There are some true believers who have perhaps never yet understood that it was their duty to give up everything to Christ.  Beloved fellow Christians, I come with a message from your Father, to come and to-day take that word into your hearts and upon your lips, even though you do not understand it.  “Jesus, I make Thee Master of everything and I will wait at Thy feet, that Thou wilt show me what Thou wouldst have me be and do.”  Do it now.  And let me say to believers who have done it before, and who long with an unutterable longing to do it fully and perfectly,—­Child of God, you can do it, for the Holy Spirit has been sent down from Heaven for this one purpose, to glorify Jesus; to glorify Jesus in your heart, by letting you see how perfectly Jesus can take possession of the whole heart; to glorify Jesus by bringing Him into your very life, that your whole life may shine out with the glory of Jesus.  Depend upon it, the Father will give it to you by the Holy Spirit, if you are ready.  Oh, come, and let your intercourse with God be summed up in a simple prayer and answer—­“My God, as much as Thou wilt have of me to fill with Christ, Thou shalt have to-day.”  “My child, as much of Christ as thy heart longeth to have, thou shalt have; for it is My delight that My Son be in the hearts of My children.”

DEAD WITH CHRIST.

IX.

Gal. 2:  20.—­I am crucified with Christ.

The Revised Version properly has the above text “I have been crucified with Christ.”  In this connection, let us read the story of a man who was literally crucified with Christ.  We may use all the narrative of Christ’s work upon earth in the flesh as a type of His spiritual work.  Let us take in this instance the story of the penitent thief, Luke 23:  39-43, for I think we may learn from him how to live as men who are crucified with Christ.  Paul says:  “I have been crucified with Christ.”  And again:  “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom I have been crucified to the world, and the world to me.”  We often ask earnestly:  How can I be free from the self life?  The answer is, “Get another life.”  We often speak about the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon us, but I doubt if we fully realize that the Holy Spirit is a heavenly life come to expel the selfish, and fleshly, and the earthly life.  If we want, in very deed, to enjoy fully the rest that there is in Jesus, we can only have it as He comes in, in the power of His death, to slay what is in us of nature, and to take possession, and to live His own life in the fullness of the Holy Ghost.  God’s Word takes us to the cross of Christ, and it teaches us about that cross, two things.  It tells us that Christ died for sin.  We understand what that means, that in His atonement He died as I never die, as I never can die, as I never