4/3/2023 0 Comments Your presence lord![]() ![]() No word of mine this morning is intended to have the remotest connection with any sacramental presence of the corporeal nature of our Lord our mind has a far other matter before it. Many other most serious errors follow from the supposition that the humanity of the Redeemer is present anywhere except at the right hand of God, even the Father yet it is an imagination which lies at the basis of the sacramental system, and thousands are greatly enamoured of it. ![]() If Jesus dwells still corporeally upon the earth, then the Spirit of God is not upon the earth. Remember, also, that because the Lord Jesus is absent corporeally, the Holy Spirit the Comforter is with us, for he especially said, "If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart, I will send him unto you." Those who believe that Christ's flesh and blood are or can be present on earth, deny the presence of the Holy Spirit for the Scripture is plain enough upon that point-that the bodily absence of our Lord is the cause and condition of the presence of the Comforter. He ascended into heaven, bearing humanity up to the throne of God. Our Lord Jesus told his disciples that he would go away, and he has gone away. Unless you are to suppose that the humanity of Christ is something altogether different from ours, it cannot be here and there and everywhere but to suppose that it is a different humanity from ours is to deny that he is Incarnate in our nature. Where that place is we know from Scripture, for he sitteth at the right hand of God, expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. Our bodily humanity could not be present in more places than one at one time, and if Christ's humanity be like ours it cannot be in an unlimited number of places at once in fact, it can only be in one place. Such persons unwittingly deny the real humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, for if he has indeed assumed our humanity, and is in all points made like unto his brethren, his flesh and blood cannot be in two places at one time. ![]() IS IT NECESSARY to say that the Lord Jesus Christ is no longer corporeally present in his church? It ought not to be needful to assert so evident a truth and yet it is important to do so, since there are some who teach that in what they are pleased to call "the Holy Sacrament." Christ is actually present in his flesh and blood. I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please."- Song of Solomon 3:4-5. "It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, February 11th, 1872, byĪt the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington ![]()
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