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Saturday, November 22, 2014

 

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CONTENTS | For Himself That It Might Be For Us

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The Purifying of The Heavenly


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We must become part of him to benefit from his own redemption
The "Simple Facts," According To Bro. Roberts

 

WE have only to receive the simple facts testified in the case to reach the end of all difficulty. We see Jesus born of a woman, and therefore a partaker of the identical nature condemned to death in Eden. We see him a member of imperfect human society, subject to toil and weakness, dishonor and sorrow, poverty and hatred, and all the other evils that have resulted from the advent of sin upon the earth. We see him down in the evil which he was sent to cure: not outside of it, not untouched by it, but IN it, to put it away.

"He was made perfect through suffering" (Heb. 2:10) - but he was not perfect till he was through it. He was saved from death (Heb. 5:7) - but not until he died. He obtained redemption (Heb. 9:12) - but NOT UNTIL HIS OWN BLOOD WAS SHED.

The statement that he did these things "for us" has blinded many to the fact that HE DID THEM "FOR HIMSELF" FIRST - without which he could not have done them for us, for it was by doing them for himself that he did them for us.

He did them for us ONLY as we may become part of him, in merging our individualities in him by taking part in his death, and putting on his Name, and sharing his life afterwards. He is, as it were, a new center of healthy life, in which we must become incorporate before we can be saved. -Law of Moses, ch. 18, page 172-3.

This is indeed the "simple facts" of the glorious Truth that bro. Thomas providentially resurrected. Christ actually did in himself what was required for the destruction of the diabolos, and the cleansing from sin of the defiled and condemned human nature. He offered the divinely required, perfect, life-and-death sacrifice foreshadowed in Eden, and he THEREBY "obtained eternal redemption" and was "made perfect." We share that accomplishment ONLY by becoming part of him and being covered by him - absorbed into him. This is The Truth. The only alternative to it is the old orthodox substitutionism - in one or other of its many ancient or modern guises. Let us faithfully preserve this precious heritage of Truth. - G.V.G.

 


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