Several Brethren authors said it this way:
"There is no question about there being a beautiful new position for the believer, but people limit it to its being theirs when they die. Scripture shows that it is ours now! (But now in Christ Jesus ye who once were far off are made near by the blood of Christ--) Eph_2:13 They say, 'you get heaven when you die'. No such thing. You are there now. It is not your death that entitles you to it, but the Lord Jesus' death. There is not a single shade that was between the Father, and us but the Lord Jesus has removed in His death. No person can be truly happy until he knows that he has a new place now, and this is where the Lord Jesus is."
"Set you affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God"-- Col_2:2-3 --J. B. Stoney
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"Here both Jew and Gentile lose their places, as such, and are brought into one body, and united by the Holy Ghost to each other and to Christ, the Head, a Man glorified.
Now this body is in the world, as is the Holy Ghost, whose presence constitutes it. It is not in heaven. The Head is in heaven, and the members have a heavenly position in union with Him; in fact, they are in the world. This body has been passing along through the world; its unity maintained as perfectly as the day in which the presence of the Holy Ghost first constituted it. Nothing has ever marred its unity.
--F. G. Patterson
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"If you look at Christ, dying on the cross for your sins, you will get relief for your conscience in the knowledge that those sins are put away forever. But if you look at the cross, and see Christ dying for you, and see that you died with Christ, you will learn that you have a new life, and a new place, a new standing before God altogether. As the Apostle says,
'I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me' Gal_2:20
It is an immense thing to see this new standing. As a sinner I was in Adam, and a partaker of death and judgment, but, by grace, I am now in Christ, where Christ now is, before God." --W. T. P. Wolston
Blessings
J.
"There is no question about there being a beautiful new position for the believer, but people limit it to its being theirs when they die. Scripture shows that it is ours now! (But now in Christ Jesus ye who once were far off are made near by the blood of Christ--) Eph_2:13 They say, 'you get heaven when you die'. No such thing. You are there now. It is not your death that entitles you to it, but the Lord Jesus' death. There is not a single shade that was between the Father, and us but the Lord Jesus has removed in His death. No person can be truly happy until he knows that he has a new place now, and this is where the Lord Jesus is."
"Set you affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God"-- Col_2:2-3 --J. B. Stoney
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"Here both Jew and Gentile lose their places, as such, and are brought into one body, and united by the Holy Ghost to each other and to Christ, the Head, a Man glorified.
Now this body is in the world, as is the Holy Ghost, whose presence constitutes it. It is not in heaven. The Head is in heaven, and the members have a heavenly position in union with Him; in fact, they are in the world. This body has been passing along through the world; its unity maintained as perfectly as the day in which the presence of the Holy Ghost first constituted it. Nothing has ever marred its unity.
--F. G. Patterson
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"If you look at Christ, dying on the cross for your sins, you will get relief for your conscience in the knowledge that those sins are put away forever. But if you look at the cross, and see Christ dying for you, and see that you died with Christ, you will learn that you have a new life, and a new place, a new standing before God altogether. As the Apostle says,
'I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me' Gal_2:20
It is an immense thing to see this new standing. As a sinner I was in Adam, and a partaker of death and judgment, but, by grace, I am now in Christ, where Christ now is, before God." --W. T. P. Wolston
Blessings
J.
