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Man's
Kinship with God
"I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons
and daughters." 2 Cor. 6:18. It is the kinship of
father and son. It is God coming into humanity and the
taking of humanity up into Himself. He stamps Himself with
humanity and stamps humanity with Himself. Look at
humanity in Christ and you will see what humanity ought to
be. Look at Christ in humanity and you will see what
Christ is. This may be a hard saying, but it is what man
is in Christ. Christ is the Revealer of man, and saved man
is the revealer of Christ. The Christian is the revealer
of Christ not only on special or extraordinary occasions,
but also in the smallest detail of life. Whether he speaks
or acts, he does all in the name (life, character) of
Christ. Look on the footprints Christ made through this
world and you will see the pathway for the redeemed. Look
on the pathway of the redeemed and you will see the
footprints of the Savior. The redeemed "walk even as
He walked." Jesus was filled with divinity and
humanity, and man in Christ is fulfilled with humanity and
divinity. Jesus was the fullness of man, and man in Him is
the fullness of God. God and man are so united in Christ
as to work together, walk together, suffer and rejoice
together. This is holiness.
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