0309. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE.

THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE.

Heb_7:16.

The life of Jesus did not look like an endless life when He hung bleeding and dying on the Cross. His life reached back to the endless past as well as the endless future. The Aaronic priesthood was after the power of a passing law; but Christ’s, the true Melchisedec, was after the power of an endless life. He is "alive for evermore" (Rev_1:18). It is not so much the endlessness of His life we wish to look at as the power of it. It is-

I. Life-imparting Power. The coming of the quickening Spirit at Pentecost is an evidence of it. Every converted sinner is a witness (Joh_5:26) that He lives. The life He gives is also endless, "Everlasting life."

II. A Peace-speaking Power. He has entered by His own blood, that blood that speaketh within the veil. Hush, troubled soul, "He ever liveth to make intercession" (Col_2:14).

III. A Strength-sustaining Power. "Because I live ye shall live also" (Joh_14:19). The ever-living vine sustains the ever-abiding branch.

IV. A Comfort-giving Power. "I know that my Redeemer liveth" (Job_19:25). My Redeemer lives, although my friends on earth are cut off by death. He lives on although His valued and much loved servants are not suffered to continue by reason of death.

V. A Soul-satisfying Power. "He is able to save to the uttermost, seeing He ever liveth" (Heb_7:25). "If thou knewest the gift of God thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee" (Joh_4:10).

VI. A Hope-inspiring Power. Because His life is endless, He is able to take an endless care over His own. He is able to perfect that which concerneth us by carrying on the good work which He hath begun in us, and in the Church and world at large.

VII. A Christ-witnessing Power. The power of His endless life dwells in every believer by the Holy Spirit. It is a witnessing power to the world that the one who was crucified and buried is now crowned and glorified. "I am come that they might have life" (Joh_10:10). "As many as receive Him, to them gives He the power to become the sons of God" (Joh_1:12).

Autor: James Smith