The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 490

SANCTIFICATION

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heavenly state which we preach

is not based upon the principles of on the contrary, in the assembly of just men made perfect we shall never ascend to the rank of apostle or prophet, probably not even to that of martyr. Nevertheless there is in heaven no saint whose sanctification is incomplete. In this

the French Revolution

;

respect all are alike.

But there tification of

will be

my

holy disposition divine holiness. I

room

for development.

personality,

body and

soul,

The complete

sanc-

does not imply that

now in actual contact with all the fulness On the contrary, as I ascend from glory to

is

shall find in the infinite depths of the divine

my

of the

glory,

Being the eternal

object of richest delight in ever-increasing measure.

In this re-

Adam and Eve

in Paradise,

spect the redeemed in heaven are like

who, tho perfectly holy, were destined to enter more fully into the the divine love by endless development. It should therefore be thoroughly understood that at the moment of their entering heaven the sanctification of the redeemed lacks notJmig. Nevertheless their sanctification will receive fullest completion when, risen from the grave, in the glory of the resurlife of

rection-body, they enter the

judgment.

Kingdom

of Glory after the

day

of

Until that hour they are in a state of separation from

the body, resting in peace, awaiting the

coming

of the Lord.

Since sanctification includes body and soul, exhaustive treat-

ment requires

that

we

call attention to this point.

Not

as tho this

intermediate state were sinful, a sort of purgatory; for the Scripture teaches clearly that in death

The

fact that the

we

are seJ>aratedirom the body.

body remains impure

until the

does not affect the holy state of the departed

day of

glorification

Being freed from the body, he is no more affected by it. And when, in the notable day of the Lord, the body shall be restored to him, it shall be perfectly holy, pure, and glorified. That which belongs to Jesus enters heaven perfectly holy. The slightest lack would indicate something internally sinful would annihilate the glorious confession that death is a dying to all sin, saint.

;

as well as the positive declaration of Scripture, that nothing that

Hence it is the unalterable redeemed soul entering heaven is

defiles shall enter the gates of the city.

rule of sanctification that every

perfectly sanctified.

This applies to the infant

who being regenerated

carried thence to the grave, in

whom,

in the cradle is

therefore, conscious exercise

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