d. Both He that
sanctifieth and we are all of One and this One is God, the Father.
Therefore He is not ashamed to call them brethren. It is true we
possess this relationship with the Man in Glory, the Lord Jesus
Christ, because we are born of God. We have eternal life, His own
life, and that makes us One with Him. But this is not the truth in
view here. It is the truth that He has identified Himself with us
and through His death and resurrection we are identified with Him.
And what it means "in the midst of the church will I sing praises
unto Thee" we shall not follow at this time.

But let us keep it before our hearts a little while longer. The Lord
of Glory calls us "My Brethren." He who is there in the Father's
house, in the Father's presence and on the Father's throne is not
ashamed to call us brethren. He knows all about us. He knows all the
depths of sin in which we are by nature; that by nature we were
enemies by wicked works and children of wrath, but He took it all
upon Himself and has taken it out of the way and now He looks upon
us and all who have accepted Him by personal faith as being one with
Him and one with His Father; therefore He is not ashamed to call us
brethren. What a comfort it should be to our hearts! What joy it
should create in our souls! He Himself received from God, His
heart's desire and the request of His lips (Ps. xxi:2). And all His
desire and request was in our behalf, that He might bring us, His
many sons, to glory. And now He rejoices in us, for we are His
inheritance. He wants us to rejoice in Him and with Him in an
unspeakable joy and full of glory. Our souls entering into all this
and rejoicing with Him in His salvation, enjoying the comfort of it;
this honors Him and honors God.

It should end the discouragement and unbelief from which we so often
suffer. Though we are weak and erring, imperfect in all our ways,
yet He is not ashamed to call us brethren. Such a fellowship and
relation into which we are brought once and, for all by the Son of
God, should, if accepted in faith, dispel any doubt about ourselves
and free us from all gloom and discouragement. Alas! how dull we are
not to enter fully into the joy and comfort Grace has bestowed upon
us!

And then think of the dignity and honor which is ours. Sons of God
with Him; Heirs of God with Him; one with Him, perfectly identified
with the blessed One in God's presence. Therefore He is not ashamed
to call us brethren. To walk