Q.-(4) " For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death " (Rom. 8:2).
(5) " All them also that love his appearing " (2 Tim. 4:8). Do not all Christians love His appearing?
R. M.
A.-(4). So too, no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit, the believer knows himself to be in Christ Jesus, where no condemnation can possibly be. Under a new rule or principle-a law-it is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus risen. He breathed into the disciples and said, " Receive ye the Holy Ghost." The law of sin and death inherited from Adam has no longer its authority. t " Sin shall not have dominion over you." There is the effective working of a new and living law—a law of liberty and power-so that now the righteous requirement, or demand, of God's holy law is fulfilled in us who do not walk according to flesh (as once we did), but according to Spirit-the Spirit of God.
(5). 2 Tim. 4:8. The love of His appearing or manifestation in glory is what is in the heart of every Christian. Then shall we be like Him, for ' we shall see Him as He is. There may not be intelligent knowledge of the manner and meaning of the event. But the soul that can say, " We love him, because he first loved us," delights in His manifestation. And every one that hath this hope on Christ purifieth himself even as He is pure.