All, All, Is Ours
He won no victory, He won no triumph in His substitutionary work that was not for the benefit of those united to Him in baptism. All that Name stands for before the Father belongs to the believer. We are baptized into the Legal Right to use the Name, into the Legal Privileges of that Name, into all the responsibility of a son, vested with the prerogatives of that mighty Name.
When He said, “All authority is given unto Me in heaven and in the earth,” and, “I send you out as heralds,” then that authority He had is ours-we stand as His representatives – we go out into this world bearing’ His Name. Thus instead of our bearing the Name, the Name actually bears and succors us.
We are baptized into His righteousness, into His resurrection, power, and glory.
Now, His righteousness is ours; His grace is ours; His love is ours; His power is ours; yes, He Himself is ours. How rich we are!
Now to use this Name does not require any special or un¬usual Faith because it is ours.
As believers, all the riches and graces are ours – no special act on the part of God-no special preparation on our part is necessary when some great crisis arises – that Name is ours, given to us legally to use against the host of God’s enemies, and we stand clothed in the Rights, privileges, and powers of the sons of God.
We do not have to exercise any conscious Faith-all we have to do is to use the Name.
The heart can hardly take it in, that when we were baptised into that Name, we were baptized into the fullness, the completeness, the perfections of Jesus Christ. That of His Fullness have we all received and grace upon grace.
The Wonderful Name of Jesus
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