The Southern herald., 1912-07-12

every true believer on Jesus Christ
is a saint, and becomes such the mo-
ment he so believes. saint" Is the
substantive Of the verb ''to sanctify,'
word Of two meanings.
What sanctify Means.
To "sanctify' means, first, to set
apart a thing or a person for a holy
use. II l 1.-THE my income, and set
aside one dollar out Of every ten for
Gods service. that dollar is sanctihed
in the instant Of its being set aside,
and If it were a person II might be
called saint.
Again "sanctify" means to make
thing intrinsically clean. The dollar
set aside is much soiled, and after
setting 1t aside send 1t to bank
note company, which puts it through
a process Of cleansing by means Of
which it comes back to me almost as
fresh and crisp as when it was first
put into circulation. 1t is now sane
titled in a second sense. This two
fold transaction represents saintship.
For example, the moment a man
takes Jesus Christ by faith to be his
Savior he is set apart by God and for
God, and becomes saint. But in
that same moment he enters upon a
process, or rather a process enters
upon or within him. 1t is q process
of cleansing. The operator is the
Holy Spirit, who takes up his abode
in him, and the means he uses is the
Word Of God. "Now are ye clean,"
said Jesus, Through the word have
/ spoken unto you"
Sanctihcation in the first case pretty
nearly agrees with justification, which
is instantaneous, but in the second
case 1t is continuous and progressive
as the Christian yields himself to the
Holy Spirit, and admits the Word OF
God into his heart and life.
We now reach the consideration Of
what think is the deepest truth re-
vealed in the Bible, for the apostle is
addressing not only the saints which
are at Ephesus, but also the faithful
in Christ Jesus" In other words,
there are saints and there are faith
full saints, the latter being those who
are in the experience Of the process
just referred to.
Notice the proposition "in." What
a small word 1t is, and yet when It
is used as here, to indicate the rela-
tion between Christ and the believer
on Christ, 1t becomes one Of the most
important words in the Bible. How
can one be said to be In Jesus Christ
The answer is, just as a member of
my body can be said to be in me.
Christ is represented as the head OF
the body, the church, and believers on
him are members Of that body. The
relationship thus Is not merely gov
ernmental, but vital.
"FalthfuI In Christ Jesus"
This suggests what 1t means to be
faithful in Christ Jesus" My eye, oI
ear, or tongue, or hand, or foot, IL
faithful in me as It surrenders itseli
to my will, and obeys my behests. This
is what Paul teaches when in Romans
he exhorts Christians to present theil
bodies unto God as living sacrifice
My members should be faithful in me
because live and express myself
through them, and for this same rea
son Christians need to be faithful II
Christ, else how shall he be known
and maintained in the earth?
Here is lesson for our home life
! our social life and our business lif'
as well. Everyone who know
Christ should be able to say with thu
, apostle, For me to live is for Chris
! to live"
The chapter now goes on to speal
3 Of the spiritual blessings the Christian
! has in Christ as member Of hi
body. All the blessings Of the heat
: belong to the members. In Chris
, they are chosen, redeemed, inherited
: and sealed.
The teaching is not only that the,
/ have an inheritance in God through
s Jesus Christ, but that God has an In
. heritance In them. And this inheri
Z tance he has made sure to himsel
! and to them by giving them his Hol
a Spirit to dwell within them as tn
' seal Of his ownership until the re
demption of the purchased possession
O II. O., the resurrection and glorihct
. tion of their bodies.
il He who trusts in Christ need nc
Y fear for his ultimate salvation, an
B need not doubt the promise Of glor1
But the question arises, Have you "
trusted in Christi The Christ Of th
Bible, | mean, not aome ideal ChriI
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