Voices of the Day (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE FORERUNNER IN GLOEY. . When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father." "Received up into glory." ? 1 Timothy 3: 16. " When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now, that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists." We read also in the sixteenth chapter of Mark, at the nineteenth verse, " He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God;" in Luke, the twenty-fourth chapter and the fifty-first verse, " He was parted from them and carried up into heaven;" in the First Epistle of Peter, the fourth chapter and the twenty-second verse, " Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God." The questions that remain for us to solve are, What is the nature of this glory into which Christ is entered ? What is the interest that we have in the fact that Christ was received up into glory ? and what are the voices of truth, and joy, and hope, personally and practically instructive, which to faith are naturally audible in it. Christ on earth and Christ in glory are truly remarkablecontrasts. His reception into earth and his reception into glory differed wholly from each other, and were the one the splendid antithesis of the other. He was born in a stable, cradled in a manger; and in the agony of the desolation of which he was the victim, not for himself, but for us, he was constrained to own, " The foxes of the earth have holes, and the birds of the air...