Christ has been raised from the dead—where the judgment of God put Him, and set down before God—where the glory of God has set Him. Now Christ as Son having perfectly pleased the Father, in manifesting Him in love and moral ways, and as man glorified God in His nature on the cross, has thereby constituted Himself a creditor upon God. The first man was a debtor to God; the Second Man is a creditor upon God. Here is the claim and the ground of it. "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God be glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself and shall straightway glorify Him,"—that is, personal and immediate glory is the demand, not of love, but of righteousness. Accordingly Christ takes the place on high, which His work on earth merits. Is it the presence of the Father? there love has set us. Is it the glory of God? there righteousness has seated us. In the dignity of His person and in the value of His work, He has there acquired a place for Himself and for us. What a unique place we are set in, and if we have not more fully developed the believer's standing, not in an acquired and legal righteousness, which after all no law could win, but in divine righteousness, and set according to it in the life and glory of the Second Man, it is because we would have the believer enjoy it, drink deeply into it for himself.