_HOME AT LAST_ ‘At home with the Lord.’ 2 Corinthians 5:8 (R. V.) That is heaven at last. ‘There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.’ I can tell you two things about that home. I. IT IS A HOME WHERE CHRIST IS.—It is ‘home with the Lord.’ He will unlock the treasures of heaven and u... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE CHRISTIAN AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT_ ‘We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body.’ 2 Corinthians 5:10 Not so much a universal judgment hour is in view here, with its dread appeal to the universal conscience, as an investigation wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_CONSTRAINING LOVE_ ‘The love of Christ constraineth us.’ 2 Corinthians 5:14 The fascination of the Cross is that there the ineffable love of God is manifested. The spectacle is horrible, piteous, agonising, yet on that scene have been fixed the highest, tenderest, holiest thoughts of men for nin... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SUMMING-UP OF LIFE_ ‘He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him Which died for them, and rose again.’ 2 Corinthians 5:15 Have you ever considered the meaning of life? You say to me, ‘It is a mystery which no man can explain,’ and you are qu... [ Continue Reading ]
_A NEW CREATION_ ‘Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 Had you asked St. Paul to define a Christian he would have answered, ‘a man in Christ.’ Had you further asked what he meant by being ‘in Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘SUBSTITUTION’_ ‘For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.’ 2 Corinthians 5:21 I cannot understand the mind of that man who can read the Gospel and not see ‘substitution.’ From all eternity Christ had undertaken, in the soverei... [ Continue Reading ]