A Very warm welcome to You today, from Pastor Grace!
Fact 5
The facts of which we are told in the Bible are like stepping-stones across a brook.
Let us recall our 'fact' stepping-stones which may help us first to faith, and then to feeling:
It is a fact that in Jesus Christ we are seated in heavenly places. We cannot alter this.
We may not believe it,
or avail ourselves of all the privileges which it implies,
or enjoy the blessedness of nearness to Jesus;
but such is, nevertheless, our rightful position in the divine order.
If we are united with Jesus by by the slenderest strand of faith, we are as much one with Him as the loftiest saints.
And where the Head is, there is also the Body.
In Him we died on the cross, and so met the righteous demands of the holy law.
In Him we lay in the grave, and so passed out of the region ruled by the Prince of the Power of the air, God's enemy and ours: Satan.
In Him we rose and ascended far above all might and dominion, principality and power.
Father,
thank You for my position of being made close to You through the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank You for making me part of Your Body,
since Jesus is my Head,
in His name I pray,
Amen.
