Five Points Blog
United With Christ
- Charles Spurgeon
- Jan 27, 2012
Union with Christ is essential to the life of His Church.
Men sometimes lose a, foot, or a leg, or an arm, or an eye, or an ear. It is very remarkable how a man may continue to exist after he has lost several of his limbs, but he cannot live if his head is taken away. Cut that off, and the decapitated body is dead in an instant.
So, brethren and sisters, the Church of God lives because Christ lives, and its life is entirely derived from him. If there were no Christ, there would be no Church; and if there is, anywhere, a professing people without vital union to Christ, they are not a church. They may have the name of a church, but they are assuredly dead. The Spirit of God flows through Christ into the whole of His true Church, permeating every part of His wonderful mystical body.
The one all-important question for each of us is, “Do I love the Lord Jesus Christ?” If so, there is between my soul and my Savior a living, loving, lasting union. And if we all love Him, then Christ loves all of us, and we are living in Christ and Christ is living in us — and this is that marvelous miracle of union between the Divine and the human which, when men see it, are astonished! They cannot see the union itself, but they can behold its effects, as our Lord said, “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love, one to another.” This was Christ’s prayer for us, for in that great intercessory supplication of His, He pleaded, first, for His immediate followers and then He added, “Neither pray I for these, alone, but for them, also, who shall believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one; as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they, also, may be one in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me.”