The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 489

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HOLY RAIMENT OF ONE'S OWN WEAVING

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good may be called holiness only when it possesses this it wills the good for God's sake alone. God alone is holy. There is no holiness but that which descends from Him, the Fountain of all good, hence of all holiness. Mere human holiness is a counterfeit, an attack upon God's honor of being the sole and only Fountain of all good. It is the creature's Nay, effort to be equal with God, and as such essential sin. man's holiness must be the divinely implanted disposition, stirring his entire being to love what God loves, not from his own taste, but for His Name's sake. for the

essential feature, that

Being planned after the divine image, Adam and Eve possessed hence discord between them and their Maker was impossible. Their holiness was not in germ merely, but complete, this holiness;

And the for everything in them was in perfect accord with God. redeemed in heaven are holy in death they are severed completely from the internal source of sin they are essentially in full and warm sympathy with the divine holiness, whose every feature at;

;

tracts them.

But the sinner has

lost this holiness.

expression of his being

is

It is

his misery that every

naturally in collision with the will of God,

And mere regenand disposition nor is it eration does not sanctify his inclination But it requires the germinate the holy disposition. able of itself to the disposition peculiar act, whereby Spirit's additional and very Holy of the regenerated and converted sinner is brought gradually into harmony with the divine will and this is the gracious gift of sancwhose holiness does not

attract,

but repels him.

;

;

tificatioti.

But

this does not

imply that a

man who

dies immediately after

conversion enters heaven without sanctification.

This would be

a very comfortless doctrine, and would unintentionally encourage Antinomianism. God's child entering heaven is completely sanctified

;

not in this

According

life,

but after

it.

to Scripture there is in

heaven a difference between

the spirits of the redeemed; they do not resemble each other as do

two drops

of water.

In the parable of the talents Christ teaches

clearly that in heaven there talents.

that

"

He who

the Father 29

is

a difference in the distribution of

denies this robs himself of the positive promise

who

seeth in secret shall reward openly."

The

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