Christ Tempted and Sympathising (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Abraham who was told of the imminent destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot only learned it just in time to be saved, as he was, by fire. But Abraham knew in peace beforehand, and interceded with God. Our portion ought to be that of Abraham rather than of Lot. There are those who will be saved just in time to escape destruction. There are those yet to be in the sphere of judgment, who will pass through in a measure, who will only be preserved. Some will be destroyed. Remember Lot's wife. Others will he rescued, as the angels rescued Lot and his daughters. But theirs was not the happier portion. God has provided some better thing for us in every respect. He has given us the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Accordingly, says Paul, writing, not to the Ephesians or the Philippians, but even to the Corinthians, "We have the mind of Christ," the intelligence of Christ, the capacity of spiritual understanding. Not, of course, that we have the same measure as the Lord, who had and was Himself the wisdom of God, and this absolutely. We have nothing save in and by Him, and hence only in dependence on Him. However, we have not the mere mind of man only but of Christ, as Christians having the Holy Ghost. The intelligence of Christ is ours; and this shows why what was true in principle of Abraham is increasingly--so to speak--true of the Christian, for it could not be said, in the full force of the terms, that Abraham had the mind of Christ. The Holy Ghost had not yet come, for Jesus was not yet glorified. Now that the Lord Jesus has accomplished the redemption, and has gone up on high, He has sent down the Holy Spirit to dwell in His saints, to make them the temple of God, and even the body of each believer the temple of the Holy Ghost, just as His own body was, He on eart...