# “For us” by Richard Sibbes

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- Published: 2013-10-01T12:00:56-05:00
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“It is good to think of the love of Christ, that He considered _us _and not _Himself_
in that His abasement, as the Scripture runs in that strain: ‘To _us _a Son is given,
for _us_ a child is born,’ Isa. 9:6.

He died _for us_. He gave Himself _for us_. He rose _for us_. He ascended _for us_.
He sits at the right hand of God _for us_. Himself indeed hath glory, but together
_with us_. And therefore when we think of the glory of Christ, think of _us _in 
Him.

When we see Him born, think He was born for me; when we see Him die, think we die
with Him; when we see Him buried, think ourselves buried with Him. So in the state
of exaltation, when we see Him rise, and sit at the right hand of God, think He 
is there to prepare a place for me.

Whatsoever He hath, or whatsoever He did, He regards us in all; therefore it somewhat
obscures the glory and the love of Christ to us, to conceive that He had a self-
respect in these things, when He saith in the text, ‘For this end Christ died, and
rose, and revived, that He might be Lord of quick and dead.’

I beseech you, consider whose goods He respects in this lordship. Is it not a profitable
lordship for us? Is it not for our good that He is our Lord in life and in death?
And not only our Lord, but the Lord of Satan, of death, and of all our enemies.

He is Lord over all, saith the apostle, ‘God over all, blessed for ever,’ Rom. 9:
5. Therefore He is Lord over sin, over death, over hell, over all that we need to
fear. It is _for us_. Therefore _our _good is intended.

Though there be a redundance of glory in Christ, in all these things, yet think 
He respects our good. The best meditation of Christ is to think all is _for us_.”

–Richard Sibbes, “[Christ’s Exaltation](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513980?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
in _[The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 5](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513980?tag=toletaupanre-20),_
ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet
and Co.; W. Robertson, 1863), 353.

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