[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by JJ

STG, please post all of Sparks and Freeman’s commentaries on verse 11 so I am not beating up a straw man.

Here's the one from Spark's devotional that I read earlier this week and commented on. Regarding Freeman's quotes, that will take more looking . . .

April 5

Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
(Zechariah 4:6)

Does it not strike you as significant, and very impressive, that when
the veil was rent Israel was set aside? Israel had been called in to maintain
a testimony in types. Christ had come and fulfilled all the types, and being
the center of all the types, the veil, all that kept God shut off from man,
was now dealt with, and the way was open. There was no need for types
now. So the custodian of the types departs with the types. This is not the
dispensation of the types: this is the dispensation of the reality, the
dispensation of a heavenly union with a risen Lord, and of all that that
means.

Our danger is of bringing back types. The types have gone and that is
the whole message of this letter to the Hebrews. Christ is everything. The
outward order of the Old Testament is set aside, and now all that obtains is
Christ Himself. He is the Priest; you no longer have priests on earth in the
Old Testament sense. He is the Sacrifice; there is no need for any other
sacrifices. He is the Tabernacle; He is the Temple; He is the Church. What
is thc Church? It is Christ in living union with His own, that wheresoever
two or three are gathered together in His name there He is in the midst.
That is the Church. You do not build special buildings and call them "the
Church:' You do not have special organizations, religious institutions,
which you call "the Church." Believers in living union with the risen Lord
constitute the Church. This is the reality, not the figure. That is to say, His
flesh, human limitation, is done away. Now in union with Christ risen all
human limitations are transcended.

This is one of the wonders of Christ risen as a living reality. We are
brought into a realm of capacities which are more than human capacities,
where, because of Christ in us, we can do what we never could do naturally.
Our relationships are new relationships; they are with heaven. Our
resources are new resources: they are in heaven. That is why the Apostle
wrote to the Corinthians and said that God hath chosen the weak things, the
foolish things. The things which are despised, and the things which are not,
that He by them might bring to naught the wise, the mighty, the things
which are. Why did God appoint it so? Because it is not by might, nor by
power, but by His Spirit; and to show that there are powers, energies,
abilities for His own which transcend all the greatest powers and abilities
of this world.

From: The Risen Lord and the Things Which Cannot be Shaken - Chapter 4
www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/002219.html