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or,
by
A. J. GORDON
Reprinted, 1964, by
PAGS
I. IN CHRIST. - INTRODUCTORY.
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II. CRUCIFIXION IN CHRIST 27
V. LIFE IN CHRIST 8g
VI. STANDING IN ·CHRIST 113
NOTES 201
I. INTRODUCTORY.
II.
CRUCIFIXION IN CHRIST.
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is one of the great principles
of Christianity," says Pascal, "that
everything which happened to Jesus
Christ should come to pass in the soul and
in the body of each Christian."
If by faith I am one with my Redeemer
then, that term, "Christ crucified," involves
another, "I, crucified with Christ." Hence
we by no means reach the true measure of
our inheritance in the Cross, when we regard
the death of Christ as a formal transaction,
by which One, eighteen hundred years ago,
paid a debt that belonged to us, and thus
secured our release from its obligation, we
having no other connection with the event
than that of recipients of its blessings. Paul
saw a richer heritage for the saints than this.
For with that key, i1t Chn'st, which opens for
the believer all the wards of Christian doc
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LIFE IN CHRIST.
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IN CHRIST.
1 " Jesus Christ has not abolished our sufferings and our
mortality, but He has made them what they never could
have been without Him, a bitter dew which develops and
matures in our souls the blessed germ of faith." - Vinet.
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the Christian life on earth must be
one of perpetual conflict, it is not
therefore one of perpetual uncer
tainty. For though the believer's practi
cal sanctification, or what he i~ in himself,
may be the subject of constant solicitude
and intense anxiety, yet his justification, or
what he is in Christ, is something entirely
aloof and detached from all the vicissitudes
and fluctuations of Christian experience. It
neither rises nor falls with the tide of feeling.
It knows nothing of degrees. Christ being
the standard by which it is gauged, it becomes
absolute and without the possibility of change,
since He is "the same, yesterday, to-day, and
forever."
Our communion may be subject to sad
alternations of warmth and coldness; our
love may burn strongly to-day and feebly to
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130 IN CHRIST.
CHRIST.
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believer's sanctification is at once
both complete and incomplete. As
" sanctified £11 Christ 'Jesus," and em
braced in his comprehending holiness, he
can no more improve this grace than he can
add lustre to a sunbeam. It is a work of
God, and" Whatsoever. God doeth, it shall be
forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything
taken from it." 1 As fulfilling in himself that
sanctification which has been wrought for
him in Jesus Christ, this grace is only too
painfully partial and incomplete. For imper
fectness is as characteristic of the creature
as perfection is of the Creator.
We shall be little likely therefore to fall
into error and confusion concerning this doc
trine if we keep in mind the distinction be
tween what we are as "his workmanship" 2
1 Eccl, iii. 14- 2 Eph, il. 10.
168 IN CHREST.
CHRIST.
NOTES.
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, He begins by reuniting it to Himself 11
He died unto sin once 45
He giveth his beloved sleep 188
He had taken my place 41
He has given Himself to us wholly and 168
without reference to our deserts
He represents us to God 120
He that abideth in me and I in Him, the 178
same bringeth forth much fruit
He that is in Christ has no sin upon him 175
He that raised up Christ from the dead 190
shall quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you
Heal wounds inflicted on carnal man 107
Hid with Christ in God I
Hide not thy face from thy servant 146
Hieroglyphics 9
His "body given for us" 14
His Priesthood consummates what his 146
blood has purchased
His workmanship vs. workers together 167, 168
with him
Holy Advent may come 199
Holy Dead 188
Hooker's Statement 11
Hope like all other promises is 187,188
I wrapped up In the person of Jesus
Christ
Humiliations, sickness, trials, death 102
Hymns I
I am 31
I am crucified with Christ 39
I am the vine, ye are the branches 21
I have been crucified with Christ 30
I will guide thee with mine eye 149
I will raise him up at the last day 155
If Christ be not raised 53
If no sense of unworthiness can keep us 131
from Jesus, no sense of worthiness ever
can
If one died for all, then all died 33
If we ask anything according to his will 143
If we believe not, yet He abideth 123
faithful 1
Immortality of Christ 85
In Adam all die 198
In Christ 25,26
In Christ our righteousness, we see not 125
what we are excused from but what we
are pledged to
In Christ shall all be made alive 198
In Christ's righteousness we discover 130
the worthlessness of our own
In Him is no sin 172
In the second Adam we now live 59
Incarnation 11
Incarnation, God in Christ 17
Incorruptibility of redeemed bodies 85
Increase our faith 180
Indissolubleness 19
Into one death 31
Irreconcilable enmity of natures 94
Is Death then the great sanctifier? 176
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Is not pride always some form of self-
consciousness?
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Monastic broken lives from Christ
Monastic penance system failure 107
Mortal shall have put on immortality 112
Mortality might be swallowed up of life 187
Mortify your members on the earth 92
Mother beneath the cross watching 31
Mouth of the Sepulchre. saw it no more 76
My meat, said Jesus "is to do the will of 161
Him that sent me."
Natural Man vs. spiritual man 97
New and glorified life of her Lord 91
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determines all other relationships
Remembrance of that sacrificial woe 143
which bought for us the right to pray in
Christ
Rest in Christ with deeper assurance IV
Resurrection and of endless life 65
Resurrection he was the Life-giver 60
Resurrection in Christ 49
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Resurrection is our own if we are his
Resurrection of the just 190
Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost 62
Risen Christ and minute particulars 194
Risen with Christ, the first-fruits 64
Risen with him 59
Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide 132
myself in thee
Romans 7:1- Battle of two natures 94
Romish error of the real presence 156
Romish Father 77
Rosetta stone 9
Sacramentarian sprinkling 61
Salvation 11
Sanctification 10,
Sanctification in Christ 165, 167
Sanctification is a gift held on deposit 170
Sanctification is conferred on each 170
I Christian as soon as he believes
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Ye are complete in Him 118