1. The death of Jesus, God's executed judgment against the law of leaven in us-because executed on Him, we are free from its guilt, and thereby called to purge out all practical leaven from ourselves. (1 Cor. 5:7.)
2. The Lord's death, as exhibited in the supper, the guard against the abuse of that which God has made the center of the church's gathering upon earth. (1 Cor. 11:26.)
3. The Lord's death, His only way of putting away our sins, and having the church in fellowship with Himself in resurrection. (1 Cor. 1-7.)
4. The memory thereof, the Christian's stimulant to be ready to be always delivered unto death himself for Jesus' sake. (2 Cor. 4:10.)
5. As (in the last context) His preparative for suffering, so also for doing all the will of Christ; yea, for living entirely to Him. (2 Cor. 5:13.)
6. The Lord's death, the entire rupture and breaking up of all Jewish and earthly order, and blessing, and authority. (Gal. 1:1.) And this on account of the imbecility thereof, through man's sin-for no righteousness could be found for man, but by and in the death of Christ. (Gal. 2:21.)
7. The Lord's death, His clearance of the church from all charge against her, being the power of the judgment He bore for her, ere He rose into newness of life with her, in Him. (Eph. 1:20.)
8. Jesus' death, the measure of His obedience, and the procuring cause of His redemption honors. (Phil. 2:8.)
9. Conformity thereunto, the believer's path to glory as to outward experience (as in Rom. 4:23, in the trial of faith). (Phil. 3:10.)
10. The Lord's victory, in resurrection, over death, the precursor and mean of all resurrection. (Col. 1:18.)
11. The Lord's death the means of our privilege of being reconciled unto God in Him, presented holy, unblamable, and unreprovable in His sight. (Col. 1:22.)
12. Fellowship in the benefits of the Lord's death and resurrection inseparable. If the believer can plead any benefit from the death, he has all benefit from the resurrection. (Col. 2:12.)
13. This leads him into practical freedom from subjection and bondage to ordinances as of the world, and the conceits of man's mind about service and duty. (Col. 2:20.)
14. The knowledge of the resurrection of Jesus, by God, from death, the church's and the saints' secret of power, and health, and strength. (1 Thess. 1:9, 10.)
15. The death of Jesus, the pattern of what we have to expect from man while so standing. (1 Thess. 2:15.)
16. And this to the saint is no sad commandment; for in the pattern he sees the judicial act whereby his own sins are forever put away, and the pledge given to him of his coming in glory with Jesus. (1 Thess. 4:14.)
17. For Jesus' death has been to him the mean of fellowship in the present life of the Lord, so as to enable him to live as in the power of his life, who is upon the Father's throne. (1 Thess. 5:9, 10.)