Give Honour to Christ
"Let
us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him:
for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His
wife hath made herself ready."
-REVELATION
19:7 [KJV]
We
want two things to take us to heaven; a title to it, and a meetness
for it. Our only title to heaven is the blood and righteousness of
the Son of God— that blood which "cleanseth
from all sin,"
and that righteousness which "justifies
us from all things from which we could not be justified by the law of
Moses."
Nothing unclean or defiled can enter heaven. This is God's own
testimony: "There
shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither
whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they which are
written in the Lamb's book of life"
[REVELATION
21:27].
But
besides the title, there must be also a meetness for
this heavenly city, according to the words of the apostle: "Giving
thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints in light"
[COLOSSIANS
1:12].
Whilst here below, then, we must learn to sing some notes of that
joyous anthem which will issue in full, uninterrupted harmony from
the hearts and lips of the redeemed in the realms above, when that
glorious company will ever cry, "Alleluia!
Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power unto the Lord our God."
If we are to sit down among those blessed ones who are called unto
the marriage supper of the Lamb, not only must we be "arrayed
in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the
righteousness of saints,"
but we must have had "the
kingdom of God, which is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy
Ghost"
[ROMANS
14:17],
set up in our hearts.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
February
4th, EARS FROM HARVESTED
SHEAVES
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