Do: Did: Done: By Wm. Luff. U NDER the old dispensation the word was "Do"; when Christ came He "Did"; now the word is "Done." Hence His cry, "It is fin- ished." (John 19:30.) In the tabernacle there was no seat; for the work was never com- pleted ; but in the epistle to the Hebrews, which takes us beyond the type to the antitype, we find the High Priest sitting. "But to which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool"? ( 1 : 1 3 ). "And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but this man, after he offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God" ( 10 : 12 ). "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high" ( 1 : 3 ) . "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in. the heavens" ( 1 2 : 2 ). Arm chairs are not for worship; hence Jesus found no resting-place till, work finished, He went home. Even in the Old Testament we have glimpses of a finished work. Noah finished the ark before the animals were brought into it; they were not asked to bring a plank or drive a nail. The mother of Moses finished the ark of bullrushes before she placed her babe therein. The parent slew the lamb, sprinkled the blood, and did all, at the pass- over ; not the first-born, who in many cases must have been only a child. In the ark we have the work of Christ in preparing salvation. In the passover we have the work of the Father in slaying His own Lamb. In the ark of Moses we have the work of the Spirit, by whom we are begotten and placed individually in security. What was the "it" to which Christ referred when He said "It is fin- ished"? : The Temple of Obedience. God placed man in this blue domed temple, with one central column or command; man disobeyed and all was ruined. The law was a second temple, with ten pillars: this also is in ruins. But Christ has builded a temple which supersedes both, Himself being the great central support. When He "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross," the obedience God justly demanded was finished (Phil. 2: 5). The Curse of Disobedience. God had said, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them (Gal. 3: 10). If we have to bear this curse, it will never be finished;
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