DEATH PRONOUNCED AT CREATION OVERCOME

DEATH PRONOUNCED AT CREATION OVERCOME

“For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.” 1 Cor. 2:10

Confining the attention exclusively for the moment to the new union as seen in the Man Jesus, it is evident that now the triune God has moved into a new relationship with fallen man, and man is lifted in spite of his fall into new relation with the triune God in the Person of Jesus. Jesus the unfallen is yet Jesus, Who has kept the final issues, resulting from the fall. His reception of the Spirit is therefore a representative fact declaring forevermore that in spite of sin and death pronounced from that sin, a way has been made back to fellowship with the triune God and reception of life eternal. Such relation had never been nor could be, apart from this great fact. The Holy Spirit Who knows the mind of God, Who "searches all things, yea the deep things of God" (1 Cor. 2:10) Who is the Spirit of life forever proceeding from the Father, is now vested in the Man of Nazareth, and through Him, is at the disposal of all such as submit to His Lordship as well as His teaching. The Spirit of God Who had been grieved from humanity, and prevented operating in the human heart, as to the knowledge of God and the life of God, and the power of God, is now through this perfect Man, in Whom was no sin, yet in Whom is resident the moral value of cancelled sin at the disposal of the rebellious also. The ascended Christ has now become the new Center of a new race. Henceforth the Spirit will plead with man the cause of Christ, demonstrating the fact that sin and death consists in rejection of Him, declaring the evangel that righteousness and life is possible because He has ascended to the Father, having overcome the grave and denouncing forever the ultimate doom of evil, because the "prince of this world hath been judged." (John 16:11).