FOR whom, let us ask, is Christ now living and acting at the right hand of God? Is it for the world? Clearly not; for He says, in John 17, “I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” And who are these? Believers, children of God, Christians, who are now passing through this sinful world, liable to fail and to contract defilement every step of the way. These are the subjects of Christ’s priestly ministry. He died to make them clean. He lives to keep them clean. By His death He expiated our guilt, and by His life He cleanses us, through the action of the word, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
C. H. M.