receive the standing of sons. He has access ever into the Father's
presence, and we through Him and in Him have access with confidence
and are accepted in the Beloved. In relation to men, since He is
Light, we, touched with His light, are also, in our measure and
degree, the lights of the world; and in the proportion in which we
receive into our souls, by patient abiding in Jesus Christ, the very
power of His Spirit, we, too, become God's anointed, subordinately
but truly His messiahs, for He Himself says: 'As the Father hath sent
Me, even so I send you.'

In regard to character, the living union between Christ and His
members results in a similarity if not identity of character, and
with His righteousness we are clothed, and by that righteousness we
are justified, and by that righteousness we are sanctified. The
oneness between Christ and His children is the ground at once of
their forgiveness and acceptance, and of all virtue and nobleness of
life and conduct that can ever be theirs.

And, in like manner, we can look forward and be sure that we are so
closely joined with Him, if we love Him and trust Him, that it is
impossible but that where He is there shall also His servants be; and
that what He is that shall also His servants be. For the oneness of
life, by which we are delivered from the bondage of corruption and
the law of sin and death here, will never halt nor cease until it
brings us into the unity of His glory, 'the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ.' And as He sits on the Father's throne, His
children must needs sit with Him, on His throne.

Therefore the name of the collective whole, of which the individual
Christian is part, is Christ. And as in the great Old Testament