“…that man was the crowning creation of God; that
God endowed him with a nature and qualities that by the grace of God can express more of God than any other of God’s
creations; that God purposed by the Holy Spirit to make the salvation of Jesus Christ so real in the nature of man that ‘He
that sanctifieth (Jesus Christ) and they who are sanctified’ through His grace are both of one nature, of one substance,
of one character, one in life, one in righteousness of His death, and one in the consequent dominion that came because of
His resurrection and glory, “For both he that sanctifieth and they who
are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brethren” (Hebrews 2:22).
Brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ:
He the elder brother, we the younger members of the family of the same Father, begotten by the same Spirit, energized
by the same divine life of God, qualified through the Holy Ghost to perform the same blessed ministry. “He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham” (Hebrews
2:16) I wish I could write these things in your soul and brand them in your conscience.”
John G.
Lake, “His life, His Sermons, His
boldness of Faith,” Kenneth Copeland Publications, 1994. pp. 119-120.
