The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 492

VI. Christ

Our

Sanctification. " Christ Jesus us

.

.

.

who

of

God

is

sanctification."

made unto

—

i

Cor. 1.30.

The redeemed soul possesses a// things in Christ. He is a comHe lacks nothing. Having Him we are saved to the uttermost without Him we are utterly lost and undone. plete Savior. ;

We must

earnestly maintain this point, especially with reference

to sanctification is

given us of

and repeat with increasing clearness that Christ for wisdom and righteousness, but also

;

God not only

for sanctification. It

reads distinctly that Christ

tion.

This translation

is

which

is

our righteous«/f^j and sanctifi^a-

perfectly correct.

The Greek does not "

dikaiosiine," which never refers to the act of making righteous, but to the condition of being righteous, therefore r\ght&o\xsness. So it does not read, " hdgios" or " hagiosune," which might refer to holiness, but it reads

read, "dikaiosis,"

distinctly, "

What

is justification,

but

hagiosmos" which points to the act of making holy.

the apostle distinguished so clearly should not be con-

founded.

Paul and the Church of Corinth are believers. They are once for all for Christ was made righteousness unto them. But this is not the case with sanctification. " Even the holiest men have only small beginnings of this obediSt.

justified in Christ already,

ence,

which constrain them

according to q.

114).

all

the

But the

;

to live not only according to some, but

commandments of God " (Heidelberg Catechism, work is only just begun. Compared to former

times, there is a holier love and spirit in them, but they are by no

means wholly sanctified. They are under the treatment of the Spirit, their Sanctifier. They become more and more conformable to the image of God (q. 15). Hence there are degrees of progress in holiness.

In those but recently converted, sanctification has pro-

gressed but

little

;

in others it

has

made

glorious progress.

are in the Church holy, holier, and holiest persons

(q.

ii4)-

So there

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