"For he said, surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour." - Isa. lxiii. 8.
Oh what a tenderness of expression is contained in these words! Jesus
not only takes his people into relationship with him, but undertakes
for their faithfulness. In the birth of God's everlasting purpose, this
was done from everlasting; so that in one and the same moment, we are
his people, his children, his brethren, his wife, his redeemed, his
fair one, made comely in his comeliness, and in his blood cleansed, and
in his righteousness justified before God. And observe, my soul, the
grounds of this relationship: surely, he saith, they are my people. Not
only as God's workmanship and property, but as his purchase. Not only
in first giving them being, but in giving them new being in Christ
Jesus. The Lord hath taken them into covenant with him in Christ, and
granted them a charter of grace and salvation in Jesus. Sweet and
precious thought. God the Father, whose right they are by creation,
hath given them to his Son. And Jesus hath made them his, both by his
own purchase, and the conquests of his grace therefore he hath an
interest in them, and in all that concerns them. Surely, saith Jesus,
they are my people, my jewels, my treasure, my hidden one. And observe
further, how he speaks for them as well as of them they will not lie.
How is this? Why, they are children of the covenant. And because he
hath undertaken for them, therefore he was their Saviour. Oh the
preciousness of such a Saviour, to every circumstance, to every state,
in every way, and upon every occasion in life, in death, in time, and
to all eternity. Jesus, thou art indeed a Saviour, thou art truly
called Jesus, for thou hast saved, and thou wilt save, thy people from
their sins.
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