Revisiting The Mystery And the Power of the Cross, Part-4

<p><strong>••• Bible Study Verses: Hebrews 9.12, Romans 8.16-17, Genesis 1.26-28, Psalm 8.4-8, I Peter 1.3-4, Ephesians 1.13-22, II Corinthians 5.5, Revelation 5.9-12, 3 John 1.2, Deuteronomy 29.29, Acts 9.1-22 .&nbsp;</strong></p><p>••• <em>“…… Aspire to the utmost God can give… Beloved, when faith gets her heritage in Christ, she is brought into a wealthy place. When sin is driven out, and we come to live in God's own land, then we find precious treasure; we dig, and we are enriched. We have all things in Christ…As He has gone in heaven to prepare a place for us, so on earth He has already prepared, in the covenant of grace, everything that is needed for the way home…The saints' inheritance is the choicest form of life, and peace, and joy. We come to live with Christ, in Christ, for Christ, as Christ: we rise in Him to fellowship with the Father, and with the church of the Firstborn…We live through our Lord, and with our Lord; and this is life eternal. This is "the life which is life indeed." Compared with it all other life is death. Grace is glory in the bud…He has given us an inheritance by an act of sovereign grace, and not because of any goodness in ourselves, and His gift will never be recalled, since the ground of it never alters. Each believer may say, "He hath in Christ Jesus made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: and therefore do I possess all spiritual blessings, and shall possess them world without end…You can never take the kingdom of grace until with deliberate resolve you quit the sand of the desert for the soil of Canaan. A balloon cannot go up into the sky until the last rope is cut…” C. H. Spurgeon, Sermon #2086.</em></p><p>••• “...I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,