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A Call Out of the Glory
Our Master has spoken once since He left that group of men, with up-turned faces, on Olivet's top. Out from the glory, His voice comes to us clearly in John's Revelation. That little closing book of the Bible begins with the Master's seven-fold message to His Church. (Revelation 2, 3.) Each part of that message begins with a description of Himself; then He speaks clearly and plainly of what the Church looks like to His searching eye; and then each ends with the ringing cry, "to him that overcometh."
Down from the glory comes this earnest pleading call to us to take up the fight which He began, and to carry it to a finish in the power of His victory. That seven-times repeated "to—him—that—overcometh" tells that the conflict is still on, that each man must settle it for himself, that each of us must overcome or be overcome, and that we may overcome if we will, but it will only be through fighting, and real fighting too.
Our Lord got the victory; He got it only through fighting for it. He means that each of us shall get the victory also. We can get it if we will. We get it through His victory. We stand no chance at all save as we go in the power of what He has done. But even so we get it only through our own fighting for it. We must fight if we would win. There is no other way.
We must fight in the strength of His victory. And each of us must fight as really as though the conflict had not already been decided by Him. Only as we fight can we know victory. If we don't overcome, we shall be overcome. If we don't actively push the fighting, we shall be pushed over into defeat.
Our Lord plans that we shall follow in the victory He has won. Each of us is to be an overcomer. In the upper room that Resurrection evening He said, "As the Father hath sent me, even so send I you." (Joh_20:21.) We are to be as He—the same life to live, the same earth to live on, the same earnest service to do, the same enemy to fight, and by His grace the same victory to achieve. We are to be the same sort of man as He, one of whom Satan is afraid, whom he can neither touch nor resist.