August 21, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
THE THIRD PHASE OF CHRIST’S WORK IN HIS HUMAN NATURE FOR OUR SALVATION
“When Christ at last cried out, ‘It is finished,’ He had completed the SECOND PHASE of His work. But there was still THIRD PHASE before Him, which included His SESSION at the right hand of God as [the penitent sinner’s merciful High Priest, all-powerful Mediator, Intercessor and Advocate] and the demonstration which He was to make IN His saints in earth—a work closely connected with that which He was to do in the SANCTUARY ABOVE, and vital to our [eternal] salvation.”
“Christ had demonstrated in HIS OWN BODY that it was possible to be completely victorious over sin; but the question would naturally arise as to whether His victory was merely a SiNGULAR DEMONSTRATION made possible by His unique relation to the Father OR whether OTHERS could do what He had done? Could men overcome as He had overcame?”
“To COMPLETE Christ’s work and make it EFFICACIOUS for man, such a demonstration must be made. It must be shown that [fallen, sinful] man can overcome as Christ overcame [as stated in Rev. 3: 21].” The Book of Hebrews, p. 58.
In whom and when shall this third and last phase of Christ’s work be completed, before He returns in glory? The answer by next message. Stay tuned. Keep your eyes on the spiritual road that is “straight and narrow,” not the broad and easy way which many prefer but does not lead to life everlasting!
God bless all, NMF