This is the complete salvation that I get when I get Christianity. There is nothing of the flesh in Christianity, and nothing for the flesh. The apostle had been a Hebrew of the Hebrews, but now he does not know even Christ after the flesh; and therefore he asks the Colossians, “Why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations?” They that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; and the law applies to all that; but I have died in Christ, and the whole question now is one of connection with Him.

We are passing through the world which rejected Him, but we are connected with Him in glory. He came in love, and is gone in righteousness, and we are made “the righteousness of God in Him,” that which is fit for heaven, and nothing else is. Sealed with the Holy Spirit, I stand between the first coming of that Blessed One, and His second coming to put me into the full place that He has earned for me. My sins are totally gone forever. I have not merely forgiveness at any given moment for what I have done; blessedly true though that is, it is only half the truth. But Christ has offered one sacrifice for sin, one only, and that, at the end of the world; if that has not wrought for me a perfect acceptance and justification, I shall never have one, because He cannot die again, for “He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world.” If there is any sin left for Christ to clear me of, He must die again and shed His blood again to do it, and that cannot be. But, having made propitiation by His blood, Christ is in the presence of God for us, and therefore, when I go to God at any time, imputation of my sins is impossible, or God would deny both the Christ who is before Him, and what He has done.