Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1917 THE DIVINE MARRIAGE
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which consists not of one Living Stone but many, builded
together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. Accordingly,
John says of the heavenly Jerusalem. "I saw no
temple therein, but God and the Lamb are the Temple
thereof." We, therefore, who are filling up in our bodies
what is lacking of the afiilictions of Christ, constitute
the Body of the Bridegroom, for we are joined together
into one, in the sacrificial body of the Lamb, just as in
the antitypical burnt offering, the members of the slain
lamb were laid together with the head upon the altar of
burnt oifering. He showed his love by sacrificing his
life for us. We show ours by sacrificing ours for him,
and for the brethren of whom he is the Firstborn. And
thru his death we "enter into life."
Now being united
by an indissoluble marriage to him WHO being raised
once for all from the dead; dieth no more, for death hath
no more dominion over him who is the head of the Body,
and therefore none over any member of his Body, however
small or insignificant. For it is self» evident that
the sharers in his death must also be the sharers in his
life, for conjointly with him we possess
HERE AND NOW
the power of an endless, indis oluble life. "For if we
have come to be of joint-growth with him in the likeness
of his death, certainly we shall bein that of his resurrection
also."
But let no one think that this is a matter
of imputation or afiirmation merely. That it is not so is
proved to demonstration by the testimony of the Apostle
Paul, when he afiirms that tho he had suffered the loss
of all things, and counted all his former greatness "as
dung," that he might win Christ, he yet confesses that
"it is not as tho I had already attained or were already
perfected, but I press on toward the mark of the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, that I may
GET TO KNOW HIM