ted glory he is prepared to be "made wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" to his people. He
who had been "manifest in the flesh" that he might be made sin for us,
was now "justified in the Spirit" and "received up into glory," that he
might be made {46} righteousness to us, and that "we might be made the
righteousness of God in him." Christ's coronation, in a word, is the
indispensable condition to our justification. Till he who was made a
curse for us is crowned with glory and honor we cannot be assured of
our acceptance with the Father.[5] How deep the current of thought
which flows through this narrow channel--"Because I go to the Father."

3. The Paraclete teaches only the things of Christ; yet teaches more
than Christ taught: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come, he
will guide you into all the truth" (John 16: 12, 13). It is as though
he had said: "I have brought you a little way in the knowledge of my
doctrine; he shall bring you all the way." One reason for this saying
seems plain: The teaching of Jesus during his earthly ministry waited
to be illumined by a light not risen--the light of the cross, the light
of the sepulchre, the light of the ascension. Therefore until these
events had come to pass, Christian doctrine was undeveloped, and could
not be fully communicated to the disciples of Christ. But this is not
all. The "because I go to the Father" still gives the key to our
Lord's meaning. "But what things {47} soever he shall hear, these
shall he speak, and he shall declare unto you things to come" (John 16:
13, R. V.). Very wonderful is this hint of the mutual converse of the
Godhead, so that the Paraclete is described as listening while he
leads, as having an ear in heaven attentive to the converse of the
Father and the glorified Son, while he extends an unseen guidance to
the flock on earth, communicating to them what he has heard from the
Father and the Son. And we may reverently ask, Has not the glorified
Christ more of knowledge and revelation to communicate than he had in
the days of his humiliation? Of "the things to come" has he not
secrets to impart which hitherto may have been hidden in the counsels
of the Father? To take a single illustration from the words of Christ.
Speaking of his second advent, he says: "But of that day or that hour
knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven