The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 404

JUSTIFICATION

364 what a man is.

The measure of worth is nothing else but the worth

of OMXX personality.

And

this

we oppose most

emphatically.

cation in toto J and such denial

is

a denial of

It is

essentially

justifi-

mutiny and rebellion

against God, a withdrawing of oneself from the authority of one's legal sovereign.

All those

who

consider themselves saved because they have holy

emotions, or because they think themselves less sinful, and profess to

make progress

they

may be

insist

in sanctification

in all other things,

on being counted according

according to what

—

this in

to their

God counts them

however dissimilar common, that they own declaration, and not

all these,

have

to be.

Instead of leaving, as

dependent creatures, the honor of determining their status to their sovereign King, whose they are, they sit as judges to determine it themselves, by their

And which

He

not only

is in

own

progress in good works.

but they also detract from the redemption

this,

Christ Jesus, and from the reality of the guilt for which

He who

maintains that God must count a man acand not according to what God wills to count him, can never understand how the Lord Jesus could bear our sins, and be a "curse "and "sin "for us. He must interpret this sinbearing in the sense of a physical or Ethical fellowship, and seek for reconciliation not in the cross of Jesus, but in His manger, as many actually do in these days. And as they thus make the actual bearing of our guilt by the satisfied.

cording to what he

is,

Mediator unthinkable, so they make inherited guilt impossible. Assuredly, they say, there is inherited stain, taken in a Mani-

chean sense, but no original guilt. For how could the guilt of a dead man be counted unto us? It is evident, therefore, that by this thoughtless and bold denial of the right of God, not only is justification disjointed, but the whole structure of salvation is robbed of its

foundation.

And why

is this?

Is it

because the

human

consciousness can

not conceive the idea of being counted according to what

we

are

from the social life show that men readily understand and daily accept such a relation in common affairs. The deep cause of this unbelief lies in the fact that man will not rest in God's judgment concerning him, but that he seeks for rest not?

Our

illustrations

in his

<77f'«

estimate of himself

safer shield than God's

;

that this estimate

judgment concerning him

;

is

considered a

and

that, instead

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