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We are Christ’s
Spurgeon, “Christ the Glory of His People”
We are Christ’s by eternal choice.
“You only have I known (or loved) of all the nations of the earth.” The eternal Father has selected us from among the ruins of the fall, and given us into the hands of Christ that we may be his portion, his bride, his jewels, “according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.”
We are Christ’s by redemption. He has redeemed us from among men by a
special and particular redemption which is distinctive to ourselves. A price has been
paid for us, an effectual price, which will not permit for a moment that the objects so
purchased shall ever be lost. “You are not your own, you are bought with a price.”
The saints are redeemed from among men. Thus are we Christ’s by double bonds- the gift of the Father, the purchase of his own blood. The Father gave us to Jesus, and none shall pluck us of his almighty hands.
We are Christ’s by conquest.
We admit it. The Spirit of the living God has taken us, as it were, like a lamb from the jaws of the lion. We were once led captives by the devil, but Christ met the devil and overcame him in terrific duel, and we, the once willing captives of the powers of darkness, are now Christ’s portion made free and blessed. We are now the possession of our Conqueror, for he took us out of the hand of the enemy with his sword and with his bow. We belong to Christ as the spoil which he has won from death and hell.
We are Christ’s by voluntary dedication of ourselves to him. Come, beloved, is it not so? We will confess that there is not a drop of blood in our veins which does not belong to Jesus, nor a hair on our head which is not his.
We are Christ’s by conjugal bonds -married to him as chaste virgins. His
unbounded love espoused us before time began, and it has not diminished. He claims us as his own bride, and we call him the Husband of our souls, and delight to have it so.
We are Christ’s by in vital union as the members belong to the head.
We are in personal, vital, actual communion with the Son of God. We are thus his in the fullest and most absolute sense.
We are Christ’s absolute property.
We are Christ’s people, wholly belonging to him.