The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-19
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VI our lie as seen by the world. The
indwelling Holy Ghost, like the new sap
rising IN the tree at springtime, loosen
ing all the dry leaves which have defied
the blasts of winter, causes all that is
worthless in our lives to fall away by
his hving, e-giving power. This work
Oh outward perfecting may go on for a
iiIetime, While the heart is perfect in the
sight of the Lord. "Walk before me and
be thou perfect" said God to Abraham.
we may be perfect in the eyes of God,
when we may come far short of it tn the
eyes of the world. The Holy Ghost can
never come into soul only as sin goes out
Ihey cannot live together If we regard
inlqulty in our hearts the Holy Dove will
depart. There is no conscious resistance
Oh God while our will is abandoned to the
VIII OF God. To live in this blessed relation
10 God is the privilege of his children
in this sin-broken world.
u How is this blessing obtaineds
First, Not by works lest any man
should boast" Having begun in the
spirit we are not to end in the flesh.
Sanctlfication is not an attainment but
an obtalnment. We never attain it by
growth, but we obtain it by faith. This
Is the reason so many in the church have
never entered into their inheritance be-
cause of false teachings that they were "to
grow into 1T. There seems very little
growth among Christian people until the
baptism of the spirit is on them. Most
people. spend their life in the Wilderness
and never cross the Jordan into Canaan
experiences.
second, Is 1t a second blessing? 1t was
with the disciples at Pentecost. They
had been converted for three years and
walking i'll the highest fellowship with
the saviour; but Pentecost was n second
experience, wholly different from any
thing they had known before. An exper-
fence which was more wonderful Ethan
that which first brought them into the
company of the Lord. The Change in
Peter at this time was greater than any
record of his first surrender. There are
two persons of the Godhead concerned
IN our redemption. The Son of God and
the Holy Ghost. 1t would be natural to
expect that two experiences might char
acterlze the work of salvation There
are two experiences distinctly taught bv
the types of the Old Testament. Epynt
and Canaan tell us of deliverance from
the land of bondage, and the entering
into the land of victory. Both were by
the sovereign act of God in answer to n
living faith. ''He brought us out that
lie might bring us i'm Crossing the
Jordan was just as distinct an experience
by the mighty hand of God as crossing the
Red Sea-
The two offerings, the ''sin offering,s
and the whole burnt Offering are again
very significant; forshadowing the two
experiences. The sin Offering was justi..
fication, the. whole burnt Offering was
sanctification, for the whole of the ami
mai was consumed, which would prefip-
ure nothing else than that the whole
body, soul and spirit was presented in
totality to God. The cleansing of the
leper sets forth the two blessings in a
very striking manner. The leper was
brought unto the priest, and if his len
rosy was gone the priest took blood first
ana put upon the right ear, on the thumb
OF the right hand and upon the great toe
OF the right foot. Then he was to take
the oil which is the symbol of the HOLY
Ghost, and put it over the blood on the
ear thumb and toe. Leprosy is the
great type of sin, and its cleansing must
represent the cleansing of sin. This ser.
wee had two distinct parts, signfied by
blood and oil. They were not-mixed and
put on at the same time
The tabernacle was constructed so that
it might stand as a preacher for all gen
erations. God was the architect. and
every part of it is vocal with instructions.
There are three compartments--th the outer
court, the holy place and the most holy.
The outer court represents justification,
for there the blood was shed. The priest
who passed from the outer court into the
holy place had to pass the laver of cleans
ing, where all deflement was cleansed
away before entering the holy place
which represents. sanctification, where
the bread Is ever fresh and the lamps of
light are ever burning. All the redeem
ed are now priests unto God, and if they
ever enter into the holy place, or come
into the relations of sanctified soul,
they must come by the way of the laver
of cleansing. What of the holy of holes?
That is the type of heaven. Only the
high priest ever entered it, and only our
great High Priest in resurrection life has
entered into the heavens. We see that
the Old Testament continually fore
shadows the double blessing in the saliva
tion of man.
III. What are some of the blessings of
specification or baptism of the Holy
Ghost?
First, 1t gives certainties of knowl-
edge.
II know whom l believed" I'VE
know that if this earthly house of our
tabernacle be dissolved, we have a build
ing of God, house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens Then do we
know that we know Him. When
Thomas came to clear vision of his Sa-
viour, his doubts forever fled, and he
cried out with absolute certainty, My
Lord and my Godr' So many Christians
live where doubt is the biggest part of
them; always in the mire of uncertainty,
and unable to lift from the mire anybody
else. When man is baptised with the
Holy Ghost he comes into such fellow
ship with God that doubt goes out and
the soul rests in blessed certainties