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By the allegory of the two
husbands, the Apostle Paul
shows the utter impossibility of the believer being
joined to Christ and still
under the law. And we must
not forget the Apostle is
combating the strongest
error of his time, that is,
that it was not enough to be
justified by Christ, but it
was needful also to
keep the law.
Excerpt: Oh! if our hearts did but enter more into these things. What is this world’s wealth to us who are on the wedding journey? What want we with the world — what its honors — what its politics? And, we may say, what its religion to us? If dead with Christ, why touch or taste or handle? If risen with Christ, let our affections, our thoughts be there. Let us read our rules of married life in Colossians 3, and, oh! that marriage settlement, the Epistle to the Ephesians. But to go through these would swell my little pamphlet into a large volume. But do read it for yourself, and may you read it as you never did before. Oh, read what God has settled upon us in Christ, how He chose us in Him, how He predestinated us, how He has made us accepted in Him! What praise, what glory, what redemption and forgiveness of sin, what wisdom, what prudence, what riches of His grace! What a seal, the earnest of our inheritance! But read on, and learn what God secured to us when He raised Christ from the dead. Let faith follow Him up far above all principality and power, raised above every name, and all for us, the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all. And then read through the second chapter of our marriage settlement. See what we were —see what we are — and all of grace — all of God. Then read in chapter 3 of this mystery, kept hid for ages, and, we may now say, lost again for ages. And then comes most blessed instruction for our marriage behavior. And then, in chapter 5, we read the wondrous love of Christ to the church, His bride.
As with redemption, so with our marriage. We have redemption, and yet we wait for it, that is, for its full accomplishment. We are espoused to Christ, and we hasten on to the marriage of the Lamb. What was the crowd that thronged the streets of London at the marriage of the prince, compared with that vast multitude who shall shout for joy and gladness at the marriage of the Lamb, when they cry with a voice like “the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (Rev. 19:6-8)?