The Christian: What is He — Heavenly or Earthly?

When the Lord allowed this service to be taken up some time ago, we had a subject connected with the truth of God suitable to those who are young, and whose hearts perhaps (as in an infantine state) could not take in or understand the larger, fuller, and more blessed scope of the truth. But I shall seek now, as the Lord may help, both this evening and the other evenings we are together, to treat other branches and other parts of the same truth, starting, as far as we can, without any system, from where we left off, though I am purposing to-night to touch a little more on the foundations than I shall on succeeding evenings. My thought now — I name it at the outset — is to put before you simply what the place of a Christian is in heaven and on earth. I see some here who, I think, can hardly be ranked as young Christians; still I take it that if they are not young in that sense, I suppose they do not consider themselves beyond the simplest things that the Lord may give us to think of and meditate over this evening; and I do not desire to go beyond the very simplest truths and in the simplest way.