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Ärende: 'For your sakes he became poor.'-2 Corinthians 8:9
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Daily Devotional  

M&E Saturday
Charles H. Spurgeon
Dec 23, 2005

 
December

12/24/AM



'For your sakes he became poor.'-2 Corinthians 8:9



The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but 'though He
was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.' As the rich saint cannot be true
in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to
their necessities, so (the same rule holding with the head as between the
members), it is impossible that our Divine Lord could have had fellowship with
us unless He had imparted to us of His own abounding wealth, and had become
poor to make us rich. Had He remained upon His throne of glory, and had we
continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving His salvation, communion
would have been impossible on both sides. Our position by the fall, apart from
the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with
God as it is for Belial to be in concord with Christ. In order, therefore, that
communion might be compassed, it was necessary that the rich kinsman should
bestow his estate upon his poor relatives, that the righteous Saviour should
give to His sinning brethren of His own perfection, and that we, the poor and
guilty, should receive of His fulness grace for grace; that thus in giving and
receiving, the One might descend from the heights, and the other ascend from
the depths, and so be able to embrace each other in true and hearty fellowship.
Poverty must be enriched by Him in whom are infinite treasures before it can
venture to commune; and guilt must lose itself in imputed and imparted
righteousness ere the soul can walk in fellowship with purity. Jesus must
clothe His people in His own garments, or He cannot admit them into His palace
of glory; and He must wash them in His own blood, or else they will be too
defiled for the embrace of His fellowship.

O believer, herein is love! For your sake the Lord Jesus 'became poor' that He
might lift you up into communion with Himself.

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December

12/24/PM



'The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together.'-Isaiah 40:5



We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ;
when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when
Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never
again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when kings shall bow down
before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed.
Some despair of this. They look upon the world as a vessel breaking up and
going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is
therein is one day to be burnt up, and afterwards we look for new heavens and
for a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that-

'Jesus shall reign where'er the sun

Does his successive journeys run.'

We are not discouraged by the length of His delays; we are not disheartened by
the long period which He allots to the church in which to struggle with little
success and much defeat. We believe that God will never suffer this world,
which has once seen Christ's blood shed upon it, to be always the devil's
stronghold. Christ came hither to deliver this world from the detested sway of
the powers of darkness. What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall
unite to cry 'Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!'
What a satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to
have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in winning the
victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves with this conquering
Lord, and who fight side by side with Him, doing their little in His name and
by His strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing
side, and it is a matter wherein to lose is to lose and to be lost for ever. On
whose side are you?

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