Spurgeon: January PM
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"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance."
--Ephesians 1:11
When Jesus gave Himself for us, He gave us all the rights
and privileges which went with Himself; so that now, although
as eternal God, He has essential rights to which no creature
may venture to pretend, yet as Jesus, the Mediator, the federal
Head of the covenant of grace, He has no heritage apart from
us. All the glorious consequences of His obedience unto death
are the joint riches of all who are in Him, and on whose behalf
He accomplished the divine will. See, He enters into glory, but
not for Himself alone, for it is written, "Whither the
Forerunner is for us entered." Heb. 6:20. Does He stand in
the presence of God?--"He appears in the presence of God for
us ." Heb. 9:24. Consider this, believer. You have no right to
heaven in yourself: your right lies in Christ. If you are
pardoned, it is through His blood; if you are justified, it
is through His righteousness; if you are sanctified, it is
because He is made of God unto you sanctification; if you
shall be kept from falling, it will be because you are
preserved in Christ Jesus; and if you are perfected at the
last, it will be because you are complete in Him . Thus Jesus
is magnified--for all is in Him and by Him; thus the
inheritance is made certain to us--for it is obtained in Him;
thus each blessing is the sweeter, and even heaven itself the
brighter, because it is Jesus our Beloved "in whom" we have
obtained all. Where is the man who shall estimate our divine
portion? Weigh the riches of Christ in scales, and His treasure
in balances, and then think to count the treasures which belong
to the saints. Reach the bottom of Christ's sea of joy, and
then hope to understand the bliss which God hath prepared for
them that love Him. Overleap the boundaries of Christ's
possessions, and then dream of a limit to the fair inheritance
of the elect. "All things are yours, for ye are Christ's and
Christ is God's."