The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 525

XIII.

The Work

of

God "

Our Work.

in

And the wholly spirit

very ;

God

and

I

of peace sanctify you pray God your whole

and soul and body be preserved

blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."

The

between

difference

sanctification

—

i

Thess. v. 23.

and good works should be

well understood.

Many confound

the two, and believe that sanctification

lead an honorable and virtuous

life

;

and, since this

works, sanctification, without which no

man

is

means

to

i

equal to good

shall see God, is

1

made

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do good works. But this reasoning is false. The grape should not be confounded with the vine, lightning with thunder, the birth with the conception, any more than sanctification with good works. Sanctification is the kernel from which the blade and full ear of good works shall

and diligent

to consist in the earnest

spring

former

row

;

effort to

but this does not identify the kernel with the blade. lies in the

ground and by

The

its fibers

\

attaches itself to the fur-

from the ground externally and visibly. So is sanctification the implanting of the germ, of the disposition, and inclination which shall produce the blossom and fruit of a good work. Sanctification is God' s work in us, whereby He imparts to our members a holy disposition, inwardly filling us with delight in His law and with repugnance to sin. But good works are acts of 7nan, which spring from this holy disposition. Hence sanctification is the source of good works, the lamp that shall shine with their light, the capital of which they are the interest. Allow us to repeat it " sanctification " is a work of God " good " good " Sanctification " works internally works " are of men. works " are external. " Sanctification " imparts something to man " good works " take something out of him. " Sanctification " forces internally.

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