The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 497

APPLICATION OF SANCTIFICATION Sin imparts pollution, Sin generates

sin.

i.e.,

there can be no sin without begetting

imparts

sin,

457

sin, is

always the mother of

sin.

sin-begetting process were not stopped in our hearts, sin's

If this

chain would remain unbroken, link upon link, and only sin would

be the result.

But

this is not the divine purpose.

God

wills that

men

should

good works and glorify the Father which is in heaven. Therefore God has prepared good works that we should walk in them. But if the stain of sin were to work in us without any interruption, we could not walk in them. Not one of us could ever do a single good work. Light would never shine in the children of light, and there would be no occasion to glorify the Father in heaven. Good works wrought in us by the Holy Spirit indepe7idently of us can not offer such occasion. His works are siiw a.ys holy j there is nothing surprising in that. But when He causes holy works to see our

proceed from us in such a way that they are truly our own, then there

is

surprise.

occasion for praise

Who

And

the Father. is

wrought

— Matt.

this in

Then men

will ask in

them? and looking up

will glorify

v.

16.

then the fearful continuity of sin called

broken; then the law that sin must beget

sinful disposition, is replaced

"

stain

sin, i.e., cultivate

by another law which gradually

"

the in-

troduces the holy disposition.

This holy disposition can not spring from man, not even from A starving child can not grow, neither can the child of God proceed to sanctification if left to himself. Altho sanctifi-

regeneration.

cation

is

organically connected with the implanted

life,

not germinate without the constant showers of grace. it is

it

does

Wherefore

the free gift of the Father of Lights.

The indwelling all

yet

Spirit

is

the hour of death alone.

The

idiots

and insane persons, and

bed.

In all others

He

life

and

it

in

in death, or in

latter applies to elect children, to

to persons converted

performs

hour of their departure. But there is a difference

He performs

the actual Worker.

the saints, not partly, but wholly, both in

it

on their death-

during their lifetime and in the

in different persons.

In

some the Holy

Spirit begins sanctification in their childhood; in others at maturity.

In

others

it

some is

it proceeds almost without any interruption; in hindered by conflict or apostasy. But in all He acts

according to His pleasure.

Sanctification

is

an

artistic

embroidery

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