peace and rest? You must have Jesus Himself.
You talk of purity, you talk of cleansing, you talk of deliverance from
sin. Praise God, here is the deliverance and the cleansing, when the
living Jesus comes and gives power. Then we have this resurrection of
Christ, this heavenly Christ upon the throne, making Himself known to
us. Surely that will be the secret of purity and the secret of strength.

Where does the strength of so many come from? From the joy of a personal
friendship with Jesus. Those disciples, if they had gone away with their
burning hearts to the other disciples, could have told them wonderful
things of a man who had explained to them the Scriptures and the
promises, but they could not have said, "We have seen Jesus." They might
have said, "Jesus is alive. We are sure of that," but that would not
have satisfied the others. But they could now go and say,

"_We have seen Himself._

He has revealed Himself to us." We are all glad to work for Christ, but
there is a complaint throughout the Church of Christ, from the ministers
in the pulpit down to the feeblest worker, of lack of joy and lack of
blessedness. Let us try and find out whether this is not the place where
the secret will be discovered--that the Lord Jesus comes and shows
Himself to us as our Master and speaks to us. When we have Jesus with
us, and when we go every footstep with the thought that it is Jesus
wants us to go, it is Jesus who sends us and is helping us, then there
will be brightness in our testimony, and it will help other believers,
and they will begin to understand; "I see why I have failed. I took the
word, I took the blessing, and I took, as I thought, the life, but I was
without the living Jesus."

And if you now ask, "How will this revelation come?" Brother, sister,
that is the secret that no man may tell, that Jesus keeps to Himself. It
is

_In the power of the Holy Ghost_;

Christ, the risen One, entered into a new life. His resurrection life is
entirely different from His life before His death. You know what we
read: "They knew Him." He revealed Himself, and then He passed away. And
was that vision of Christ worth so much? It was lost in a moment. It
was worth heaven, eternity, everything. Why? Because henceforth Christ
was no longer to be known after the flesh. Christ was henceforth in the
power of the Spirit, which fills Heaven; in the power of the Spirit
which is the power of the Godhead; in the power of the Spirit, wh