Celebrated in Heaven and on Earth

The epistles, in their season, teach salvation to those who have received it as preached to them. They teach it in its glories. They distinguish it in its present and future relation to us. We now have the salvation of the soul. We wait for that salvation which is to be revealed at the appearing of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:7). We have now "the grace of God that bringeth salvation." We wait for that form of it which the second coming of the Lord shall bring with it (Titus 2:11-14; Heb. 9:28).
Then when we pass the epistles and reach the very end of the divine book, and read the Revelation, we find that this salvation is celebrated—not preached nor taught. It is not as addressing itself to a wide world of sinners or assemblies of the saints, but celebrated, whether in heaven or on earth, in courts of glory or regions of renewed creation (Rev. 7; 12; 19).
Surely then, the salvation of God is tracked all through the Word of God; it is promised, illustrated, typified, prophesied, embodied, dispensed, preached, taught, and celebrated.
Salvation is too great a thought for the heart of man to suggest or indeed to receive. God must provide us with it, and the Spirit must enable us to accept it. The religious mind of man resents it as inconsistent with the obligation he owes to God, and with the responsibility under which he lies to Him. The moral sense resents it as being no security of practical life and righteousness. How deeply at fault both are! How unequal is the best human thing to reach the divine. While neither man's religion nor man's morality give toleration to the idea of salvation, God, as we see, is occupied with it from first to last. The promise of it, the history of it, the display of it, and the illustration of it in one sinner after another stretch across the whole volume. God dispenses it now and would have us enjoy it. He will display it in all its glory by and by, and will call us to celebrate it.