?
Now the world, when death comes, what has it? Nothing to
look to but the anger of God, and a fearful judgment. But the saint of God,
when death comes to him, what has he to look to? A crown of life, a mansion
in the skies, a smiling God, and a blessed assurance that he shall sit down
at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Thus though the saints of God have
nothing, yet they possess all things; and possessing a heavenly crown, what
more can God give them?
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