Great and rich believers, along with lowly and poor believers are all one in Christ and are equal with each other! The same confessions of sin, however humiliating they may proceed equally from the hearts of all.
The same petitions for grace, for mercy, for strength are asked by all.
The same devout gratitude for spiritual blessings is poured forth by all.
The Word is pronounced with the same authority to all, and entire submission to it is required from them all.
The same exceedingly great and precious promises are guaranteed to them all.
The same priceless inheritance is reserved in Heaven for all who by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, receive and obey the Gospel.
View both rich and poor believers, sitting down together at the table of the Lord as guests equally invited, and equally accepted by the great Master of the feast!
All eating of the same bread;
all drinking of the same cup;
all receiving into their souls, the same divine blessings.
Say, is not this lovely? Is it not a true picture of Heaven itself, where the poor beggar Lazarus, whose sores the dogs once licked, because he had not a friend to bind them up now sits down with all the Prophets and Apostles of the Lord at the marriage supper of the Lamb!
Yes!
Thus, it is in the Church below. The rich and the poor meet together, for the Lord is the Redeemer of them all,
the Father of them all,
the Friend of them all,
the portion of them all!
In Christ's church on earth, both poor and rich are all in a measure poor in spirit,
mournful over their sinfulness,
meek and humble,
hungering and thirsting for righteousness,
merciful,
pure in heart,
holy and Christly!
In the body of Christ, there is no place for despising the poor, or envying the rich as the same honor and blessedness belong to all!
[Charles Simeon]
✞ ✞ ✞
James 1:9-10 ... Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Galatians 3:28 ... There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11 ... Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Romans 12:5 ... So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ❤
