Are you in need of encouragement today? Are you looking for a truth that provides strength and comfort no matter the difficulties you face? This is what the New Covenant provides for every believer, because the covenant brings us to Christ Himself, and “in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Col. 2:9). Spurgeon explains: “Jesus Christ by the covenant is the property of every believer. By this we must understand Jesus Christ in many different senses; and we will begin, first of all, by declaring that Jesus Christ is ours, in all his attributes.” Christ brings us to Himself into the New Covenant through His mediatorial work on the cross, and as the fullness of divinity dwells within Him, He also dwells with and in us.
In Christ, we come to partake of the glories of the new covenant, but Spurgeon here reminds us that we receive nothing greater than Christ Himself, in all his power and glory. United to Christ, what can ever assail or defeat us? Spurgeon encourages us by saying, “you know that [Christ] is omnipotent, and it will console you if you will but think that all these great and glorious attributes which belong to God are all yours. Has he power? That power is yours—yours to support and strengthen you; yours to overcome your enemies, yours to keep you immutably secure.”
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He has the attributes of very God, and he has the attributes of perfect man; and whatever these may be, they are each one of them the perpetual property of every believing child of God. I need not dwell on his attributes as God; you all know how infinite is his love, how vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how unswerving his veracity; you know that he is omniscient; you know that he is omnipresent; you know that he is omnipotent, and it will console you if you will but think that all these great and glorious attributes which belong to God are all yours. Has he power? That power is yours—yours to support and strengthen you; yours to overcome your enemies, yours to keep you immutably secure. Has he love? Well, there is not a particle of his love in his great heart, which is not yours; all his love belongs to you; you may dive into the immense, bottomless ocean of his love, and you may say of it all, “it is mine.” Hath he justice? It may seem a stern attribute; but even that is yours, for he will by his justice see to it, that all which is covenanted to you by the oath and promise of God shall be most certainly secured to you.
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