“The mystery
which has been hidden from the past ages and generations;
but now has been manifested to His saints” (Col.1:26). This
mystery, of Christ in us, our hope of glory”, is available
to all believers. Men no longer
need to
die in
a wilderness of separation, struggle and defeat. There is
“a
Sabbath rest for the people of God” (Heb. 4:9).
Walter Lanyon
wrote primarily to mature Christians who have begun to see
with
a
“single
eye”, he leaves
“the
elementary teachings about
the
Christ…….not laying again a foundation of repentance from
dead works and faith toward God” (Heb.6:1). Instead of
seeing some as little children and young men, he writes as
if all readers are
“fathers”
(1John 2:13)
Also remember
that Walter Lanyon’s writings make only passing reference to
sin, to the Lord Jesus’ unique
Deity in His
incarnation as
“God manifest
in the flesh”, to our identification with Him in His
substitutionary death, and to other such fundamental
truths. His limited emphasis on the foundations of faith in
Christ is his way of pressing readers on to further reaches
of maturity, not a denial of any foundational
truths.
