A Blessed Condition
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.—Eph. 1:3
Oh beloved, what a blessed condition it is to have spiritual liberty! Do we see the blessed use and comfort of it in all conditions? In temptations, we have the Spirit of God to free us from temptation; or, if temptation has caught hold of us to sin, we have the Spirit of God to help us fly to the blood of Christ, and lay hold on Christ and to know he has pardoned our sin. In sickness, to consider that there is a glorious liberty of the sons of God, and a redemption of body, as well as of soul, that our base bodies will be like Christ's glorious body; that there is a resurrection to glory and the resurrection will make amends for all these sicknesses and ills of body. In death, when it comes, to know that by the blood of Christ there is a liberty to enter into heaven. In all needs, to think we have a liberty to the throne of grace; we have a freedom in all the promises; what a sweet thing this is, in all wants and needs, to use our spiritual liberty to have the ear of God! Not only to be free from the wrath of God, but to have his favour, to have his care in all our needs: what a blessed liberty this is!
Beloved, it is invaluable. There is not the least branch of this spiritual liberty, but it is worth a thousand worlds. How we should value it and bless God for giving Christ to work this blessed liberty; and for giving his Spirit to apply it to us more and more, and to set us more and more at spiritual liberty. For all three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all join in this spiritual liberty. The Father gives the Son, and the Son gives the Spirit; and all to set us free. It is a comfortable and blessed condition.
Beloved, it is invaluable. There is not the least branch of this spiritual liberty, but it is worth a thousand worlds. How we should value it and bless God for giving Christ to work this blessed liberty; and for giving his Spirit to apply it to us more and more, and to set us more and more at spiritual liberty. For all three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all join in this spiritual liberty. The Father gives the Son, and the Son gives the Spirit; and all to set us free. It is a comfortable and blessed condition.
Devotional Readings taken from Puritan Richard Sibbes 'Refreshment for the Soul.'
Glorious Freedom, pp. 53-54 [58-60]
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Glorious Freedom, pp. 53-54 [58-60]
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