of man. In
the form of man He wrought the great work of redemption on the cross
and now after His resurrection, by which He is proven Son of God and
His presence as the glorified Man in the highest heaven, He is the
one in whom and through whom, God the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ gives all blessing. "Christ is God's," then, means what
we learn from the following scriptures: "The Father loveth the Son,
and hath given all things into His hands" (John iii:35). "Whom He
hath appointed heir of all things" (Heb. i:2). "Christ is God's" is
a word which tells us that He who is the Creator of all things, the
visible and the invisible, came in incarnation, redeemed us and is
now, the beginning, the first-begotten from the dead and the Head of
His Body, which is the Church. This is how God has brought us to
Himself in the person of His own Son by whom he has redeemed us, in
whom He has exalted us and with whom He has given us all things.

To that wonderful person, Christ, the Christ of God, we belong. We
are His, who is One with God, by whom and for whom all things were
created. The Son of God for such as we are, became poor, even to the
poverty of the cross. There He took our place and in His own body He
bore our sins and died for us. He saw us then the travail of His
soul. We can look back to the cross and say, as His Apostle said:
"Who love me and gave Himself for me." We belong to Him, who has all
power in heaven and will have all power before long, as King of
Kings and Lord of Lords on earth. We are Christ's, whom God has
appointed as the second Man, the head of the new creation as Heir of
all things. We are Christ's, who is the Head of the Body, to which
we belong. In Him and with Him we are the Heirs of God. God and
Christ are inseparable and so are Christ and we who have trusted in
Him and have His life. All Christ has belongs to us; all Christ is
we shall be; where Christ is there we shall be in all eternity.
Reader! Child of God, pause! Does your faith lay hold of this? Do
you read it only and enjoy it just for a moment or is this great
fact of your union with Christ and God becoming daily a greater
reality in your life? Is it really so that you enter deeper and
deeper into that love which passeth knowledge? Oh! that it may be so
with the writer and each believer who reads these feeble words on so
great a theme.

"Ye are Christ's." Then we are _not our own_. That is exactly what
is elsewhere stated in Fi