[334]Honest Heart presents himself to the Lord Jesus the high priest,
fully surrendering himself and agreeing to do the will of God. There is
the promise on his part, then, and he is one party to the contract
through his advocate, the Lord Jesus. And when Christ Jesus the high
priest presents him to the Father, Jehovah, the Lord Jehovah in
substance says to Honest Heart: 'In consideration of the fact that you
have turned away from the wrongful course, and have come to Jesus, and
have made a full surrender of yourself in consecration, thereby
exercising faith in his blood shed for you and your faith in my plan;
and in consideration of the further fact that my beloved Son has imputed
to you his merit to make you acceptable before me, I accept you and
determine that you are right or justified, and accepting you as a part
of his sacrifice, I give to you my exceeding great and precious promises
that by these you might become partaker of the divine nature'.--2 Peter
1:4.
[335]This is in harmony with St. James' statement: "Of his own will
begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures". (James 1:18) The Psalmist shows that this
begetting is in the nature of a contract when he says: "Gather my
saints together unto me; those who have made a covenant [contract] with
me by sacrifice". (Psalm 50:5) Honest Heart now being begotten has the
promise of life upon the highest plane, the divine nature.
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