The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 125

GUILTLESS AND WITHOUT SIN of our sin

and

In the

guilt.

same

epistle in

85

which the apostle

sets

human

and

forth distinctly the fellowship of Jesus with the

flesh

blood, he bears equally clear testimony to the fact of His sinlessness, so that every

misunderstanding

tue of our conception and birth

we

may be

obviated.

As by

are unholy, guilty, and

vir-

defiled,

and therefore burdened with the condemnation of and born holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, made higher than the heavens. And with equal emphasis the apostle declares that sin did not enter into His temptations, for, altho tempted in all things, like as we are, yet He was one with sinners, hell,

so is the Mediator conceived

ever without

sin.

Therefore the mystery of the Incarnation

lies in the

apparent

contradiction of Christ's union with our fallen nature, which on the is so intimate as to make Him susceptible to its temptawhile on the other hand He is completely cut off from all fellowship with its sin. The confession which weakens or elimi-

one hand

tions,

nates either of these factors must,

By

when

logically developed, de-

" The Mediator is conceived and born in our nature, as it was before the fall," we sever the fellowship between Him and us ; and by allowing that He had

generate into serious heresy.

saying,

the least personal part of our guilt and

sin,

we

sever His fellowship

with the divine nature. sin

Does the Scripture not teach then that the Mediator was made and bore the curse for us, and " as a worm and no man " suffered

deepest distress?

We answer tion.

But

:

Yea, verily, without this

in all this

He

we could have no redempHis own person-

acted as our Substitute.

was not in the least affected by it. His burdening Himself with our sins was a High- Priestly act, performed vicariously. He was made sifi, but never a sinner. Sinner means one who is persotiality

ally affected

by

sin; Christ's person

never was.

He never had any

fellowship with sin other than that of love and compassion, to bear it as our High Priest and Substitute. Yet, tho He was exceedingly

He was sorely tempted so that He Let this cup pass from Me," in the center of His personal being He remained absolutely free from the least contact with sin. A close examination of the way by which we become partakers of sin will shed more light on this subject. Every individual sin is not of our own begetting only, but a parsorrowful even unto death, tho

cried out,

"

ticipation in the

common

sin,

the one mighty sin of the whole

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