Would You Reign With Christ, Or With This World?
“Some would reign here in this world; and we may say, with the apostle, ‘Would you did reign, that we might reign with you.’ But the members of the mystical body must be conformed to the Head. In him sufferings went before glory; and so they must in them. The order of the kingdom of Satan and the world is contrary to this. First the good things of this life, and then eternal misery, is the method of that kingdom.”
John Owen, The Glory of Christ, p.124
“But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. ” (Luke 16:25)
