Many Mansions

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Christ had to prepare the disciples for parting with Him. He did this by the promise of reunion. It will not be in a strange land, but in His Father’s house. There will be ample room—“many mansions.” He has gone into that house—is there now, in His glory, and with His mediatorial power. In due time He will come and take us to be with Him, our spirits to be at home with the Lord, and in due time our bodies to be raised up and glorified. Oh, what a future is before the believer, though he be as poor and as despised by the world as the fishermen of Galilee!

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