But Jesus crossed the great gulf from the Holy land of heaven, and he landed his boat in the defiled regions of the earth – because in mercy, he loved us.
The God who upholds the world is especially present to give strength to those who believe.
Christians shouldn’t be timid people.
And yet the great Son himself is the one who stoops down into our humiliation, so that we can be raised up into his household.
We need our great king, to make a judicial pronouncement – that our sins have been dealt with at the cross, and that our souls have been dressed with his righteousness.
Don’t forget how the glory of Christ is described at the end of verse 14. It says that he’s full of grace and truth. He’s filled to the brim – overflowing!
Faithful church government and church leaders are gifts to us, from Christ himself.
Our salvation – and our relationship with God – it isn’t based on the greatness of what we’ve done, or what we do. But it’s all a gift, that comes through the greatness of our high priest.
You and I are simply charged with spreading God’s word in faith. And we can trust that in God’s way – in God’s time – according to the full measure of God’s power and glory – he will bring the growth.
His good design includes laying out a grid for Biblical manhood and womanhood [in the worship of the Church].