Never a trace of repentance or confession in Christ.  In all others we see a struggle after God.  “My heart panteth after thee, as the hart panteth after water-brooks.”  “I count not myself to have attained, but, forgetting those things that are behind, I press forward toward the mark.”  Never in the written biography of Christ a trace of that aspiration after something not yet reached.  On the contrary, a great peace and a great possession.  He says:  I have come full of life.  I have come to give life.  This sinless Christ comes that He may give to us that which He Himself possesses; that He may take the sin out of our lives and sorrow out of our hearts, and for the yearning desire give a great, great peace.  I have come, He says, that you might have life.  How much, Lord and Master?  Life more abundantly.  What kind of life, Lord and Master?  Eternal life.  Has He come with that great life of His to give a little and then stop?  Nay, to give all to every one that every one will take.

I marvel to find Christian men denying that Christ is the type and manifestation and revelation of the possible divinity in universal humanity.  It is written all over the Bible.  What says Christ Himself?  I have come that you might have life, and that you might have it more abundantly.  As the Father has sent Me into the world, even so I send you into the world.  You shall be My disciples.  You shall learn of Me.  You shall be My followers, and tread where I have trod.  You shall take up My cross, and suffer as I have suffered.  The secret of My life shall be the secret of your life.  Ye shall be in Me.  I will abide with you.  Ye shall be as a branch grafted on the vine, drawing the same life as I have, as out of My very veins.  As the Father was in Me, so I and My Father will come and abide in you.  He breathes upon the disciples and tells them to receive the Spirit that was in Him; and in His last prayer He prays that they may share His glory, that they may be one with the Father, as He is one with the Father.  Paul takes up the same refrain and repeats it over and over again.  Righteousness in man is the righteousness of God, God’s own righteousness coming out of God’s heart into human hearts.  Ye shall be partakers of the divine nature.  Ye shall be joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ, inheriting all that Christ inherited from His Father.  Ye shall have the same spirit that was in Christ.  Metaphor and trope and figure are exhausted in the endeavor of the apostle to set forth this sublime truth.  Christ is the servant of God.  We are the servants of God.  He is the Son of God.  We are the sons of God.  He is the light of the world.  We are the lights of the world.  He is a priest forever.  We are priests perpetually serving in His temple.  He is the one eternal sacrifice.  We are to present our bodies a living sacrifice before God.  He is dead.  We are to die with Him.  He has risen.  We are to rise with Him.  Already we sit in the heavenly place with Christ Jesus.  We are changed from glory to glory into His image.  We are predestined to be conformed to that image.  We are bid to pray that we may be rooted and grounded in Christ, and that with Him, we may be filled with all the fulness of God.