Divine Order

When we come into Christ, while it is true that we come into the Divine Person, we have to come into our place in a Divine order...

And being in Christ requires that there shall be a right relationship to one another; an appointing, a functioning, a relativity about everything. 

It is a wonderful Divine system. 

Death and Satan have their occasion when anything that relates to Divine order is not obeyed, recognized or observed. 

It is quite easy for death to get a chance amongst the Lord's people when there is a disorder amongst them... 

When they are not conformed to Christ in the sense of His being an expression of an ordered, heavenly system. 

Surely the New Testament rather thunders upon that than speaks. 

If the Corinthian Church is an example of weak testimony, and indeed it is, the reason is not far to seek. 

It was a matter of disorder amongst believers.

~T. Austin Sparks~