by Dr. Roy Brill
W jo u ü ^ Ltd in q CHRIST
what God is like is to see what Christ is like. Christ was the image of the invisible God. Listen to other Scriptural testimony: “Christ in you the hope of glory” (Col. 1 :27); “that Christ may dwell in your h e a r t s by faith (Eph. 3:17); “Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Gal. 2:20). Are people really be holding the Lord Jesus Christ in you? Do you manifest Him in your life day by day? We are not only called upon to accept Him as Saviour but also God points out to us very carefully in His Word that Jesus comes to live in us. He wants to be seen through your every action and thought. The ramifications of this are volumnious. People wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. Could that be said of you in any sense? John 1:14 re minds us that “The Word (Christ) became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Christ was full of grace so that when He opened His lips, this was the only kind of words which came out. “Out of the abun dance of the heart the mouth speak- eth” (Matt. 12:34). Paul exhorts us, “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” It was a little maid who identified Peter: “Thy speech betray- eth thee.” Despite the fact that we know Jesus Christ is living within us, we say words that are alien and strange. What a poor commentary on the kind of life we should be liv ing!
N O matter what our position in life, as born-again believers, we are called to a life of exemplification. We should show forth the Lord Jesus Christ in every look and action. All of us know that wonderful text, Rom. 8:28; however, too many over look the 29th verse. We have been predestinated “to be conformed to the image of His Son.” This is not something we need only project into the future after death. This can be a blessed reality in a sense here and now. Other verses on this same point come to mind, I Cor. 15:49, Eph. 5 :27; I John 3 :2. It is true that some day, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, no doubt sooner than many of us anticipate, we shall be in the presence of the Lord either via the rapture or through physical death. We shall not only behold the Lord but also we shall be like Him. How wonderful! The Holy Spirit, through Paul, is speaking about a present ex perience. Entailed in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ was not only salvation, but also that His fallen creatures might regain His divine impress through salavtion. In I Tim. 3:16, Paul writes that Christ “was manifest in the flesh.” Note that he doesn’t use an indefinite article, for all flesh, apart from His, is inherent ly evil. Christ alone was holy, harm less, undefiled and separate from sin ners. That body of our Saviour was a kind of divine showcase where God was able to reveal Himself to man kind. Philip asked our Lord, “Show us the Father and it sufficeth us.” He said in essence, “If you reveal the Father to us, all of our fears will be dispelled.” Jesus pointed out, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Fa ther.” The only way we can know 8
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