35. The End of Life

The End of Life

Fifth point, light on the ultimate end of life, you still find in1 Peter 3:18, “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,” the one and only Master of life. That is the final cause of the redemptive work of Christ through the cross, to bring us to God. The old creation left God in Eden, and ever since God has been seeking for a new creation. Now He has a new head, and the head is in heaven beside Himself, and He is building up, building up, building up the new creation. And when the Lord appears and gathers His Body to Himself, then this will be literally true, we shall be back to God and God shall get back to Himself what has always been His. The great desire of His heart, the ultimate end of life is that man and God should be together.