You
are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life. Colossians 2:10
The Cross is a full and final principle, although it has many
aspects. It is a full and final principle. We are going to see that the Cross
in its fullness and finality was right there at the beginning of the Bible. As
a principle, it was absolute then. It is just in so far as you and I bring our
lives at this time of the day back to God’s fullness in the Cross that we are
going to know this progressive development and increase of Life - so far and no
more.
The Cross is a great divide. It divides people into three
categories. Firstly, it makes a broad division between those who never get into
Life, and those who do. Whether men and women get into Life at all depends
entirely upon their acceptance of the Cross. But it divides further. It divides
between those who do get into Life, and those who go right through to fullness
of Life, and there is quite a real division there. Whether you like the theory
or not, it is a fact. There are many Christians who are in the way of Life,
that is, who have entered the way of Life, but are not going right on to
fullness of Life. That is really what the New Testament is about - trying to
get Christians who have entered into Life to go on to fullness of Life. The
Cross divides between those, because, while we come into the way of Life by the
Cross, we also only come into the fullness of Life by the Cross, and that is
another thing - a fuller, deeper application of the Cross. So the Cross makes three
categories, those not in Life, those in Life, and those in Life going on to
fullness of Life.
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