THE POWER OF GOD
"And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath He
quickened together with Him,
having forgiven you all trespasses."
-COLOSSIANS
2:13 [KJV]
Christ's
resurrection was the sure pledge and meritorious cause of the
Church's regeneration. The whole body of the elect was "quickened
together with Christ," as well as raised up together with Him;
that is, mystically quickened, as they were mystically raised,
quickened in a mystical regeneration of soul, as well as raised up in
a mystical regeneration of body. How wonderful is this, that every
soul quickened into divine life in time is so because mystically
quickened as a member of Christ when He was raised from the dead.
View
the whole body of the elect as dead in sin. Then view them quickened,
one by one, in all their countless multitude, during the whole
stretch of time. Consider the power put forth in the regeneration of
each individual. Then take a view of the quickening of the dead body
of Christ, as prior to the resurrection, and the whole body of the
elect mystically quickened together with Him. Do you see no act of
infinite power, and power in harmony with love and grace here? Where
are the eyes of your faith, if you see not this? Where your admiring
love, if you do not adore this act of love to the Church, as in union
with her covenant Head? Was not that a mighty act of power and love
which, at one moment, and by one and the same act, mystically
quickened millions of souls which shall live for ever in the presence
of God?
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
March
8th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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