Unspeakable Gift

Five times the Israelites were in a valley called Achor, Hebrew, “troubled” (Joshua 7:24,26;15:7; Isaiah 65:10).

In Hosea 2:15 they are troubled in a valley, but there is a door of hope. That door for them, as they looked forward in what was revealed to them through many types, and us now as we look back to that door, is the Cross of Jesus Christ.

In John 10:7-9, Jesus is the door, the only door of a finished and guaranteed hope, because He finished all for His Father and us (See the type in Num. 21:9 and read Jn.3:14; 12:31). It is the only door where the Son of man was lifted up, and the Son of God given in God’s love to the world.

What an unspeakable gift (2 Cor. 9:15)! To the one who would freely, by grace, receive and by faith depend upon that new life. A life that is truth and reality, and more blessed than any natural life in the flesh.

A life, the very life of Christ in us, has made us a partaker of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4). Yes, that life of Christ is ours, His Church, His Bride, His Body. And that very life in us is the witness of all the judgment of sins that have been completely and eternally dealt with. That life of Christ in us, its very existence, exits in us because of who Christ is, and what He has accomplished on His Cross.

By His life, by the power of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5), we have been regenerated into the kingdom where the charge of sin is not, nor can be, upon us, because we have been placed there by the power of that in which all is put away. The life of us, His Church, is identified with the resurrection of Christ, and therefore, the unqualified forgiveness of all the flesh could do was borne away. The justification (guiltlessness) of the Church is identified with living grace.

Us, His Church, HAS BEEN quickened (enlivened) TOGETHER WITH HIM, out of the grave where He buried them ALL.

What an unspeakable gift!