God of my Fathers

Our fellowship with God He is the resurrection not only of peace, but of fellowship and communion between God and man. When man sinned, you know he was banished by God. He was turned out of paradise, and the cherubims were set to guard the way to “the tree of life.” There was no access for man to God, and God would have no correspondence with him—what correspondence can there be between heaven and hell, guiltiness and righteousness? Well, Christ recovers this, for He Himself is the way to it: for He tells us: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me” (Joh 14:6). And, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture” (Joh 10:9); that is to say, they shall have free access to God, and his soul shall be filled with the fatness of God’s house of mercy. Reader, there are a good many of you designing for a communion-table; see that you go in by the right door. It is easy to get man’s door, to get a token from men; but, depend upon it, you will infallibly eat and drink damnation to your own souls if you do not enter by the door of Christ Jesus. It is impossible that we can take up the human nature, as the medium of communication to the divine nature, unless we see light in the Lord’s light (Psa 36:9). However, it is in this way that we come to have communion and fellowship with God. He is the resurrection of our fellowship and communion with God: “Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1Pe 3:18). Christ is God’s way to us and our way to God.