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l. Jesus their Redeemer as the spiritual
Seed. of Abraham for the blessing Oh
the world Galatians iii, 29).
Our Lord Jesus refers to- this work
| of God ia his people through his
Word, saying, "Sanctify them through
thy Truth. Thy Word lis Truth
| John xvii, 17). St. Paul refers tc
the Scriptures as the, power of God,
saying, Al Scripture is given by il,
spiratios Of God, and is profitable for.
doctrine, for reproof. for correction,
for instruction in righteousness; that
the man of. God may be perfect.
thoroughly furnished unto all gooo
works. al Timothy iii, Is, -.
Eye Are Gods Workmanship.
| We have seen that God does work
in his consecrated people, using his
providences in connection with the
experiences of life, and that he spe-
cially uses his word for their instruc
ton in righteousness. We are to re
member incidentally that our Lore
Jesus who redeemed US and reconciled
us by his. blood is still our Advocate
with the Father and our Instructor
as the Fathers representative; tina
through him we may be all taught o.
God sin the School of Christ. Mex,
we should not the Divine method il
this work of grace being carried OF
in our hearts from the time we fully
submitted them III full conservation
in faith. Our text declares thai
Gods work in US is divided into two
parts to will and to do. Let us ex-
anime first
How God Works In Us to Will.
| The will is the real person or ego !.
The body is merely responsible as>tht
agent or servant Of the will. With the
world the will and the. body are usur
ally at one sympathettcally co-opera-
i've But in those begotten Of Gods
Spirit as his children matters are diff
tferent. Their wills by conservation
are developed along lines quite an
Etagonisti cto the natural preferences
l'ofI their flesh, SO that the Apostle
wrote, with the mind myself serwe
COR desire to serve) the Law of God,V
but with the flesh l serve 1or desire to
serve) the law of sin" (Bdmans vii,
25). Hence every spirit-begotten
person has a warfare between his new
mind, with its holy aspirations and
desires and it's opponent flesh with its
animal propensities, some good and
some bad. Hence the Apostle exhorts
all these New Creatures to .'war
god warfare against their own flesh
and to bring it into subsection to the
New Mind and to the Divine Law.
He urges that we Bring every
thought into captivity to the obedience
Of Christ III Corinthians x, 81 This.
Of course, would mean absolute per
lection. so far as the New Creature
would be concerned and complete
deafness so far as the flesh is CON
cerned. With every though ycaptT-
waited to the Lord the individual
would never in any sense commit sin
other than the sin of ignorance or i'm
perfection,
/ God works in the minds of his peo-
Die not along the lines of enslave-
ment-of the mind after the manner Of
Satan and those who are subject to his
delusions by hypnotism, etc. Gods
operation is the very reverse of this
He enlightens the mind to do his.
work. He displays to minds
gradually light and Truth, purity and
GOODNESS in their true colors, in con-
trast with sin, ignorance and defile-
ment. And in the same words he sess
befoer us the great prize of glory.
honor and Immortality and joint
J heirship with our Redeemer in his
Kingdom. The power Of these hopes
working in a consecrated mind is Won
derful. It can make the naturally
weak. strong, the naturally tfmid bold
as lion,
This operation upon the mind is a
gradual one. from the time of our be-
| getting TO the holy Spirit until our
change not all at once, but grad
ually, little by little, the Lord dis
plays to us one feature after another
of his wonderful plan of salvation.
Step by step he shows to- the appre7
ciative and obedient heart the riches
of his grace, his loving kindness, his
tender mercy, the boundlessness OF
his love and the ultimate outworking
! of his Divine powers for the blessing
of all of his creatures who will accept
his favors on his won terms. All the
/ while he leaves us free agents to will