The Glory of the Changed Sphere Let us turn to Rev_5:9 : “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” This exactly follows after the first, it is the glory of a changed sphere. This new song is the result of a new experience. John is speaking to us here of the actual condition, I take it, of the Church, when she shall be translated. She is to be taken out of the natural into the heavenlies, into the realm where the heavenly is to be forever supreme. Is not that the experience today of all who come to the cross and meet the Lord Jesus Christ in grace? We become new creatures in Christ Jesus, we enter into a new sphere, and while the earthly surroundings are unchanged, there is something of the heavenly that has come into us, there has been implanted in us the life principle of a new nature which has on it the mark of the spiritual life and the nature of God Himself. Because redemption, the redemption of God through the Lord Jesus Christ, always implies that we become partakers of the divine nature. The sphere outwardly is not changed. That is coming, because the heart’s true home is the throne where God is, but the inward change has already begun, thank God. Redemption through the cross does not make the old nature better, it introduces a new nature, belonging to a higher order of beings, and a changed sphere is just the life that is born of the Spirit in contradistinction to the life that is born of the flesh. And when that life comes to the birth the natural thing is to have a new song, even praise unto our God. Gordon Watt the meaning of the cross
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:34:40 +0000