Even as He

A. B. Simpson was an author, hymn writer, conference speaker, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman.  He founded The Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.

The following is from his book Wholly Sanctified:

"'Because as he is, so are we also in this world!'

". . . There is no stronger statement anywhere in God's Word of our intimate and absolute union with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. It does not mean that some day we will be like Him, but here, and now, as He is, so are we in this world.

"We are one with Him in His death. His death was our death, 'For we thus judge that, if one died for all, then were all dead.'

". . . As He is in His resurrection, so are we in this world. For we are not only dead with Him, but we also live with Him.

"The life we now live is not the same as our past. The saved man is no longer himself. He is dead, and the man who lives in his stead is a new man in Christ Jesus.

"He can truly say: 'I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me.' It is not the same man. Your old sins are regarded as the sins of another. You are even as He. God recognizes not the old man, but the Christ in you, and receives you as He does His own beloved Son. Why then should you be afraid? Only realize your unity with Him, and His perfect love will cast out all fear."