Union with Christ

It is an indissoluble union. — It is infinitely strong and durable. The saint shall be separated from his nearest relations, from his most intimate friends, from his dearest earthly enjoyments, and his soul ere long shall be separated from his body; but it shall never for a moment be parted from the Lord Jesus. Supposing the believer's body were burned, and every particle of its ashes removed as far from each other as the east is from the west, they would still be united, indissolubly united, to Jesus Christ, Rom. viii. 35—39. As death did not dissolve the hypo statical union in the person of Christ, so neither will it ever dissolve the mystical union between him and his saints. Their bodies when dissolved in the grave are as intimately united to the Lord Jesus as their'souls dwelling in the mansions of glory. They sleep in Jesus: he keeper all their bones. This union can never be dissolved: no creature can dissolve it, and the Lord Jesus himself will not. The creature cannot do it, "neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." He, the compassionate Redeemer, will not. "He will not turn away from them to do them good." O the safety, and honour, and glory of the true believer! His union with Christ shall continue throughout all eternity. John Colquhoun

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