It is a solemn thought, as one stands on the earth, that He who, earth-rejected, sat down at the right hand of God in heaven-He in whom dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily-He who was the brightness of God's glory and the express image of His person; seeing too our position, seated with Him in the heavenly places, it is, I repeat, a solemn thought that He has to claim the heavenlies, and this earth where Satan has usurped the dominion.