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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Holy in Christ, by Andrew Murray
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+Title: Holy in Christ
+       Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
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+Author: Andrew Murray
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+                        HOLY IN CHRIST:
+
+           Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children
+                   to be Holy as He is Holy.
+
+                               BY
+                      REV. ANDREW MURRAY,
+
+        AUTHOR OF 'ABIDE IN CHRIST,' 'LIKE CHRIST,' ETC.
+
+
+
+                          _'I am holy:
+                       ye shall be holy.'_
+
+
+
+                   FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY,
+                  CHICAGO, NEW YORK, TORONTO,
+             Publishers of Evangelical Literature.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+There is not in Scripture a word more distinctly Divine in its origin
+and meaning than the word holy. There is not a word that leads us higher
+into the mystery of Deity, nor deeper into the privilege and the
+blessedness of God's children. And yet it is a word that many a
+Christian has never studied or understood.
+
+There are not a few who can praise God that during the past twenty years
+the watchword BE HOLY has been taken up in many a church and Christian
+circle with greater earnestness than before. In books and magazines, in
+conventions and conferences, in the testimonies and the lives of
+believers, we have abundant tokens that what is called the
+Holiness-movement is a reality.
+
+And yet how much is still wanting! What multitudes of believing
+Christians there are who have none but the very vaguest thoughts of what
+holiness is! And of those who are seeking after it how many who have
+hardly learnt what it is to come to God's Word and to God Himself for
+the teaching that can alone reveal this part of the mystery of Christ
+and of God! To many, holiness has simply been a general expression for
+the Christian life in its more earnest form, without much thought of
+what the term really means.
+
+In writing this little book, my object has been to discover in what
+sense God uses the word, that so it may mean to us what it means to Him.
+I have sought to trace the word through some of the most important
+passages of Holy Scripture where it occurs, there to learn what God's
+holiness is, what ours is to be, and what the way by which we attain it.
+I have been specially anxious to point out how many and various the
+elements are that go to make up true holiness as the Divine expression
+of the Christian life in all its fulness and perfection. I have at the
+same time striven continually to keep in mind the wonderful unity and
+simplicity there is in it, as centred in the person of Jesus. As I
+proceeded in my work, I felt ever more deeply how high the task was I
+had undertaken in offering to guide others even into the outer courts of
+the Holy Place of the Most High. And yet the very difficulty of the task
+convinced me of how needful it was.
+
+I fear there are some to whom the book may be a disappointment. They
+have heard that the entrance to the life of holiness is often but a
+step. They have heard of or seen believers who could tell of the blessed
+change that has come over their lives since they found the wonderful
+secret of holiness by faith. And now they are seeking for this secret.
+They cannot understand that the secret comes to those who seek it not,
+but only seek Jesus. They might fain have a book in which all they need
+to know of Holiness and the way to it is gathered into a few simple
+lessons, easy to learn, to remember, and to practise. This they will not
+find. There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the disciples of
+Jesus; but it comes to him who has forsaken all to follow Jesus only,
+and in following fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct
+him. There are often very blessed revelations of Christ, as a Saviour
+from sin, both in the secret chamber and in the meetings of the saints;
+but these are given to those for whom they have been prepared, and who
+have been prepared to receive. Let all learn to trust in Jesus, and
+rejoice in Him, even though their experience be not what they would
+wish. He will make us holy. But whether we have entered the blessed life
+of faith in Jesus as our sanctification, or are still longing for it
+from afar, we all need one thing, the simple, believing, and obedient
+acceptance of each word that our God has spoken. It has been my earnest
+desire that I might be a helper of the faith of my brethren in seeking
+to trace with them the wondrous revelation of God's Holiness through the
+ages as recorded in His blessed Word. It has been my continual prayer
+that God might use what is written to increase in His children the
+conviction that we must be holy, the knowledge of how we are to be holy,
+the joy that we may be holy, the faith that we can be holy. And may He
+stir us all to cry day and night to Him for a visitation of the Spirit
+and the Power of Holiness upon all His people, that the name of
+Christian and of saint may be synonymous, and every believer be a vessel
+made holy and meet for the Master's use.
+
+  A. M.
+
+  Wellington, _16th November 1887_.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+  DAY                                                         PAGE
+   1. God's Call to Holiness--1 Pet. i. 15, 16,                 11
+
+   2. God's Provision for Holiness--1 Cor. i. 2,                19
+
+   3. Holiness and Creation--Gen. ii. 3,                        28
+
+   4. Holiness and Revelation--Ex. iii. 4-6,                    36
+
+   5. Holiness and Redemption--Ex. xiii. 2,                     46
+
+   6. Holiness and Glory--Ex. xv. 11-17,                        55
+
+   7. Holiness and Obedience--Ex. xix. 5, 6,                    64
+
+   8. Holiness and Indwelling--Ex. xxv. 8,                      73
+
+   9. Holiness and Meditation--Ex. xxviii. 36-38,               81
+
+  10. Holiness and Separation--Lev. xx. 24, 26,                 89
+
+  11. The Holy One of Israel--Lev. xi. 45,                      98
+
+  12. The Thrice Holy One--Isa. vi. 1-3,                       107
+
+  13. Holiness and Humility--Isa. lvii. 15,                    117
+
+  14. The Holy One of God--John vi. 69,                        125
+
+  15. The Holy Spirit--John vii. 39,                           133
+
+  16. Holiness and Truth--John xvii. 17,                       142
+
+  17. Holiness and Crucifixion--John xvii. 19,                 150
+
+  18. Holiness and Faith--Acts xxvi. 18,                       158
+
+  19. Holiness and Resurrection--Rom. i. 4,                    167
+
+  20. Holiness and Liberty--Rom. vi. 18-22,                    175
+
+  21. Holiness and Happiness--Rom. xiv. 17,                    184
+
+  22. In Christ our Sanctification--1 Cor. i. 30, 31,          192
+
+  23. Holiness and the Body--1 Cor. iii. 16,                   201
+
+  24. Holiness and Cleansing--2 Cor. vii. 1,                   210
+
+  25. Holiness and Blamelessness--1 Thess. iii. 12, 13,        219
+
+  26. Holiness and the Will of God--1 Thess. iv. 3,            227
+
+  27. Holiness and Service--2 Tim. ii. 21,                     235
+
+  28. The Way into the Holiest--Heb. x. 19,                    243
+
+  29. Holiness and Chastisement--Heb. xii. 10, 14,             253
+
+  30. The Unction from the Holy One--1 John ii. 20, 27,        262
+
+  31. Holiness and Heaven--2 Pet. iii. 11,                     271
+
+      Notes,                                                   281
+
+
+
+
+First Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+God's Call to Holiness.
+
+  'Like as He which called you is _holy_, be ye yourselves also _holy_
+  in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be _holy_,
+  for I am _holy_.'--1 Pet. i. 15, 16.
+
+
+The call of God is the manifestation in time of the purpose of eternity:
+'Whom He predestinated, them He also _called_.' Believers are 'the
+_called_ according to His purpose.' In His call He reveals to us what
+His thoughts and His will concerning us are, and what the life to which
+He invites us. In His call He makes clear to us what the hope of our
+calling is; as we spiritually apprehend and enter into this, our life on
+earth will be the reflection of His purpose in eternity.
+
+Holy Scripture uses more than one word to indicate the object or aim of
+our calling, but none more frequently than what Peter speaks of
+here--God has called us _to be holy_ as He is holy. Paul addresses
+believers twice as 'called to be _holy_' (Rom. i. 7; 1 Cor. i. 2). 'God
+called us', he says, 'not for uncleanness, but _in sanctification_'
+(1 Thess. iv. 7). When he writes, 'The God of peace _sanctify_ you
+wholly,' he adds, 'Faithful is He which _calleth_ you, who also will do
+it' (1 Thess. v. 24). The calling itself is spoken of as 'a _holy_
+calling.' The eternal purpose of which the calling is the outcome, is
+continually also connected with holiness as its aim. 'He hath _chosen_
+us in Him, that we should be _holy_ and without blame' (Eph. i. 4).
+'Whom God _chose_ from the beginning unto _salvation in sanctification_'
+(2 Thess. ii. 12). '_Elect_ according to the foreknowledge of the
+Father, through _sanctification_ of the Spirit' (1 Pet. i. 2). The call
+is the unveiling of the purpose that the Father from eternity had set
+His heart upon: that we should be holy.
+
+It needs no proof that it is of infinite importance to know aright what
+God has called us to. A misunderstanding here may have fatal results.
+You may have heard that God calls you to salvation or to happiness, to
+receive pardon or to obtain heaven, and never noticed that all these
+were subordinate. It was to 'salvation _in sanctification_,' it was to
+Holiness in the first place, as the element in which salvation and
+heaven are to be found. The complaints of many Christians as to lack of
+joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to
+this--the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in
+their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on
+this.
+
+No wonder that Paul, in the chapter in which he had spoken to the
+Ephesians of their being 'chosen to be holy' prays for the spirit of
+wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God to be given to believers,
+that they might know 'the hope of their _calling_' (i. 17, 18). Let all
+of us, who feel that we have too little realized that we are called to
+Holiness, pray this prayer. It is just what we need. Let us ask God to
+show us how, as He who hath called us is Himself holy, so we are to be
+holy too; our calling is a holy calling, a calling before and above
+everything, to Holiness. Let us ask Him to show us what Holiness is, His
+Holiness first, and then our Holiness; to show us how He has set His
+heart upon it as the one thing He wants to see in us, as being His own
+image and likeness; to show us too the unutterable blessedness and glory
+of sharing with Christ in His Holiness. Oh! that God by His Spirit would
+teach us what it means that we are called to be holy as He is holy. We
+can easily conceive what a mighty influence it would exert.
+
+'Like as He which called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy'. How
+this call of God shows us the true _motive_ to Holiness. 'Be ye holy,
+for I am holy.' It is as if God said, Holiness is my blessedness and my
+glory: without this you cannot, in the very nature of things, see me or
+enjoy me. Holiness is my blessedness and my glory: there is nothing
+higher to be conceived; I invite you to share with me in it, I invite
+you to likeness to myself: 'Be ye holy, for I am holy.' Is it not
+enough, has it no attraction, does it not move and draw you mightily,
+the hope of being with me, partakers of my Holiness? I have nothing
+better to offer--I offer you myself: 'Be holy, for I am holy.' Shall we
+not cry earnestly to God to show us the glory of His Holiness, that our
+souls may be made willing to give everything in response to this
+wondrous call?
+
+As we listen to the call, it shows also the _nature_ of true Holiness.
+'_Like as_ He is holy, so be ye also holy.' To be holy is to be Godlike,
+to have a disposition, a will, a character like God. The thought almost
+looks like blasphemy, until we listen again, 'He hath chosen us _in
+Christ_ to be holy.' In Christ the Holiness of God appeared in a human
+life: in Christ's example, in His mind and Spirit, we have the Holiness
+of the Invisible One translated into the forms of human life and
+conduct. To be Christlike is to be Godlike; to be Christlike is to be
+holy as God is holy.
+
+The call equally reveals the _power_ of Holiness. 'There is none holy
+but the Lord;' there is no Holiness but what He has, or rather what He
+is, and gives. Holiness is not something we do or attain: it is the
+communication of the Divine life, the inbreathing of the Divine nature,
+the power of the Divine Presence resting on us. And our power to become
+holy is to be found in the call of God: the Holy One calls us to
+Himself, that He may make us holy in possessing Himself. He not only
+says 'I am holy,' but 'I am the Lord, who make holy.' It is because the
+call to Holiness comes from the God of infinite Power and Love that we
+may have the confidence: we can be holy.
+
+The call no less reveals the _standard_ of Holiness. '_Like as He_ is
+holy, _so ye also_ yourselves,' or (as in margin, R.V.), 'Like the Holy
+One, which calleth you, be ye yourselves also holy.' There is not one
+standard of Holiness for God and another for man. The nature of light is
+the same, whether we see it in the sun or in a candle: the nature of
+Holiness remains unchanged, whether it be God or man in whom it dwells.
+The Lord Jesus could say nothing less than, 'Be perfect, even as your
+Father in heaven is perfect.' When God calls us to Holiness, He calls us
+to Himself and His own life: the more carefully we listen to the voice,
+and let it sink into our hearts, the more will all human standards fall
+away, and only the words be heard, Holy, as I am holy.
+
+And the call shows us the _path_ to Holiness. The calling of God is one
+of mighty efficacy, an effectual calling. Oh! let us but listen to it,
+let us but listen to Him, and the call will with Divine power work what
+it offers. He calleth the things that are not as though they were: His
+call gives life to the dead, and holiness to those whom He has made
+alive. He calls us to listen as He speaks of His Holiness, and of our
+holiness like His. He calls us to Himself, to study, to fear, to love,
+to claim His Holiness. He calls us to Christ, in whom Divine Holiness
+became human Holiness, to see and admire, to desire and accept what is
+all for us. He calls us to the indwelling and the teaching of the
+Spirit of Holiness, to yield ourselves that He may bring home to us and
+breathe within us what is ours in Christ. Christian! listen to God
+calling thee to Holiness. Come and learn what His Holiness is, and what
+thine is and must be.
+
+Yes, be very silent and listen. When God called Abraham, he answered,
+Here am I. When God called Moses from the bush, he answered, Here am I,
+and he hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. God is calling
+thee to Holiness, to Himself the Holy One, that He may make thee holy.
+Let thy whole soul answer, Here am I, Lord! Speak, Lord! Show Thyself,
+Lord! Here am I. As you listen, the voice will sound ever deeper and
+ever stiller: Be holy, _as_ I am holy. Be holy, _for_ I am holy. You
+will hear a voice coming out of the great eternity, from the
+council-chamber of redemption, and as you catch its distant whisper, it
+will be, Be holy, I am holy. You will hear a voice from Paradise, the
+Creator making the seventh day holy for man whom He had created, and
+saying, Be holy. You will hear the voice from Sinai, amid thunderings
+and lightnings, and still it is, Be holy, as I am holy. You will hear a
+voice from Calvary, and there above all it is, Be holy, for I am holy.
+
+Child of God, have you ever realized it, our Father is calling us to
+Himself, to be holy as He is holy? Must we not confess that happiness
+has been to us more than holiness, salvation than sanctification? Oh! it
+is not too late to redeem the error. Let us now band ourselves together
+to listen to the voice that calls, to draw nigh, and find out and know
+what Holiness is, or rather, find out and know Himself the Holy One. And
+if the first approach to Him fill us with shame and confusion, make us
+fear and shrink back, let us still listen to the Voice and the Call, 'Be
+holy, as I am holy.' 'Faithful is He which _calleth_, who also _will do
+it_.' All our fears and questions will be met by the Holy One who has
+revealed His Holiness, with this one purpose in view, that we might
+share it with Him. As we yield ourselves in deep stillness of soul to
+listen to the Holy Voice that calls us, it will waken within us new
+desire and strong faith, and the most precious of all promises will be
+to us this word of Divine command:
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Lord! the alone Holy One, Thou hast called us to be holy, even as Thou
+art holy. Lord! how can we, unless Thou reveal to us Thy Holiness. Show
+us, we pray Thee, how Thou art holy, how holy Thou art, what Thy
+holiness is, that we may know how we are to be holy, how holy we are to
+be. And when the sight of Thy Holiness only shows us the more how unholy
+we are, teach us that Thou makest partakers of Thy own Holiness those
+who come to Thee for it.
+
+O God! we come to Thee, the Holy One. It is in knowing and finding and
+having Thyself, that the soul finds Holiness. We do beseech Thee, as we
+now come to Thee, establish it in the thoughts of our heart, that the
+one object of Thy calling us, and of our coming to Thee, is Holiness.
+Thou wouldst have us like Thyself, partakers of Thy Holiness. If ever
+our heart becomes afraid, as if it were too high, or rests content with
+a salvation less than Holiness, Blessed God! let us hear Thy voice
+calling again, Be holy, I am holy. Let that call be our motive and our
+strength, because faithful is He that calleth, who also will do it. Let
+that call mark our standard and our path; oh! let our life be such as
+Thou art able to make it.
+
+Holy Father! I bow in lowly worship and silence before Thee. Let now
+Thine own voice sound in the depths of my heart calling me, Be holy, as
+I am holy. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Let me press it upon every reader of this little book, that if
+     it is to help him in the pursuit of Holiness, he must begin _with
+     God Himself_. You must go _to Him who calls you_. It is only in the
+     personal revelation of God to you, as He speaks, I am holy, that
+     the command, Be ye holy, can have life or power.
+
+  2. Remember, as a believer, you have already accepted God's call,
+     even though you did not fully understand it. Let it be a settled
+     matter, that whatever you see to be the meaning of the call, you
+     will at once accept and carry out. If God calls me to be holy, holy
+     I will be.
+
+  3. Take fast hold of the word: 'The God of peace sanctify you wholly:
+     faithful is He which _calleth_ you, _who also will do it_.' In that
+     faith listen to God calling you.
+
+  4. Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for
+     and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open
+     your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the
+     answer you have to give to this call.
+
+
+
+
+Second Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+God's Provision for Holiness.
+
+  'To those that are _made holy_ in Christ Jesus, called to be
+  _holy_.'--1 Cor. i. 2.
+
+  'To all the _holy ones_ in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi. Salute
+  every _holy one_ in Christ Jesus.'[1]--Phil. i. 1, iv. 21.
+
+
+HOLY! IN CHRIST! In these two expressions we have perhaps the most
+wonderful words of all the Bible.
+
+HOLY! the word of unfathomable meaning, which the Seraphs utter with
+veiled faces. HOLY! the word in which all God's perfections centre, and
+of which His glory is but the streaming forth. HOLY! the word which
+reveals the purpose with which God from eternity thought of man, and
+tells what man's highest glory in the coming eternity is to be; to be
+partaker of His Holiness!
+
+IN CHRIST! the word in which all the wisdom and love of God are
+unveiled! The Father giving His Son to be one with us! the Son dying on
+the cross to make us one with Himself! the Holy Spirit of the Father
+dwelling in us to establish and maintain that union! IN CHRIST! what a
+summary of what redemption has done, and of the inconceivably blessed
+life in which the child of God is permitted to dwell. IN CHRIST! the one
+lesson we have to study on earth. God's one answer to all our needs and
+prayers. IN CHRIST! the guarantee and the foretaste of eternal glory.
+
+What wealth of meaning and blessing in the two words combined: HOLY IN
+CHRIST! Here is God's provision for our holiness, God's response to our
+question, How to be holy? Often and often as we hear the call, Be _ye_
+holy, _even as I_ am holy, it is as if there is and ever must be a great
+gulf between the holiness of God and man. IN CHRIST! is the bridge that
+crosses the gulf; nay rather, His fulness has filled it up. IN CHRIST!
+God and man meet; IN CHRIST! the Holiness of God has found us, and made
+us its own; has become human, and can indeed become our very own. To the
+anxious cries and the heart-yearnings of thousands of thirsty souls who
+have believed in Jesus and yet know not how to be holy, here is God's
+answer: YE ARE HOLY IN CHRIST JESUS. Would they but hearken, and
+believe; would they but take these Divine words, and say them over, if
+need be, a thousand times, how God's light would shine, and fill their
+hearts with joy and love as they echo them back: Yes, now I see it. Holy
+in Christ! Made holy in Christ Jesus!
+
+As we set ourselves to study these wondrous words, let us remember that
+it is only God Himself who can reveal to us what Holiness truly is. Let
+us fear our own thoughts, and crucify our own wisdom. Let us give up
+ourselves to receive, in the power of the life of God Himself, working
+in us by the Holy Spirit, that which is deeper and truer than human
+thought, Christ Himself as our Holiness. In this dependence upon the
+teaching of the Spirit of Holiness, let us seek simply to accept what
+Holy Scripture sets before us; as the revelation of the Holy One of old
+was a very slow and gradual one, so let us be content patiently to
+follow step by step the path of the shining light through the Word; it
+will shine more and more unto the perfect day.
+
+We shall first have to study the word Holy in the Old Testament. In
+Israel as the holy people, the type of us who now are holy in Christ, we
+shall see with what fulness of symbol God sought to work into the very
+constitution of the people some apprehension of what He would have them
+be. In the law we shall see how HOLY is the great keyword of the
+redemption which it was meant to serve and prepare for. In the prophets
+we shall hear how the Holiness of God is revealed as the source whence
+the coming redemption should spring: it is not so much Holiness as the
+Holy One they speak of, who would, in redeeming love and saving
+righteousness, make Himself known as the God of His people.
+
+And when the meaning of the word has been somewhat opened up, and the
+deep need of the blessing made manifest in the Old Testament, we shall
+come to the New to find how that need was fulfilled. In Christ, the Holy
+One of God, Divine Holiness will be found in human life and human
+nature; a truly human will being made perfect and growing up through
+obedience into complete union with all the Holy Will of God. In the
+sacrifice of Himself on the cross, that holy nature gave itself up to
+the death, that, like the seed-corn, it might through death live again
+and reproduce itself in us. In the gift from the throne of the Spirit of
+God's Holiness, representing and revealing and communicating the unseen
+Christ, the holy life of Christ descends and takes possession of His
+people, and they become one with Him. As the Old Testament had no higher
+word than that HOLY, the New has none deeper than this, IN CHRIST. The
+being in Him, the abiding in Him, the being rooted in Him, the growing
+up in Him and into Him in all things, are the Divine expressions in
+which the wonderful and complete oneness between us and our Saviour are
+brought as near us as human language can do.
+
+And when Old and New Testament have each given their message, the one in
+teaching us what _Holy_, the other what _in Christ_ means, we have in
+the word of God, that unites the two, the most complete summary of the
+Great Redemption that God's love has provided. The everlasting
+certainty, the wonderful sufficiency, the infinite efficacy of the
+Holiness that God has prepared for us in His Son, are all revealed in
+this blessed, HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+'The Holy Ones in Christ Jesus!' Such is the name, beloved
+fellow-believers, which we bear in Holy Scripture, in the language of
+the Holy Spirit. It is no mere statement of doctrine, that we are holy
+in Christ: it is no deep theological discussion to which we are invited;
+but out of the depths of God's loving heart, there comes a voice thus
+addressing His beloved children. It is the name by which the Father
+calls His children. That name tells us of God's provision for our being
+holy. It is the revelation of what God has given us, and what we already
+are; of what God waits to work in us, and what can be ours in personal
+practical possession. That name, gratefully accepted, joyfully
+confessed, trustfully pleaded, will be the pledge and the power of our
+attainment of the Holiness to which we have been called.
+
+And so we shall find that as we go along, all our study and all God's
+teaching will be comprised in three great lessons. The first a
+revelation, '_I am holy_;' the second a command, '_Be ye holy_;' the
+third a gift, the link between the two, '_Ye are holy in Christ_.'
+
+First comes the revelation, 'I am holy.' Our study must be on bended
+knee, in the spirit of worship and deep humility. God must reveal
+Himself to us, if we are to know what Holy is. The deep unholiness of
+our nature and all that is of nature must be shown us; with Moses and
+Isaiah, when the Holy One revealed Himself to them, we must fear and
+tremble, and confess how utterly unfit we are for the revelation or the
+fellowship, without the cleansing of fire. In the consciousness of the
+utter impotence of our own wisdom or understanding to know God, our
+souls must in contrition, brokenness from ourselves and our power or
+efforts, yield to God's Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to reveal God as
+the Holy One. And as we begin to know Him in His infinite righteousness,
+in His fiery burning zeal against all that is sin, and His infinite
+self-sacrificing love to free the sinner from his sin, and to bring him
+to His own perfection, we shall learn to wonder at and worship this
+glorious God, to feel and deplore our terrible unlikeness to Him, to
+long and cry for some share in the Divine beauty and blessedness of this
+Holiness.
+
+And then will come with new meaning the command, 'Be holy, as I am
+holy.' Oh, my brethren! ye who profess to obey the commands of your God,
+do give this all-surpassing and all-including command that first place
+in your heart and life which it claims. Do be holy with the likeness of
+God's Holiness. Do be holy as He is holy. And if you find that the more
+you meditate and study, the less you can grasp this infinite holiness;
+that the more you at moments grasp of it, the more you despair of a
+holiness so Divine; remember that such breaking down and such despair is
+just what the command was meant to work. Learn to cease from your own
+wisdom as well as your own goodness; draw near in poverty of spirit to
+let the Holy One show you how utterly above human knowledge or human
+power is the holiness He demands; to the soul that ceases from self, and
+has no confidence in the flesh, He will show and give the holiness He
+calls us to.
+
+It is to such that the great gift of Holiness in Christ becomes
+intelligible and acceptable. Christ brings the Holiness of God nigh by
+showing it in human conduct and intercourse. He brings it nigh by
+removing the barrier between it and us, between God and us. He brings it
+nigh, because He makes us one with Himself. 'Holy in Christ:' our
+holiness is a Divine bestowment, held for us, communicated to us,
+working mightily in us because we are _in Him_. 'In Christ!' oh, that
+wonderful _in_! our very life rooted in the life of Christ. That holy
+Son and Servant of the Father, beautiful in His life of love and
+obedience on earth, sanctifying Himself for us--that life of Christ, the
+ground in which I am planted and rooted, the soil from which I draw as
+my nourishment its every quality and its very nature. How that word
+sheds its light both on the revelation, 'I am holy,' and on the command,
+'Be ye holy, as I am,' and binds them in one! In Christ I see what God's
+Holiness is, and what my holiness is. In Him both are one, and both are
+mine. In Him I am holy; abiding and growing up in Him, I can be holy in
+all manner of living, as God is holy.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Most Holy God! we do beseech Thee, reveal Thou to Thy children what it
+meaneth that Thou hast not only called them to holiness, but even called
+them by this name, 'the holy ones in Christ Jesus.' Oh that every child
+of Thine might know that He bears this name, might know what it means,
+and what power there is in it to make Him what it calls him. Holy Lord
+God! oh that the time of Thy visitation might speedily come, and each
+child of Thine on earth be known as a holy one!
+
+To this end we pray Thee to reveal to Thy saints what Thy Holiness is.
+Teach us to worship and to wait until Thou hast spoken unto our souls
+with Divine Power Thy word, 'I am holy.' Oh that it may search out and
+convict us of our unholiness!
+
+And reveal to us, we pray Thee, that as holy as Thou art, even a
+consuming fire, so holy is Thy command in its determined and
+uncompromising purpose to have us holy. O God! let Thy voice sound
+through the depth of our being, with a power from which there is no
+escape: Be holy, be holy.
+
+And let us thus, between Thine infinite Holiness on the one hand and our
+unholiness on the other, be driven and be drawn to accept of Christ as
+our sanctification, to abide in Him as our life and our power to be what
+Thou wouldst have us--'Holy in Christ Jesus.'
+
+O Father! let Thy Spirit make this precious word life and truth within
+us. Amen.
+
+
+  1. You are entering anew on the study of a Divine mystery. 'Trust
+     not to your own understanding;' wait for the teaching of the Spirit
+     of truth.
+
+  2. _In Christ._ A commentator says, 'The phrase denotes two moral
+     facts--first, the act of faith whereby a man lays hold of Christ;
+     second, the community of life with Him contracted by means of this
+     faith.' There is still another fact, the greatest of all: that it
+     is by an act of Divine power that I am in Christ and am kept in
+     Him. It is this I want to realize: the Divineness of my position in
+     Jesus.
+  3. Grasp the two sides of the truth. _You are_ holy in Christ with
+     a Divine holiness. In the faith of that, you are to _be holy_, to
+     _become holy_ with a human holiness, the Divine Holiness manifest
+     in all the conduct of a human life.
+  4. This Christ is a Living Person, a Loving Saviour: how He will
+     delight to get complete possession, and do all the work in you!
+     Keep hold of this all along as we go on: you have a claim on
+     Christ, on His Love and Power, to make you holy. As His redeemed
+     one, you are at this moment, whatever and wherever you be, _in
+     Him_. His Holy Presence and Love are around you. You are _in Him_,
+     in the enclosure of that tender love, which ever encircles you with
+     His Holy Presence. _In that Presence, accepted and realized, is
+     your holiness._
+
+
+    [1] There is one disadvantage in English in our having synonyms of
+        which some are derived from Saxon and others from Latin.
+        Ordinary readers are apt to forget that in our translation of
+        the Bible we may use two different words for what in the
+        original is expressed by one term. This is the case with the
+        words _holy_, _holiness_, _keep holy_, _hallow_, _saint_,
+        _sanctify_, and _sanctification_. When God or Christ is called
+        the Holy One, the word in Hebrew and Greek is exactly the same
+        that is used when the believer is called a saint: he too is a
+        holy one. So the three words _hallow_, _keep holy_, _sanctify_,
+        all represent but one term in the original, of which the real
+        meaning is to make holy, as it is in Dutch, _heiliging_
+        (holying), and _heiligmaking_ (holy-making).
+
+
+
+
+Third Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Creation.
+
+  'And God blessed the Sabbath day, and _sanctified_ it, because
+  that in it He had rested from all the work which God created and
+  made.'--Gen. ii. 3.
+
+
+In Genesis we have the Book of Beginnings. To its first three chapters
+we are specially indebted for a Divine light shining on the many
+questions to which human wisdom never could find an answer. In our
+search after Holiness, we are led thither too. In the whole book of
+Genesis the word Holy occurs but once. But that once in such a
+connection as to open to us the secret spring whence flows all that the
+Bible has to teach or to give us of this heavenly blessing. The full
+meaning of the precious word we want to master, of the priceless
+blessing we want to get possession of, '_Sanctified in Christ_,' takes
+its rise in what is here written of that wondrous act of God, by which
+He closed His creation work, and revealed how wonderfully it would be
+continued and perfected. When God blessed the seventh day, and
+_sanctified_ it, He lifted it above the other days, and set it apart to
+a work and a revelation of Himself, excelling in glory all that had
+preceded. In this simple expression, Scripture reveals to us the
+character of God as the Holy One, who _makes holy_; the way in which He
+makes holy, by entering in and _resting_; and the power of _blessing_
+with which God's making holy is ever accompanied. These three lessons we
+shall find it of the deepest importance to study well, as containing the
+root-principles of all the Scripture will have to teach us in our
+pursuit of Holiness.
+
+1. God _sanctified_ the Sabbath day. Of the previous six days the
+keyword was, from the first calling into existence of the heaven and the
+earth, down to the making of man: _God created_. All at once a new word
+and a new work of God, is introduced: _God sanctified_. Something higher
+than creation, that for which creation is to exist, is now to be
+revealed; God Almighty is now to be known as God Most Holy. And just as
+the work of creation shows His Power, without that Power being
+mentioned, so His making holy the seventh day reveals His character as
+the Holy One. As Omnipotence is the chief of His natural, so Holiness is
+the first of His moral attributes. And just as He alone is Creator, so
+He alone is Sanctifier; to make holy is His work as truly and
+exclusively as to create. Blessed is the child of God who truly and
+fully believes this!
+
+God sanctified the Sabbath day. The word can teach us what the nature
+is of the work God does when He makes holy. Sanctification in Paradise
+cannot be essentially different from Sanctification in Redemption. God
+had pronounced all His works, and man the chief of them, very good. And
+yet they were not holy. The six days' work had nought of defilement or
+sin, and yet it was not holy. The seventh day needed to be specially
+made holy, for the great work of making holy man, who was already very
+good. In Exodus, God says distinctly that He sanctified the Sabbath day,
+with a view to man's sanctification. 'That ye may know that I am the
+Lord that doth _sanctify you_.' Goodness, innocence, purity, freedom
+from sin, is not Holiness. Goodness is the work of omnipotence, an
+attribute of nature, as God creates it: holiness is something infinitely
+higher. We speak of the holiness of God as His infinite moral
+perfection; man's moral perfection could only come in the use of his
+will, consenting freely to and abiding in the will of God. Thus alone
+could he become holy. The seventh day was made holy by God as a pledge
+that He would make man holy. In the ages that preceded the seventh day,
+the Creation period, God's Power, Wisdom, and Goodness had been
+displayed. The age to come, in the seventh day period, is to be the
+dispensation of holiness: God made holy the seventh day.
+
+2. God sanctified the Sabbath day, _because in it He rested_ from all
+His work. This rest was something real. In Creation, God had, as it
+were, gone out of Himself to bring forth something new: in resting He
+now returns from His creating work into Himself, to rejoice in His love
+over the man He has created, and communicate Himself to him. This opens
+up to us the way in which God makes holy. The connection between the
+resting and making holy was no arbitrary one; the making holy was no
+after-thought; in the very nature of things it could not be otherwise:
+He sanctified _because_ He rested in it; He sanctified by resting. As He
+regards His finished work, more especially man, rejoices in it, and, as
+we have it in Exodus, 'is refreshed,' this time of His Divine rest is
+the time in which He will carry on unto perfection what He has begun,
+and make man, created in His image, in very deed partaker of His highest
+glory, His Holiness.
+
+_Where God rests in complacency and love, He makes holy._ The Presence
+of God revealing itself, entering in, and taking possession, is what
+constitutes true Holiness. As we go down the ages, studying the
+progressive unfolding of what Holiness is, this truth will continually
+meet us. In God's indwelling in heaven, in His temple on earth, in His
+beloved Son, in the person of the believer through the Holy Spirit, we
+shall everywhere find that Holiness is not something that man is or
+does, but that it always comes where God comes. In the deepest meaning
+of the words: where God enters to rest, there He sanctifies. And when we
+come to study the New Testament revelation of the way in which we are
+to be holy, we shall find in this one of our earliest and deepest
+lessons. It is as we enter into the rest of God that we become partakers
+of His Holiness. 'We which have believed do enter into that rest;' 'He
+that hath entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works,
+as God did from His.' It is as the soul ceases from its own efforts, and
+rests in Him who has finished all for us, and will finish all in us, as
+the soul yields itself in the quiet confidence of true faith to rest in
+God, that it will know what true Holiness is. Where the soul enters into
+the Sabbath stillness of perfect trust, God comes to keep His Sabbath
+holy; and the soul where He rests He sanctifies. Whether we speak of His
+own day, 'He sanctified it,' or His own people 'sanctified in Christ,'
+the secret of Holiness is ever the same: 'He sanctified because he
+rested.'
+
+3. And then we read, '_He blessed_ and sanctified it.' As used in the
+first chapter and throughout the book of Genesis, the word 'God blessed'
+is one of great significance. 'Be fruitful and multiply' was, as to
+Adam, so later to Noah and Abraham, the Divine exposition of its
+meaning. The blessing with which God blessed Adam and Noah and Abraham
+was that of fruitfulness and increase, the power to reproduce and
+multiply. When God blessed the seventh day, He filled it so with the
+living power of His Holiness, that in it that Holiness might increase
+and reproduce itself in those who, like Him, seek to enter into its rest
+and sanctify it. The seventh day is that in which we are still living.
+Of each of the creation days it is written, up to the last, 'There was
+evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.' Of the seventh the
+record has not yet been made; we are living in it now, God's own day of
+rest and holiness and blessing. Entering into it in a very special
+manner, and taking possession of it, as the time for His rejoicing in
+His creature, and manifesting the fulness of His love in sanctifying
+him, He has made the dispensation we now live in one of Divine and
+mighty blessing. And He has at the same time taught us what the blessing
+is. Holiness is blessedness. Fellowship with God in His holy rest is
+blessedness. And as all God's blessings in Christ have but one fountain,
+God's Holiness, so they all have but one aim, making us partakers of
+that Holiness. God created, _and blessed_; with the creation blessing.
+God sanctified, _and blessed_; with the Sabbath blessing of His rest.
+The Creation blessing, of goodness and fruitfulness and dominion, is to
+be crowned by the Sabbath blessing of rest in God and holiness in
+fellowship with Him.
+
+God's finished work of Creation was marred by sin, and our fellowship
+with Him in the blessing of His holy rest cut off. The finished work of
+redemption opened for us a truer rest and a surer entrance into the
+Holiness of God. As He rested in His holy day, so He now rests in His
+Holy Son. In Him we now can enter fully into the rest of God. 'Made holy
+in Christ,' let us rest in Him. Let us rest, because we see that as
+wonderfully as God by His mighty power finished His work of Creation,
+will He complete and perfect His work of sanctification. Let us yield
+ourselves to God in Christ, to rest where He rested, to be made holy
+with His own holiness, and to be blessed with God's own blessing. God
+the Sanctifier is the name now inscribed upon the throne of God the
+Creator. At the threshold of the history of the human race there shines
+this word of infinite promise and hope: 'God blessed and sanctified the
+seventh day because in it He rested.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Lord God! I bow before Thee in lowly worship. I adore Thee as
+God the Creator, and God the Sanctifier. Thou hast revealed Thyself as
+God Almighty and God Most Holy. I beseech Thee, teach me to know and to
+trust Thee as such.
+
+I humbly ask Thee for grace to learn and hold fast the deep spiritual
+truths Thou hast revealed in making holy the Sabbath day. Thy purpose in
+man's creation is to show forth Thy Holiness, and make him partaker of
+it. Oh, teach me to believe in Thee as God my Creator and Sanctifier, to
+believe with my whole heart that the same Almighty power which gave the
+sixth-day blessing of creation, secures to us the seventh-day blessing
+of sanctification. Thy will is our sanctification.
+
+And teach me, Lord, to understand better how this blessing comes. It is
+where Thou enterest to rest, to refresh and reveal Thyself, that Thou
+makest holy. O my God! may my heart be Thy resting-place. I would, in
+the stillness and confidence of a restful faith, rest in Thee, believing
+that Thou doest all in me. Let such fellowship with Thee, and Thy love,
+and Thy will be to me the secret of a life of holiness. I ask it in the
+name of our Lord Jesus, in whom Thou hast sanctified us. Amen.
+
+
+  1. God the Creator is God the Sanctifier. The Omnipotence that did
+     the first work does the second too. I can trust God Almighty to
+     make me holy. God is holy: if God is everything to me, His presence
+     will be my holiness.
+
+  2. Rest is ceasing from work, not to work no more, but to begin a
+     new work. God rests and begins at once to make holy that in which
+     He rests. He created by the word of His power; He rests in His
+     love. Creation was the building of the temple; sanctification is
+     the entering in and taking possession. Oh, that wonderful entering
+     into human nature!
+
+  3. God rests only in what is restful, wholly at His disposal. It is
+     in the restfulness of faith that we must look to God the
+     Sanctifier; He will come in and keep His holy Sabbath in the
+     restful soul. We rest in God's rest; God rests in our rest.
+
+  4. The God that rests in man whom He made, and in resting sanctifies,
+     and in sanctifying blesses: this is our God; praise and worship
+     Him. _And trust Him to do His work._
+
+  5. Rest! what a simple word. The Rest of God! what an inconceivable
+     fulness of Life and Love in that word. Let us meditate on it and
+     worship before Him, until it overshadow us and we enter into
+     it--the Rest of God. _Rest_ belongeth unto God: He alone can give
+     it, by making us share His own.
+
+
+
+
+Fourth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Revelation.
+
+  'And when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see, He called
+  unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And
+  he said, Here am I. And He said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy
+  shoes from thy feet, for the place where thou standest is _holy_
+  ground. And Moses hid his face, for He was afraid to look upon
+  God.'--Ex. iii. 4-6.
+
+
+And why was it holy ground? Because God had come there and occupied it.
+Where God is, there is holiness; it is the presence of God makes holy.
+This is the truth we met with in Paradise when man was just created;
+here, where Scripture uses the word _Holy_ for the second time, it is
+repeated and enforced. A careful study of the word in the light of the
+burning bush will further open its deep significance. Let us see what
+the sacred history, what the revelation of God, and what Moses teaches
+us of this holy ground.
+
+1. Note the place this first direct revelation of God to man as the Holy
+One takes in sacred history. In Paradise we found the word _Holy_ used
+of the seventh day. Since that time twenty-five centuries have elapsed.
+We found in God's sanctifying the day of rest a promise of a new
+dispensation--the revelation of the Almighty Creator to be followed by
+that of the Holy One making holy. And yet throughout the book of Genesis
+the word never occurs again; it is as if God's Holiness is in abeyance;
+only in Exodus, with the calling of Moses, does it make its appearance
+again. This is a fact of deep import. Just as a parent or teacher seeks,
+in early childhood, to impress one lesson at a time, so God deals in the
+education of the human race. After having in the flood exhibited His
+righteous judgment against sin, He calls Abraham to be the father of a
+chosen people. And as the foundation of all His dealings with that
+people, He teaches him and his seed first of all the lesson of
+_childlike trust_--trust in Him as the Almighty, with whom nothing is
+too wonderful, and trust in Him as the Faithful One, whose oath could
+not be broken. With the growth of Israel to a people we see the
+revelation advancing to a new stage. The simplicity of childhood gives
+way to the waywardness of youth, and God must now interfere with the
+discipline and restriction of law. Having gained a right to a place in
+their confidence as the God of their fathers, He prepares them for a
+further revelation. Of the God of Abraham the chief attribute was that
+He was the Almighty One; of the God of Israel, Jehovah, that He is the
+Holy One.
+
+And what is to be the special mark of the new period that is now about
+to be inaugurated, and which is introduced by the word holy? God tells
+Moses that He is now about to reveal Himself in a new character. He had
+been known to Abraham as God Almighty, the God of Promise (Ex. vi. 3).
+He would now manifest Himself as Jehovah, the God of Fulfilment,
+especially in the redemption and deliverance of His people from the
+oppression He had foretold to Abraham. God Almighty is the God of
+Creation: Abraham believed in God, 'who quickeneth the dead, and calleth
+the things that are not as though they were.' Jehovah is the God of
+Redemption and of Holiness. With Abraham there was not a word of sin or
+guilt, and therefore not of redemption or holiness. To Israel the law is
+to be given, to convince of sin and prepare the way for holiness; it is
+Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, who now appears. And it
+is the presence of this Holy One that makes the holy ground.
+
+2. And how does this Presence reveal itself? In the burning bush God
+makes Himself known as dwelling in the midst of the fire. Elsewhere in
+Holy Scripture the connection between fire and the Holiness of God is
+clearly expressed: 'The light of Israel shall be for a fire, and the
+Holy One for a flame.' The nature of fire may be either beneficent or
+destructive. The sun, the great central fire, may give life and
+fruitfulness, or may scorch to death. All depends upon occupying the
+right position, upon the relation in which we stand to it. And so
+wherever God the Holy One reveals Himself, we shall find the two sides
+together: God's Holiness as judgment against sin, destroying the sinner
+who remains in it, and as Mercy freeing His people from it. Judgment and
+Mercy ever go together. Of the elements of nature there is none of such
+spiritual and mighty energy as Fire: what it consumes it takes and
+changes into its own spiritual nature, rejecting as smoke and ashes what
+cannot be assimilated. And so the Holiness of God is that infinite
+Perfection by which He keeps Himself free from all that is not Divine,
+and yet has fellowship with the creature, and takes it up into union
+with Himself, destroying and casting out all that will not yield itself
+to Him.
+
+It is thus as One who dwells in the fire, who is a fire, that God
+reveals Himself at the opening of this new redemption period. With
+Abraham and the patriarchs, as we have said, there had been little
+teaching about sin or redemption; the nearness and friendship of God had
+been revealed. Now the law will be given, sin will be made manifest, the
+distance from God will be felt, that man, in learning to know himself
+and his sinfulness, may learn to know and long for God to make him holy.
+In all God's revelation of Himself we shall find the combination of the
+two elements, the one repelling, the other attracting. In His house He
+will dwell in the midst of Israel, and yet it will be in the awful
+unapproachable solitude and darkness of the holiest of all within the
+veil. He will come near to them, and yet keep them at a distance. As we
+study the Holiness of God, we shall see in increasing clearness how,
+like fire, it repels and attracts, how it combines into one His infinite
+distance and His infinite nearness.
+
+3. But the distance will be that which comes out first and most
+strongly. This we see in Moses: he hid his face, for He feared to look
+upon God. The first impression which God's Holiness produces is that of
+fear and awe. Until man, both as a creature and a sinner, learns how
+high God is above him, how different and distant he is from God, the
+Holiness of God will have little real value or attraction. Moses hiding
+his face shows us the effect of the drawing nigh of the Holy One, and
+the path to His further revelation.
+
+How distinctly this comes out in God's own words: 'Draw not nigh hither;
+put off thy shoes from off thy feet.' Yes, God had drawn nigh, but Moses
+may not. God comes near: man must stand back. In the same breath God
+says, Draw nigh, and, Draw not nigh. There can be no knowledge of God or
+nearness to Him, where we have not first heard His, Draw not nigh. The
+sense of sin, of unfitness for God's presence, is the groundwork of true
+knowledge or worship of Him as the Holy One. 'Put off thy shoes from off
+thy feet.' The shoes are the means of intercourse with the world, the
+aids through which the flesh or nature does its will, moves about and
+does its work. In standing upon holy ground, all this must be put away.
+It is with naked feet, naked and stript of every covering, that man must
+bow before a holy God. Our utter unfitness to draw nigh or have any
+dealings with the Holy One, is the very first lesson we have to learn,
+if ever we are to participate in His Holiness. That _Put off!_ must
+exercise its condemning power through our whole being, until we come to
+realize the full extent of its meaning in the great, '_Put off_ the old
+man; put on the Lord Jesus,' and what 'the _putting off_ of the body of
+the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,' is. Yes, all that is of
+nature and the flesh, all that is of our own doing or willing or
+working--our very life, must be put off and given unto the death, if
+God, as the Holy One, is to make Himself known to us.
+
+We have seen before that Holiness is more than goodness or freedom from
+sin: even unfallen nature is not holy. Holiness is that awful glory by
+which Divinity is separated from all that is created. Therefore even the
+seraphs veil their faces with their wings when they sing the Thrice
+Holy. But oh! when the distance and the difference is not that of the
+creature only, but of the sinner, who can express, who can realize, the
+humiliation, the fear, the shame with which we ought to bow before the
+voice of the Holy One? Alas! this is one of the most terrible effects of
+sin, that it blinds us. We know not how unholy, how abominable, sin and
+the sinful nature are in God's sight. We have lost the power of
+recognising the Holiness of God: heathen philosophy had not even the
+idea of using the word as expressive of the moral character of its gods.
+In losing the light of the glory of God, we have lost the power of
+knowing what sin is. And now God's first work in drawing nigh to us is
+to make us feel that we may not draw nigh as we are; that there will
+have to be a very real and a very solemn putting off, and even giving up
+to the death, of all that appears most lawful and most needful. Not only
+our shoes are soiled with contact with this unholy earth; even our face
+must be covered and our eyes closed, in token that the eyes of our
+heart, all our human wisdom and understanding, are incapable of
+beholding the Holy One. The first lesson in the school of personal
+holiness is, to fear and hide our face before the Holiness of God. 'Thus
+saith the High and Lofty One, whose name is holy, I dwell in the High
+and Holy Place, and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit.'
+Contrition, brokenness of spirit, fear and trembling are God's first
+demand of those who would see His Holiness.
+
+Moses was to be the first preacher of the Holiness of God. Of the full
+communication of God's Holiness to us in Christ, His first revelation to
+Moses was the type and the pledge. From Moses' lips the people of
+Israel, from his pen the Church of Christ, was to receive the message,
+'Be holy: I am holy: I make holy.' His preparation for being the
+messenger of the Holy One was here, where he hid his face, because he
+was afraid to look upon God. It is with the face in the dust, it is in
+the putting off not only of the shoes, but of all that has been in
+contact with the world and self and sin, that the soul draws nigh to the
+fire, in which God dwells, and which burns, but does not consume. Oh
+that every believer, who seeks to witness for God as the Holy One, might
+thus learn how the fulfilment of the type of the Burning Bush is the
+Crucified Christ, and how, as we die with Him, we receive that Baptism
+of Fire, which reveals in each of us what it means: the Holy One
+dwelling in a Burning Bush. Only so can we learn what it is to be holy,
+as He is holy.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! I have seen Thee, who dwellest in the fire. I have heard
+Thy voice, Draw not nigh hither; put thy shoes off from thy feet. And my
+soul has feared to look upon God, the Holy One.
+
+And yet, O my God! I must see Thee. Thou didst create me for Thy
+likeness. Thou hast taught that this likeness is Thy Holiness: 'Be holy,
+as I am holy.' O my God! how shall I know to be holy, unless I may see
+Thee, the Holy One? To be holy, I must look upon God.
+
+I bless Thee for the revelation of Thyself in the flames of the
+thorn-bush, in the fire of the accursed tree. I bow in amazement and
+deep abasement at the great sight: Thy Son in the weakness of His human
+nature, in the fire, burning but not consumed. O my God! in fear and
+trembling I have yielded myself as a sinner to die like Him. Oh, let the
+fire consume all that is unholy in me! Let me too know Thee as the God
+that dwelleth in the fire, to melt down and purge out and destroy what
+is not of Thee, to save and take up into Thine own Holiness what is
+Thine own.
+
+O Holy Lord God! I bow in the dust before this great mystery. Reveal to
+me Thy Holiness, that I too may be its witness and its messenger on
+earth. Amen.
+
+
+  1. _Holiness as the fire of God._ Praise God that there is a
+     Power that can consume the vile and the dross, a Power that
+     will not leave it undisturbed. 'The bush burning but not
+     consumed' is not only the motto of the Church in time of
+     persecution; it is the watchword of every soul in God's
+     sanctifying work.
+
+  2. There is a new Theology, which only speaks of the love of
+     God as seen in the cross. It sees not the glory of His
+     Righteousness, and His righteous judgment. This is not the God
+     of Scripture. 'Our God is a consuming fire,' is New Testament
+     Theology. To 'offer service with reverence and awe,' is New
+     Testament religion. In Holiness, Judgment and Mercy meet.
+
+  3. _Holiness as the fear of God._ Hiding the face before God
+     for fear, not daring to look or speak,--this is the beginning
+     of rest in God. It is not yet the true rest, but on the way to
+     it. May God give us a deep fear of whatever could grieve or
+     anger Him. May we have a deep fear of ourselves, and all that
+     is of the old, the condemned nature, lest it rise again. 'The
+     spirit of the fear of the Lord' is the first manifestation of
+     the spirit of holiness, and prepares the way for the joy of
+     holiness. 'Walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort
+     of the Holy Ghost;' these are the two sides of the Christian
+     life.
+
+  4. The Holiness of God was revealed to Moses that he might be
+     its messenger. The Church needs nothing so much to-day as men
+     and women who can testify for the Holiness of God. Will you be
+     one?
+
+
+NOTE.
+
+The connection between the fear of God and holiness is most intimate.
+There are some who seek most earnestly for holiness, and yet never
+exhibit it in a light that will attract the world or even believers,
+because this element is wanting. It is the fear of the Lord that works
+that meekness and gentleness, that deliverance from self-confidence and
+self-consciousness, which form the true groundwork of a saintly
+character. The passages of God's Word in which the two words are linked
+together are well worthy of a careful study. 'Who is like unto Thee,
+glorious in _holiness_, _fearful_ in praises?' 'In Thy _fear_ will I
+worship towards Thy _holy_ temple.' 'O _fear_ the Lord, ye His _holy
+ones_.' 'O worship the Lord, in the beauty of _holiness_; _fear_ before
+Him, all the earth.' 'Let them praise Thy great and _terrible_ name;
+_holy_ is He.' 'The _fear_ of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and
+the knowledge of the _Holy One_ is understanding.' 'The Lord of hosts,
+Him shall ye _sanctify_; let Him be your _fear_, and let Him be your
+dread.' 'Perfecting _holiness_ in the _fear_ of the Lord.' 'Like as He
+which _called you_ is holy, be ye yourselves also _holy_; and if ye
+_call on Him_ as father, pass the time of your sojourning in _fear_.'
+And so on through the whole of Scripture, from the Song of Moses on to
+the Song of the Lamb: 'Who shall not _fear_ Thee, O Lord! and glorify
+Thy name, for Thou only art _holy_.' If we yield ourselves to the
+impression of such passages, we shall feel more deeply that the fear of
+God, the tender fear of in any way offending Him, the fear especially of
+entering into His holy presence with what is human and carnal, with
+aught of our own wisdom and effort, is of the very essence of the
+holiness we are to follow after. It is this fear of God will make us,
+like Moses, fall down and hide our face in God's presence, and wait for
+His own Holy Spirit to open in us the eyes, and breathe in us the
+thoughts and the worship, with which we draw nigh to Him, the Holy One.
+It is in this holy fear that that stillness of soul is wrought which
+leads it to rest in God, and opens the way for what we saw in Paradise
+to be the secret of holiness: God keeping His Sabbath, and sanctifying
+the soul in which He rests.
+
+
+
+
+Fifth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Redemption.
+
+  '_Sanctify_ unto _me_ all the first-born.'--Ex. xiii. 2.
+
+  'All the first-born _are mine_; for on the day I smote all the
+  first-born in the land of Egypt _I sanctified_ unto _me_ all the
+  first-born in Israel: _mine_ they shall be: I am the Lord.'--Num.
+  iii. 13, viii. 17.
+
+  'For I am the Lord your God that bringeth you up out of the land
+  of Egypt to be your God: ye shall therefore _be holy_, for I am
+  _holy_.'--Lev. xi. 45.
+
+  'I have redeemed thee; thou art mine.'--Isa. xliii. 1.
+
+
+At Horeb we saw how the first mention of the word holy in the history of
+fallen man was connected with the inauguration of a new period in the
+revelation of God, that of Redemption. In the passover we have the first
+manifestation of what Redemption is; and here the more frequent use of
+the word holy begins. In the feast of unleavened bread we have the
+symbol of the putting off of the old and the putting on of the new, to
+which redemption through blood is to lead. Of the seven days we read:
+'In the first day there shall be an _holy_ convocation, and in the
+seventh day there shall be an _holy_ convocation;' the meeting of the
+redeemed people to commemorate its deliverance is a holy gathering; they
+meet under the covering of their Redeemer, the Holy One. As soon as the
+people had been redeemed from Egypt, God's very first word to them was,
+'Sanctify--make holy unto me all the first-born: it is mine.' (See Ex.
+xiii. 2.) The word reveals how proprietorship is one of the central
+thoughts both in redemption and in sanctification, the link that binds
+them together. And though the word is here only used of the first-born,
+they are regarded as the type of the whole people. We know how all
+growth and organization commence from a centre, around which in
+ever-widening circles the life of the organism spreads. If holiness in
+the human race is to be true and real, free as that of God, it must be
+the result of a self-appropriating development. And so the first-born
+are sanctified, and afterwards the priests in their place, as the type
+of what the whole people is to be as God's first-born among the nations,
+His peculiar treasure, 'an holy nation.' This idea of proprietorship as
+related to redemption and sanctification comes out with especial
+clearness when God speaks of the exchange of the priests for the
+first-born (Num. iii. 12, 13, viii. 16, 17): 'The Levites are _wholly
+given unto me_; instead of the first-born have I _taken them unto me_;
+for all the first-born _are mine_; in the day that I smote every
+first-born in the land of Egypt _I sanctified them for myself_.'
+
+Let us try and realize the relation existing between redemption and
+holiness. In Paradise we saw what God's sanctifying the seventh day was:
+He took possession of it, He blessed it, He rested in it and refreshed
+Himself. Where God enters and rests, there is holiness: the more
+perfectly the object is fitted for Him to enter and dwell, the more
+perfect the holiness. The seventh day was sanctified as the period for
+man's sanctification. At the very first step God took to lead him to His
+Holiness--the command not to eat of the tree--man fell. God did not give
+up His plan, but had now to pursue a different and slower path. After
+twenty-five centuries' slow but needful preparation, He now reveals
+Himself as the Redeemer. A people whom He had chosen and formed for
+Himself He gives up to oppression and slavery, that their hearts may be
+prepared to long for and welcome a Deliverer. In a series of mighty
+wonders He proves Himself the Conqueror of their enemies, and then, in
+the blood of the Paschal Lamb on their doors, teaches them what
+redemption is, not only from an unjust oppressor here on earth, but from
+the righteous judgment their sins had deserved. The Passover is to be to
+them the transition from the seen and temporal to the unseen and
+spiritual, revealing God not only as the Mighty but as the Holy One,
+freeing them not only from the house of bondage but the Destroying
+Angel.
+
+And having thus redeemed them, He tells them that they are now His own.
+During their stay at Sinai and in the wilderness, the thought is
+continually pressed upon them that they are now the Lord's people, whom
+He has made His own by the strength of His arm, that He may make them
+holy for Himself, even as He is holy. The purpose of redemption is
+Possession, and the purpose of Possession is likeness to Him who is
+Redeemer and Owner, is Holiness.
+
+In regard to this Holiness, and the way it is to be attained as the
+result of redemption, there is more than one lesson the sanctifying of
+the first-born will teach us.
+
+First of all, we want to realize how inseparable redemption and holiness
+are. Neither can exist without the other. _Only redemption leads to
+holiness._ If I am seeking holiness, I must abide in the clear and full
+experience of being a redeemed one, and as such of being owned and
+possessed by God. Redemption is too often looked at from its negative
+side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of
+being redeemed unto Himself. Full possession of a house means
+occupation: if I own a house without occupying it, it may be the home of
+all that is foul and evil. God has redeemed me and made me His own with
+the view of getting complete possession of me. He says of my soul, 'It
+is mine,' and seeks to have His right of ownership acknowledged and made
+fully manifest. That will be perfect holiness, where God has entered in
+and taken complete and entire possession.[2] It is redemption gives God
+His right and power over me; it is redemption sets me free for God now
+to possess and bless: it is redemption realized and filling my soul,
+that will bring me the assurance and experience of all His power will
+work in me. In God, redemption and sanctification are one: the more
+redemption as a Divine reality possesses me, the closer am I linked to
+the Redeemer-God, the Holy One.
+
+And just so, _only holiness brings the assurance and enjoyment of
+redemption_. If I am seeking to hold fast redemption on lower ground, I
+may be deceived. If I have become unwatchful or careless, I should
+tremble at the very idea of trusting in redemption apart from holiness
+as its object. To Israel God spake, 'I brought you up out of the land of
+Egypt: _therefore_ ye shall be holy, for I am holy.' It is God the
+Redeemer who made us His own, who calls us too to be holy: let Holiness
+be to us the most essential, the most precious part of redemption: the
+yielding of ourselves to Him who has _taken_ us as His own, and has
+undertaken to _make_ us His own entirely.
+
+A second lesson suggested is the connection between God's and man's
+working in sanctification. To Moses the Lord speaks, '_Sanctify_ unto me
+all the first-born.' He afterwards says, '_I sanctified_ all the
+first-born for myself.' What God does He does to be carried out and
+appropriated through us. When He tells us that we are made holy in
+Christ Jesus, that we are His holy ones, He speaks not only of His
+purpose, but of what He has really done; we have been sanctified in the
+one offering of Christ, and in our being created anew in Him. But this
+work has a human side. To us comes the call to be holy, to follow after
+holiness, to perfect holiness. God has made us His own, and allows us to
+say that we are His: but He waits for us now to yield Him an enlarged
+entrance into the secret places of our inner being, for Him to fill it
+all with His fulness. Holiness is not something we bring to God or do
+for Him. Holiness is what there is of God in us. God has made us His own
+in redemption, that He might make Himself our own in sanctification. And
+our work in becoming holy is the bringing our whole life, and every part
+of it, into subjection to the rule of this holy God, putting every
+member and every power upon His altar.
+
+And this teaches us the answer to the question as to the connection
+between the sudden and the gradual in sanctification: between its being
+a thing once for all complete, and yet imperfect and needing to be
+perfected. What God sanctifies is holy with a Divine and perfect
+holiness as His gift: man has to sanctify by acknowledging and
+maintaining and carrying out that holiness in relation to what God has
+made holy. God sanctified the Sabbath day: man has to sanctify it, that
+is, to keep it holy. God sanctified the first-born as His own: Israel
+had to sanctify them, to treat them and give them up to God as holy. God
+is holy: we are to sanctify Him in acknowledging and adoring and
+honouring that holiness. God has sanctified His great name, His name is
+Holy: we sanctify or hallow that name as we fear and trust and use it
+as the revelation of His Holiness. God sanctified Christ: Christ
+sanctified Himself, manifesting in His personal will and action perfect
+conformity to the Holiness with which God had made Him holy. God has
+sanctified us in Christ Jesus: we are to be holy by yielding ourselves
+to the power of that holiness, by acting it out, and manifesting it in
+all our life and walk. The objective Divine gift, bestowed once for all
+and completely, must be appropriated as a subjective personal
+possession; we must cleanse ourselves, perfecting holiness. Redeemed
+unto holiness: as the two thoughts are linked in the mind and work of
+God, they must be linked in our heart and life.
+
+When Isaiah announced the second, the true redemption, it was given to
+him, even more clearly and fully than to Moses, to reveal the name of
+God as 'The Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.' The more we study this
+name, and hallow it, and worship God by it, the more inseparably will
+the words become connected, and we shall see how, as the Redeemer is the
+Holy One, the redeemed are holy ones too. Isaiah says of 'the way of
+holiness,' the 'redeemed shall walk therein.' The redemption that comes
+out from the Holiness of God must lead up into it too. We shall
+understand that to be redeemed in Christ is to be holy in Christ, and
+the call of our redeeming God will acquire new meaning: 'I am _holy_:
+_be ye holy_.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Lord God! the Holy One of Israel and his Redeemer! I worship before
+Thee in deep humility. I confess with shame that I so long sought Thee
+more as the Redeemer than as the Holy One. I knew not that it was as the
+Holy One Thou hadst redeemed, that redemption was the outcome and the
+fruit of Thy Holiness; that a participation in Thy Holiness was its one
+purpose and its highest beauty. I only thought of being redeemed from
+bondage and death: like Israel, I understood not that without fellowship
+and conformity to Thyself redemption would lose its value.
+
+Most holy God! I praise Thee for the patience with which Thou bearest
+with the selfishness and the slowness of Thy redeemed ones. I praise
+Thee for the teaching of the Spirit of Thy Holiness, leading Thy saints,
+and me too, to see how it is Thy Holiness, and the call to become
+partaker of it, that gives redemption its value; how it is for Thyself
+as the Holy One, to be Thine own, possessed and sanctified of Thee, that
+we are redeemed.
+
+O my God! with a love and a joy and a thanksgiving that cannot be
+uttered, I praise Thee for Christ, who has been made unto us of Thee
+sanctification and redemption. In Him Thou art my Redeemer, my Holy One.
+In Him I am Thy redeemed, Thy holy one. O God! in speechless adoration I
+fall down to worship the love that passeth knowledge, that hath done
+this for us, and to believe that in one who is now before Thee, holy in
+Christ, Thou wilt fulfil all Thy glorious purposes according to the
+greatness of Thy power. Amen.
+
+
+  1. 'Redemption through His blood.' The blood we meet at the
+     threshold of the pathway of Holiness. For it is the blood of
+     the sacrifice which the fire of God consumed, and yet could not
+     consume. That blood has such power of holiness in it, that we
+     read, 'Sanctified by His own blood.' Always think of holiness,
+     or pray for it, as one redeemed by blood. Live under the
+     covering of the blood in its daily cleansing power.
+
+  2. It is only as we know the Holiness of God as Fire, and bow
+     before His righteous judgment, that we can appreciate the
+     preciousness of the blood or the reality of the redemption. As
+     long as we only think of the love of God as goodness, we may
+     aim at being good; faith in God who redeems will waken in us
+     the need and the joy of being _holy in Christ_.
+
+  3. Have you understood the right of property God has in what He
+     has redeemed? Have you heard a voice say, _Mine. Thou art
+     Mine._ Ask God very humbly to speak it to you. Listen very
+     gently for it.
+
+  4. The holiness of the creature has its origin in the Divine
+     will, in the Divine election, redemption, and possession. Give
+     yourself up to this will of God and rejoice in it.
+
+  5. As God created, so He redeemed, to sanctify. Have great
+     faith in Him for this.
+
+  6. Let God have the entire possession and disposal of you.
+     Holiness is His; our holiness is to let Him, the Holy One, be
+     all.
+
+
+    [2] See Note A on Holiness as Proprietorship.
+
+
+
+
+Sixth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Glory.
+
+  'Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! among the gods?
+  Who is like unto Thee, _glorious in holiness_,
+  Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
+  Thou in Thy mercy hast led Thy people which Thou hast redeemed:
+  Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to the habitation of
+      _Thy holiness_ ...
+  _The holy place_, O Lord, which Thy hands have established.'
+
+        --Ex. xv. 11-17.
+
+
+In these words we have another step in advance in the revelation of
+Holiness. We have here for the first time Holiness predicated of God
+Himself. _He is_ glorious in holiness: and it is to the dwelling-place
+of _His Holiness_ that He is guiding His people.
+
+Let us first note the expression used here: glorious in holiness.
+Throughout Scripture we find the glory and the holiness of God mentioned
+together. In Ex. xxix. 43 we read, 'And the tent shall be _made holy_ by
+my _glory_,' that glory of the Lord of which we afterwards read that it
+filled the house. The glory of an object, of a thing or person, is its
+intrinsic worth or excellence: to glorify is to remove everything that
+could hinder the full revelation of that excellence. In the Holiness of
+God His glory is hidden; in the glory of God His Holiness is manifested:
+His glory, the revelation of Himself as the Holy One, would make the
+house holy. In the same way the two are connected in Lev. x. 3, 'I will
+be _sanctified_ in them that come nigh unto me, and before all the
+people I will be _glorified_.' The acknowledgment of His Holiness in the
+priests would be the manifestation of His glory to the people. So, too,
+in the song of the Seraphim (Isa. vi. 3), '_Holy, holy, holy_, Lord God
+of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His _glory_.' God is He who
+dwelleth in a light that is unapproachable, whom no man hath seen or can
+see: it is the _light_ of the knowledge of the _glory_ of God that He
+gives into our hearts. The glory is that which can be seen and known of
+the invisible and unapproachable light: that light itself, and the
+glorious fire of which that light is the shining out, that light is the
+Holiness of God. Holiness is not so much an attribute of God, as the
+comprehensive summary of all His perfections.
+
+It is on the shore of the Red Sea that Israel thus praises God: 'Who is
+like unto Thee, O Lord! Who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness?' He
+is the Incomparable One, there is none like Him. And wherein has He
+proved this, and revealed the glory of His Holiness? With Moses in
+Horeb we saw God's glory in the fire, in its double aspect of salvation
+and destruction: consuming what could not be purified, purifying what
+was not consumed. We see it here too in the song of Moses: Israel sings
+of judgment and of mercy. The pillar of fire and of the cloud came
+between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel: it was a cloud
+and darkness to those, but it gave light by night to these. The two
+thoughts run through the whole song. But in the two verses that follow
+the ascription of holiness, we find the sum of the whole. 'Thou
+stretchedst out Thy right hand: the earth swallowed them.' 'The Lord
+looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and
+discomfited them.' This is the glory of Holiness as judgment and
+destruction of the enemy. 'Thou in Thy mercy hast led _Thy people_ which
+thou hast redeemed. Thou hast guided _them_ in Thy strength to the
+habitation of Thy Holiness.' This is the glory of Holiness in mercy and
+redemption--a Holiness that not only delivers but guides to the
+habitation of holiness, where the Holy One is to dwell with and in His
+people. In the inspiration of the hour of triumph it is thus early
+revealed that the great object and fruit of redemption, as wrought out
+by the Holy One, is to be His indwelling: with nothing short of this can
+the Holy One rest content, or the full glory of His Holiness be made
+manifest.
+
+And now, observe further, how, as it is in the redemption of His people
+that God's Holiness is revealed, so it is in the song of redemption that
+the personal ascription of Holiness to God is found. We know how in
+Scripture, after some striking special interposition of God as Redeemer,
+the special influence of the Spirit is manifested in some song of
+praise. It is remarkable how it is in these outbursts of holy
+enthusiasm, God is praised as the Holy One. See it in the song of Hannah
+(1 Sam. ii. 2), 'There is none holy as the Lord.' The language of the
+Seraphim (Isa. vi.) is that of a song of adoration. In the great day of
+Israel's deliverance the song will be, 'The Lord Jehovah is become my
+strength and song. Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done excellent
+things. Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is _the
+Holy One_ of Israel in the midst of thee.' Mary sings, 'For He that is
+mighty hath done great things to me: and _holy_ is His name.' The book
+of Revelation reveals the living creatures giving glory and honour and
+thanks to Him that sitteth on the throne; 'and they have no rest day and
+night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, which
+was, and which is, and which is to come.' And when the song of Moses and
+of the Lamb is sung by the sea of glass, it will still be, 'Who shall
+not fear, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy.' It is
+in the moments of highest inspiration, under the fullest manifestation
+of God's redeeming power, that His servants speak of His Holiness. In
+Ps. xcvii. we read, 'Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks
+at the remembrance of His Holiness.' And in Ps. xcix., which has, with
+its thrice repeated holy, been called the echo on earth of the Thrice
+Holy of heaven, we sing--
+
+  Let them praise Thy great and terrible name.
+  HOLY IS HE.
+
+  Exalt ye the Lord our God,
+  and worship at His footstool:
+  HOLY IS HE.
+
+  Exalt ye the Lord our God,
+  and worship at His holy hill:
+  For the Lord our God is HOLY.
+
+It is only under the influence of high spiritual elevation and joy that
+God's holiness can be fully apprehended or rightly worshipped. The
+sentiment that becomes us as we worship the Holy One, that fits us for
+knowing and worshipping Him aright, is the spirit of praise that sings
+and shouts for joy in the experience of His full salvation.
+
+But is not this at variance with the lesson we learnt at Horeb, when God
+spake, 'Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes,' and where Moses feared
+and hid his face? And is not this in very deed the posture that becomes
+us as creatures and sinners? It is indeed: and yet the two sentiments
+are not at variance: rather they are indispensable to each other; the
+fear is the preparation for the praise and the glory. Or is it not that
+same Moses who hid his face and feared to look upon God, who afterwards
+beheld His glory until his own face shone with a brightness that men
+could not bear to look upon? And is not the song that sings here of God
+as glorious in holiness, also the song of Moses who feared and hid his
+face? Have we not seen in the fire, and in God, and specially in His
+Holiness, the twofold aspect; consuming and purifying, repelling and
+attracting, judging and saving, with the latter in each case not only
+the accompaniment but the result of the former? And so we shall find
+that the deeper the humbling and the fear in God's Holy Presence, and
+the more real and complete the putting off of all that is of self and of
+nature, even to the putting off, the complete death of the old man and
+his will, the more hearty the giving up to be consumed of what is
+sinful, the deeper and fuller will be the praise and joy with which we
+daily sing our song of redemption: 'Who is like unto Thee, O Lord,
+glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?'
+
+'_Glorious_ in holiness; _fearful_ in praises:' the song itself
+harmonizes the apparently conflicting elements. Yes, I will sing of
+judgment and of mercy. I will rejoice with trembling as I praise the
+Holy One. As I look upon the two sides of His Holiness, as revealed to
+the Egyptians and the Israelites, I remember that what was there
+separated is in me united. By nature I am the Egyptian, an enemy doomed
+to destruction; by grace, an Israelite chosen for redemption. In me the
+fire must consume and destroy; only as judgment does its work, can mercy
+fully save. It is only as I tremble before the Searching Light and the
+Burning Fire and the Consuming Heat of the Holy One, as I yield the
+Egyptian nature to be judged and condemned and slain, that the Israelite
+will be redeemed to know aright his God as the God of salvation, and to
+rejoice in Him.
+
+Blessed be God! the judgment is past. In Christ, the burning bush, the
+fire of the Divine Holiness did its double work: in Him sin was
+condemned in the flesh; in Him we are free. In giving up His will to the
+death, and doing God's will, Christ sanctified Himself; and in that will
+we are sanctified too. His crucifixion, with its judgment of the flesh,
+His death, with its entire putting off of what is of nature, is not only
+for us, but is really ours; a life and a power working within us by His
+Spirit. Day by day we abide in Him. Tremblingly but rejoicingly we take
+our stand in Him, for the Power of Holiness as Judgment to vindicate
+within us its fierce vengeance against what is sin and flesh, and so to
+let the Power of Holiness as Redemption accomplish that glorious work
+that makes us give thanks at the remembrance of His Holiness. And so the
+shout of Salvation rings ever deeper and truer and louder through our
+life, 'Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like unto
+Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+'_Who_ is like unto Thee, O Lord! glorious in holiness, fearful in
+praises, doing wonders?' With my whole heart would I join in this song
+of redemption, and rejoice in Thee as the God of my salvation.
+
+O my God! let Thy Spirit, from whom these words of holy joy and triumph
+came, so reveal within me the great redemption as a personal experience,
+that my whole life may be one song of trembling and adoring wonder.
+
+I beseech Thee especially, let my whole heart be filled with Thyself,
+glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, who alone doest wonders. Let
+the fear of Thy Holiness make me tremble at all there is in me of self
+and flesh, and lead me in my worship to deny and crucify my own wisdom,
+that the Spirit of Thy Holiness may breathe in me. Let the fear of the
+Lord give its deep undertone to all my coming in and going out in Thy
+Holy Presence. Prepare me thus for giving praise without ceasing at the
+remembrance of Thy holiness. O my God! I would rejoice in Thee as my
+Redeemer, MY HOLY ONE, with a joy unspeakable and full of glory. As my
+Redeemer, Thou makest me holy. With my whole heart do I trust Thee to do
+it, to sanctify me wholly. I do believe in Thy promise. I do believe in
+Thyself, and believing I receive Thee, the Holy One, my Redeemer.
+
+Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! glorious in holiness, fearful in praises,
+doing wonders?
+
+
+  1. _God's Holiness as Glory._ God is glorified in the holiness
+     of His people. True holiness always gives glory to God alone.
+     Live to the glory of God: that is holiness. Live holily: that
+     will glorify God. To lose sight of self, and seek only God's
+     glory, is holiness.
+
+  2. _Our Holiness as Praise._ Praise gives glory to God, and is
+     thus an element of holiness. 'Thou art holy, Thou that
+     inhabitest the praises of Israel.'
+
+  3. God's Holiness, His holy redeeming love, is cause of unceasing
+     joy and praise. Praise God every day for it. But you cannot do
+     this unless you live in it. May God's holiness become so
+     glorious to us, as we understand that whatever we see of His
+     glory is just the outshining of His holiness, that we cannot
+     help rejoicing in it, and in Him the Holy One.
+
+  4. The spirit of the fear of the Lord and the spirit of praise
+     may, at first sight, appear to be at variance. But it is not
+     so. The humility that fears the Holy One will also praise Him:
+     'Ye that fear the Lord: praise the Lord.' The lower we lie in
+     the fear of God, and the fear of self, the more surely will He
+     lift us up in due time to praise Him.
+
+
+
+
+Seventh Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Obedience.
+
+  'Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on
+  eagles' wings, and brought you _unto myself_. Now therefore, if ye
+  will _obey my voice indeed_, and keep my covenant, ye shall be a
+  peculiar treasure unto me above all people: ye shall be unto me an
+  _holy_ nation.'--Ex. xix. 4-6.
+
+
+Israel has reached Horeb. The law is to be given and the covenant made.
+Here are God's first words to the people; He speaks of redemption and
+its blessing, fellowship with Himself: 'Ye have seen how I brought you
+_unto myself_.' He speaks of holiness as His purpose in redemption: 'Ye
+shall be unto me an _holy_ nation.' And as the link between the two He
+places obedience: 'If ye will indeed _obey_ my voice, ye shall be unto
+me an _holy_ nation.' God's will is the expression of His holiness; as
+we do His will, we come into contact with His holiness. The link between
+Redemption and Holiness is Obedience.
+
+This takes us back to what we saw in Paradise. God sanctified the
+seventh day as the time for sanctifying man. And what was the first
+thing He did with this purpose? He gave him a commandment. Obedience to
+that commandment would have opened the door, would have been the
+entrance, into the Holiness of God. Holiness is a moral attribute; and
+moral is that which a free will chooses and determines for itself. What
+God creates and gives is only naturally good; what man wills to have of
+God and His will, and really appropriates, has moral worth, and leads to
+holiness. In creation God manifested His wise and good will. His holy
+will He speaks in His commands. As that holy will enters man's will, as
+man's will accepts and unites itself with God's will, he becomes holy.
+After creation, in the seventh day, God took man up into His work of
+sanctification to make him holy. Obedience is the path to holiness,
+because it is the path to union with God's holy will; with man unfallen,
+as with fallen man, in redemption here and in glory above, in all the
+holy angels, in Christ the Holy One of God Himself, obedience is the
+path of holiness. It is not itself holiness: but as the will opens
+itself to accept and to do the will of God, God communicates Himself and
+His Holiness. To obey His voice is to follow Him as He leads in the way
+to the full revelation and communication of Himself and His blessed
+nature as the Holy One.
+
+Obedience. Not knowledge of the will of God, not even approval, not even
+the will to do it, but the doing of it. Knowledge, and approval, and
+will must lead to action; the will of God must be _done_. 'If ye indeed
+obey my voice, ye shall be unto me an holy nation.' It is not faith, and
+not worship, and not profession, that God here asks in the first place
+from His people when He speaks of holiness; it is obedience. God's will
+must be _done_ on earth, as in heaven. 'Remember _and do_ all my
+commandments, that ye may be holy to your God' (Num. xv. 40). 'Sanctify
+yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; and ye shall keep my statutes _and
+do_ them. I am the Lord which sanctify you' (Lev. xx. 7, 8). 'Therefore
+shall ye keep my commandments _and do_ them: I am the Lord: I will be
+hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,
+that brought you up out of the land of Egypt' (xxii 21, 33).
+
+A moment's reflection will make the reason of this clear to us. It is in
+a man's work that he manifests what he is. I may know what is good, and
+yet not approve it. I may approve, and yet not will it. I may in a
+certain sense will it, and yet be wanting in the energy, or the
+self-sacrifice, or the power that will rouse and do the thing. Thinking
+is easier than willing, and willing is easier than doing. Action alone
+proves whether the object of my interest has complete mastery over me.
+God wants His will _done_. This alone is obedience. In this alone it is
+seen whether the whole heart, with all its strength and will, has given
+itself over to the will of God; whether we live it, and are ready at any
+sacrifice to make it our own by doing it. God has no other way for
+making us holy. 'Ye shall keep my statutes _and do_ them: I am the Lord
+which make you holy.'
+
+To all seekers after holiness this is a lesson of deep importance.
+Obedience is not holiness; holiness is something far higher, something
+that comes from God to us, or rather, something of God coming into us.
+But obedience is _indispensable_ to holiness: it cannot exist without
+it. While, therefore, your heart seeks to follow the teaching of God's
+word, and looks in faith to what God has done, as He has made you _holy
+in Christ_, and to what God is still to do through the Spirit of
+Holiness as He fulfils the promise, 'The very God of peace sanctify you
+wholly,' never for one moment forget to be obedient. 'If ye shall indeed
+obey my voice, ye shall be an holy nation to me.' Begin by doing at once
+whatever appears right to do. Give up at once whatever conscience tells
+that you dare not say is according to the will of God. Not only pray for
+light and strength, but _act_; do what God says. 'He that _doeth_ the
+will of God is my brother,' Jesus says. Every son of God has been
+begotten of the will of God: in it he has his life. To do the Father's
+will is the meat, the strength, the mark, of every son of God.
+
+It is nothing less than the surrender to such a life of simple and
+entire obedience that is implied in becoming a Christian. There are,
+alas! too many Christians who, from the want either of proper
+instruction, or of proper attention to the teaching of God's word, have
+never realized the place of supreme importance that obedience takes in
+the Christian life. They know not that Christ, and redemption, and faith
+all lead to it, because through it alone is the way to the fellowship of
+the Love, and the Likeness, and the Glory of God. We have all, possibly,
+suffered from it ourselves: in our prayers and efforts after the perfect
+peace and the rest of faith, after the abiding joy and the increasing
+power of the Christian life, there has been a secret something hindering
+the blessing, or causing the speedy loss of what had been apprehended. A
+wrong impression as to the absolute necessity of obedience was probably
+the cause. It cannot too earnestly be insisted on that the freeness and
+mighty power of grace has this for its object from our conversion
+onwards, the restoring us to the active obedience and harmony with God's
+will from which we had fallen through the first sin in Paradise.
+Obedience leads to God and His Holiness. It is in obedience that the
+will is moulded, and the character fashioned, and an inner man built up
+which God can clothe and adorn with the beauty of holiness.
+
+When a Christian discovers that this has been the missing link, the
+cause of failure and darkness, there is nothing for it but, in a grand
+act of surrender, deliberately to choose obedience, universal,
+whole-hearted obedience, as the law of his life in the power of the Holy
+Spirit. Let him not fear to make his own the words of Israel at Sinai,
+in answer to the message of God we are considering: 'All that the Lord
+hath spoken, _we will do_;' 'All that the Lord hath said _will we do_,
+and be obedient.' What the law could not do, in that it was weak through
+the flesh, God hath done by the gift of His Son and Spirit. The
+law-giving of Sinai on tables of stone has been succeeded by the
+law-giving of the Spirit on the table of the heart: the Holy Spirit is
+the power of obedience, and is so the Spirit of Holiness, who, in
+obedience, prepares our hearts for being the dwelling of the Holy One.
+Let us in this faith yield ourselves to a life of obedience: it is the
+New Testament path to the realization of the promise: 'If ye will _obey_
+my voice indeed, ye shall be unto me an _holy_ nation.'
+
+We have already seen how holiness in its very nature supposes the
+personal relation to God, His personal presence. 'I have brought you
+_unto myself_; if ye obey, ye shall be _unto me_ an holy nation.' It is
+as we understand and hold fast this personal element that obedience will
+become possible, and will lead to holiness. Mark well God's words: 'If
+ye will obey my _voice_, and keep my covenant.' The voice is more than a
+law or a book; it always implies a living person and intercourse with
+him. It is this that is the secret of gospel obedience: hearing the
+voice and following the lead of Jesus as a personal friend, a living
+Saviour. It is being led by the Spirit of God, having Him to reveal the
+Presence, and the Will, and the Love of the Father, that will work in us
+that personal relation which the New Testament means when it speaks of
+doing everything unto the Lord, as pleasing God.
+
+Such obedience is the pathway of holiness. Its every act is a link to
+the living God, a surrender of the being for God's will, for God Himself
+to take possession. In the process of assimilation, slow but sure, by
+which the will of God, as the meat of our souls, is taken up into our
+inmost being, our spiritual nature is strengthened, is spiritualized,
+growing up into an holy temple in which God can reveal Himself and take
+up His abode.
+
+Let every believer study to realize this. When God sanctified the
+seventh day as His period of making holy, He taught us that He could not
+do it at once. The revelation and communication of holiness must be
+gradual, as man is prepared to receive it. God's sanctifying work with
+each of us, as with the race, needs time. The time it needs and seeks is
+the life of daily, hourly obedience. All that is spent in self-will, and
+not in the living relation to the Lord, is lost. But when the heart
+seeks day by day to hearken to the voice and to obey it, the Holy One
+Himself watches over His words to fulfil them: 'Ye shall be unto me an
+holy nation.' In a way of which the soul beforehand can have but little
+conception, God will overshadow and make His abode in the obedient
+heart. The habit of always listening for the voice and obeying it will
+only be the building of the temple: the Living God Himself, the Holy
+One, will come to take up His abode. The glory of the Lord will fill
+the house, and the promise be made true, 'I will sanctify it by my
+glory.'
+
+'I brought you _unto myself_; if ye will obey _my voice_ in deed, ye
+shall be _unto me_ an holy nation.' Seekers after holiness! God has
+brought you to Himself. And now His voice speaks to you all the thoughts
+of His heart, that as you take them in, and make them your own, and make
+His will your own by living and doing it, you may enter into the most
+complete union with Himself, the union of will as well as of life, and
+so become a holy people unto Him. Let obedience, the listening to and
+the doing the will of God, be the joy and the glory of your life; it
+will give you access unto the Holiness of God.
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O my God! Thou hast redeemed me for Thyself, that Thou mightest have me
+wholly as Thine own, possessing, filling my inmost being with Thy own
+likeness, Thy perfect will, and the glory of Thy Holiness. And Thou
+seekest to train me, in the power of a free and loving will, to take Thy
+will and make it my own, that in the very centre of my being I may have
+Thine own perfection dwelling in me. And in Thy words Thou revealest Thy
+will, that as I accept and keep them I may master their Divine contents,
+and will all that Thou willest.
+
+O my God! let me live day by day in such fellowship with Thee, that I
+may indeed in everything hear Thy voice, the living voice of the living
+God speaking to me. Let the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Thy Holiness, be
+to me Thy voice guiding me in the path of simple, childlike obedience. I
+do bless Thee that I have seen that Christ, in whom I am holy, was the
+obedient one, that in obedience He sanctified Himself to become my
+sanctification, and that abiding in Him, Thy obedient, holy Child, is
+abiding in Thy will as once done by Him, and now to be done by me. O my
+God! I will indeed obey Thy will: make Thou me one of Thy holy nation, a
+peculiar treasure above all people. Amen.
+
+
+  1. 'He became obedient unto death.' 'Though He was a Son, yet He
+     learned obedience by the things which He suffered.' 'I come to
+     do Thy will.' 'In which will we are sanctified.' Christ's
+     example teaches us that obedience is the only path to the
+     Holiness or the glory of God. Be this your consecration: a
+     surrender in everything to seek and do the will of God.
+
+  2. We are 'holy in Christ'--in this Christ who did the will of
+     God and was obedient to the death. In Him it is we are; in Him
+     we are holy. His obedience is the soil in which we are planted,
+     and must be rooted. 'It is my meat to do His will;' obedience
+     was the sustenance of His life; in doing God's will He drew
+     down Divine nourishment; it must be so with us too.
+
+  3. As you study what it is to be and abide in Christ, as you
+     rejoice you are in Him, always remember it is Christ who obeyed
+     in whom God has planted you.
+
+  4. If ever you feel perplexed about holiness, just yield yourself
+     again to do God's will, and go and do it. It is ours to obey,
+     it is God's to sanctify.
+
+  5. _Holy in Christ._ Christ sanctified Himself by obedience, by
+     doing the will of God, and in that will, as done by Him, we
+     have been sanctified. In accepting that will as done by Him, in
+     accepting Him, _I am holy_. In accepting that will of God, as
+     to be done by me, _I become holy_. I am in Him; in every act of
+     living obedience, I enter into living fellowship with Him, and
+     draw the power of His life into mine.
+
+  6. Obedience depends upon hearing the voice. Do not imagine you
+     know the will of God. Pray and wait for the inward teaching of
+     the Spirit.
+
+
+
+
+Eighth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Indwelling.
+
+  'And let them make me _a holy place_, that I may _dwell_ among
+  them.'--Ex. xxv. 8.
+
+  'And the tent shall be _sanctified_ by my glory, and I will
+  _dwell_ among the children of Israel, and will be their God.'--Ex.
+  xxix. 43, 45.
+
+
+The Presence of God makes holy, even when it descends but for a little
+while, as at Horeb, in the burning bush. How much more must that
+Presence make holy the place where it dwells, where it fixes its
+permanent abode! So much is this the case, that the place where God
+dwells came to be called _the_ holy place, 'the holy place of the
+habitation of the Most High.' All around where God dwelt was holy: the
+holy city, the mountain of God's Holiness, His holy house, till we come
+within the veil, to the most holy place, the holy of holies. It is as
+_the indwelling God_ that He sanctifies His house, that He reveals
+Himself as the Holy One in Israel, that He makes us holy too.
+
+Because God is holy, _the house_ in which He dwells is holy too. This
+is the only attribute of God which He can communicate to His house; but
+this one He can and does communicate. Among men there is a very close
+link between the character of a house and its occupants. When there is
+no obstacle to prevent it, the house unintentionally reflects the
+master's likeness. Holiness expresses not so much an attribute as the
+very being of God in His infinite perfection, and His house testifies to
+this one truth, that He is holy, that where He dwells He must have
+holiness, that His indwelling makes holy. In His first command to His
+people to build Him a holy place, God distinctly said that it was that
+He might dwell among them: the dwelling in the house was to be the
+shadowing forth of His dwelling in the midst of His people. The house
+with its holiness thus leads us on to the holiness of His dwelling among
+His redeemed ones.
+
+The holy place, the habitation of God's Holiness, was the centre of all
+God's work in making _Israel_ holy. Everything connected with it was
+holy. The altar, the priests, the sacrifices, the oil, the bread, the
+vessels, all were holy, because they belonged to God. From the house
+there issued the twofold voice--God's call to be holy, God's promise to
+make holy. God's claim was manifested in the demand for cleansing, for
+atonement, for holiness, in all who were to draw near, whether as
+priests or worshippers. And God's promise shone forth from His house in
+the provision for making holy, in the sanctifying power of the altar, of
+the blood and the oil. The house embodied the two sides that are united
+in holiness, the repelling and the attracting, the condemning and the
+saving. Now by keeping the people at a distance, then by inviting and
+bringing them nigh, God's house was the great symbol of His own
+Holiness. He had come nigh even to dwell among them; and yet they might
+not come nigh, they might never enter the secret place of His presence.
+
+All these things are written on our behalf. It is as the Indwelling One
+that God is the sanctifier of _His people_ still: the Indwelling
+Presence alone makes us holy. This comes out with special clearness if
+we note how, the nearer the Presence was, the greater the degree of
+holiness. Because God dwelt among them, the camp was holy: all
+uncleanness was to be removed from it. But the holiness of the court of
+the tabernacle was greater: uncleanness which did not exclude from the
+camp would not be tolerated there. Then the holy place was still holier,
+because still nearer God. And the inner sanctuary, where the Presence
+dwelt on the mercy-seat, was the Holiest of All, was most holy. The
+principle still holds good: holiness is measured by nearness to God; the
+more of His Presence, the more of true holiness; perfect indwelling will
+be perfect holiness. There is none holy but the Lord; there is no
+holiness but in Him. He cannot part with somewhat of His holiness, and
+give it to us apart from Himself; we have only so much of holiness as we
+have of God Himself. And to have Himself truly and fully, we must have
+Him as the Indwelling One. And His indwelling in a house or locality,
+without life or spirit, is only a faint shadow of the true indwelling as
+the Living One, when He enters into and penetrates our very being, and
+fills us, our very selves, with His own life.
+
+There is no union so intimate, so real, so perfect, as that of an
+indwelling life. Think of the life that circulates through a large and
+fruitful tree. How it penetrates and fills every portion; how
+inseparably it unites the whole as long as it really is to exist!--in
+wood and leaf, in flower and fruit, everywhere the indwelling life flows
+and fills. This life is the life of nature, the life of the Spirit of
+God which dwells in nature. It is the same life that animates our
+bodies, the spirit of nature pervading every portion of them with the
+power of sensibility and action.
+
+Not less intimate, yea rather, far more wonderful and real, is the
+indwelling of the Spirit of the New Life, through whom God dwells in the
+heart of the believer. And it is as this indwelling becomes a matter of
+conscious longing and faith, that the soul obeys the command, 'Let them
+make me a holy place, that I may dwell among them,' and experiences the
+truth of the promise, 'The tent shall be sanctified by my glory, and I
+will dwell among the children of Israel.'
+
+It was as the Indwelling One that God revealed Himself in the Son, whom
+He sanctified and sent into the world. More than once our Lord insisted
+upon it, 'Believe me, that I am in the Father and _the Father in me_;
+the Father _abiding in me_ doeth the works.' It is specially as the
+temple of God that believers are more than once called holy in the New
+Testament: 'The temple of God is _holy_, which temple ye are.' 'Your
+body is a temple of the _Holy_ Spirit.' 'All the building groweth unto
+an holy temple in the Lord.' It is--we shall later on learn to
+understand this better--just because it is through the Spirit that the
+heart is prepared for the indwelling, and the indwelling effected and
+maintained, that the Spirit so peculiarly takes the attribute of Holy.
+The Indwelling Spirit is the Holy Spirit. The measure of His indwelling,
+or rather of His revealing the Indwelling Christ, is the measure of
+holiness.
+
+We have seen what the various degrees of nearness to God's Presence in
+Israel were. They are still to be found. You have Christians who dwell
+in the camp, but know little of drawing nigh to the Holy One. Then you
+have outer court Christians: they long for pardon and peace, they come
+ever again to the altar of atonement; but they know little of true
+nearness or holiness; of their privilege as priests to enter the holy
+place. Others there are who have learnt that this is their calling, and
+long to draw near, and yet hardly understand the boldness they have to
+enter into the Holiest of all, and to dwell there. Blessed they to whom
+this, the secret of the Lord, has been revealed. _They know_ what the
+rent veil means, and the access into the immediate Presence. The veil
+hath been taken away from their hearts: they have found the secret of
+true holiness in the Indwelling of the Holy One, the God who is holy and
+makes holy.
+
+Believer! the God who calls you to holiness is the God of the Indwelling
+Life. The tabernacle typifies it, the Son reveals it, the Spirit
+communicates it, the eternal glory will fully manifest it. And you may
+experience it. It is your calling as a believer to be God's Holy Temple.
+Oh, do but yield yourself to His full indwelling! seek not holiness in
+the first place in what you are or do; seek it in God. Seek it not even
+as a gift from God, seek it in God Himself, in His indwelling Presence.
+Worship Him in the beauty of holiness, as He dwells in the high and holy
+place. And as you worship, listen to His voice: 'Thus saith the high and
+lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the
+high and holy place, _with him also_ that is of a contrite and humble
+spirit.' It is as the Spirit strengthens us mightily in the inward man,
+so that Christ dwells in our heart by faith, and the Father comes and
+makes with Him His abode in us, that we are truly holy. Oh, let us but,
+in true, true-hearted consecration, yield ourselves to be, as distinctly
+as was the tabernacle or the temple, given up entirely to be the
+dwelling of the Most High, the habitation of His Holiness. A house
+filled with the glory of God, a heart filled with all the fulness of
+God, is God's promise, is our portion. Let us in faith claim and accept
+and hold fast the blessing: Christ, the Holy One of God, will in His
+Father's Name, enter and take possession. Then faith will bring the
+solution of all our difficulties, the victory over all our failures, the
+fulfilment of all our desires: 'The tent, the heart, shall be sanctified
+by my glory; and I will dwell among them.' The open secret of true
+holiness, the secret of the joy unspeakable, is Christ dwelling in the
+heart by faith.
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+We bow our knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus, that He would grant
+unto us, according to the riches of His glory, what He Himself has
+taught us to ask for. We ask nothing less than this, that Christ may
+dwell in our hearts by faith. We long for that most blessed, permanent,
+conscious indwelling of the Lord Jesus in the heart, which He so
+distinctly promised as the fruit of the Holy Spirit's coming. Father! we
+ask for what He meant when He spake of the loving, obedient disciple: 'I
+will come and manifest myself to him. We will come and take up our abode
+with him.' Oh, grant unto us this indwelling of Christ in the heart by
+faith!
+
+And for this, we beseech Thee, grant us to be strengthened with might by
+Thy Spirit in the inner man. O Most Mighty God! let the spirit of Thy
+Divine Power work mightily within us, renewing our mind, and will, and
+affections, so that the heart be all prepared and furnished as a
+temple, as a home, for Jesus. Let that Blessed Spirit strengthen us to
+the faith that receives the Blessed Saviour and His indwelling Presence.
+
+O Most Gracious Father! hear our cry. We do bow our knee to Thee. We
+plead the riches of Thy glory. We praise Thee who art mighty to do above
+what we can ask or think. We wait on Thee, O our Father: oh, grant us a
+mighty strengthening by the Spirit in the inner man, that this bliss may
+be ours in its full blessedness, our Lord Jesus dwelling in the heart.
+
+We ask it in His Name. Amen.
+
+
+  1. God's dwelling in the midst of Israel was the great central
+     fact to which all the commands concerning holiness were but
+     preparatory and subordinate. So the work of the Holy Spirit
+     also culminates in the personal indwelling of Christ. (John
+     xiv. 21, 23. Eph. iii. 16, 17.) Aim at this and expect it.
+
+  2. The tabernacle with its three divisions was, as of other
+     spiritual truths, so the image of man's threefold nature. Our
+     spirit is the Holiest of all, where God is meant to dwell,
+     where the Holy Spirit is given. The life of the soul, with its
+     powers of feeling, knowing, and willing, is the holy place. And
+     the outer life of the body, of conduct and action, is the outer
+     court. Begin by believing that the Spirit dwells in the inmost
+     sanctuary, where His workings are secret and hidden. Honour Him
+     by trusting Him to work, by yielding to Him in silent worship
+     before God. From within He will take possession of thought and
+     will; He will even fill the outer court, the body, with the
+     Holiness of God. 'The God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly;
+     and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved entire,
+     without blame. Faithful is He which calleth you, who will also
+     do it.'
+
+  3. God's indwelling was within the veil, in the unseen, the
+     secret place. Faith knew it, and served Him with holy fear. Our
+     faith knows that God the Holy Spirit has His abode in the
+     hidden place of our inner life. Set open your inmost being to
+     Him; bow in lowly reverence before the Holy One as you yield
+     yourself to His working. Holiness is the presence of the
+     Indwelling One.
+
+
+
+
+Ninth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Mediation.
+
+  'And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,
+  HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that
+  Aaron may bear the iniquity of the _holy_ things, which the
+  children of Israel shall _hallow_ in all their _holy_ gifts; and
+  it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted
+  before the Lord.'--Ex. xxviii. 36, 38.
+
+
+God's house was to be the dwelling-place of His Holiness, the place
+where He was to reveal Himself; as the Holy One, not to be approached
+but with fear and trembling; as the Holy-making One, drawing to Himself
+all who would be made partakers of His Holiness. Of the revelation of
+His Holy and His Holy-making Presence, the centre is found in the person
+of the high priest, in his double capacity of representing God with man,
+and man with God. He is the embodiment of the Divine Holiness in human
+form, and of human holiness as a Divine gift, as far as the dispensation
+of symbol and shadow could offer and express it. In him God came near to
+sanctify and bless the people. In him the people came their very
+nearest to God. And yet the very Day of Atonement, in which he might
+enter into the Most Holy, was but the proof of how unholy man was, and
+how unfit to abide in God's Presence. In himself a proof of Israel's
+unholiness, he yet was a type and picture of the coming Saviour, our
+blessed Lord Jesus, a wondrous exhibition of the way in which hereafter
+the holiness of God should become the portion of His people.
+
+Among the many points in which the high priest typified Christ as our
+sanctification, there is, perhaps, none more suggestive or beautiful
+than _the holy crown_ he wore on his forehead. Everything about him was
+to be holy. His garments were holy garments. But there was to be one
+thing in which this holiness reached its fullest manifestation. On his
+forehead he was always to wear a plate of gold, with the words engraved
+on it, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. Every one was to read there that the whole
+object of his existence, the one thing he lived for, was, to be the
+embodiment and the bearer of the Divine holiness, the chosen one through
+whom God's holiness might flow out in blessing upon the people.
+
+The way in which the blessing of the holy crown was to act was a most
+remarkable one. In bearing HOLINESS TO THE LORD on his forehead, he is,
+we read, 'to bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of
+Israel hallow; that they may be accepted before the Lord.' For every sin
+some sacrifice or way of atonement had been devised. But how about the
+sin that cleaves to the very sacrifice and religious service itself?
+'Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.' How painfully the worshipper
+might be oppressed by the consciousness that his penitence, his faith,
+his love, his obedience, his consecration, were all imperfect and
+defiled! For this need, too, of the worshipper, God had provided. The
+holiness of the high priest covered the sin and the unholiness of his
+holy things. The holy crown was God's pledge that the holiness of the
+high priest rendered the worshipper acceptable. If he was unholy, there
+was one among his brethren who was holy, who had a holiness that could
+avail for him too, a holiness he could trust in. He could look to the
+high priest not only to effect atonement by his blood-sprinkling, but in
+his person to secure a holiness too that made him and his gifts most
+acceptable. In the consciousness of personal unholiness he might rejoice
+in a mediator, in the holiness of Another than himself, the priest whom
+God had provided.
+
+Have we not here a most precious lesson, leading us a step farther on in
+the way of holiness? To our question, How God makes holy, we have the
+Divine answer: Through a man whom the Divine Holiness has chosen to rest
+upon, and whose holiness belongs to us, as His brethren, the very
+members of His own body. Through a holiness which is of such efficacy,
+that the very sins of our holy things disappear, and we can enter the
+Holy Presence with the assurance of being altogether well-pleasing.
+
+And is not just this the lesson that many earnest seekers after holiness
+need? They know all that the Word teaches of the blessed Atonement, and
+the full pardon it has brought. They believe in the Father's wonderful
+love, and what He is ready to do for them. And yet, when they hear of
+the childlike simplicity, the assurance of faith, the loving obedience,
+and the blessed surrender with which the Father expects them to come and
+receive the blessing, their heart fails for fear. It is as if the
+blessing were all beyond their reach. What avails that the Holy One is
+said to come so nigh? their unholiness renders them incapable of
+claiming or grasping the Presence that offers itself to them. Just see
+how the Holy One here reveals His way of making holy, and preparing for
+the fellowship of His Holiness. In His Elect One as Mediator, holiness
+is prepared and treasured up enough for all who come through Him. As I
+bow to pray or worship, and feel how much there is still wanting of that
+humility, and fervency, and faith, that God has a right to demand, I may
+look up to the High Priest in His Holiness, to the holy crown upon His
+forehead, and believe that the iniquity of my holy things is borne and
+taken away. I may, with all my deficiency and unworthiness, know most
+assuredly that my prayer is acceptable, a sweet-smelling savour. I may
+look up to the Holy One to see Him smiling on me, for the sake of His
+Anointed One. 'The holy crown shall always be on His forehead, that they
+may be accepted before the Lord.' It is the blessed truth of
+Substitution--One for all--of Mediatorship; God's way of making us holy.
+The sacrifice of the worshipping Israelite is holy and acceptable in
+virtue of the holiness of Another.
+
+The Old Testament shadow can never adequately set forth the New
+Testament reality with its fulness of grace and truth. As we proceed in
+our study, we shall find that the holiness of Jesus our sanctification
+is not only imputed but imparted, because we are _in Him_; the new man
+we have put on is created in true holiness. We are not only counted
+holy; we are holy, we have received a new holy nature in Christ Jesus.
+'He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all _of One_;
+therefore He is not ashamed to call them brethren.' It is our living
+union with Jesus, God's Holy One, that has given us the new and holy
+nature, and with that a claim and a share in all the holiness there is
+in Jesus. And so, as often as we are conscious of how unholy we are, we
+have only to come under the covering of the Holiness of Jesus, to enjoy
+the full assurance that we and our gifts are most acceptable. However
+great be the weakness of our faith, the shortcoming in our desire for
+God's glory, the lack in our love or zeal, as we see Jesus, with
+Holiness to the Lord on His forehead, we lift up our faces to receive
+the Divine smile of full approval and perfect acceptance.
+
+This is God's way of making holy. Not only with the holy place, as we
+have seen, but with the holy persons too, He begins with a centre, and
+from that in ever-widening circle makes holy. And that this Divine
+method will be crowned with success we may be sure. In the Word we find
+a most remarkable illustration of the extent to which it will be
+realized. We find the words on the holy crown once again in the Old
+Testament at its close. In the day of the Lord, 'there shall be upon the
+bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.' The high priest's motto
+shall then have become the watchword of daily life; every article of
+beauty or of service shall be holy too; from the head it shall have
+extended to the skirts of the garments. Let us begin with realizing the
+Holiness of Jesus in its power to cover the iniquity of our holy things;
+let us make proof of it, and no longer suffer our unworthiness to keep
+us back or make us doubt; let us believe that we and our holy things are
+acceptable, because in Christ holy to the Lord; let us live in this
+consciousness of acceptance, and enter into fellowship with the Holy
+One. As we enter in and abide in the holiness of Jesus, it will enter in
+and abide in us. It will take possession and spread its conquering power
+through our whole life, until with us too upon everything that belongs
+to us the word shall shine, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And we shall again
+find how God's way of holiness is ever from a centre, here the centre of
+our renewed nature, throughout the whole circumference of our being, to
+make His Holiness prove its power. Let us but dwell under the covering
+of the Holiness of Jesus, as He takes away the iniquity of our holy
+things, He will make us and our life holy to the Lord.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O my God and Father! my soul doth bless Thee for this wondrous
+revelation of what Thy way and Thy grace is with those whom Thou hast
+called 'Holy in Christ.' Thou knowest, O Lord, how continually our
+hearts have limited our acceptance with Thee by our attainments, and
+conscious shortcoming has wrought condemnation. We knew too little how,
+in the Holiness of Him who makes us holy, there is a Divinely infinite
+efficacy to cover our iniquities, and give us the assurance of perfect
+acceptance. Blessed Father! open our eyes to see, and our hearts to
+understand this holy crown of our blessed Jesus, with its wondrous and
+most blessed, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
+
+And when our hearts condemn us, because our prayers are so little
+consciously according to the will or to the glory of God, or truly in
+the name of Jesus, O most Holy Father, be pleased by Thy Spirit to show
+us how bright the smile and how hearty the welcome is we still have with
+Thee. Teach us to come in the Holiness of our High Priest, and enter
+into Thine, until it take possession of us, and permeate our whole
+being, and all that is in us be holy to the Lord. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Holiness is not something I can see or admire in myself: it
+     is covering myself, losing myself, in the Holiness of Jesus.
+     How wonderfully this is typified in Aaron and the holy crown.
+     And the more I see and have apprehended of the Holiness of
+     Jesus, the less shall I see or seek of holiness in myself.
+
+  2. He will make me holy: my tempers and dispositions will be
+     renewed; my heart and mind cleansed and sanctified; holiness
+     will be a new nature; and yet there will be all along the
+     consciousness, humbling and yet full of joy: it is not I;
+     Christ liveth in me.
+
+  3. Let us lie very low and tender before God, that the Holy
+     Spirit may reveal to us what it is to be holy in the Holiness
+     of Another, in the Holiness of Jesus, that is, in the Holiness
+     of God.
+
+  4. Do not trouble or weary too much to grasp this with the
+     intellect. Just believe it, and look in simplicity and trust to
+     Jesus to make it all right for you.
+
+  5. _Holy in Christ._ In childlike faith I take Christ's holiness
+     afresh as my covering before God. In loving obedience I take it
+     into my will and life. I trust and I follow Jesus: this is the
+     path of holiness.
+
+  6. If we gather up the lessons we have found in the Word from
+     Paradise downward, we see that the elements of holiness in us
+     are these, each corresponding to some special aspect of God's
+     holiness: deep Restfulness (ch. 3), humble Reverence (ch. 4),
+     entire Surrender (ch. 5), joyful Adoration (ch. 6), simple
+     Obedience (ch. 7). These all prepare for the Divine Indwelling
+     (ch. 8), and this again we have through the Abiding in Jesus
+     with the Crown of Holiness on His head.
+
+
+
+
+Tenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Separation.
+
+  'I am the Lord your God, which have _separated_ you from other
+  people. And ye shall be _holy_ unto me, for I the Lord am _holy_,
+  and have _separated_ you from other people that ye should be
+  _Mine_.'--Lev. xx. 24, 26.
+
+  'Until the days be fulfilled, in the which he _separateth_ himself
+  unto the Lord, he shall be _holy_.... All the days of his
+  _separation_ he is _holy_ unto the Lord.'--Num. vi. 5, 8.
+
+  'Wherefore Jesus also, that He might _sanctify_ the people through
+  His own blood, suffered _without the gate_. Let us therefore go
+  forth unto Him _without the camp_, bearing His reproach.'--Heb.
+  xiii. 12, 13.
+
+
+Separation is not holiness, but is the way to it. Though there can be no
+holiness without separation, there can be separation that does not lead
+to holiness. It is of deep importance to understand both the difference
+and the connection, that we may be kept from the right-hand error of
+counting separation alone as holiness, as well as the left-hand error of
+seeking holiness without separation.
+
+The Hebrew word for holiness possibly comes from a root that means to
+separate. But where we have in our translation 'separate' or 'sever' or
+'set apart,' we have quite different words.[3] The word for holy is used
+exclusively to express that special idea. And though the idea of holy
+always includes that of separation, it is itself something infinitely
+higher. It is of great importance to understand this well, because the
+being set apart to God, the surrender to His claim, the devotion or
+consecration to His service, is often spoken of as if this constituted
+holiness. We cannot too earnestly press the thought that this is only
+the beginning, the presupposition: holiness itself is infinitely more;
+not what I am, or do, or give, is holiness, but what God is, and gives,
+and does to me. It is God's taking possession of me that makes me holy;
+it is the Presence and the glory of God that really makes holy. A
+careful study of God's words to Israel will make this clear to us. Eight
+times we find the expression in Leviticus, 'Ye shall be holy, for I am
+holy.' Holiness is the highest attribute of God, expressive not only of
+His relation to Israel, but of His very being and nature, His infinite
+moral perfection. And though it is by very slow and gradual steps that
+He can teach the carnal darkened mind of man what this means, yet from
+the very commencement He tells His people that His purpose is that they
+should be like Himself--holy because and as He is holy. To tell me that
+God separates men for Himself to be His, even as He gives Himself to be
+theirs, tells me of a relation that exists, but tells me nothing of the
+real nature of this Holy Being, or of the essential worth of the
+holiness He will communicate to me. Separation is only the setting apart
+and taking possession of the vessel to be cleansed and used; it is the
+filling of it with the precious contents we entrust to it that gives it
+its real value. Holiness is the Divine filling without which the
+separation leaves us empty. Separation is not holiness.
+
+But separation is essential to holiness. 'I have separated you from
+other people, and ye shall be holy.' Until I have chosen out and
+separated a vessel from those around it, and, if need be, cleansed it, I
+cannot fill or use it. I must have it in my hand, full and exclusive
+command of it for the time being, or I will not pour into it the
+precious milk or wine. And just so God separated His people when He
+brought them up out of Egypt, separated them _unto Himself_ when He gave
+them His covenant and His law, that He might have them under His control
+and power, to work out His purpose of making them holy. This He could
+not do until He had them apart, and had wakened in them the
+consciousness that they were His peculiar people, wholly and only His,
+until He had so taught them also to separate themselves to Him.
+Separation is essential to holiness.
+
+The institution of the Nazarite will confirm this, and will also bring
+out very clearly what separation means. Israel was meant to be a holy
+nation. Its holiness was specially typified in its priests. With regard
+to the individual Israelite, we nowhere read in the books of Moses of
+his being holy. But there were ordinances through which the Israelite,
+who would fain prove his desire to be entirely holy, could do so. He
+might separate himself from the ordinary life of the nation around him,
+and live the life of a Nazarite, a separated one. This separation was
+accepted, in those days of shadow and type, as holiness. 'All the days
+of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.'
+
+The separation consisted specially in three things--temperance, in
+abstinence from the fruit of the vine; humiliation, in not cutting or
+shaving his hair ('it is a shame for a man if he have long hair');
+self-sacrifice, in not defiling himself for even father or mother, on
+their death. What we must specially note is that the separation was not
+from things unlawful, but things lawful. There was nothing sinful in
+itself in Abraham living in his father's house, or in Israel dwelling in
+Egypt. It is in giving up, not only what can be proved to be sin, but
+all that may hinder the full intensity of our surrender into God's hands
+to make us holy, that the spirit of separation is manifested.
+
+Let us learn the lessons this truth suggests. We must know _the need_
+for separation. It is no arbitrary demand of God, but has its ground in
+the very nature of things. To separate a thing is to set it free for one
+special use or purpose, that it may with undivided power fulfil the will
+of him who chose it, and so realize its destiny. It is the principle
+that lies at the root of all division of labour; complete separation to
+one branch of study or labour is the way to success and perfection. I
+have before me an oak forest with the trees all shooting up straight and
+close to each other. On the outskirts there is one tree separated from
+his fellows; its heavy trunk and wide-spreading branches prove how its
+being separated, and having a large piece of ground separated to its own
+use, over which roots and branches can spread, is the secret of growth
+and greatness. Our human powers are limited; if God is to take full
+possession, if we are fully to enjoy Him, separation to Him is nothing
+but the simple, natural, indispensable requisite. God wants us all to
+Himself, that He may give Himself all to us.
+
+We must know the _purpose_ of separation. It is to be found in what God
+has said, 'Ye shall be holy unto me, for I the Lord am holy, and have
+separated you from the people, that ye should be MINE.' God has
+separated us _for Himself_ in the deepest sense of the word; that He
+might enter into us, and show forth Himself in us. His holiness is the
+sum and the centre of all His perfections; it is that He may make us
+holy like Himself that He has separated us. Separation never has any
+value in itself; it may become most wrong or hurtful; everything depends
+upon the object proposed. It is as God gets and takes full possession of
+us, as the eternal life in Christ has the mastery of our whole being, as
+the Holy Spirit flows fully and freely through us, so that we dwell in
+God, and God in us, that separation will be, not a thing of ordinances
+and observances, but a spiritual reality. And it is as this purpose of
+God is seen and accepted and followed after, that difficult questions as
+to what we must be separated from, and how much sacrifice separation
+demands, will find an easy answer. God separates from all that does not
+lead us into His holiness and fellowship.
+
+We need, above all, to know _the power_ of separation, the power that
+leads us into it in the spirit of desire and of joy, of liberty and of
+love. The great separating word in human language is the word _Mine_. In
+this we have the great spring of effort and of happiness: in the child
+with its toys, in labour with its gains and rewards, in the patriot who
+dies for his country, it is this _Mine_ that lays its hand on what it
+sets apart from all else. It is the great word that love uses. Be it the
+child that says to its mother, My own mamma, and calls forth the
+response, My own child; the bridegroom who draws the daughter from her
+beloved home and parents to become his; or the Holy God who speaks: 'I
+have separated you from the people, that ye should be _Mine_;' it is
+always with that _Mine_ that love exerts its mighty power, and draws
+from all else to itself. God Himself knows no mightier argument, can put
+forth no more powerful attraction than this, 'that ye should be _Mine_.'
+And the power of separation will come to us, and work in us, just as we
+yield ourselves to study and realize that holy purpose, to listen to and
+appropriate that wondrous _Mine_, to be apprehended and possessed of
+that Almighty Love.
+
+Let us study step by step the wondrous path in which Divine Love does it
+separating work. In redemption it prepares the way. Israel is separated
+from Egypt by the blood of the Lamb and the guiding pillar of fire. In
+its command, 'Come out and be separate,' it wakens man to action; in its
+promises, 'I will be your God,' it stirs desire and strengthens faith.
+In all the holy saints and servants of God, and at last in Him who was
+holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, it points the way. In
+the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, it seals the
+separation by the Presence of the Indwelling God. This is indeed the
+power of separation. _The separating power of the Presence of God_; this
+it is we need to know. 'Wherein now shall it be known that I have found
+grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people?' said Moses: 'is it not in _that
+Thou goest with us_? _so_ shall we be _separated_, I and Thy people,
+from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.' It is the
+consciousness of God's Indwelling Presence, making and keeping us His
+very own, that works the true separateness from the world and its
+spirit, from ourselves and our own will. And it is as this separation is
+accepted and prized and persevered in by us, that the holiness of God
+will enter in and take possession. And we shall realize that to be the
+Lord's property, a people of His own, is infinitely more than merely to
+be accounted or acknowledged as His, that it means nothing less than
+that God, in the power and indwelling of the Holy Ghost, fills our
+being, our affections, and our will with His own life and holiness. He
+separates us for Himself, and sanctifies us to be His dwelling. He comes
+Himself to take personal possession by the indwelling of Christ in the
+heart. And we are then truly separate, and kept separate, by the
+presence of God within us.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O my God! who hast separated me for Thyself, I beseech Thee, by Thy
+mighty power, to make this Divine separation deed and truth to me. May
+within, in the depths of my own spirit, and without, in all my
+intercourse, the crown of separation of my God be upon me.
+
+I pray Thee especially, O my God, to perfect in power the separation
+from self! Let Thy Presence in the indwelling of my Lord Jesus be the
+power that banishes self from the throne. I have turned from it with
+abhorrence; oh, my Father, reveal Thy Son fully in me! it is His
+enthronement in my heart can keep me as Thy own, as Himself takes the
+place of myself.
+
+And give me grace, Lord, in my outward life to wait for a Divine wisdom,
+that I may know to witness, for Thy glory and for what Thy people need,
+to the blessedness of an entire giving up of everything for God, a
+separation that holds back nothing, to be His and His alone.
+
+Holy Lord God! visit Thy people. Oh, withdraw Thou them from the world
+and conformity to it. Separate, Lord, separate Thine own for Thyself.
+Separate, Lord, the wheat from the chaff; separate, as by fire, the gold
+from the dross; that it may be seen who are the Lord's, even His holy
+ones. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Love separates effectually. With what jealousy a husband claims
+     his wife, a mother her children, a miser his possessions! Pray that
+     the Holy Spirit may show how God brought you to Himself, that you
+     should be His. 'He is a holy God; He is a Jealous God.' God's love
+     shed abroad in the heart makes separation easy.
+
+  2. Death separates effectually. If I reckon myself to be indeed
+     dead in Christ, I am separated from self by the power of Christ's
+     death. Life separates still more mightily. As I say, 'Not I, but
+     Christ liveth in me,' I am lifted up out of the life of self.
+
+  3. Separation must be manifest; it is meant as a witness to others
+     and ourselves; it must find expression in the external, if
+     internally it is to be real and strong. It is the characteristic of
+     a symbolic action that it not merely expresses a feeling, but
+     nourishes and strengthens the feeling to which it corresponds. When
+     the soul enters the fellowship of God, it feels the need of
+     external separation, sometimes even from what appears to others
+     harmless. If animated by the spirit of lowly consecration to God,
+     the external may be a great strengthening of the true separateness.
+
+  4. Separation to God and appropriation by Him go together. This has
+     been the blessing that has come to martyrs, confessors,
+     missionaries,--all who have given distinct expression to the
+     forsaking all.
+
+  5. Separation begins in love, and ends in love. The spirit of
+     separation is the spirit of self-sacrifice, of surrender to the
+     love of God; the truly separate one will be the most loving and
+     love-winning, given up to serve God and man. Is not what separates,
+     what distinguishes Jesus from all others, His self-sacrificing
+     love? This is His separateness, in which we are to be made like
+     Him.
+
+  6. God's holiness is His separateness; let us enter into _His_
+     separateness from the world; that will be our holiness. Unite
+     thyself to God. Then art thou separate and holy. God separates for
+     Himself, not by an act from without, but as His Will and Presence
+     take possession of us.
+
+
+    [3] See Note B.
+
+
+
+
+Eleventh Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Holy One of Israel.
+
+  'I am the Lord that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be
+  _your God_; ye shall therefore _be holy_, for _I am holy_. I the
+  Lord which _make you holy, am holy_.'--Lev. xi. 45, xxi. 8.
+
+  'I am the Lord Thy God, _the Holy One of Israel_, Thy Saviour.
+  Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, _the Holy One of Israel_: I am
+  the Lord, _your Holy One_, the Creator of Israel, your
+  King.'--Isa. xliii. 3, 14, 15.
+
+
+In the book of Exodus we found God making provision for the Holiness of
+His people. In the holy times and holy places, holy persons, holy
+things, and holy services, He had taught His people that everything
+around Him, that all that would come near Him, must be holy. He would
+only dwell in the midst of holiness; His people must be a holy people.
+But there is no direct mention of God Himself as holy. In the book of
+Leviticus we are led on a step further. Here first we have God speaking
+of His own holiness, and making it the plea for the holiness of His
+people, as well as its pledge and power. Without this the revelation of
+holiness were incomplete, and the call to holiness powerless. True
+holiness will come to us as we learn that God Himself alone is holy. It
+is He alone makes holy; it is as we come to Himself, and in obedience
+and love are linked to Himself, that His Holiness can rest on us.[4]
+
+From the books of Moses onwards we shall find that the name of God as
+holy is found but seldom in the inspired writings, until we come to
+Isaiah, the evangelist prophet. There it occurs twenty-six times, and
+has its true meaning opened up in the way in which it is linked with the
+name of Saviour and Redeemer. The sentiments of joy and trust and
+praise, with which a redeemed people would look upon their Deliverer,
+are all mentioned in connection with the name of the Holy One. 'Cry
+aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is _the Holy One of
+Israel_ in the midst of thee.' 'The poor among men shall rejoice in _the
+Holy One of Israel_.' 'Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory
+in _the Holy One of Israel_.' In Paradise we saw that God the Creator
+was God the Sanctifier, perfecting the work of His hands. In Israel we
+saw that God the Redeemer was ever God the Sanctifier, making holy the
+people He had chosen for Himself. Here in Isaiah we see how it is God
+the Sanctifier, the Holy One, who is to bring about the great redemption
+of the New Testament: as the Holy One, He is the Redeemer. God redeems
+because He is holy, and loves to make holy: Holiness will be Redemption
+perfected. Redemption and Holiness together are to be found in the
+personal relation to God. The key to the secret of holiness is offered
+to each believer in that word: 'Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, the
+Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your Holy One.' To come near, to
+know, to possess the Holy One, and be possessed of Him, is Holiness.
+
+If God's Holiness is thus the only hope for ours, it is right that we
+seek to know what that Holiness is. And though we may find it indeed to
+be something that passeth knowledge, it will not be in vain to gather up
+what has been revealed in the Word concerning it. Let us do so in the
+spirit of holy fear and worship, trusting to the Holy Spirit to be our
+teacher.
+
+And let us first notice how this Holiness of God, though it is often
+mentioned as one of the Divine attributes, can hardly be counted such,
+on a level with the others. The other attributes all refer to some
+special aspect or characteristic of the Divine Nature; Holiness appears
+to express what is the very essence or perfection of the Divine Being
+Himself. None of the attributes can be predicated of all that belongs to
+God; but Scripture speaks of His Holy Name, His Holy Day, His Holy
+Habitation, His Holy Word. In the word Holy we have the nearest possible
+approach to a summary of all the Divine perfections, the description of
+what Divinity is. We speak of the other attributes as Divine
+perfections, but in this we have the only human expression for the
+Divine Perfection itself. It is for this reason that theologians have
+found such difficulty in framing a definition that can express all the
+word means.[5]
+
+The original Hebrew word, whether derived from a root signifying to
+separate, or another with the idea of shining, expressed the idea of
+something distinguished from others, separate from them by superior
+excellence. God is Separate and different from all that is created,
+keeps Himself separate from all that is not God; as the Holy One He
+maintains His Divine glory and perfection against whatever might
+interfere with it: 'There is none holy, but the Lord;' 'To whom will you
+liken me? or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.' As Holy, God is
+indeed the Incomparable One; Holiness is His alone; there is nothing
+like it in heaven or earth, except when He gives it. And so our holiness
+will consist, not in a human separation in which we attempt to imitate
+God's,--no, but in entering into His separateness; belonging entirely to
+Him; set apart by Him and for Himself.
+
+Closely connected with this is the idea of Exaltation: 'Thus saith the
+High and Holy One, whose name is Holy.' It was the Holy One who was seen
+sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, the object of the worship of
+the seraphim. In Psalm xcix. God's Holiness is specially spoken of in
+connection with His exaltation. For this reason, too, His Holiness is so
+often connected with His Glory and Majesty (see 'Sixth Day'). And here
+our holiness will be seen to be nothing but the poverty and humility
+which comes when 'the loftiness of man is brought low, and the Lord
+alone is exalted.'
+
+If we inquire more closely wherein the infinite excellence of this
+Separateness and Exaltation consists, we are led to think of the Divine
+Purity, and that not only in its negative aspect--as hatred of sin--but
+with the more positive element of perfect beauty. Because we are
+sinners, and the revelation of God's Holiness is in a world of sin, it
+is natural, it is right and meet, that the first, that the abiding
+impression of God's Holiness should be that of an Infinite Purity that
+cannot look upon sin, in whose Presence it becomes the sinner to hide
+his face and tremble. The Righteousness of God, forbidding and
+condemning and punishing sin, has its root in His Holiness, is one of
+its two elements--the devouring and destroying power of the consuming
+fire. 'God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness' (Isa. v. 16); in
+righteousness the Holiness of the Holy One is maintained and revealed.
+But Light not only discovers what is impure, that it may be purified,
+but is in itself a thing of infinite beauty. And so some of our holiest
+men have not hesitated to speak of God's Holiness as the infinite
+Pulchritude or Beauty of the Divine Being, the Perfect Purity and Beauty
+of that Light in which God dwelleth. And if the Holiness of God is to
+become ours, to rest upon us, and enter into us, there must be, without
+ceasing, the holy fear that trembles at the thought of grieving the
+infinite sensitiveness of this Holy One by our sins, and yet side by
+side, and in perfect harmony with it, the deep longing to behold the
+Beauty of the Lord, an admiration of its Divine glory, and a joyful
+surrender to be His alone.
+
+We must go one step further. When God says, 'I am holy: _I make holy_,'
+we see that one of the chief elements of His Holiness is this, that it
+seeks to communicate itself, to make partaker of its own perfection and
+blessedness. This is nought but Love. In the wonderful revelation in
+Isaiah of what the Holy One is to His people, we must beware of
+misreading God's precious Word. It is not said, that _though_ God is the
+Holy One, and hates sin, and ought to punish and destroy, that
+notwithstanding this He will save. By no means. But we are taught that
+_as_ the Holy One, _just because_ He is the Holy One, who delights to
+make holy, He will be the Deliverer of His people. (See Hos. xi. 9.) It
+is Holiness above everything else that we are invited to look to, to
+trust in, to rejoice in. The Holy One is the Holy-making One: He redeems
+and saves that He may win our confidence for Himself, that He may draw
+us to Himself as the Holy One, that in the personal attachment to
+Himself we may learn to obey, to become of one mind with Him, to be holy
+as He is holy.
+
+The Divine Holiness is thus that infinite Perfection of Divinity in
+which Righteousness and Love are in perfect harmony, out of which they
+proceed, and which together they reveal. It is that Energy of the Divine
+life in the power of which God not only keeps Himself free from all
+creature weakness or sin, but unceasingly seeks to lift the creature
+into union with Himself and the full participation of His own purity and
+perfection. The glory of God as God, as the God of Creation and
+Redemption, is His Holiness. It is in this that the Separateness and
+Exaltation of God, even above all thought of man, really consists. 'God
+is Light;' in His infinite Purity He reveals all darkness, and yet has
+no fellowship with it. He judges and condemns it; He saves out of it,
+and lifts up into the fellowship of His own purity and blessedness. This
+is the Holy One of Israel.
+
+It is this God who speaks to us, 'I am the Lord your God: I am holy: I
+make holy.' It is in the adoring contemplation of His Holiness, in the
+trustful surrender to it, in the loving fellowship with Himself, the
+Holy One, that we can be made holy. My brother! would you be holy?
+listen again, and let, in the deep silence of trust, God's words sink
+into your heart--'Your Holy One.' Come to Himself and claim Him as your
+God, and claim all that He, as the Holy One who makes holy, can do for
+you. Just remember that Holiness is Himself. Come to _Him_; worship
+_Him_; give _Him_ the glory. Seek not, even from Him, holiness in
+yourself; let self be abased, and be content that the Holiness is His.
+As _His_ presence fills your heart, as _His_ Holiness and Glory are your
+one desire, as _His_ holy Will and Love are your delight,--as the Holy
+One becomes all in all to you,--you will be holy with the holiness He
+loves to see. And as, to the end, you see nothing to admire in self, and
+only Beauty in Him, you will know that He has laid of His glory on you;
+and your holiness will be found in the song, There is none holy, but the
+Lord.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O God! we have again heard the wonderful revelation of Thyself, 'I am
+holy.' And as we felt how infinitely exalted above all our conceptions
+Thy Holiness is, we heard Thy call, almost still more wonderful, 'Be ye
+holy, as I am holy.' And as every thought of how we were to be holy, as
+Thou art holy, failed us, we heard Thy voice once again, in this most
+wonderful word of all, 'I make you holy.' I am 'your Holy One.'
+
+Most Holy God! we do beseech Thee, give us in some due measure to
+realize how unholy we are, and so to take the place that becomes us in
+Thy presence. Oh that the sinfulness of our nature, and all that is of
+self, may be so discovered to us, that it may be no longer possible to
+live in it! May the Light that reveals this, reveal too, how Thy
+Holiness is our only hope, our sure refuge, our complete deliverance.
+O Lord! speak into our souls the word, 'The Holy One, your Redeemer,'
+'Your Holy One,' with such power by Thy Spirit, that our faith may grow
+into the assured confidence that we can be holy as Thou art holy.
+
+Holy Lord God! we wait for Thee. Reveal Thyself in power within us, and
+fit us to be the messengers of Thy Holiness, to tell Thy people how holy
+Thou art, and how holy we must be, and how holy Thou dost make us. Amen.
+
+
+  1. This Holy One is God Almighty. Before He revealed Himself to
+     Israel as the Holy One, He made Himself known to Abraham as the
+     Almighty, 'who quickeneth the dead.' In all your dealings with
+     God for holiness, remember He is the Almighty One, who can do
+     wonders in you. Say often, 'Glory to Him who is mighty to do
+     exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think.'
+
+  2. This Holy One is the Righteous God, a consuming fire. Cast
+     yourself into it, that all that is sinful may be destroyed. As
+     you lay yourself upon the altar, expect the fire. 'And yield
+     your members unto God as instruments of Righteousness.'
+
+  3. This Holy One is the God of Love. He is your Father; yield
+     yourself to let the Holy Spirit cry in you, Abba Father! that
+     is, to let Him shed abroad and fill your heart with God's
+     father-love. God's Holiness is His fatherliness; our holiness
+     is childlikeness. Be simple, loving, trustful.
+
+  4. This Holy One is God. Let Him be God to you; ruling all,
+     filling all, working all. Worship Him, come near to Him, live
+     with and in and for Him: He will be your holiness.
+
+
+    [4] 'I am the Lord your God; ye shall therefore _make holy_
+        yourselves, and _be holy, for I am holy_' (Lev. xi. 44).
+
+        'I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to
+        be your God: ye shall therefore _be holy, for I am holy_'
+        (Lev. xi. 45).
+
+        'Ye shall _be holy_, for _I the Lord your God am holy_'
+        (Lev. xix. 2).
+
+        '_Make holy_ yourselves therefore, and _be ye holy_, for I am
+        the Lord your God; ye shall keep my statutes and do them: I am
+        the Lord which _make you holy_' (Lev. xx. 7, 8).
+
+        'Ye shall _be holy_ unto me, for _I the Lord am holy_, and have
+        separated you from other people, that ye should be mine'
+        (Lev. xx. 26).
+
+        'The priest shall be _holy_ unto thee, for _I the Lord which
+        make you holy, am holy_' (Lev. xxi. 8).
+
+        'I will be _hallowed_ among the children of Israel; I am the
+        Lord _which make you holy_' (Lev. xxii. 32).
+
+        'I am the Lord _which make them holy_' (Lev. xxi. 15, 23;
+        xxii. 9, 16).
+
+    [5] See Note C for some account of the different definitions that
+        have been given.
+
+
+
+
+Twelfth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Thrice Holy One.
+
+  'I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up. Above Him
+  stood the seraphim. And one cried to another, and said, _Holy,
+  holy, holy_ is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His
+  glory.'--Isa. vi. 1-3.
+
+  'And the four living creatures, they have no rest day and night,
+  saying, _Holy, holy, holy_ is the Lord God, the Almighty, which
+  was, and which is, and which is to come.'--Rev. iv. 8.
+
+
+It is not only on earth, but in heaven too, that the Holiness of God is
+His chief and most glorious attribute. It is not only on earth, but in
+heaven too, that the highest inspiration of adoration and praise makes
+mention of His Holiness. The brightest of living beings, they who are
+ever before and around and above the throne, find their glory in adoring
+and proclaiming the Holiness of God: surely there can be for us no
+higher honour than to study and to know, to worship and adore, to
+proclaim and show forth the glory of the Thrice Holy One.
+
+After Moses, as we know, Isaiah was the chief messenger of the Holiness
+of God. Each had a special preparation for his commission to make known
+the Holy One. Moses saw the Holy One in the fire, and hid his face and
+feared to look upon God, and so was prepared for being His messenger,
+and for praising Him as 'glorious in holiness.' Isaiah, as he heard the
+song of the seraphim, and saw the fire on the altar, and the house
+filled with the smoke, cried out, 'Woe is me.' It was not till, in the
+deep sense of the need of cleansing, he had received the touch of the
+fire and the purging of his sin, that he might bear to Israel the Gospel
+of the Holy One as its Redeemer. May it be in the spirit of fear and
+lowly worship that we listen to the song of the seraphim, and seek to
+know and worship the Thrice Holy One. And may ours too be the cleansing
+with the fire, that we may be found fit to tell God's people that He is
+the Holy One of Israel, their Redeemer.
+
+The threefold repetition of the HOLY has at all times by the Church of
+Christ been connected with the Holy Trinity. The song of the living
+creatures around the throne (Rev. iv.) is evidence of the truth of this
+thought. We there find it followed by the adoration of Him who was, and
+is, and is to come, the Almighty: the Eternal Source, the present
+manifestation in the Son, the future perfecting of the revelation of God
+in the Spirit's work in His Church. The truth of the Holy Trinity is
+often regarded as an abstract doctrine, with little direct bearing on
+practical life. So far is this from being the case, that a living faith
+must root in it: some spiritual insight into the relation and the
+operation of each of the Three, and the reality of their living Oneness,
+is an essential element of true growth in knowledge and spiritual
+understanding.[6] Let us here regard the Trinity specially in its
+relation to God's Holiness and as the source of ours. What does it mean
+that we adore the Thrice Holy One? God is not only holy, but makes holy:
+in the revelation of the Three Persons we have the revelation of the way
+in which God makes holy.
+
+The Trinity teaches us that God has revealed Himself in two ways. The
+Son is _the Form of God_, His manifestation as He shows Himself to man,
+the Image in which His unseen glory is embodied, and to which man is to
+be conformed. The Spirit is _the Power of God_, working in man, and
+leading him up to that Image. In Jesus, He who had been in the form of
+God took the form of man; and the Divine Holiness was literally
+manifested in the form of a human life and the members of a human body.
+A new holy human nature was formed in Christ, to be communicated to us.
+In His death His own personal holiness was perfected as human obedience,
+and so the power of sin conquered and broken. Therefore in the
+resurrection, through the Spirit of Holiness, He was declared to be the
+Son of God with power to impart His life to us. There the Spirit of
+Holiness was set free from the veil of the flesh, the trammels that
+hindered it, and obtained power to enter and dwell in man. The Holy
+Spirit was poured out as the fruit of Resurrection and Ascension. And
+the Spirit is now the Power of God in us, working upwards towards
+Christ, to reproduce His life and Holiness in us, to fit us for fully
+receiving and showing forth Him in our lives. Christ from above comes to
+us as the embodiment of the Unseen Holiness of God: the Spirit from
+within lifts us up to meet Him, and fits us to receive and make our own
+all that is in Him.
+
+The Triune God whom we adore is the Thrice Holy One: the mystery of the
+Trinity is the mystery of Holiness: the Glory and the Power of the
+Trinity is the Glory and Power of God who makes us holy. There is God
+dwelling in light inaccessible, a consuming fire of Holy Love,
+destroying all that resists, glorifying into its own purity all that
+yields. There is the Son, casting Himself into that consuming fire,
+whether in its eternal blessedness in heaven, or its angry wrath on
+earth, a willing sacrifice, to be its food and its satisfaction, as
+well as the revelation of its power to destroy and to save. And there is
+the Spirit of Holiness, the flames of that mighty fire spreading on
+every side, convicting and judging as the Spirit of Burning, and then
+transforming into its own brightness and holiness all that it can reach.
+All the relations of the Three Persons to each other and to us have
+their root and their meaning in the revelation of God as the Holy One.
+As we know and partake of Him, we shall know and partake of Holiness.
+
+And how shall we know Him? Let us learn to know the Holiness of God as
+the seraphs do: in the worship of the Thrice Holy One. Let us with
+veiled faces join in the ceaseless song of adoration: 'Holy, holy, holy
+is the Lord of hosts.' Each time we meditate on the Word, each prayer to
+the Holy God, each act of faith in Christ the Holy One, each exercise of
+waiting dependence on the Holy Spirit, let it be in the spirit of
+worship: Holy, holy, holy. Let us learn to know the Holiness of God as
+Isaiah did. He was to be the chosen messenger to reveal and interpret to
+the people the name, the Holy One of Israel. His preparation was the
+vision that made him cry out, 'Woe is me! for mine eyes have seen the
+King, the Lord of hosts.' Let us bow in silence before the Holy One,
+until our comeliness too be turned into corruption. And then let us
+believe in the cleansing fire from the altar, the touch of the live
+coals of the burning holiness, which not only consumes, but purges lips
+and heart to say, 'Here am I, send me.' Yes, let us worship, whether
+like the adoring seraphim, or like the trembling prophet, until we know
+that our service too is accepted, to tell forth the praise of the Thrice
+Holy One.
+
+Holy, holy, holy: if we are indeed to be the messengers of the Holy One,
+let us seek to enter fully into what this Thrice Holy means. HOLY, the
+Father, _God above us_, High and Lifted up, whom no man hath seen or can
+see, whose Holiness none dare approach, but who doth Himself in His
+Holiness draw nigh to make holy. HOLY, the Son, _God with us_, revealing
+Divine Holiness in human life, maintaining it amid the suffering of
+death for us, and preparing a holy life and nature for His people. HOLY,
+the Spirit, _God in us_, the Power of Holiness within us, reaching out
+to and embracing Christ, and transforming our inner life into the union
+and communion of Him in whom we are holy. Holy, holy, holy! it is all
+holiness. It is only holiness--perfect holiness. This is Divine
+holiness: holiness hidden and unapproachable; holiness manifested and
+maintained in human nature; holiness communicated and made our very own.
+
+The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the mystery of the Christian life,
+the mystery of Holiness. The Three are One, and we need to enter ever
+more deeply into the truth that neither of the Three ever works separate
+or independent of the other. The Son reveals the Father, and the Father
+reveals the Son. The Father gives not Himself, but the Spirit: the
+Spirit speaks not of Himself, but cries Abba Father! The Son is our
+Sanctification, our Life, our All: the fulness is in Him. And yet we
+have ever to bow our knees to the Father for Him to reveal Christ in us,
+for Him to establish us in Christ. And the Father does not this without
+the Spirit: so that we have to ask to be strengthened mightily by the
+Spirit, that Christ may dwell in us. Christ gives the Spirit to them
+that believe and love and obey; the Spirit again gives Christ, formed
+within and dwelling in the heart. And so in each act of worship, and
+each step of growth, and each blessed experience of grace, all the Three
+Persons are actively engaged: the One is ever Three, the Three are ever
+One.
+
+Would you apply this in the life of holiness, let faith in the Holy
+Trinity be a living practical reality. In every prayer to _the Father_
+to sanctify you, take up your position _in Christ_, and do it in the
+power of _the Spirit within you_. In every exercise of faith _in Christ_
+as your Sanctification, let your posture be that of prayer to _the
+Father_ and trust in Him as He delights to honour the Son, and of quiet
+expectancy of _the Spirit's_ working, through whom the Father glorifies
+the Son. In every surrender of the soul to the sanctification of _the
+Spirit_, to His leading as the Spirit of Holiness, look to _the Father_
+who grants His mighty working, and who sanctifies through faith in _the
+Son_, and expect the Spirit's power to manifest itself in showing the
+will of God, and Jesus as your Sanctification. If for a time this
+appears at variance with the simplicity of childlike faith and prayer,
+be assured that as God has thus revealed Himself, He will teach you so
+to worship and believe. And so the Holy, holy, holy will become the deep
+undertone of all our worship and all our life.
+
+Children of God! called to be holy as He is holy, oh, come let us bow
+down and worship in His holy presence! Come and veil the face: withdraw
+eye and mind from gazing on what passes knowledge, and let the soul be
+gathered into that inner stillness, in which the worship of the heavenly
+Sanctuary alone can be heard. Come and cover the feet: withdraw from the
+rush of work and haste, be it worldly or religious, and learn to
+worship. Come, and as you fall down in self-abasement, the glory of the
+Holy One will shine upon you. And as you hear and take up and sing the
+song, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, you will find how in such knowledge and worship
+of the Thrice Holy One is the power that makes you holy.
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God Almighty! which wast, and art, and art to
+come! I worship Thee as the Triune God. With face veiled and feet
+covered, I would bow in deep humility and silence, till Thy mercy lift
+me as on eagles' wings to behold Thy glory.
+
+Most merciful God! who hast called me to be holy as Thou art holy, oh,
+reveal to me somewhat of Thy Holiness! As it shines upon me and strikes
+death into the creature and the flesh, may even the most involuntary
+taint of sin, and its slightest movement, become unbearable. As it
+shines and revives the hope of being partaker of Thy Holiness, may the
+confidence grow strong that Thou Thyself art making me holy, wilt even
+make me a messenger of Thy Holiness.
+
+Thrice Holy God! I worship Thee as my God. HOLY! THE FATHER; holy and
+making holy; making holy His own Son and sending Him into the world,
+that we might behold the very glory of God in a human face, the face of
+Jesus Christ. HOLY! THE SON; the Holy One of God, fulfilling the will of
+the Father, and so making holy Himself that He might be our holiness.
+HOLY! THE SPIRIT; the Spirit of Holiness, dwelling within us, making the
+Son and His Holiness our own, and so making us partakers of the Holiness
+of God. O my God! I bow down, and worship, and adore.
+
+May even now the worship of heaven that rests not day or night be the
+worship my soul renders Thee without ceasing. May its song be, down in
+the depths of the heart, the keynote of my life: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, Lord
+God Almighty! which wast, and art, and art to come. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Thought always needs to distinguish and separate: in life
+     alone there is perfect unity. The more we know the living God,
+     the more we shall realize how truly the Three are One. In each
+     act of One Person the other Two are present. There is not a
+     prayer rises but the Presence of the Holy Three is needed
+     through Christ, in the Spirit, we speak to the Father.
+
+  2. In faith to apprehend this is to have the secret of holiness.
+     The Holy God above us, ever giving and working; the Holy One of
+     God, the living gift, who has possession of us, in whom we are;
+     the Holy Spirit, God within us, through whom the Father works,
+     and the Son is revealed: this is the God who says, I am holy, I
+     make holy. In the perfect unity of the work of the Three,
+     holiness is found.
+
+  3. No wonder that the love of the Father and the grace of the
+     Son do not accomplish more, when the fellowship of the Holy
+     Spirit is little understood or sought or accepted. The Holy
+     Spirit is the fruit and crown of the Divine Revelation, through
+     whom the Son and the Father come to us. If you would know God,
+     if you would be holy, you must be taught and led of the Spirit.
+
+  4. As often as you worship the Thrice Holy One, hearken if no
+     voice be heard: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Let
+     the answer rise, Here am I, send me, and offer yourself to be
+     _a messenger of the holiness of God_ to those around you.
+
+  5. When in meditation and worship you have sought to take in and
+     express what God's word has taught, then comes the time for
+     confessing how you know nothing, and for waiting on God _to
+     reveal Himself_.
+
+
+    [6] The Divine necessity and meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity
+        is seen from the counterpart we have of it in nature. In every
+        living object that exists we distinguish first _the life_, then
+        _the form_ or _shape_ in which that life manifests itself, then
+        _the power_ or _effect_ as seen in the result which the life
+        acting in its form or manifestation produces. And so we have God
+        as the Unseen One, the Fountain of life; the Son as the Form or
+        Image of God, the manifestation of the Unseen Life; and the Holy
+        Spirit as the Power of that life proceeding from the Father and
+        the Son, and working out the purpose of God's will in the
+        Church. Applying this thought to God as the Holy One, we shall
+        understand better the place of the Son and the Spirit as they
+        bring to us the Holiness of God.
+
+
+
+
+Thirteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Humility.
+
+  'Thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
+  name is _Holy_: I dwell in the High and _Holy_ place, with him
+  that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of
+  the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.'--Isa.
+  lvii. 15.
+
+
+Very wonderful is the revelation we have in Isaiah of God, the Holy One,
+as the Redeemer and the Saviour of His people. In the midst of the
+people whom He created and formed for Himself, He will as the Holy One
+dwell, showing forth His power and His glory, filling them with joy and
+gladness. All these promises have, however, reference to the people as a
+whole. Our text to-day reveals a new and specially beautiful feature of
+the Divine Holiness in its relation to the individual. The High and
+Lofty One, whose name is Holy, and whose only fit dwelling-place is
+eternity, He looks to the man who is of a humble and contrite heart;
+with him will He dwell. God's Holiness is His condescending Love. As it
+is a consuming fire against all who exalt themselves before Him, it is
+to the spirit of the humble like the shining of the sun, heart-reviving
+and life-giving.
+
+The deep significance of this promise comes out clearly when we connect
+it with the other promises of New Testament times. The great feature of
+the New Covenant, in its superiority to the old, is this, that whereas
+in the law and its institution all was external, in the New the kingdom
+of God would be within. God's laws given and written into the heart, a
+new spirit put within us, God's own Spirit given to dwell within our
+spirit, and so the heart and the inner life fitted to be the temple and
+home of God; it is this constitutes the peculiar privilege of the
+ministration of the Spirit. Our text is perhaps the only one in the Old
+Testament in which this indwelling of the Holy One, not among the people
+only, but in the heart of the individual believer, is clearly brought
+out. In this the two aspects of the Divine Holiness would reach their
+full manifestation: I dwell in the High and Holy place, and with him
+also that is of a contrite and humble spirit. In His heaven above, the
+high and lofty place, and in our heart, contrite and humble, God has His
+home. God's Holiness is His glory that separates Him by an infinite
+distance, not only from sin, but even from the creature, lifting Him
+high above it. God's Holiness is His Love, drawing Him down to the
+sinner, that He may lift him into His fellowship and likeness, and make
+him holy as He is holy. The Holy One seeks the humble; the humble find
+the Holy One: such are the two lessons we have to learn to-day.
+
+_The Holy One seeks the humble._ There is nothing that has such an
+attraction for God, that has such affinity with holiness, as a contrite
+and humble spirit. The reason is evident. There is no law in the natural
+and the spiritual world more simple, than that two bodies cannot at the
+same moment occupy the same space. Only so much as the new occupant can
+expel of what the space was filled with can it really possess. In man,
+self has possession, and self-will the mastery, and there is no room for
+God. It is simply impossible for God to dwell or rule when self is on
+the throne. As long as, through the blinding influence of sin and
+self-love, even the believer is not truly conscious of the extent to
+which this self-will reigns, there can be no true contrition or
+humility. But as it is discovered by God's Spirit, and the soul sees how
+it has just been self that has been secretly keeping out God, with what
+shame it is broken down, and how it longs to break utterly away from
+self, that God may have His place! It is this brokenness, and continued
+breaking down, that is expressed by the word contrition. And as the soul
+sees what folly and guilt it has been, by its secret honouring of self,
+to keep the Holy One from the place which He alone has a right to, and
+which He would so blessedly have filled, it casts itself down in utter
+self-abasement, with the one desire to be nothing, and to give God the
+place and the praise that is His due.
+
+Such breaking down and humiliation is painful. Its intense reality
+consists in this, that the soul can see nothing in itself to trust or
+hope in. And least of all can it imagine that it should be an object of
+Divine complacency, or a fit vessel for the Divine blessing. And yet
+just this is the message which the Word of the Lord brings to our faith.
+It tells us that the Holy One, who dwells in the High and Lofty place,
+is seeking and preparing for Himself a dwelling here on this earth. It
+tells us, just what the truly contrite and humble never could imagine,
+and even now can hardly believe, that it is even, that it is only, with
+such that He will dwell. These are they in whom God can be glorified, in
+whom there is room for Him to take the place of self and to fill the
+emptied place with Himself. The Holy One seeks the humble. Just when we
+see that there is nothing in us to admire or rest in, God sees in us
+everything to admire and to rest in, because there is room for Himself.
+The lowly one is the home of the Holy One.
+
+_The humble find the Holy One._ Just when the consciousness of sin and
+weakness, and the discovery of how much of self there is, makes you fear
+that you can never be holy, the Holy One gives Himself. Not as you look
+at self, and seek to know whether now you are contrite and humble
+enough--no, but when no longer looking at self, because you have given
+up all hope of seeing anything in it but sin, you look up to the Holy
+One, you will see how His promise is your only hope. It is in faith
+that the Holy One is revealed to the contrite soul. Faith is ever the
+opposite of what we see and feel; it looks to God alone. And it believes
+that in its deepest consciousness of unholiness, and its fear that it
+never can be holy, God, the Holy One, who makes holy, is near as
+Redeemer and Saviour. And it is content to be low, in the consciousness
+of unworthiness and emptiness, and yet to rejoice in the assurance that
+God Himself does take possession and revive the heart of the contrite
+one. Happy the soul who is willing at once to learn the lesson that, all
+along, it is going to be the simultaneous experience of weakness and
+power, of emptiness and filling, of deep, real humiliation, and the as
+real and most wonderful indwelling of the Holy One.
+
+This is indeed the deep mystery of the Divine life. To human reason it
+is a paradox. When Paul says of himself, 'as dying, and behold we live;
+as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as having nothing, yet possessing
+all things,' he only gives expression to the law of the kingdom, that as
+self is displaced and man becomes nothing, God will become all. Side by
+side with deepest sense of nothingness and weakness, the sense of
+infinite riches and the joy unspeakable can fill the heart. However deep
+and blessed the experience becomes of the nearness, the blessing, the
+love, the actual indwelling of the Holy One, it is never an indwelling
+in the old self; it is ever a Divine Presence humbling self to make
+place for God alone to be exalted. The power of Christ's death, the
+fellowship of His cross, works each moment side by side with the power
+and the joy of His resurrection. 'He that humbleth himself shall be
+exalted;' in the blessed life of faith the humiliation and the
+exaltation are simultaneous, each dependent on the other.
+
+The humble find the Holy One; and when they have found, the possession
+only humbles all the more. Not that there is no danger or temptation of
+the flesh exalting itself in the possession, but, once knowing the
+danger, the humble soul seeks for grace to fear continually, with a fear
+that only clings more firmly to God alone. Never for a moment imagine
+that you attain a state in which self or the flesh are absolutely dead.
+No; by faith you enter into and abide in a fellowship with Jesus, in
+whom they are crucified; abiding in Him, you are free from their power,
+but only as you believe, and, in believing, have gone out of self and
+dwell in Jesus. Therefore, the more abundant God's grace becomes, and
+the more blessed the indwelling of the Holy One, keep so much the lower.
+Your danger is greater, but your Help is now nearer: be content in
+trembling to confess the danger, it will make you bold in faith to claim
+the victory.
+
+Believers, who profess to be nothing, and to trust in grace alone, I
+pray you, do listen to the wondrous message. The High and Lofty One,
+whose name is Holy, and who dwells in the Holy Place, and who can dwell
+nowhere but in a Holy Place, seeks a dwelling here on earth. Will you
+give it Him? Will you not fall down in the dust, that He may find in
+you the humble heart He loves to dwell in? Will you not now believe that
+even in you, however low and broken you feel, He doth delight to make
+His dwelling? 'Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the
+Kingdom;' with them the King dwells. Oh, this is the path to holiness!
+be humble, and the holy nearness and presence of God in you will be your
+holiness. As you hear the command, Be holy, as I am holy, let faith
+claim the promise, and answer, I will be holy, O Most Holy God! if Thou,
+the Holy One, wilt dwell with me.
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Lord! Thou art the High and Lofty One, whose Name is Holy. And yet
+Thou speakest, 'I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him that is
+of a contrite and humble spirit.' Yes, Lord! when the soul takes the low
+place, and has low thoughts of itself, that it feels it is nothing, Thou
+dost love to come and comfort, to dwell with it and revive it.
+
+O my God! my creature nothingness humbles me; my many transgressions
+humble me; my innate sinfulness humbles me; but this humbles me most of
+all, Thine infinite condescension, and the ineffable indwelling Thou
+dost vouchsafe. It is Thy Holiness, in Christ bearing our sin, Thy Holy
+Love bearing with our sin, and consenting to dwell in us; O God! it is
+this love that passeth knowledge that humbles me. I do beseech Thee, let
+it do its work, until self hides its head and flees away at the presence
+of Thy glory, and Thou alone art all.
+
+Holy Lord God! I pray Thee to humble me. Didst Thou not of old meet Thy
+servants, and show Thyself unto them until they fell upon their faces
+and feared? Thou knowest, my God! I have no humility which I can bring
+Thee. In my blessed Saviour, who humbled Himself in the form of a
+servant, and unto the death of the cross, I hide myself. In Him, in His
+spirit and likeness, I would live before Thee. Work Thou it in me, by
+the Holy Spirit dwelling in me, and as I am dead to self in Him, and His
+cross makes me nothing, let Thy holy indwelling revive and quicken me.
+Amen.
+
+
+  1. Lowliness and holiness. Keep fast hold of the intimate
+     connection. Lowliness is taking the place that becomes me;
+     holiness, giving God the place that becomes Him. If I be
+     nothing before Him, and God be all to me, I am in the sure path
+     of holiness. Lowliness is holiness, because it gives all the
+     glory to God.
+
+  2. 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
+     heaven.' These first words of the Master when He opened His
+     lips to proclaim the Kingdom, are often the last in the hearts
+     of His disciples. 'The Kingdom is in the Holy Ghost:' to the
+     poor in spirit, those who know they have nothing that is really
+     spiritual, the Holy Spirit comes to be their life. The poor in
+     spirit are the Kingdom of the Saints: in them the Holy Spirit
+     reveals the King.
+
+  3. Many strive hard to be humble with God, but with men they
+     maintain their rights, and nourish self. Remember that the
+     great school of humility before God, is to accept the humbling
+     of man. Christ sanctified Himself in accepting the humiliation
+     and injustice which evil men laid upon Him.
+
+  4. Humility never sees its own beauty, because it refuses to look
+     to itself: It only wonders at the condescension of the Holy
+     God, and rejoices in the humility of Jesus, God's Holy One, our
+     Holy One.
+
+  5. The link between holiness and humility is indwelling. The
+     Lofty One, whose name is Holy, _dwells_ with the contrite one.
+     And where He dwells is _the Holy Place_.
+
+
+
+
+Fourteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Holy One of God.
+
+  'Therefore also that _holy_ thing which shall be born of thee
+  shall be called the Son of God.'--Luke i. 35.
+
+  'We have believed and know that Thou art _the Holy One of
+  God_.'--John vi. 69.
+
+
+'The holy one of the Lord'--only once (Ps. cvi. 16) the expression is
+found in the Old Testament. It is spoken of Aaron, in whom holiness, as
+far as it could then be revealed, had found its most complete
+embodiment. The title waited for its fulfilment in Him who alone, in His
+own person, could perfectly show forth the holiness of God on
+earth--Jesus the Son of the Father. In Him we see holiness, as Divine,
+as human, as our very own.
+
+1. In Him we see wherein that Incomparable Excellence of the Divine
+Nature consists. 'Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest iniquity,
+therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness
+above Thy fellows.' God's infinite hatred of sin, and His maintenance of
+the Right, might appear to have little moral worth, as being a
+necessity of His nature. In the Son we see Divine Holiness tested. He is
+tried and tempted. He suffers, being tempted. He proves that Holiness
+has indeed a moral worth: it is ready to make any sacrifice, yea to give
+up life and cease to be, rather than consent to sin. In giving Himself
+to die, rather than yield to the temptation of sin; in giving Himself to
+die, that the Father's righteous judgment may be honoured; Jesus proved
+how Righteousness is an element of the Divine Holiness, and how the Holy
+One is sanctified in Righteousness.
+
+But this is only one side of Holiness. The fire that consumes also
+purifies: it makes partakers of its own beautiful Light-nature all that
+is capable of assimilation. So Divine Holiness not only maintains its
+own purity; it communicates it too. Herein was Jesus indeed seen to be
+the Holy One of God, that He never said, 'Stand by, for I am holier than
+thou.' His holiness proved itself to be the very incarnation of Him who
+had spoken, 'Thus saith the High and Lofty One, whose Name is Holy: I
+dwell in the High and Holy place, and with him who is of a contrite
+spirit.' In Him was seen the affinity holiness has for all that is lost
+and helpless and sinful. He proved that holiness is not only the energy
+which in holy anger separates itself from all that is impure, but which
+in holy love separates to itself even what is most sinful, to save and
+to bless. In Him we see how the Divine Holiness is the harmony of
+Infinite Righteousness with Infinite Love.
+
+2. Such is the Divine aspect of the character of Christ, as He shows in
+human form what God's Holiness is. But there is another aspect, to us no
+less interesting and important. We not only want to know how God is
+holy, but how man must act to be holy as God is holy. Jesus came to
+teach us that it is possible to be men, and yet to have the life of God
+dwelling in us. We ordinarily think that the glory and the infinite
+Perfection of Deity are the proper setting in which the beauty of
+holiness is to be seen: Jesus proved the perfect adaptation and
+suitability of human nature for showing forth that which is the
+essential glory of Deity. He showed us how, in choosing and doing the
+will of God, and making it his own will, man may truly be holy as God is
+holy.
+
+The value of this aspect of the Incarnation depends upon our realizing
+intensely the true humanity of our Lord. The awful separating and
+purifying process that is ever being carried on in the fiery furnace of
+the Divine Holiness, ever consuming and ever assimilating, we expect to
+see in Him in the struggles of a truly human will. Holiness, to be truly
+human, must not only be a gift, but an acquirement. Coming from God, it
+must be accepted and personally appropriated, in the voluntary surrender
+of all that is not in accordance with it. In Jesus, as He distinctly
+gave up His own will, and did and suffered the Father's will, we have
+the revelation of what human holiness is, and how truly man, through
+the unity of will, can be holy as God is holy.
+
+3. But what avails that we have seen in Jesus that a man can be holy?
+His example were indeed a mockery if He show us not the way, and give us
+not the power, to become like Himself. To bring us this, was indeed the
+supreme object of the Incarnation. The Divine nature of Christ did not
+simply make _His_ humanity partaker of its holiness, leaving Him still
+nothing more than an individual man. His Divinity gave the human
+holiness He wrought out, the holy human nature which He perfected, an
+infinite value and power of communication. With Him a new life, the
+Eternal Life, was grafted into the stem of humanity. For all who believe
+in Him, He sanctified Himself, that they themselves might also be
+sanctified in truth. Because His death was the great triumph of His
+obedience to the will of the Father, it broke for ever the dominion of
+sin, it atoned for our guilt, and won for Him from the Father the power
+to make His people partakers of His own life and holiness. In His
+Resurrection and Ascension the power of the New Life, and its right to
+universal dominion, were made manifest, and He is now in full truth the
+Holy One of God, holding in Himself as Head the power of a Holiness, at
+once Divine and human, to communicate to every member of His body.
+
+THE HOLY ONE OF GOD! in a fulness of meaning that passeth knowledge, in
+spirit and in truth, Jesus now bears this title. He is now the One Holy
+One whom God sees, of such an infinite compass and power of holiness,
+that He can be holiness to each of His brethren. And even as He is to
+God the Holy One, in whom He delights, and for whose sake He delights in
+all who are in Him, so Christ may now be to us too the One Holy One in
+whom we delight, in whom the Holiness of God is become ours. 'We have
+believed and know that Thou art _the Holy One of God_,'--blessed they
+who can say this, and know themselves to be holy in Christ.
+
+In speaking of the mystery of the Holy Trinity, we saw how Christ stands
+midway between the Father and the Spirit, as the point of union in which
+they meet. In the Son, 'the very image of His substance' (Heb. i. 3), we
+have the objective revelation of Deity, the Divine Holiness embodied and
+brought nigh. In the Holy Spirit we have the same revelation
+subjectively, _the Divine Holiness entering our inmost being and
+revealing itself there_. The work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal and
+glorify Christ as the Holy One of God, as He takes of His Holiness and
+makes it ours. He shows us how all is in Christ; how Christ is all for
+us; how we are in Christ; and how, as a living Saviour, Christ through
+His Spirit takes and keeps charge of us and our life of holiness. He
+makes Christ indeed to be to us _the Holy One of God_.
+
+My Brother! wouldst thou be holy, wouldst thou know God's way of
+holiness--learn to know Christ as the Holy One of God. Thou art _in
+Him_, 'holy in Christ.' Thou hast been placed, by an act of Divine
+Power, in Christ, and that same Power keeps thee there, planted and
+rooted in that Divine fulness of life and holiness which there is in
+Him. His Holy Presence, and the power of His eternal life, surround
+thee: let the Holy Spirit reveal this to thee. The Holy Spirit is within
+thee as the power of Christ and His life. Secretly, silently, but
+mightily, if thou wilt look to the Father for His working, will He
+strengthen the faith that thou art in Christ, and that the Divine life,
+which thus encircles thee on every side, will enter in and take
+possession of thee. Study and pray to believe and realize that it is in
+Christ as the Holy One of God, in Christ in whom the Holiness of God is
+prepared for thee as a holy nature and holy living, that thou art, and
+that thou mayest abide.
+
+And then remember, also, that this Christ is thy Saviour, the most
+patient and compassionate of teachers. Study holiness in the light of
+His countenance, looking up into His face. _He came from heaven for the
+very purpose of making thee holy._ His love and power are more than thy
+slowness and sinfulness. Do learn to think of holiness as the
+inheritance prepared for thee, as the power of a new life which Jesus
+waits and lives to dispense. Just think of it as all in Him, and of its
+possession as being dependent upon the possession of Himself. And as the
+disciples, though they scarce understood what they confessed, or knew
+whither the Lord was leading them, became His saints, His holy ones, in
+virtue of their intense attachment to Him, so wilt thou find that to
+love Jesus fervently, and obey Him simply, is the sure path to holiness
+and the fulness of the Holy Spirit.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy Lord God! I do bless Thee that Thy beloved Son, whom Thou
+didst sanctify and send into the world, is now to us _the Holy One of
+God_. I beseech Thee that my inner life may so be enlightened by the
+Spirit that I may in faith fully know what this means.
+
+May I know Him as the revelation of Thy Holiness, the incarnation in
+human nature, even unto the death, of Thine infinite and unconquerable
+hatred of sin, as of Thy amazing love to the sinner. May my soul be
+filled with great fear and trust of Thee.
+
+May I know Him as the exhibition of the Holiness in which we are now to
+walk before Thee. He lived in Thy holy will. May I know Him as He
+wrought out that holiness, to be communicated to us in a new human
+nature, making it possible for us to live a holy life.
+
+May I know Him as Thou hast placed me in Him in heaven, holy in Christ,
+and as I may abide in Him by faith.
+
+May I know Him, as He dwells in me, the Holy One of God on the throne of
+my heart, breathing His Holy Spirit and maintaining His holy rule. So
+shall I live holy in Christ.
+
+O my Father! it pleased Thee that in Thy Son should all the fulness
+dwell. In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; in Him
+dwell the unsearchable riches of grace and holiness. I beseech Thee,
+reveal Him to me, reveal Him in me, that I may not have to satisfy
+myself with thoughts and desires, without the reality, but that in the
+power of an endless life I may know Him, and be known of Him, the Holy
+One of God. Amen.
+
+
+  1. In the holiness of Jesus we see what ours must be:
+     righteousness, that hates sin and gives everything to have it
+     destroyed; love, that seeks the sinner and gives everything to
+     have him saved. 'Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of
+     God, neither he that loveth not his brother.'
+
+  2. It is a solemn thought that we may be studying earnestly to
+     know what holiness is, and yet have little of it, because we
+     have little of Jesus. It is a blessed thought that a man may
+     directly be little occupied with the thought of holiness, and
+     yet have much of it, because he is full of Jesus.
+
+  3. We need the whole of what God teaches in His Word in regard
+     to holiness in all its different aspects. We need still more to
+     be ever returning to the living centre where God imparts
+     holiness. Jesus is _the Holy One of God_: to have _Him_ truly,
+     to love _Him_ fervently, to trust and obey _Him_, to be _in
+     Him_--this makes us holy.
+
+  4. Your holiness is thus treasured up in this Divine, Almighty,
+     and most gentle Saviour--surely there need to be no fear that
+     He will not be ready or able to make you holy.
+
+  5. With such a Sanctifier, how comes it that so many seekers
+     after holiness fail so sadly, and know so little of the joy of
+     a holy life?
+
+     I am sure it is with very many this one thing: they seek to
+     grasp and hold this Christ in their own strength, and know not
+     how it is the Holy Spirit within them who must be waited for to
+     reveal this Divine Being, the Holy One of God, in their hearts.
+
+
+
+
+Fifteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Holy Spirit.
+
+  'But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believed on Him
+  were to receive: for _the Holy Spirit_ was not yet: because Jesus
+  was not yet glorified.'--John vii. 39.
+
+  'The Comforter, even _the Holy Spirit_, whom the Father will send
+  in my name, He shall teach you all things.'--John xiv. 26.
+
+  'God chose you to salvation _in sanctification of the Spirit_, and
+  belief of the truth.'--2 Thess. ii. 13. (See 1 Pet. i. 2.)
+
+
+It has sometimes been said, that while the Holiness of God stands out
+more prominently in the Old Testament, in the New it has to give way to
+the revelation of His love. The remark could hardly be made if it were
+fully realized that the Spirit is God, and that when He takes up the
+epithet Holy as His own proper name, it is to teach us that now the
+Holiness of God is to come nearer than ever, and to be specially
+revealed as the power that makes us holy. In the Holy Spirit, God the
+Holy One of Israel, and He who was the Holy One of God, come nigh for
+the fulfilment of the promise, 'I am the Lord that make you holy.' The
+unseen and unapproachable holiness of God had been revealed and brought
+near in the life of Christ Jesus; all that hindered our participation in
+it had been removed by His death. The name of Holy Spirit teaches us
+that it is specially the Spirit's work to impart it to us and make it
+our own.
+
+Try and realize the meaning of this; the epithet that through the whole
+Old Testament has belonged to the Holy God, is now appropriated to that
+Spirit which is within you. The Holiness of God in Christ becomes
+holiness _in you_, because this Spirit is in you. The words, and the
+Divine realities the words express, _Holy_ and _Spirit_, are now
+inseparably and eternally united. You can only have as much of the
+Spirit as you are willing to have of holiness. You can only have as much
+holiness as you have of the indwelling Spirit.
+
+There are some who pray for the Spirit because they long to have His
+light and joy and strength. And yet their prayers bring little increase
+of blessing or power. It is because they do not rightly know or desire
+Him as the _Holy_ Spirit. His burning purity, His searching and
+convicting light, His making dead of the deeds of the body, of self with
+its will and its power, His leading into the fellowship of Jesus as He
+gave up His will and His life to the Father,--of all this they have not
+thought. The Spirit cannot work in power in them because they receive
+Him not as the _Holy_ Spirit, in _sanctification_ of the Spirit. At
+times, in seasons of revival, as among the Corinthians and Galatians, He
+may indeed come with His gifts and mighty workings, while His
+sanctifying power is but little manifest. (1 Cor. xiv. 4, xiii. 8, iii.
+1-3; Gal. iii. 3, v. 15-26.) But unless that sanctifying power be
+acknowledged and accepted, His gifts will be lost. His gifts coming on
+us are but meant to prepare the way for the sanctifying power within us.
+We must take the lesson to heart; we can have as much of the Spirit as
+we are willing to have of His Holiness. Be full of the Spirit, must mean
+to us, Be fully holy.
+
+The converse is equally true. We can only have so much holiness as we
+have of the Spirit. Some souls do very earnestly seek to be holy, but it
+is very much in their own strength. They will read books and listen to
+addresses most earnestly; they will use every effort to lay hold of
+every thought, and act out every advice. And yet they must confess that
+they are still very much strangers to the true, deep rest and joy and
+power of abiding in Christ, and being holy in Him. They sought for
+holiness more than for the Spirit. They must learn how even all the
+holiness which is so near and clear in Christ, is beyond our reach,
+except as the Holy Spirit dwells within and imparts it. They must learn
+to pray for Him and His mighty strengthening (Eph. iii. 16), to believe
+for Him (John iv. 14, vii. 37), in faith to yield to Him as indwelling
+(1 Cor. iii. 14, vi. 19). They must learn to cease from self-effort in
+thinking and believing, in willing and in running; to hope in God, and
+wait patiently for Him. He will by His Holy Spirit make us holy. Be holy
+means, Be filled with the Spirit.
+
+If we inquire more closely how it is that this Holy Spirit makes holy,
+the answer is,--He reveals and imparts the Holiness of Christ. Scripture
+tells us: Christ is made unto us sanctification. He sanctified Himself
+for us, that we ourselves might also be sanctified in truth. We have
+been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
+for all. We are sanctified in Christ Jesus. The whole living Christ is
+just a treasury of holiness for man. In His life on earth He exchanged
+the Divine Holiness He possessed into the current coin needed for this
+human earthly life, obedience to the Father, and humility, and love, and
+zeal. As God, He has a sufficiency of it for every moment of the life of
+every believer.
+
+And yet, it is all beyond our reach, except as the Holy Spirit brings it
+to us and inwardly communicates it. But this is the very work for which
+He bears the Divine Name, the _Holy_ Spirit, to glorify Jesus, the Holy
+One of God, within us, and so make us partakers of His Holiness. He does
+it by revealing Christ, so that we begin to see what is in Him. He does
+it by discovering the deep unholiness of our nature (Rom. vii. 14-23).
+He does it by mightily strengthening us to believe, to receive Jesus
+Himself as our life. He does it by leading us to utter despair of self,
+to absolute surrender of obedience to Jesus as Lord, to the assured
+confidence of faith in the power of an indwelling Christ. He does it by,
+in the secret silent depths of the heart and life, imparting the
+dispositions and graces of Christ, so that from the inner centre of our
+life, which has been renewed and sanctified in Christ, holiness should
+flow out and pervade all to the utmost circumference. Where the desire
+has once been awakened, and the delight in the law of God after the
+inward man been created, there, as the Spirit of this life in Christ
+Jesus, He makes free from the law of sin and death in the members, he
+leads into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. As God within us, He
+communicates what God in Christ has prepared.
+
+And if we ask once more how the working of this Holy Spirit, who thus
+makes holy, is to be secured, the answer is very simple and clear. He is
+the Spirit of the Holy Father, and of Christ, the Holy One of God: from
+them He must be received. 'He showed me a river of water of life
+proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.' Jesus speaks of 'the
+Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my Name.' He taught us to ask
+the Father. Paul prays for the Ephesians: 'I bow my knees to the Father,
+that He may grant unto you, according to the riches of His glory, that
+ye may be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.' It is
+as we look to God in His Holiness, and all its revelation from Creation
+downward, and see how the Spirit now flows out from the throne of His
+Holiness as the water of life, that our hope will be awakened that God
+will give Him to work mightily in us. And as we then see Jesus revealing
+that holiness in human nature, rending the veil in His atoning death,
+that the Spirit from the Holiest of all may come forth and, as the Holy
+Spirit, be His representative, making Him present within us, we shall
+become confident that faith in Jesus will bring the fulness of the
+Spirit. As He told us to ask the Father, He told us to believe in
+Himself. 'He that believeth in me, rivers of living water shall flow out
+of him.' Let us bow to the Father in the name of Christ, His Son; let us
+believe very simply in the Son as Him in whom we are well-pleasing to
+the Father, and through whom the Father's love and blessing reach us,
+and we may be sure the Spirit, who is already within us, will, as the
+Holy Spirit, do His work in ever-increasing power. The mystery of
+holiness is the mystery of the Trinity: as we bow to the Father,
+believing in the Son, the Holy Spirit will work. And we shall see the
+true meaning of what God spake in Israel: '_I am holy_,' thus speaks the
+Father; '_Be holy_,' as my Son and in my Son; '_I make holy_,' through
+the Spirit of my Son dwelling in you. Let our souls worship and cry out,
+'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.'
+
+The Holy Spirit. All true knowledge of the Father in His adorable
+Holiness, and of the Son in His, which is meant to be ours, and all
+participation of it, depend upon our life in the Spirit, upon our
+knowing and owning Him as abiding in us as our Life. Oh, what can it be
+that, with such a Thrice Holy God, His Holiness does not more cover His
+Church and children? The Holy Spirit is among us, is in us: it must be
+we grieve and resist Him. If _you_ would not do so, at once bow the knee
+to the Father, that He may grant you the Spirit's mighty workings in
+the inner man. Believe that the Holy Spirit, bearer to you of all the
+Holiness of God and of Jesus, is indeed in you. Let Him take the place
+of self, with its thoughts and efforts. Set your soul still before God
+in holy silence, for Him to give you wisdom; rest, in emptiness and
+poverty of spirit, in the faith that He will work in His own way. As
+Divine as is the holiness that Jesus brings, so Divine is the power in
+which the Holy Spirit communicates it. Yield yourself day by day in
+growing dependence and obedience, to wait on and be led of Him. Let the
+fear of the Holy One be on you: sanctify the Lord God in your heart: let
+Him be your fear and dread. Fear not only sin: fear above all self, as
+it thrusts itself in before God with its service. Let self die, in
+refusing and denying its work: let the Holy Spirit, in quietness, and
+dependence, in the surrender of obedience and trust, have the rule, the
+free disposal of every faculty. Wait for Him--He can, He will in power
+reveal and impart the Holiness of the Father and the Son.[7]
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts! the whole earth is full of Thy
+glory! Let that glory fill the heart of Thy child, as he bows before
+Thee. I come now to drink of the river of the water of life that flows
+from under the throne of God and of the Lamb. Glory be to God and to the
+Lamb for the gift that hath not entered into the heart of man to
+conceive--the gift of the Holy indwelling Spirit.
+
+O my Father! in the name of Jesus I ask Thee that I may be strengthened
+with might by Thy Spirit in the inner man. Teach me, I pray Thee, to
+believe that Thou hast given Him, to accept and expect Him to fill and
+rule my whole inner being. Teach me to give up to Him; not to will or to
+run, not to think or to work in my strength, but in quiet confidence to
+wait and to know that He works in me. Teach me what it is to have no
+confidence in the flesh, and to serve Thee in the Spirit. Teach me what
+it is in all things to be led by Thy Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Thy
+Holiness.
+
+And grant, gracious Father, that through Him I may hear Thee speak and
+reveal Thyself to me in power: I AM HOLY. May He glorify to me and in
+me, Jesus, in whom Thy command 'BE HOLY' hath been so blessedly
+fulfilled on my behalf. And let the Holy Spirit give me the anointing
+and the sealing which bring the perfect assurance that in Him Thy
+promise is being gloriously fulfilled, 'I MAKE YOU HOLY.' Amen.
+
+
+  1. It it universally admitted that the Holy Spirit has not, in
+     the teaching of the Church or the faith of believers, that
+     place of honour and power, which becomes Him as the Revealer of
+     the Father and the Son. Seek a deep conviction that without the
+     Holy Spirit the clearest teaching on holiness, the most fervent
+     desires, the most blessed experiences even, will only be
+     temporary, will produce no permanent result, will bring no
+     abiding rest.
+
+  2. The Holy Spirit dwells within, and works within, in the hidden
+     deep of your nature. Seek above everything the clear and
+     habitual assurance that He is within you, doing His work.
+
+  3. To this end, deny self and its work in serving God. Your own
+     power to think and pray and believe and strive--lay it all down
+     expressly and distinctly in God's presence; claim, accept, and
+     believe in the hidden workings of the indwelling Spirit.
+
+  4. As the Son ever spake of the Father, so the Spirit ever points
+     to Christ. The soul that yields itself to the Spirit will of
+     Him learn to know how Christ is our holiness, how we can always
+     abide in Christ our Sanctification. What a vain effort it has
+     often been without the Spirit! '_As the anointing taught you_,
+     ye abide in Him.'
+
+  5. In the temple of thine heart, beloved believer, there is a
+     secret place, within the veil, where dwells, often all unknown,
+     the Spirit of God. Do bow in deep reverence before the Father,
+     and ask that He may work mightily. Expect the Spirit to do His
+     work: He will make Thy inner man a fit home, Thy heart a
+     throne, for Jesus, and reveal Him there.
+
+
+    [7] I cannot say how deeply I feel that one of the great wants of
+        believers is that they do not _know_ the Holy Spirit, who is
+        within them, and thereby lose the blessed life He would work in
+        them. If it please God, I hope that the next volume of this
+        series may be on _The Spirit of Christ_. May the Father give me
+        a message that shall help His children to know what the Holy
+        Spirit can be to them.
+
+
+
+
+Sixteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Truth.
+
+  '_Make them holy_ in _the Truth_: Thy word is _Truth_.'--John
+  xvii. 17.
+
+  'God chose you unto salvation in _sanctification_ and belief of
+  _the Truth_.'--2 Thess. ii. 12.
+
+
+The chief means of sanctification that God uses is His word. And yet how
+much there is of reading and studying, of teaching and preaching the
+word, that has almost no effect in making men holy. It is not the word
+that sanctifies; it is God Himself who alone can sanctify. Nor is it
+simply through the word that God does it, but through the Truth which is
+in the word. As a means the word is of unspeakable value, as the vessel
+which contains the truth, if God use it; as a means it is of no value,
+if God does not use it. Let us strive to connect God's Holy Word with
+the Holy God Himself. God sanctifies in the Truth through His word.
+
+Jesus had just said, 'The words which Thou gavest me, I have given
+them.' Let us try and realize what that means. Think of that great
+transaction in eternity: the Infinite Being, whom we call God, _giving
+His words_ to His Son; in His words opening up His heart, communicating
+His mind and will, revealing Himself and all His purpose and love. In a
+Divine power and reality passing all conception, God gave Christ His
+words. In the same living power Christ gave them to His disciples, all
+full of a Divine life and energy to work in their hearts, as they were
+able to receive them. And just as in the words of a man on earth we
+expect to find all the wisdom or all the goodness there is in him, so
+the word of the Thrice Holy One is all alive with the Holiness of God.
+All the holy fire, alike of His burning zeal and His burning love,
+dwells in His words.
+
+And yet men can handle these words, and study them, and speak them, and
+be entire strangers to their holiness, or their power to make holy. It
+is God Himself, the Holy One, who must make holy through the word. Every
+seed, in which the life of a tree is contained, has around it a husk or
+shell, which protects and hides the inner life. Only where the seed
+finds a place in congenial soil, and the husk is burst and removed, can
+the seed germinate and grow up. And it is only where there is a heart in
+harmony with God's Holiness, longing for it, yielding itself to it, that
+the word will really make holy. It is the heart that is not content with
+the word, but seeks the Living, Holy One in the word, to which He will
+reveal the truth, and in it Himself. It is the word given to us by
+Christ as God gave it Him, and received by us as it was by Him, to rule
+and fill our life, which has power to make holy.
+
+But we must notice very specially how our Saviour says, Sanctify them,
+not in the word, but in the truth. Just as in man there is body, soul,
+and spirit, so in truth too. There is first _word-truth_; a man may have
+the correct form of words while he does not really apprehend the truth
+they contain. Then there is _thought-truth_; there may be a clear
+intellectual apprehension of truth without the experience of its power.
+The Bible speaks of truth as a living reality: this is the _life-truth_,
+in which the very Spirit of the truth we profess has entered and
+possessed our inner being. Christ calls Himself _the Truth_: He is said
+to be full of grace and truth. The Divine life and grace are in Him as
+an actually substantial existence and reality. He not only acts upon us
+by thoughts and motives, but communicates, as a _reality_, the eternal
+life He brought for us from the Father. The Holy Spirit is called the
+Spirit of Truth; what He imparts is all real and actual, the very
+substance of unseen things; He guides into the Truth, not thought-truth
+or doctrine only, but life-truth, the personal possession of the Truth
+as it is in Jesus. As the Spirit of Truth He is the Spirit of Holiness;
+the life of God, which is His Holiness, He brings to us as an actual
+possession.
+
+It is now of this living Truth, which dwells in the word, as the
+seed-life dwells in the husk, that Jesus says, 'Make them holy in the
+Truth: Thy word is Truth.' He would have us mark the intimate
+connection, as well as the wide difference, between the word and the
+truth. The connection is one willed by God and meant to be inseparable.
+'Thy word is truth;' with God they are one. But not with man. Just as
+there were men in close contact and continual intercourse with Jesus, to
+whom He was only a man, and nothing more, so there are Christians who
+know and understand the word, and yet are strangers to its true
+spiritual power. They have the letter but not the spirit; the Truth
+comes to them in word but not in power. The word does not make them
+holy, because they hold it not in Spirit and in Truth. To others, on the
+contrary, who know what it is to receive the truth in the love of it,
+who yield themselves, in all their dealings with the word, to the Spirit
+of Truth who dwells in it and in them too, the word comes indeed as
+Truth, as a Divine reality, communicating and working what it speaks of.
+And it is of such a use of the word that the Saviour says, 'Make them
+holy in the truth: Thy word is truth.' As the words, which God gave Him,
+were all in the power of the eternal Life and Love and Will of God, the
+revelation and communication of the Father's purpose, as God's word was
+Truth to Him and in Him, so it can be in us. And as we thus receive it,
+we are made holy in the Truth.
+
+And what now are the lessons we have to learn here for the path of
+Holiness? The first is: Let us see to it that in all our intercourse
+with God's Blessed Word we rest content with nothing short of the
+experience of it, as truth of God, as spirit and as power. Jesus said,
+'If ye abide in my word, ye shall know the truth.' No analysis can ever
+find or prove the life of a seed: plant it in its proper soil, and the
+growth will testify to the life. It is only as the word of God is
+received in the love of it, as it grows and works in us, that we can
+know its truth, can know that it is the Truth of God. It is as we live
+in the words of Jesus, in love and obedience, keeping and doing them,
+that the Truth from heaven, the Power of the Divine Life which there is
+in them, will unfold itself to us. Christ is the Truth; in Him the love
+and grace, the very life of God, has come to earth as a substantial
+existence, a Living, Mighty Power, something new that was never on earth
+before (John i. 17); let us yield ourselves to the Living Christ to
+possess us and to rule us as the Living Truth, then will God's word be
+Truth to us and in us.
+
+The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of Truth; that actual heavenly
+reality of Divine life and love in Christ, the Truth, has a Spirit, who
+comes to communicate and impart it. Let us beware of trying to study or
+understand or take possession of God's word without that Spirit through
+whom the word was spoken of old; we shall find only the husk, the truth
+or thought and sentiment, very beautiful perhaps, but with no power to
+make us holy. We must have _the Spirit_ of the Truth within us. He will
+lead us _into_ the Truth; when we are in the Truth, God makes us holy in
+it and by it. The Truth must be in us, and we in it. God desires truth
+in the inward parts: we must be of the people of whom Christ says, 'If
+ye were of the truth,' 'he that is of the truth knoweth me.' In the
+lower sphere of daily life and conduct, of thought and action, there
+must be an intense love of truth, and a willingness to sacrifice
+everything for it; in the spiritual life, a deep hungering to have all
+our religion every day, every moment, stand fully in the truth of God.
+It is to the simple, humble, childlike spirit that the truth of the word
+will be unsealed and revealed. In such the Spirit of truth comes to
+dwell. In such, as they daily wait before the Holy One in silence and
+emptiness, in reverence and holy fear, His Holy Spirit works and gives
+the truth within. In thus imparting Christ as revealed in the word, in
+His Divine life and love, as their own life, He makes them holy with the
+holiness of Christ.
+
+There is another lesson. Listen to that prayer, the earthly echo of the
+prayer which He ever liveth to pray, 'Holy Father! make them holy in the
+truth.' Would you be holy, child of God? cast yourself into that mighty
+current of intercession ever flowing into, ever reaching, the Father's
+bosom. Let yourself be borne upon it until your whole soul cries, with
+the unutterable groanings, too deep and too intense for human speech,
+'Holy Father! make me holy in the truth.' As you trust in Christ as the
+truth, the reality of what you long for, and in His all-prevailing
+intercession; as you wait for the Spirit within as the Spirit of truth;
+look up to the Father, and expect His own direct and almighty working to
+make you holy. The mystery of holiness is the mystery of the Triune
+One. The deeper entrance into the holy life rests in the fellowship of
+the Three in One. It is the Father who establishes us in Christ, who
+gives, in a daily fresh giving, the Holy Spirit; it is to the Father,
+the Holy Father, the soul must look up continually in the prayer, 'Make
+me holy in the truth.'
+
+It has been well said that in the word Holy we have the central thought
+of the high-priestly prayer. As the Father's attribute (John xvii. 11),
+as the Son's work for Himself and us (ver. 19), as the direct work of
+the Father through the Spirit (vers. 17, 20), it is the revelation of
+the glory of God in Himself and in us. Let us enter into the Holiest of
+all, and as we bow with our Great High Priest, let the deep, unceasing
+cry go up for all the Church of God, 'Holy Father! make them holy in the
+truth: Thy word is truth.' The word in which God makes holy is summed up
+in this, HOLY IN CHRIST. May God make it truth in us!
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Father! to Israel Thou didst say, I the Lord am holy and make
+holy. But it is only in Thy beloved Son that the full glory of Thy
+Holiness, as making us holy, has been revealed. Thou art our Holy
+Father, who makest us holy in Thy truth.
+
+We thank Thee that Thy Son hath given us the words Thou gavest Him, and
+that as He received them from Thee in life and power, we may receive
+them too. O Father! with our whole heart we do receive them; let the
+Spirit make them truth and life within us. So shall we know Thee as the
+Holy One, consuming the sin, renewing the sinner.
+
+We bless Thee most for Thy Blessed Son, the Holy One of God, the Living
+Word in whom the Truth dwelleth. We thank Thee that in His never-ceasing
+intercession, this cry ever reacheth Thee, 'Father, sanctify them in Thy
+truth,' and that the answer is ever streaming forth from Thy glory. Holy
+Father! make us holy in Thy truth, in Thy wonderful revelation of
+Thyself in Him who is the truth. Let Thy Holy Spirit so have dominion in
+our hearts that Thy Holy Child Jesus, sanctifying Himself for us that we
+may be sanctified in the truth, may be to us the Way, the Truth, and the
+Life. May we know that we are in Him in Thy presence, and that Thy one
+word in answer to our prayer to make us holy is--Holy in Christ. Amen.
+
+
+  1. God is the God of truth--not truth in speaking only, or truth of
+     doctrine--but truth of existence, or life in its Divine reality.
+     And Christ is _the truth_; the actual embodiment of this Divine
+     life. And there is a kingdom of truth, of Divine Spiritual
+     realities, of which Christ is King. And of all this truth of God in
+     Christ, the very essence is, the Spirit. He is the Spirit of truth:
+     He leads us into it, so that we are of the truth and walk in it. Of
+     the truth, the reality there is in God, Holiness, is the deepest
+     root; the Spirit of _truth_ is the _Holy_ Spirit.
+
+  2. It is the work of _the Father_ to make us holy in the truth: let
+     us bow very low in childlike trust as we breathe the prayer: 'Holy
+     Father! make us holy in the truth.' _He will do it._
+
+  3. It is the intercession of _the Son_ that asks and obtains this
+     blessing: let us take our place _in Him_, and rejoice in the
+     assurance of an answer.
+
+  4. It is _the Spirit of truth_ through whom the Father does this
+     work, so that we dwell in the truth, and the truth in us. Let us
+     yield very freely and very fully to the leading of the Spirit, in
+     our intercourse with God's Word, that, as the Son prays, the Father
+     may make us holy in the truth.
+
+  5. Let us, in the light of this work of the Three-One, never read
+     the Word but with this aim: to be made holy in the truth by God.
+
+
+
+
+Seventeenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Crucifixion.
+
+  'For their sakes I _sanctify_ myself, that they themselves also
+  may be _sanctified_ in truth.'--John xvii. 19.
+
+  'He said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. In which will we have been
+  _sanctified_ through the offering of the body of Jesus once for
+  all. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are
+  _sanctified_.'--Heb. x. 9, 10, 14.
+
+
+It was in His High-priestly prayer, on His way to Gethsemane and
+Calvary, that Jesus thus spake to the Father: 'I sanctify myself.' He
+had not long before spoken of Himself as 'the Son whom the Father hath
+sanctified and sent into the world.' From the language of Holy Scripture
+we are familiar with the thought that, what God has sanctified, man has
+to sanctify too. The work of the Father, in sanctifying the Son, is the
+basis and groundwork of the work of the Son in sanctifying Himself. If
+His Holiness as man was to be a free and personal possession, accepted
+and assimilated in voluntary and conscious self-determination, it was
+not enough that the Father sanctify Him: He must sanctify Himself too.
+
+This self-sanctifying of our Lord found place through His whole life,
+but culminates and comes out in special distinctness in His crucifixion.
+Wherein it consists is made clear by the words from the Epistle to the
+Hebrews. The Messiah spake: 'Lo, I come to do Thy will.' And then it is
+added, 'In the which will we have been sanctified through the offering
+of the body of Christ.' It was the offering of the body of Christ that
+was the will of God: in doing that will He sanctified us. It was of the
+doing that will in the offering His body that He spake, 'I sanctify
+myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.' The
+giving up of His will to God's will in the agony of Gethsemane, and then
+the doing of that will in the obedience unto death, this was Christ's
+sanctifying Himself and us too. Let us try and understand this.
+
+The Holiness of God is revealed in His will. Holiness even in the Divine
+Being has no moral value except as it is freely willed. In speaking of
+the Trinity, theologians have pointed out how, as the Father represents
+the absolute necessity of Everlasting Goodness, the Son proves its
+liberty: within the Divine Being it is willed in love. And this now was
+the work of the Son on earth, amid the trials and temptations of a human
+life, to accept and hold fast at any sacrifice, with His whole heart to
+will, the will of the Father. 'Though He was a Son, yet He learned
+obedience in that He suffered.' In Gethsemane the conflict between the
+will of human nature and the Divine will reached its height: it
+manifests itself in language which almost makes us tremble for His
+sinlessness, as He speaks of His will in antithesis to God's will. But
+the struggle is a victory, because in presence of the clearest
+consciousness of what it means to have His own will, He gives it up, and
+says, 'Thy will be done.' To enter into the will of God He gives up His
+very life. In His crucifixion He thus reveals the law of sanctification.
+Holiness is the full entrance of our will into God's will. Or rather,
+Holiness is the entrance of God's will to be the death of our will. The
+only end of our will and deliverance from it, is death to it under the
+righteous judgment of God. It was in the surrender to the death of the
+cross that Christ sanctified Himself, and sanctified us, that we also
+might be sanctified in truth.
+
+And now, just as the Father sanctified Him, and He in virtue thereof
+appropriated it and sanctified Himself, so we, whom He has sanctified,
+have to appropriate it to ourselves. In no other way than crucifixion,
+the giving up of Himself to the death, could Christ realize the
+sanctification He had from the Father. And in no other way can we
+realize the sanctification we have in Him. His own and our
+sanctification bears the common stamp of the cross. We have seen before
+that obedience is the path to holiness. In Christ we see that the path
+to perfect holiness is perfect obedience. And that is obedience unto
+death, even to the giving up of life, even the death of the cross. As
+the sanctification which Christ wrought out for us, even unto the
+offering of His body, bears the death mark, we cannot partake of it, we
+cannot enter it, except as we die to self and its will. Crucifixion is
+the path to sanctification.
+
+This lesson is in harmony with all we have seen. The first revelation of
+God's Holiness to Moses was accompanied with the command, Put off. God's
+praise, as Glorious in Holiness, Fearful in Praises, was sounded over
+the dead bodies of the Egyptians. When Moses on Sinai was commanded to
+sanctify the Mount, it was said, 'If any touch it, man or beast, it
+shall not live.' The Holiness of God is death to all that is in contact
+with sin. Only through death, through blood-shedding, was there access
+to the Holiest of all. Christ chose death, even death as a curse, that
+He might sanctify Himself for us, and open to us the path to Holiness,
+to the Holiest of all, to the Holy One. And so it is still. No man can
+see God and live. It is only in death, the death of self and of nature,
+that we can draw near and behold God. Christ led the way. No man can see
+God and live. 'Then let me die, Lord,' one has cried, 'but see Thee I
+must.' Yes, blessed be God, so real is our interest in Christ and our
+union to Him, that we may live in His death; as day by day self is kept
+in the place of death, the life and the holiness of Christ can be
+ours.[8]
+
+And where is the place of death? And how can the crucifixion which leads
+to Holiness and to God be accomplished in us? Thank God! it is no work
+of our own, no weary process of self-crucifixion. The crucifixion that
+is to sanctify us is an accomplished fact. The cross bears the banner,
+'It is finished.' On it Christ sanctified Himself for us, that we might
+be sanctified in truth. Our crucifixion, as our sanctification, is
+something that in Christ has been completely and perfectly finished. 'We
+have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
+once for all.' 'By one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are
+sanctified.' In that fulness, which it is the Father's good pleasure
+should dwell in Christ, the crucifixion of our old man, of the flesh, of
+the world, of ourselves, is all a spiritual reality; he that desires and
+knows and accepts Christ, fully receives all this in Him. And as the
+Christ, who had previously been known more in His pardoning, quickening,
+and saving grace, is again sought after as a real deliverer from the
+power of sin, as a sanctifier, He comes and takes up the soul into the
+fellowship of the sacrifice of His will. 'He put away sin _by the
+sacrifice of Himself_,' must become true of us as it is of Him. He
+reveals how it is a part of His salvation to make us partakers of a will
+entirely given up to the will of God, of a life that had yielded itself
+to the death, and had then been given back from the dead by the power of
+God, a life of which the crucifixion of self-will was the spirit and the
+power. He reveals this, and the soul that sees it, and consents to it,
+and yields its will and its life, and believes in Jesus as its death and
+its life, and in His crucifixion as its possession and its inheritance,
+enters into the enjoyment and experience of it. The language is now, 'I
+died that I might live: I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no
+longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me.' And the life it now
+lives is by the faith on the Son of God, the daily acceptance in faith
+of Him who lives within us in the power of a death that has been passed
+through and for ever finished.
+
+'I sanctify myself for them, that they themselves also may be sanctified
+in truth.' 'I come to do Thy will, O God. In the which will,' the will
+of God accomplished by Christ, 'we have been sanctified through the one
+offering of the body of Christ.' Let us understand and hold it fast:
+Christ's giving up His will in Gethsemane and accepting God's will in
+dying; Christ's doing that will in the obedience to the death of the
+cross, this is His sanctifying Himself, and this is our being sanctified
+in truth. 'In the which will we have been sanctified.' The death to
+self, the utter and most absolute giving up of our own life, with its
+will and its power and its aims, to the cross, and into the crucifixion
+of Christ, the daily bearing the cross--not a cross on which we are yet
+to be crucified, but the cross of the crucified Christ in its power to
+kill and make dead--this is the secret of the life of holiness--this is
+true sanctification.
+
+Believer! is this the holiness which you are seeking? Have you seen and
+consented that God alone is holy, that self is all unholy, and that
+there is no way to be made holy but for the fire of the Divine Holiness
+to come in and be the death of self? 'Always bearing about in the body
+the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in
+our mortal body'--is the pathway for each one who seeks to be sanctified
+in truth, even as He sanctified Himself; sanctified just like Jesus.
+
+He sanctified Himself for us, that we ourselves also might be sanctified
+in truth. Yes, our sanctification rests and roots in His, in Himself.
+And we are in Him. The secret roots of our being are planted into Jesus:
+deeper down than we can see or feel, there is He our Vine, bearing and
+quickening us. Let us by faith understand that, in a manner and a
+measure which are far beyond our comprehension, intensely Divine and
+real, we are in Him who sanctified Himself for us. Let us dwell there,
+where we have been placed of God. And let us bow our knees to the
+Father, that He would grant us to be mightily strengthened by His
+Spirit, that Christ as our Sanctification may dwell in our hearts, that
+the power of His death and His life may be revealed in us, and God's
+will be done in us as it was in Him.
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy Father! I do bless Thee for this precious blessed word, for this
+precious blessed work of Thy beloved Son. In His never-ceasing
+intercession Thou ever hearest the wonderful prayer, 'I sanctify myself
+for them, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.'
+
+Blessed Father! I beseech Thee to strengthen me mightily by Thy Spirit,
+that in living faith I may be able to accept and live the holiness
+prepared for me in my Lord Jesus. Give me spiritual understanding to
+know what it means that He sanctified Himself, that my sanctification is
+secured in His, that as by faith I abide in Him, its power will cover my
+whole life. Let His sanctification indeed be the law as it is the life
+of mine. Let His surrender to Thy fatherly will, His continual
+dependence and obedience, be its root and its strength. Let His death to
+the world and to sin be its daily rule. Above all, _let Himself_, O my
+Father! _let Himself_, as sanctified for me, the living Jesus, be my
+only trust and stay. He sanctified Himself for me, that I myself also
+may be sanctified in truth.
+
+Beloved Saviour! how shall I rightly bless and love and glorify Thee for
+this wondrous grace! Thou didst give Thyself, so that now I am holy in
+Thee. I give myself, that in Thee I myself may be made holy in truth.
+Amen. Lord Jesus! Amen.
+
+
+  1. 'If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take
+     up his cross, and follow me.' Jesus means that our life shall be
+     the exact counterpart of His, including even the crucifixion. The
+     beginning of such a life is the denial of self, to give Christ its
+     place. The Jews would not deny self, but '_denied_ the Holy One,
+     and killed the Prince of Life.' The choice is still between Christ
+     and self. Let us deny the unholy one, and give him to the death.
+
+  2. The steps in this path are these: First, the deliberate decision
+     that self shall be given up to the death; then, the surrender to
+     Christ crucified to make us partakers of His crucifixion; then,
+     'knowing that our old man is crucified,' the faith that says, 'I am
+     crucified with Christ;' and then, the power to live as a crucified
+     one, to glory in the cross of Christ.
+
+  3. This is God's way of holiness, a Divine mystery, which the Holy
+     Spirit alone can daily maintain in us. Blessed be God, it is the
+     life which a Christian can live, because Christ lives in us.
+
+  4. The central thought is: We are in Christ, who gave up His will
+     and did the will of God. By the Holy Spirit the mind that was in
+     Him is in us, the will of self is crucified, and we live in the
+     will of God.
+
+
+    [8] See Note D.
+
+
+
+
+Eighteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Faith.
+
+  'That they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among
+  them that are _sanctified by faith in me_.'--Acts xxvi. 18.
+
+
+The more we study Scripture in the light of the Holy Spirit, or practise
+the Christian life in His power, the deeper becomes our conviction of
+the unique and central place faith has in God's plan of salvation. And
+we learn, too, to see that it is meet and right that it should be so:
+the very nature of things demands it. Because God is a Spiritual and
+Invisible Being, every revelation of Himself, whether in His works, His
+word, or His Son, calls for faith. Faith is the spiritual sense of the
+soul, being to it what the senses are to the body; by it alone we enter
+into communication and contact with God.
+
+Faith is that meekness of soul which waits in stillness to hear, to
+understand, to accept what God says; to receive, to retain, to possess
+what God gives or works. By faith we allow, we welcome God Himself, the
+Living Person, to enter in to make His abode with us, to become our
+very life. However well we think we know it, we always have to learn the
+truth afresh, for a deeper and fuller application of it, that in the
+Christian life faith is the first thing, the one thing that pleases God,
+and brings blessing to us. And because Holiness is God's highest glory,
+and the highest blessing He has for us, it is especially in the life of
+holiness that we need to live by faith alone.
+
+Our Lord speaks here of 'them that are sanctified by faith in me.'[9] He
+Himself is our Sanctification as He is our Justification: for the one as
+for the other it is faith that God asks, and both are equally given at
+once. The participle used here is not the present, denoting a process or
+work that is being carried on, but the aorist, indicating an act done
+once for all. When we believe in Christ, we receive the whole Christ,
+our justification and our sanctification: we are at once accepted by God
+as righteous in Him, and as holy in Him. God counts and calls us, what
+we really are, sanctified ones in Christ. It is as we are led to see
+what God sees, as our faith grasps that the holy life of Christ is ours
+in actual possession, to be accepted and appropriated for daily use,
+that we shall really be able to live the life God calls us to, the life
+of holy ones in Christ Jesus. We shall then be in the right position in
+which what is called our progressive sanctification can be worked out.
+It will be, the acceptance and application in daily life of the power of
+a holy life which has been prepared in Jesus, which has in the union
+with Him become our present and permanent possession, and which works in
+us according to the measure of our faith.[10]
+
+From this point of view it is evident that faith has a twofold
+operation. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, though _now
+actually existing_, the substance of things hoped for, but _not yet
+present_. It deals with the unseen present, as well as with the unseen
+future. As the evidence of things not seen, it rejoices in Christ our
+complete sanctification, as a present possession. Through faith I simply
+look to what Christ is, as revealed in the Word by the Holy Spirit.
+Claiming all He is as my own, I know that His Holiness, His holy nature
+and life, are mine; I am a holy one: by faith in Him I have been
+sanctified. This is the first aspect of sanctification: it looks to what
+is a complete and finished thing, an absolute reality. As the substance
+of things hoped for, this faith reaches out in the assurance of hope to
+the future, to things I do not yet see or experience, and claims, day by
+day, out of Christ our sanctification, what it needs for practical
+holiness, 'to be holy in all manner of living.' This is the second
+aspect of sanctification: I depend upon Jesus to supply, in personal
+experience, gradually and unceasingly, for the need of each moment,
+what has been treasured up in His fulness. 'Of God are ye in Christ
+Jesus, who of God is made unto us sanctification.' Under its first
+aspect faith says, I know I am in Him, and all His Holiness is mine; in
+its second aspect it speaks, I trust in Him for the grace and the
+strength I need each moment to live a holy life.
+
+And yet, it need hardly be said, these two are one. It is one Jesus who
+is our sanctification, whether we look at it in the light of what He is
+made for us once for all, or what, as the fruit of that, He becomes to
+our experience day by day. And so it is one faith which, the more it
+studies and adores and rejoices in Jesus as made of God unto us
+sanctification, as Him in whom we have been sanctified, becomes the
+bolder to expect the fulfilment of every promise for daily life, and the
+stronger to claim the victory over every sin. Faith in Jesus is the
+secret of a holy life: all holy conduct, all really holy deeds, are the
+fruit of faith in Jesus as our holiness.
+
+We know how faith acts, and what its great hindrances are, in the matter
+of justification. It is well that we remind ourselves that there are the
+same dangers in the exercise of sanctifying as of justifying faith.
+Faith _in God_ stands opposed to trust _in self_: specially to its
+willing and working. Faith is hindered by every effort to do something
+ourselves. Faith looks to God working, and yields itself to His
+strength, as revealed in Christ through the Spirit; it allows God to
+work both to will and to do. Faith must work; without works it is dead,
+by works alone can it be perfected; in Jesus Christ, as Paul says,
+nothing avails but 'faith _working_ by love.' But these works, which
+faith in God's working inspires and performs, are very different from
+the works in which a believer often puts forth his best efforts, only to
+find that he fails. The true life of holiness, the life of them who are
+sanctified in Christ, has its root and its strength in an abiding sense
+of utter impotence, in the deep restfulness which trusts to the working
+of a Divine power and life, in the entire personal surrender to the
+loving Saviour, in that faith which consents to be nothing, that He may
+be all. It may appear impossible to discern or describe the difference
+between the working that is of self and the working that is of Christ
+through faith: if we but know that there is such a difference, if we
+learn to distrust ourselves, and to count on Christ working, the Holy
+Spirit will lead us into this secret of the Lord too. Faith's works are
+Christ's works.
+
+And as by effort, so faith is also hindered by the desire to see and
+feel. 'If thou believest, thou shalt see;' the Holy Spirit will seal our
+faith with a Divine experience; we shall see the glory of God. But this
+is His work: ours is, when all appears dark and cold, in the face of all
+that nature or experience testifies, still each moment to believe in
+Jesus as our all-sufficient sanctification, in whom we are perfected
+before God. Complaints as to want of feeling, as to weakness or
+deadness, seldom profit: it is the soul that refuses to occupy itself
+with itself, either with its own weakness or the strength of the enemy,
+but only looks to what Jesus is, and has promised to do, to whom
+progress in holiness will be a joyful march from victory to victory.
+'The Lord Himself doth fight for you;' this thought, so often repeated
+in connection with Israel's possession of the promised land, is the food
+of faith: in conscious weakness, in presence of mighty enemies, it sings
+the conqueror's song. When God appears to be _not doing_ what we trusted
+Him for, then is just the time for faith to glory in Him.
+
+There is perhaps nothing that more reveals the true character of faith
+than joy and praise. You give a child the promise of a present
+to-morrow: at once it says, Thank you, and is glad. The joyful thanks
+are the proof of how really your promise has entered the heart. You are
+told by a friend of a rich legacy he has left you in his will: it may
+not come true for years, but even now it makes you glad. We have already
+seen what an element of holiness joy is: it is especially an element of
+holiness by faith. Each time I really see how beautiful and how perfect
+God's provision is, by which my holiness is in Jesus, and by which I am
+to allow Him to work in me, my heart ought to rise up in praise and
+thanks. Instead of allowing the thought that it is, after all, a life of
+such difficult attainment and such continual self-denial, this life of
+holiness through faith, we ought to praise Him exceedingly that He has
+made it possible and sure for us: we can be holy, because Jesus the
+Mighty and the Loving One is our holiness. Praise will express our
+faith; praise will prove it; praise will strengthen it. 'Then believed
+they His words; they sang His praise.' Praise will commit us to faith:
+we shall see that we have but one thing to do, to go on in a faith that
+ever trusts and ever praises. It is in a living, loving attachment to
+Jesus, that rejoices in Him, and praises Him continually for what He is
+to us, that faith proves itself, and receives the power of holiness.
+
+'Sanctified by faith in me.' Yes, 'by faith _in Me_:' it is the personal
+living Jesus who offers Himself, Himself in all the riches of His Power
+and Love, as the object, the strength, the life of our faith. He tells
+us that if we would be holy, always and in everything holy, we must just
+see to one thing: to be always and altogether full of faith in Him.
+Faith is the eye of the soul: the power by which we discern the presence
+of the Unseen One, as He comes to give Himself to us. Faith not only
+sees, but appropriates and assimilates: let us set our souls very still
+for the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, to quicken and strengthen that
+faith, for which He has been given us. Faith is surrender: yielding
+ourselves to Jesus to allow Him to do His work in us, giving up
+ourselves to Him to live out His life and work out His will in us, we
+shall find Him giving Himself entirely _to us_, and taking complete
+possession. So faith will be power: the power of obedience to do God's
+will: 'our most holy faith,' 'the faith delivered to the holy ones.'
+And we shall understand how simple, to the single-hearted, is the secret
+of holiness: just Jesus. We are in Him, our Sanctification: He
+personally is our Holiness; and the life of faith in Him, that receives
+and possesses Him, must necessarily be a life of holiness. Jesus says,
+'Sanctified by faith in me.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Beloved Lord! again have I seen, with adoring wonder, what Thou art
+willing to be to me. It is in Thyself, and a life of living fellowship
+with Thyself, that I am to become holy. It is in the simple life of
+personal attachment, of trust and love, of surrender and consecration,
+that Thou dost become my all, and make me partaker of Thyself and Thy
+Holiness.
+
+Blessed Lord Jesus! I do believe in Thee, help Thou mine unbelief. I
+confess what still remains of unbelief, and count on Thy presence to
+conquer and cast it out. My soul is opening up continually to see more
+how Thou Thyself art my Life and my Holiness. Thou art enlarging my
+heart to rejoice in Thyself as my all, and to be assured that Thou dost
+Thyself take possession and fill the temple of my being with Thy glory.
+Thou art teaching me to understand that, however feeble and human and
+disappointing experiences may be, Thy Holy Spirit is the strength of my
+faith, leading me on to grow up into a stronger and a larger confidence
+in Thee in whom I am holy. O my Saviour! I take Thy word this day,
+'Sanctified by faith in me,' as a new revelation of Thy love and its
+purpose with me. In Thee Thyself is the Power of my holiness; in Thee is
+the Power of my faith. Blessed be Thy name that Thou hast given me too a
+place among them of whom Thou speakest: 'Sanctified by faith in me.'
+Amen.
+
+
+  1. Let us remember that it is not only the faith that is dealing
+     specially with Christ for sanctification, but all living faith,
+     that has the power to sanctify. Anything that casts the soul wholly
+     on Jesus, that calls forth intense and simple trust, be it the
+     trial of faith, or the prayer of faith, or the work of faith, helps
+     to make us holy, because it brings us into living contact with the
+     Holy One.
+
+  2. It is only through the Holy Spirit that Christ and His Holiness
+     are day by day revealed and made ours in actual possession. And so
+     the faith which receives Him is of the Spirit too. Yield yourself
+     in simplicity and trust to His working. Do not be afraid, as if you
+     cannot believe: you have 'the Spirit of faith' within you: you have
+     the power to believe. And you may ask God to strengthen you
+     mightily by His Spirit in the inner man, for the faith that
+     receives Christ in the indwelling that knows no break.
+
+  3. I have only so much of faith as I have of the Spirit. Is not
+     this then what I most need--to live entirely under the influence of
+     the Spirit?
+
+  4. Just as the eye in seeing is receptive, and yields to let the
+     object placed before it make its impression, so faith is the
+     impression God makes on the soul when He draws nigh. Was not the
+     faith of Abraham the fruit of God's drawing near and speaking to
+     him, the impression God made on him? Let us be still to gaze on the
+     Divine mystery of Christ our holiness: His Presence, waited for and
+     worshipped, will work the faith. That is, the Spirit that proceeds
+     from Him into those who cling to Him, will be faith.
+
+  5. _Holiness by faith in Jesus_, not by effort of thine own,
+      Sin's dominion crushed and broken _by the power of grace alone_,--
+     _God's own holiness_ within thee, His own beauty on thy brow,--
+      This shall be thy pilgrim brightness, this _thy blessed portion now_.
+
+        F. R. H.
+
+
+    [9] The best commentators connect the expression, 'by faith in me,'
+        not with the word 'sanctified,' but with the whole clause, 'that
+        by faith in me they may receive.' This will, however, in no way
+        affect the application to the word sanctified. Thus read, the
+        text tells us that the remission of sin, and the inheritance,
+        and the sanctification which qualifies for the inheritance, are
+        all received by faith.
+
+   [10] See Note E.
+
+
+
+
+Nineteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Resurrection.
+
+  'The Son of God, who was born of the seed of David _according to
+  the flesh_, who was declared to be the Son of God with power,
+  _according to the Spirit_ of holiness, by the resurrection of the
+  dead.'--Rom. i. 4.
+
+
+These words speak of a twofold birth of Christ. According to the flesh,
+He was born of the seed of David. According to the Spirit, He was the
+first begotten from the dead. As He was a Son of David in virtue of His
+birth through the flesh, so He was declared to be the Son of God with
+power, in virtue of His resurrection-birth through the Spirit of
+holiness. As the life He received through His first birth was a life in
+and after the flesh with its weakness, so the new life He received in
+the resurrection was a life in the power of the Spirit of holiness.
+
+The expression, the Spirit of holiness, is a peculiar one. It is not the
+ordinary word for God's Holiness that is here used as in Heb. xii. 10,
+describing holiness in the abstract as the attribute of an object, but
+another word (also used in 2 Cor. vii. 1 and 1 Thess. iii. 13)
+expressing the habit of holiness in its action--practical holiness or
+sanctity.[11] Paul used this word, because He wished to emphasize the
+thought, that Christ's resurrection was distinctly the result of that
+life of holiness and self-sanctifying which had culminated in His death.
+It was the spirit of the life of holiness which he had lived, in the
+power of which He was raised again. He teaches us that that life and
+death of self-sanctification, in which alone our sanctification stands,
+was the root and ground of His resurrection, and of its declaration that
+He was the Son of God with power, the first begotten from the dead. The
+resurrection was the fruit which that Life of Holiness bore.
+
+And so the Life of Holiness becomes the property of all who are
+partakers of the resurrection. The Resurrection Life and the Spirit of
+Holiness are inseparable. Christ sanctified Himself in death, that we
+ourselves might be sanctified in truth: when in virtue of the Spirit of
+sanctity He was raised from the dead, that Spirit of holiness was proved
+to be the power of Resurrection Life, and the Resurrection Life to be a
+Life of Holiness.
+
+As a believer you have part in this Resurrection Life. You have been
+'begotten again by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.' You
+are 'risen with Christ.' You are commanded 'to reckon yourself to be
+alive unto God in Christ Jesus.' But the life can work in power only as
+you seek to know it, to yield to it, to let it have full possession and
+mastery. And if it is to do this, one of the most important things for
+you to realize is, that as it was in virtue of the Spirit of holiness
+that Christ was raised, so the Spirit of that same holiness must be in
+you the mark and the power of your life. Study to know and possess the
+Spirit of holiness as it was seen in the life of your Lord.
+
+And wherein did it consist? Its secret was, we are told: 'Lo, I am come
+to do Thy will, O God.' 'In the which will,' as done by Christ, 'we have
+been sanctified by the one offering of the body of Jesus Christ.' This
+was Christ's sanctifying Himself, in life and in death; this was what
+the Spirit of holiness wrought in Him; this is what the same Spirit, the
+Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus, will work in us: a life in the will
+of God is a life of holiness. Seek earnestly to grasp this clearly.
+Christ came to reveal what true holiness would be in the conditions of
+human life and weakness. He came to work it out for you, that He might
+communicate it to you by His Spirit. Except you intelligently apprehend
+and heartily accept it, the Spirit cannot work it in you. Do seek with
+your whole heart to take hold of it: the will of God unhesitatingly
+accepted, is the power of holiness.
+
+It is in this that any attempt to be holy as Christ is holy, with and in
+His Holiness, must have its starting-point. Many seek to take single
+portions of the life or image of Christ for imitation, and yet fail
+greatly in others. They have not seen that the self-denial, to which
+Jesus calls, really means the denial of self, in the full meaning of
+that word. In not one single thing is the will of self to be done:
+Jesus, as He did the will of the Father only, must rule, and not self.
+To 'stand perfect and complete in all the will of God' must be the
+purpose, the prayer, the expectation of the disciple. There need be no
+fear that it is not possible to know the will of the Father in
+everything. 'If any man will do, he shall know.' The Father will not
+keep the willing child in ignorance of His will. As the surrender to the
+Spirit of holiness, to Jesus and the dominion of His holy life, becomes
+more simple, sin and self-will will be discovered, the spiritual
+understanding will be opened up, and the law written in the inward parts
+become legible and intelligible. There need be no fear that it is not
+possible to do the will of the Father when it is known. When once the
+grief of failure and sin has driven the believer into the experience of
+Rom. vii., and the 'delight in the law of God after the inward man' has
+proved its earnestness in the cry, 'O wretched man that I am,'
+deliverance will come through Jesus Christ. The Spirit works not only to
+will but to do; where the believer could only complain, 'To perform that
+which is good, I find not,' He gives the strength and song, 'The law of
+the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin
+and death.'
+
+In this faith, that it is possible to know and do the will of God in all
+things, take over from Him, in whom alone you are holy, as your
+life-principle; 'I come to do Thy will, O God.' It is the principle of
+the resurrection life: without it Jesus had never been raised again. It
+is the principle of the new life in you. Accept it; study it; realize
+it; act it out. Many a believer has found that some simple words of
+dedication, expressive of the purpose in everything to do God's will,
+have been an entrance into the joy and power of the resurrection life
+previously unknown. The will of God is the complete expression of His
+moral perfection, His Divine Holiness. To take one's place in the centre
+of that will, to live it out, to be borne and sustained by it, was the
+power of that life of Jesus that could not be held of death, that could
+not but burst out in resurrection glory. What it was to Jesus it will be
+to us.
+
+Holiness is Life: this is the simplest expression of the truth our text
+teaches. There can be no holiness until there be a new life implanted.
+The new life cannot grow and break forth in resurrection power, cannot
+bring forth fruit, but as it grows in holiness. As long as the believer
+is living the mixed life, part in the flesh and part in the spirit, with
+some of self and some of Christ, he seeks in vain for holiness. It is
+the New Life that is the holy life: the full apprehension of it in
+faith, the full surrender to it in conduct, will be the highway of
+holiness. Jesus lived and died and rose again to prepare for us a new
+nature, to be received day by day in the obedience of faith: we 'have
+put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and
+true holiness.' Let the inner life, hid with Christ in God, hid also
+deep in the recesses of our inmost being, be acknowledged, be waited on,
+be yielded to, it will work itself out in all the beauties of holiness.
+
+There is more. This life is not like the life of nature, a blind,
+non-conscious principle, involuntarily working out its ideal in
+unresisting obedience to the law of its being. There is the Spirit of
+the life in Christ Jesus--the Spirit of holiness--the Holy Spirit
+dwelling in us as a Divine Person, entering into fellowship with us, and
+leading us into the fellowship of the Living Christ. It is this fills
+our life with hope and joy. The Risen Saviour breathed the Holy Spirit
+on His disciples: the Spirit brings the Risen One into the field, into
+our hearts, as a personal friend, as a Living Guide and Strengthener.
+The Spirit of holiness is the Spirit, the Presence, and the Power of the
+Living Christ. Jesus said of the Spirit, 'Ye know Him.' Is not our great
+need to know this Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, of His Holiness and
+of ours? How can we 'walk after the Spirit' and follow His leading, if
+we know not Him and His voice and His way?
+
+Let us learn one more lesson from our text. _It is out of the grave of
+the flesh and the will of self that the Spirit of holiness breaks out in
+resurrection power._ We must accept death to the flesh, death to self
+with its willing and working, as the birthplace of our experience of the
+power of the Spirit of holiness. In view of each struggle with sin, in
+each exercise of faith or prayer, we must enter into the death of Jesus,
+the death to self, and as those who say, 'we are not sufficient to think
+anything as of ourselves,' in quiet faith expect the Spirit of Christ to
+do His work. The Spirit will work, strengthening you mightily in the
+inner man, and building up within you an holy temple for the Lord. And
+the time will come, if it has not come to you yet, and it may be nearer
+than you dare hope, when the conscious indwelling of Christ in your
+heart by faith, the full revelation and enthronement of Him as ruler and
+keeper of heart and life, shall have become a personal experience.
+According to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,
+will the Son of God be declared with power in the kingdom that is within
+you.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy Lord God! we do bless Thee that Thou didst raise Thy Son from
+the dead and give Him glory, that our faith and hope might be in Thee.
+Thou didst make His resurrection the power of eternal life in us, and
+now, even as He was raised, so we may walk in newness of life. As the
+Spirit of holiness dwelt and wrought in Him, it dwells and works in us,
+and becomes in us the Spirit of life.
+
+O God! we beseech Thee to perfect Thy work in Thy saints. Give them a
+deeper sense of the holy calling with which Thou hast called them in
+Christ, the Risen One. Give all to accept the Spirit of His life on
+earth, delight in the will of God, as the spirit of their life. May
+those who have never yet fully accepted this be brought to do it, and in
+faith of the power of the new life to say, I accept the will of God as
+my only law. May the Spirit of holiness be the spirit of their lives!
+
+Father! we beseech Thee, let Christ thus, in ever increasing experience
+of His resurrection power, be revealed in our hearts as the Son of God,
+Lord and Ruler within us. Let His life within inspire all the outer
+life, so that in the home and society, in thought and speech and action,
+in religion and in business, His life may shine out from us in the
+beauty of holiness. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Scripture regards the resurrection in two different aspects.
+     In one view, it is the title to the new life, the source of our
+     justification. (Rom. iv. 25, 1 Cor. xv. 17.) In another it is
+     our regeneration, the power of the new life working in us, the
+     source of our sanctification. (Rom. vi. 4; 1 Pet. i. 3.) Pardon
+     and holiness are inseparable; they have the same source, union
+     with the Risen Living Christ.
+
+  2. The blessedness to the disciples of having a Risen Christ
+     was this: He, whom they thought dead, came and _revealed
+     Himself_ to them. Christ lives to reveal Himself to thee and to
+     me; wait on Him, trust Him for this. He will reveal Himself to
+     thee as thy sanctification. See to it that thou hast Him in
+     living possession, and thou hast His Holiness.
+
+  3. The life of Christ is the holiness of Christ. The reason we
+     so often fail in the pursuit of holiness is that the old life,
+     the flesh, in its own strength seeks for holiness as a
+     beautiful garment to wear and enter heaven with. It is the
+     daily death to self out of which the life of Christ rises up.
+
+  4. To die thus, to live thus in Christ, to be holy--how can we
+     attain it? It all comes '_according to the Spirit of
+     holiness_.' Have the Holy Spirit within thee. Say daily, 'I
+     believe in the Holy Ghost.'
+
+  5. _Holy in Christ._ When Christ lives in us, and His mind, as
+     it found expression in His words and work on earth, enters and
+     fills our will and personal consciousness, then our union with
+     Him becomes what He meant it to be. It is the Spirit of His
+     holy conduct, the Spirit of His sanctity, must be in us.
+
+
+   [11] See Note F.
+
+
+
+
+Twentieth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Liberty.
+
+  'Being made _free from sin_, ye became servants of righteousness:
+  now present your members as servants of righteousness _unto
+  sanctification_. Now being made _free from sin_, and become
+  servants unto God, ye have your fruit _unto sanctification_, and
+  the end eternal life.'--Rom. vi. 18, 19, 22.
+
+  'Our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus.'--Gal. ii. 4.
+
+  'With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be
+  not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.'--Gal. v. 1.
+
+
+There is no possession more precious or priceless than liberty. There is
+nothing more inspiring and elevating; nothing, on the other hand, more
+depressing and degrading than slavery. It robs a man of what constitutes
+his manhood, the power of self-decision, self-action, of being and doing
+what he would.
+
+Sin is slavery; the bondage to a foreign power that has obtained the
+mastery over us, and compels often a most reluctant service. The
+redemption of Christ restores our liberty and sets us free from the
+power of sin. If we are truly to live as redeemed ones, we need not only
+to look at the work Christ did to accomplish our redemption, but to
+accept and realize fully how complete, how sure, how absolute the
+liberty is wherewith He hath made us free. It is only as we '_stand
+fast_ in our liberty in Christ Jesus,' that we can have our fruit unto
+sanctification.
+
+It is remarkable how seldom the word _holy_ occurs in the great argument
+of the Epistle to the Romans, and how, where twice used in chap. vi. in
+the expression 'unto sanctification,' it is distinctly set forth as the
+aim and fruit to be reached through a life of righteousness. The twice
+repeated 'unto sanctification,' pointing to a result to be obtained, is
+preceded by a twice repeated 'being made free from sin and become
+servants of righteousness.' It teaches us how the liberty from the power
+of sin and the surrender to the service of righteousness are not yet of
+themselves holiness, but the sure and only path by which it can be
+reached. A true insight and a full entering into our freedom from sin in
+Christ are indispensable to a life of holiness. It was when Israel was
+freed from Pharaoh that God began to reveal Himself as the Holy One: it
+is as we know ourselves 'freed from sin,' delivered from the hand of all
+our enemies, that we shall serve God in righteousness and holiness all
+the days of our life.
+
+'_Being made free from sin_:' to understand this word aright, we must
+beware of a twofold error. We must neither narrow it down to less, nor
+import into it more, than the Holy Spirit means by it here. Paul is
+speaking neither of an imputation nor an experience. We must not limit
+it to being made free from the curse or punishment of sin. The context
+shows that he is speaking, not of our judicial standing, but of a
+spiritual reality, our being in living union with Christ in His death
+and resurrection, and so being entirely taken out from under the
+dominion or power of sin. 'Sin shall not have dominion over you.' Nor is
+he as yet speaking of an experience, that we feel that we are free from
+all sin. He speaks of the great objective fact, Christ's having finally
+delivered us from the power which sin had to compel us to do its will
+and its works, and urges us, in the faith of this glorious fact, boldly
+to refuse to listen to the bidding or temptation of sin. To know our
+liberty which we have in Christ, our freedom from sin's mastery and
+power, is the way to realize it as an experience.
+
+In olden times, when Turks or Moors often made slaves of Christians,
+large sums were frequently paid for the ransom of those who were in
+bondage. But it happened more than once, away in the interior of the
+slave country, that the ransomed ones never got the tidings; the masters
+were only too glad to keep it from them. Others, again, got the tidings,
+but had grown too accustomed to their bondage to rouse themselves for
+the effort of reaching the coast. Slothfulness or hopelessness kept them
+in slavery; they could not believe that they would be able ever in
+safety to reach the land of liberty. The ransom had been paid; in truth
+they were free; and yet in their experience, by reason of ignorance or
+want of courage, they were still in bondage. Christ's redemption has so
+completely made an end of sin and the legal power it had over us,--for
+'the strength of sin is the law,'--that in very deed, in the deepest
+reality, sin has no power to compel our obedience. It is only as we
+allow it again to reign, as we yield ourselves again as its servants,
+that it can exercise the mastery. Satan does his utmost to keep
+believers in ignorance of the completeness of this their freedom from
+his slavery. And because believers are so content with their own
+thoughts of what redemption means, and so little long and plead to see
+it and possess it in its fulness of deliverance and blessing, the
+experience of the extent to which the freedom from sin can be realized
+is so feeble. 'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' It is
+by the Holy Spirit, His light and leading within, humbly watched for and
+yielded to, that this liberty becomes our possession.
+
+In the sixth chapter Paul speaks of freedom from sin, in chap. vii.
+(vers. 3, 4, 6) of freedom from the law, as both being ours in Christ
+and union with Him. In chap. viii. (ver. 2) he speaks of this freedom as
+become ours in experience. He says, 'The law of the Spirit of life in
+Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.' The
+freedom which is ours in Christ, must become ours in personal
+appropriation and enjoyment through the Holy Spirit. The latter depends
+on the former: the fuller the faith, the clearer the insight, the more
+triumphant the glorying in Christ Jesus and the liberty with which He
+has made us free, the speedier and the fuller the entrance into the
+glorious liberty of the children of God. As the liberty is in Christ
+alone, so it is the Spirit of Christ alone that makes it ours in
+practical possession, and keeps us dwelling in it: 'the spirit of the
+life in Christ Jesus _hath made me free_ from the law of sin and death.'
+'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' As the Spirit
+reveals Jesus to us as Lord and Master, the new Master, who alone has
+ought to say over us, and leads us to yield ourselves, to present our
+members, to surrender our whole life to the service of God in Christ,
+our faith in the freedom from sin becomes a consciousness and a
+realization. Believing in the completeness of the redemption, the
+captive goes forth as 'the Lord's freedman.' He knows now that sin has
+no longer power for one moment to command obedience. It may seek to
+assert its old right; it may speak in the tone of authority; it may
+frighten us into fear and submission; power it has none over us, except
+as we, forgetting our freedom, yield to its temptation, and ourselves
+give it power.
+
+We are the Lord's freedmen. 'We have our liberty in Christ Jesus.' In
+Rom. vii. Paul describes the terrible struggles of the soul who still
+seeks to fulfil the law, but finds itself utterly helpless; sold under
+sin, a captive and a slave, without the liberty to do what the whole
+heart desires. But when the Spirit takes the place of the law, the
+complaint, 'O wretched man that I am,' is changed into the song of
+victory: 'I thank God, through Jesus Christ, the law of the Spirit of
+life hath made me free.'
+
+What numberless complaints of insufficient strength to do God's will, of
+unsuccessful effort and disappointed hopes, of continual failure,
+re-echo in a thousand different forms the complaint of the captive, 'O
+wretched man that I am!' Thank God! there is deliverance. 'With freedom
+did Christ set us free! Stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again
+in a yoke of bondage.' Satan is ever seeking to lay on us again the yoke
+either of sin or the law, to beget again the spirit of bondage, as if
+sin or the law with their demands somehow had power over us. It is not
+so: be not entangled; stand fast in the liberty with which Christ has
+made you free. Let us listen to the message: 'Being made free from sin,
+ye became servants unto righteousness; now yield your members servants
+to righteousness _unto sanctification_.' 'Having been made free from
+sin, and having been enslaved unto God, ye have your fruit _unto
+sanctification_.' To be holy, you must be free, perfectly free; free for
+Jesus to rule you, to lead you; free for the Holy Spirit to dispose of
+you, to breathe in you, to work His secret, gentle, but mighty work, so
+that you may grow up unto all the liberty Jesus has won for you. The
+temple could not be sanctified by the indwelling of God, except as it
+was free from every other master and every other use, to be for Him and
+His service alone. The inner temple of our heart cannot be truly and
+fully sanctified, except as we are free from every other master and
+power, from every yoke of bondage, or fear, or doubt, to let His Spirit
+lead us into the perfect liberty which has its fruit in true holiness.
+
+Being made free from sin, having become servants unto righteousness, ye
+have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life everlasting. Freedom,
+Righteousness, Holiness--these are the steps on the way to the coming
+glory. The more deeply we enter by faith into our liberty, which we have
+in Christ, the more joyfully and confidently we present our members to
+God as instruments of righteousness. The God is the Father whose will we
+delight to do, whose service is perfect liberty. The Redeemer is the
+Master, to whom love binds us in willing obedience. The liberty is not
+lawlessness: 'we are delivered from our enemies, that we may serve Him
+in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life.'[12]
+
+The liberty is the condition of the righteousness; and this again of the
+holiness. The doing of God's will leads up into that fellowship, that
+heart sympathy with God Himself, out of which comes that reflection of
+the Divine Presence, which is Holiness. Being made free from sin, being
+made the slaves of righteousness and of God, we have our fruit unto
+holiness, and the end--the fruit of holiness becomes, when ripe, the
+seed of--everlasting life.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most glorious God! I pray Thee to open my eyes to this wonderful liberty
+with which Christ has made me free. May I enter fully into Thy word,
+that sin shall have no dominion over me because I am not under the law
+but under grace. May I know my liberty which I have in Christ Jesus, and
+stand fast in it.
+
+Father! Thy service is perfect liberty: reveal this too to me. Thou art
+the infinitely Free, and Thy will knows no limits but what its own
+perfection has placed. And Thou invitest us into Thy will, that we may
+be free as Thou art. O my God! show me the beauty of Thy will, as it
+frees me from self and from sin, and let it be my only blessedness. Let
+the service of righteousness so be a joy and a strength to me, having
+its fruit unto sanctification, leading me into Thy Holiness.
+
+Blessed Lord Jesus! my Deliverer and my Liberty, I belong to Thee. I
+give myself to Thy will, to know no will but Thine. Master! Thee and
+Thee alone would I serve. I have my liberty in Thee! be Thou my Keeper.
+I cannot stand for one moment out of Thee. In Thee I can stand fast: in
+Thee I put my trust.
+
+Most Holy God! as Thy free, obedient, loving child, Thou wilt make me
+holy. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Liberty is the power to carry out unhindered the impulse of our
+     nature. In Christ the child of God is free from every power
+     that could hinder his acting out the law of his new nature.
+
+  2. This liberty is of faith (Gal. v. 5, 6). By faith in Christ I
+     enter into it, and stand in it.
+
+  3. This liberty is of the Holy Spirit. 'Where the Spirit of the
+     Lord is, there is liberty.' 'If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are
+     not under the law.' A heart filled with the Spirit is made free
+     indeed. But we are not made free that we may do our own will.
+     No, made _free to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit_.
+     'Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.'
+
+  4. This liberty is in love. 'Ye were called for freedom; only use
+     not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love
+     be servants, one to another.' The freedom with which the Son
+     makes free is a freedom to become like Himself, to love and to
+     serve. 'Though I was free from all men, I brought myself under
+     bondage to all, that I might gain the more.' This is the
+     liberty of love.
+
+  5. 'Being made free from sin, ye became _servants of
+     righteousness_ unto sanctification.' 'Let my people go, that
+     they may serve me.' It is only the man that doeth righteousness
+     that can become holy.
+
+  6. This liberty is a thing of joy and singing.
+
+  7. This liberty is the groundwork of holiness. The Redeemer who
+     makes free is God the Holy One. As the Holy Spirit He leads
+     into the full possession of it. To be so free from everything
+     that God can take complete possession, is to be holy.
+
+
+   [12] See Note G.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-first Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Happiness.
+
+  'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.'--Rom. xiv. 17.
+
+  'The disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost.'--Acts
+  xiii. 52.
+
+  'Then Nehemiah said, This day is _holy_ unto the Lord: neither be
+  ye sorry, for the _joy_ of the Lord is your strength. So the
+  Levites stilled the people, saying, Hold your peace; for the day
+  is _holy_; neither be ye grieved. And all the people went their
+  way to make great _mirth_, because they had understood the
+  words.'--Neh. viii. 10-12.
+
+
+The deep significance of joy in the Christian life is hardly understood.
+It is too often regarded as something secondary; whereas its presence is
+essential as the proof that God does indeed satisfy us, and that His
+service is our delight. In our domestic life we do not feel satisfied if
+all the proprieties of deportment are observed, and each does his duty
+to the other; true love makes us happy in each other; as love gives out
+its warmth of affection, gladness is the sunshine that fills the home
+with its brightness. Even in suffering or poverty, the members of a
+loving family are a joy to each other. Without this gladness,
+especially, there is no true obedience on the part of the children. It
+is not the mere fulfilment of a command, or performance of a service,
+that a parent looks to; it is the willing, joyful alacrity with which it
+is done that makes it pleasing.
+
+It is just so in the intercourse of God's children with their Father.
+Even in the effort after a life of consecration and gospel obedience, we
+are continually in danger of coming under the law again, with its, Thou
+shalt. The consequence always is failure. The law only worketh wrath; it
+gives neither life nor strength. It is only as long as we are standing
+in the joy of our Lord, in the joy of our deliverance from sin, in the
+joy of His love, and what He is for us, in the joy of His presence, that
+we have the power to serve and obey. It is only when made free from
+every master, from sin and self and the law, and only when rejoicing in
+this liberty, that we have the power to render service that is
+satisfying either to God or to ourselves. 'I will see you again,' Jesus
+said, 'and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy shall no man take from
+you.' Joy is the evidence and the condition of the abiding personal
+presence of Jesus.
+
+If holiness be the beauty and the glory of the life of faith, it is
+manifest that here especially the element of joy may not be wanting. We
+have already seen how the first mention of God as the Holy One was in
+the song of praise on the shore of the Red Sea; how Hannah and Mary in
+their moments of inspiration praised God as the Holy One; how the name
+of the Thrice Holy in heaven comes to us in the song of the seraphs; and
+how before the throne both the living creatures and the conquering
+multitude who sing the song of the Lamb, adore God as the Holy One. We
+are to 'worship Him in the beauty of holiness,' 'to sing praise at the
+remembrance of His Holiness;' it is only in the spirit of worship and
+praise and joy that we fully can know God as holy. Much more, it is only
+under the inspiration of adoring love and joy that we can ourselves be
+made holy. It is as we cease from all fear and anxiety, from all strain
+and effort, and rest with singing in what Jesus is in His finished work
+as our sanctification, as we rest and rejoice in Him, that we shall be
+made partakers of His Holiness. It is the day of rest, is the day that
+God has blessed, the day of blessing and gladness; and it is the day He
+blessed that is His holy day. Holiness and blessedness are inseparable.
+
+But is not this at variance with the teaching of Scripture and the
+experience of the saints? Are not suffering and sorrow among God's
+chosen means of sanctification? Are not the promises to the broken in
+heart, the poor in spirit, and the mourner? Are not self-denial and the
+forsaking of all we have, the crucifixion with Christ and the dying
+daily, the path to holiness? and is not all this more matter of sorrow
+and pain than of joy and gladness?
+
+The answer will be found in the right apprehension of the life of
+faith. Faith lifts above, and gives possession of, what is the very
+opposite of what we feel or experience. In the Christian life there is
+always a paradox: what appear irreconcilable opposites are found side by
+side at the same moment. Paul expresses it in the words, 'As dying, and,
+behold, we live; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making
+many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.' And elsewhere
+thus, '_When_ I am weak, _then_ am I strong.' The apparent contradiction
+has its reconciliation, not only in the union of the two lives, the
+human and the Divine, in the person of each believer, but specially in
+our being, at one and the same moment, partakers of the death and the
+resurrection of Christ. Christ's death was one of pain and suffering, a
+real and terrible death, a rending asunder of the bonds that united soul
+and body, spirit and flesh. The power of that death works in us: we must
+let it work mightily if we are to live holy; for in that death He
+sanctified Himself, that we ourselves might be sanctified in truth. Our
+holiness is, like His, in the death to our own will, and to all our own
+life. But--this we must seek to grasp--we do not approach death from the
+side from which Christ met it, as an enemy to be conquered, as a
+suffering to be borne, before the new life can be entered on. No, the
+believer who knows what Christ is as the Risen One, approaches death,
+the crucifixion of self and the flesh and the world, from the
+resurrection side, the place of victory, in the power of the Living
+Christ. When we were baptized into Christ, we were baptized into His
+death and resurrection as ours; and Christ Himself, the Risen Living
+Lord, leads us triumphantly into the experience of the power of His
+death. And so, to the believer who truly lives by faith, and seeks not
+in his own strugglings to crucify and mortify the flesh, but knows the
+living Lord, the deep resurrection joy never for a moment forsakes Him,
+but is his strength for what may appear to others to be only painful
+sacrifice and cross-bearing. He says with Paul, 'I glory in the cross
+through which I have been crucified.' He never, as so many do, asks
+Paul's question, 'Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?'
+without sounding the joyful and triumphant answer as a present
+experience, 'I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.' 'Thanks be to
+God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ.' It is the joy of a
+Present Saviour, of the experience of a perfect salvation, the joy of a
+resurrection life, which alone gives the power to enter deeply and fully
+into the death that Christ died, and yield our will and our life to be
+wholly sanctified to God. In the joy of that life, from which the power
+of the death is never absent, it is possible to say with the Apostle
+each moment, 'As dying, and, behold, we live; as sorrowful, yet always
+rejoicing.'
+
+Let us seek to learn the two lessons: Holiness is essential to true
+happiness; happiness essential to true holiness. _Holiness is essential
+to true happiness._ If you would have joy, the fulness of joy, an
+abiding joy which nothing can take away, be holy as God is holy.
+Holiness is blessedness. Nothing can darken or interrupt our joy but
+sin. Whatever be our trial or temptation, the joy of Jesus of which
+Peter says, 'in whom ye now rejoice with joy unspeakable,' can more than
+compensate and outweigh. If we lose our joy, it must be sin. It may be
+an actual transgression, or an unconscious following of self or the
+world; it may be the stain on conscience of something doubtful, or it
+may be unbelief that would live by sight, and thinks more of itself and
+its joy than of the Lord alone: whatever it be, nothing can take away
+our joy but sin. If we would live lives of joy, assuring God and man and
+ourselves that our Lord is everything, is more than all to us, oh, let
+us be holy! Let us glory in Him who is our holiness: in His presence is
+fulness of joy. Let us live in the Kingdom which is joy in the Holy
+Ghost; the Spirit of holiness is the Spirit of joy, because He is the
+Spirit of God. It is the saints, God's holy ones, who will shout for
+joy.
+
+And _happiness is essential to true holiness_. If you would be a holy
+Christian, you must be a happy Christian. Jesus was anointed by God with
+'the oil of gladness,' that He might give us 'the oil of joy.' In all
+our efforts after holiness, the wheels will move heavily if there be not
+the oil of joy; this alone removes all strain and friction, and makes
+the onward progress easy and delightful. Study to understand the Divine
+worth of joy. It is the evidence of your being in the Father's
+presence, and dwelling in His love. It is the proof of your being
+consciously free from the law and the strain of the spirit of bondage.
+It is the token of your freedom from care and responsibility, because
+you are rejoicing in Christ Jesus as your Sanctification, your Keeper,
+and your Strength. It is the secret of spiritual health and strength,
+filling all your service with the childlike happy assurance that the
+Father asks nothing that He does not give strength for, and that He
+accepts all that is done, however feebly, in this spirit. True happiness
+is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As
+the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One,
+through our Lord Jesus Christ, as we lose ourselves in the adoration and
+worship of the Thrice Holy, we become holy. This is, even here in the
+wilderness, 'the Highway of Holiness: the ransomed of the Lord shall
+come with singing; the redeemed shall walk there; everlasting joy shall
+be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness.'
+
+Do all God's children understand this? that holiness is just another
+name, the true name, that God gives for happiness; that it is indeed
+unutterable blessedness to know that God does make us holy, that our
+holiness is in Christ, that Christ's Holy Spirit is within us. There is
+nothing so attractive as joy: have believers understood it that this is
+the joy of the Lord--to be holy? Or is not the idea of strain, and
+sacrifice, and sighing, of difficulty and distance so prominent, that
+the thought of being holy has hardly ever made the heart glad? If it has
+been so, let it be so no longer. 'Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of
+Israel:' let us claim this promise. Let the believing assurance that our
+Loving Father, and our Beloved Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, who in
+dove-like gentleness rests within us, have engaged to do the work, and
+are doing it, fill us with gladness. Let us not seek our joy in what we
+see in ourselves of holiness: let us rejoice in the Holiness of God in
+Christ as ours; let us rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. So shall our
+joy be unspeakable and unceasing; so shall we give Him the glory.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Blessed God! I beseech Thee to reveal to me and to all Thy children
+the secret of rejoicing in Thee, the Holy One of Israel.
+
+Thou seest how much of the service of Thine own dear children is still
+in the spirit of bondage, and how many have never yet believed that the
+Highway of Holiness is one on which they may walk with singing, and
+shall obtain joy and gladness. O Father! teach Thy children to rejoice
+in Thee.
+
+I ask Thee especially to teach us that, in deep poverty of spirit, in
+humility and contrition and utter emptiness, in the consciousness that
+there is no holiness in us, we can sing all the day of Thy Holiness as
+ours, of Thy glory which Thou layest upon us, and which yet all the time
+is Thine alone. O Father! open wide to Thy children the blessed mystery
+of the Kingdom, even the faith which sees all in Christ and nothing in
+itself; which indeed has and rejoices in all in Him; which never has or
+rejoices in ought in itself.
+
+Blessed God, in Thy Word Thou hast said, 'The meek shall increase their
+joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
+Israel.' Oh, give us, by Thy Holy Spirit, in meekness and poverty of
+spirit, to live so in Christ, that His Holiness may be our
+ever-increasing joy, and that in Thyself, the Holy One of Israel, we may
+rejoice all the day. And may all see in us what blessedness it is to
+live as God's holy ones. Amen.
+
+
+  1. The great hindrance to joy in God is expecting to find
+     something in ourselves to rejoice over. At the commencement of
+     this pursuit of holiness we always expect to see a great change
+     wrought in ourselves. As we are led deeper into what faith, and
+     the faith-life is, we understand how, though we do not see the
+     change as we expected, we may yet rejoice with joy unspeakable
+     in what Jesus is. This is the secret of holiness.
+
+  2. Joy must be cultivated. To rejoice is a command more frequently
+     given than we know. It is part of the obedience of faith, to
+     rejoice when we do not feel like doing so. Faith rejoices and
+     sings, because God is holy.
+
+  3. 'Filled with joy and the Holy Ghost,' 'The Kingdom is joy in
+     the Holy Ghost.' The Holy Spirit, the Blessed Spirit of Jesus
+     is within thee, a very fountain of living water, of joy and
+     gladness. Oh, seek to know Him, who dwells in thee, to work all
+     that Jesus has for thee: He will be in thee the Spirit of faith
+     and of joy.
+
+  4. Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting
+     itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the
+     joy of God. 'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.'
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-second Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+In Christ our Sanctification.
+
+  'Of God are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from
+  God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption; that,
+  according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
+  Lord.'--1 Cor. i. 30, 31.
+
+
+These words lead us on now to the very centre of God's revelation of the
+way of holiness. We know the steps of the road leading hither. He is
+holy, and holiness is His. He makes holy by coming near. His presence is
+holiness. In Christ's life, the holiness that had only been revealed in
+symbol, and as a promise of good things to come, had really taken
+possession of a human will, and been made one with true human nature. In
+His death every obstacle had been removed that could prevent the
+transmission of that holy nature to us: Christ had truly become our
+sanctification. In the Holy Spirit the actual communication of that
+holiness took place. And now we want to understand what the work is the
+Holy Spirit does, and how He communicates this holy nature to us: what
+our relation is to Christ as our sanctification, and what the position
+we have to take up toward Him, that in its fulness and its power it may
+do its work for us.
+
+The Divine answer to this question is, 'Of God are ye _in Christ_.' The
+one thing we need to apprehend is, what this our position and life in
+Christ is, and how that position and life may on our part be accepted
+and maintained. Of this we may be sure, that it is not something that is
+high and beyond our reach. There need be no exhausting effort or
+hopeless sighing, 'Who shall ascend into heaven, that is, to bring
+Christ down from above?' It is a life that is meant for the sinful and
+the weary, for the unworthy and the impotent. It is a life that is the
+gift of the Father's love, and that He Himself will reveal in each one
+who comes in childlike trust to Him. It is a life that is meant for our
+every-day life, that in every varying circumstance and situation will
+make and keep us holy.
+
+'Of God are ye _in Christ_.' Ere our Blessed Lord left the world, He
+spake: Lo! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world. And it is
+written of Him: 'He that descended is the same that ascended far above
+all the heavens, that He might fill all things.' 'The Church is His
+body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.' In the Holy Spirit
+the Lord Jesus is with His people here on earth. Though unseen, and not
+in the flesh, His Personal Presence is as real on earth as when He
+walked with His disciples. In regeneration the believer is taken out of
+his old place 'in the flesh;' he is no longer in the flesh, but in the
+spirit (Rom. viii. 9); he is really and actually in Christ. The living
+Christ is around him by His holy Presence. Wherever and whatever he be,
+however ignorant of his position or however unfaithful to it, there he
+is in Christ. By an act of Divine and omnipotent grace, he has been
+planted into Christ, encircled on every side by the Power and the Love
+of Him who filleth all things, whose fulness specially dwells in His
+body here below, the Church.
+
+And how can one who is longing to know Christ fully as his
+sanctification, come to live out what God means and has provided in
+this--'in Christ'? The first thing that must be remembered is that it is
+a thing of faith and not of feeling. The promise of the indwelling and
+the quickening of the Holy One is to the humble and contrite. Just when
+I feel most deeply that I am not holy, and can do nothing to make myself
+holy, when I feel ashamed of myself, just then is the time to turn from
+self and very quietly to say: I am in Christ. Here He is all around me.
+Like the air that surrounds me, like the light that shines on me, here
+is my Lord Jesus with me in His hidden but Divine and most real
+presence. My faith must in quiet rest and trust bow before the Father,
+of whom and by whose Mighty Grace I am in Christ: He will reveal it to
+me with ever-growing clearness and power. He does it as I believe, and
+in believing open my whole soul to receive what is implied in it: the
+sense of sinfulness and unholiness must become the strength of my trust
+and dependence. In such faith I abide in Christ.
+
+But because it is of faith, therefore it is of the Holy Spirit. _Of God_
+are ye _in Christ_. It is not as if God placed and planted us in Christ,
+and left it to us now to maintain the union. No, God is the Eternal One,
+the God of the everlasting life, who works every moment in a power that
+does not for one moment cease. What God gives, He continues with a
+never-ceasing giving. It is He who by the Holy Spirit makes this life in
+Christ a blessed reality in our consciousness. 'We have received the
+Spirit of God that we might _know_ the things that are freely given us
+of God.' Faith is not only dependent on God for the gift it is to
+accept, but for the power to accept. Faith not only needs the Son as its
+filling and its food; it needs the Spirit as its power to receive and
+hold. And so the blessed possession of all that it means to be in Christ
+our sanctification comes as we learn to bow before God in believing
+prayer for the mighty workings of the Spirit, and in the deep childlike
+trust that He will reveal and glorify in us this Christ our
+sanctification in whom we are.
+
+And how will the Spirit reveal this Christ in whom we are? It will
+specially be as the Living One, the Personal Friend and Master. Christ
+is not only our Example and our Ideal. His life is not only an
+atmosphere and an inspiration, as we speak of a man who mightily
+influences us by his writings. Christ is not only a treasury and a
+fulness of grace and power, into which the Spirit is to lead us. But
+Christ is the Living Saviour, with a heart that beats with a love that
+is most tenderly human, and yet Divine. It is in this love He comes
+near, and into this love He receives us, when the Father plants us into
+Him. In the power of a personal love He wishes to exercise influence,
+and to attach us to Himself. In that love of His we have the guarantee
+that His Holiness will enter us; in that love the great power by which
+it enters. As the Spirit reveals to us where we are dwelling, in Christ
+and His love, and that this Christ is a living Lord and Saviour, there
+wakens within us the enthusiasm of a personal attachment, and the
+devotion of a loving allegiance, that make us wholly His. And it becomes
+possible for us to believe that we can be holy: we feel sure that in the
+path of holiness we can go from strength to strength.
+
+Such believing insight into our relation to Christ as being in Him, and
+such personal attachment to Him who has received us into His love and
+keeps us abiding there, becomes the spring of a new obedience. The will
+of God comes to us in the light of Christ's life and His love--each
+command first fulfilled by Him, and then passed on to us as the sure and
+most blessed help to more perfect fellowship with the Father and His
+Holiness. Christ becomes Lord and King in the soul, in the power of the
+Holy Spirit, guiding the will into all the perfect will of God, and
+proving Himself to be its sanctification, as He crowns its obedience
+with ever larger inflow of the Presence and the Holiness of God.
+
+Is there any dear child of God at all disposed to lose heart as he
+thinks of what manner of man he ought to be in all holy living, let me
+call him to take courage. Could God have devised anything more wonderful
+or beautiful for such sinful, impotent creatures? Just think, Christ,
+God's own Son, made to be sanctification to you. The Mighty, Loving,
+Holy Christ, sanctified through suffering that He might have sympathy
+with you, given to make you holy. What more could you desire? Yes, there
+is more: '_Of God you are in Him._' Whether you understand it or not,
+however feebly you realize it, there it is, a thing most Divinely true
+and real. You are in Christ, by an act of God's own Mighty Power. And
+there, in Christ, God Himself longs to establish and confirm you to the
+end. And you have, greatest wonder of all, the Holy Spirit within you to
+teach you to know, and believe, and receive, all that there is in Christ
+for you. And if you will but confess that there is in you no wisdom or
+power for holiness, none at all, and allow Christ, 'the Wisdom of God
+and the Power of God,' by the Holy Spirit within you, to lead you on,
+and prove how completely, how faithfully, how mightily, He can be your
+sanctification, He will do it most gloriously.
+
+O my brother! come and consent more fully to God's way of holiness. Let
+Christ be your sanctification. Not a distant Christ to whom you look,
+but a Christ very near, all around you, in whom you are. Not a Christ
+after the flesh, a Christ of the past, but a present Christ in the power
+of the Holy Ghost. Not a Christ whom you can know by your wisdom, but
+the Christ of God, who is a Spirit, and whom the Spirit within you, as
+you die to the flesh and self, will reveal in power. Not a Christ such
+as your little thoughts can frame a conception of, but a Christ
+according to the greatness of the heart and the love of God. Oh, come
+and accept this Christ, and rejoice in Him! Be content now to leave all
+your feebleness, and foolishness, and faithlessness to Him, in the quiet
+confidence that He will do for you more than you can think. And so let
+it henceforth be, as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in
+the Lord.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Blessed Father! I bow in speechless adoration before the holy
+mystery of Thy Divine Love....
+
+Oh, forgive me, that I have known and believed it so little as it is
+worthy of being known and believed.
+
+Accept my praise for what I have seen and tasted of its Divine
+blessedness. Accept, Lord God! of the praise of a glad and loving heart
+that only knows that it never can praise Thee aright.
+
+And hear my prayer, O my Father! that in the power of Thy Holy Spirit,
+who dwells in me, I may each day accept and live out fully what Thou
+hast given me in Christ my sanctification. May the unsearchable riches
+there are in Him be the daily supply for my every need. May His
+Holiness, His delight in Thy will, indeed become mine. Teach me, above
+all, how this can most surely be, because I am, through the work of
+Thine Almighty Quickening Power, in Him, kept there by Thyself. My
+Father! my faith cries out: I can be holy, blessed be my Lord Jesus!
+
+In this faith I yield myself to Thee, Lord Jesus, my King and Master, to
+do Thy will alone. In everything I do, great or small, I would act as
+one sanctified in Jesus, united to God's will in Him. It is Thou alone
+canst teach me to do this, canst give me strength to perform it. But I
+trust in Thee--art Thou not Christ my sanctification? Blessed Lord! I do
+trust Thee. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Christ, as He lived and died on earth, is our sanctification.
+     His life, the Spirit of His life, is what constitutes our
+     holiness. To be in perfect harmony with Christ, to have His
+     mind, is to be holy.
+
+  2. Christ's Holiness had two sides. God sanctified Him by His
+     Spirit: Christ sanctified Himself by following the leading of
+     the Spirit, by giving up His will to God in everything. So God
+     has made us holy in Christ; and so we follow after and perfect
+     holiness by yielding ourselves to God's Spirit, by giving up
+     our will and living in the will of God.
+
+  3. It is well that we take in every aspect of what God has
+     revealed of holiness in His word. But let us never weary
+     ourselves by seeking to grasp all completely. Let us even
+     return to the simplicity that is in Jesus. To bow at His feet,
+     to believe that He knows all we need, and has it all, and loves
+     to give it all, is rest. And holiness is resting in Jesus the
+     rest of God. Let all our thoughts be gathered up into this one:
+     Jesus, Blessed Jesus.
+
+  4. This holy life in Christ is for to-day, when you read this. For
+     to-day He is made of God unto you sanctification: to-day He
+     will indeed be your holiness. Believe in Him for it; trust Him,
+     praise Him. And remember: _you are in Him_.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-third Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and the Body.
+
+  'The temple of God is _holy_, which temple ye are. _The body_ is
+  for the Lord, and the Lord for _the body_. Know ye not that your
+  _body_ is the temple of _the Holy Ghost_ which is in you;
+  therefore glorify God in your _body_.'--1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 13,
+  19.
+
+  'She that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, that
+  she may be _holy_ both _in body_ and spirit.'--1 Cor. vii. 34.
+
+  'Present your _bodies_ a living sacrifice, _holy_, acceptable to
+  God.'--Rom. xii. 1.
+
+
+Coming into the world, our Blessed Lord spake: '_A body_ didst Thou
+prepare for me; lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.' Leaving this world
+again, it was in His own _body_ that He bore our sins upon the tree. So
+it was in the body, no less than in soul and spirit, that He did the
+will of God. And therefore it is said, 'By which will we have been
+sanctified through the offering _of the body_ of Jesus Christ once for
+all.'
+
+When praying for the Thessalonians and their sanctification, Paul says,
+'And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit
+and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame, at the coming of
+our Lord Jesus Christ.' Of himself he had spoken as 'always bearing
+about _in the body_ the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may
+be manifested _in our body_. For we which live are always delivered unto
+death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested _in
+our mortal flesh_.' His earnest expectation and hope was, 'that Christ
+be magnified _in my body_, whether by life or by death.' The relation
+between body and spirit is so intimate, the power of sin in the spirit
+comes so much through the body, the body is so distinctly the object
+both of Christ's redemption and the Holy Spirit's renewal, that our
+study of holiness will be seriously defective if we do not take in the
+teaching of Scripture on holiness in the body.
+
+It has been well said that the body is, to the soul and spirit dwelling
+and acting within it, like the walls of the city. Through them the enemy
+enters in. In time of war, everything yields to the defence of the
+walls. It is often because the believer does not know the importance of
+keeping the walls defended, keeping the body sanctified, that he fails
+in having the soul and spirit preserved blameless. Or it is because he
+does not understand that the guarding and sanctifying of the body in all
+its parts must be as distinctly a work of faith, and as directly through
+the mighty power of Jesus and the indwelling of the Spirit, as the
+renewing of the inner life, that progress in holiness is so feeble. The
+rule of the city we entrust to Jesus: but the defence of the walls we
+keep in our own hands; the King does not keep us as we expected, and we
+cannot discover the secret of failure. It is the God of peace _Himself_,
+who sanctifies wholly, who must preserve spirit and soul _and body_
+entire and without blame. The tabernacle with its wood, the temple with
+its stone, were as holy as all included within their walls: God's holy
+ones need the body to be holy.
+
+To realize the full meaning of this, let us remember how it was through
+the body sin entered. 'The woman saw that the tree was good for food,'
+this was the temptation in the flesh; through this the soul was reached,
+'it was a delight to the eyes;' through the soul it then passed into the
+spirit, 'and to be desired to make one wise.' In John's description of
+what is in the world (1 John ii. 15), we find the same threefold
+division, 'the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
+life.' And the three temptations of Jesus by Satan correspond exactly:
+he first sought to reach Him through the body, in the suggestion to
+satisfy His hunger by making bread; the second (see Luke iv.) appealed
+to the soul, in the vision of the kingdoms of this world and their
+glory; the third to the spirit, in the call to assert and prove His
+Divine Sonship by casting Himself down. Even to the Son of God the first
+temptation came, as to Adam and all in the world, as lust of the flesh,
+the desire to gratify the natural and lawful appetite of hunger. We
+cannot note too carefully that it was on a question of eating what
+appeared good for food that man's first sin was committed, and that that
+same question of eating to satisfy hunger was the battleground on which
+the Redeemer's first encounter with Satan took place. It is on the
+question of eating and drinking what is good and lawful that more
+Christians than are aware of it are foiled by Satan. To have every
+appetite of the body under the rule and regulation of the Holy Spirit
+appears to some needless, to others too difficult. And yet it must be,
+if the body is to be holy, as God's temple, and we are to glorify Him in
+our body and our spirit. The first approaches of sin are made through
+the body: in the body the complete victory will be gained.
+
+What Scripture teaches as to the intimacy of the connection between the
+body and spirit, physiology confirms. What appear at first merely
+physical transgressions leave a stain and have a degrading influence on
+the soul, and through it drag down the spirit. And on the other side,
+spiritual sins, sins of thought and imagination and disposition, pass
+through the soul into the body, fix themselves in the nervous
+constitution, and express themselves even in the countenance and the
+habits or tendencies of the body. Sin must be combated not only in the
+region of the spirit: if we are to perfect holiness, we must cleanse
+ourselves from all defilement of flesh _and_ spirit. 'If through the
+Spirit ye do make dead the deeds of _the body_, ye shall live.' If we
+are indeed to be cleansed from sin and made holy unto God, the body, as
+the outworks, must very specially be secured from the power of Satan
+and of sin.
+
+And how is this to be done? God has made very special provision for
+this. Holy Scripture speaks so explicitly of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit
+that communicates holiness, in connection with the body. At first sight
+it looks as if the word, your bodies, were simply used as equivalent to,
+your persons, yourselves. But as the deeper insight into the power of
+sin in the body, and the need of a deliverance specially there, quickens
+our perception, we see what is meant by the body being the temple of the
+Holy Spirit. We notice how very specially it is of sins in the body that
+Paul speaks as defiling God's holy temple; and how it is through the
+power of the Holy Ghost in the body that he would have us glorify God.
+'Know ye not that _your body_ is the temple of the Holy Ghost: glorify
+God therefore, in the power of the Holy Spirit, in _your body_.' The
+Holy Spirit must not only exercise a restraining and regulating
+influence on the appetites of the body and their gratification, so that
+they be in moderation and temperance,--this is only the negative
+side,--but there must be a positively spiritual element, making the
+exercise of natural functions a service of holy joy and liberty to the
+glory of God; no longer a threatened hindrance to the life of obedience
+and fellowship, but a means of grace, a real help to the spiritual life.
+It is only in a body that is full of the holy life, very entirely
+possessed of God's Spirit, that this will be the case.
+
+And how can this be obtained? In the true Christian life, self-denial is
+the path to enjoyment, renunciation to possession, death to life. As
+long as there is ought that we think we have liberty and power to use or
+enjoy aright, if we but do so in moderation, we have not yet seen or
+confessed our own unholiness, or the need of the entire renewing of the
+Holy Spirit. It is not enough to say, 'Every creature of God is good, if
+it be received with thanksgiving;' we must remember the addition, 'for
+it is sanctified by the word and by prayer.' This sanctifying of every
+creature and its use is a thing as real and solemn as the sanctifying of
+ourselves. And this will only be where, if need be, we sacrifice the
+gift and the liberty to use it, until God gives us the power truly to
+use it to His glory alone. Of one of the most sacred of Divine
+institutions, marriage, Paul, who so denounces those who would forbid to
+marry, says distinctly that there may be cases in which a voluntary
+celibacy may be the surest and acceptable way of being 'holy both in
+body and spirit.' When to be holy as God is holy indeed becomes the
+great desire and aim of life, everything will be cherished or given up
+as it promotes the chief end. The actual and active presence of the Holy
+Spirit in the life of the body will be the fire that is kept burning
+continually on the altar.
+
+And how is this to be attained? Of the body as of the spirit it is God,
+God in Christ, who is our Keeper and our Sanctifier. The guarding of
+the walls of the city must be entrusted to Him who rules within. 'I am
+persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit,' to keep that which I
+have committed to Him, must become as definitely true of the body, and
+of each of its functions of which we are conscious that it is the
+occasion of doubt or of stumbling, as it has been of the soul we
+entrusted to Him for salvation. A fixed deposit in a bank is money given
+away out of my hands to be kept there: the body or any part of it that
+needs to be made holy must be a deposit with Jesus. Faith must trust His
+acceptance and guarding of it; prayer and praise must daily afresh renew
+the assurance, must confirm the committal of the deposit, and maintain
+the fellowship with Jesus. Abiding thus in Him and His Holiness, we
+shall receive, in a life of trust and joy, the power to prove, even in
+the body, how fully and wholly we are in Him who is made unto us
+sanctification, how real and true the Holiness of God is in His people.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Lord! who art my sanctification, I come to Thee now with a very
+special request. O Thou who didst in Thine own body bear our sins on the
+tree, and of whom it is written, 'We have been sanctified through the
+offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all,' be pleased to reveal
+to me how my body may to the full experience the power of Thy wonderful
+redemption. I do desire in soul and body to be holy to the Lord.
+
+Lord! I have too little understood that my body is the temple of the
+Holy Ghost, that there is nothing in it that can be matter of
+indifference, that its every state and function is to be holiness to the
+Lord. And where I saw that this should be so, I have still sought myself
+to guard from the enemy's approaches these the walls of the city. I
+forgot how this part of my being too could alone be kept and sanctified
+by faith, by Thy taking and keeping charge of what faith entrusted to
+Thee.
+
+Lord Jesus! I come now to surrender this body with all its needs into
+Thy hands. In weariness and nervousness, in excitement and enjoyment, in
+hunger and want, in health and plenty, O my holy Saviour, let my body be
+in Thy keeping every moment. Thou callest us, 'being made free from sin,
+to present our members as servants of righteousness unto
+sanctification.' Saviour! in the faith of the freedom from sin which I
+have in Thee, I present every member of my body to Thee: I believe the
+Spirit of life in Thee makes me free from the law of sin in my members.
+Whether living or dying, be Thou magnified in my body. Amen.
+
+
+  1. In the tabernacle and temple, the material part was to be in
+     harmony with, and the embodiment of, the holiness that dwelt
+     within. It was therefore all made according to the pattern
+     shown in the mount. In the two last chapters of Exodus, we have
+     eighteen times 'as the Lord commanded.' Everything, even in the
+     exterior, was the embodiment of the will of God. Even so our
+     body, as God's temple, must in everything be regulated by God's
+     word, quickened and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
+
+  2. As part of this holiness in the body, Scripture mentions dress.
+     Speaking of the 'outward adorning of plaiting the hair, of
+     wearing jewels, or the putting on of apparel,' as inconsistent
+     with 'the apparel of a meek and quiet spirit,' Peter says,
+     'After this manner aforetime _the holy women_, who hoped in
+     God, adorned themselves.' Holiness was seen in their dressing;
+     their body was the temple of the Holy Spirit.
+
+  3. 'If ye through the Spirit do make dead the deeds of _the body_,
+     ye shall live.' His quickening energy must reign through the
+     whole. We are so accustomed to connect the spiritual with the
+     ideal and invisible, that it will need time and thought and
+     faith to realize how the physical and the sensible influence
+     our spiritual life, and must be under the mastery and
+     inspiration of God's Spirit. Even Paul says, 'I buffet _my
+     body_, and bring it into bondage, lest I myself should be
+     rejected.'
+
+  4. If God actually breathed His Spirit into the body of Adam
+     formed out of the ground, let it not be thought strange that
+     the Holy Spirit should now animate our bodies too with His
+     sanctifying energy.
+
+  5. 'Corporeality is the end of the ways of God.' This deep saying
+     of an old divine reminds us of a much neglected truth. The
+     great work of God's Spirit is to ally Himself with matter, and
+     form it into a spiritual body for a dwelling for God. In our
+     body the Holy Spirit will do it, if He gets complete
+     possession.
+
+  6. It is on this truth of the Holy Spirit's power in the body that
+     what is called Faith-healing rests. Through all ages, in times
+     of special spiritual quickening, God has given it to some to
+     see how Christ would make, even here, the body partaker of the
+     life and power of the Spirit. To those who do see it, the link
+     between Holiness and Healing is a very close and blessed one,
+     as the Lord Jesus takes possession of the body for Himself.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-fourth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Cleansing.
+
+  'Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us _cleanse_
+  ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting
+  _holiness_ in the fear of God.'--2 Cor. vii. 1.
+
+
+That holiness is more than cleansing, and must be preceded by it, is
+taught us in more than one passage of the New Testament. 'Christ loved
+the Church, and gave Himself up for it, that He might _sanctify_ it,
+having _cleansed_ it by the washing of water with the word.' 'If a man
+_cleanse_ himself from these, he shall be a vessel _sanctified_.' The
+cleansing is the negative side, the being separate and not touching the
+unclean thing, the removal of impurity; the sanctifying is the positive
+union and fellowship with God, and the participation of the graces of
+the Divine life and holiness (2 Cor. vi. 17, 18). So we read too of the
+altar, that God spake to Moses: 'Thou shalt _cleanse_ the altar, when
+thou makest atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to _sanctify_
+it' (Ex. xxix. 36). Cleansing must ever prepare the way, and ought
+always to lead on to holiness.
+
+Paul speaks of a twofold defilement, of flesh and spirit, from which we
+must cleanse ourselves. The connection between the two is so close, that
+in every sin both are partakers. The lowest and most carnal form of sin
+will enter the spirit, and, dragging it down into partnership in crime,
+will defile and degrade it. And so will all defilement of spirit in
+course of time show its power in the flesh. Still we may speak of the
+two classes of sins as they owe their origin more directly to the flesh
+or the spirit.
+
+'_Let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh._' The functions
+of our body may be classed under the three heads of the nourishment, the
+propagation, and the protection of our life. Through the first the world
+daily solicits our appetite with its food and drink. As the fruit good
+for food was the temptation that overcame Eve, so the pleasures of
+eating and drinking are among the earliest forms of defilement of the
+flesh. Closely connected with this is what we named second, and which is
+in Scripture specially connected with the word flesh. We know how in
+Paradise the sinful eating was at once followed by the awakening of
+sinful lust and of shame. In his First Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul
+closely connects the two (1 Cor. vi. 13, 15), as he also links
+drunkenness and impurity (1 Cor. vi. 9, 10). Then comes the third form
+in which the vitality of the body displays itself: the instinct of
+self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes
+with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits
+of anger and strife, has its roots in the physical constitution, and is
+one among the sins of the flesh. From all this, the Christian, who would
+be holy, must most determinedly cleanse himself. He must yield himself
+to the searching of God's Spirit, to be taught what there is in the
+flesh that is not in harmony with the temperance and self-control
+demanded both by the law of nature and the law of the Spirit. He must
+believe, what Paul felt that the Corinthians so emphatically needed to
+be taught, that the Holy Spirit dwells in the body, making its members
+the members of Christ, and in this faith put off the works of the flesh;
+he must cleanse himself from all defilement of flesh.
+
+'_And of spirit._' As the source of all defilement of the flesh is
+self-gratification, so self-seeking is at the root of all defilement of
+the spirit. In relation to God, it manifests itself in idolatry, be it
+in the worship of other gods after our own heart, the love of the world
+more than God, or the doing our will rather than His. In relation to our
+fellow-men it shows itself in envy, hatred, and want of love, cold
+neglect or harsh judging of others. In relation to ourselves it is seen
+as pride, ambition, or envy, the disposition that makes self the centre
+round which all must move, and by which all must be judged.
+
+For the discovery of such defilement of spirit, no less than of the sins
+of the flesh, the believer needs the light of the Holy Spirit; that the
+uncleanness may indeed be cleansed out and cast away for ever. Even
+unconscious sin, if we are not earnestly willing to have it shown to us,
+will most effectually prevent our progress in the path of holiness.
+
+'_Beloved! let us cleanse ourselves._' The cleansing is sometimes spoken
+of as the work of God (Acts xv. 9; 1 John i. 9); sometimes as that of
+Christ (John xv. 3; Eph. v. 26; Tit. ii. 14). Here we are commanded to
+cleanse ourselves. God does His work in us by the Holy Spirit; the Holy
+Spirit does His work by stirring us up and enabling us to do. The Spirit
+is the strength of the new life; in that strength we must set ourselves
+determinedly to cast out whatever is unclean. 'Come out, and be ye
+separate, and touch not the unclean thing.' It is not only the doing
+what is sinful, it is not only the willing of it, that the Christian
+must avoid, but even the touching it: the involuntary contact with it
+must be so unbearable as to force the cry, O wretched man that I am! and
+to lead on to the deliverance which the Spirit of the life of Christ
+does bring.
+
+And how is this cleansing to be done? When Hezekiah called the priests
+to sanctify the temple that had been defiled, we read (2 Chron. xxix.),
+'The priests went in unto the inner part of the house of the Lord to
+cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found.' Only
+then could the sin-offering of atonement and the burnt-offering of
+consecration, with the thankofferings, be brought, and God's service be
+restored. Even thus must all that is unclean be looked out, and brought
+out, and utterly cast out. However deeply rooted the sin may appear,
+rooted in constitution and habit, we must cleanse ourselves of it if we
+would be holy. 'If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, the
+blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.' As we bring out every sin
+from the inner part of the house into the light of God and walk in the
+light, the precious blood that justifies will work mightily to cleanse
+too: the blood brings into living contact with the life and the love of
+God. Let us come into the light with the sin: the blood will prove its
+mighty power. Let us cleanse ourselves in yielding ourselves to the
+light to reveal and condemn, to the blood to cleanse and sanctify.
+
+'Let us cleanse ourselves, _perfecting holiness in the fear of the
+Lord_.' We read in Hebrews (x. 14), 'Christ hath perfected forever them
+that are sanctified.' As we have so often seen that what God has made
+holy man must make holy too, as he accepts and appropriates the holiness
+God has bestowed, so here with the perfection which the saints have in
+Christ. We must perfect holiness: holiness must be carried out into the
+whole of life, and carried on even to its end. As God's holy ones, we
+must go on to perfection, perfecting holiness. Do not let us be afraid
+of the word. Our Blessed Lord used it when He gave us the command, 'Be
+ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.' A child striving
+after the perfection in knowledge of his profession, which he hopes to
+attain when he has finished school, is told by his teacher that the way
+to the perfection he hopes for at the end of his course is to seek to be
+perfect in the lessons of each day. To be perfect in the small portion
+of the work that each hour brings, is the path to the perfection that
+will crown the whole. The Master calls us to a perfection like that of
+the Father: He hath already perfected us in Himself: He holds out the
+prospect of perfection ever growing. His word calls us here day by day
+to be perfecting holiness. Let us seek in each duty to be whole-hearted
+and entire. Let us, as teachable scholars, in every act of worship or
+obedience, in every temptation and trial, do the very best which God's
+Spirit can enable us to do. 'Let patience have its perfect work, that ye
+may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.' 'The God of peace make
+you perfect in every good work to do His will.'
+
+'_Having therefore these promises_, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
+from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear
+of God.' It is faith that gives the courage and the power to cleanse
+from all defilement, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. It is as
+the promises of the Divine love and indwelling (2 Cor. vi 16-18) are
+made ours by the Holy spirit, that we shall share the victory which
+overcometh the world, even our faith. In the path along which we have
+already come, from the rest in Paradise down through Holy Scripture, we
+have seen the wondrous revelation of these promises in ever-growing
+splendour. That God the Holy One will make us holy; that God the Holy
+One will dwell with the lowly; that God in His Holy One has come to be
+our holiness; that God has planted us in Christ that He may be our
+sanctification; that God, who chose us in sanctification of the Spirit,
+has given us the Holy Spirit in our hearts, and now watches over us in
+His love to work out through Him His purposes and to perfect our
+holiness: such are the promises that have been set before us. 'Having
+therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
+filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.'
+
+Beloved brother! see here again God's way of holiness. Arise and step on
+to it in the faith of the promise, fully persuaded that what He hath
+promised He is mighty to perform. Bring out of the inner part of the
+house all uncleanness; bring it into the light of God; confess it and
+cast it at His feet, who takes it away, and cleanses you in His blood.
+Yield yourself in faith to perfect, in Christ your Strength, the
+Holiness to which you are called. As your Father in heaven is perfect,
+give yourself to Him as a little child to be perfect too in your daily
+lessons and your daily walk. Believe that your surrender is accepted:
+that the charge committed to Him is undertaken. And give glory to Him
+who is able to do above what you can ask or think.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy Lord Jesus! Thou didst give Thyself for us, that, having cleansed
+us for Thyself as Thine own, Thou mightest sanctify us and present us to
+Thyself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing.
+Blessed be Thy Name for the wonderful love. Blessed be Thy Name for the
+wonderful cleansing. Through the washing by the word and the washing in
+the blood, Thou hast made us clean every whit. And as we walk in the
+light, Thou cleansest every moment.
+
+With these promises, in the power of Thy word and blood, Thou callest us
+to cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit. Blessed
+Lord! graciously reveal in Thy Holy Light all that is defilement, even
+its most secret working. Let me live as one who is to be presented to
+Thee without spot or wrinkle or any such thing--cleansed with a Divine
+cleansing, because Thou gavest Thyself to do it. Under the living power
+of Thy word and blood, applied by the Holy Spirit, let my way be clean,
+and my hands clean, my lips clean, and my heart clean. Cleanse me
+thoroughly, that I may walk with Thee in white here on earth, keeping my
+garments unspotted and undefiled. For Thy great love's sake, my Blessed
+Lord. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Cleansing has almost always one aim: a cleansed vessel is fit
+     for use. Spiritual work done for God, with the honest desire
+     that He may through His Spirit use us, will give urgency to our
+     desire for cleansing. A vessel not cleansed cannot be used: is
+     not this the reason that there are some workers God cannot
+     bless?
+
+  2. _All_ defilement: one stain defiles. 'Let us cleanse ourselves
+     from _all_ defilement.'
+
+  3. No cleansing without Light. Open the heart for the Light to
+     shine in.
+
+  4. No cleansing like fire. Give the defilement over to the fire of
+     His Holiness, the fire that consumes and purifies. Give it into
+     the death of Jesus, to Jesus Himself.
+
+  5. 'Perfecting holiness in _the fear of God_:' it is a solemn
+     work. Rejoice with trembling--work out your salvation with fear
+     and trembling.
+
+  6. 'Having these promises,' it is a blessed work to cleanse
+     ourselves--entering into the promises, the purity, the love of
+     our Lord. The fear of God need never hinder the faith in Him.
+     And true faith will never hinder the practical work of
+     cleansing.
+
+  7. _If we walk in the light, the blood cleanseth._ The light
+     reveals; we confess and forsake, and accept the blood; so we
+     cleanse ourselves. Let there be a very determined purpose to be
+     clean from all defilement, everything that our Father considers
+     a stain.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-fifth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holy and Blameless.
+
+  'Ye are witnesses, and God also, how _holily_ and justly and
+  _unblameably_ we behaved ourselves among you that believe.--The
+  Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another,
+  and toward all men, to the end He may stablish your hearts
+  _unblameable in holiness_ before our God and Father at the coming
+  of our Lord Jesus with all His _holy ones_.'--1 Thess. ii. 10,
+  iii. 12, 13.
+
+  'He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we
+  should be _holy and without blemish_ before Him _in love_.'--Eph.
+  i. 4.
+
+
+There are two Greek words, signifying nearly the same, used frequently
+along with the word holy, and following it, to express what the result and
+effect of holiness will be as manifested in the visible life. The one is
+translated without blemish, spotless, and is that also used of our Lord
+and His sacrifice, the Lamb without blemish (Heb. ix. 14; 1 Pet. i. 19).
+It is then used of God's children with holy--holy and without blemish
+(Eph. i. 4, 5, 27; Col. i. 22; Phil. ii. 15; Jude 24; 2 Pet. iii. 14). The
+other is without blame, faultless (as in Luke i. 6; Phil ii. 15, iii. 6),
+and is also found in conjunction with holy (1 Thess. ii. 10, iii. 13, v.
+23). In answer to the question as to whether this blamelessness has
+reference to God's estimate of the saints or men's, Scripture clearly
+connects it with both. In some passages (Eph. i. 4, v. 27; Col. i. 22;
+1 Thess. iii. 15; 2 Pet. iii. 14) the words 'before Him,' 'to Himself,'
+'before our God and Father,' indicate that the first thought is of the
+spotlessness and faultlessness in the presence of a Holy God, which is
+held out to us as His purpose and our privilege. In others (such as Phil.
+ii. 15; 1 Thess. ii. 10), the blamelessness in the sight of men stands in
+the foreground. In each case the word may be considered to include both
+aspects: without blemish and without blame must stand the double test of
+the judgment of God and man too.
+
+And what is now the special lesson which this linking together of these
+two words in Scripture, and the exposition of holy by the addition of
+blameless, is meant to teach us? A lesson of deep importance. In the
+pursuit of holiness, the believer, the more clearly he realizes what a
+deep spiritual blessing it is, to be found only in separation from the
+world, and direct fellowship with God, to be possessed fully only
+through a real Divine indwelling, may be in danger of looking too
+exclusively to the Divine side of the blessing, in its heavenly and
+supernatural aspect. He may forget how repentance and obedience, as the
+path leading up to holiness, must cover every, even the minutest detail
+of daily life. He may not understand how faithfulness to the leadings
+of the Spirit, in such measure as we have Him already, faithfulness to
+His faintest whisper in reference to ordinary conduct, is essential to
+all fuller experience of His power and work as the Spirit of holiness.
+He may, above all, not have learnt how, not only obedience to what he
+knows to be God's will, but a very tender and willing teachableness to
+receive all that the Spirit has to show him of his imperfections and the
+Father's perfect will concerning him, is the only condition on which the
+Holiness of God can be more fully revealed to us and in us. And so,
+while most intent on trying to discover the secret of true and full
+holiness from the Divine side, he may be tolerating faults which all
+around him can notice, or remaining,--and that not without sin, because
+it comes from the want of perfect teachableness,--ignorant of graces and
+beauties of holiness with which the Father would have had him adorn the
+doctrine of holiness before men. He may seek to live a very holy, and
+yet think little of a perfectly blameless life.
+
+There have been such saints, holy but hard, holy but distant, holy but
+sharp in their judgments of others; holy, but men around said, unloving
+and selfish; the half-heathen Samaritan more kind and self-sacrificing
+than the holy Levite and priest. If this be true, it is not the teaching
+of Holy Scripture that is to blame. In linking holy and without blemish
+(or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to
+seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the
+blamelessness of practice and of daily life. Let every believer who
+rejoices in God's declaration that he is holy in Christ seek also to
+perfect holiness, reach out after nothing less than to be 'unblameable
+in holiness.'
+
+That this blamelessness has very special reference to our intercourse
+with our fellow-men we see from the way in which it is linked with love.
+So in Eph. i. 4, 'That we should be holy and without blemish before Him
+_in love_.' But specially in that remarkable passage: 'The Lord make you
+to _increase and abound in love_ toward one another, and toward all men,
+_to the end He may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness_.' The
+holiness and the blamelessness, the positive hidden Divine
+life-principle, and the external and human life-practice--both are to
+find their strength, by which we are to be established in them, in our
+abounding and ever-flowing love.
+
+Holiness and lovingness--it is of deep importance that these words
+should be inseparably linked in our minds, as their reality in our
+lives. We have seen, in the study of the holiness of God, how love is
+the element in which it dwells and works, drawing to itself and making
+like itself all that it can get possession of. Of the fire of Divine
+holiness love is the beautiful flame, reaching out to communicate itself
+and assimilate to itself all it can lay hold of. In God's children true
+holiness is the same; the Divine fire burns to bring into its own
+blessedness all that comes within its reach. When Jesus sanctified
+Himself that we might be sanctified in truth, that was nothing but love
+giving itself to the death that the sinful might share His holiness.
+Selfishness and holiness are irreconcilable. Ignorance may think of
+sanctity as a beautiful garment with which to adorn itself before God,
+while underneath there is a selfish pride saying, 'I am holier than
+thou,' and quite content that the other should want what it boasts of.
+True holiness, on the contrary, is the expulsion and the death of
+selfishness, taking possession of heart and life to be the ministers of
+that fire of love that consumes itself, to reach and purify and save
+others. Holiness is love. Abounding love is what Paul prays for as the
+condition of unblameable holiness. It is as _the Lord makes_ us to
+increase and abound in love, that _He can establish_ our hearts
+unblameable in holiness.
+
+The Apostle speaks of a twofold love, 'love toward each other, and
+toward all men.' Love to the brethren was what our Lord Himself enjoined
+as the chief mark of discipleship. And He prayed the Father for it as
+the chief proof to the world of the truth of His Divine mission. It is
+in the holiness of love, in a loving holiness, that the unity of the
+body will be proved and promoted, and prepared for the fuller workings
+of the Holy Spirit. In the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians,
+division and distance among believers are named as the sure proof of the
+life of self and the flesh. Oh, let us, if we would be holy, begin by
+being very gentle, and patient, and forgiving, and kind, and generous in
+our intercourse with all the Father's children. Let us study the Divine
+image of the love that seeketh not its own, and pray unceasingly that
+the Lord may make us to abound in love to each other. The holiest will
+be the humblest and most self-forgetting, the gentlest and most
+self-denying, the kindest and most thoughtful of others for Jesus' sake.
+'Put on therefore, as God's elect, _holy and beloved_, a heart of
+compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering' (Col. iii. 12,
+13).
+
+And then the love toward all men. A love proved in the conduct and
+intercourse of daily life. A love that not only avoids anger and evil
+temper and harsh judgments, but exhibits the more positive virtue of
+active devotion to the welfare and interests of all. A charitable love
+that cares for the bodies as well as the souls. A love that not only is
+ready to help when it is called, but that really gives itself up to
+self-denial and self-sacrifice to seek out and relieve the needs of the
+most wretched and unworthy. A love that does indeed take Christ's love,
+that brought Him from heaven and led Him to choose the cross, as the
+only law and measure for its conduct, and makes everything subordinate
+to the Godlike blessedness of giving, of doing good, of embracing and
+saving the needy and lost. Thus abounding in love, we shall be
+unblameable in holiness.
+
+It is in Christ we are holy; of God we are in Christ, who is made of
+God unto us sanctification: it is in this faith that Paul prays that the
+Lord, our Lord Jesus, may make us increase and abound in love. The
+Father is the fountain, He is the channel; the Holy Spirit is the living
+stream. And He is our Life, through the Spirit. It is by faith in Him,
+by abiding in Him and in His love, by allowing, in close union with Him,
+the Spirit to shed abroad the love of God, that we shall receive the
+answer to our prayer, and shall by Himself be established unblameable in
+holiness. Let it be with us a prayer of faith that changes into praise:
+Blessed be the Lord, who will make us increase and abound in love, and
+will establish us unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at
+the coming of our Lord Jesus with His holy ones.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Gracious God and Father! again do I thank Thee for that wondrous
+salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, which has made us holy
+in Christ. And I thank Thee that the Spirit can so make us partakers of
+the life of Christ, that we too may be unblameable in holiness. And that
+it is the Lord Himself who makes us to increase and abound in love, to
+the end our hearts may be so established; that the abounding love and
+the unblameable holiness are both from Him.
+
+Blessed Lord and Saviour! I come now to claim and take as my own, what
+Thou art able to do for me. I am holy only in Thee; in Thee I am holy.
+In Thee there is for me the power to abound in love. O Thou, in whom the
+fulness of God's love abides, and in whom I abide, the Lord, my Lord,
+make me to abound in love. In union with Thee, in the life of faith in
+which Thou livest in me, it can be and it shall be. By the teaching of
+Thy Holy Spirit lead me in all the footsteps of Thy self-denying love,
+that I too may be consumed in blessing others.
+
+And thus, Lord! mightily establish my heart to be unblameable in
+holiness. Let self perish at Thy presence. Let Thy Holiness, giving
+itself to make the sinner holy, take entire possession, until my heart
+and life are sanctified wholly, and my whole spirit and soul and body be
+preserved blameless unto Thy coming. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Let us pray very earnestly that our interest in the study of
+     holiness may not be a thing of the intellect or the emotions,
+     but of the will and the life, seen of all men in the daily walk
+     and conversation. 'Abounding in love,' 'unblameable in
+     holiness,' will give favour with God and man.
+
+  2. 'God is Love;' Creation is the outflow of love. Redemption is
+     the sacrifice and the triumph of love. Holiness is the fire of
+     love. The beauty of the life of Jesus is love. All we enjoy of
+     the Divine we owe to love. Our holiness is not God's, is not
+     Christ's, if we do not love.
+
+  3. 'Love seeketh not its own.' 'Love never faileth.' 'Love is the
+     fulfilling of the law.' 'The greatest of these is love.' 'The
+     end of the commandment is love.' To love God and man is to be
+     holy. In the intercourse of daily life, holiness can have its
+     simple and sweet beginnings and its exercise; so, in its
+     highest attainment, holiness is love made perfect.
+
+  4. Faith has all its worth from love, from the love of God, whence
+     it draws and drinks, and the love to God and man which streams
+     out of it. Let us be strong in faith, then shall we abound in
+     love.
+
+  5. 'The love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the
+     Holy Ghost which was given unto us.' Let this be our
+     confidence.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-sixth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and the Will of God.
+
+  'This is _the will of God_, even your _sanctification_.'--1 Thess.
+  iv. 3.
+
+  'Lo, I am come to do _Thy will_. By _which will_ we have been
+  _sanctified_, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
+  once for all.'--Heb. x. 9, 10.
+
+
+In the will of God we have the union of His Wisdom and Power. The Wisdom
+decides and declares what is to be: the Power secures the performance.
+The declarative will is only one side; its complement, the executive
+will, is the living energy in which everything good has its origin and
+existence. So long as we only look at the will of God in the former
+light, as law, we feel it a burden, because we have not the power to
+perform--it is too high for us. When faith looks to the Power that works
+in God's will, and carries it out, it has the courage to accept it and
+fulfil it, because it knows God Himself is working it out. The surrender
+in faith to the Divine will as Wisdom thus becomes the pathway to the
+experience of it as a Power. 'He doeth according to His will,' is then
+the language not only of forced submission, but of joyful expectation.
+
+'This is the will of God, your sanctification.' In the ordinary
+acceptation of these words, they simply mean that among many other
+things that God has willed, sanctification is one; it is something in
+accordance with His will. This thought contains teaching of great value.
+God very distinctly and definitely has willed your sanctification: your
+sanctification has its source and certainty in its being God's will. We
+are 'elect in sanctification of the Spirit,' 'chosen to be holy;' the
+purpose of God's will from eternity, and His will now, is our
+sanctification. We have only to think of what we said of God's will
+being a Divine power that works out what His wisdom has chosen, to see
+what strength this truth will give to our faith that we shall be holy:
+God wills it, and will work it out for all and in all who do not resist
+it, but yield themselves to its power. Seek your sanctification, not
+only in the will of God, as a declaration of what He wants you to be,
+but as a revelation of what He Himself will work out in you.
+
+There is, however, another most precious thought suggested. If our
+sanctification be God's will, its central thought and its contents,
+_every part of that will_ must bear upon it, and the sure entrance to
+sanctification will be the hearty acceptance of the will of God in all
+things. To be one with God's will is to be holy. Let him who would be
+holy take his place here and 'stand in all the will of God.' He will
+there meet God Himself, and be made partaker of His Holiness, because
+His will works out its purpose in power to each one who yields himself
+to it. Everything in a life of holiness depends upon our being in the
+right relation to the will of God.
+
+There are many Christians to whom it appears impossible to think of
+their accepting all the will of God, or of their being one with it. They
+look upon the will of God in its thousand commands, and its numberless
+providential orderings. They have sometimes found it so hard to obey one
+single command, or to give up willingly to some light disappointment.
+They imagine that they would need to be a thousandfold holier and
+stronger in grace, before venturing to say that they do accept all God's
+will, whether to do or to bear. They cannot understand that all the
+difficulty comes from their not occupying the right standpoint. They are
+looking at God's will as at variance with their natural will, and they
+feel that that natural will will never delight in all God's will. They
+forget that the new man has a renewed will. This new will delights in
+the will of God, because it is born of it. This new will sees the beauty
+and the glory of God's will, and is in harmony with it. If they are
+indeed God's children, the very first impulse of the spirit of a child
+is surely to do the will of the Father in heaven. And they have but to
+yield themselves heartily and wholly to this spirit of sonship, and they
+need not fear to accept God's will as theirs.
+
+The mistake they make is a very serious one. Instead of living by faith
+they judge by feeling, in which the old nature speaks and rules. It
+tells them that God's will is often a burden too hard to be borne, and
+that they never can have the strength to do it. Faith speaks
+differently. It reminds us that God is Love, and that His will is
+nothing but Love revealed. It asks if we do not know that there is
+nothing more perfect or beautiful in heaven or earth than the will of
+God. It shows us how in our conversion we have already professed to
+accept God as Father and Lord. It assures us, above all, that if we will
+but definitely and trustingly give ourselves to that will which is Love,
+it will as Love fill our hearts and make us delight in it, and so become
+the power that enables us joyfully to do and to bear. Faith reveals to
+us that the will of God is the power of His love, working out its plan
+in Divine beauty in each one who wholly yields to it.
+
+And which shall we now choose? And where shall we take our place? Shall
+we attempt to accept Christ as a Saviour without accepting His will?
+Shall we profess to be the Father's children, and yet spend our life in
+debating how much of His will we shall perform? Shall we be content to
+go on from day to day with the painful consciousness that our will is
+not in harmony with God's will? Or shall we not at once and for ever
+give up our will as sinful to His,--to that Will which He has already
+written on our heart? This is a thing that is possible. It can be done.
+In a simple, definite transaction with God, we can say that we do accept
+His holy will to be ours. Faith knows that God will not pass such a
+surrender unnoticed, but accept it. In the trust that He now takes us up
+into His will, and undertakes to breathe it into us, with the love and
+the power to perform it--in this faith let us enter into God's will, and
+begin a new life; standing in, abiding in the very centre of this most
+holy will.
+
+Such an acceptance of God's will prepares the believer, through the Holy
+Spirit, to recognise and know that will in whatever form it comes. The
+great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that
+the latter acknowledges God, under whatever low and poor and human
+appearances He manifests Himself. When God comes in trials which can be
+traced to no hand but His, he says, 'Thy will be done.' When trials come
+through the weakness of men or his own folly, when circumstances appear
+unfavourable to his religious progress, and temptations threaten to be
+too much for him and to overcome him, he learns first of all to see God
+in everything, and still to say, 'Thy will be done.' He knows that a
+child of God cannot possibly be in any situation without the will of His
+Heavenly Father, even when that will has been to leave him to his own
+wilfulness for a time, or to suffer the consequences of his own or
+others' sin. He sees this, and in accepting his circumstances as the
+will of God to try and prove him, he is in the right position for now
+knowing and doing what is right. Seeing and honouring God's will thus in
+everything, he learns always to abide in that will.
+
+He does so also by doing that will. As his spiritual discernment grows
+to say of whatever happens, 'All things are of God,' so he grows too in
+wisdom and spiritual understanding to know the will of God as it is to
+be done. In the indications of conscience and of Providence, in the
+teaching of the word and the Spirit, he learns to see how God's will has
+reference to every part and duty of life, and it becomes his joy, in all
+things, to live, 'doing the will of God from the heart, as unto the Lord
+and not unto men.' 'Labouring fervently in prayer to stand complete and
+fully assured in all the will of God,' he finds how blessedly the Father
+has accepted his surrender, and supplies all the light and strength that
+is needed that His will may be done by him on earth as it is in heaven.
+
+Let me ask every reader to say to a Holy God, whether he has indeed
+given himself to Him to be made holy? Whether he has accepted, and
+entered into, and is living in, the good and perfect will of God? The
+question is not, whether, when affliction comes, he accepts the
+inevitable and submits to a will he cannot resist. But whether he has
+chosen the will of God as his chief good, and has taken the
+life-principle of Christ to be his: 'I delight to do Thy will, O God.'
+This was the holiness of Christ, in which He sanctified Himself and us,
+the doing God's will. 'In which will we have been sanctified.' It is
+this will of God which is our sanctification.
+
+Brother! are you in earnest to be holy? wholly possessed of God? Here is
+the path. I plead with you not to be afraid or to hold back. You have
+taken God to be your God; have you really taken His will to be your
+will? Oh, think of the privilege, the blessedness, of having one will
+with God! and fear not to surrender yourself to it most unreservedly.
+The will of God is, in every part of it, and in all its Divine power,
+your sanctification.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Father! I come to say that I see that Thy will is my
+sanctification, and there alone I would seek it. Graciously grant that,
+by Thy Holy Spirit which dwelleth in me, the glory of that will, and the
+blessedness of abiding in it, may be fully revealed to me.
+
+Teach me to know it as the Will of Love, purposing always what is the
+very best and most blest for Thy child. Teach me to know it as the Will
+of Omnipotence, able to work out its every counsel in me. Teach me to
+know it in Christ, fulfilled perfectly on my behalf. Teach me to know it
+as what the Spirit wills and works in each one who yields to Him.
+
+O my Father! I acknowledge Thy claim to have Thy will alone done, and am
+here for it to do with me as Thou pleasest. With my whole heart I enter
+into it, to be one with it for ever. Thy Holy Spirit can maintain this
+oneness without interruption. I trust Thee, my Father, step by step, to
+let the light of Thy will shine in my heart and on my path, through that
+Spirit.
+
+May this be the holiness in which I live, that I forget and lose self in
+pleasing and honouring Thee. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Make it a study, in meditation and prayer and worship, to get a
+     full impression of the Majesty, the Perfection, the Glory of
+     the Will of God, with the privilege and possibility of living
+     in it.
+
+  2. Study it, too, as the expression of an infinite Love and
+     Fatherliness; its every manifestation full of loving-kindness.
+     Every providence is _God's will_; whatever happens, meet God in
+     it in humble worship. Every precept is _God's will_; meet God
+     in it with loving obedience. Every promise is _God's will_;
+     meet God in it with full trust. A life in the will of God is
+     rest and strength and blessing.
+
+  3. And forget not, above all, to believe in its Omnipotent Power.
+     _He worketh all things after the counsel of His will._ In
+     nature and those who resist Him, without their consent. In His
+     children, according to their faith, and as far as they will it.
+     Do believe that the will of God will work out its counsel in
+     you, as you trust it to do so.
+
+  4. This will is Infinite Benevolence and Beneficence revealed in
+     the self-sacrifice of Jesus. Live for others: so can you become
+     an instrument for the Divine will to use (Matt. xviii. 14; John
+     vi. 39, 40). Yield yourselves to this redeeming will of God,
+     that it may get full possession, and work out through you too
+     its saving purpose.
+
+  5. Christ is just the embodiment of God's will: He is, God's will
+     done. Abide in Him, by abiding in, by doing heartily and
+     always, the will of God. A Christian is, like Christ, a man
+     given up to the Will of God.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-seventh Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Service.
+
+  'If a man therefore cleanse himself from these, he shall be a
+  vessel unto honour, _sanctified_, meet _for the Master's use_,
+  prepared _unto every good work_.'--2 Tim. ii. 21.
+
+  'A _holy_ priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices. A _holy_
+  nation, that ye may _show forth the excellences of Him_ who called
+  you out of darkness into His marvellous light.'--1 Pet. ii. 5, 9.
+
+
+Through the whole of Scripture we have seen that whatever God sanctifies
+is to be used in the service of His Holiness. His Holiness is an
+infinite energy that only finds its rest in making holy: to the
+revelation of what He is in Himself, 'I the Lord _am holy_,' God
+continually adds the declaration of what He does, 'I am the Lord that
+_make holy_.' Holiness is a burning fire that extends itself, that seeks
+to consume what is unholy, and to communicate its own blessedness to all
+that will receive it. Holiness and selfishness, holiness and inactivity,
+holiness and sloth, holiness and helplessness, are utterly
+irreconcilable. Whatever we read of as holy, was taken into the service
+of the Holiness of God.
+
+Let us just look back on the revelation of what is holy in Scripture.
+The seventh day was made holy, that in it God might make His people
+holy. The tabernacle was holy, to serve as a dwelling for the Holy One,
+as the centre whence His Holiness might manifest itself to the people.
+The altar was most holy, that it might sanctify the gifts laid on it.
+The priests with their garments, the house with its furniture and
+vessels, the sacrifices and the blood,--whatever bore the name of holy
+had a use and a purpose. Of Israel, whom God redeemed from Egypt that
+they might be a _holy_ nation, God said, 'Let my people go, that they
+may _serve_ me.' The holy angels, the holy prophets and apostles, the
+holy Scriptures,--all bore the title as having been sanctified for the
+service of God. Our Lord speaks of Himself 'as the Son, whom the Father
+_sanctified and sent_ into the world.' And when He says, 'I sanctify
+myself,' He adds at once the purpose: it is in the service of the Father
+and His redeemed ones,--'that they themselves may be sanctified in
+truth.' And can it be thought possible, now that God, in Christ the Holy
+One, and in the Holy Spirit, is accomplishing His purpose, and gathering
+a people of saints, 'holy ones,' 'made holy in Christ,' that now
+holiness and service would be put asunder? Impossible! Here first we
+shall fully realize how essential they are to each other. Let us try and
+grasp their mutual relation. We are only made holy that we may serve.
+We can only serve as we are holy.
+
+_Holiness is essential to effectual service._ In the Old Testament we
+see degrees of holiness, not only in the holy places, but as much in the
+holy persons. In the nation, the Levites, the priests, and then the High
+Priest, there is an advance from step to step: as in each succeeding
+stage the circle narrows, and the service is more direct and entire, so
+the holiness required is higher and more distinct. It is even so in this
+more spiritual dispensation: the more of holiness, the greater the
+fitness for service; the more there is of true holiness, the more there
+is of God, and the more true and deep is the entrance He has had into
+the soul. The hold He has on the soul to use it in His service is more
+complete.
+
+In the Church of Christ there is a vast amount of work done which yields
+very little fruit. Many throw themselves into work in whom there is but
+little true holiness, little of the Holy Spirit. They often work most
+diligently, and, as far as human influence is concerned, most
+successfully. And yet true spiritual results in the building up of a
+holy temple in the Lord are but few. The Lord cannot work in them,
+because He has not the mastery of their inner life. His personal
+indwelling and fellowship, the rest of His Holy Presence, His Holiness
+reigning and ruling in the heart and life,--to all these they are
+comparative strangers. It has been rightly said that work is the cure
+for spiritual poverty and disease; to some believers who had been
+seeking holiness apart from service, the call to work has been an
+unspeakable blessing. But to many it has only been an additional blind
+to cover up the terrible want of heart-holiness and heart-fellowship
+with the living God. They have thrown themselves into work more
+earnestly than ever, and yet have not in their heart the rest-giving and
+refreshing witness that their work is acceptable and accepted.
+
+My brother! listen to the message. 'If a man _cleanse_ himself, he shall
+be a vessel unto honour, _sanctified_, _meet_ for the Master's use,
+_prepared_ unto every good work.' You cannot have the law of service
+more clearly or beautifully laid down. A vessel of honour, one whom the
+King will delight to honour, must be a vessel _cleansed_ from all
+defilement of flesh and spirit. Then only can it be a _sanctified_
+vessel, possessed and indwelt by God's Holy Spirit. So it becomes _meet
+for the Master's use_. He can use it, and work in it, and wield it. And
+so, clean and holy, and yielded into the Master's hands, we are Divinely
+prepared for every good work. Holiness is essential to service. If
+service is to be acceptable to God, and effectual for its work on souls,
+and to be a joy and a strength to ourselves, we must be holy. The will
+of God must first live in us, if it is to be done by us.
+
+How many faithful workers there are, mourning the want of power; longing
+and praying for it, and yet not obtaining it! They have spent their
+strength more in the outer court of work and service, than in the inner
+life of fellowship and faith. They truly have never understood that
+only as the Master gets possession of them, as the Holy Spirit has them
+at His disposal, can He use them, can they have true power. They often
+long and cry for what they call a baptism of power. They forget that the
+way to have God's power in us is for ourselves to be in His power. Put
+yourself into the power of God; let His holy will live in you; live in
+it and in obedience to it, as one who has no power to dispose of
+himself; let the Holy Spirit dwell within, as in His Holy Temple,
+revealing the Holy One on the throne, ruling all; He will without fail
+use you as a vessel of honour, sanctified and meet for the Master's use.
+Holiness is essential to effectual service.
+
+_And service is no less essential to true holiness._ We have repeated it
+so often: Holiness is an energy, an intense energy of desire and
+self-sacrifice, to make others partakers of its own purity and
+perfection. Christ sacrificed Himself--wherein did that sacrifice
+consist, and what was its aim? He sanctified Himself that we might be
+sanctified too. A holiness that is selfish is a delusion. True holiness,
+God's holiness in us, works itself out in love, in seeking and loving
+the unholy, that they may become holy too. Self-sacrificing love is of
+the very essence of holiness. The Holy One of Israel is its Redeemer.
+The Holy One of God is the dying Saviour. The Holy Spirit of God makes
+holy. There is no holiness in God but what is most actively engaged in
+loving and saving and blessing. It must be so in us too. Let every
+thought of holiness, every act of faith or prayer, every effort in
+pursuit of it, be animated by the desire and the surrender to the
+Holiness of God for use in the attaining of its object. Let your whole
+life be one distinctly and definitely given up to God for His use and
+service. Your circumstances may appear to be unfavourable. God may
+appear to keep the door closed against your working for Him in the way
+you would wish; your sense of unfitness may be painful. Still, let it be
+a matter settled between God and the soul, that your longing for
+holiness is that you may be fitter for Him to use, and that what He has
+given you of His Holiness in Christ and the Spirit is all at His
+disposal, waiting to be used. Be ready for Him to use; live out, in a
+daily life of humble, self-denying, loving service of others, what grace
+you have received. You will find that in the union and interchange of
+worship and work, God's Holiness will rest upon you.
+
+'The Father _sanctified_ the Son, _and sent_ Him into the world.' The
+world is the place for the sanctified one, to be its light, its salt,
+its life. We are 'sanctified in Christ Jesus,' and sent into the world
+too. Oh, let us not fear to accept our position--our double position; in
+the world, and in Christ! In the world, with its sin and sorrow, with
+its thousands of needs touching us at every point, and its millions of
+souls all waiting for us. And in Christ too. For the sake of that world
+we 'have been sanctified in Christ,' we are 'holy in Christ,' we have
+'the spirit of sanctification' dwelling in us. As a holy salt in a
+sinful world, let us give ourselves to our holy calling. Let us come
+nearer and nearer to God who has called us. Let us root deeper and
+deeper in Christ our sanctification, in whom we are of God. Let us enter
+more firmly and more fully into that faith in Him in whom we are, by
+which our whole life will be covered and taken up in His. Let us beseech
+the Father to teach us that His Holy Spirit does dwell in us every
+moment, making, if we live by faith, Christ with His Holiness, our home,
+our abode, our sure defence, and our infinite supply. As He which hath
+called us is holy, let us be holy in His own Son, through His own
+Spirit, and the fire of His Holy Love will work through us its work of
+judging and condemning, of saving and sanctifying. A sanctified soul God
+will use to save.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Master! I thank Thee for being anew reminded of the purpose of
+Thy Redeeming Love. Thou gavest Thyself that Thou mightest cleanse for
+Thyself a people of Thine own, zealous in good works. Thou wouldest make
+of each of us a vessel of honour, cleansed and sanctified, meet for Thy
+use, and prepared for every good work.
+
+Blessed Lord! write the lessons of Thy word deep in my heart. Teach me
+and all Thy people that if we would work for Thee, if we would have
+Thee work in us, and use us, we must be very holy, holy as God is holy.
+And that if we would be holy, we must be serving Thee. It is Thy own
+Spirit, by which Thou dost sanctify us to use us, and dost sanctify in
+using. To be entirely possessed of Thee is the path to sanctity and
+service both.
+
+Most Holy Saviour! we are in Thee as our sanctification: in Thee we
+would abide. In the rest of a faith that trusts Thee for all, in the
+power of a surrender that would have no will but Thine, in a love that
+would lose itself to be wholly Thine, Blessed Jesus, we do abide in
+Thee. In Thee we are holy: in Thee we shall bear much fruit.
+
+Oh, be pleased to perfect Thine own work in us! Amen.
+
+
+  1. It is difficult to make it clear in words how growth in
+     holiness will simply reveal itself as an increasing simplicity
+     and self-forgetfulness, accompanied by the restful and most
+     blessed assurance that God has complete possession of us and
+     will use us. We pass from the stage in which work presses as an
+     obligation; it becomes the joy of fruit-bearing; faith's
+     assurance that He is working out His will through us.
+
+  2. It has sometimes been said that people might be better employed
+     in working for God than attending Holiness Conventions. This is
+     surely a misunderstanding. It was before the throne of the
+     Thrice Holy One, and as he heard the Seraphim sing of God's
+     Holiness, that the prophet said, 'Here am I, send me.' As the
+     mission of Moses, and Isaiah, and the Son, whom the Father
+     _sanctified and sent_, each had its origin in the revelation of
+     God's Holiness, our missions will receive new power as they are
+     more directly born out of the worship of God as the Holy One,
+     and baptized into the Spirit of Holiness.
+
+  3. Let every worker take time to hear God's double call. If you
+     would work, be very holy. If you would be holy, give yourself
+     to God to use in His work.
+
+  4. Note the connection between 'sanctified' and 'meet for _the
+     Master's use_.' True holiness is being possessed of God; true
+     service being used of God. How much service there is in which
+     we are the chief agents, and ask God to help and to bless us.
+     True service is being yielded up to the Master _for Him to
+     use_. Then the Holy Ghost is the Agent, and we are the
+     Instruments of His will. Such service is Holiness.
+
+  5. 'I sanctify _Myself_, that _they also_:' a reference to others
+     is the root principle of all true holiness.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-eighth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Way into the Holiest.
+
+  'Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into _the Holiest_
+  by _the blood_ of Jesus, by _the way_ which He dedicated, a new
+  and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh: and
+  having a _great Priest_ over the house of God; let us draw near
+  with a true heart, in fulness of faith.'--Heb. x. 19-22.
+
+
+When the High Priest once a year entered into the second tabernacle
+within the veil, it was, we are told in the Epistle to the Hebrews, 'the
+Holy Ghost signifying that the way into _the Holiest of all_ was not yet
+made manifest.' When Christ died, the veil was rent; all who were
+serving in the holy place had free access at once into the Most Holy;
+the way into the Holiest of all was opened up. When the Epistle passes
+over to its practical application (x. 19), all its teaching is summed up
+in the words: 'Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into _the
+Holiest_, let us draw near.' Christ's redemption has opened the way to
+the Holiest of all: our acceptance of it must lead to nothing less than
+our drawing near and entering in. The words of our text suggest to us
+four very precious thoughts in regard to the place of access, the right
+of access, the way of access, the power of access.
+
+_The place of access._ Whither are we invited to draw nigh? 'Having
+boldness to enter into _the Holiest_.' The priests in Israel might enter
+the holy place, but were always kept excluded from the Holiest, God's
+immediate presence. The rent veil proclaimed liberty of access into that
+Presence. It is there that believers as a royal priesthood are now to
+live and walk. Within the veil, in the very Holiest of all, in the same
+place, the heavenlies, in which God dwells, in God's very Presence, is
+to be our abode--our home. Some speak as if the, 'Let us draw near,'
+meant prayer, and that in our special approach to God in acts of worship
+we enter the Holiest. No; great as this privilege is, God has meant
+something for us infinitely greater. We are to draw near, and dwell
+always, to live our life and do our work within the sphere, the
+atmosphere, of the inner sanctuary. It is God's Presence makes holy
+ground; God's immediate Presence in Christ makes any place the Holiest
+of all: and this is it into which we are to draw nigh, and in which we
+are to abide. There is not a single moment of the day, there is not a
+circumstance or surrounding, in which the believer may not be kept
+dwelling in the secret place of the Most High. As by faith he enters
+into the completeness of his reconciliation with God, and the reality
+of his oneness with Christ, as he thus, abiding in Christ, yields to the
+Holy Spirit to reveal within the Presence of the Holy One, the Holiest
+of all is around him, he is indeed in it. With an uninterrupted access
+he draws near.[13]
+
+_The right of access._ The thought comes up, and the question is asked:
+Is this not simply an ideal? can it be a reality, an experience in daily
+life to those who know how sinful their nature is? Blessed be God! it is
+meant to be. It is possible, because our right of access rests not in
+what we are, but in the blood of Jesus. 'Having _boldness_ to enter into
+the Holiest _by the blood_ of Jesus, let us draw near.' In the Passover
+we saw how redemption, and the holiness it aimed at, were dependent on
+the blood. In the sanctuary, God's dwelling, we know how in each part,
+the court, the holy place, the Most Holy, the sprinkling of blood was
+what alone secured access to God. And now that the blood of Jesus has
+been shed--oh! in what Divine power, what intense reality, what
+everlasting efficacy, we now have access into the Holiest of all, the
+Most Holy of God's heart and His love! We are indeed brought nigh by the
+blood. We have boldness to enter by the blood. 'The worshippers, being
+once cleansed, have no more conscience of sins.' Walking in the light,
+the blood of Jesus cleanses in the power of an endless life, with a
+cleansing that never ceases. No consciousness of unworthiness or
+remaining sinfulness need hinder the boldness of access: the liberty to
+draw near rests in the never-failing, ever-acting, ever-living efficacy
+of the Precious Blood. It is possible for a believer to dwell in the
+Holiest of all.
+
+_The way of access._ It is often thought that what is said of _the new
+and living way_, dedicated for us by Jesus, means nothing different from
+the boldness through His blood. This is not the case. The words mean a
+great deal more. 'Having boldness _by the blood_ of Jesus, let us draw
+near _by the way_ which He dedicated for us.' That is, He opened for us
+a way to walk in, as He walked in it, 'a new and living way, through the
+veil, that is to say, His flesh.' The way in which Christ walked when He
+gave His blood, is the very same in which we must walk too. That way is
+the way of the Cross. There must not only be faith in Christ's
+sacrifice, but fellowship with Him in it. That way led to the rending of
+the veil of the flesh, and so through the rent veil of the flesh, in to
+God. And was the veil of Christ's holy flesh rent that the veil of our
+sinful flesh might be spared? Verily, no. He meant us to walk in the
+very same way in which He did, following closely after Himself. He
+dedicated for us a new and living way through the veil, that is, His
+flesh. As we go in through the rent veil of _His flesh_, we find in it
+at once the need and the power for our flesh being rent too: following
+Jesus ever means conformity to Jesus. It is Jesus with the rent flesh,
+in whom we are, in whom we walk.[14] There is no way to God but through
+the rending of the flesh. In acceptance of Christ's life and death by
+faith as the power that works in us, in the power of the Spirit which
+makes us truly one with Christ, we all follow Christ as He passes on
+through the rent veil, that is, His flesh, and become partakers with Him
+of His crucifixion and death. The way of the cross, 'by which I have
+been crucified,' is the way through the rent veil. Man's destiny,
+fellowship with God in the power of the Holy Spirit, is only reached
+through the sacrifice of the flesh.
+
+And here we find now the solution of a great mystery--why so many
+Christians remain standing afar off, and never enter this Holiest of
+all; why the holiness of God's Presence is so little seen on them. They
+thought that it was only in Christ that the flesh needed to be rent, not
+in themselves. They thought that the liberty they had in the blood was
+the new and living way. They knew not that the way into true and full
+holiness, into the Holiest of all, that the full entrance into the
+fellowship of the holiness of the Great High Priest, was only to be
+reached through the rent veil of the flesh, through conformity to the
+death of Jesus. This is in very deed the way He dedicated for us. He is
+Himself the way; into His self-denial, His self-sacrifice, His
+crucifixion, He takes up all who long to be holy with His Holiness, holy
+as He is holy.
+
+_The power of access._ Does any one shrink back from entering the very
+Holiest for fear of this rending of the flesh, because he doubts whether
+he could bear it, whether he could indeed walk in such a path? Let him
+listen once more. Hear what follows: 'And _having a Great Priest_ over
+the House of God, let us draw near.' We have not only the Holiest of all
+inviting us, and the blood giving us boldness, and the way through the
+rent veil consecrated for us, but the Great Priest over the House of
+God, the Blessed Living Saviour, to draw, to help, and to welcome us. He
+is our Aaron. On His heart we see our name, because He only lives to
+think of us, and pray for us. On His forehead we see God's name, 'Holy
+to the Lord,' because in His Holiness the sins of our holy things are
+covered. _In Him_ we are accepted and sanctified; God receives us as
+holy ones. In the power of His love and His Spirit, in the power of Him
+the Holy One, in the joy of drawing nearer to Him and being drawn by
+Him, we gladly accept the way He has dedicated, and walk in His holy
+footsteps of self-denial and self-sacrifice. We see how the flesh is the
+thick veil that separates from the Holy One who is a Spirit, and it
+becomes an unceasing and most fervent prayer, that the crucifixion of
+the flesh may, in the power of the Holy Spirit, be in us a blessed
+reality. With the glory of the Holiest of all shining out on us through
+the opened veil, and the Precious Blood speaking so loudly of boldness
+of access, and the Great Priest beckoning us with His loving Presence to
+draw near and be blessed,--with all this, we dare no longer fear, but
+choose the way of the rent veil as the path we love to tread, and give
+ourselves to enter in and dwell within the veil, in the very Holiest of
+all.
+
+And so our life here will be the earnest of the glory that is to come,
+as it is written--note how we have the four great thoughts of our text
+over again--'These are they which came out of great tribulation,' that
+is, by the way of the rent flesh; 'and they washed their robes, and made
+them white in the blood of the Lamb,' their boldness through the blood;
+'therefore are they before the throne of God,' their dwelling in the
+Holiest of all; 'the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall be
+their Shepherd,' the Great Priest still the Shepherd, Jesus Himself
+their all in all.
+
+Brother! do you see what holiness is, and how it is to be found? It is
+not something wrought in yourself. It is not something put on you from
+without. Holiness is the Presence of God resting on you. Holiness comes
+as you consciously abide in that Presence, doing all your work, and
+living all your life as a sacrifice to Him, acceptable through Jesus
+Christ, sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Oh, be no longer fearful, as if
+this life were not for you! Look to Jesus; having a Great Priest over
+the House of God, let us draw near. Be occupied with Jesus. Our Brother
+has charge of the Temple; He has liberty to show us all, to lead us into
+the secret of the Father's presence. The entire management of the Temple
+has been given into His hands with this very purpose, that all the
+feeble and doubting ones might come with confidence. Only trust yourself
+to Jesus, to His leading and keeping. Only trust Jesus, God's Holy One,
+your Holy One; it is His delight to reveal to you what He has purchased
+with His blood. Trust Him to teach you the ordinances of the sanctuary.
+'That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the House
+of God,' He has been given. _Having a Great Priest_, let us enter in,
+let us dwell in the Holiest of all. In the power of the blood, in the
+power of the new and living way, in the power of the Living Jesus, let
+the Holiest of all, the Presence of God, be the home of our soul. You
+are 'Holy in Christ;' in Christ you are in God's Holy Presence and Love;
+just stay there.
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! how shall I praise Thee for the liberty to enter into the
+Holiest of all, and dwell there? And for the precious Blood, that brings
+us nigh? And for the new and living way, through the rent veil of that
+flesh which had separated us from Thee, in which my flesh now too has
+been crucified? And for the Great Priest over the House of God, our
+Living Lord Jesus, with Whom and in Whom we appear before Thee? Glory be
+to Thy Holy Name for this wonderful and most complete redemption.
+
+I beseech Thee, O my God! give me, and all Thy children, some right
+sense of how really and surely we may live each day, may spend our whole
+life, within the veil, in Thine own Immediate Presence. Give us the
+spirit of revelation, I pray Thee, that we may see how, through the rent
+veil, the glory of Thy Presence streameth forth from the Most Holy into
+the holy place; how, in the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, the kingdom
+of heaven came to earth, and all who yield themselves to that Spirit may
+know that in Christ they are indeed so near, so very near to Thee.
+O Blessed Father! let Thy Spirit teach us that this indeed is the holy
+life: a life in Christ the Holy One, always in the Light and the
+Presence of Thy Holy Majesty.
+
+Most Holy God! I draw nigh. In the power of the Holy Spirit I enter in.
+I am now in the Holiest of all. And here I would abide in Jesus, my
+Great Priest--here, in the Holiest of all. Amen.
+
+
+  1. To abide in Christ is to dwell in the Holiest of all. Christ is
+     not only the Sacrifice, and the Way, and the Great Priest, but
+     also Himself the Temple. 'The Lamb is the Temple.' As the Holy
+     Spirit reveals my union to Christ more clearly, and heart and
+     will lose themselves in Him, I dwell in the Holy Presence,
+     which is the Holiest of all. You are 'holy in Christ'--draw
+     near, enter in with boldness, and take possession--have no home
+     but in the Holiest of all.
+
+  2. 'Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He
+     might sanctify it.' _He gave Himself!_ Have you caught the
+     force of that word? Because He would have no one else do it,
+     because none could do it; to sanctify His Church, _He gave
+     Himself_ to do it. And so it is His own special beloved work to
+     sanctify the Church He loved. Just accept Himself to do it. He
+     can and will make you holy, that He may present you to
+     _Himself_ glorious, without spot or wrinkle. Let that word
+     _Himself_ live in you. The whole life and walk in the House of
+     God is in His charge. _Having_ a Great Priest, let us draw
+     near.
+
+  3. This entrance into the Holiest of all--an ever fresh and ever
+     deeper entrance--is, at the same time, an ever blessed resting
+     in the Father's Presence. Faith in the blood, following in the
+     way of the rent flesh, and fellowship with the Living Jesus,
+     are the three chief steps.
+
+  4. Enter into the Holiest of all, and dwell there. It will enter
+     into thee, and transform thee, and dwell in thee. And thy heart
+     will be the Holiest of all, in which He dwells.
+
+  5. Have we not at times been lifted, by an effort of thought and
+     will, or in the fellowship of the saints, into what seemed the
+     Holiest of all, and speedily felt that the flesh had entered
+     there too? It was because we entered not by the new way of
+     life--the way through death to life--the way of the rent veil
+     of the flesh. O our crucified Lord! teach us what this means;
+     give it us; be it Thyself to us.
+
+  6. Let me remember that my access into the Holiest is as a Priest.
+     Let me dwell before the Lord all the day as an Intercessor,
+     offering, unceasingly, pleadings which are acceptable in
+     Christ. May God's Church be like her of whom it is written,
+     'She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings
+     and prayers night and day.' It is for this we have access to
+     the Holiest of all.
+
+
+   [13] So near, so very near to God,
+          I cannot nearer be;
+        For in the person of His Son,
+          I am as near as He.
+
+   [14] 'Christ suffered, that He might bring us to God, being put to
+        death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit.' 'Forasmuch
+        then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also
+        with the same mind.' The flesh and the Spirit are antagonistic:
+        as the flesh dies, the Spirit lives.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-ninth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Chastisement.
+
+  'He chasteneth us for our profit, that we may be partakers of _His
+  holiness_. Follow after _sanctification_, without which no man
+  shall see the Lord.'--Heb. xii. 10, 14.
+
+
+There is perhaps no part of God's word which sheds such Divine light
+upon suffering as the Epistle to the Hebrews. It does this because it
+teaches us what suffering was to the Son of God. It perfected His
+humanity. It so fitted Him for His work as the Compassionate High
+Priest. It proved that He, who had fulfilled God's will in suffering
+obedience, was indeed worthy to be its executor in glory, and to sit
+down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. 'It became God, in
+bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Author of their salvation
+_perfect_ through _sufferings_.' 'Though He was a Son, yet _learned_ He
+_obedience_ by the things which He _suffered_, and having been made
+_perfect_, became the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey
+Him.' As He said Himself of His suffering, 'I sanctify myself,' so we
+see here that His sufferings were indeed to Him the pathway to
+perfection and holiness.
+
+What Christ was and won was all for us. The power which suffering was
+proved to have in Him to work out perfection, the power which He
+imparted to it in sanctifying Himself through suffering, is the power of
+the new life that comes from Him to us. In the light of His example we
+can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is
+to God's child the token of the Father's love, and the channel of His
+richest blessing. To such faith the apparent mystery of suffering is
+seen to be nothing but a Divine need--the light affliction that works
+out--yea, _works out_ and actually effects the exceeding weight of
+glory. We agree not only to what is written, 'It _became_ Him to make
+the Author of salvation perfect through suffering,' but understand
+somewhat how Divinely becoming and meet it is that we too should be
+sanctified by suffering.
+
+'He chasteneth us for our profit, that we should be made partakers of
+His holiness.' Of all the precious words Holy Scripture has for the
+sorrowful, there is hardly one that leads us more directly and more
+deeply into the fulness of blessing that suffering is meant to bring. It
+is _His Holiness_, God's own Holiness, we are to be made partakers of.
+The Epistle had spoken very clearly of our sanctification from its
+Divine side, as wrought out for us, and to be wrought in us, by Jesus
+Himself. 'He which sanctifieth and they which are sanctified are all of
+one.' 'We have been sanctified by the one offering of Christ.' In our
+text we have the other side, the progressive work by which we are
+personally to accept and voluntarily to appropriate this Divine
+Holiness. In view of all there is in us that is at variance with God's
+will, and that must be discovered and broken down, before we understand
+what it is to give up our will and delight in God's; in view of the
+personal fellowship of suffering which alone can lead to the full
+appreciation of what Jesus bore and did for us; in view, too, of the
+full personal entrance into and satisfaction with the love of God as our
+sufficient portion; chastisement and suffering are indispensable
+elements in God's work of making holy. In these three aspects we shall
+see how what the Son needed is what we need, how what was of such
+unspeakable value to the Son will to us be no less rich in blessing.
+
+_Chastisement leads to the acceptance of God's will._ We have seen how
+God's will is our sanctification; how it is in the will of God Christ
+has sanctified us; yea more, how He found the power to sanctify us in
+sanctifying Himself by the entire surrender of His will to God. His 'I
+delight to do Thy will' derived its worth from His continual 'Not my
+will.' And wherever God comes with chastisement or suffering, the very
+first object He has in view is, to ask and to work in us union with His
+own blessed will, that through it we may have union with Himself and
+His love. He comes in some one single point in which His will crosses
+our most cherished affection or desire, and asks the surrender of what
+we will to what He wills. When this is done willingly and lovingly, He
+leads the soul on to see how the claim for the sacrifice in the
+individual matter is the assertion of a principle--that in everything
+His will is to be our one desire. Happy the soul to whom affliction is
+not a series of single acts of conflict and submission to single acts of
+His will, but an entrance into the school where we prove and approve all
+the good and perfect and acceptable will of God.
+
+It has sometimes appeared, even to God's children, as if affliction were
+not a blessing: it so rouses the evil nature, and calls forth all the
+opposition of the heart against God's will, that it has brought the loss
+of the peace and the piety that once appeared to reign. Even in such
+cases it is working out God's purpose. 'That He might humble thee, to
+prove thee, to know what was in thine heart,' is still His object in
+leading into the wilderness. To an extent we are not aware of, our
+religion is often selfish and superficial: when we accept the teaching
+of chastisement in discovering the self-will and love of the world which
+still prevails, we have learnt one of its first and most needful
+lessons.
+
+This lesson has special difficulty when the trial does not come direct
+from God, but through men or circumstances. In looking at second
+causes, and in seeking for their removal, in the feeling of indignation
+or of grief, we often entirely forget to see God's will in everything
+His Providence allows. As long as we do so, the chastisement is
+fruitless; and perhaps only hardens the more. If, in our study of the
+pathway of Holiness, there has been awakened in us the desire to accept
+and adore, and stand complete in, _all the will_ of God, let us in the
+very first place seek to recognise that will in everything that comes on
+us. The sin of him who vexes us is not God's will. But it is God's will
+that we should be in that position of difficulty to be tried and tested.
+Let our first thought be: this position of difficulty is my Father's
+will for me: I accept that will as my place now where He sees it fit to
+try me. Such acceptance of the trial is the way to turn it into
+blessing. It will lead on to an ever clearer abiding in all the will of
+God all the day.
+
+_Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son._ The will of God out
+of Christ is a law we cannot fulfil. The will of God in Christ is a life
+that fills us. He came in the name of our fallen humanity, and accepted
+all God's will as it rested on us, both in the demands of the law, and
+in the consequences which sin had brought upon man. He gave Himself
+entirely to God's will, whatever it cost Him. And so He paved for us a
+way through suffering, not only through it in the sense of past it and
+out of it, but by means and in virtue of it, into the love and glory of
+the Father. And it is in the power which Christ gives in fellowship
+with Himself that we too can love the way of the Cross, as the best and
+most blessed way to the Crown. Scripture says that the will of God is
+our sanctification, and also that Christ is our Sanctification. It is
+only in Christ that we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of
+God. In Him we have the power. He became our Sanctification once for all
+by delighting to do that will; He becomes our Sanctification in personal
+experience, by teaching us to delight to do it. He learned to do it; He
+could not become perfect in doing it otherwise than by suffering. In
+suffering He draws nigh; He makes our suffering the fellowship of His
+suffering; and in it makes Himself, who was perfected through suffering,
+our Sanctification.
+
+O ye suffering ones! all ye whom the Father is chastening! come and see
+Jesus suffering, giving up His will, being made perfect, sanctifying
+Himself. _His suffering is the secret of His Holiness, of His Glory, of
+His Life._ Will you not thank God for anything that can admit you into
+the nearer fellowship of your blessed Lord? Shall we not accept every
+trial, great or small, as the call of His love to be one with Himself in
+living only for God's will. This is Holiness, to be one with Jesus as He
+does the will of God, to abide in Jesus who was made perfect through
+suffering.
+
+_Chastisement leads to the enjoyment of God's love._ Many a father has
+been surprised as he made his first experience of how a child, after
+being punished in love, began to cling to him more tenderly than
+before. Even so, while to those who live at a distance from their
+Father, the misery in this world appears to be the one thing that shakes
+their faith in God's Love, it is just through suffering that His
+children learn to know the Reality of that Love. The chastening is so
+distinctly a father's prerogative; it leads so directly to the
+confession of its needfulness and its lovingness; it wakens so
+powerfully the longing for pardon and comfort and deliverance, that it
+does indeed become, strange though this may seem, one of the surest
+guides into the deeper experience of the Divine Love. Chastening is the
+school in which the blessed lesson is learnt that the will of God is all
+Love, and that Holiness is the fire of Love, consuming that it may
+purify, destroying the dross only that it may assimilate into its own
+perfect purity all that yields itself to the wondrous change.
+
+'We know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love:
+and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in Him.' Man's
+destiny is fellowship with God, the fellowship, the mutual indwelling of
+love. It is only by faith that this Love of God can be known. And faith
+can only grow by exercise, can only thrive in trial: when visible things
+fail, its energy is roused to yield itself to be possessed by the
+Invisible, by the Divine. Chastisement is the nurse of faith; one of its
+chosen attendants, to lead deeper into the Love of God. This is the new
+and living way, the way of the rent flesh in fellowship with Jesus
+leading up into the Holiest of all. There it is seen how the Justice
+that will not spare the child, and the Love that sustains and sanctifies
+it, are both one in the Holiness of God.
+
+0 ye chastened saints! who are so specially being led in the way that
+goes through the rent veil of the flesh, you have boldness to enter in.
+Draw near; come and dwell in the Holiest of all. Make your abode in the
+Holiest of all: there you are made partakers of _His_ Holiness.
+Chastisement is bringing your heart into unity with God's Will, God's
+Son, God's Love. Abide in God's Will. Abide in God's Son. Abide in God's
+Love. Dwell, within the veil, in the Holiest of all.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! once again I bless Thee for the wondrous revelation of
+Thy Holiness. Not only have I heard Thee speak, 'I am holy,' but Thou
+hast invited me to fellowship with Thyself: 'Be holy, as I am holy.'
+Blessed be Thy name! I have heard more even: 'I make holy,' is Thy word
+of promise, pledging Thine own Power to work out the purpose of Thy
+Love. I do thank Thee for what Thou hast revealed in Thy Son, in Thy
+Spirit, in Thy Word, of the path of Holiness. But how shall I bless Thee
+for the lesson of this day, that there is not a loss or sorrow, not a
+pain or care, not a temptation or trial, but Thy love also means it, and
+makes it, to be a help in working out the holiness of Thy people.
+Through each Thou drawest to Thyself, that they may taste how, in
+accepting Thy Will of Love, there is blessing and deliverance.
+
+Blessed Father! Thou knowest how often I have looked upon the
+circumstances and the difficulties of this life as hindrances. Oh, let
+them all, in the light of Thy holy purpose to make us partakers of Thy
+Holiness, in the light of Thy Will and Thy Love, from this hour be
+helps. Let, above all, the path of Thy Blessed Son, proving how
+suffering is the discipline of a Father's love, and surrender the secret
+of holiness, and sacrifice the entrance to the Holiest of all, be so
+revealed that in the power of His Spirit and His grace that path may
+become mine. Let even chastening, even the least, be from Thine own
+hand, making me partaker of Thy Holiness. Amen.
+
+
+  1. How wonderful the revelation in the Epistle to the Hebrews of
+     the holiness and the holy making power of suffering, as seen in
+     the Son of God! 'He _learned obedience_ by the things which He
+     suffered.' 'It became God to make the Author of our salvation
+     _perfect_ through suffering, for both He that sanctifieth and
+     they who are sanctified are all of one.' 'In that He Himself
+     hath suffered, He is _able to succour_.' 'We behold Jesus,
+     because of the suffering of death, _crowned with glory_ and
+     honour.' Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and
+     living way Jesus walked in and opened for us. Let all sufferers
+     study this. Let all who are 'holy in Christ' here learn to know
+     the Christ _in whom_ they are holy, and the way in which He
+     sanctified Himself and sanctifies us.
+
+  2. If we begin by realizing the sympathy of Jesus with us in our
+     suffering, it will lead us on to what is more: sympathy with
+     Jesus in His suffering, fellowship with Him to suffer even as
+     He did.
+
+  3. Let suffering and holiness be inseparably linked, as in God's
+     mind and in Christ's person, so in your life through the
+     Spirit. 'It became God to make Him perfect through suffering;
+     for both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are
+     all of one.' Let _every trial_, small or great, be the touch of
+     God's hand, laying hold on you, to lead you to holiness. Give
+     yourself into that hand.
+
+  4. 'Insomuch as ye are partakers of _Christ's sufferings_,
+     rejoice; for _the Spirit of glory_ and of God resteth on you.'
+
+
+
+
+Thirtieth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Unction from the Holy One.
+
+  'And ye have _an anointing from the Holy One_, and ye know all
+  things. And as for you, the anointing which ye received of Him
+  abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as His
+  anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is
+  no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in Him.'--1 John ii.
+  20, 27.
+
+
+In the revelation by Moses of God's Holiness and His way of making holy,
+the priests, and specially the high priests, were the chief expression
+of God's Holiness in man. In the priests themselves, the holy anointing
+oil was the one great symbol of the grace that made holy. Moses was to
+make an holy anointing oil: 'And thou shalt take of the anointing oil,
+and sprinkle it upon Aaron and upon his sons, and he shall be hallowed,
+and his sons with him.' 'This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me.
+Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured; neither shall ye make any other
+like it; it is holy, it shall be holy unto you' (Exod. xxix. 21, xxx.
+25-32). With this the priests, and specially the high priests, were to
+be anointed and consecrated: 'He that is the high priest among you, upon
+whose head the anointing oil was poured, shall not go out of the holy
+place, nor profane the holy place of his God; for _the crown of the
+anointing oil of his God_ is upon him' (Lev. xxi. 10, 12). And even so
+it is said of David, as type of the Messiah, 'Our king is _of the Holy
+One of Israel_. I have found David, my servant; with my _holy oil_ have
+I anointed him.'
+
+We know how the Hebrew name _Messiah_, and the Greek _Christ_, has
+reference to this. So, in the passage just quoted, the Hebrew is, 'with
+my holy oil I have _messiahed_ him.' And so in a passage like Acts x.
+38: 'Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, whom God _christed_ with the Holy
+Ghost and with power.' Or Ps. xlv.: 'God hath _messiahed_ thee with the
+oil of gladness above thy fellows;' in Heb. i. 9, 'Thy God hath
+_christed_ thee with the oil of gladness.' And so (as one of our
+Reformed Catechisms, the Heidelberg, has it, in answer to the question,
+Why art thou called a Christian?) we are called Christians, because we
+are fellow-partakers with Him of His christing, His anointing. This is
+the anointing of which John speaks, the chrisma or christing of the Holy
+One. The Holy Spirit is the holy anointing which every believer
+receives: what God did to His Son to make Him the Christ, He does to me
+to make me a Christian. 'Ye have the anointing of the Holy One.'
+
+1. _Ye have an anointing from the Holy One._ It is as the Holy One that
+the Father gives the anointing: that wherewith He anoints is called the
+oil of holiness, the Holy Spirit. Holiness is indeed a Divine ointment.
+Just as there is nothing so subtle and penetrating as the odour with
+which the ointment fills a house, so holiness is an indescribable,
+all-pervading breath of heavenliness which pervades the man on whom the
+anointing rests. Holiness does not consist in certain actions: this is
+righteousness. Holiness is the unseen and yet manifest presence of the
+Holy One resting on His anointed. Direct from the Holy One, the
+anointing is alone received, or rather, only in the abiding fellowship
+with Him in Christ, who is the Holy One of God.
+
+And who receives it? Only he who has given himself entirely to be holy
+as God is holy. It was the priest, who was separated to be holy to the
+Lord, who received the anointing: upon other men's flesh it was not to
+be poured. How many would fain have the precious ointment for the sake
+of its perfume to themselves! No, only he who is wholly consecrated to
+the service of the Holy One, to the work of the sanctuary, may receive
+it. If any one had said: I would fain have the anointing, but not be
+made a priest; I am not ready to go and always be at the call of sinners
+seeking their God, he could have no share in it. Holiness is the energy
+that only lives to make holy, and to bless in so doing: the anointing of
+the Holy One is for the priest, the servant of God Most High. It is only
+in the intensity of a soul truly roused and given up to God's glory,
+God's kingdom, God's work, that holiness becomes a reality. The holy
+garments were only prepared for priests and their service. In all our
+seekings after holiness, let us remember this. As we beware of the error
+of thinking that work for Christ will make holy, let us also watch
+against the other, the straining after holiness without work. It is the
+priest who is set apart for the service of the holy place and the Holy
+One, it is the believer who is ready to live and die that the Holiness
+of God may triumph among men around him, who will receive the anointing.
+
+2. '_The anointing teacheth you._' The new man is created in
+_knowledge_, as well as in righteousness and holiness. Christ is made to
+us _wisdom_, as well as righteousness and sanctification. God's service
+and our holiness are above all to be a free and full, an intelligent and
+most willing, approval of His blessed will. And so the anointing, to fit
+us for the service of the sanctuary, teaches us to know all things. Just
+as the perfume of the ointment is the most subtle essence, something
+that has never yet been found or felt, except as it is smelt, so the
+spiritual faculty which the anointing gives is the most subtle there can
+be. It makes 'quick of scent in the fear of the Lord:' it teaches us by
+a Divine instinct, by which the anointed one recognises what has the
+heavenly fragrance in it, and what is of earth. It is the anointing that
+makes the Word and the name of Jesus in the Word to be indeed as
+ointment poured forth.
+
+The great mark of the anointing is thus, teachableness. It is the great
+mark of Christ, the Holy One of God, the Anointed One, that He listens:
+'I speak not of myself; as I hear, so I speak.' And so it is of the Holy
+Spirit too: 'He shall not speak out of Himself: whatsoever He shall
+hear, that shall He speak.' It cannot be otherwise: one anointed with
+the anointing of this Christ, with this Holy Spirit, will be teachable,
+will listen to be taught. 'The anointing teacheth.' 'And ye need not
+that any one teach you: but the anointing teacheth you concerning all
+things.' 'They shall be all taught of God,' includes every believer. The
+secret of true holiness is a very direct and personal relation to the
+Holy One: all the teaching through the word or men made entirely
+dependent on and subordinate to the personal teaching of the Holy Ghost.
+The teaching comes through the anointing. Not, in the first place, in
+the thoughts or feelings, but in that all-pervading fragrance which
+comes from the fresh oil having penetrated the whole inner man.
+
+3. '_And the anointing abideth in you._' '_In you._' In the spiritual
+life it is of deep importance ever to maintain the harmony between the
+objective and the subjective: God in Christ above me, God in the Spirit
+within me. In us, not as in a locality, but _in us_, as one with us,
+entering into the most secret part of our being, and pervading all,
+dwelling in our very body, the anointing abideth _in us_, forming part
+of our very selves. And this just in proportion as we know it and yield
+ourselves to it, as we wait and are still to let the secret fragrance
+permeate our whole being. And this, again, not interruptedly, but as a
+continuous and unvarying experience. Above circumstances and feelings,
+'the anointing abideth.' Not, indeed, as a fixed state or as something
+in our own possession; but, according to the law of the new life, in the
+dependence of faith on the Holy One, and in the fellowship of Jesus. 'I
+am anointed with fresh oil,'--this is the objective side; every new
+morning the believer waits for the renewal of the Divine gift from the
+Father. 'The anointing abideth in you,'--this is the subjective side;
+the holy life, the life of faith and fellowship, the anointing, is
+always, from moment to moment, a spiritual reality. The holy anointing
+oil, always fresh, the anointing abiding always, is the secret of
+holiness.
+
+4. '_And even as it taught you, ye abide in Him._' Here we have again
+the Holy Trinity: the Holy One, from whom the holy anointing comes; the
+Holy Spirit, who is Himself the anointing; and Christ, the Holy One of
+God, in whom the anointing teaches us to abide. In Christ the unseen
+holiness of God was set before us, and brought nigh: it became human,
+vested in a human nature, that it might be communicated to us. Within us
+dwells and works the Holy Spirit, drawing us out to the Christ of God,
+uniting us in heart and will to Him, revealing Him, forming Him within
+us, so that His likeness and mind are embodied in us. It is thus we
+abide in Christ: the holy anointing of the Holy One teacheth it to us.
+It is this that is the test of the true anointing: abiding in Christ, as
+He meant it, becomes truth in us. Here is the life of holiness as the
+Thrice Holy gives it: the Father, the first, the Holy One, making holy;
+the Son, the second, His Holy One, in whom we are; the Spirit, the
+third, who dwells in us, and through whom we abide in Christ, and Christ
+in us. Thus it is that the Thrice Holy makes us holy.
+
+Let us study the Divine anointing. It comes from the Holy One. There is
+no other like it. It is God's way of making us holy--His holy priests.
+It is God's way of making us partakers of holiness in Christ. The
+anointing, received of Him day by day, abiding in us, teaching us all
+things, especially teaching us to abide in Christ, must be on us every
+day. Its subtle, all-pervading power must go through our whole life: the
+odour of the ointment must fill the house. Blessed be God, it can do so!
+The anointing that abideth makes the abiding in Christ a reality and a
+certainty; and God Himself, the Holy One, makes the abiding anointing a
+reality and a certainty too. To His Holy Name be the praise!
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Thou, who art the Holy One, I come to Thee now for the renewed
+anointing. O Father! this is the one gift Thy child may most surely
+count on--the gift of Thy Holy Spirit. Grant me now to sing, 'Thou
+anointest my head;' 'I am anointed with fresh oil.'
+
+I desire to confess with deep shame that Thy Spirit has been sorely
+grieved and dishonoured. How often the fleshly mind has usurped His
+place in Thy worship! How much the fleshly will has sought to do His
+work! O my Father! let Thy light shine through me to convince me very
+deeply of this. Let Thy judgment come on all that there is of human
+willing and running.
+
+Blessed Father! grant me, according to the riches of Thy glory, even now
+to be strengthened with might by Thy Spirit in the inner man. Strengthen
+my faith to believe in Christ for a full share in His anointing. Oh,
+teach me day by day to wait for and receive the anointing with fresh
+oil!
+
+O my Father! draw me and all Thy children to see that for the abiding in
+Christ we need the abiding anointing. Father! we would walk humbly, in
+the dependence of faith, counting upon the inner and ever-abiding
+anointing. May we so be a sweet savour of Christ to all. Amen.
+
+
+  1. I think I know now the reason why at times we fail in the
+     abiding. We think and read, we listen and pray, we try to
+     believe and strive to look to Jesus only, and yet we fail. What
+     was wanting was this: 'His anointing teacheth you; _even as_ it
+     taught you, ye abide in him;' so far, and no farther.
+
+  2. The washing always precedes the anointing: we cannot have the
+     anointing if we fail in the cleansing. When cleansed and
+     anointed we are fit for use.
+
+  3. Would you have the abiding anointing? Yield yourself wholly
+     to be sanctified and made meet for the Master's use: dwell in
+     the Holiest of all, in God's presence: accept every
+     chastisement as a fellowship in the way of the rent flesh: be
+     sure the anointing will flow in union with Jesus. 'It is like
+     the precious ointment upon the head of Aaron, that went down to
+     the skirts of his garments.'
+
+  4. The anointing is the Divine eye-salve, opening the eyes of the
+     heart to know Jesus. So it teaches to abide in Him. I am sure
+     most Christians have no conception of the danger and
+     deceitfulness of a thought religion, with sweet and precious
+     thoughts coming to us in books and preaching, and little power.
+     The teaching of the Holy Spirit is in the heart first; man's
+     teaching in the mind. Let all our thinking ever lead us to
+     cease from thought, and to open the heart and will to the
+     Spirit to teach there in His own Divine way, deeper than
+     thought and feeling. Unseen, within the veil, the Holy Spirit
+     abideth. Be silent and still, believe and expect, and cling to
+     Jesus.
+
+  5. Oh that God would visit His Church, and teach His children what
+     it is to wait for, and receive, and walk in the full anointing,
+     the anointing that abideth and teacheth to abide! Oh that the
+     truth of the personal leading of the Holy Spirit in every
+     believer were restored in the Church! He is doing it; He will
+     do it.
+
+
+
+
+Thirty-first Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Heaven.
+
+  'Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
+  men ought ye to be in all _holy_ living and godliness?'--2 Pet.
+  iii. 11.
+
+  'Follow after _the sanctification_ without which no man shall see
+  the Lord.'--Heb. xii. 14.
+
+  'He that is _holy_, let him be made _holy_ still.... The grace of
+  the Lord Jesus be with the _holy ones_. Amen.'--Rev. xxii. 11, 21.
+
+
+O my brother, we are on our way to see God. We have been invited to meet
+the Holy One face to face. The infinite mystery of holiness, the glory
+of the Invisible God, before which the seraphim veil their faces, is to
+be unveiled, to be revealed to us. And that not as a thing we are to
+look upon and to study. But we are to see the Thrice Holy One, the
+Living God Himself. God, the Holy One, will show Himself to us: we are
+to see God. Oh, the infinite grace, the inconceivable blessedness! we
+are to see God.
+
+We are to see God, the Holy One. And all our schooling here in the life
+of holiness is simply the preparation for that meeting and that vision.
+'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.' 'Follow after
+the sanctification, without which no man shall see the Lord.' Since the
+time when God said to Israel, 'Be ye holy, as I am holy,' Holiness was
+revealed as the only meeting-place between God and His people. To be
+holy was to be the common ground on which they were to stand with Him;
+the one attribute in which they were to be like God; the one thing that
+was to prepare them for the glorious time when He would no longer need
+to keep them away, but would admit them to the full fellowship of His
+glory, to have the word fulfilled in them: 'He that is holy, let him be
+made yet more holy.'
+
+In his second epistle, Peter reminds believers that the coming of the
+day of the Lord is to be preceded and accompanied by the most tremendous
+catastrophe--the dissolution of the heavens and the earth. He makes it a
+plea with them to give diligence that they may be found without spot and
+blameless in His sight. And he asks them to think and say, under the
+deep sense of what the coming of the day of God would be and would
+bring, what the life of those ought to be who look for such things:
+'What manner of person ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness?'
+Holiness must be its one, its universal characteristic. At the close of
+our meditations on God's call to Holiness, we may take Peter's question,
+and in the light of all that God has revealed of His Holiness, and all
+that waits still to be revealed, ask ourselves, 'What manner of men
+ought we to be in all holy living and godliness?'
+
+Note first the meaning of the question. In the original Greek, the words
+living and godliness are plural. Alford says, '_In holy behaviours and
+pieties_; the plurals mark the holy behaviour and piety _in all its
+forms and examples_.' Peter would plead for a life of holiness pervading
+the whole man: our behaviours towards men, and our pieties towards God.
+True holiness cannot be found in anything less. Holiness must be the
+one, the universal characteristic of our Christian life. In God we have
+seen that holiness is the central attribute, the comprehensive
+expression for Divine perfection, the attribute of all the attributes,
+the all-including epithet by which He Himself, as Redeemer and Father,
+His Son and His Spirit, His Day, His House, His Law, His Servants, His
+People, His Name, are marked and known. Always and in everything, in
+Judgment as in Mercy, in His Exaltation and His Condescension, in His
+Hiddenness and His Revelation, always and in everything, God is the Holy
+One. And the Word would teach us that the reign of Holiness, to be true
+and pleasing to God, must be supreme, must be in all holy living and
+godliness. There must not be a moment of the day, nor a relation in
+life; there must be nothing in the outer conduct, nor in the inmost
+recesses of the heart; there must be nothing belonging to us, whether
+in worship or in business, that is not holy. The Holiness of Jesus, the
+Holiness which comes of the Spirit's anointing, must cover and pervade
+all. Nothing, nothing may be excluded, if we are to be holy; it must be
+as Peter said when he spoke of God's call--holy in all manner of living;
+it must be as he says here--'in all holy living and godliness.' To use
+the significant language of the Holy Spirit: Everything must be done,
+'worthily of the holy ones,' 'as becometh holy ones' (Rom. xvi. 3; Eph.
+v. 3).
+
+Note, too, the force of the question. Peter says, 'Wherefore, beloved,
+seeing that ye look for these things.' Yes, let us think what that
+means. We have been studying, down through the course of Revelation,
+the wondrous grace and patience with which God has made known and made
+partaker of His holiness, all in preparation for what is to come. We
+have heard God, the Holy One, calling us, pleading with us, commanding
+us to be holy, as He is holy. And we expect to meet Him, and to dwell
+through eternity in His Light, holy as He is holy. It is not a dream; it
+is a living reality; we are looking forward to it, as the only one thing
+that makes life worth living. We are looking forward to Love to welcome
+us, as with the confidence of childlike love we come as His holy ones to
+cry, Holy Father!
+
+We have learnt to know Jesus, the Holy One of God, our Sanctification.
+We are living in Him, day by day, as those who are holy in Christ Jesus.
+We are drawing on His Holiness without ceasing. We are walking in that
+will of God which He did, and which He enables us to do. And we are
+looking forward to meet Him with great joy, 'when He shall come to be
+glorified in the holy ones, and to be admired in all them that believe.'
+We have within us the Holy Spirit, the Holiness of God in Christ come
+down to be at home within us, as the earnest of our inheritance. He, the
+Spirit of Holiness, is secretly transforming us within, sanctifying our
+spirit, soul, and body, to be blameless at His coming, and making us
+meet for the inheritance of the holy ones in light. We are looking
+forward to the time when He shall have completed His work, when the body
+of Christ shall be perfected, and the bride, all filled and streaming
+with the life and glory of the Spirit within her, shall be set with Him
+on His throne, even as He sat with the Father on His throne. We hope
+through eternity to worship and adore the mystery of the Thrice Holy
+One. Even here it fills our souls with trembling joy and wonder: when
+God's work of making holy is complete, how we shall join in the song,
+'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which wast, and art, and art to
+come!'
+
+In preparation for all this the most wonderful events are to take place.
+The Lord Jesus Himself is to appear, the power of sin and the world is
+to be destroyed; this visible system of things is to be broken up; the
+power of the Spirit is to triumph through all creation; there is to be a
+new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. And holiness
+is then to be unfolded in ever-growing blessedness and glory in the
+fellowship of the Thrice Holy: 'He that is holy, let him be holy yet
+more.' Surely it but needs the question to be put for each believer to
+feel and acknowledge its force: 'Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look
+for these things, what manner of men ought ye to be in all holy living
+and godliness?'
+
+And note now the need and the point of the question. 'What manner of
+persons ought ye to be?' But is such a question needed? Can it be that
+God's holy ones, made holy in Christ Jesus, with the very spirit of
+holiness dwelling with them, on the way to meet the Holy One in His
+Glory and Love, can it be that they need the question? Alas! alas! it
+was so in the time of Peter; it is but too much so in our days too.
+Alas! how many Christians there are to whom the very word Holy, though
+it be the name by which the Father, in His New Testament, loves to call
+His children more than any other, is strange and unintelligible. And
+again, alas! for how many Christians there are for whom, when the word
+is heard, it has but little attraction, because it has never yet been
+shown to them as a life that is indeed possible, and unutterably
+blessed. And yet again, alas! for how many are there not, even workers
+in the Master's service, to whom the 'all holy living and godliness' is
+yet a secret and a burden, because they have not yet consented to give
+up all, both their will and their work, for the Holy One to take and
+fill with His Holy Spirit. And yet once more, alas! as the cry comes,
+even from those who do know the power of a holy life, lamenting their
+unfaithfulness and unbelief, as they see how much richer their entrance
+into the Holy Life might have been, and how much fuller the blessing
+they still feel so feeble to communicate to others. Oh, the question is
+needed! Shall not each of us take it, and keep it, and answer it by the
+Holy Spirit through whom it came, and then pass it on to our brethren,
+that we and they may help each other in faith, and live in joy and hope
+to give the answer our God would have?
+
+'Seeing that these things are, then, all to be dissolved, what manner of
+persons ought we to be in all holy living and godliness?' Brethren! the
+time is short. The world is passing away. The heathen are perishing.
+Christians are sleeping. Satan is active and mighty. God's holy ones are
+the hope of the Church and the world. It is they their Lord can use.
+'What manner of persons shall we be in all holy living and godliness!'
+Shall we not seek to be such as the Father commands, 'Holy, as He is
+holy'? Shall we not yield ourselves afresh and undividedly to Him who is
+our Sanctification, and to His Blessed Spirit, to make us holy in all
+behaviours and pieties? Oh! shall we not, in thought of the love of our
+Lord Jesus, in thought of the coming glory, in view of the coming end,
+of the need of the Church and the world, give ourselves to be holy as He
+is holy, that we may have power to bless each believer we meet with the
+message of what God will do, and that in concert with them we may be a
+light and a blessing to this perishing world?
+
+I close with the closing words of God's Blessed Book, 'He which
+testifieth these things saith, Yea, I come quickly. Amen: Come, Lord
+Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the holy ones. Amen.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! who hast called us to be holy, we have heard Thy voice
+asking, What manner of persons we ought to be in all holy living and
+godliness? With our whole soul we answer in deep contrition and
+humility: Holy Father! we ought to be so different from what we have
+been. In faith and love, in zeal and devotion, in Christlike humility
+and holiness, O Father! we have not been, before Thee and the world,
+what we ought to be, what we could be. Holy Father! we now pray for all
+who unite with us in this prayer, and implore of Thee to grant a great
+revival of True Holiness in us and in all Thy Church. Visit, we beseech
+Thee, visit all ministers of Thy word, that in view of Thy coming they
+may take up and sound abroad the question, What manner of persons ought
+ye to be? Lay upon them, and all Thy people, such a burden under
+surrounding unholiness and worldliness, that they may not cease to cry
+to Thee. Grant them such a vision of the highway of holiness, the new
+and living way in Christ, that they may preach Christ our Sanctification
+in the power and the joy of the Holy Ghost, with the confident and
+triumphant voice of witnesses who rejoice in what Thou dost for them.
+O God! roll away the reproach of Thy people, that their profession does
+not make them humbler or holier, more loving, and more heavenly than
+others.
+
+O Holy God! give Thou Thyself the answer to Thy question, and teach us
+and the world what manner of persons Thy people can be, in the day of
+Thy power, in the beauty of holiness. We bow our knee to Thee, O Father,
+that Thou wouldst grant us, according to the riches of Thy glory, to be
+mightily strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of Holiness. Amen.
+
+
+  1. What manner of men ought ye to be in all the holy living? This
+     is a question God has written down for us. Might it not help us
+     if we were to write down the answer, and say how holy we think
+     we ought to be? The clearer and more distinct our views are of
+     what God wishes, of what He has made possible, of what in
+     reality _ought_ to be, the more definite our acts of
+     confession, of surrender, and of faith can become.
+
+  2. Let every believer, who longs to be holy, join in the daily
+     prayer that God would visit His people with a great outpouring
+     of the Spirit of Holiness. Pray without ceasing that every
+     believer may live as a holy one.
+
+  3. 'Seeing that _ye look for_ these things.' Our life depends, in
+     more than one sense, upon what we look at. 'We look not at the
+     things which are seen.' It is only as we look at the Invisible
+     and Spiritual, and come under its power, that we shall be what
+     we ought to be in all holy living and godliness.
+
+  4. _Holy in Christ._ Let this be our parting word. However
+     strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round
+     the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its
+     fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where
+     it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too. All the outer
+     circumference of my life has its centre in the ego--the living,
+     conscious I myself, in which my being roots. And this I is
+     rooted in Christ. Down in the depths of my inner life, there is
+     Christ holding, bearing, guiding, quickening me into holiness
+     and fruitfulness. In Him I am, In Him I will abide. His will
+     and commands will I keep; His Love and Power will I trust. And
+     I will daily seek to praise God that I am Holy in Christ.
+
+
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+
+NOTE A.
+
+Holiness as Proprietorship.
+
+
+In a little book--_Holiness, as understood by the Writers of the Bible;
+A Bible Study by Joseph Agar Beet_--the thought that by Holiness is
+meant our relation to God, and the claim He has upon us, has been very
+carefully worked out. Holy ground was such because 'it stood in _special
+relation_ to Himself.' The first-born 'were to stand _in a special
+relation to God as His property_.' So with the entire nation; when God
+declares that they shall be holy, He means 'that they shall render to
+Him the devotion He requires.' 'All holy objects stand in a special
+relation to God as His property.' The priests are said to sanctify
+themselves; they did this 'by formally placing themselves at God's
+disposal, or by separating themselves from whatever was inconsistent
+with the service of God.' 'When God declares He is holy, the word must
+represent the same idea in the hundreds of passages in which it is
+predicated of men and things.' 'Holiness is _God's claim to the
+ownership_ of men and things; and the objects claimed were called holy.
+Now, _God's claim_ was a new and wondrous revelation of His nature. To
+Aaron God was now the Great Being who had claimed from him a lifelong
+and exclusive service. _This claim_ was a new era, not only in his
+everyday life, but in his conception of God. Consequently the word
+_holy_, which expressed _Aaron's relation to God_, was suitably used to
+express _God's relation to Aaron_. In other words, to Aaron and Israel
+God was holy in the sense that He claimed the exclusive ownership of the
+entire nation. When men yielded to God the devotion He claimed, they
+were said to sanctify God.' 'Jehovah and Israel stood in special
+relation to each other; therefore Jehovah was _the Holy One of Israel_,
+and Israel was _Holy to Jehovah_. This mutual relation rested upon God's
+claim that Israel should specially be His; and this claim implied that
+in a special manner He would belong to Israel. This claim was a
+manifestation of the nature of God.' 'The peculiar relation arises from
+God's own claim, in consequence of which they stand in a new and solemn
+relation to Him. This may be called objective holiness. This is the most
+common sense of the word. In this sense God sanctified these objects for
+Himself. But since some of these objects were intelligent beings, and
+the others were in control of such, the word sanctify denotes these
+ones' formal surrender of themselves and their possessions to God. This
+may be called subjective holiness. From the word holy predicated of God,
+we learn that God's claim was not merely occasional, but an outflow of
+His Essence. As the one Being who claims unlimited and absolute
+ownership and supreme devotion, God is the Holy One.'
+
+In the New Testament the Spirit of God claims the epithet holy 'as being
+in a very special manner the source and influence of which God is the
+one and only aim.' Here 'our conception of the holiness of God increases
+with our increasing perception of the greatness of His claim upon us,
+and that this claim springs from the very essence of God. In the
+incarnate Son of God we see the full development and realization of the
+Biblical idea of holiness. We find Him standing in a special relation to
+God, and living a life of which the one and only aim is to advance the
+purposes of God.' We see in Him 'holiness in its highest degree, _i.e._
+the highest conceivable devotion to God and to the advancement of His
+kingdom.' 'In virtue of His intelligent, hearty, continued
+appropriation of the Father's purpose, and in virtue of its realization
+in all the details of the Saviour's life, He was called _the Holy One of
+God_.'
+
+'The word _saint_ is very appropriate as a designation of the followers
+of Christ; for it declares what God requires them to be. By calling His
+people _saints_, God declares His will that we live a life of which He
+is the one and only aim. This is the objective holiness of the Church of
+Christ. In some passages holiness is set before the people of God as a
+standard for their attainment. In these passages _holy_ denotes a
+realization in man of God's purpose that he live a life of which God is
+the one and only aim. This is the subjective holiness of God's people.
+
+'Holiness is God's claim that His creatures use all their powers and
+opportunities to work out His purposes. Holiness, thus understood, is an
+attribute of God. For His claim springs from His nature, even from that
+love which is the very essence of God. His love to us moves Him to claim
+our devotion; for only by absolute devotion to Him can we attain our
+highest happiness.'
+
+'Though without purity we cannot be subjectively holy, yet holiness is
+much more than purity. Purity is a mere negative excellence; holiness
+implies the most intense mental and bodily activity of which we are
+capable. For it is the employment of all our powers and opportunities to
+advance God's purposes.'
+
+The question 'How we become holy,' is answered thus: 'Our devotion to
+God is a result of inward spiritual contact with Him who once lived a
+human life on earth, and now lives a glorified human life on the throne,
+simply and only to work out the Father's purposes. We live for God
+because Christ does so, and because Christ lives in us, and we in Him:
+the Spirit of Christ is the Agent of the spiritual contact with Christ
+which imparts to us His life, and reproduces in us His life. He is the
+bearer of the power as well as of the holiness of Christ.'
+
+'That God claims from His people unreserved devotion to Himself, and
+that what He claims He works in all who believe it, by His own power
+operating through the inward presence of the Holy Spirit, placing us in
+spiritual contact with Christ, is the great doctrine of sanctification
+by faith.'
+
+The same view, that holiness is a relation, had previously been worked
+out very elaborately by Diestel. In what has been said on redemption and
+proprietorship as related to holiness (see 'Sixth Day'), we have seen
+what truth there is in the thought. But holiness is something more. What
+is holy is not only God-devoted, but God-accepted, God-appropriated,
+God-possessed. God not only possesses the heart, but absolutely occupies
+and fills it with His life. It is this makes it holy.
+
+However much truth there be in the above exposition, it hardly meets our
+desire for an insight into what is one of the highest attributes of the
+very Being of God. When the seraphs worship Him as the Holy One, and in
+their Thrice Holy reflect something of the deepest mystery of Godhead,
+it surely means more than merely the expression of God's claim as
+Sovereign Proprietor of all.
+
+The mistake appears to originate in taking first the meaning of the word
+_holy_ from earthly objects, and then from that deducing that holiness
+in God cannot mean more than it does when applied to men. The Scriptures
+point to the opposite way. When Old and New Testaments say, 'Be ye holy,
+for I am holy, I make holy,' they point to God's Holiness as the first,
+both the reason and the source of ours. We ought first to discover what
+holiness in God is. When we read at creation of God's _sanctifying_ the
+Sabbath day, we have to do, not with a thought or word of Moses as to
+what God had done, but with a Divine revelation of a Power in God
+greater and more wonderful than creation, the Power which is later on
+revealed as the deepest mystery of the Divine Being.
+
+This Holiness in God, as it appears to me, cannot be a mere relation.
+To indicate a relation, tells me nothing positively about the personal
+character or worth of the related parties. To say that when God
+sanctifies men He claims them as His own, does not say what the nature
+is of the work He does for them and in them, or what the Power by which
+He does it. And yet that word ought to reveal to me what it is that God
+bestows. To say that that claim has its root in His very nature, and in
+His love, and that holiness is therefore an attribute, makes it an
+attribute, not like love or wisdom, immanent in the Divine Being, ere
+creatures were, but simply an effect of Love, moving God to claim His
+creatures as His special possession. We should then have no attribute
+expressive of God's moral perfection. Nor would the word holy of the Son
+and the Spirit any longer indicate that deep and mysterious
+communication of the very nature and life of God in which sanctification
+has its glory. In the Divine holiness we have the highest and
+inconceivably glorious revelation of the very essence of the Divine
+Being; in the holiness of the saints the deepest revelation of the
+change by which their inmost nature is renewed into the likeness of God.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE B.
+
+On the Word for Holiness.
+
+
+The proper meaning of the Hebrew word for holy, _kadosh_, is matter of
+uncertainty. It may come from a root signifying to shine. (So Gesenius,
+Oehler, Fürst, and formerly Delitzsch, on Heb. ii. 11.) Or from another
+denoting new and bright (Diestel), or an Arabic form meaning to cut, to
+separate. (So Delitzsch now, on Ps. xxii. 4.) Whatever the root be, the
+chief idea appears to be not only separate or set apart, for which the
+Hebrew has entirely different words, but that by which a thing that is
+separated from others for its worth is distinguished above them. It
+indicates not only separation as an act or fact, but the superiority or
+excellence in virtue of which, either as already possessed or sought
+after, the separation takes place.
+
+In his _Lexicon of New Testament Greek_, Cremer has an exhaustive
+article on the Greek _hagios_, pointing out how holiness is an entirely
+Biblical idea, and 'how the scriptural conceptions of God's Holiness,
+notwithstanding the original affinity, is diametrically opposite to all
+the Greek notions; and how, whereas these very views of holiness exclude
+from the gods all possibility of love, the scriptural conception of
+holiness unfolds itself only when in closest connection with Divine
+love.' It is a most suggestive thought that we owe both the word and the
+thought distinctly to revelation. Every other attribute of God has some
+notion to correspond with it in the human mind: the thought of holiness
+is distinctly Divine. Is not this the reason that, though God has so
+distinctly in the New Testament called His people holy ones, the word
+_holy_ has so little entered into the daily language and life of the
+Christian Church?
+
+
+
+
+NOTE C.
+
+The Holiness of God.
+
+
+There is not a word so exclusively scriptural, so distinctly Divine, as
+the word holy in its revelation and its meaning. As a consequence of
+this its Divine origin, it is a word of inexhaustible significance.
+There is not one of the attributes of God which theologians have found
+it so difficult to define, or concerning which they differ so much. A
+short survey of the various views that have been taken may teach us how
+little the idea of the Divine Holiness can be comprehended or exhausted
+by human definition, and how it is only in the life of fellowship and
+adoration that the holiness which passes all understanding can, as a
+truth and a reality, be apprehended.
+
+1. The most external view, in which the ethical was very much lost sight
+of, is that in which holiness is identified with God's Separateness from
+the creation, and elevation above it. Holiness was defined as the
+incomparable Glory of God, His exclusive adorableness, His infinite
+Majesty. Sufficient attention was not paid to the fact that though all
+these thoughts are closely connected with God's Holiness, they are but a
+formal definition of the results and surroundings of the Holiness, but
+do not lead us to the apprehension of that wherein its real essence
+consists.
+
+2. Another view, which also commences from the external, and makes that
+the basis of its interpretation, regards holiness simply as the
+expression of a relation. Because what was set apart for God's service
+was called holy, the idea of separation, of consecration, of ownership,
+is taken as the starting-point. And so, because we are said to be holy,
+as belonging to God, God is holy as claiming us and belonging to us too.
+Instead of regarding holiness as a positive reality in the Divine
+nature, from which our holiness is to be derived, our holiness is made
+the starting-point for expounding the Holiness of God. 'God is holy as
+being, within the covenant, not only the Proprietor, but the Property of
+His people, their highest good and their only rule' (Diestel). Of this
+view mention has already been made in the note to 'Sixth Day,' on
+Holiness as Proprietorship.
+
+3. Passing over to the views of those who regard holiness as being a
+moral attribute, the most common one is that of purity, freedom from
+sin. 'Holiness is a general term for the moral excellence of God. There
+is none holy as the Lord: no other being absolutely pure and free from
+all limitations in His moral perfection. Holiness, on the one hand,
+implies entire freedom from moral evil; and, upon the other, absolute
+moral perfection.' (Hodge, _Syst. Theol._) The idea of holiness as the
+infinite Purity which is free from all sin, which hates and punishes
+it, is what in the popular conception is the most prominent idea. The
+negative stands more in the foreground than the positive. The view has
+its truth and its value from the fact that in our sinful state the first
+impression the Holiness of God must make is that of fear and dread in
+the consciousness of our sinfulness and unholiness. But it does not tell
+us wherein this moral excellence or perfection of God really consists.
+
+4. It is an advance on this view when the attempt is made to define what
+this perfection of God is. A thing is perfect when it is in everything
+as it ought to be. It is easy thus to define perfection, but not so easy
+to define what the perfection of any special object is: this needs the
+knowledge of what its nature is. And we have to rest content with very
+general terms defining God's Holiness as the essential and absolute
+good. 'Holiness is the free, deliberate, calm, and immutable affirmation
+of Himself, who is goodness, or of goodness, which is Himself' (Godet
+_on John_ xvii. 11). 'Holiness is that attribute in virtue of which
+Jehovah makes Himself the absolute standard of Himself, of His being and
+revelation.' (Kubel.)
+
+5. Closely allied to this is the view that holiness is not so much an
+attribute, but the 'whole complex of that which we are wont to look at
+and represent singly in the individual attributes of God.' So Bengel
+looked upon holiness as the Divine nature, in which all the attributes
+are contained. In the same spirit what Howe says of holiness as the
+Divine beauty, the result of the perfect harmony of all the attributes,
+'Holiness is intellectual beauty. Divine holiness is the most perfect
+beauty, and the measure of all other. The Divine Holiness is the most
+perfect pulchritude, the ineffable and immortal pulchritude, that cannot
+be declared by words, or seen by eyes. This may therefore be called a
+transcendental attribute that, as it were, runs through the rest, and
+casts a glory upon every one. It is an attribute of attributes. These
+are fit predications, _holy_ power, _holy_ love. And so it is the very
+lustre and glory of His other perfections. He is glorious in holiness.'
+(Howe in _Whyte's Shorter Catechism_.) This was the aspect of the Divine
+Holiness on which Jonathan Edwards delighted to dwell. 'The mutual love
+of the Father and the Son makes the third, the personal Holy Spirit, or
+the Holiness of God, which is His infinite beauty.' 'By the
+communication of God's Holiness the creature partakes of God's moral
+excellence, which is perfection, the beauty of the Divine nature.'
+'Holiness comprehends all the true moral excellence of intelligent
+beings. So the Holiness of God is the same with the moral excellency of
+the Divine nature, comprehending all His perfections, His righteousness,
+faithfulness, and goodness. There are two kinds of attributes in God,
+according to our way of conceiving Him: His _moral_ attributes, which
+are summed up in His Holiness, and His _natural_, as strength,
+knowledge, etc., which constitute His greatness. Holy persons, in the
+exercise of holy affection, love God in the first place for the beauty
+of His Holiness.' 'The holiness of an intelligent creature is that which
+gives beauty to all his natural perfections. And so it is in God:
+holiness is in a peculiar manner the beauty of the Divine being. Hence
+we often read of the beauty of holiness (Ps. xxix. 2, xcvi. 9, cx. 3).
+This renders all the other attributes glorious and lovely.' 'Therefore,
+if the true loveliness of God's perfections arise from the loveliness of
+His Holiness, the true love of all His perfections will arise from the
+love of His Holiness. And as the beauty of the Divine nature primarily
+consists in God's Holiness, so does the beauty of all Divine things.'
+
+6. In speaking of God's Holiness as denoting the essential good, the
+absolute excellence of His nature, some press very strongly the
+_ethical_ aspect. The good in God must not be from mere natural impulse
+only, flowing from the necessity of His nature, without being freely
+willed by Himself. 'What is naturally good is not the true realization
+of the good. The actual and living will to be the good He is, must also
+have its place in God, otherwise God would only be naturally ethical.
+Only in the will which consciously determines itself, is there the
+possibility given of the ethical. The ethical has such a power in God
+that He is the holy Power, who cannot and will not renounce Himself, who
+must be, and would be thought to be, the holy necessity of the goodness
+which is Himself,--to be the Holy. The love of God is essentially holy;
+it desires and preserves the ethically necessary or holy, which God is.'
+(Dorner, _System_, vol. i.)
+
+7. It was felt in such views that there was not a sufficient
+acknowledgment of the truth that it is especially as the Holy One that
+God is called the Redeemer, and that He does the work of love to make
+holy. This led to the view that holiness and love are, if not identical,
+at least correlated expressions. 'God is holy, exalted above all the
+praise of the creature in His incomparable praise-worthiness, on account
+of His free and loving condescension to the creature, to manifest in it
+the glory of His love.' 'God is holy, inasmuch as love in Him has
+restrained and conquered the righteous wrath (as Hosea says, xi. 9), and
+judgment is exercised only after every way of mercy has been tried. This
+holiness is disclosed in the New Testament name, as exalted as it is
+condescending, of Father.' (Stier _on John_ xvii.)
+
+8. The large measure of truth in this view is met by an expression in
+which the true aspects of the Holiness of God are combined. It is
+defined as being the harmony of self-preservation and
+self-communication. As the Holy One, God hates sin, and seeks to destroy
+it. As the Holy One, He makes the sinner holy, and then takes him up
+into His love. In maintaining His love, He never for a moment loses His
+Divine purity and perfection; in maintaining His righteousness, He still
+communicates Himself to the fallen creature. Holiness is the Divine
+glory, of which love and righteousness are the two sides, and which in
+their work on earth they reveal.
+
+'Holiness is the self-preservation of God, whereby He keeps Himself
+free from the world without Him, and remains consistent with Himself and
+faithful to His Being, and whereby He, with this view, creates a Divine
+world that lives for Himself alone in the organization of His Church.'
+(Lange.)
+
+'The Holiness of God is God's self-preservation, or keeping to Himself,
+in virtue of which He remains the same in all relationships which exist
+within His Deity, or into which He enters, never sacrifices what is
+Divine, or admits what is not Divine. But this is only one aspect. God's
+Holiness would not be holiness, but exclusiveness, if it did not provide
+for God's entering into manifold relations, and so revealing and
+communicating Himself. Holiness is therefore the union and
+interpretation of God's keeping to Himself and communicating Himself; of
+His nearness and His distance; of His exclusiveness and His
+self-revelation; of separateness and fellowship.' (Schmieder.)
+
+'The Divine Holiness is mainly seclusion from the impurity and
+sinfulness of the creature, or, expressed positively, the cleanness and
+purity of the Divine nature, which excludes all connection with the
+wicked. In harmony with this, the Divine Holiness, as an attribute of
+revelation, is not merely an abstract power, but is the Divine
+self-representation and self-testimony for the purpose of giving to the
+world the participation in the Divine life.' (Oehler, _Theol. of O. T._
+i. 160.)
+
+'Opposition to sin is the first impression which man receives of God's
+Holiness. Exclusion, election, cleansing, redemption--these are the four
+forms in which God's Holiness appears in the sphere of humanity; and we
+may say that God's Holiness signifies _His opposition to sin manifesting
+itself in atonement and redemption, or in judgment_. Or as holiness, so
+far as it is embodied in law, must be the highest moral perfection, we
+may say, "_holiness is the purity of God manifesting itself in atonement
+and redemption, and correspondingly in judgment_." By this view all the
+above elements are done justice to; holiness asserts itself in judging
+righteousness, and in electing, purifying, and redeeming love, and thus
+it appears as the impelling and formative principle of the revelation of
+redemption, without a knowledge of which an understanding of the
+revelation is impossible, and by the perception of which it is seen in
+its full, clear light. God is light: this is a full and exhaustive New
+Testament phrase for God's Holiness' (1 John i. 5). (Cremer.)
+
+This view is brought out with special distinctness in the writings of J.
+T. Beck. 'It is God's Holiness which, taking the good which was given in
+creation in strict faithfulness to that good and perfect will of God, as
+the eternal life-purpose of love, in righteousness and mercy carried out
+to its completion in God Himself to a life of perfection. God does this
+as the Alone Holy. In the world of sin Divine _love_ can only bring
+deliverance by a mediation in which it is reconciled to the Divine
+_wrath_ within _their common centre, the Holiness of God_, in such a way
+that while wrath manifests its destroying reality, love shall prove its
+restoring power in the life it gives.' (Beck, _Lehrwissenschaft_, 168,
+547.)
+
+'Holiness is the sum and substance of the Divine life, as, in comparison
+with all that is created, it exists as a perfect life, but as it, at the
+same time, opens itself to the creature to take it up into a Godlike
+perfection--that is, to be holy as God is holy. Holiness is thus so far
+from being in opposition to the Divine love that it is its essential
+feature or norm, and the actual contents of love. In holiness there is
+combined the Divine self-existence as a perfection of life, and the
+Divine self-exertion in the realizing a Godlike perfection of life in
+the world. Holiness as an attribute of the Divine Being is His pure and
+inviolably self-contained personality in its absolute perfection. Hence
+it is that in holiness, as the absolute unity and purity of the Divine
+Being and working, all the attributes of Divine revelation centre. And
+so holiness, as expressive of the Being of God, qualifies the love as
+essentially Divine.
+
+'Love is the groundform of the Divine will, but as such it receives its
+Divine filling and character from the Divine Holiness, as the Divine
+self-existence and self-exertion. As such the Divine will manifests
+itself in two modes--in its pure love as _Goodness_, in its holy harmony
+as _Righteousness_. These two do not exist separately, but permeate each
+other in reciprocal immanence, just as God in His Holiness is love, and
+in His love is holiness. In goodness the Divine love shows itself as the
+pleasure in well-being. But in this goodness the righteousness of God,
+to secure the well-doing, also acts.' (J. T. Beck, _Glaubenslehre_.)
+
+'God is holy, separate from all darkness and sin, but not in isolated
+majesty banishing the imperfect and the sinful from His presence: for
+God is light, God is love. It is the nature of light to communicate
+itself. Remaining pure and bright, undiminished and unsullied, it
+overcomes darkness and kindles light. The Holiness of God is likewise
+mentioned in Scripture, mostly in connection with love, communicating
+itself and drawing into itself. "I am holy"--but God does not remain
+alone, separate--"be ye also holy."' (Saphir _on Hebrews_ xii.)
+
+'When we think of God as light and love, we realize most fully the idea
+of holiness, combining _separateness_ and _purity_ with _communion_.'
+(Saphir, _The Lord's Prayer_, p. 128.)
+
+'It is especially as the spirit of His Church, and as dwelling in the
+human heart, that God is the Holy One.' (Nitsch.)
+
+That in the Holiness of God we have the union of love and righteousness,
+has been perhaps put by no one more clearly than Godet. In his
+_Commentary on Romans_ iii. 25, 26, he writes:--
+
+'The necessity of the expiatory sacrifice arises from His whole Divine
+character; in other words, from His Holiness, the principle at once of
+His love and righteousness, and not of His righteousness exclusively.'
+
+'In this question we have to do not with God in His essence, but with
+God in His relation to free man. Now the latter is not holy to begin
+with; the use which he makes of his liberty is not yet regulated by
+love. The attribute of righteousness, and the firm resolution to
+maintain the Divine _holiness_, must therefore appear as a necessary
+safeguard as soon as liberty comes on the stage, and with it the
+possibility of disorder; and this attribute must remain in exercise as
+long as the educational period of the creature lasts--that is to say,
+until he has reached perfection in love. Then all these factors--right,
+law, justice--will return to their latent state....
+
+'It is common to regard _love_ as the fundamental feature of the Divine
+character; in this way it is very difficult to reach the attribute of
+righteousness. Most thinkers, indeed, do not reach it at all. This one
+fact should show the error in which they are entangled. _Holy, holy,
+holy_, say the creatures nearest to God, and not _Good, good, good_.
+Holiness, such is the essence of God; and holiness is the absolute love
+of the good, the absolute horror of the evil. From this it is not
+difficult to deduce both love and righteousness. Love is the goodwill of
+God toward all free beings who are destined to realize the good. Love
+goes out to the individuals, as holiness itself to the good which they
+ought to produce. Righteousness, on the other hand, is the firm purpose
+of God to maintain the normal relations between all these creatures by
+His blessings and punishments. It is obvious that righteousness is
+included, no less than love itself, in the fundamental feature of the
+Divine character, holiness. It is no offence, therefore, by God to speak
+of His justice and His rights. It is, on the contrary, a glory to God,
+who knows that in preserving His place He is securing the good of
+others. For God, in maintaining His supreme dignity, preserves to His
+creatures _their most precious treasure_, a God worthy of their respect
+and love.'
+
+And in his _Defence of the Christian Faith_ Godet writes, on 'The
+Perfect Holiness of Jesus Christ,' as follows:--
+
+'The supernatural in its highest form is not the miraculous, it is
+holiness. In the miraculous we see Omnipotence breaking forth to act
+upon the material world in the interests of the moral order. But
+holiness is morality itself in its sublimest manifestation. What is
+goodness? It has recently been said, with a precision which leaves
+nothing to be desired, Goodness is not an entity--a thing. It is a law
+determining the relations between things, relations which have to be
+realized by free wills. Perfect good is therefore the realization, at
+once normal and free, of the right relations to one another of all
+beings; each being occupying, by virtue of this relation, that place in
+the great whole, and playing that part in it, which befits it.
+
+'Now, just as in a human family there is one central relation on which
+all the rest depend,--that of the father to all the members of this
+little whole,--so is there in the universe one supreme position, which
+is the support of all the rest, and which, in the interest of all
+beings, must be above all others preserved intact--that of God. And just
+here, in the general sphere of good, is the special domain of holiness.
+Holiness in God Himself is His fixed determination to maintain intact
+the order which ought to reign among all beings that exist, and to bring
+them to realize that relation to each other which ought to bind them
+together in a great unity, and consequently to preserve, above all,
+intact and in its proper dignity, His own position relatively to free
+beings. The Holiness of God thus understood comprehends two things--the
+importation of all the wealth of His own Divine life to each free being
+who is willing to acknowledge His sovereignty, and who sincerely
+acquiesces in it; and the withholding or the withdrawal of that perfect
+life from every being who either attacks or denies that sovereignty, and
+who seeks to shake off that bond of dependence by which he ought to be
+bound to God. Holiness in the creature is its own voluntary acquiescence
+in the supremacy of God. The man who, with all the powers of his nature,
+does homage to God as the Supreme, the absolute Being, the only One who
+veritably is; the man who, in His presence, voluntarily prostrates
+himself in the sense of his own nothingness, and seeks to draw all his
+fellow-creatures into the same voluntary self-annihilation, in so doing
+puts on the character of holiness. This holiness comprehends in him, as
+it does in God, love and righteousness; love by which he rejoices in
+recognising God, and all beings who surround God, as placed where they
+are by Him. He loves them and wills their existence, because he loves
+and wills the existence of God, and at the same time of all that God
+wills and loves; and righteousness, by which he respects and, as much as
+in him lies, causes others to respect God, and the sphere assigned by
+God to each being. Such is holiness as it exists in God and in man: in
+God it is His own inflexible self-assertion; in man it is his inflexible
+assertion of God.
+
+'It is in Jesus that human nature sees how man can assert God and all
+that God asserts, not only humbly, but joyously and filially, with all
+the powers of his being, and even to the complete sacrifice of
+_himself_.'
+
+Careful reflection will show us that in each of the above views there is
+a measure of truth. It will convince us how the very difficulty of
+formulating to human thought the conception of the Divine Holiness
+proves that it is the highest expression for that ineffable and
+inconceivable glory of the Divine Being which constitutes Him the
+Infinite and Glorious God. Every attribute of God--wisdom and power,
+righteousness and love--has its image in human nature, and was in the
+religion or the philosophy of the heathen connected with the idea of
+God. From ourselves, when we take away the idea of imperfection, we can
+form some conception of what God is. But holiness is that which is
+characteristically Divine, the special contents of a Divine revelation.
+Let us learn to confess that however much we may seek, now from one,
+then from another side, to grasp the thought, the holiness of God is
+something that transcends all thought, a glory not so much to be
+thought, as to be known, in adoration and fellowship. Scripture speaks
+not so much of holiness, as the Holy One. It is as we worship and fear,
+obey and love; it is in a life with God, that something of the mystery
+of His glory will be unfolded. As the Divine light shines in us and
+through us, will the Holy One be revealed.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE D.
+
+'Our holiness does not consist in our changing and becoming better
+ourselves: it is rather _He_, He Himself, born and growing in us, in
+such a way as to fill our hearts, and to drive out our natural self,
+"our old man," which cannot itself improve, and whose destiny is only to
+perish.
+
+'And how is this kind of incarnation effected, by which Christ Himself
+becomes our new self? By a process of a free and moral nature, described
+by Jesus in words which surprise, because they place His sanctification
+upon nearly the same footing as our own: "As the living Father hath sent
+me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me shall live by me."
+
+'Jesus derived the nourishment of His life from the Father who had sent
+Him: He lived by the Father. The meaning of that, doubtless, is, that
+every time He had to act or speak, He first effaced Himself; then left
+it to the Father to think, to will, to act, to be everything in Him.
+Similarly, when we are called upon to do any act, or speak any word, we
+must first efface ourselves in presence of Jesus; and after having
+suppressed in ourselves, by an act of the will, every wish, every
+thought, every act of our own self, we are to leave it to Jesus to
+manifest in us His will, His wisdom, His power. Then it is that we live
+by Him, as He lives by the Father. The process is identical in Jesus and
+in us. Only in Jesus it was carried on with God directly, because He was
+in immediate communion with Him; whilst in our case the transaction is
+with Jesus, because it is with Him that the believer holds direct
+communication, and through Him that we can find and possess the living
+Father. In that lies _the secret_, generally so little understood, _of
+Christian sanctification_.' (Godet, _Biblical Studies, N. T._, p. 190.)
+
+
+
+
+NOTE E.
+
+Let me once more refer all students of holiness to Marshall on
+Sanctification, and specially his third and fourth chapters. If they
+will compare him with our modern works--say, for instance, _God's Way of
+Holiness_, by so eminent an author as Dr. H. Bonar--they cannot but be
+struck by the prominence which Marshall gives to the one thought, that
+our holiness, a holy nature, is provided in Jesus, and that as faith
+accepts and maintains our union with Jesus in personal intercourse,
+sanctification is by faith. While, in other works, the union to Jesus,
+and faith in Him, are but incidentally mentioned, and the chief stress
+is laid upon duties and the motives which urge to their performance,
+Marshall points out how motives never can supply the strength we need:
+it is the power of Christ's life in us, it is Christ Himself, as we by
+faith are rooted in Him, who works all our works in us.
+
+An abridgment of the work, for popular use, is published by Nisbet & Co.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE F.
+
+Note from Bengel on Rom. i. 4.
+
+
+'_According to the Spirit of Holiness._ The word _hagios_, holy, when
+God is spoken of, not only denotes the blameless rectitude in action,
+but the very Godhead, or to speak more properly, the _divinity_, or
+excellence of the Divine nature. Hence _hagiosune_ (the word here used)
+has a kind of middle sense between _hagiotes_, holiness, and
+_hagiasmos_, sanctification. Comp. Heb. xii. 10 (_hagiotes_ or
+holiness), v. 14 (_hagiasmos_ or sanctification). So that there are, as
+it were, three degrees: _sanctification_, _sanctity of life_,
+_holiness_. Holiness is ascribed to the Father, the Son, and the Holy
+Ghost. And since here the Holy Spirit is not mentioned, but the spirit
+of holiness (prop. sanctity, _hagiosune_), we must further inquire what
+this remarkable expression denotes. The name spirit is expressly and
+very frequently given to the Holy Spirit; but God is also called a
+spirit; and the Lord Jesus Christ is called a spirit, but in contrast to
+the latter. (2 Cor. iii. 17.) With this we must compare the fact that,
+as in this passage, so often the antithesis of flesh and spirit is found
+where Christ is spoken of. (1 Tim. iii. 16; 1 Pet. iii. 18.) In these
+passages the Spirit is applied to whatever belongs to Christ (apart from
+the flesh, although this was pure and holy, and above the flesh),
+through His generation of the Father, who sanctified Him: in short, His
+Godhead itself. For here, _flesh_ and _spirit_, and chap. ix. 5, _flesh_
+and _Godhead_, stand in mutual contrast. This spirit is here called not
+the spirit of holiness, the usual title of the Holy Spirit; but it is
+called in this passage _the spirit of sanctity_, to suggest at once the
+efficacy of that holiness or divinity, which led of necessity to the
+Saviour's resurrection, and by which it was most forcibly illustrated,
+and also that spiritual and holy, or Divine power of Jesus who has been
+glorified and yet retained a spiritual body. Before the resurrection the
+spirit was concealed under the flesh; after the resurrection the spirit
+of sanctity concealed the flesh. In reference to the former, He was wont
+to call Himself the Son of man; in reference to the latter, He is known
+as the Son of God.'
+
+Beck, in his _Lehrwissenschaft_, p. 604, puts it very clearly, thus--
+
+'Inasmuch as the innocence and purity of Christ were not present in His
+sufferings and death as a quiescent attribute, but were in full action
+in the indestructible life-power of the Spirit, as He sanctified His own
+self to God for us ("through the eternal spirit," Heb. ix.
+14--therefore, in Rom. i. 4, _hagiosune_, the habit of holiness in its
+action or sanctity, not _hagiotes_, only an inner attribute, or
+_hagiasmos_, holiness in its formation)--His suffering effected an
+everlasting redemption.'
+
+
+
+
+NOTE G.
+
+'Freed' and 'Possessed'--The Twofold Result of
+Redemption.
+
+(_From an address by Pastor Stockmaiev._)
+
+
+'Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and
+purify unto Himself _a people for His own possession_, zealous of good
+works.'
+
+'In the redemption work of our Saviour Jesus Christ, there are two
+definite parts. You will never find the secret of abiding in Christ, so
+long as you cannot see these two definite distinct parts. The first is
+"Jesus for me," the other "I for Jesus." Blessed be our Saviour that He
+came for sinners. _He for us._ Blessed be the Lord that there is
+redemption from penalty; but that is not yet all that redemption means.
+You must have a clear apprehension of the second part of redemption, by
+that same Holy Ghost who is the guide to introduce us into the full
+possession of all that Christ, living and dying, has wrought out for us.
+He gave Himself that He might redeem us from all iniquity--not that we
+might have the pleasure of being pleased with our own purity or
+holiness, or such things; but that He might have us altogether for
+Himself, to purify _unto Himself_, for Himself, not for Himself and
+themselves, but _unto Himself_, a people of His own possession.
+
+'What is now redemption?--freedom from self, even spiritual self. We are
+not to be our own centre, the centre of our joy, our progress, having in
+our poor weak hands the threads of our spiritual life. There is no real
+spiritual life but Christ's life, and He must have the care of it
+altogether from the beginning to the end. Lift up your eyes, dear
+brethren, you who were creeping on the ground. We are made for the glory
+of God, to be possessed by Jesus. The Lord God found a way, in giving
+His Son, the Lamb of God, His Lamb, to get such selfish people, who even
+in the line of the Christian life found means to seek and to nourish
+self, to get such people into His own real practical possession, to be
+possessed by Jesus. That is redemption, and that only; that is liberty,
+and that is reality; that is what satisfies, not to be satisfied with
+any experiences of your own, but to let go your experiences, and to say,
+I am free, so free as the people of Israel were coming out of Egypt,
+free to serve God. "Let my people go, that they may serve me." You are
+free, free through the blood of Christ, free through the power of the
+Holy Ghost--no flesh, no hand, no self being able to keep you back. The
+Lord has stretched out His arms upon all the powers who had kept us in
+the bondage of Egypt, and He triumphed over them. You are free as the
+bird of the air to live in Jesus--that is freedom; you are free in your
+daily life, free in the deepest, inmost depths of your being, free for
+Jesus, possessed by Him, a people of His own possession. Let my people
+go, said God. So, I have given my blood, said Jesus; and no flesh, no
+sin, no self can claim against the blood of Jesus. He has redeemed unto
+Himself, not for us, a people of His own possession....
+
+'You are inquiring about the secret of abiding in Jesus. Have you not
+seen this in the 15th of John, that abiding and bearing fruit are
+inseparable? You cannot abide in Jesus for His joy, _and your inward
+satisfaction_. The secret of abiding is to stand as a redeemed one, as
+firmly in the second part of redemption as the first. I am now living
+for Jesus, and I have only to ask, Lord, what wilt Thou have done now? I
+am for Thee. I am for Jesus. I have only to follow, to follow as a
+sanctified one, as a possessed one, as one who is no more living for
+himself, who has given his life up into the hands of Jesus. Oh, how
+these questions of abiding become simple! It is not mysticism; it is not
+some special experience. It is simply a fact. I need Jesus for every
+moment, and my temptations as well as my duties become opportunities of
+realizing this life of fellowship with Christ. Oh, yes, this is
+redemption! Oh, mighty power of God the Father, God the Son, God the
+Holy Ghost, engaged to keep such a weak, helpless, unfaithful thing as
+you and myself in the centre of life! Sealed by the Holy Ghost, and God
+will never break His own seal.'
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
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+Title: Holy in Christ
+       Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
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+Author: Andrew Murray
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+Release Date: October 22, 2008 [EBook #26990]
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+<hr class="pg" />
+
+<p class="ctr pgbrk newpg"><a name="png.001" id="png.001"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">2</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><small>MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH</small></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h1><a name="png.002" id="png.002"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">3</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>HOLY IN CHRIST:</h1>
+
+<h3><img src="images/thoughts.png" width="503" height="69"
+ alt="Thoughts on the Calling of God&#8217;s Children
+to be Holy as He is Holy." title="" /></h3>
+
+<p class="author"><small>BY</small><br
+ /><br /><big>REV. ANDREW MURRAY,</big><br
+ /><small>AUTHOR OF &lsquo;ABIDE IN CHRIST,&rsquo; &lsquo;LIKE CHRIST,&rsquo; ETC.</small></p>
+
+<p class="motto"><small><i>&lsquo;I am holy:<br
+ />ye shall be holy.&rsquo;</i></small></p>
+
+
+
+<p class="ctr pgbrk sprd"><big class="so"><ins class="TN" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original reads 'FELMING'">FLEMING</ins> H. REVELL COMPANY,</big><br
+ /><span class="padrt">CHICAGO,</span>    <span class="padrt">NEW YORK,</span>    TORONTO,<br
+ /><img src="images/publishers.png" width="268" height="20"
+ alt="Publishers of Evangelical Literature." title="" /></p>
+
+
+<div class="main">
+<h2 class="chap top4"><a name="png.004" id="png.004"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">5</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p class="first top2"><span class="smc">There</span> is not in Scripture a word more distinctly
+Divine in its origin and meaning than the word
+holy. There is not a word that leads us higher
+into the mystery of Deity, nor deeper into the
+privilege and the blessedness of God&#8217;s children.
+And yet it is a word that many a Christian has
+never studied or understood.</p>
+
+<p>There are not a few who can praise God that
+during the past twenty years the watchword <span class="smc">Be
+Holy</span> has been taken up in many a church and
+Christian circle with greater earnestness than
+before. In books and magazines, in conventions
+and conferences, in the testimonies and the lives
+of believers, we have abundant tokens that what is
+called the Holiness-movement is a reality.</p>
+
+<p>And yet how much is still wanting! What
+multitudes of believing Christians there are who
+have none but the very vaguest thoughts of what
+holiness is! And of those who are seeking after it
+<a name="png.005" id="png.005"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">6</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>how many who have hardly learnt what it is to
+come to God&#8217;s Word and to God Himself for the
+teaching that can alone reveal this part of the
+mystery of Christ and of God! To many, holiness
+has simply been a general expression for the
+Christian life in its more earnest form, without
+much thought of what the term really means.</p>
+
+<p>In writing this little book, my object has been to
+discover in what sense God uses the word, that so
+it may mean to us what it means to Him. I have
+sought to trace the word through some of the most
+important passages of Holy Scripture where it
+occurs, there to learn what God&#8217;s holiness is, what
+ours is to be, and what the way by which we attain
+it. I have been specially anxious to point out how
+many and various the elements are that go to make
+up true holiness as the Divine expression of the
+Christian life in all its fulness and perfection. I
+have at the same time striven continually to keep
+in mind the wonderful unity and simplicity there
+is in it, as centred in the person of Jesus. As I
+proceeded in my work, I felt ever more deeply how
+high the task was I had undertaken in offering to
+guide others even into the outer courts of the Holy
+Place of the Most High. And yet the very difficulty
+of the task convinced me of how needful it was.</p>
+
+<p>I fear there are some to whom the book may
+<a name="png.006" id="png.006"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">7</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>be a disappointment. They have heard that the
+entrance to the life of holiness is often but a
+step. They have heard of or seen believers who
+could tell of the blessed change that has come over
+their lives since they found the wonderful secret of
+holiness by faith. And now they are seeking for
+this secret. They cannot understand that the
+secret comes to those who seek it not, but only seek
+Jesus. They might fain have a book in which all
+they need to know of Holiness and the way to it is
+gathered into a few simple lessons, easy to learn, to
+remember, and to practise. This they will not find.
+There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the
+disciples of Jesus; but it comes to him who has
+forsaken all to follow Jesus only, and in following
+fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct
+him. There are often very blessed revelations of
+Christ, as a Saviour from sin, both in the secret
+chamber and in the meetings of the saints; but
+these are given to those for whom they have been
+prepared, and who have been prepared to receive.
+Let all learn to trust in Jesus, and rejoice in Him,
+even though their experience be not what they
+would wish. He will make us holy. But whether
+we have entered the blessed life of faith in Jesus
+as our sanctification, or are still longing for it from
+afar, we all need one thing, the simple, believing,
+<a name="png.007" id="png.007"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">8</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and obedient acceptance of each word that our God
+has spoken. It has been my earnest desire that I
+might be a helper of the faith of my brethren in
+seeking to trace with them the wondrous revelation
+of God&#8217;s Holiness through the ages as recorded in
+His blessed Word. It has been my continual
+prayer that God might use what is written to
+increase in His children the conviction that we
+must be holy, the knowledge of how we are to be
+holy, the joy that we may be holy, the faith that
+we can be holy. And may He stir us all to cry
+day and night to Him for a visitation of the Spirit
+and the Power of Holiness upon all His people,
+that the name of Christian and of saint may be
+synonymous, and every believer be a vessel made
+holy and meet for the Master&#8217;s use.</p>
+
+<p class="rt">A. M.</p>
+
+<p class="pgbrk"><small><span class="smc">Wellington</span>, 16<i>th November</i> 1887.</small></p>
+
+<h2 class="chap top4"><a name="png.008" id="png.008"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">9</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="toc">CONTENTS.</a></h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<table class="toc top2" summary="Table of Contents">
+
+<tr><td><small>DAY</small></td><td></td><td class="pg"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>1.</td><td class="chap">God&#8217;s Call to Holiness&mdash;1&nbsp;Pet. i. 15,&nbsp;16,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.010">11</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>2.</td><td class="chap">God&#8217;s Provision for Holiness&mdash;1&nbsp;Cor. i.&nbsp;2,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.018">19</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>3.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Creation&mdash;Gen. ii.&nbsp;3,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.027">28</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>4.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Revelation&mdash;Ex. iii.&nbsp;4&ndash;6,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.035">36</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>5.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Redemption&mdash;Ex. xiii.&nbsp;2,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.045">46</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>6.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Glory&mdash;Ex. xv. 11&ndash;17,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.054">55</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>7.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Obedience&mdash;Ex. xix. 5,&nbsp;6,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.063">64</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>8.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Indwelling&mdash;Ex. xxv.&nbsp;8,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.072">73</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>9.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Meditation&mdash;Ex. xxviii. 36&ndash;38,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.080">81</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>10.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Separation&mdash;Lev. xx. 24,&nbsp;26,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.088">89</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>11.</td><td class="chap">The Holy One of Israel&mdash;Lev. xi.&nbsp;45,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.097">98</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>12.</td><td class="chap">The Thrice Holy One&mdash;Isa. vi. 1&ndash;3,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.106">107</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>13.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Humility&mdash;Isa. lvii.&nbsp;15,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.116">117</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>14.</td><td class="chap">The Holy One of God&mdash;John vi.&nbsp;69,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.124">125</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>15.</td><td class="chap">The Holy Spirit&mdash;John vii.&nbsp;39,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.132">133</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>16.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Truth&mdash;John xvii.&nbsp;17,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.141">142</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>17.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Crucifixion&mdash;John xvii.&nbsp;19,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.149">150</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>18.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Faith&mdash;Acts xxvi.&nbsp;18,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.157">158</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>19.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Resurrection&mdash;Rom. i.&nbsp;4,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.166">167</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>20.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Liberty&mdash;Rom. vi. 18&ndash;22,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.174">175</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>21.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Happiness&mdash;Rom. xiv.&nbsp;17,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.183">184</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td><a name="png.009" id="png.009"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">10</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>22.</td><td class="chap">In Christ our Sanctification&mdash;1&nbsp;Cor. i. 30,&nbsp;31,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.191">192</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>23.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and the Body&mdash;1&nbsp;Cor. iii.&nbsp;16,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.200">201</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>24.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Cleansing&mdash;2&nbsp;Cor. vii.&nbsp;1,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.209">210</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>25.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Blamelessness&mdash;1&nbsp;Thess. iii. 12,&nbsp;13,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.218">219</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>26.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and the Will of God&mdash;1&nbsp;Thess. iv.&nbsp;3,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.226">227</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>27.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Service&mdash;2&nbsp;Tim. ii.&nbsp;21,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.234">235</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>28.</td><td class="chap">The Way into the Holiest&mdash;Heb. x.&nbsp;19,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.242">243</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>29.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Chastisement&mdash;Heb. xii. 10,&nbsp;14,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.252">253</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>30.</td><td class="chap">The Unction from the Holy One&mdash;1&nbsp;John ii. 20,&nbsp;27,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.261">262</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td>31.</td><td class="chap">Holiness and Heaven&mdash;2&nbsp;Pet. iii.&nbsp;11,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.270">271</a></td></tr>
+
+<tr><td></td><td class="chap dbl"><span class="smc">Notes</span>,</td>
+  <td class="pg"><a href="#png.280">281</a></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.010" id="png.010"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">11</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>First Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap1.png" width="272" height="29"
+ alt="God&#8217;s Call to Holiness." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Like as He which called you is <em>holy</em>, be ye yourselves also
+<em>holy</em> in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be
+<em>holy</em>, for I am <em>holy</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Pet.</span> i. 15,&nbsp;16.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">The</span> call of God is the manifestation in time of
+the purpose of eternity: &lsquo;Whom He predestinated,
+them He also <em>called</em>.&rsquo; Believers are &lsquo;the
+<em>called</em> according to His purpose.&rsquo; In His call He
+reveals to us what His thoughts and His will concerning
+us are, and what the life to which He
+invites us. In His call He makes clear to us what
+the hope of our calling is; as we spiritually apprehend
+and enter into this, our life on earth will be
+the reflection of His purpose in eternity.</p>
+
+<p>Holy Scripture uses more than one word to
+indicate the object or aim of our calling, but none
+more frequently than what Peter speaks of here&mdash;God
+has called us <em>to be holy</em> as He is holy. Paul
+addresses believers twice as &lsquo;called to be <em>holy</em>&rsquo;
+(Rom. i. 7; 1 Cor. i. 2). &lsquo;God called us&rsquo;, he says,
+&lsquo;not for uncleanness, but <em>in sanctification</em>&rsquo; (1 Thess.
+<a name="png.011" id="png.011"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">12</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>iv. 7). When he writes, &lsquo;The God of peace <em>sanctify</em>
+you wholly,&rsquo; he adds, &lsquo;Faithful is He which <em>calleth</em>
+you, who also will do it&rsquo; (1 Thess. v. 24). The
+calling itself is spoken of as &lsquo;a <em>holy</em> calling.&rsquo; The
+eternal purpose of which the calling is the outcome,
+is continually also connected with holiness as its
+aim. &lsquo;He hath <em>chosen</em> us in Him, that we should
+be <em>holy</em> and without blame&rsquo; (Eph. i. 4). &lsquo;Whom
+God <em>chose</em> from the beginning unto <em>salvation in
+sanctification</em>&rsquo; (2 Thess. ii. 12). &lsquo;<em>Elect</em> according
+to the foreknowledge of the Father, through <em>sanctification</em>
+of the Spirit&rsquo; (1 Pet. i. 2). The call is the
+unveiling of the purpose that the Father from
+eternity had set His heart upon: that we should be
+holy.</p>
+
+<p>It needs no proof that it is of infinite importance
+to know aright what God has called us to. A
+misunderstanding here may have fatal results.
+You may have heard that God calls you to salvation
+or to happiness, to receive pardon or to obtain
+heaven, and never noticed that all these were subordinate.
+It was to &lsquo;salvation <em>in sanctification</em>,&rsquo; it
+was to Holiness in the first place, as the element in
+which salvation and heaven are to be found. The
+complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and
+strength, as to failure and want of growth, are
+simply owing to this&mdash;the place God gave Holiness
+in His call they have not given it in their response.
+God and they have never yet come to an agreement
+on this.</p>
+
+<p>No wonder that Paul, in the chapter in which he
+<a name="png.012" id="png.012"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">13</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>had spoken to the Ephesians of their being &lsquo;chosen to
+be holy&rsquo; prays for the spirit of wisdom and revelation
+in the knowledge of God to be given to believers,
+that they might know &lsquo;the hope of their <em>calling</em>&rsquo;
+(i. 17, 18). Let all of us, who feel that we have too
+little realized that we are called to Holiness, pray
+this prayer. It is just what we need. Let us ask
+God to show us how, as He who hath called us is
+Himself holy, so we are to be holy too; our calling
+is a holy calling, a calling before and above everything,
+to Holiness. Let us ask Him to show us
+what Holiness is, His Holiness first, and then our
+Holiness; to show us how He has set His heart
+upon it as the one thing He wants to see in us, as
+being His own image and likeness; to show us too
+the unutterable blessedness and glory of sharing
+with Christ in His Holiness. Oh! that God by
+His Spirit would teach us what it means that we
+are called to be holy as He is holy. We can easily
+conceive what a mighty influence it would exert.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Like as He which called you is holy, be ye
+yourselves also holy&rsquo;. How this call of God shows
+us the true <em>motive</em> to Holiness. &lsquo;Be ye holy, for I
+am holy.&rsquo; It is as if God said, Holiness is my
+blessedness and my glory: without this you cannot,
+in the very nature of things, see me or enjoy
+me. Holiness is my blessedness and my glory:
+there is nothing higher to be conceived; I invite
+you to share with me in it, I invite you to likeness
+to myself: &lsquo;Be ye holy, for I am holy.&rsquo; Is it not
+enough, has it no attraction, does it not move and
+<a name="png.013" id="png.013"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">14</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>draw you mightily, the hope of being with me,
+partakers of my Holiness? I have nothing better
+to offer&mdash;I offer you myself: &lsquo;Be holy, for I am
+holy.&rsquo; Shall we not cry earnestly to God to show
+us the glory of His Holiness, that our souls may
+be made willing to give everything in response to
+this wondrous call?</p>
+
+<p>As we listen to the call, it shows also the <em>nature</em>
+of true Holiness. &lsquo;<em>Like as</em> He is holy, so be ye
+also holy.&rsquo; To be holy is to be Godlike, to have
+a disposition, a will, a character like God. The
+thought almost looks like blasphemy, until we
+listen again, &lsquo;He hath chosen us <em>in Christ</em> to
+be holy.&rsquo; In Christ the Holiness of God appeared
+in a human life: in Christ&#8217;s example, in His mind
+and Spirit, we have the Holiness of the Invisible
+One translated into the forms of human life and
+conduct. To be Christlike is to be Godlike; to be
+Christlike is to be holy as God is holy.</p>
+
+<p>The call equally reveals the <em>power</em> of Holiness.
+&lsquo;There is none holy but the Lord;&rsquo; there is no
+Holiness but what He has, or rather what He is,
+and gives. Holiness is not something we do or
+attain: it is the communication of the Divine life,
+the inbreathing of the Divine nature, the power of the
+Divine Presence resting on us. And our power to
+become holy is to be found in the call of God: the
+Holy One calls us to Himself, that He may make
+us holy in possessing Himself. He not only says
+&lsquo;I am holy,&rsquo; but &lsquo;I am the Lord, who make holy.&rsquo;
+It is because the call to Holiness comes from the
+<a name="png.014" id="png.014"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">15</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>God of infinite Power and Love that we may have
+the confidence: we can be holy.</p>
+
+<p>The call no less reveals the <em>standard</em> of Holiness.
+&lsquo;<em>Like as He</em> is holy, <em>so ye also</em> yourselves,&rsquo; or (as in
+margin, R.V.), &lsquo;Like the Holy One, which calleth
+you, be ye yourselves also holy.&rsquo; There is not one
+standard of Holiness for God and another for man.
+The nature of light is the same, whether we see it
+in the sun or in a candle: the nature of Holiness
+remains unchanged, whether it be God or man in
+whom it dwells. The Lord Jesus could say
+nothing less than, &lsquo;Be perfect, even as your Father
+in heaven is perfect.&rsquo; When God calls us to Holiness,
+He calls us to Himself and His own life:
+the more carefully we listen to the voice, and let it
+sink into our hearts, the more will all human
+standards fall away, and only the words be heard,
+Holy, as I am holy.</p>
+
+<p>And the call shows us the <em>path</em> to Holiness.
+The calling of God is one of mighty efficacy, an
+effectual calling. Oh! let us but listen to it, let
+us but listen to Him, and the call will with Divine
+power work what it offers. He calleth the things
+that are not as though they were: His call gives
+life to the dead, and holiness to those whom He has
+made alive. He calls us to listen as He speaks of
+His Holiness, and of our holiness like His. He calls
+us to Himself, to study, to fear, to love, to claim His
+Holiness. He calls us to Christ, in whom Divine
+Holiness became human Holiness, to see and admire,
+to desire and accept what is all for us.  He calls us
+<a name="png.015" id="png.015"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">16</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to the indwelling and the teaching of the Spirit of
+Holiness, to yield ourselves that He may bring
+home to us and breathe within us what is ours in
+Christ. Christian! listen to God calling thee to
+Holiness. Come and learn what His Holiness is,
+and what thine is and must be.</p>
+
+<p>Yes, be very silent and listen. When God
+called Abraham, he answered, Here am I. When
+God called Moses from the bush, he answered, Here
+am I, and he hid his face, for he was afraid to look
+upon God. God is calling thee to Holiness, to
+Himself the Holy One, that He may make thee
+holy. Let thy whole soul answer, Here am I,
+Lord! Speak, Lord! Show Thyself, Lord! Here
+am I. As you listen, the voice will sound ever
+deeper and ever stiller: Be holy, <em>as</em> I am holy. Be
+holy, <em>for</em> I am holy. You will hear a voice coming
+out of the great eternity, from the council-chamber
+of redemption, and as you catch its distant whisper,
+it will be, Be holy, I am holy. You will hear a
+voice from Paradise, the Creator making the seventh
+day holy for man whom He had created, and saying,
+Be holy. You will hear the voice from Sinai, amid
+thunderings and lightnings, and still it is, Be holy,
+as I am holy. You will hear a voice from Calvary,
+and there above all it is, Be holy, for I am holy.</p>
+
+<p>Child of God, have you ever realized it, our
+Father is calling us to Himself, to be holy as
+He is holy? Must we not confess that happiness
+has been to us more than holiness, salvation than
+sanctification? Oh! it is not too late to redeem
+<a name="png.016" id="png.016"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">17</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the error. Let us now band ourselves together to
+listen to the voice that calls, to draw nigh, and find
+out and know what Holiness is, or rather, find out
+and know Himself the Holy One. And if the first
+approach to Him fill us with shame and confusion,
+make us fear and shrink back, let us still listen to
+the Voice and the Call, &lsquo;Be holy, as I am holy.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Faithful is He which <em>calleth</em>, who also <em>will do it</em>.&rsquo;
+All our fears and questions will be met by the Holy
+One who has revealed His Holiness, with this one
+purpose in view, that we might share it with Him.
+As we yield ourselves in deep stillness of soul to
+listen to the Holy Voice that calls us, it will waken
+within us new desire and strong faith, and the
+most precious of all promises will be to us this
+word of Divine command:</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O Lord! the alone Holy One, Thou hast called
+us to be holy, even as Thou art holy. Lord! how
+can we, unless Thou reveal to us Thy Holiness.
+Show us, we pray Thee, how Thou art holy, how
+holy Thou art, what Thy holiness is, that we may
+know how we are to be holy, how holy we are to
+be. And when the sight of Thy Holiness only
+shows us the more how unholy we are, teach us
+that Thou makest partakers of Thy own Holiness
+those who come to Thee for it.</p>
+
+<p>O God! we come to Thee, the Holy One. It is
+in knowing and  finding and having Thyself, that
+<a name="png.017" id="png.017"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">18</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the soul finds Holiness. We do beseech Thee, as
+we now come to Thee, establish it in the thoughts
+of our heart, that the one object of Thy calling us,
+and of our coming to Thee, is Holiness. Thou
+wouldst have us like Thyself, partakers of Thy
+Holiness. If ever our heart becomes afraid, as if
+it were too high, or rests content with a salvation
+less than Holiness, Blessed God! let us hear Thy
+voice calling again, Be holy, I am holy. Let that
+call be our motive and our strength, because faithful
+is He that calleth, who also will do it. Let that
+call mark our standard and our path; oh! let our
+life be such as Thou art able to make it.</p>
+
+<p>Holy Father! I bow in lowly worship and silence
+before Thee. Let now Thine own voice sound in
+the depths of my heart calling me, Be holy, as I
+am holy.    Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Let me press it upon every reader of this little book, that if it is to help
+him in the pursuit of Holiness, he must begin <strong>with God Himself</strong>. You must
+go <strong>to Him who calls you</strong>. It is only in the personal revelation of God to
+you, as He speaks, I am holy, that the command, Be ye holy, can have life or
+power.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Remember, as a believer, you have already accepted God&#8217;s call, even
+though you did not fully understand it. Let it be a settled matter, that whatever
+you see to be the meaning of the call, you will at once accept and carry
+out. If God calls me to be holy, holy I will be.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Take fast hold of the word: &lsquo;The God of peace sanctify you wholly:
+faithful is He which <strong>calleth</strong> you, <strong>who also will do it</strong>.&rsquo; In that faith listen
+to God calling you.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for and count
+upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open your heart to understand
+this holy calling. And then speak out the answer you have to give to
+this call.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.018" id="png.018"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">19</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:2" id="day:2">Second Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap2.png" width="349" height="29"
+ alt="God&#8217;s Provision for Holiness." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;To those that are <em>made holy</em> in Christ Jesus, called to be
+<em>holy</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Cor.</span> i.&nbsp;2.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;To all the <em>holy ones</em> in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi.
+Salute every <em>holy one</em> in Christ Jesus.&rsquo;<sup><a name="fna.1" id="fna.1"
+ href="#fn.1">1</a></sup>&mdash;<span class="smc">Phil.</span> i. 1, iv.&nbsp;21.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">Holy</span>! <span class="smc">In Christ</span>! In these two expressions
+we have perhaps the most wonderful words
+of all the Bible.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smc">Holy</span>! the word of unfathomable meaning, which
+the Seraphs utter with veiled faces. <span class="smc">Holy</span>! the
+<a name="png.019" id="png.019"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">20</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>word in which all God&#8217;s perfections centre, and of
+which His glory is but the streaming forth. <span class="smc">Holy</span>!
+the word which reveals the purpose with which
+God from eternity thought of man, and tells what
+man&#8217;s highest glory in the coming eternity is to be;
+to be partaker of His Holiness!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smc">In Christ</span>! the word in which all the wisdom
+and love of God are unveiled! The Father giving
+His Son to be one with us! the Son dying on the
+cross to make us one with Himself! the Holy Spirit
+of the Father dwelling in us to establish and maintain
+that union! <span class="smc">In Christ</span>! what a summary of
+what redemption has done, and of the inconceivably
+blessed life in which the child of God is permitted
+to dwell. <span class="smc">In Christ</span>! the one lesson we have to
+study on earth. God&#8217;s one answer to all our needs
+and prayers. <span class="smc">In Christ</span>! the guarantee and the
+foretaste of eternal glory.</p>
+
+<p>What wealth of meaning and blessing in the two
+words combined: <span class="smc">Holy in Christ</span>! Here is God&#8217;s
+provision for our holiness, God&#8217;s response to our question,
+How to be holy? Often and often as we hear
+the call, Be <em>ye</em> holy, <em>even as I</em> am holy, it is as if there
+is and ever must be a great gulf between the holiness
+of God and man. <span class="smc">In Christ</span>! is the bridge that
+crosses the gulf; nay rather, His fulness has filled it
+up. <span class="smc">In Christ</span>! God and man meet; <span class="smc">In Christ</span>!
+the Holiness of God has found us, and made us its
+own; has become human, and can indeed become
+our very own. To the anxious cries and the heart-yearnings
+of thousands of thirsty souls who have
+<a name="png.020" id="png.020"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">21</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>believed in Jesus and yet know not how to be holy,
+here is God&#8217;s answer: <span class="smc">Ye are Holy in Christ
+Jesus</span>. Would they but hearken, and believe;
+would they but take these Divine words, and say
+them over, if need be, a thousand times, how God&#8217;s
+light would shine, and fill their hearts with joy and
+love as they echo them back: Yes, now I see it.
+Holy in Christ! Made holy in Christ Jesus!</p>
+
+<p>As we set ourselves to study these wondrous
+words, let us remember that it is only God Himself
+who can reveal to us what Holiness truly is. Let
+us fear our own thoughts, and crucify our own
+wisdom. Let us give up ourselves to receive, in
+the power of the life of God Himself, working
+in us by the Holy Spirit, that which is deeper and
+truer than human thought, Christ Himself as our
+Holiness. In this dependence upon the teaching of
+the Spirit of Holiness, let us seek simply to accept
+what Holy Scripture sets before us; as the revelation
+of the Holy One of old was a very slow and
+gradual one, so let us be content patiently to follow
+step by step the path of the shining light through
+the Word; it will shine more and more unto the
+perfect day.</p>
+
+<p>We shall first have to study the word Holy in
+the Old Testament. In Israel as the holy people,
+the type of us who now are holy in Christ, we shall
+see with what fulness of symbol God sought to
+work into the very constitution of the people some
+apprehension of what He would have them be.
+In the law we shall see how <span class="smc">Holy</span> is the great keyword
+<a name="png.021" id="png.021"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">22</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of the redemption which it was meant to
+serve and prepare for. In the prophets we shall
+hear how the Holiness of God is revealed as the
+source whence the coming redemption should spring:
+it is not so much Holiness as the Holy One they
+speak of, who would, in redeeming love and saving
+righteousness, make Himself known as the God of
+His people.</p>
+
+<p>And when the meaning of the word has been
+somewhat opened up, and the deep need of the
+blessing made manifest in the Old Testament, we
+shall come to the New to find how that need was
+fulfilled. In Christ, the Holy One of God, Divine
+Holiness will be found in human life and human
+nature; a truly human will being made perfect and
+growing up through obedience into complete union
+with all the Holy Will of God. In the sacrifice of
+Himself on the cross, that holy nature gave itself
+up to the death, that, like the seed-corn, it might
+through death live again and reproduce itself in us.
+In the gift from the throne of the Spirit of God&#8217;s
+Holiness, representing and revealing and communicating
+the unseen Christ, the holy life of Christ
+descends and takes possession of His people, and
+they become one with Him. As the Old Testament
+had no higher word than that <span class="smc">Holy</span>, the New has
+none deeper than this, <span class="smc">in Christ</span>. The being in
+Him, the abiding in Him, the being rooted in Him,
+the growing up in Him and into Him in all things,
+are the Divine expressions in which the wonderful
+and complete oneness between us and our Saviour
+<a name="png.022" id="png.022"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">23</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>are brought as near us as human language
+can do.</p>
+
+<p>And when Old and New Testament have each
+given their message, the one in teaching us what
+<em>Holy</em>, the other what <em>in Christ</em> means, we have in
+the word of God, that unites the two, the most
+complete summary of the Great Redemption that
+God&#8217;s love has provided. The everlasting certainty,
+the wonderful sufficiency, the infinite efficacy of the
+Holiness that God has prepared for us in His Son,
+are all revealed in this blessed, <span class="smc">Holy in Christ</span>.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The Holy Ones in Christ Jesus!&rsquo; Such is the
+name, beloved fellow-believers, which we bear in
+Holy Scripture, in the language of the Holy Spirit.
+It is no mere statement of doctrine, that we are
+holy in Christ: it is no deep theological discussion
+to which we are invited; but out of the depths
+of God&#8217;s loving heart, there comes a voice thus
+addressing His beloved children. It is the name
+by which the Father calls His children. That
+name tells us of God&#8217;s provision for our being holy.
+It is the revelation of what God has given us, and
+what we already are; of what God waits to work
+in us, and what can be ours in personal practical
+possession. That name, gratefully accepted, joyfully
+confessed, trustfully pleaded, will be the pledge and
+the power of our attainment of the Holiness to
+which we have been called.</p>
+
+<p>And so we shall find that as we go along, all our
+study and all God&#8217;s teaching will be comprised in
+three great lessons. The first a revelation, &lsquo;<em>I am</em>
+<a name="png.023" id="png.023"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">24</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span><em>holy</em>;&rsquo; the second a command, &lsquo;<em>Be ye holy</em>;&rsquo; the
+third a gift, the link between the two, &lsquo;<em>Ye are holy
+in Christ</em>.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>First comes the revelation, &lsquo;I am holy.&rsquo; Our
+study must be on bended knee, in the spirit of
+worship and deep humility. God must reveal
+Himself to us, if we are to know what Holy is.
+The deep unholiness of our nature and all that is
+of nature must be shown us; with Moses and
+Isaiah, when the Holy One revealed Himself to
+them, we must fear and tremble, and confess how
+utterly unfit we are for the revelation or the fellowship,
+without the cleansing of fire. In the consciousness
+of the utter impotence of our own
+wisdom or understanding to know God, our souls
+must in contrition, brokenness from ourselves and
+our power or efforts, yield to God&#8217;s Spirit, the Spirit
+of Holiness, to reveal God as the Holy One. And
+as we begin to know Him in His infinite righteousness,
+in His fiery burning zeal against all that is
+sin, and His infinite self-sacrificing love to free the
+sinner from his sin, and to bring him to His own
+perfection, we shall learn to wonder at and worship
+this glorious God, to feel and deplore our terrible
+unlikeness to Him, to long and cry for some share
+in the Divine beauty and blessedness of this
+Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>And then will come with new meaning the
+command, &lsquo;Be holy, as I am holy.&rsquo; Oh, my
+brethren! ye who profess to obey the commands
+of your God, do give this all-surpassing and all-including
+<a name="png.024" id="png.024"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">25</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>command that first place in your heart
+and life which it claims. Do be holy with the
+likeness of God&#8217;s Holiness. Do be holy as He is
+holy. And if you find that the more you meditate
+and study, the less you can grasp this infinite
+holiness; that the more you at moments grasp of
+it, the more you despair of a holiness so Divine;
+remember that such breaking down and such
+despair is just what the command was meant to
+work. Learn to cease from your own wisdom as
+well as your own goodness; draw near in poverty
+of spirit to let the Holy One show you how utterly
+above human knowledge or human power is the
+holiness He demands; to the soul that ceases from
+self, and has no confidence in the flesh, He will
+show and give the holiness He calls us to.</p>
+
+<p>It is to such that the great gift of Holiness in
+Christ becomes intelligible and acceptable. Christ
+brings the Holiness of God nigh by showing it in
+human conduct and intercourse. He brings it nigh
+by removing the barrier between it and us, between
+God and us. He brings it nigh, because He makes
+us one with Himself. &lsquo;Holy in Christ:&rsquo; our holiness
+is a Divine bestowment, held for us, communicated
+to us, working mightily in us because we are
+<em>in Him</em>. &lsquo;In Christ!&rsquo; oh, that wonderful <em>in</em>! our
+very life rooted in the life of Christ. That holy
+Son and Servant of the Father, beautiful in His life
+of love and obedience on earth, sanctifying Himself
+for us&mdash;that life of Christ, the ground in which I
+am planted and rooted, the soil from which I draw
+<a name="png.025" id="png.025"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">26</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>as my nourishment its every quality and its very
+nature. How that word sheds its light both on the
+revelation, &lsquo;I am holy,&rsquo; and on the command, &lsquo;Be
+ye holy, as I am,&rsquo; and binds them in one! In
+Christ I see what God&#8217;s Holiness is, and what my
+holiness is. In Him both are one, and both are
+mine. In Him I am holy; abiding and growing up
+in Him, I can be holy in all manner of living, as God
+is holy.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O Most Holy God! we do beseech Thee, reveal
+Thou to Thy children what it meaneth that Thou
+hast not only called them to holiness, but even
+called them by this name, &lsquo;the holy ones in Christ
+Jesus.&rsquo; Oh that every child of Thine might know
+that He bears this name, might know what it
+means, and what power there is in it to make Him
+what it calls him. Holy Lord God! oh that the
+time of Thy visitation might speedily come, and
+each child of Thine on earth be known as a holy
+one!</p>
+
+<p>To this end we pray Thee to reveal to Thy saints
+what Thy Holiness is. Teach us to worship and to
+wait until Thou hast spoken unto our souls with
+Divine Power Thy word, &lsquo;I am holy.&rsquo; Oh that it
+may search out and convict us of our unholiness!</p>
+
+<p>And reveal to us, we pray Thee, that as holy as
+Thou art, even a consuming fire, so holy is Thy
+command in its determined and uncompromising purpose
+<a name="png.026" id="png.026"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">27</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to have us holy. O God! let Thy voice sound
+through the depth of our being, with a power from
+which there is no escape: Be holy, be holy.</p>
+
+<p>And let us thus, between Thine infinite Holiness
+on the one hand and our unholiness on the other,
+be driven and be drawn to accept of Christ as our
+sanctification, to abide in Him as our life and our
+power to be what Thou wouldst have us&mdash;&lsquo;Holy in
+Christ Jesus.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>O Father! let Thy Spirit make this precious
+word life and truth within us. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. You are entering anew on the study of a Divine mystery. &lsquo;Trust not to
+your own understanding;&rsquo; wait for the teaching of the Spirit of truth.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. <strong>In Christ.</strong> A commentator says, &lsquo;The phrase denotes two moral facts&mdash;first,
+the act of faith whereby a man lays hold of Christ; second, the
+community of life with Him contracted by means of this faith.&rsquo; There is still
+another fact, the greatest of all: that it is by an act of Divine power that I
+am in Christ and am kept in Him. It is this I want to realize: the Divineness
+of my position in Jesus.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Grasp the two sides of the truth. <strong>You are</strong> holy in Christ with a Divine
+holiness. In the faith of that, you are to <strong>be holy</strong>, to <strong>become holy</strong> with a
+human holiness, the Divine Holiness manifest in all the conduct of a human
+life.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. This Christ is a Living Person, a Loving Saviour: how He will delight to
+get complete possession, and do all the work in you! Keep hold of this all
+along as we go on: you have a claim on Christ, on His Love and Power, to
+make you holy. As His redeemed one, you are at this moment, whatever and
+wherever you be, <strong>in Him</strong>. His Holy Presence and Love are around you. You
+are <strong>in Him</strong>, in the enclosure of that tender love, which ever encircles you with
+His Holy Presence. <strong>In that Presence, accepted and realized, is your
+holiness.</strong></i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.1" id="fn.1"
+ href="#fna.1">1</a> There is one disadvantage in English in our having synonyms
+of which some are derived from Saxon and others from Latin.
+Ordinary readers are apt to forget that in our translation of the
+Bible we may use two different words for what in the original is
+expressed by one term. This is the case with the words <em>holy</em>,
+<em>holiness</em>, <em>keep holy</em>, <em>hallow</em>, <em>saint</em>, <em>sanctify</em>, and <em>sanctification</em>.
+When God or Christ is called the Holy One, the word in Hebrew
+and Greek is exactly the same that is used when the believer is
+called a saint: he too is a holy one. So the three words <em>hallow</em>,
+<em>keep holy</em>, <em>sanctify</em>, all represent but one term in the original, of
+which the real meaning is to make holy, as it is in Dutch,
+<em>heiliging</em> (holying), and <em>heiligmaking</em> (holy-making).</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.027" id="png.027"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">28</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:3" id="day:3">Third Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap3.png" width="263" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Creation." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;And God blessed the Sabbath day, and <em>sanctified</em> it, because
+that in it He had rested from all the work which God created
+and made.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Gen.</span> ii.&nbsp;3.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">In</span> Genesis we have the Book of Beginnings. To
+its first three chapters we are specially indebted
+for a Divine light shining on the many
+questions to which human wisdom never could find
+an answer. In our search after Holiness, we are
+led thither too. In the whole book of Genesis the
+word Holy occurs but once. But that once in
+such a connection as to open to us the secret
+spring whence flows all that the Bible has to teach
+or to give us of this heavenly blessing. The full
+meaning of the precious word we want to master,
+of the priceless blessing we want to get possession
+of, &lsquo;<em>Sanctified in Christ</em>,&rsquo; takes its rise in what is
+here written of that wondrous act of God, by which
+He closed His creation work, and revealed how
+wonderfully it would be continued and perfected.
+When God blessed the seventh day, and <em>sanctified</em>
+<a name="png.028" id="png.028"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">29</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>it, He lifted it above the other days, and set it
+apart to a work and a revelation of Himself,
+excelling in glory all that had preceded. In this
+simple expression, Scripture reveals to us the
+character of God as the Holy One, who <em>makes holy</em>;
+the way in which He makes holy, by entering in
+and <em>resting</em>; and the power of <em>blessing</em> with which
+God&#8217;s making holy is ever accompanied. These
+three lessons we shall find it of the deepest importance
+to study well, as containing the root-principles
+of all the Scripture will have to teach
+us in our pursuit of Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>1. God <em>sanctified</em> the Sabbath day. Of the
+previous six days the keyword was, from the first
+calling into existence of the heaven and the earth,
+down to the making of man: <em>God created</em>. All at
+once a new word and a new work of God, is introduced:
+<em>God sanctified</em>. Something higher than
+creation, that for which creation is to exist, is now
+to be revealed; God Almighty is now to be known
+as God Most Holy. And just as the work of
+creation shows His Power, without that Power
+being mentioned, so His making holy the seventh
+day reveals His character as the Holy One. As
+Omnipotence is the chief of His natural, so Holiness
+is the first of His moral attributes. And just as
+He alone is Creator, so He alone is Sanctifier; to
+make holy is His work as truly and exclusively as
+to create. Blessed is the child of God who truly
+and fully believes this!</p>
+
+<p>God sanctified the Sabbath day. The word can
+<a name="png.029" id="png.029"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">30</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>teach us what the nature is of the work God does
+when He makes holy. Sanctification in Paradise
+cannot be essentially different from Sanctification
+in Redemption. God had pronounced all His works,
+and man the chief of them, very good. And yet
+they were not holy. The six days&#8217; work had nought
+of defilement or sin, and yet it was not holy. The
+seventh day needed to be specially made holy, for
+the great work of making holy man, who was
+already very good. In Exodus, God says distinctly
+that He sanctified the Sabbath day, with a view to
+man&#8217;s sanctification. &lsquo;That ye may know that I
+am the Lord that doth <em>sanctify you</em>.&rsquo; Goodness,
+innocence, purity, freedom from sin, is not Holiness.
+Goodness is the work of omnipotence, an attribute
+of nature, as God creates it: holiness is something
+infinitely higher. We speak of the holiness of God
+as His infinite moral perfection; man&#8217;s moral
+perfection could only come in the use of his will,
+consenting freely to and abiding in the will of God.
+Thus alone could he become holy. The seventh day
+was made holy by God as a pledge that He would
+make man holy. In the ages that preceded the
+seventh day, the Creation period, God&#8217;s Power,
+Wisdom, and Goodness had been displayed. The
+age to come, in the seventh day period, is to be the
+dispensation of holiness: God made holy the seventh
+day.</p>
+
+<p>2. God sanctified the Sabbath day, <em>because in it
+He rested</em> from all His work. This rest was something
+real. In Creation, God had, as it were, gone
+<a name="png.030" id="png.030"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">31</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>out of Himself to bring forth something new: in
+resting He now returns from His creating work
+into Himself, to rejoice in His love over the man
+He has created, and communicate Himself to him.
+This opens up to us the way in which God makes
+holy. The connection between the resting and
+making holy was no arbitrary one; the making
+holy was no after-thought; in the very nature of
+things it could not be otherwise: He sanctified
+<em>because</em> He rested in it; He sanctified by resting.
+As He regards His finished work, more especially
+man, rejoices in it, and, as we have it in Exodus,
+&lsquo;is refreshed,&rsquo; this time of His Divine rest is the
+time in which He will carry on unto perfection
+what He has begun, and make man, created in His
+image, in very deed partaker of His highest glory,
+His Holiness.</p>
+
+<p><em>Where God rests in complacency and love, He makes
+holy.</em> The Presence of God revealing itself, entering
+in, and taking possession, is what constitutes true
+Holiness. As we go down the ages, studying the
+progressive unfolding of what Holiness is, this truth
+will continually meet us. In God&#8217;s indwelling in
+heaven, in His temple on earth, in His beloved Son,
+in the person of the believer through the Holy
+Spirit, we shall everywhere find that Holiness is not
+something that man is or does, but that it always
+comes where God comes. In the deepest meaning
+of the words: where God enters to rest, there He
+sanctifies. And when we come to study the New
+Testament revelation of the way in which we are
+<a name="png.031" id="png.031"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">32</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to be holy, we shall find in this one of our earliest
+and deepest lessons. It is as we enter into the
+rest of God that we become partakers of His
+Holiness. &lsquo;We which have believed do enter into
+that rest;&rsquo; &lsquo;He that hath entered into his rest hath
+himself also rested from his works, as God did from
+His.&rsquo; It is as the soul ceases from its own efforts,
+and rests in Him who has finished all for us, and will
+finish all in us, as the soul yields itself in the quiet
+confidence of true faith to rest in God, that it will
+know what true Holiness is. Where the soul enters
+into the Sabbath stillness of perfect trust, God
+comes to keep His Sabbath holy; and the soul
+where He rests He sanctifies. Whether we speak
+of His own day, &lsquo;He sanctified it,&rsquo; or His own
+people &lsquo;sanctified in Christ,&rsquo; the secret of Holiness
+is ever the same: &lsquo;He sanctified because he rested.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>3. And then we read, &lsquo;<em>He blessed</em> and sanctified
+it.&rsquo; As used in the first chapter and throughout
+the book of Genesis, the word &lsquo;God blessed&rsquo; is one
+of great significance. &lsquo;Be fruitful and multiply&rsquo;
+was, as to Adam, so later to Noah and Abraham,
+the Divine exposition of its meaning. The blessing
+with which God blessed Adam and Noah and
+Abraham was that of fruitfulness and increase, the
+power to reproduce and multiply. When God
+blessed the seventh day, He filled it so with the
+living power of His Holiness, that in it that Holiness
+might increase and reproduce itself in those who,
+like Him, seek to enter into its rest and sanctify it.
+The seventh day is that in which we are still living.
+<a name="png.032" id="png.032"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">33</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Of each of the creation days it is written, up to the last,
+&lsquo;There was evening, and there was morning, the
+sixth day.&rsquo; Of the seventh the record has not yet
+been made; we are living in it now, God&#8217;s own
+day of rest and holiness and blessing. Entering
+into it in a very special manner, and taking possession
+of it, as the time for His rejoicing in His creature,
+and manifesting the fulness of His love in sanctifying
+him, He has made the dispensation we
+now live in one of Divine and mighty blessing.
+And He has at the same time taught us what the
+blessing is. Holiness is blessedness. Fellowship
+with God in His holy rest is blessedness. And as
+all God&#8217;s blessings in Christ have but one fountain,
+God&#8217;s Holiness, so they all have but one aim, making
+us partakers of that Holiness. God created, <em>and
+blessed</em>; with the creation blessing. God sanctified,
+<em>and blessed</em>; with the Sabbath blessing of His rest.
+The Creation blessing, of goodness and fruitfulness
+and dominion, is to be crowned by the Sabbath
+blessing of rest in God and holiness in fellowship
+with Him.</p>
+
+<p>God&#8217;s finished work of Creation was marred by
+sin, and our fellowship with Him in the blessing of
+His holy rest cut off. The finished work of redemption
+opened for us a truer rest and a surer entrance
+into the Holiness of God. As He rested in His
+holy day, so He now rests in His Holy Son. In
+Him we now can enter fully into the rest of God.
+&lsquo;Made holy in Christ,&rsquo; let us rest in Him. Let us
+rest, because we see that as wonderfully as God by
+<a name="png.033" id="png.033"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">34</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>His mighty power finished His work of Creation,
+will He complete and perfect His work of sanctification.
+Let us yield ourselves to God in Christ, to
+rest where He rested, to be made holy with His
+own holiness, and to be blessed with God&#8217;s own
+blessing. God the Sanctifier is the name now
+inscribed upon the throne of God the Creator. At
+the threshold of the history of the human race there
+shines this word of infinite promise and hope:
+&lsquo;God blessed and sanctified the seventh day because
+in it He rested.&rsquo;</p>
+
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Lord God! I bow before Thee in lowly
+worship. I adore Thee as God the Creator, and
+God the Sanctifier. Thou hast revealed Thyself
+as God Almighty and God Most Holy. I beseech
+Thee, teach me to know and to trust Thee as such.</p>
+
+<p>I humbly ask Thee for grace to learn and hold
+fast the deep spiritual truths Thou hast revealed in
+making holy the Sabbath day. Thy purpose in
+man&#8217;s creation is to show forth Thy Holiness, and
+make him partaker of it. Oh, teach me to believe
+in Thee as God my Creator and Sanctifier, to believe
+with my whole heart that the same Almighty power
+which gave the sixth-day blessing of creation,
+secures to us the seventh-day blessing of sanctification.
+Thy will is our sanctification.</p>
+
+<p>And teach me, Lord, to understand better how
+this blessing comes. It is where Thou enterest to
+<a name="png.034" id="png.034"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">35</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>rest, to refresh and reveal Thyself, that Thou
+makest holy. O my God! may my heart be Thy
+resting-place. I would, in the stillness and confidence
+of a restful faith, rest in Thee, believing that
+Thou doest all in me. Let such fellowship with
+Thee, and Thy love, and Thy will be to me the
+secret of a life of holiness. I ask it in the name of
+our Lord Jesus, in whom Thou hast sanctified us.
+Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. God the Creator is God the Sanctifier. The Omnipotence that did the first
+work does the second too. I can trust God Almighty to make me holy. God is
+holy: if God is everything to me, His presence will be my holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Rest is ceasing from work, not to work no more, but to begin a new work.
+God rests and begins at once to make holy that in which He rests. He
+created by the word of His power; He rests in His love. Creation was the
+building of the temple; sanctification is the entering in and taking possession.
+Oh, that wonderful entering into human nature!</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. God rests only in what is restful, wholly at His disposal. It is in the
+restfulness of faith that we must look to God the Sanctifier; He will come in
+and keep His holy Sabbath in the restful soul. We rest in God&#8217;s rest; God
+rests in our rest.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. The God that rests in man whom He made, and in resting sanctifies, and
+in sanctifying blesses: this is our God; praise and worship Him. <strong>And trust
+Him to do His work.</strong></i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. Rest! what a simple word. The Rest of God! what an inconceivable
+fulness of Life and Love in that word. Let us meditate on it and worship
+before Him, until it overshadow us and we enter into it&mdash;the Rest of God.
+<strong>Rest</strong> belongeth unto God: He alone can give it, by making us share His own.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.035" id="png.035"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">36</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:4" id="day:4">Fourth Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap4.png" width="286" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Revelation." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;And when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see, He
+called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses,
+Moses. And he said, Here am I. And He said, Draw not nigh
+hither; put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place where
+thou standest is <em>holy</em> ground. And Moses hid his face, for He
+was afraid to look upon God.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span> iii. 4&ndash;6.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">And</span> why was it holy ground? Because God
+had come there and occupied it. Where
+God is, there is holiness; it is the presence of God
+makes holy. This is the truth we met with in
+Paradise when man was just created; here, where
+Scripture uses the word <em>Holy</em> for the second time, it
+is repeated and enforced. A careful study of the
+word in the light of the burning bush will further
+open its deep significance. Let us see what the
+sacred history, what the revelation of God, and
+what Moses teaches us of this holy ground.</p>
+
+<p>1. Note the place this first direct revelation of
+God to man as the Holy One takes in sacred
+history. In Paradise we found the word <em>Holy</em>
+used of the seventh day. Since that time twenty-five
+<a name="png.036" id="png.036"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">37</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>centuries have elapsed. We found in God&#8217;s
+sanctifying the day of rest a promise of a new
+dispensation&mdash;the revelation of the Almighty
+Creator to be followed by that of the Holy One
+making holy. And yet throughout the book of
+Genesis the word never occurs again; it is as if
+God&#8217;s Holiness is in abeyance; only in Exodus, with
+the calling of Moses, does it make its appearance
+again. This is a fact of deep import. Just as a
+parent or teacher seeks, in early childhood, to impress
+one lesson at a time, so God deals in the education
+of the human race. After having in the flood
+exhibited His righteous judgment against sin, He
+calls Abraham to be the father of a chosen people.
+And as the foundation of all His dealings with that
+people, He teaches him and his seed first of all the
+lesson of <em>childlike trust</em>&mdash;trust in Him as the
+Almighty, with whom nothing is too wonderful, and
+trust in Him as the Faithful One, whose oath could
+not be broken. With the growth of Israel to a
+people we see the revelation advancing to a new
+stage. The simplicity of childhood gives way to
+the waywardness of youth, and God must now
+interfere with the discipline and restriction of law.
+Having gained a right to a place in their confidence
+as the God of their fathers, He prepares them for a
+further revelation. Of the God of Abraham the
+chief attribute was that He was the Almighty One;
+of the God of Israel, Jehovah, that He is the Holy One.</p>
+
+<p>And what is to be the special mark of the new
+period that is now about to be inaugurated, and
+<a name="png.037" id="png.037"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">38</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>which is introduced by the word holy? God tells
+Moses that He is now about to reveal Himself in a
+new character. He had been known to Abraham
+as God Almighty, the God of Promise (Ex. vi. 3).
+He would now manifest Himself as Jehovah, the
+God of Fulfilment, especially in the redemption
+and deliverance of His people from the oppression
+He had foretold to Abraham. God Almighty is
+the God of Creation: Abraham believed in God,
+&lsquo;who quickeneth the dead, and calleth the things
+that are not as though they were.&rsquo; Jehovah is
+the God of Redemption and of Holiness. With
+Abraham there was not a word of sin or guilt, and
+therefore not of redemption or holiness. To Israel
+the law is to be given, to convince of sin and prepare
+the way for holiness; it is Jehovah, the Holy
+One of Israel, the Redeemer, who now appears.
+And it is the presence of this Holy One that
+makes the holy ground.</p>
+
+<p>2. And how does this Presence reveal itself? In
+the burning bush God makes Himself known as
+dwelling in the midst of the fire. Elsewhere in
+Holy Scripture the connection between fire and the
+Holiness of God is clearly expressed: &lsquo;The light
+of Israel shall be for a fire, and the Holy One for a
+flame.&rsquo; The nature of fire may be either beneficent
+or destructive. The sun, the great central fire, may
+give life and fruitfulness, or may scorch to death.
+All depends upon occupying the right position,
+upon the relation in which we stand to it. And
+so wherever God the Holy One reveals Himself,
+<a name="png.038" id="png.038"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">39</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>we shall find the two sides together: God&#8217;s
+Holiness as judgment against sin, destroying the
+sinner who remains in it, and as Mercy freeing His
+people from it. Judgment and Mercy ever go
+together. Of the elements of nature there is none
+of such spiritual and mighty energy as Fire: what
+it consumes it takes and changes into its own
+spiritual nature, rejecting as smoke and ashes what
+cannot be assimilated. And so the Holiness of
+God is that infinite Perfection by which He keeps
+Himself free from all that is not Divine, and yet
+has fellowship with the creature, and takes it up
+into union with Himself, destroying and casting out
+all that will not yield itself to Him.</p>
+
+<p>It is thus as One who dwells in the fire, who is
+a fire, that God reveals Himself at the opening of
+this new redemption period. With Abraham and
+the patriarchs, as we have said, there had been little
+teaching about sin or redemption; the nearness and
+friendship of God had been revealed. Now the law
+will be given, sin will be made manifest, the distance
+from God will be felt, that man, in learning to
+know himself and his sinfulness, may learn to know
+and long for God to make him holy. In all God&#8217;s
+revelation of Himself we shall find the combination
+of the two elements, the one repelling, the other
+attracting. In His house He will dwell in the
+midst of Israel, and yet it will be in the awful unapproachable
+solitude and darkness of the holiest
+of all within the veil. He will come near to them,
+and yet keep them at a distance. As we study the
+<a name="png.039" id="png.039"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">40</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Holiness of God, we shall see in increasing clearness
+how, like fire, it repels and attracts, how it combines
+into one His infinite distance and His infinite nearness.</p>
+
+<p>3. But the distance will be that which comes out
+first and most strongly. This we see in Moses: he hid
+his face, for He feared to look upon God. The first
+impression which God&#8217;s Holiness produces is that of
+fear and awe. Until man, both as a creature and a
+sinner, learns how high God is above him, how
+different and distant he is from God, the Holiness
+of God will have little real value or attraction.
+Moses hiding his face shows us the effect of the
+drawing nigh of the Holy One, and the path to His
+further revelation.</p>
+
+<p>How distinctly this comes out in God&#8217;s own
+words: &lsquo;Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes
+from off thy feet.&rsquo; Yes, God had drawn nigh, but
+Moses may not. God comes near: man must stand
+back. In the same breath God says, Draw nigh,
+and, Draw not nigh. There can be no knowledge
+of God or nearness to Him, where we have not first
+heard His, Draw not nigh. The sense of sin, of
+unfitness for God&#8217;s presence, is the groundwork of
+true knowledge or worship of Him as the Holy One.
+&lsquo;Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.&rsquo; The shoes
+are the means of intercourse with the world, the
+aids through which the flesh or nature does its will,
+moves about and does its work. In standing upon
+holy ground, all this must be put away. It is with
+naked feet, naked and stript of every covering, that
+man must bow before a holy God. Our utter unfitness
+<a name="png.040" id="png.040"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">41</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to draw nigh or have any dealings with the
+Holy One, is the very first lesson we have to learn,
+if ever we are to participate in His Holiness. That
+<em>Put off!</em> must exercise its condemning power through
+our whole being, until we come to realize the full
+extent of its meaning in the great, &lsquo;<em>Put off</em> the old
+man; put on the Lord Jesus,&rsquo; and what &lsquo;the <em>putting
+off</em> of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of
+Christ,&rsquo; is. Yes, all that is of nature and the flesh, all
+that is of our own doing or willing or working&mdash;our
+very life, must be put off and given unto the death, if
+God, as the Holy One, is to make Himself known to us.</p>
+
+<p>We have seen before that Holiness is more than
+goodness or freedom from sin: even unfallen nature
+is not holy. Holiness is that awful glory by which
+Divinity is separated from all that is created.
+Therefore even the seraphs veil their faces with
+their wings when they sing the Thrice Holy. But
+oh! when the distance and the difference is not that
+of the creature only, but of the sinner, who can express,
+who can realize, the humiliation, the fear, the
+shame with which we ought to bow before the voice
+of the Holy One? Alas! this is one of the most
+terrible effects of sin, that it blinds us. We know
+not how unholy, how abominable, sin and the sinful
+nature are in God&#8217;s sight. We have lost the
+power of recognising the Holiness of God: heathen
+philosophy had not even the idea of using the word
+as expressive of the moral character of its gods.
+In losing the light of the glory of God, we have
+lost the power of knowing what sin is. And now
+<a name="png.041" id="png.041"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">42</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>God&#8217;s first work in drawing nigh to us is to make
+us feel that we may not draw nigh as we are; that
+there will have to be a very real and a very solemn
+putting off, and even giving up to the death, of all
+that appears most lawful and most needful. Not
+only our shoes are soiled with contact with this
+unholy earth; even our face must be covered and
+our eyes closed, in token that the eyes of our heart,
+all our human wisdom and understanding, are incapable
+of beholding the Holy One. The first
+lesson in the school of personal holiness is, to fear
+and hide our face before the Holiness of God. &lsquo;Thus
+saith the High and Lofty One, whose name is holy,
+I dwell in the High and Holy Place, and with him
+that is of a contrite and humble spirit.&rsquo; Contrition,
+brokenness of spirit, fear and trembling are
+God&#8217;s first demand of those who would see His
+Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>Moses was to be the first preacher of the Holiness
+of God. Of the full communication of God&#8217;s
+Holiness to us in Christ, His first revelation to
+Moses was the type and the pledge. From Moses&#8217;
+lips the people of Israel, from his pen the Church of
+Christ, was to receive the message, &lsquo;Be holy: I am
+holy: I make holy.&rsquo; His preparation for being the
+messenger of the Holy One was here, where he hid
+his face, because he was afraid to look upon God.
+It is with the face in the dust, it is in the putting
+off not only of the shoes, but of all that has been
+in contact with the world and self and sin, that
+the soul draws nigh to the fire, in which God dwells,
+<a name="png.042" id="png.042"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">43</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and which burns, but does not consume. Oh that
+every believer, who seeks to witness for God as the
+Holy One, might thus learn how the fulfilment of
+the type of the Burning Bush is the Crucified
+Christ, and how, as we die with Him, we receive
+that Baptism of Fire, which reveals in each of us
+what it means: the Holy One dwelling in a
+Burning Bush. Only so can we learn what it is to
+be holy, as He is holy.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy God! I have seen Thee, who dwellest
+in the fire. I have heard Thy voice, Draw not
+nigh hither; put thy shoes off from thy feet. And
+my soul has feared to look upon God, the Holy
+One.</p>
+
+<p>And yet, O my God! I must see Thee. Thou
+didst create me for Thy likeness. Thou hast taught
+that this likeness is Thy Holiness: &lsquo;Be holy, as I
+am holy.&rsquo; O my God! how shall I know to be holy,
+unless I may see Thee, the Holy One? To be holy,
+I must look upon God.</p>
+
+<p>I bless Thee for the revelation of Thyself in the
+flames of the thorn-bush, in the fire of the accursed
+tree. I bow in amazement and deep abasement at
+the great sight: Thy Son in the weakness of His
+human nature, in the fire, burning but not consumed.
+O my God! in fear and trembling I have
+yielded myself as a sinner to die like Him. Oh, let
+the fire consume all that is unholy in me! Let me
+<a name="png.043" id="png.043"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">44</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>too know Thee as the God that dwelleth in the fire,
+to melt down and purge out and destroy what is
+not of Thee, to save and take up into Thine own
+Holiness what is Thine own.</p>
+
+<p>O Holy Lord God! I bow in the dust before
+this great mystery. Reveal to me Thy Holiness,
+that I too may be its witness and its messenger on
+earth. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. <strong>Holiness as the fire of God.</strong> Praise God that there is a Power that can
+consume the vile and the dross, a Power that will not leave it undisturbed.
+&lsquo;The bush burning but not consumed&rsquo; is not only the motto of the Church in
+time of persecution; it is the watchword of every soul in God&#8217;s sanctifying
+work.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. There is a new Theology, which only speaks of the love of God as seen in
+the cross. It sees not the glory of His Righteousness, and His righteous judgment.
+This is not the God of Scripture. &lsquo;Our God is a consuming fire,&rsquo; is
+New Testament Theology. To &lsquo;offer service with reverence and awe,&rsquo; is New
+Testament religion. In Holiness, Judgment and Mercy meet.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. <strong>Holiness as the fear of God.</strong> Hiding the face before God for fear, not
+daring to look or speak,&mdash;this is the beginning of rest in God. It is not yet
+the true rest, but on the way to it. May God give us a deep fear of whatever
+could grieve or anger Him. May we have a deep fear of ourselves, and all that
+is of the old, the condemned nature, lest it rise again. &lsquo;The spirit of the fear
+of the Lord&rsquo; is the first manifestation of the spirit of holiness, and prepares
+the way for the joy of holiness. &lsquo;Walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the
+comfort of the Holy Ghost;&rsquo; these are the two sides of the Christian life.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. The Holiness of God was revealed to Moses that he might be its messenger.
+The Church needs nothing so much to-day as men and women who
+can testify for the Holiness of God. Will you be one?</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="note">NOTE.</h3>
+
+<p class="pgbrk">The connection between the fear of God and holiness is
+most intimate. There are some who seek most earnestly
+for holiness, and yet never exhibit it in a light that
+will attract the world or even believers, because this
+element is wanting. It is the fear of the Lord that
+works that meekness and gentleness, that deliverance
+<a name="png.044" id="png.044"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">45</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>from self-confidence and self-consciousness, which form the
+true groundwork of a saintly character. The passages of
+God&#8217;s Word in which the two words are linked together
+are well worthy of a careful study. &lsquo;Who is like unto
+Thee, glorious in <em>holiness</em>, <em>fearful</em> in praises?&rsquo; &lsquo;In Thy
+<em>fear</em> will I worship towards Thy <em>holy</em> temple.&rsquo; &lsquo;O <em>fear</em>
+the Lord, ye His <em>holy ones</em>.&rsquo; &lsquo;O worship the Lord, in
+the beauty of <em>holiness</em>; <em>fear</em> before Him, all the earth.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Let them praise Thy great and <em>terrible</em> name; <em>holy</em> is He.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;The <em>fear</em> of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and
+the knowledge of the <em>Holy One</em> is understanding.&rsquo; &lsquo;The
+Lord of hosts, Him shall ye <em>sanctify</em>; let Him be your
+<em>fear</em>, and let Him be your dread.&rsquo; &lsquo;Perfecting <em>holiness</em> in
+the <em>fear</em> of the Lord.&rsquo; &lsquo;Like as He which <em>called you</em> is
+holy, be ye yourselves also <em>holy</em>; and if ye <em>call on Him</em>
+as father, pass the time of your sojourning in <em>fear</em>.&rsquo; And
+so on through the whole of Scripture, from the Song of
+Moses on to the Song of the Lamb: &lsquo;Who shall not
+<em>fear</em> Thee, O Lord! and glorify Thy name, for Thou only
+art <em>holy</em>.&rsquo; If we yield ourselves to the impression of such
+passages, we shall feel more deeply that the fear of God,
+the tender fear of in any way offending Him, the fear
+especially of entering into His holy presence with what is
+human and carnal, with aught of our own wisdom and
+effort, is of the very essence of the holiness we are to
+follow after. It is this fear of God will make us, like
+Moses, fall down and hide our face in God&#8217;s presence,
+and wait for His own Holy Spirit to open in us the eyes,
+and breathe in us the thoughts and the worship, with
+which we draw nigh to Him, the Holy One. It is in
+this holy fear that that stillness of soul is wrought which
+leads it to rest in God, and opens the way for what we
+saw in Paradise to be the secret of holiness: God keeping
+His Sabbath, and sanctifying the soul in which He rests.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.045" id="png.045"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">46</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:5" id="day:5">Fifth  Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap5.png" width="300" height="30"
+ alt="Holiness and Redemption." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Sanctify</em> unto <em>me</em> all the first-born.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span> xiii.&nbsp;2.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;All the first-born <em>are mine</em>; for on the day I smote all the
+first-born in the land of Egypt <em>I sanctified</em> unto <em>me</em> all the first-born
+in Israel: <em>mine</em> they shall be: I am the Lord.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Num.</span> iii.
+13, viii.&nbsp;17.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;For I am the Lord your God that bringeth you up out of the
+land of Egypt to be your God: ye shall therefore <em>be holy</em>, for I
+am <em>holy</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Lev.</span> xi.&nbsp;45.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I have redeemed thee; thou art mine.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Isa.</span> xliii.&nbsp;1.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">At</span> Horeb we saw how the first mention of the
+word holy in the history of fallen man was
+connected with the inauguration of a new period in
+the revelation of God, that of Redemption. In the
+passover we have the first manifestation of what
+Redemption is; and here the more frequent use of
+the word holy begins. In the feast of unleavened
+bread we have the symbol of the putting off of the
+old and the putting on of the new, to which redemption
+through blood is to lead. Of the seven
+days we read: &lsquo;In the first day there shall be an
+<em>holy</em> convocation, and in the seventh day there shall
+<a name="png.046" id="png.046"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">47</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>be an <em>holy</em> convocation;&rsquo; the meeting of the redeemed
+people to commemorate its deliverance is a
+holy gathering; they meet under the covering of
+their Redeemer, the Holy One. As soon as the
+people had been redeemed from Egypt, God&#8217;s very
+first word to them was, &lsquo;Sanctify&mdash;make holy
+unto me all the first-born: it is mine.&rsquo; (See Ex.
+xiii. 2.) The word reveals how proprietorship is
+one of the central thoughts both in redemption and
+in sanctification, the link that binds them together.
+And though the word is here only used of the first-born,
+they are regarded as the type of the whole
+people. We know how all growth and organization
+commence from a centre, around which in ever-widening
+circles the life of the organism spreads.
+If holiness in the human race is to be true and real,
+free as that of God, it must be the result of a self-appropriating
+development. And so the first-born
+are sanctified, and afterwards the priests in their
+place, as the type of what the whole people is to be
+as God&#8217;s first-born among the nations, His peculiar
+treasure, &lsquo;an holy nation.&rsquo; This idea of proprietorship
+as related to redemption and sanctification
+comes out with especial clearness when God speaks
+of the exchange of the priests for the first-born
+(Num. iii. 12, 13, viii. 16, 17): &lsquo;The Levites are
+<em>wholly given unto me</em>; instead of the first-born have
+I <em>taken them unto me</em>; for all the first-born <em>are
+mine</em>; in the day that I smote every first-born in
+the land of Egypt <em>I sanctified them for myself</em>.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Let us try and realize the relation existing
+<a name="png.047" id="png.047"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">48</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>between redemption and holiness. In Paradise we
+saw what God&#8217;s sanctifying the seventh day was:
+He took possession of it, He blessed it, He rested in
+it and refreshed Himself. Where God enters and
+rests, there is holiness: the more perfectly the
+object is fitted for Him to enter and dwell, the
+more perfect the holiness. The seventh day was
+sanctified as the period for man&#8217;s sanctification.
+At the very first step God took to lead him to His
+Holiness&mdash;the command not to eat of the tree&mdash;man
+fell. God did not give up His plan, but had
+now to pursue a different and slower path. After
+twenty-five centuries&#8217; slow but needful preparation,
+He now reveals Himself as the Redeemer. A people
+whom He had chosen and formed for Himself He
+gives up to oppression and slavery, that their hearts
+may be prepared to long for and welcome a Deliverer.
+In a series of mighty wonders He proves
+Himself the Conqueror of their enemies, and then,
+in the blood of the Paschal Lamb on their doors,
+teaches them what redemption is, not only from
+an unjust oppressor here on earth, but from the
+righteous judgment their sins had deserved. The
+Passover is to be to them the transition from the
+seen and temporal to the unseen and spiritual,
+revealing God not only as the Mighty but as the
+Holy One, freeing them not only from the house
+of bondage but the Destroying Angel.</p>
+
+<p>And having thus redeemed them, He tells them
+that they are now His own. During their stay at Sinai
+and in the wilderness, the thought is continually
+<a name="png.048" id="png.048"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">49</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>pressed upon them that they are now the Lord&#8217;s
+people, whom He has made His own by the strength
+of His arm, that He may make them holy for Himself,
+even as He is holy. The purpose of redemption
+is Possession, and the purpose of Possession is
+likeness to Him who is Redeemer and Owner, is
+Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>In regard to this Holiness, and the way it is to
+be attained as the result of redemption, there is
+more than one lesson the sanctifying of the first-born
+will teach us.</p>
+
+<p>First of all, we want to realize how inseparable
+redemption and holiness are. Neither can exist
+without the other. <em>Only redemption leads to holiness.</em>
+If I am seeking holiness, I must abide in the clear
+and full experience of being a redeemed one, and as
+such of being owned and possessed by God. Redemption
+is too often looked at from its negative side
+as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive
+element of being redeemed unto Himself. Full
+possession of a house means occupation: if I own a
+house without occupying it, it may be the home of
+all that is foul and evil. God has redeemed me
+and made me His own with the view of getting
+complete possession of me. He says of my soul,
+&lsquo;It is mine,&rsquo; and seeks to have His right of ownership
+acknowledged and made fully manifest. That
+will be perfect holiness, where God has entered in
+and taken complete and entire possession.<sup><a name="fna.2" id="fna.2"
+ href="#fn.2">2</a></sup> It is
+redemption gives God His right and power over me;
+<a name="png.049" id="png.049"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">50</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>it is redemption sets me free for God now to possess
+and bless: it is redemption realized and filling my
+soul, that will bring me the assurance and experience
+of all His power will work in me. In God,
+redemption and sanctification are one: the more redemption
+as a Divine reality possesses me, the closer
+am I linked to the Redeemer-God, the Holy One.</p>
+
+<p>And just so, <em>only holiness brings the assurance and
+enjoyment of redemption</em>. If I am seeking to hold
+fast redemption on lower ground, I may be deceived.
+If I have become unwatchful or careless, I should
+tremble at the very idea of trusting in redemption
+apart from holiness as its object. To Israel God
+spake, &lsquo;I brought you up out of the land of Egypt:
+<em>therefore</em> ye shall be holy, for I am holy.&rsquo; It is God
+the Redeemer who made us His own, who calls us
+too to be holy: let Holiness be to us the most
+essential, the most precious part of redemption: the
+yielding of ourselves to Him who has <em>taken</em> us as
+His own, and has undertaken to <em>make</em> us His own
+entirely.</p>
+
+<p>A second lesson suggested is the connection
+between God&#8217;s and man&#8217;s working in sanctification.
+To Moses the Lord speaks, &lsquo;<em>Sanctify</em> unto me all the
+first-born.&rsquo; He afterwards says, &lsquo;<em>I sanctified</em> all
+the first-born for myself.&rsquo; What God does He does
+to be carried out and appropriated through us.
+When He tells us that we are made holy in Christ
+Jesus, that we are His holy ones, He speaks not
+only of His purpose, but of what He has really
+done; we have been sanctified in the one offering
+<a name="png.050" id="png.050"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">51</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of Christ, and in our being created anew in Him.
+But this work has a human side. To us comes
+the call to be holy, to follow after holiness, to perfect
+holiness. God has made us His own, and
+allows us to say that we are His: but He waits for
+us now to yield Him an enlarged entrance into the
+secret places of our inner being, for Him to fill it all
+with His fulness. Holiness is not something we
+bring to God or do for Him. Holiness is what there
+is of God in us. God has made us His own in
+redemption, that He might make Himself our own in
+sanctification. And our work in becoming holy is
+the bringing our whole life, and every part of it, into
+subjection to the rule of this holy God, putting every
+member and every power upon His altar.</p>
+
+<p>And this teaches us the answer to the question
+as to the connection between the sudden and the
+gradual in sanctification: between its being a thing
+once for all complete, and yet imperfect and needing
+to be perfected. What God sanctifies is holy with
+a Divine and perfect holiness as His gift: man has
+to sanctify by acknowledging and maintaining and
+carrying out that holiness in relation to what God
+has made holy. God sanctified the Sabbath day:
+man has to sanctify it, that is, to keep it holy.
+God sanctified the first-born as His own: Israel had
+to sanctify them, to treat them and give them up to
+God as holy. God is holy: we are to sanctify Him
+in acknowledging and adoring and honouring that
+holiness. God has sanctified His great name, His
+name is Holy: we sanctify or hallow that name as
+<a name="png.051" id="png.051"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">52</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>we fear and trust and use it as the revelation of
+His Holiness. God sanctified Christ: Christ sanctified
+Himself, manifesting in His personal will and
+action perfect conformity to the Holiness with which
+God had made Him holy. God has sanctified us in
+Christ Jesus: we are to be holy by yielding ourselves
+to the power of that holiness, by acting it out, and
+manifesting it in all our life and walk. The objective
+Divine gift, bestowed once for all and completely,
+must be appropriated as a subjective personal
+possession; we must cleanse ourselves, perfecting
+holiness. Redeemed unto holiness: as the two
+thoughts are linked in the mind and work of God,
+they must be linked in our heart and life.</p>
+
+<p>When Isaiah announced the second, the true redemption,
+it was given to him, even more clearly
+and fully than to Moses, to reveal the name of God
+as &lsquo;The Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.&rsquo; The
+more we study this name, and hallow it, and worship
+God by it, the more inseparably will the words
+become connected, and we shall see how, as the
+Redeemer is the Holy One, the redeemed are holy
+ones too. Isaiah says of &lsquo;the way of holiness,&rsquo; the
+&lsquo;redeemed shall walk therein.&rsquo; The redemption that
+comes out from the Holiness of God must lead up into
+it too. We shall understand that to be redeemed in
+Christ is to be holy in Christ, and the call of our
+redeeming God will acquire new meaning: &lsquo;I am
+<em>holy</em>: <em>be ye holy</em>.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.052" id="png.052"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">53</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>O Lord God! the Holy One of Israel and his
+Redeemer! I worship before Thee in deep humility.
+I confess with shame that I so long sought Thee
+more as the Redeemer than as the Holy One. I
+knew not that it was as the Holy One Thou hadst
+redeemed, that redemption was the outcome and the
+fruit of Thy Holiness; that a participation in Thy
+Holiness was its one purpose and its highest beauty.
+I only thought of being redeemed from bondage and
+death: like Israel, I understood not that without
+fellowship and conformity to Thyself redemption
+would lose its value.</p>
+
+<p>Most holy God! I praise Thee for the patience
+with which Thou bearest with the selfishness and
+the slowness of Thy redeemed ones. I praise Thee
+for the teaching of the Spirit of Thy Holiness,
+leading Thy saints, and me too, to see how it is Thy
+Holiness, and the call to become partaker of it, that
+gives redemption its value; how it is for Thyself as
+the Holy One, to be Thine own, possessed and
+sanctified of Thee, that we are redeemed.</p>
+
+<p>O my God! with a love and a joy and a thanksgiving
+that cannot be uttered, I praise Thee for
+Christ, who has been made unto us of Thee sanctification
+and redemption. In Him Thou art my
+Redeemer, my Holy One. In Him I am Thy redeemed,
+Thy holy one. O God! in speechless
+adoration I fall down to worship the love that
+passeth knowledge, that hath done this for us,
+and to believe that in one who is now before
+Thee, holy in Christ, Thou wilt fulfil all Thy
+<a name="png.053" id="png.053"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">54</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>glorious purposes according to the greatness of Thy
+power. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. &lsquo;Redemption through His blood.&rsquo; The blood we meet at the threshold of
+the pathway of Holiness. For it is the blood of the sacrifice which the fire
+of God consumed, and yet could not consume. That blood has such power
+of holiness in it, that we read, &lsquo;Sanctified by His own blood.&rsquo; Always think
+of holiness, or pray for it, as one redeemed by blood. Live under the covering
+of the blood in its daily cleansing power.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. It is only as we know the Holiness of God as Fire, and bow before His
+righteous judgment, that we can appreciate the preciousness of the blood or
+the reality of the redemption. As long as we only think of the love of God as
+goodness, we may aim at being good; faith in God who redeems will waken in
+us the need and the joy of being <strong>holy in Christ</strong>.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Have you understood the right of property God has in what He has redeemed?
+Have you heard a voice say, <strong>Mine. Thou art Mine.</strong> Ask God
+very humbly to speak it to you. Listen very gently for it.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. The holiness of the creature has its origin in the Divine will, in the Divine
+election, redemption, and possession. Give yourself up to this will of God and
+rejoice in it.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. As God created, so He redeemed, to sanctify. Have great faith in Him
+for this.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. Let God have the entire possession and disposal of you. Holiness is
+His; our holiness is to let Him, the Holy One, be all.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.2" id="fn.2"
+ href="#fna.2">2</a> See <a href="#note:A">Note A</a> on Holiness as Proprietorship.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.054" id="png.054"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">55</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:6" id="day:6">Sixth Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap6.png" width="231" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Glory." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p class="hang">&lsquo;Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! among the gods?</p>
+<p class="hang">Who is like unto Thee, <em>glorious in holiness</em>,</p>
+<p class="hang">Fearful in praises, doing wonders?</p>
+<p class="hang">Thou in Thy mercy hast led Thy people which Thou hast redeemed:</p>
+<p class="hang">Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to the habitation of <em>Thy holiness</em>&nbsp;&hellip;</p>
+<p class="hang"><em>The holy place</em>, O Lord, which Thy hands have established.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="rt">&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span> xv. 11&ndash;17.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">In</span> these words we have another step in advance
+in the revelation of Holiness. We have here
+for the first time Holiness predicated of God Himself.
+<em>He is</em> glorious in holiness: and it is to the
+dwelling-place of <em>His Holiness</em> that He is guiding
+His people.</p>
+
+<p>Let us first note the expression used here:
+glorious in holiness. Throughout Scripture we
+find the glory and the holiness of God mentioned
+together. In Ex. xxix. 43 we read, &lsquo;And the
+tent shall be <em>made holy</em> by my <em>glory</em>,&rsquo; that glory of
+the Lord of which we afterwards read that it filled
+<a name="png.055" id="png.055"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">56</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the house. The glory of an object, of a thing or
+person, is its intrinsic worth or excellence: to
+glorify is to remove everything that could hinder
+the full revelation of that excellence. In the Holiness
+of God His glory is hidden; in the glory of
+God His Holiness is manifested: His glory, the
+revelation of Himself as the Holy One, would make
+the house holy. In the same way the two are
+connected in Lev. x. 3, &lsquo;I will be <em>sanctified</em> in them
+that come nigh unto me, and before all the people
+I will be <em>glorified</em>.&rsquo; The acknowledgment of His
+Holiness in the priests would be the manifestation
+of His glory to the people. So, too, in the song of
+the Seraphim (Isa. vi. 3), &lsquo;<em>Holy, holy, holy</em>, Lord
+God of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His
+<em>glory</em>.&rsquo; God is He who dwelleth in a light that is
+unapproachable, whom no man hath seen or can
+see: it is the <em>light</em> of the knowledge of the <em>glory</em>
+of God that He gives into our hearts. The glory
+is that which can be seen and known of the
+invisible and unapproachable light: that light
+itself, and the glorious fire of which that light is
+the shining out, that light is the Holiness of
+God. Holiness is not so much an attribute of
+God, as the comprehensive summary of all His
+perfections.</p>
+
+<p>It is on the shore of the Red Sea that Israel
+thus praises God: &lsquo;Who is like unto Thee, O
+Lord! Who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness?&rsquo;
+He is the Incomparable One, there is none
+like Him. And wherein has He proved this, and
+<a name="png.056" id="png.056"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">57</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>revealed the glory of His Holiness? With Moses
+in Horeb we saw God&#8217;s glory in the fire, in its
+double aspect of salvation and destruction: consuming
+what could not be purified, purifying what
+was not consumed. We see it here too in the song
+of Moses: Israel sings of judgment and of mercy.
+The pillar of fire and of the cloud came between
+the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel:
+it was a cloud and darkness to those, but it gave
+light by night to these. The two thoughts run
+through the whole song. But in the two verses
+that follow the ascription of holiness, we find the
+sum of the whole. &lsquo;Thou stretchedst out Thy right
+hand: the earth swallowed them.&rsquo; &lsquo;The Lord looked
+forth upon the host of the Egyptians from the pillar
+of fire and discomfited them.&rsquo; This is the glory of
+Holiness as judgment and destruction of the enemy.
+&lsquo;Thou in Thy mercy hast led <em>Thy people</em> which
+thou hast redeemed. Thou hast guided <em>them</em> in
+Thy strength to the habitation of Thy Holiness.&rsquo;
+This is the glory of Holiness in mercy and redemption&mdash;a
+Holiness that not only delivers but guides
+to the habitation of holiness, where the Holy One
+is to dwell with and in His people. In the inspiration
+of the hour of triumph it is thus early revealed
+that the great object and fruit of redemption, as
+wrought out by the Holy One, is to be His indwelling:
+with nothing short of this can the Holy One
+rest content, or the full glory of His Holiness be
+made manifest.</p>
+
+<p>And now, observe further, how, as it is in the
+<a name="png.057" id="png.057"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">58</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>redemption of His people that God&#8217;s Holiness is
+revealed, so it is in the song of redemption that
+the personal ascription of Holiness to God is found.
+We know how in Scripture, after some striking
+special interposition of God as Redeemer, the
+special influence of the Spirit is manifested in some
+song of praise. It is remarkable how it is in these
+outbursts of holy enthusiasm, God is praised as the
+Holy One. See it in the song of Hannah (1 Sam.
+ii. 2), &lsquo;There is none holy as the Lord.&rsquo; The
+language of the Seraphim (Isa. vi.) is that of a song
+of adoration. In the great day of Israel&#8217;s deliverance
+the song will be, &lsquo;The Lord Jehovah is become
+my strength and song. Sing unto the Lord, for
+He hath done excellent things. Cry aloud and
+shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is <em>the Holy
+One</em> of Israel in the midst of thee.&rsquo; Mary sings,
+&lsquo;For He that is mighty hath done great things to
+me: and <em>holy</em> is His name.&rsquo; The book of Revelation
+reveals the living creatures giving glory and
+honour and thanks to Him that sitteth on the
+throne; &lsquo;and they have no rest day and night,
+saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the
+Almighty, which was, and which is, and which
+is to come.&rsquo; And when the song of Moses and
+of the Lamb is sung by the sea of glass, it
+will still be, &lsquo;Who shall not fear, O Lord, and
+glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy.&rsquo; It is
+in the moments of highest inspiration, under the
+fullest manifestation of God&#8217;s redeeming power,
+that His servants speak of His Holiness. In Ps.
+<a name="png.058" id="png.058"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">59</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>xcvii. we read, &lsquo;Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous,
+and give thanks at the remembrance of His Holiness.&rsquo;
+And in Ps. xcix., which has, with its thrice
+repeated holy, been called the echo on earth of the
+Thrice Holy of heaven, we sing&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<div>Let them praise Thy great and terrible name.</div>
+<div><span class="smc">Holy is He</span>.</div>
+<br class="ns" /></div>
+
+<div class="stanza">
+<div>Exalt ye the Lord our God,</div>
+<div>and worship at His footstool:</div>
+<div><span class="smc">Holy is He</span>.</div>
+<br class="ns" /></div>
+
+<div class="stanza">
+<div>Exalt ye the Lord our God,</div>
+<div>and worship at His holy hill:</div>
+<div>For the Lord our God is <span class="allsc">HOLY</span>.</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>It is only under the influence of high spiritual
+elevation and joy that God&#8217;s holiness can be fully
+apprehended or rightly worshipped. The sentiment
+that becomes us as we worship the Holy One, that
+fits us for knowing and worshipping Him aright,
+is the spirit of praise that sings and shouts for joy
+in the experience of His full salvation.</p>
+
+<p>But is not this at variance with the lesson we
+learnt at Horeb, when God spake, &lsquo;Draw not nigh
+hither: put off thy shoes,&rsquo; and where Moses feared
+and hid his face? And is not this in very deed
+the posture that becomes us as creatures and
+sinners? It is indeed: and yet the two sentiments
+are not at variance: rather they are indispensable
+to each other; the fear is the preparation for the
+praise and the glory. Or is it not that same Moses
+<a name="png.059" id="png.059"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">60</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>who hid his face and feared to look upon God, who
+afterwards beheld His glory until his own face shone
+with a brightness that men could not bear to look
+upon? And is not the song that sings here of
+God as glorious in holiness, also the song of Moses
+who feared and hid his face? Have we not seen
+in the fire, and in God, and specially in His Holiness,
+the twofold aspect; consuming and purifying,
+repelling and attracting, judging and saving, with
+the latter in each case not only the accompaniment
+but the result of the former? And so we shall find
+that the deeper the humbling and the fear in God&#8217;s
+Holy Presence, and the more real and complete the
+putting off of all that is of self and of nature, even
+to the putting off, the complete death of the old
+man and his will, the more hearty the giving up
+to be consumed of what is sinful, the deeper and
+fuller will be the praise and joy with which we
+daily sing our song of redemption: &lsquo;Who is like
+unto Thee, O Lord, glorious in holiness, fearful in
+praises, doing wonders?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Glorious</em> in holiness; <em>fearful</em> in praises:&rsquo; the
+song itself harmonizes the apparently conflicting
+elements. Yes, I will sing of judgment and of
+mercy. I will rejoice with trembling as I praise
+the Holy One. As I look upon the two sides of
+His Holiness, as revealed to the Egyptians and
+the Israelites, I remember that what was there
+separated is in me united. By nature I am the
+Egyptian, an enemy doomed to destruction; by
+grace, an Israelite chosen for redemption. In me
+<a name="png.060" id="png.060"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">61</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the fire must consume and destroy; only as judgment
+does its work, can mercy fully save. It is
+only as I tremble before the Searching Light and the
+Burning Fire and the Consuming Heat of the Holy
+One, as I yield the Egyptian nature to be judged
+and condemned and slain, that the Israelite will
+be redeemed to know aright his God as the God
+of salvation, and to rejoice in Him.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed be God! the judgment is past. In
+Christ, the burning bush, the fire of the Divine
+Holiness did its double work: in Him sin was condemned
+in the flesh; in Him we are free. In
+giving up His will to the death, and doing God&#8217;s
+will, Christ sanctified Himself; and in that will we
+are sanctified too. His crucifixion, with its judgment
+of the flesh, His death, with its entire putting
+off of what is of nature, is not only for us, but is
+really ours; a life and a power working within us
+by His Spirit. Day by day we abide in Him.
+Tremblingly but rejoicingly we take our stand in
+Him, for the Power of Holiness as Judgment to
+vindicate within us its fierce vengeance against what
+is sin and flesh, and so to let the Power of Holiness
+as Redemption accomplish that glorious work that
+makes us give thanks at the remembrance of His
+Holiness. And so the shout of Salvation rings
+ever deeper and truer and louder through our life,
+&lsquo;Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods?
+Who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful
+in praises, doing wonders?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.061" id="png.061"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">62</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>&lsquo;<em>Who</em> is like unto Thee, O Lord! glorious in
+holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?&rsquo; With
+my whole heart would I join in this song of
+redemption, and rejoice in Thee as the God of my
+salvation.</p>
+
+<p>O my God! let Thy Spirit, from whom these
+words of holy joy and triumph came, so reveal within
+me the great redemption as a personal experience,
+that my whole life may be one song of trembling
+and adoring wonder.</p>
+
+<p>I beseech Thee especially, let my whole heart
+be filled with Thyself, glorious in holiness, fearful
+in praises, who alone doest wonders. Let the fear
+of Thy Holiness make me tremble at all there is in
+me of self and flesh, and lead me in my worship to
+deny and crucify my own wisdom, that the Spirit
+of Thy Holiness may breathe in me. Let the fear
+of the Lord give its deep undertone to all my
+coming in and going out in Thy Holy Presence.
+Prepare me thus for giving praise without ceasing
+at the remembrance of Thy holiness. O my God!
+I would rejoice in Thee as my Redeemer, <span class="smc">my Holy
+One</span>, with a joy unspeakable and full of glory. As
+my Redeemer, Thou makest me holy. With my
+whole heart do I trust Thee to do it, to sanctify
+me wholly. I do believe in Thy promise. I do
+believe in Thyself, and believing I receive Thee, the
+Holy One, my Redeemer.</p>
+
+<p>Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! glorious in
+holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+
+<p><a name="png.062" id="png.062"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">63</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>1. <strong>God&#8217;s Holiness as Glory.</strong> God is glorified in the holiness of His people.
+True holiness always gives glory to God alone. Live to the glory of God: that
+is holiness. Live holily: that will glorify God. To lose sight of self, and
+seek only God&#8217;s glory, is holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. <strong>Our Holiness as Praise.</strong> Praise gives glory to God, and is thus an
+element of holiness. &lsquo;Thou art holy, Thou that inhabitest the praises of
+Israel.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. God&#8217;s Holiness, His holy redeeming love, is cause of unceasing joy and
+praise. Praise God every day for it. But you cannot do this unless you live
+in it. May God&#8217;s holiness become so glorious to us, as we understand that
+whatever we see of His glory is just the outshining of His holiness, that we
+cannot help rejoicing in it, and in Him the Holy One.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. The spirit of the fear of the Lord and the spirit of praise may, at first
+sight, appear to be at variance. But it is not so. The humility that fears the
+Holy One will also praise Him: &lsquo;Ye that fear the Lord: praise the Lord.&rsquo;
+The lower we lie in the fear of God, and the fear of self, the more surely will
+He lift us up in due time to praise Him.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.063" id="png.063"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">64</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:7" id="day:7">Seventh Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap7.png" width="278" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Obedience." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you
+on eagles&#8217; wings, and brought you <em>unto myself</em>. Now therefore,
+if ye will <em>obey my voice indeed</em>, and keep my covenant, ye shall
+be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: ye shall be
+unto me an <em>holy</em> nation.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span> xix. 4&ndash;6.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">Israel</span> has reached Horeb. The law is to be
+given and the covenant made. Here are God&#8217;s
+first words to the people; He speaks of redemption
+and its blessing, fellowship with Himself: &lsquo;Ye have
+seen how I brought you <em>unto myself</em>.&rsquo; He speaks of
+holiness as His purpose in redemption: &lsquo;Ye shall be
+unto me an <em>holy</em> nation.&rsquo; And as the link between
+the two He places obedience: &lsquo;If ye will indeed <em>obey</em>
+my voice, ye shall be unto me an <em>holy</em> nation.&rsquo; God&#8217;s
+will is the expression of His holiness; as we do His
+will, we come into contact with His holiness. The
+link between Redemption and Holiness is Obedience.</p>
+
+<p>This takes us back to what we saw in Paradise.
+God sanctified the seventh day as the time for
+sanctifying  man. And  what  was  the first thing
+<a name="png.064" id="png.064"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">65</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>He did with this purpose? He gave him a commandment.
+Obedience to that commandment would
+have opened the door, would have been the entrance,
+into the Holiness of God. Holiness is a moral attribute;
+and moral is that which a free will chooses and
+determines for itself. What God creates and gives
+is only naturally good; what man wills to have of
+God and His will, and really appropriates, has moral
+worth, and leads to holiness. In creation God
+manifested His wise and good will. His holy will
+He speaks in His commands. As that holy will
+enters man&#8217;s will, as man&#8217;s will accepts and unites
+itself with God&#8217;s will, he becomes holy. After
+creation, in the seventh day, God took man up into
+His work of sanctification to make him holy.
+Obedience is the path to holiness, because it is the
+path to union with God&#8217;s holy will; with man unfallen,
+as with fallen man, in redemption here and
+in glory above, in all the holy angels, in Christ the
+Holy One of God Himself, obedience is the path
+of holiness. It is not itself holiness: but as the
+will opens itself to accept and to do the will of
+God, God communicates Himself and His Holiness.
+To obey His voice is to follow Him as He leads in
+the way to the full revelation and communication
+of Himself and His blessed nature as the Holy
+One.</p>
+
+<p>Obedience. Not knowledge of the will of God,
+not even approval, not even the will to do it, but
+the doing of it. Knowledge, and approval, and will
+must lead to action; the will of God must be <em>done</em>.
+<a name="png.065" id="png.065"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">66</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>&lsquo;If ye indeed obey my voice, ye shall be unto me
+an holy nation.&rsquo; It is not faith, and not worship,
+and not profession, that God here asks in the first
+place from His people when He speaks of holiness;
+it is obedience. God&#8217;s will must be <em>done</em> on earth,
+as in heaven. &lsquo;Remember <em>and do</em> all my commandments,
+that ye may be holy to your God&rsquo;
+(Num. xv. 40). &lsquo;Sanctify yourselves therefore, and
+be ye holy; and ye shall keep my statutes <em>and do</em>
+them. I am the Lord which sanctify you&rsquo; (Lev.
+xx. 7, 8). &lsquo;Therefore shall ye keep my commandments
+<em>and do</em> them: I am the Lord: I will be
+hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the
+Lord which hallow you, that brought you up out of
+the land of Egypt&rsquo; (xxii 21,&nbsp;33).</p>
+
+<p>A moment&#8217;s reflection will make the reason of
+this clear to us. It is in a man&#8217;s work that he
+manifests what he is. I may know what is good,
+and yet not approve it. I may approve, and yet
+not will it. I may in a certain sense will it, and
+yet be wanting in the energy, or the self-sacrifice, or
+the power that will rouse and do the thing. Thinking
+is easier than willing, and willing is easier than
+doing. Action alone proves whether the object of
+my interest has complete mastery over me. God
+wants His will <em>done</em>. This alone is obedience. In
+this alone it is seen whether the whole heart, with
+all its strength and will, has given itself over to the
+will of God; whether we live it, and are ready at
+any sacrifice to make it our own by doing it. God
+has no other way for making us holy. &lsquo;Ye shall
+<a name="png.066" id="png.066"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">67</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>keep my statutes <em>and do</em> them: I am the Lord
+which make you holy.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>To all seekers after holiness this is a lesson of deep
+importance. Obedience is not holiness; holiness is
+something far higher, something that comes from
+God to us, or rather, something of God coming into
+us. But obedience is <em>indispensable</em> to holiness: it
+cannot exist without it. While, therefore, your
+heart seeks to follow the teaching of God&#8217;s word,
+and looks in faith to what God has done, as He has
+made you <em>holy in Christ</em>, and to what God is still to
+do through the Spirit of Holiness as He fulfils the
+promise, &lsquo;The very God of peace sanctify you
+wholly,&rsquo; never for one moment forget to be obedient.
+&lsquo;If ye shall indeed obey my voice, ye shall be an
+holy nation to me.&rsquo; Begin by doing at once whatever
+appears right to do. Give up at once whatever
+conscience tells that you dare not say is
+according to the will of God. Not only pray for
+light and strength, but <em>act</em>; do what God says.
+&lsquo;He that <em>doeth</em> the will of God is my brother,&rsquo;
+Jesus says. Every son of God has been begotten
+of the will of God: in it he has his life. To do
+the Father&#8217;s will is the meat, the strength, the
+mark, of every son of God.</p>
+
+<p>It is nothing less than the surrender to such a
+life of simple and entire obedience that is implied
+in becoming a Christian. There are, alas! too
+many Christians who, from the want either of
+proper instruction, or of proper attention to the
+teaching of God&#8217;s word, have never realized the
+<a name="png.067" id="png.067"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">68</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>place of supreme importance that obedience takes in
+the Christian life. They know not that Christ, and
+redemption, and faith all lead to it, because through
+it alone is the way to the fellowship of the Love,
+and the Likeness, and the Glory of God. We have
+all, possibly, suffered from it ourselves: in our
+prayers and efforts after the perfect peace and the
+rest of faith, after the abiding joy and the increasing
+power of the Christian life, there has been a
+secret something hindering the blessing, or causing
+the speedy loss of what had been apprehended. A
+wrong impression as to the absolute necessity of
+obedience was probably the cause. It cannot too
+earnestly be insisted on that the freeness and
+mighty power of grace has this for its object from
+our conversion onwards, the restoring us to the active
+obedience and harmony with God&#8217;s will from which
+we had fallen through the first sin in Paradise.
+Obedience leads to God and His Holiness. It
+is in obedience that the will is moulded, and the
+character fashioned, and an inner man built up
+which God can clothe and adorn with the beauty
+of holiness.</p>
+
+<p>When a Christian discovers that this has been
+the missing link, the cause of failure and darkness,
+there is nothing for it but, in a grand act of
+surrender, deliberately to choose obedience, universal,
+whole-hearted obedience, as the law of his life in
+the power of the Holy Spirit. Let him not fear
+to make his own the words of Israel at Sinai, in
+answer to the message of God we are considering:
+<a name="png.068" id="png.068"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">69</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>&lsquo;All that the Lord hath spoken, <em>we will do</em>;&rsquo; &lsquo;All
+that the Lord hath said <em>will we do</em>, and be obedient.&rsquo;
+What the law could not do, in that it was weak
+through the flesh, God hath done by the gift of His
+Son and Spirit. The law-giving of Sinai on tables
+of stone has been succeeded by the law-giving of
+the Spirit on the table of the heart: the Holy
+Spirit is the power of obedience, and is so the
+Spirit of Holiness, who, in obedience, prepares our
+hearts for being the dwelling of the Holy One.
+Let us in this faith yield ourselves to a life of
+obedience: it is the New Testament path to the
+realization of the promise: &lsquo;If ye will <em>obey</em> my
+voice indeed, ye shall be unto me an <em>holy</em> nation.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>We have already seen how holiness in its very
+nature supposes the personal relation to God, His
+personal presence. &lsquo;I have brought you <em>unto myself</em>;
+if ye obey, ye shall be <em>unto me</em> an holy
+nation.&rsquo; It is as we understand and hold fast this
+personal element that obedience will become possible,
+and will lead to holiness. Mark well God&#8217;s
+words: &lsquo;If ye will obey my <em>voice</em>, and keep my
+covenant.&rsquo; The voice is more than a law or a book;
+it always implies a living person and intercourse
+with him. It is this that is the secret of gospel
+obedience: hearing the voice and following the
+lead of Jesus as a personal friend, a living Saviour.
+It is being led by the Spirit of God, having Him to
+reveal the Presence, and the Will, and the Love of
+the Father, that will work in us that personal
+relation which the New Testament means when it
+<a name="png.069" id="png.069"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">70</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>speaks of doing everything unto the Lord, as
+pleasing God.</p>
+
+<p>Such obedience is the pathway of holiness. Its
+every act is a link to the living God, a surrender
+of the being for God&#8217;s will, for God Himself to take
+possession. In the process of assimilation, slow but
+sure, by which the will of God, as the meat of our
+souls, is taken up into our inmost being, our
+spiritual nature is strengthened, is spiritualized,
+growing up into an holy temple in which God can
+reveal Himself and take up His abode.</p>
+
+<p>Let every believer study to realize this. When
+God sanctified the seventh day as His period of
+making holy, He taught us that He could not do
+it at once. The revelation and communication of
+holiness must be gradual, as man is prepared to
+receive it. God&#8217;s sanctifying work with each of us,
+as with the race, needs time. The time it needs
+and seeks is the life of daily, hourly obedience.
+All that is spent in self-will, and not in the living
+relation to the Lord, is lost. But when the heart
+seeks day by day to hearken to the voice and to
+obey it, the Holy One Himself watches over His
+words to fulfil them: &lsquo;Ye shall be unto me an holy
+nation.&rsquo; In a way of which the soul beforehand
+can have but little conception, God will overshadow
+and make His abode in the obedient heart. The
+habit of always listening for the voice and obeying
+it will only be the building of the temple: the
+Living God Himself, the Holy One, will come to
+take up His abode. The glory of the Lord will fill
+<a name="png.070" id="png.070"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">71</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the house, and the promise be made true, &lsquo;I will
+sanctify it by my glory.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I brought you <em>unto myself</em>; if ye will obey <em>my
+voice</em> in deed, ye shall be <em>unto me</em> an holy nation.&rsquo;
+Seekers after holiness! God has brought you to
+Himself. And now His voice speaks to you all the
+thoughts of His heart, that as you take them in,
+and make them your own, and make His will your
+own by living and doing it, you may enter into
+the most complete union with Himself, the union
+of will as well as of life, and so become a holy
+people unto Him. Let obedience, the listening to
+and the doing the will of God, be the joy and the
+glory of your life; it will give you access unto the
+Holiness of God.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O my God! Thou hast redeemed me for Thyself,
+that Thou mightest have me wholly as Thine own,
+possessing, filling my inmost being with Thy own
+likeness, Thy perfect will, and the glory of Thy
+Holiness. And Thou seekest to train me, in the
+power of a free and loving will, to take Thy will
+and make it my own, that in the very centre of my
+being I may have Thine own perfection dwelling in
+me. And in Thy words Thou revealest Thy will,
+that as I accept and keep them I may master their
+Divine contents, and will all that Thou willest.</p>
+
+<p>O my God! let me live day by day in such
+fellowship with Thee, that I may indeed in everything
+<a name="png.071" id="png.071"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">72</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>hear Thy voice, the living voice of the living
+God speaking to me. Let the Holy Spirit, the
+Spirit of Thy Holiness, be to me Thy voice guiding
+me in the path of simple, childlike obedience. I
+do bless Thee that I have seen that Christ, in whom
+I am holy, was the obedient one, that in obedience
+He sanctified Himself to become my sanctification,
+and that abiding in Him, Thy obedient, holy Child,
+is abiding in Thy will as once done by Him, and
+now to be done by me. O my God! I will indeed
+obey Thy will: make Thou me one of Thy holy
+nation, a peculiar treasure above all people. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. &lsquo;He became obedient unto death.&rsquo; &lsquo;Though He was a Son, yet He learned
+obedience by the things which He suffered.&rsquo; &lsquo;I come to do Thy will.&rsquo; &lsquo;In which
+will we are sanctified.&rsquo; Christ&#8217;s example teaches us that obedience is the
+only path to the Holiness or the glory of God. Be this your consecration: a
+surrender in everything to seek and do the will of God.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. We are &lsquo;holy in Christ&rsquo;&mdash;in this Christ who did the will of God and was
+obedient to the death. In Him it is we are; in Him we are holy. His obedience
+is the soil in which we are planted, and must be rooted. &lsquo;It is my meat
+to do His will;&rsquo; obedience was the sustenance of His life; in doing God&#8217;s will
+He drew down Divine nourishment; it must be so with us too.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. As you study what it is to be and abide in Christ, as you rejoice you are in
+Him, always remember it is Christ who obeyed in whom God has planted you.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. If ever you feel perplexed about holiness, just yield yourself again to do
+God&#8217;s will, and go and do it. It is ours to obey, it is God&#8217;s to sanctify.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. <strong>Holy in Christ.</strong> Christ sanctified Himself by obedience, by doing the
+will of God, and in that will, as done by Him, we have been sanctified. In
+accepting that will as done by Him, in accepting Him, <strong>I am holy</strong>. In accepting
+that will of God, as to be done by me, <strong>I become holy</strong>. I am in Him; in every
+act of living obedience, I enter into living fellowship with Him, and draw the
+power of His life into mine.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. Obedience depends upon hearing the voice. Do not imagine you know the
+will of God. Pray and wait for the inward teaching of the Spirit.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.072" id="png.072"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">73</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><a name="day:8" id="day:8">Eighth Day.</a><br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap8.png" width="291" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Indwelling." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;And let them make me <em>a holy place</em>, that I may <em>dwell</em> among
+them.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span> xxv.&nbsp;8.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And the tent shall be <em>sanctified</em> by my glory, and I will <em>dwell</em>
+among the children of Israel, and will be their God.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span>
+xxix. 43,&nbsp;45.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">The</span> Presence of God makes holy, even when it
+descends but for a little while, as at Horeb,
+in the burning bush. How much more must that
+Presence make holy the place where it dwells, where
+it fixes its permanent abode! So much is this the
+case, that the place where God dwells came to be
+called <em>the</em> holy place, &lsquo;the holy place of the habitation
+of the Most High.&rsquo; All around where God
+dwelt was holy: the holy city, the mountain of
+God&#8217;s Holiness, His holy house, till we come within
+the veil, to the most holy place, the holy of holies.
+It is as <em>the indwelling God</em> that He sanctifies His
+house, that He reveals Himself as the Holy One in
+Israel, that He makes us holy too.</p>
+
+<p>Because God is holy, <em>the house</em> in which He
+<a name="png.073" id="png.073"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">74</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>dwells is holy too. This is the only attribute of
+God which He can communicate to His house; but
+this one He can and does communicate. Among men
+there is a very close link between the character of a
+house and its occupants. When there is no obstacle
+to prevent it, the house unintentionally reflects the
+master&lsquo;s likeness. Holiness expresses not so much
+an attribute as the very being of God in His
+infinite perfection, and His house testifies to this
+one truth, that He is holy, that where He dwells
+He must have holiness, that His indwelling makes
+holy. In His first command to His people to build
+Him a holy place, God distinctly said that it was
+that He might dwell among them: the dwelling in
+the house was to be the shadowing forth of His
+dwelling in the midst of His people. The house
+with its holiness thus leads us on to the holiness of
+His dwelling among His redeemed ones.</p>
+
+<p>The holy place, the habitation of God&#8217;s Holiness,
+was the centre of all God&#8217;s work in making <em>Israel</em>
+holy. Everything connected with it was holy. The
+altar, the priests, the sacrifices, the oil, the bread,
+the vessels, all were holy, because they belonged to
+God. From the house there issued the twofold voice&mdash;God&#8217;s
+call to be holy, God&#8217;s promise to make holy.
+God&#8217;s claim was manifested in the demand for
+cleansing, for atonement, for holiness, in all who
+were to draw near, whether as priests or worshippers.
+And God&#8217;s promise shone forth from His house in
+the provision for making holy, in the sanctifying
+power of the altar, of the blood and the oil. The
+<a name="png.074" id="png.074"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">75</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>house embodied the two sides that are united in
+holiness, the repelling and the attracting, the condemning
+and the saving. Now by keeping the
+people at a distance, then by inviting and bringing
+them nigh, God&#8217;s house was the great symbol of
+His own Holiness. He had come nigh even to
+dwell among them; and yet they might not come
+nigh, they might never enter the secret place of His
+presence.</p>
+
+<p>All these things are written on our behalf. It
+is as the Indwelling One that God is the sanctifier
+of <em>His people</em> still: the Indwelling Presence alone
+makes us holy. This comes out with special clearness
+if we note how, the nearer the Presence was,
+the greater the degree of holiness. Because God
+dwelt among them, the camp was holy: all
+uncleanness was to be removed from it. But the
+holiness of the court of the tabernacle was greater:
+uncleanness which did not exclude from the camp
+would not be tolerated there. Then the holy
+place was still holier, because still nearer God.
+And the inner sanctuary, where the Presence dwelt
+on the mercy-seat, was the Holiest of All, was
+most holy. The principle still holds good: holiness
+is measured by nearness to God; the more of His
+Presence, the more of true holiness; perfect indwelling
+will be perfect holiness. There is none
+holy but the Lord; there is no holiness but in Him.
+He cannot part with somewhat of His holiness, and
+give it to us apart from Himself; we have only so
+much of holiness as we have of God Himself. And
+<a name="png.075" id="png.075"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">76</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to have Himself truly and fully, we must have Him
+as the Indwelling One. And His indwelling in a
+house or locality, without life or spirit, is only a
+faint shadow of the true indwelling as the Living One,
+when He enters into and penetrates our very being,
+and fills us, our very selves, with His own life.</p>
+
+<p>There is no union so intimate, so real, so perfect,
+as that of an indwelling life. Think of the life
+that circulates through a large and fruitful tree.
+How it penetrates and fills every portion; how
+inseparably it unites the whole as long as it
+really is to exist!&mdash;in wood and leaf, in flower and
+fruit, everywhere the indwelling life flows and
+fills. This life is the life of nature, the life
+of the Spirit of God which dwells in nature.
+It is the same life that animates our bodies, the
+spirit of nature pervading every portion of them
+with the power of sensibility and action.</p>
+
+<p>Not less intimate, yea rather, far more wonderful
+and real, is the indwelling of the Spirit of the New
+Life, through whom God dwells in the heart of the
+believer. And it is as this indwelling becomes a
+matter of conscious longing and faith, that the soul
+obeys the command, &lsquo;Let them make me a holy
+place, that I may dwell among them,&rsquo; and experiences
+the truth of the promise, &lsquo;The tent shall be sanctified
+by my glory, and I will dwell among the children
+of Israel.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>It was as the Indwelling One that God revealed
+Himself in the Son, whom He sanctified and sent
+into the world. More than once our Lord insisted
+<a name="png.076" id="png.076"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">77</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>upon it, &lsquo;Believe me, that I am in the Father and
+<em>the Father in me</em>; the Father <em>abiding in me</em> doeth
+the works.&rsquo; It is specially as the temple of God
+that believers are more than once called holy in the
+New Testament: &lsquo;The temple of God is <em>holy</em>, which
+temple ye are.&rsquo; &lsquo;Your body is a temple of the
+<em>Holy</em> Spirit.&rsquo; &lsquo;All the building groweth unto an
+holy temple in the Lord.&rsquo; It is&mdash;we shall later on
+learn to understand this better&mdash;just because it is
+through the Spirit that the heart is prepared for
+the indwelling, and the indwelling effected and
+maintained, that the Spirit so peculiarly takes the
+attribute of Holy. The Indwelling Spirit is the
+Holy Spirit. The measure of His indwelling, or
+rather of His revealing the Indwelling Christ, is
+the measure of holiness.</p>
+
+<p>We have seen what the various degrees of
+nearness to God&#8217;s Presence in Israel were. They
+are still to be found. You have Christians who
+dwell in the camp, but know little of drawing nigh
+to the Holy One. Then you have outer court
+Christians: they long for pardon and peace, they
+come ever again to the altar of atonement; but
+they know little of true nearness or holiness; of
+their privilege as priests to enter the holy place.
+Others there are who have learnt that this is their
+calling, and long to draw near, and yet hardly
+understand the boldness they have to enter into
+the Holiest of all, and to dwell there. Blessed
+they to whom this, the secret of the Lord, has been
+revealed. <em>They know</em> what the rent veil means,
+<a name="png.077" id="png.077"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">78</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and the access into the immediate Presence. The
+veil hath been taken away from their hearts: they
+have found the secret of true holiness in the Indwelling
+of the Holy One, the God who is holy and
+makes holy.</p>
+
+<p>Believer! the God who calls you to holiness is
+the God of the Indwelling Life. The tabernacle
+typifies it, the Son reveals it, the Spirit communicates
+it, the eternal glory will fully manifest it. And
+you may experience it. It is your calling as a
+believer to be God&#8217;s Holy Temple. Oh, do but yield
+yourself to His full indwelling! seek not holiness
+in the first place in what you are or do; seek it in
+God. Seek it not even as a gift from God, seek it in
+God Himself, in His indwelling Presence. Worship
+Him in the beauty of holiness, as He dwells in the
+high and holy place. And as you worship, listen
+to His voice: &lsquo;Thus saith the high and lofty One,
+that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I
+dwell in the high and holy place, <em>with him also</em> that
+is of a contrite and humble spirit.&rsquo; It is as the
+Spirit strengthens us mightily in the inward man,
+so that Christ dwells in our heart by faith, and the
+Father comes and makes with Him His abode in us,
+that we are truly holy. Oh, let us but, in true,
+true-hearted consecration, yield ourselves to be, as
+distinctly as was the tabernacle or the temple, given
+up entirely to be the dwelling of the Most High, the
+habitation of His Holiness. A house filled with
+the glory of God, a heart filled with all the fulness
+of God, is God&#8217;s promise, is our portion. Let us
+<a name="png.078" id="png.078"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">79</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in faith claim and accept and hold fast the blessing:
+Christ, the Holy One of God, will in His Father&#8217;s
+Name, enter and take possession. Then faith will
+bring the solution of all our difficulties, the victory
+over all our failures, the fulfilment of all our
+desires: &lsquo;The tent, the heart, shall be sanctified by
+my glory; and I will dwell among them.&rsquo; The
+open secret of true holiness, the secret of the joy
+unspeakable, is Christ dwelling in the heart by
+faith.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>We bow our knees to the Father of our Lord
+Jesus, that He would grant unto us, according to the
+riches of His glory, what He Himself has taught
+us to ask for. We ask nothing less than this, that
+Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith. We long for
+that most blessed, permanent, conscious indwelling
+of the Lord Jesus in the heart, which He so
+distinctly promised as the fruit of the Holy Spirit&#8217;s
+coming. Father! we ask for what He meant when
+He spake of the loving, obedient disciple: &lsquo;I will
+come and manifest myself to him. We will come
+and take up our abode with him.&rsquo; Oh, grant unto
+us this indwelling of Christ in the heart by faith!</p>
+
+<p>And for this, we beseech Thee, grant us to be
+strengthened with might by Thy Spirit in the inner
+man. O Most Mighty God! let the spirit of Thy
+Divine Power work mightily within us, renewing
+our mind, and will, and affections, so that the heart
+<a name="png.079" id="png.079"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">80</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>be all prepared and furnished as a temple, as a
+home, for Jesus. Let that Blessed Spirit strengthen
+us to the faith that receives the Blessed Saviour
+and His indwelling Presence.</p>
+
+<p>O Most Gracious Father! hear our cry. We
+do bow our knee to Thee. We plead the riches
+of Thy glory. We praise Thee who art mighty
+to do above what we can ask or think. We wait
+on Thee, O our Father: oh, grant us a mighty
+strengthening by the Spirit in the inner man, that
+this bliss may be ours in its full blessedness, our
+Lord Jesus dwelling in the heart.</p>
+
+<p>We ask it in His Name. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. God&#8217;s dwelling in the midst of Israel was the great central fact to which all
+the commands concerning holiness were but preparatory and subordinate. So
+the work of the Holy Spirit also culminates in the personal indwelling of
+Christ. (John xiv. 21, 23. Eph. iii. 16, 17.) Aim at this and expect it.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. The tabernacle with its three divisions was, as of other spiritual truths,
+so the image of man&#8217;s threefold nature. Our spirit is the Holiest of all, where
+God is meant to dwell, where the Holy Spirit is given. The life of the soul,
+with its powers of feeling, knowing, and willing, is the holy place. And the
+outer life of the body, of conduct and action, is the outer court. Begin by
+believing that the Spirit dwells in the inmost sanctuary, where His workings
+are secret and hidden. Honour Him by trusting Him to work, by yielding to
+Him in silent worship before God. From within He will take possession of
+thought and will; He will even fill the outer court, the body, with the Holiness
+of God. &lsquo;The God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit,
+and soul, and body, be preserved entire, without blame. Faithful is He which
+calleth you, who will also do it.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. God&#8217;s indwelling was within the veil, in the unseen, the secret place.
+Faith knew it, and served Him with holy fear. Our faith knows that God
+the Holy Spirit has His abode in the hidden place of our inner life. Set
+open your inmost being to Him; bow in lowly reverence before the Holy
+One as you yield yourself to His working. Holiness is the presence of the
+Indwelling One.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.080" id="png.080"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">81</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Ninth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap9.png" width="280" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Mediation." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,
+<span class="smc">Holiness to the Lord</span>. And it shall be upon Aaron&#8217;s forehead,
+that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the <em>holy</em> things,
+which the children of Israel shall <em>hallow</em> in all their <em>holy</em> gifts;
+and it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be
+accepted before the Lord.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Ex.</span> xxviii. 36,&nbsp;38.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">God</span>&#8217;<span class="start">s</span> house was to be the dwelling-place of His
+Holiness, the place where He was to reveal
+Himself; as the Holy One, not to be approached but
+with fear and trembling; as the Holy-making One,
+drawing to Himself all who would be made partakers
+of His Holiness. Of the revelation of His
+Holy and His Holy-making Presence, the centre is
+found in the person of the high priest, in his double
+capacity of representing God with man, and man
+with God. He is the embodiment of the Divine
+Holiness in human form, and of human holiness as
+a Divine gift, as far as the dispensation of symbol
+and shadow could offer and express it. In him
+God came near to sanctify and bless the people.   In
+<a name="png.081" id="png.081"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">82</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>him the people came their very nearest to God. And
+yet the very Day of Atonement, in which he might
+enter into the Most Holy, was but the proof of how
+unholy man was, and how unfit to abide in God&#8217;s
+Presence. In himself a proof of Israel&#8217;s unholiness,
+he yet was a type and picture of the coming Saviour,
+our blessed Lord Jesus, a wondrous exhibition of the
+way in which hereafter the holiness of God should
+become the portion of His people.</p>
+
+<p>Among the many points in which the high priest
+typified Christ as our sanctification, there is, perhaps,
+none more suggestive or beautiful than <em>the holy
+crown</em> he wore on his forehead. Everything about
+him was to be holy. His garments were holy garments.
+But there was to be one thing in which
+this holiness reached its fullest manifestation. On
+his forehead he was always to wear a plate of gold,
+with the words engraved on it, <span class="smc">Holiness to the
+Lord</span>. Every one was to read there that the whole
+object of his existence, the one thing he lived for,
+was, to be the embodiment and the bearer of the
+Divine holiness, the chosen one through whom
+God&#8217;s holiness might flow out in blessing upon the
+people.</p>
+
+<p>The way in which the blessing of the holy crown
+was to act was a most remarkable one. In bearing
+<span class="smc">Holiness to the Lord</span> on his forehead, he is, we
+read, &lsquo;to bear the iniquity of the holy things which
+the children of Israel hallow; that they may be
+accepted before the Lord.&rsquo; For every sin some
+sacrifice or way of atonement had been devised.
+<a name="png.082" id="png.082"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">83</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>But how about the sin that cleaves to the very
+sacrifice and religious service itself? &lsquo;Thou desirest
+truth in the inward parts.&rsquo; How painfully the worshipper
+might be oppressed by the consciousness
+that his penitence, his faith, his love, his obedience,
+his consecration, were all imperfect and defiled! For
+this need, too, of the worshipper, God had provided.
+The holiness of the high priest covered the sin and
+the unholiness of his holy things. The holy crown
+was God&#8217;s pledge that the holiness of the high priest
+rendered the worshipper acceptable. If he was unholy,
+there was one among his brethren who was
+holy, who had a holiness that could avail for him
+too, a holiness he could trust in. He could look to
+the high priest not only to effect atonement by his
+blood-sprinkling, but in his person to secure a holiness
+too that made him and his gifts most acceptable.
+In the consciousness of personal unholiness
+he might rejoice in a mediator, in the holiness
+of Another than himself, the priest whom God had
+provided.</p>
+
+<p>Have we not here a most precious lesson, leading
+us a step farther on in the way of holiness? To our
+question, How God makes holy, we have the Divine
+answer: Through a man whom the Divine Holiness
+has chosen to rest upon, and whose holiness belongs
+to us, as His brethren, the very members of His own
+body. Through a holiness which is of such efficacy,
+that the very sins of our holy things disappear, and
+we can enter the Holy Presence with the assurance
+of being altogether well-pleasing.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.083" id="png.083"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">84</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>And is not just this the lesson that many
+earnest seekers after holiness need? They know
+all that the Word teaches of the blessed Atonement,
+and the full pardon it has brought. They believe
+in the Father&#8217;s wonderful love, and what He is
+ready to do for them. And yet, when they hear of
+the childlike simplicity, the assurance of faith, the
+loving obedience, and the blessed surrender with
+which the Father expects them to come and receive
+the blessing, their heart fails for fear. It is as if
+the blessing were all beyond their reach. What
+avails that the Holy One is said to come so nigh?
+their unholiness renders them incapable of claiming
+or grasping the Presence that offers itself to them.
+Just see how the Holy One here reveals His way of
+making holy, and preparing for the fellowship of
+His Holiness. In His Elect One as Mediator, holiness
+is prepared and treasured up enough for all
+who come through Him. As I bow to pray or worship,
+and feel how much there is still wanting of
+that humility, and fervency, and faith, that God has
+a right to demand, I may look up to the High Priest
+in His Holiness, to the holy crown upon His forehead,
+and believe that the iniquity of my holy things
+is borne and taken away. I may, with all my deficiency
+and unworthiness, know most assuredly that
+my prayer is acceptable, a sweet-smelling savour.
+I may look up to the Holy One to see Him smiling
+on me, for the sake of His Anointed One. &lsquo;The
+holy crown shall always be on His forehead, that
+they may be accepted before the Lord.&rsquo; It is the
+<a name="png.084" id="png.084"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">85</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>blessed truth of Substitution&mdash;One for all&mdash;of Mediatorship;
+God&#8217;s way of making us holy. The
+sacrifice of the worshipping Israelite is holy and
+acceptable in virtue of the holiness of Another.</p>
+
+<p>The Old Testament shadow can never adequately
+set forth the New Testament reality with its fulness
+of grace and truth. As we proceed in our study,
+we shall find that the holiness of Jesus our sanctification
+is not only imputed but imparted, because
+we are <em>in Him</em>; the new man we have put on is
+created in true holiness. We are not only counted
+holy; we are holy, we have received a new holy
+nature in Christ Jesus. &lsquo;He that sanctifieth and
+they who are sanctified are all <em>of One</em>; therefore
+He is not ashamed to call them brethren.&rsquo; It is
+our living union with Jesus, God&#8217;s Holy One, that
+has given us the new and holy nature, and with
+that a claim and a share in all the holiness there is
+in Jesus. And so, as often as we are conscious of
+how unholy we are, we have only to come under
+the covering of the Holiness of Jesus, to enjoy the
+full assurance that we and our gifts are most acceptable.
+However great be the weakness of our
+faith, the shortcoming in our desire for God&#8217;s glory,
+the lack in our love or zeal, as we see Jesus, with
+Holiness to the Lord on His forehead, we lift up
+our faces to receive the Divine smile of full approval
+and perfect acceptance.</p>
+
+<p>This is God&#8217;s way of making holy. Not only
+with the holy place, as we have seen, but with the
+holy persons too, He begins with a centre, and
+<a name="png.085" id="png.085"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">86</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>from that in ever-widening circle makes holy.
+And that this Divine method will be crowned with
+success we may be sure. In the Word we find a
+most remarkable illustration of the extent to which
+it will be realized. We find the words on the holy
+crown once again in the Old Testament at its close.
+In the day of the Lord, &lsquo;there shall be upon the
+bells of the horses, <span class="smc">Holiness to the Lord</span>.&rsquo; The
+high priest&#8217;s motto shall then have become the
+watchword of daily life; every article of beauty or
+of service shall be holy too; from the head it shall
+have extended to the skirts of the garments. Let
+us begin with realizing the Holiness of Jesus in
+its power to cover the iniquity of our holy things;
+let us make proof of it, and no longer suffer our
+unworthiness to keep us back or make us doubt;
+let us believe that we and our holy things are
+acceptable, because in Christ holy to the Lord; let
+us live in this consciousness of acceptance, and
+enter into fellowship with the Holy One. As we
+enter in and abide in the holiness of Jesus, it will
+enter in and abide in us. It will take possession
+and spread its conquering power through our whole
+life, until with us too upon everything that belongs
+to us the word shall shine, <span class="smc">Holiness to the Lord</span>.
+And we shall again find how God&#8217;s way of holiness
+is ever from a centre, here the centre of our renewed
+nature, throughout the whole circumference of our
+being, to make His Holiness prove its power. Let
+us but dwell under the covering of the Holiness of
+Jesus, as He takes away the iniquity of our holy
+<a name="png.086" id="png.086"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">87</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>things, He will make us and our life holy to the
+Lord.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O my God and Father! my soul doth bless Thee
+for this wondrous revelation of what Thy way and
+Thy grace is with those whom Thou hast called
+&lsquo;Holy in Christ.&rsquo; Thou knowest, O Lord, how
+continually our hearts have limited our acceptance
+with Thee by our attainments, and conscious shortcoming
+has wrought condemnation. We knew too
+little how, in the Holiness of Him who makes us
+holy, there is a Divinely infinite efficacy to cover
+our iniquities, and give us the assurance of perfect
+acceptance. Blessed Father! open our eyes to see,
+and our hearts to understand this holy crown of our
+blessed Jesus, with its wondrous and most blessed,
+<span class="smc">Holiness to the Lord</span>.</p>
+
+<p>And when our hearts condemn us, because our
+prayers are so little consciously according to the
+will or to the glory of God, or truly in the name of
+Jesus, O most Holy Father, be pleased by Thy Spirit
+to show us how bright the smile and how hearty the
+welcome is we still have with Thee. Teach us to
+come in the Holiness of our High Priest, and enter
+into Thine, until it take possession of us, and permeate
+our whole being, and all that is in us be
+holy to the Lord.    Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Holiness is not something I can see or admire in myself: it is covering
+myself, losing myself, in the Holiness of Jesus. How wonderfully this is
+typified in Aaron and the holy crown. And the more I see and have apprehended
+<a name="png.087" id="png.087"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">88</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of the Holiness of Jesus, the less shall I see or seek of holiness in
+myself.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. He will make me holy: my tempers and dispositions will be renewed; my
+heart and mind cleansed and sanctified; holiness will be a new nature; and
+yet there will be all along the consciousness, humbling and yet full of joy: it
+is not I; Christ liveth in me.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Let us lie very low and tender before God, that the Holy Spirit may
+reveal to us what it is to be holy in the Holiness of Another, in the Holiness of
+Jesus, that is, in the Holiness of God.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Do not trouble or weary too much to grasp this with the intellect. Just
+believe it, and look in simplicity and trust to Jesus to make it all right for
+you.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. <strong>Holy in Christ.</strong> In childlike faith I take Christ&#8217;s holiness afresh as my
+covering before God. In loving obedience I take it into my will and life. I
+trust and I follow Jesus: this is the path of holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. If we gather up the lessons we have found in the Word from Paradise
+downward, we see that the elements of holiness in us are these, each corresponding
+to some special aspect of God&#8217;s holiness: deep Restfulness (<a href="#day:3">ch. 3</a>),
+humble Reverence (<a href="#day:4">ch. 4</a>), entire Surrender (<a href="#day:5">ch. 5</a>), joyful Adoration (<a href="#day:6">ch. 6</a>),
+simple Obedience (<a href="#day:7">ch. 7</a>). These all prepare for the Divine Indwelling (<a href="#day:8">ch. 8</a>),
+and this again we have through the Abiding in Jesus with the Crown of
+Holiness on His head.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.088" id="png.088"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">89</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Tenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap10.png" width="289" height="30"
+ alt="Holiness and Separation." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;I am the Lord your God, which have <em>separated</em> you from
+other people. And ye shall be <em>holy</em> unto me, for I the Lord am
+<em>holy</em>, and have <em>separated</em> you from other people that ye should
+be <em>Mine</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Lev.</span> xx. 24,&nbsp;26.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Until the days be fulfilled, in the which he <em>separateth</em> himself
+unto the Lord, he shall be <em>holy</em>&hellip;. All the days of his
+<em>separation</em> he is <em>holy</em> unto the Lord.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Num.</span> vi. 5,&nbsp;8.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Wherefore Jesus also, that He might <em>sanctify</em> the people
+through His own blood, suffered <em>without the gate</em>. Let us
+therefore go forth unto Him <em>without the camp</em>, bearing His
+reproach.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Heb.</span> xiii. 12,&nbsp;13.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">Separation</span> is not holiness, but is the way to
+it. Though there can be no holiness without
+separation, there can be separation that does not
+lead to holiness. It is of deep importance to understand
+both the difference and the connection, that
+we may be kept from the right-hand error of
+counting separation alone as holiness, as well as
+the left-hand error of seeking holiness without
+separation.</p>
+
+<p>The Hebrew word for holiness possibly comes from
+a root that means to separate. But where we
+<a name="png.089" id="png.089"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">90</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>have in our translation &lsquo;separate&rsquo; or &lsquo;sever&rsquo; or &lsquo;set
+apart,&rsquo; we have quite different words.<sup><a name="fna.3" id="fna.3"
+ href="#fn.3">3</a></sup> The word for
+holy is used exclusively to express that special idea.
+And though the idea of holy always includes that of
+separation, it is itself something infinitely higher.
+It is of great importance to understand this well,
+because the being set apart to God, the surrender to
+His claim, the devotion or consecration to His service,
+is often spoken of as if this constituted holiness.
+We cannot too earnestly press the thought that
+this is only the beginning, the presupposition: holiness
+itself is infinitely more; not what I am, or do,
+or give, is holiness, but what God is, and gives, and
+does to me. It is God&#8217;s taking possession of me that
+makes me holy; it is the Presence and the glory of
+God that really makes holy. A careful study of
+God&#8217;s words to Israel will make this clear to us.
+Eight times we find the expression in Leviticus, &lsquo;Ye
+shall be holy, for I am holy.&rsquo; Holiness is the
+highest attribute of God, expressive not only of His
+relation to Israel, but of His very being and nature,
+His infinite moral perfection. And though it is
+by very slow and gradual steps that He can teach
+the carnal darkened mind of man what this means,
+yet from the very commencement He tells His
+people that His purpose is that they should be
+like Himself&mdash;holy because and as He is holy.
+To tell me that God separates men for Himself
+to be His, even as He gives Himself to be theirs,
+tells me of a relation that exists, but tells me
+<a name="png.090" id="png.090"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">91</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>nothing of the real nature of this Holy Being, or of
+the essential worth of the holiness He will communicate
+to me. Separation is only the setting apart
+and taking possession of the vessel to be cleansed
+and used; it is the filling of it with the precious
+contents we entrust to it that gives it its real value.
+Holiness is the Divine filling without which the
+separation leaves us empty. Separation is not
+holiness.</p>
+
+<p>But separation is essential to holiness. &lsquo;I have
+separated you from other people, and ye shall be
+holy.&rsquo; Until I have chosen out and separated a
+vessel from those around it, and, if need be, cleansed
+it, I cannot fill or use it. I must have it in my
+hand, full and exclusive command of it for the time
+being, or I will not pour into it the precious milk
+or wine. And just so God separated His people
+when He brought them up out of Egypt, separated
+them <em>unto Himself</em> when He gave them His
+covenant and His law, that He might have them
+under His control and power, to work out His
+purpose of making them holy. This He could not
+do until He had them apart, and had wakened in
+them the consciousness that they were His peculiar
+people, wholly and only His, until He had so taught
+them also to separate themselves to Him. Separation
+is essential to holiness.</p>
+
+<p>The institution of the Nazarite will confirm this,
+and will also bring out very clearly what separation
+means. Israel was meant to be a holy nation. Its
+holiness was specially typified in its priests. With
+<a name="png.091" id="png.091"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">92</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>regard to the individual Israelite, we nowhere read
+in the books of Moses of his being holy. But there
+were ordinances through which the Israelite, who
+would fain prove his desire to be entirely holy,
+could do so. He might separate himself from the
+ordinary life of the nation around him, and live the
+life of a Nazarite, a separated one. This separation
+was accepted, in those days of shadow and type, as
+holiness. &lsquo;All the days of his separation he is holy
+unto the Lord.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>The separation consisted specially in three
+things&mdash;temperance, in abstinence from the fruit of
+the vine; humiliation, in not cutting or shaving his
+hair (&lsquo;it is a shame for a man if he have long hair&rsquo;);
+self-sacrifice, in not defiling himself for even father
+or mother, on their death. What we must specially
+note is that the separation was not from things
+unlawful, but things lawful. There was nothing
+sinful in itself in Abraham living in his father&#8217;s
+house, or in Israel dwelling in Egypt. It is in
+giving up, not only what can be proved to be sin,
+but all that may hinder the full intensity of our
+surrender into God&#8217;s hands to make us holy, that
+the spirit of separation is manifested.</p>
+
+<p>Let us learn the lessons this truth suggests. We
+must know <em>the need</em> for separation. It is no arbitrary
+demand of God, but has its ground in the
+very nature of things. To separate a thing is to
+set it free for one special use or purpose, that it
+may with undivided power fulfil the will of him who
+chose it, and so realize its destiny. It is the principle
+<a name="png.092" id="png.092"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">93</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>that lies at the root of all division of labour;
+complete separation to one branch of study or
+labour is the way to success and perfection. I have
+before me an oak forest with the trees all shooting
+up straight and close to each other. On the outskirts
+there is one tree separated from his fellows;
+its heavy trunk and wide-spreading branches prove
+how its being separated, and having a large piece of
+ground separated to its own use, over which roots
+and branches can spread, is the secret of growth
+and greatness. Our human powers are limited; if
+God is to take full possession, if we are fully to
+enjoy Him, separation to Him is nothing but the
+simple, natural, indispensable requisite. God wants
+us all to Himself, that He may give Himself all
+to us.</p>
+
+<p>We must know the <em>purpose</em> of separation. It is
+to be found in what God has said, &lsquo;Ye shall be holy
+unto me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated
+you from the people, that ye should be <span class="smc">Mine</span>.&rsquo; God
+has separated us <em>for Himself</em> in the deepest sense of
+the word; that He might enter into us, and show
+forth Himself in us. His holiness is the sum and
+the centre of all His perfections; it is that He may
+make us holy like Himself that He has separated
+us. Separation never has any value in itself; it
+may become most wrong or hurtful; everything
+depends upon the object proposed. It is as God
+gets and takes full possession of us, as the eternal
+life in Christ has the mastery of our whole being, as
+the Holy Spirit flows fully and freely through us,
+<a name="png.093" id="png.093"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">94</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>so that we dwell in God, and God in us, that
+separation will be, not a thing of ordinances and
+observances, but a spiritual reality. And it is as
+this purpose of God is seen and accepted and
+followed after, that difficult questions as to what we
+must be separated from, and how much sacrifice
+separation demands, will find an easy answer. God
+separates from all that does not lead us into His
+holiness and fellowship.</p>
+
+<p>We need, above all, to know <em>the power</em> of separation,
+the power that leads us into it in the spirit of desire
+and of joy, of liberty and of love. The great
+separating word in human language is the word <em>Mine</em>.
+In this we have the great spring of effort and of
+happiness: in the child with its toys, in labour with
+its gains and rewards, in the patriot who dies for his
+country, it is this <em>Mine</em> that lays its hand on what
+it sets apart from all else. It is the great word that
+love uses. Be it the child that says to its mother,
+My own mamma, and calls forth the response, My
+own child; the bridegroom who draws the daughter
+from her beloved home and parents to become his;
+or the Holy God who speaks: &lsquo;I have separated you
+from the people, that ye should be <em>Mine</em>;&rsquo; it is always
+with that <em>Mine</em> that love exerts its mighty power, and
+draws from all else to itself. God Himself knows no
+mightier argument, can put forth no more powerful
+attraction than this, &lsquo;that ye should be <em>Mine</em>.&rsquo; And
+the power of separation will come to us, and work
+in us, just as we yield ourselves to study and realize
+that holy purpose, to listen to and appropriate that
+<a name="png.094" id="png.094"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">95</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>wondrous <em>Mine</em>, to be apprehended and possessed of
+that Almighty Love.</p>
+
+<p>Let us study step by step the wondrous path
+in which Divine Love does it separating work.
+In redemption it prepares the way. Israel is
+separated from Egypt by the blood of the Lamb
+and the guiding pillar of fire. In its command,
+&lsquo;Come out and be separate,&rsquo; it wakens man to
+action; in its promises, &lsquo;I will be your God,&rsquo; it
+stirs desire and strengthens faith. In all the
+holy saints and servants of God, and at last in
+Him who was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate
+from sinners, it points the way. In the power of
+the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, it seals the
+separation by the Presence of the Indwelling God.
+This is indeed the power of separation. <em>The separating
+power of the Presence of God</em>; this it is we need
+to know. &lsquo;Wherein now shall it be known that I
+have found grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people?&rsquo;
+said Moses: &lsquo;is it not in <em>that Thou goest with us</em>? <em>so</em>
+shall we be <em>separated</em>, I and Thy people, from all the
+people that are upon the face of the earth.&rsquo; It is
+the consciousness of God&#8217;s Indwelling Presence,
+making and keeping us His very own, that works
+the true separateness from the world and its spirit,
+from ourselves and our own will. And it is as this
+separation is accepted and prized and persevered in
+by us, that the holiness of God will enter in and
+take possession. And we shall realize that to be
+the Lord&#8217;s property, a people of His own, is infinitely
+more than merely to be accounted or acknowledged as
+<a name="png.095" id="png.095"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">96</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>His, that it means nothing less than that God, in the
+power and indwelling of the Holy Ghost, fills our
+being, our affections, and our will with His own life
+and holiness. He separates us for Himself, and
+sanctifies us to be His dwelling. He comes Himself
+to take personal possession by the indwelling of
+Christ in the heart. And we are then truly separate,
+and kept separate, by the presence of God within us.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye Holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O my God! who hast separated me for Thyself,
+I beseech Thee, by Thy mighty power, to make
+this Divine separation deed and truth to me. May
+within, in the depths of my own spirit, and without,
+in all my intercourse, the crown of separation
+of my God be upon me.</p>
+
+<p>I pray Thee especially, O my God, to perfect
+in power the separation from self! Let Thy
+Presence in the indwelling of my Lord Jesus be
+the power that banishes self from the throne. I
+have turned from it with abhorrence; oh, my
+Father, reveal Thy Son fully in me! it is His
+enthronement in my heart can keep me as Thy
+own, as Himself takes the place of myself.</p>
+
+<p>And give me grace, Lord, in my outward life to
+wait for a Divine wisdom, that I may know to
+witness, for Thy glory and for what Thy people
+need, to the blessedness of an entire giving up of
+everything for God, a separation that holds back
+nothing, to be His and His alone.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.096" id="png.096"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">97</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Holy Lord God! visit Thy people. Oh, withdraw
+Thou them from the world and conformity
+to it. Separate, Lord, separate Thine own for
+Thyself. Separate, Lord, the wheat from the
+chaff; separate, as by fire, the gold from the
+dross; that it may be seen who are the Lord&#8217;s,
+even His holy ones. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. Love separates effectually. With what jealousy a husband claims his wife,
+a mother her children, a miser his possessions! Pray that the Holy Spirit
+may show how God brought you to Himself, that you should be His. &lsquo;He is
+a holy God; He is a Jealous God.&rsquo; God&#8217;s love shed abroad in the heart makes
+separation easy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Death separates effectually. If I reckon myself to be indeed dead in
+Christ, I am separated from self by the power of Christ&#8217;s death. Life separates
+still more mightily. As I say, &lsquo;Not I, but Christ liveth in me,&rsquo; I am lifted up
+out of the life of self.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Separation must be manifest; it is meant as a witness to others and
+ourselves; it must find expression in the external, if internally it is to be real
+and strong. It is the characteristic of a symbolic action that it not merely
+expresses a feeling, but nourishes and strengthens the feeling to which it
+corresponds. When the soul enters the fellowship of God, it feels the need of
+external separation, sometimes even from what appears to others harmless.
+If animated by the spirit of lowly consecration to God, the external may be a
+great strengthening of the true separateness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Separation to God and appropriation by Him go together. This has been
+the blessing that has come to martyrs, confessors, missionaries,&mdash;all who
+have given distinct expression to the forsaking all.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. Separation begins in love, and ends in love. The spirit of separation
+is the spirit of self-sacrifice, of surrender to the love of God; the truly
+separate one will be the most loving and love-winning, given up to serve God
+and man. Is not what separates, what distinguishes Jesus from all others,
+His self-sacrificing love? This is His separateness, in which we are to be
+made like Him.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. God&#8217;s holiness is His separateness; let us enter into <strong>His</strong> separateness
+from the world; that will be our holiness. Unite thyself to God. Then art
+thou separate and holy. God separates for Himself, not by an act from
+without, but as His Will and Presence take possession of us.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.3" id="fn.3"
+ href="#fna.3">3</a> See <a href="#note:B">Note B</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.097" id="png.097"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">98</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Eleventh Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap11.png" width="280" height="29"
+ alt="The Holy One of Israel." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;I am the Lord that brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
+to be <em>your God</em>; ye shall therefore <em>be holy</em>, for <em>I am holy</em>. I
+the Lord which <em>make you holy, am holy</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Lev.</span> xi. 45, xxi.&nbsp;8.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I am the Lord Thy God, <em>the Holy One of Israel</em>, Thy Saviour.
+Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, <em>the Holy One of Israel</em>:
+I am the Lord, <em>your Holy One</em>, the Creator of Israel, your
+King.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Isa.</span> xliii. 3, 14,&nbsp;15.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">In</span> the book of Exodus we found God making
+provision for the Holiness of His people. In
+the holy times and holy places, holy persons, holy
+things, and holy services, He had taught His people
+that everything around Him, that all that would
+come near Him, must be holy. He would only
+dwell in the midst of holiness; His people must be
+a holy people. But there is no direct mention of
+God Himself as holy. In the book of Leviticus we
+are led on a step further. Here first we have God
+speaking of His own holiness, and making it the
+plea for the holiness of His people, as well as its
+pledge and power. Without this the revelation of
+<a name="png.098" id="png.098"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">99</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>holiness were incomplete, and the call to holiness
+powerless. True holiness will come to us as we
+learn that God Himself alone is holy. It is He
+alone makes holy; it is as we come to Himself, and
+in obedience and love are linked to Himself, that
+His Holiness can rest on us.<sup><a name="fna.4" id="fna.4"
+ href="#fn.4">4</a></sup></p>
+
+<p>From the books of Moses onwards we shall find
+that the name of God as holy is found but seldom
+in the inspired writings, until we come to Isaiah,
+the evangelist prophet. There it occurs twenty-six
+times, and has its true meaning opened up in the
+way in which it is linked with the name of Saviour
+and Redeemer. The sentiments of joy and trust
+and praise, with which a redeemed people would
+look upon their Deliverer, are all mentioned in
+connection with the name of the Holy One. &lsquo;Cry
+<a name="png.099" id="png.099"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">100</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great
+is <em>the Holy One of Israel</em> in the midst of thee.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;The poor among men shall rejoice in <em>the Holy One
+of Israel</em>.&rsquo; &lsquo;Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and
+shalt glory in <em>the Holy One of Israel</em>.&rsquo; In Paradise
+we saw that God the Creator was God the Sanctifier,
+perfecting the work of His hands. In Israel we
+saw that God the Redeemer was ever God the
+Sanctifier, making holy the people He had chosen
+for Himself. Here in Isaiah we see how it is God
+the Sanctifier, the Holy One, who is to bring about
+the great redemption of the New Testament: as
+the Holy One, He is the Redeemer. God redeems
+because He is holy, and loves to make holy: Holiness
+will be Redemption perfected. Redemption
+and Holiness together are to be found in the
+personal relation to God. The key to the secret
+of holiness is offered to each believer in that word:
+&lsquo;Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy
+One of Israel: I am the Lord, your Holy One.&rsquo;
+To come near, to know, to possess the Holy One,
+and be possessed of Him, is Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>If God&#8217;s Holiness is thus the only hope for ours,
+it is right that we seek to know what that Holiness
+is. And though we may find it indeed to be something
+that passeth knowledge, it will not be in vain
+to gather up what has been revealed in the Word concerning
+it. Let us do so in the spirit of holy fear and
+worship, trusting to the Holy Spirit to be our teacher.</p>
+
+<p>And let us first notice how this Holiness of God,
+though it is often mentioned as one of the Divine
+<a name="png.100" id="png.100"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">101</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>attributes, can hardly be counted such, on a level
+with the others. The other attributes all refer to
+some special aspect or characteristic of the Divine
+Nature; Holiness appears to express what is the
+very essence or perfection of the Divine Being
+Himself. None of the attributes can be predicated
+of all that belongs to God; but Scripture speaks of
+His Holy Name, His Holy Day, His Holy Habitation,
+His Holy Word. In the word Holy we have
+the nearest possible approach to a summary of all
+the Divine perfections, the description of what
+Divinity is. We speak of the other attributes as
+Divine perfections, but in this we have the only
+human expression for the Divine Perfection itself.
+It is for this reason that theologians have found
+such difficulty in framing a definition that can
+express all the word means.<sup><a name="fna.5" id="fna.5"
+ href="#fn.5">5</a></sup></p>
+
+<p>The original Hebrew word, whether derived
+from a root signifying to separate, or another with
+the idea of shining, expressed the idea of something
+distinguished from others, separate from them by
+superior excellence. God is Separate and different
+from all that is created, keeps Himself separate
+from all that is not God; as the Holy One He
+maintains His Divine glory and perfection against
+whatever might interfere with it: &lsquo;There is none
+holy, but the Lord;&rsquo; &lsquo;To whom will you liken me?
+or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.&rsquo; As
+Holy, God is indeed the Incomparable One; Holiness
+<a name="png.101" id="png.101"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">102</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>is His alone; there is nothing like it in heaven
+or earth, except when He gives it. And so our
+holiness will consist, not in a human separation in
+which we attempt to imitate God&#8217;s,&mdash;no, but in
+entering into His separateness; belonging entirely
+to Him; set apart by Him and for Himself.</p>
+
+<p>Closely connected with this is the idea of Exaltation:
+&lsquo;Thus saith the High and Holy One, whose
+name is Holy.&rsquo; It was the Holy One who was seen
+sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, the object
+of the worship of the seraphim. In Psalm xcix.
+God&#8217;s Holiness is specially spoken of in connection
+with His exaltation. For this reason, too, His
+Holiness is so often connected with His Glory and
+Majesty (see &lsquo;<a href="#day:6">Sixth Day</a>&rsquo;). And here our holiness
+will be seen to be nothing but the poverty and
+humility which comes when &lsquo;the loftiness of man is
+brought low, and the Lord alone is exalted.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>If we inquire more closely wherein the infinite
+excellence of this Separateness and Exaltation consists,
+we are led to think of the Divine Purity, and
+that not only in its negative aspect&mdash;as hatred of
+sin&mdash;but with the more positive element of perfect
+beauty. Because we are sinners, and the revelation
+of God&#8217;s Holiness is in a world of sin, it is natural,
+it is right and meet, that the first, that the abiding
+impression of God&#8217;s Holiness should be that of
+an Infinite Purity that cannot look upon sin, in
+whose Presence it becomes the sinner to hide his
+face and tremble. The Righteousness of God, forbidding
+and condemning and punishing sin, has its
+<a name="png.102" id="png.102"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">103</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>root in His Holiness, is one of its two elements&mdash;the
+devouring and destroying power of the consuming
+fire. &lsquo;God the Holy One is sanctified in
+righteousness&rsquo; (Isa. v. 16); in righteousness the
+Holiness of the Holy One is maintained and revealed.
+But Light not only discovers what is impure, that it
+may be purified, but is in itself a thing of infinite
+beauty. And so some of our holiest men have not
+hesitated to speak of God&#8217;s Holiness as the infinite
+Pulchritude or Beauty of the Divine Being, the
+Perfect Purity and Beauty of that Light in which
+God dwelleth. And if the Holiness of God is to
+become ours, to rest upon us, and enter into us,
+there must be, without ceasing, the holy fear that
+trembles at the thought of grieving the infinite sensitiveness
+of this Holy One by our sins, and yet side
+by side, and in perfect harmony with it, the deep
+longing to behold the Beauty of the Lord, an admiration
+of its Divine glory, and a joyful surrender to
+be His alone.</p>
+
+<p>We must go one step further. When God says,
+&lsquo;I am holy: <em>I make holy</em>,&rsquo; we see that one of the
+chief elements of His Holiness is this, that it seeks
+to communicate itself, to make partaker of its own
+perfection and blessedness. This is nought but
+Love. In the wonderful revelation in Isaiah of
+what the Holy One is to His people, we must
+beware of misreading God&#8217;s precious Word. It is
+not said, that <em>though</em> God is the Holy One, and
+hates sin, and ought to punish and destroy, that
+notwithstanding this He will save. By no means.
+<a name="png.103" id="png.103"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">104</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>But we are taught that <em>as</em> the Holy One, <em>just because</em>
+He is the Holy One, who delights to make holy, He
+will be the Deliverer of His people. (See Hos.
+xi. 9.) It is Holiness above everything else that
+we are invited to look to, to trust in, to rejoice in.
+The Holy One is the Holy-making One: He redeems
+and saves that He may win our confidence for
+Himself, that He may draw us to Himself as the
+Holy One, that in the personal attachment to Himself
+we may learn to obey, to become of one mind
+with Him, to be holy as He is holy.</p>
+
+<p>The Divine Holiness is thus that infinite Perfection
+of Divinity in which Righteousness and Love
+are in perfect harmony, out of which they proceed,
+and which together they reveal. It is that Energy
+of the Divine life in the power of which God not
+only keeps Himself free from all creature weakness
+or sin, but unceasingly seeks to lift the creature into
+union with Himself and the full participation of
+His own purity and perfection. The glory of God
+as God, as the God of Creation and Redemption, is
+His Holiness. It is in this that the Separateness
+and Exaltation of God, even above all thought of
+man, really consists. &lsquo;God is Light;&rsquo; in His infinite
+Purity He reveals all darkness, and yet has no
+fellowship with it. He judges and condemns it;
+He saves out of it, and lifts up into the fellowship
+of His own purity and blessedness. This is the
+Holy One of Israel.</p>
+
+<p>It is this God who speaks to us, &lsquo;I am the
+Lord your God: I am holy: I make holy.&rsquo; It is
+<a name="png.104" id="png.104"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">105</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in the adoring contemplation of His Holiness, in the
+trustful surrender to it, in the loving fellowship
+with Himself, the Holy One, that we can be made
+holy. My brother! would you be holy? listen again,
+and let, in the deep silence of trust, God&#8217;s words
+sink into your heart&mdash;&lsquo;Your Holy One.&rsquo; Come to
+Himself and claim Him as your God, and claim all
+that He, as the Holy One who makes holy, can do
+for you. Just remember that Holiness is Himself.
+Come to <em>Him</em>; worship <em>Him</em>; give <em>Him</em> the glory.
+Seek not, even from Him, holiness in yourself; let
+self be abased, and be content that the Holiness is
+His. As <em>His</em> presence fills your heart, as <em>His</em> Holiness
+and Glory are your one desire, as <em>His</em> holy
+Will and Love are your delight,&mdash;as the Holy One
+becomes all in all to you,&mdash;you will be holy with
+the holiness He loves to see. And as, to the end,
+you see nothing to admire in self, and only Beauty in
+Him, you will know that He has laid of His glory
+on you; and your holiness will be found in the
+song, There is none holy, but the Lord.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O God! we have again heard the wonderful
+revelation of Thyself, &lsquo;I am holy.&rsquo; And as we felt
+how infinitely exalted above all our conceptions
+Thy Holiness is, we heard Thy call, almost still
+more wonderful, &lsquo;Be ye holy, as I am holy.&rsquo; And
+as every thought of how we were to be holy, as Thou
+art holy, failed us, we heard Thy voice once again,
+<a name="png.105" id="png.105"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">106</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in this most wonderful word of all, &lsquo;I make you
+holy.&rsquo; I am &lsquo;your Holy One.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy God! we do beseech Thee, give us in
+some due measure to realize how unholy we are,
+and so to take the place that becomes us in Thy
+presence. Oh that the sinfulness of our nature,
+and all that is of self, may be so discovered to us,
+that it may be no longer possible to live in it!
+May the Light that reveals this, reveal too, how
+Thy Holiness is our only hope, our sure refuge, our
+complete deliverance. O Lord! speak into our
+souls the word, &lsquo;The Holy One, your Redeemer,&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Your Holy One,&rsquo; with such power by Thy Spirit,
+that our faith may grow into the assured confidence
+that we can be holy as Thou art holy.</p>
+
+<p>Holy Lord God! we wait for Thee. Reveal
+Thyself in power within us, and fit us to be the
+messengers of Thy Holiness, to tell Thy people how
+holy Thou art, and how holy we must be, and how
+holy Thou dost make us. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. This Holy One is God Almighty. Before He revealed Himself to Israel
+as the Holy One, He made Himself known to Abraham as the Almighty, &lsquo;who
+quickeneth the dead.&rsquo; In all your dealings with God for holiness, remember
+He is the Almighty One, who can do wonders in you. Say often, &lsquo;Glory to
+Him who is mighty to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. This Holy One is the Righteous God, a consuming fire. Cast yourself
+into it, that all that is sinful may be destroyed. As you lay yourself upon
+the altar, expect the fire. &lsquo;And yield your members unto God as instruments
+of Righteousness.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. This Holy One is the God of Love. He is your Father; yield yourself
+to let the Holy Spirit cry in you, Abba Father! that is, to let Him
+shed abroad and fill your heart with God&#8217;s father-love. God&#8217;s Holiness is
+His fatherliness; our holiness is childlikeness. Be simple, loving, trustful.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. This Holy One is God. Let Him be God to you; ruling all, filling all,
+working all. Worship Him, come near to Him, live with and in and for
+Him: He will be your holiness.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.4" id="fn.4"
+ href="#fna.4">4</a> &lsquo;I am the Lord your God; ye shall therefore <em>make holy</em> yourselves,
+and <em>be holy, for I am holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev. xi.&nbsp;44).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt
+to be your God: ye shall therefore <em>be holy, for I am holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev.
+xi.&nbsp;45).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;Ye shall <em>be holy</em>, for <em>I the Lord your God am holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev. xix.&nbsp;2).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;<em>Make holy</em> yourselves therefore, and <em>be ye holy</em>, for I am the
+Lord your God; ye shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the
+Lord which <em>make you holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev. xx. 7,&nbsp;8).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;Ye shall <em>be holy</em> unto me, for <em>I the Lord am holy</em>, and have
+separated you from other people, that ye should be mine&rsquo; (Lev.
+xx.&nbsp;26).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;The priest shall be <em>holy</em> unto thee, for <em>I the Lord which make
+you holy, am holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev. xxi.&nbsp;8).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;I will be <em>hallowed</em> among the children of Israel; I am the Lord
+<em>which make you holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev. xxii.&nbsp;32).</p>
+
+<p class="c">&lsquo;I am the Lord <em>which make them holy</em>&rsquo; (Lev. xxi. 15, 23; xxii.
+9, 16).</p>
+
+<p><a name="fn.5" id="fn.5"
+ href="#fna.5">5</a> See <a href="#note:C">Note C</a> for some account of the different definitions that
+have been given.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.106" id="png.106"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">107</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twelfth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap12.png" width="255" height="29"
+ alt="The Thrice Holy One." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up.
+Above Him stood the seraphim. And one cried to another,
+and said, <em>Holy, holy, holy</em> is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth
+is full of His glory.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Isa.</span> vi. 1&ndash;3.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And the four living creatures, they have no rest day and
+night, saying, <em>Holy, holy, holy</em> is the Lord God, the Almighty,
+which was, and which is, and which is to come.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Rev.</span> iv.&nbsp;8.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">It</span> is not only on earth, but in heaven too, that
+the Holiness of God is His chief and most
+glorious attribute. It is not only on earth, but in
+heaven too, that the highest inspiration of adoration
+and praise makes mention of His Holiness. The
+brightest of living beings, they who are ever before
+and around and above the throne, find their glory
+in adoring and proclaiming the Holiness of God:
+surely there can be for us no higher honour than
+to study and to know, to worship and adore, to
+proclaim and show forth the glory of the Thrice
+Holy One.</p>
+
+<p>After Moses, as we know, Isaiah was the chief
+<a name="png.107" id="png.107"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">108</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>messenger of the Holiness of God. Each had a
+special preparation for his commission to make
+known the Holy One. Moses saw the Holy One
+in the fire, and hid his face and feared to look upon
+God, and so was prepared for being His messenger,
+and for praising Him as &lsquo;glorious in holiness.&rsquo;
+Isaiah, as he heard the song of the seraphim, and
+saw the fire on the altar, and the house filled with
+the smoke, cried out, &lsquo;Woe is me.&rsquo; It was not till,
+in the deep sense of the need of cleansing, he had
+received the touch of the fire and the purging of his
+sin, that he might bear to Israel the Gospel of the
+Holy One as its Redeemer. May it be in the spirit
+of fear and lowly worship that we listen to the song
+of the seraphim, and seek to know and worship
+the Thrice Holy One. And may ours too be the
+cleansing with the fire, that we may be found fit
+to tell God&#8217;s people that He is the Holy One of
+Israel, their Redeemer.</p>
+
+<p>The threefold repetition of the <span class="smc">Holy</span> has at all
+times by the Church of Christ been connected with
+the Holy Trinity. The song of the living creatures
+around the throne (Rev. iv.) is evidence of the truth
+of this thought. We there find it followed by the
+adoration of Him who was, and is, and is to come,
+the Almighty: the Eternal Source, the present
+manifestation in the Son, the future perfecting of
+the revelation of God in the Spirit&#8217;s work in His
+Church. The truth of the Holy Trinity is often
+regarded as an abstract doctrine, with little direct
+bearing on practical life. So far is this from being
+<a name="png.108" id="png.108"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">109</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the case, that a living faith must root in it: some
+spiritual insight into the relation and the operation
+of each of the Three, and the reality of their living
+Oneness, is an essential element of true growth in
+knowledge and spiritual understanding.<sup><a name="fna.6" id="fna.6"
+ href="#fn.6">6</a></sup> Let us
+here regard the Trinity specially in its relation to
+God&#8217;s Holiness and as the source of ours. What
+does it mean that we adore the Thrice Holy One?
+God is not only holy, but makes holy: in the
+revelation of the Three Persons we have the revelation
+of the way in which God makes holy.</p>
+
+<p>The Trinity teaches us that God has revealed
+Himself in two ways. The Son is <em>the Form of God</em>,
+His manifestation as He shows Himself to man, the
+Image in which His unseen glory is embodied, and
+to which man is to be conformed. The Spirit is
+<em>the Power of God</em>, working in man, and leading him
+up to that Image. In Jesus, He who had been in
+the form of God took the form of man; and the
+Divine Holiness was literally manifested in the
+<a name="png.109" id="png.109"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">110</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>form of a human life and the members of a human
+body. A new holy human nature was formed in
+Christ, to be communicated to us. In His death
+His own personal holiness was perfected as human
+obedience, and so the power of sin conquered and
+broken. Therefore in the resurrection, through
+the Spirit of Holiness, He was declared to be the
+Son of God with power to impart His life to us.
+There the Spirit of Holiness was set free from the
+veil of the flesh, the trammels that hindered it, and
+obtained power to enter and dwell in man. The
+Holy Spirit was poured out as the fruit of Resurrection
+and Ascension. And the Spirit is now the
+Power of God in us, working upwards towards
+Christ, to reproduce His life and Holiness in us, to
+fit us for fully receiving and showing forth Him in
+our lives. Christ from above comes to us as the
+embodiment of the Unseen Holiness of God: the
+Spirit from within lifts us up to meet Him, and fits
+us to receive and make our own all that is in Him.</p>
+
+<p>The Triune God whom we adore is the Thrice
+Holy One: the mystery of the Trinity is the
+mystery of Holiness: the Glory and the Power of
+the Trinity is the Glory and Power of God who
+makes us holy. There is God dwelling in light
+inaccessible, a consuming fire of Holy Love, destroying
+all that resists, glorifying into its own purity all
+that yields. There is the Son, casting Himself into
+that consuming fire, whether in its eternal blessedness
+in heaven, or its angry wrath on earth, a
+willing sacrifice, to be its food and its satisfaction,
+<a name="png.110" id="png.110"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">111</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>as well as the revelation of its power to destroy and
+to save. And there is the Spirit of Holiness, the
+flames of that mighty fire spreading on every side,
+convicting and judging as the Spirit of Burning, and
+then transforming into its own brightness and holiness
+all that it can reach. All the relations of the
+Three Persons to each other and to us have their
+root and their meaning in the revelation of God as
+the Holy One. As we know and partake of Him,
+we shall know and partake of Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>And how shall we know Him? Let us learn to
+know the Holiness of God as the seraphs do: in the
+worship of the Thrice Holy One. Let us with veiled
+faces join in the ceaseless song of adoration: &lsquo;Holy,
+holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.&rsquo; Each time we meditate
+on the Word, each prayer to the Holy God, each
+act of faith in Christ the Holy One, each exercise
+of waiting dependence on the Holy Spirit, let it be
+in the spirit of worship: Holy, holy, holy. Let us
+learn to know the Holiness of God as Isaiah did.
+He was to be the chosen messenger to reveal and
+interpret to the people the name, the Holy One of
+Israel. His preparation was the vision that made
+him cry out, &lsquo;Woe is me! for mine eyes have seen
+the King, the Lord of hosts.&rsquo; Let us bow in
+silence before the Holy One, until our comeliness
+too be turned into corruption. And then let us
+believe in the cleansing fire from the altar, the
+touch of the live coals of the burning holiness,
+which not only consumes, but purges lips and heart
+to say, &lsquo;Here am I, send me.&rsquo; Yes, let us worship,
+<a name="png.111" id="png.111"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">112</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>whether like the adoring seraphim, or like the
+trembling prophet, until we know that our service
+too is accepted, to tell forth the praise of the Thrice
+Holy One.</p>
+
+<p>Holy, holy, holy: if we are indeed to be the
+messengers of the Holy One, let us seek to enter
+fully into what this Thrice Holy means. <span class="smc">Holy</span>, the
+Father, <em>God above us</em>, High and Lifted up, whom no
+man hath seen or can see, whose Holiness none dare
+approach, but who doth Himself in His Holiness
+draw nigh to make holy. <span class="smc">Holy</span>, the Son, <em>God
+with us</em>, revealing Divine Holiness in human life,
+maintaining it amid the suffering of death for us,
+and preparing a holy life and nature for His people.
+<span class="smc">Holy</span>, the Spirit, <em>God in us</em>, the Power of Holiness
+within us, reaching out to and embracing Christ,
+and transforming our inner life into the union and
+communion of Him in whom we are holy. Holy,
+holy, holy! it is all holiness. It is only holiness&mdash;perfect
+holiness. This is Divine holiness: holiness
+hidden and unapproachable; holiness manifested
+and maintained in human nature; holiness
+communicated and made our very own.</p>
+
+<p>The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the mystery
+of the Christian life, the mystery of Holiness. The
+Three are One, and we need to enter ever more
+deeply into the truth that neither of the Three
+ever works separate or independent of the other.
+The Son reveals the Father, and the Father reveals
+the Son. The Father gives not Himself, but the
+Spirit: the Spirit speaks not of Himself, but cries
+<a name="png.112" id="png.112"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">113</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Abba Father! The Son is our Sanctification, our Life,
+our All: the fulness is in Him. And yet we have ever
+to bow our knees to the Father for Him to reveal
+Christ in us, for Him to establish us in Christ.
+And the Father does not this without the Spirit:
+so that we have to ask to be strengthened mightily
+by the Spirit, that Christ may dwell in us. Christ
+gives the Spirit to them that believe and love and
+obey; the Spirit again gives Christ, formed within
+and dwelling in the heart. And so in each act of
+worship, and each step of growth, and each blessed
+experience of grace, all the Three Persons are
+actively engaged: the One is ever Three, the Three
+are ever One.</p>
+
+<p>Would you apply this in the life of holiness,
+let faith in the Holy Trinity be a living practical
+reality. In every prayer to <em>the Father</em> to sanctify
+you, take up your position <em>in Christ</em>, and do it in
+the power of <em>the Spirit within you</em>. In every
+exercise of faith <em>in Christ</em> as your Sanctification, let
+your posture be that of prayer to <em>the Father</em> and
+trust in Him as He delights to honour the Son, and
+of quiet expectancy of <em>the Spirit&#8217;s</em> working, through
+whom the Father glorifies the Son. In every surrender
+of the soul to the sanctification of <em>the Spirit</em>,
+to His leading as the Spirit of Holiness, look to <em>the
+Father</em> who grants His mighty working, and who
+sanctifies through faith in <em>the Son</em>, and expect the
+Spirit&#8217;s power to manifest itself in showing the will
+of God, and Jesus as your Sanctification. If for a
+time this appears at variance with the simplicity of
+<a name="png.113" id="png.113"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">114</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>childlike faith and prayer, be assured that as God
+has thus revealed Himself, He will teach you so to
+worship and believe. And so the Holy, holy, holy
+will become the deep undertone of all our worship
+and all our life.</p>
+
+<p>Children of God! called to be holy as He is
+holy, oh, come let us bow down and worship in
+His holy presence! Come and veil the face: withdraw
+eye and mind from gazing on what passes
+knowledge, and let the soul be gathered into that
+inner stillness, in which the worship of the heavenly
+Sanctuary alone can be heard. Come and cover
+the feet: withdraw from the rush of work and
+haste, be it worldly or religious, and learn to
+worship. Come, and as you fall down in self-abasement,
+the glory of the Holy One will shine upon
+you. And as you hear and take up and sing the
+song, <span class="smc">Holy, Holy, Holy</span>, you will find how in such
+knowledge and worship of the Thrice Holy One is
+the power that makes you holy.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God Almighty!
+which wast, and art, and art to come! I worship
+Thee as the Triune God. With face veiled and
+feet covered, I would bow in deep humility and
+silence, till Thy mercy lift me as on eagles&#8217; wings
+to behold Thy glory.</p>
+
+<p>Most merciful God! who hast called me to be
+<a name="png.114" id="png.114"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">115</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>holy as Thou art holy, oh, reveal to me somewhat
+of Thy Holiness! As it shines upon me and
+strikes death into the creature and the flesh, may
+even the most involuntary taint of sin, and its
+slightest movement, become unbearable. As it
+shines and revives the hope of being partaker of
+Thy Holiness, may the confidence grow strong that
+Thou Thyself art making me holy, wilt even make
+me a messenger of Thy Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>Thrice Holy God! I worship Thee as my God.
+<span class="smc">Holy</span>! <span class="smc">the Father</span>; holy and making holy; making
+holy His own Son and sending Him into the world,
+that we might behold the very glory of God in a human
+face, the face of Jesus Christ. <span class="smc">Holy</span>! <span class="smc">the Son</span>; the
+Holy One of God, fulfilling the will of the Father, and
+so making holy Himself that He might be our holiness.
+<span class="smc">Holy</span>! <span class="smc">the Spirit</span>; the Spirit of Holiness, dwelling
+within us, making the Son and His Holiness our own,
+and so making us partakers of the Holiness of God.
+O my God! I bow down, and worship, and adore.</p>
+
+<p>May even now the worship of heaven that rests
+not day or night be the worship my soul renders
+Thee without ceasing. May its song be, down in the
+depths of the heart, the keynote of my life: <span class="smc">Holy,
+Holy, Holy</span>, Lord God Almighty! which wast, and
+art, and art to come. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. Thought always needs to distinguish and separate: in life alone there is
+perfect unity. The more we know the living God, the more we shall realize how
+truly the Three are One. In each act of One Person the other Two are present.
+There is not a prayer rises but the Presence of the Holy Three is needed
+through Christ, in the Spirit, we speak to the Father.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. In faith to apprehend this is to have the secret of holiness. The Holy
+<a name="png.115" id="png.115"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">116</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>God above us, ever giving and working; the Holy One of God, the living gift,
+who has possession of us, in whom we are; the Holy Spirit, God within us,
+through whom the Father works, and the Son is revealed: this is the God who
+says, I am holy, I make holy. In the perfect unity of the work of the Three,
+holiness is found.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. No wonder that the love of the Father and the grace of the Son do not
+accomplish more, when the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is little understood
+or sought or accepted. The Holy Spirit is the fruit and crown of the Divine
+Revelation, through whom the Son and the Father come to us. If you would
+know God, if you would be holy, you must be taught and led of the Spirit.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. As often as you worship the Thrice Holy One, hearken if no voice be
+heard: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Let the answer rise, Here
+am I, send me, and offer yourself to be <strong>a messenger of the holiness of God</strong>
+to those around you.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. When in meditation and worship you have sought to take in and express
+what God&#8217;s word has taught, then comes the time for confessing how you
+know nothing, and for waiting on God <strong>to reveal Himself</strong>.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.6" id="fn.6"
+ href="#fna.6">6</a> The Divine necessity and meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity
+is seen from the counterpart we have of it in nature. In every
+living object that exists we distinguish first <em>the life</em>, then <em>the form</em>
+or <em>shape</em> in which that life manifests itself, then <em>the power</em> or
+<em>effect</em> as seen in the result which the life acting in its form or
+manifestation produces. And so we have God as the Unseen One,
+the Fountain of life; the Son as the Form or Image of God, the
+manifestation of the Unseen Life; and the Holy Spirit as the
+Power of that life proceeding from the Father and the Son, and
+working out the purpose of God&#8217;s will in the Church. Applying
+this thought to God as the Holy One, we shall understand better
+the place of the Son and the Spirit as they bring to us the Holiness
+of God.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.116" id="png.116"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">117</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Thirteenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap13.png" width="269" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Humility." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
+whose name is <em>Holy</em>: I dwell in the High and <em>Holy</em> place, with
+him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit
+of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Isa.</span>
+lvii.&nbsp;15.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">Very</span> wonderful is the revelation we have in
+Isaiah of God, the Holy One, as the Redeemer
+and the Saviour of His people. In the midst of
+the people whom He created and formed for Himself,
+He will as the Holy One dwell, showing
+forth His power and His glory, filling them with
+joy and gladness. All these promises have, however,
+reference to the people as a whole. Our
+text to-day reveals a new and specially beautiful
+feature of the Divine Holiness in its relation to the
+individual. The High and Lofty One, whose name
+is Holy, and whose only fit dwelling-place is
+eternity, He looks to the man who is of a humble
+and contrite heart; with him will He dwell. God&#8217;s
+Holiness is His condescending Love. As it is a
+<a name="png.117" id="png.117"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">118</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>consuming fire against all who exalt themselves
+before Him, it is to the spirit of the humble like
+the shining of the sun, heart-reviving and life-giving.</p>
+
+<p>The deep significance of this promise comes out
+clearly when we connect it with the other promises
+of New Testament times. The great feature of the
+New Covenant, in its superiority to the old, is this,
+that whereas in the law and its institution all was
+external, in the New the kingdom of God would
+be within. God&#8217;s laws given and written into the
+heart, a new spirit put within us, God&#8217;s own Spirit
+given to dwell within our spirit, and so the heart and
+the inner life fitted to be the temple and home of
+God; it is this constitutes the peculiar privilege of the
+ministration of the Spirit. Our text is perhaps the
+only one in the Old Testament in which this indwelling
+of the Holy One, not among the people only,
+but in the heart of the individual believer, is
+clearly brought out. In this the two aspects of the
+Divine Holiness would reach their full manifestation:
+I dwell in the High and Holy place, and with
+him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit.
+In His heaven above, the high and lofty place,
+and in our heart, contrite and humble, God has
+His home. God&#8217;s Holiness is His glory that
+separates Him by an infinite distance, not only
+from sin, but even from the creature, lifting Him
+high above it. God&#8217;s Holiness is His Love, drawing
+Him down to the sinner, that He may lift him into
+His fellowship and likeness, and make him holy as
+He is holy. The Holy One seeks the humble; the
+<a name="png.118" id="png.118"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">119</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>humble find the Holy One: such are the two
+lessons we have to learn to-day.</p>
+
+<p><em>The Holy One seeks the humble.</em> There is nothing
+that has such an attraction for God, that has such
+affinity with holiness, as a contrite and humble
+spirit. The reason is evident. There is no law in
+the natural and the spiritual world more simple,
+than that two bodies cannot at the same moment
+occupy the same space. Only so much as the
+new occupant can expel of what the space was filled
+with can it really possess. In man, self has possession,
+and self-will the mastery, and there is no room
+for God. It is simply impossible for God to dwell
+or rule when self is on the throne. As long as,
+through the blinding influence of sin and self-love,
+even the believer is not truly conscious of the extent
+to which this self-will reigns, there can be no true
+contrition or humility. But as it is discovered by
+God&#8217;s Spirit, and the soul sees how it has just been
+self that has been secretly keeping out God, with
+what shame it is broken down, and how it longs to
+break utterly away from self, that God may have
+His place! It is this brokenness, and continued
+breaking down, that is expressed by the word
+contrition. And as the soul sees what folly and
+guilt it has been, by its secret honouring of self, to
+keep the Holy One from the place which He alone
+has a right to, and which He would so blessedly
+have filled, it casts itself down in utter self-abasement,
+with the one desire to be nothing, and to give
+God the place and the praise that is His due.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.119" id="png.119"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">120</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Such breaking down and humiliation is painful.
+Its intense reality consists in this, that the soul can
+see nothing in itself to trust or hope in. And
+least of all can it imagine that it should be an
+object of Divine complacency, or a fit vessel for
+the Divine blessing. And yet just this is the
+message which the Word of the Lord brings to our
+faith. It tells us that the Holy One, who dwells in
+the High and Lofty place, is seeking and preparing
+for Himself a dwelling here on this earth. It tells
+us, just what the truly contrite and humble never
+could imagine, and even now can hardly believe,
+that it is even, that it is only, with such that He
+will dwell. These are they in whom God can be
+glorified, in whom there is room for Him to take
+the place of self and to fill the emptied place with
+Himself. The Holy One seeks the humble. Just
+when we see that there is nothing in us to admire
+or rest in, God sees in us everything to admire
+and to rest in, because there is room for Himself.
+The lowly one is the home of the Holy One.</p>
+
+<p><em>The humble find the Holy One.</em> Just when the
+consciousness of sin and weakness, and the discovery
+of how much of self there is, makes you fear that
+you can never be holy, the Holy One gives Himself.
+Not as you look at self, and seek to know whether
+now you are contrite and humble enough&mdash;no, but
+when no longer looking at self, because you have
+given up all hope of seeing anything in it but sin,
+you look up to the Holy One, you will see how
+His promise is your only hope. It is in faith that
+<a name="png.120" id="png.120"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">121</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the Holy One is revealed to the contrite soul.
+Faith is ever the opposite of what we see and feel;
+it looks to God alone. And it believes that in its
+deepest consciousness of unholiness, and its fear that
+it never can be holy, God, the Holy One, who
+makes holy, is near as Redeemer and Saviour.
+And it is content to be low, in the consciousness
+of unworthiness and emptiness, and yet to rejoice
+in the assurance that God Himself does take
+possession and revive the heart of the contrite one.
+Happy the soul who is willing at once to learn the
+lesson that, all along, it is going to be the simultaneous
+experience of weakness and power, of emptiness
+and filling, of deep, real humiliation, and the as real
+and most wonderful indwelling of the Holy One.</p>
+
+<p>This is indeed the deep mystery of the Divine
+life. To human reason it is a paradox. When
+Paul says of himself, &lsquo;as dying, and behold we live;
+as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as having nothing,
+yet possessing all things,&rsquo; he only gives expression
+to the law of the kingdom, that as self is displaced
+and man becomes nothing, God will become all.
+Side by side with deepest sense of nothingness and
+weakness, the sense of infinite riches and the joy
+unspeakable can fill the heart. However deep and
+blessed the experience becomes of the nearness, the
+blessing, the love, the actual indwelling of the Holy
+One, it is never an indwelling in the old self; it is
+ever a Divine Presence humbling self to make place
+for God alone to be exalted. The power of Christ&#8217;s
+death, the fellowship of His cross, works each
+<a name="png.121" id="png.121"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">122</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>moment side by side with the power and the joy of
+His resurrection. &lsquo;He that humbleth himself shall
+be exalted;&rsquo; in the blessed life of faith the humiliation
+and the exaltation are simultaneous, each
+dependent on the other.</p>
+
+<p>The humble find the Holy One; and when they
+have found, the possession only humbles all the more.
+Not that there is no danger or temptation of the
+flesh exalting itself in the possession, but, once
+knowing the danger, the humble soul seeks for
+grace to fear continually, with a fear that only
+clings more firmly to God alone. Never for a moment
+imagine that you attain a state in which self
+or the flesh are absolutely dead. No; by faith you
+enter into and abide in a fellowship with Jesus, in
+whom they are crucified; abiding in Him, you are
+free from their power, but only as you believe, and,
+in believing, have gone out of self and dwell in
+Jesus. Therefore, the more abundant God&#8217;s grace
+becomes, and the more blessed the indwelling of the
+Holy One, keep so much the lower. Your danger is
+greater, but your Help is now nearer: be content in
+trembling to confess the danger, it will make you
+bold in faith to claim the victory.</p>
+
+<p>Believers, who profess to be nothing, and to trust
+in grace alone, I pray you, do listen to the wondrous
+message. The High and Lofty One, whose name is
+Holy, and who dwells in the Holy Place, and who
+can dwell nowhere but in a Holy Place, seeks a
+dwelling here on earth. Will you give it Him?
+Will you not fall down in the dust, that He may
+<a name="png.122" id="png.122"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">123</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>find in you the humble heart He loves to dwell in?
+Will you not now believe that even in you, however
+low and broken you feel, He doth delight to make
+His dwelling? &lsquo;Blessed are the poor in spirit: for
+theirs is the Kingdom;&rsquo; with them the King dwells.
+Oh, this is the path to holiness! be humble, and the
+holy nearness and presence of God in you will be
+your holiness. As you hear the command, Be holy,
+as I am holy, let faith claim the promise, and
+answer, I will be holy, O Most Holy God! if
+Thou, the Holy One, wilt dwell with me.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O Lord! Thou art the High and Lofty One, whose
+Name is Holy. And yet Thou speakest, &lsquo;I dwell
+in the high and holy place, and with him that is of
+a contrite and humble spirit.&rsquo; Yes, Lord! when the
+soul takes the low place, and has low thoughts of
+itself, that it feels it is nothing, Thou dost love to
+come and comfort, to dwell with it and revive it.</p>
+
+<p>O my God! my creature nothingness humbles
+me; my many transgressions humble me; my innate
+sinfulness humbles me; but this humbles me most
+of all, Thine infinite condescension, and the ineffable
+indwelling Thou dost vouchsafe. It is Thy Holiness,
+in Christ bearing our sin, Thy Holy Love bearing
+with our sin, and consenting to dwell in us; O
+God! it is this love that passeth knowledge that
+humbles me. I do beseech Thee, let it do its
+work, until self hides its head and flees away at the
+presence of Thy glory, and Thou alone art all.</p>
+
+<p>Holy Lord God! I pray Thee to humble me.
+<a name="png.123" id="png.123"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">124</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Didst Thou not of old meet Thy servants, and show
+Thyself unto them until they fell upon their faces
+and feared? Thou knowest, my God! I have no
+humility which I can bring Thee. In my blessed
+Saviour, who humbled Himself in the form of a
+servant, and unto the death of the cross, I hide
+myself. In Him, in His spirit and likeness, I
+would live before Thee. Work Thou it in me, by
+the Holy Spirit dwelling in me, and as I am dead
+to self in Him, and His cross makes me nothing, let
+Thy holy indwelling revive and quicken me. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Lowliness and holiness. Keep fast hold of the intimate connection.
+Lowliness is taking the place that becomes me; holiness, giving God the
+place that becomes Him. If I be nothing before Him, and God be all to me, I
+am in the sure path of holiness. Lowliness is holiness, because it gives all
+the glory to God.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. &lsquo;Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.&rsquo;
+These first words of the Master when He opened His lips to proclaim the
+Kingdom, are often the last in the hearts of His disciples. &lsquo;The Kingdom is
+in the Holy Ghost:&rsquo; to the poor in spirit, those who know they have nothing
+that is really spiritual, the Holy Spirit comes to be their life. The poor in
+spirit are the Kingdom of the Saints: in them the Holy Spirit reveals the
+King.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Many strive hard to be humble with God, but with men they maintain their
+rights, and nourish self. Remember that the great school of humility before
+God, is to accept the humbling of man. Christ sanctified Himself in accepting
+the humiliation and injustice which evil men laid upon Him.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Humility never sees its own beauty, because it refuses to look to itself:
+It only wonders at the condescension of the Holy God, and rejoices in the
+humility of Jesus, God&#8217;s Holy One, our Holy One.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. The link between holiness and humility is indwelling. The Lofty One,
+whose name is Holy, <strong>dwells</strong> with the contrite one. And where He dwells is
+<strong>the Holy Place</strong>.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.124" id="png.124"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">125</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Fourteenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap14.png" width="256" height="29"
+ alt="The Holy One of God." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Therefore also that <em>holy</em> thing which shall be born of thee
+shall be called the Son of God.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Luke</span> i.&nbsp;35.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;We have believed and know that Thou art <em>the Holy One of
+God</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">John</span> vi.&nbsp;69.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstartq"><small>&lsquo;</small><span class="drop">T</span><span class="start">he</span> holy one of the Lord&rsquo;&mdash;only once (Ps. cvi.
+16) the expression is found in the Old
+Testament. It is spoken of Aaron, in whom
+holiness, as far as it could then be revealed, had
+found its most complete embodiment. The title
+waited for its fulfilment in Him who alone, in His
+own person, could perfectly show forth the holiness of
+God on earth&mdash;Jesus the Son of the Father. In Him
+we see holiness, as Divine, as human, as our very own.</p>
+
+<p>1. In Him we see wherein that Incomparable
+Excellence of the Divine Nature consists. &lsquo;Thou
+lovest righteousness, and hatest iniquity, therefore
+God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the
+oil of gladness above Thy fellows.&rsquo; God&#8217;s infinite
+hatred of sin, and His maintenance of the Right,
+might appear to have little moral worth, as being a
+<a name="png.125" id="png.125"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">126</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>necessity of His nature. In the Son we see Divine
+Holiness tested. He is tried and tempted. He
+suffers, being tempted. He proves that Holiness
+has indeed a moral worth: it is ready to make
+any sacrifice, yea to give up life and cease to be,
+rather than consent to sin. In giving Himself to
+die, rather than yield to the temptation of sin; in
+giving Himself to die, that the Father&#8217;s righteous
+judgment may be honoured; Jesus proved how
+Righteousness is an element of the Divine Holiness,
+and how the Holy One is sanctified in Righteousness.</p>
+
+<p>But this is only one side of Holiness. The fire
+that consumes also purifies: it makes partakers of
+its own beautiful Light-nature all that is capable of
+assimilation. So Divine Holiness not only maintains
+its own purity; it communicates it too. Herein
+was Jesus indeed seen to be the Holy One of God,
+that He never said, &lsquo;Stand by, for I am holier than
+thou.&rsquo; His holiness proved itself to be the very
+incarnation of Him who had spoken, &lsquo;Thus saith
+the High and Lofty One, whose Name is Holy:
+I dwell in the High and Holy place, and with him
+who is of a contrite spirit.&rsquo; In Him was seen
+the affinity holiness has for all that is lost and
+helpless and sinful. He proved that holiness is not
+only the energy which in holy anger separates
+itself from all that is impure, but which in holy
+love separates to itself even what is most sinful, to
+save and to bless. In Him we see how the Divine
+Holiness is the harmony of Infinite Righteousness
+with Infinite Love.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.126" id="png.126"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">127</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>2. Such is the Divine aspect of the character of
+Christ, as He shows in human form what God&#8217;s
+Holiness is. But there is another aspect, to us no
+less interesting and important. We not only want
+to know how God is holy, but how man must act
+to be holy as God is holy. Jesus came to teach
+us that it is possible to be men, and yet to have
+the life of God dwelling in us. We ordinarily
+think that the glory and the infinite Perfection of
+Deity are the proper setting in which the beauty
+of holiness is to be seen: Jesus proved the perfect
+adaptation and suitability of human nature for
+showing forth that which is the essential glory of
+Deity. He showed us how, in choosing and doing
+the will of God, and making it his own will, man
+may truly be holy as God is holy.</p>
+
+<p>The value of this aspect of the Incarnation
+depends upon our realizing intensely the true
+humanity of our Lord. The awful separating and
+purifying process that is ever being carried on in
+the fiery furnace of the Divine Holiness, ever consuming
+and ever assimilating, we expect to see in
+Him in the struggles of a truly human will.
+Holiness, to be truly human, must not only be a
+gift, but an acquirement. Coming from God, it
+must be accepted and personally appropriated, in
+the voluntary surrender of all that is not in
+accordance with it. In Jesus, as He distinctly
+gave up His own will, and did and suffered
+the Father&#8217;s will, we have the revelation of
+what human holiness is, and how truly man,
+<a name="png.127" id="png.127"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">128</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>through the unity of will, can be holy as God is
+holy.</p>
+
+<p>3. But what avails that we have seen in Jesus
+that a man can be holy? His example were
+indeed a mockery if He show us not the way, and
+give us not the power, to become like Himself. To
+bring us this, was indeed the supreme object of the
+Incarnation. The Divine nature of Christ did not
+simply make <em>His</em> humanity partaker of its holiness,
+leaving Him still nothing more than an individual
+man. His Divinity gave the human holiness He
+wrought out, the holy human nature which He
+perfected, an infinite value and power of communication.
+With Him a new life, the Eternal Life, was
+grafted into the stem of humanity. For all who
+believe in Him, He sanctified Himself, that they
+themselves might also be sanctified in truth.
+Because His death was the great triumph of His
+obedience to the will of the Father, it broke for
+ever the dominion of sin, it atoned for our guilt,
+and won for Him from the Father the power to
+make His people partakers of His own life and
+holiness. In His Resurrection and Ascension
+the power of the New Life, and its right to
+universal dominion, were made manifest, and He
+is now in full truth the Holy One of God, holding
+in Himself as Head the power of a Holiness, at
+once Divine and human, to communicate to every
+member of His body.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smc">The Holy One of God</span>! in a fulness of meaning
+that passeth knowledge, in spirit and in truth, Jesus
+<a name="png.128" id="png.128"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">129</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>now bears this title. He is now the One Holy
+One whom God sees, of such an infinite compass
+and power of holiness, that He can be holiness to
+each of His brethren. And even as He is to God
+the Holy One, in whom He delights, and for whose
+sake He delights in all who are in Him, so Christ
+may now be to us too the One Holy One in whom
+we delight, in whom the Holiness of God is become
+ours. &lsquo;We have believed and know that Thou
+art <em>the Holy One of God</em>,&rsquo;&mdash;blessed they who
+can say this, and know themselves to be holy in
+Christ.</p>
+
+<p>In speaking of the mystery of the Holy Trinity,
+we saw how Christ stands midway between the
+Father and the Spirit, as the point of union in which
+they meet. In the Son, &lsquo;the very image of His
+substance&rsquo; (Heb. i. 3), we have the objective revelation
+of Deity, the Divine Holiness embodied and
+brought nigh. In the Holy Spirit we have the same
+revelation subjectively, <em>the Divine Holiness entering
+our inmost being and revealing itself there</em>. The
+work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal and glorify
+Christ as the Holy One of God, as He takes of His
+Holiness and makes it ours. He shows us how all
+is in Christ; how Christ is all for us; how we are
+in Christ; and how, as a living Saviour, Christ
+through His Spirit takes and keeps charge of us and
+our life of holiness. He makes Christ indeed to
+be to us <em>the Holy One of God</em>.</p>
+
+<p>My Brother! wouldst thou be holy, wouldst thou
+know God&#8217;s way of holiness&mdash;learn to know Christ
+<a name="png.129" id="png.129"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">130</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>as the Holy One of God. Thou art <em>in Him</em>, &lsquo;holy in
+Christ.&rsquo; Thou hast been placed, by an act of Divine
+Power, in Christ, and that same Power keeps thee
+there, planted and rooted in that Divine fulness
+of life and holiness which there is in Him. His
+Holy Presence, and the power of His eternal life,
+surround thee: let the Holy Spirit reveal this to
+thee. The Holy Spirit is within thee as the power
+of Christ and His life. Secretly, silently, but
+mightily, if thou wilt look to the Father for His
+working, will He strengthen the faith that thou
+art in Christ, and that the Divine life, which thus
+encircles thee on every side, will enter in and take
+possession of thee. Study and pray to believe and
+realize that it is in Christ as the Holy One of God, in
+Christ in whom the Holiness of God is prepared for
+thee as a holy nature and holy living, that thou
+art, and that thou mayest abide.</p>
+
+<p>And then remember, also, that this Christ is thy
+Saviour, the most patient and compassionate of
+teachers. Study holiness in the light of His
+countenance, looking up into His face. <em>He came
+from heaven for the very purpose of making thee holy.</em>
+His love and power are more than thy slowness and
+sinfulness. Do learn to think of holiness as the
+inheritance prepared for thee, as the power of a new
+life which Jesus waits and lives to dispense. Just
+think of it as all in Him, and of its possession as
+being dependent upon the possession of Himself.
+And as the disciples, though they scarce understood
+what they confessed, or knew whither the Lord was
+<a name="png.130" id="png.130"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">131</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>leading them, became His saints, His holy ones, in
+virtue of their intense attachment to Him, so wilt
+thou find that to love Jesus fervently, and obey
+Him simply, is the sure path to holiness and the
+fulness of the Holy Spirit.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy Lord God! I do bless Thee that Thy
+beloved Son, whom Thou didst sanctify and send
+into the world, is now to us <em>the Holy One of God</em>.
+I beseech Thee that my inner life may so be enlightened
+by the Spirit that I may in faith fully
+know what this means.</p>
+
+<p>May I know Him as the revelation of Thy Holiness,
+the incarnation in human nature, even unto
+the death, of Thine infinite and unconquerable
+hatred of sin, as of Thy amazing love to the sinner.
+May my soul be filled with great fear and trust of
+Thee.</p>
+
+<p>May I know Him as the exhibition of the
+Holiness in which we are now to walk before Thee.
+He lived in Thy holy will. May I know Him as
+He wrought out that holiness, to be communicated
+to us in a new human nature, making it possible for
+us to live a holy life.</p>
+
+<p>May I know Him as Thou hast placed me in
+Him in heaven, holy in Christ, and as I may abide
+in Him by faith.</p>
+
+<p>May I know Him, as He dwells in me, the Holy
+One of God on the throne of my heart, breathing
+<a name="png.131" id="png.131"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">132</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>His Holy Spirit and maintaining His holy rule. So
+shall I live holy in Christ.</p>
+
+<p>O my Father! it pleased Thee that in Thy Son
+should all the fulness dwell. In Him are hid all
+the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; in Him
+dwell the unsearchable riches of grace and holiness.
+I beseech Thee, reveal Him to me, reveal Him in
+me, that I may not have to satisfy myself with
+thoughts and desires, without the reality, but that
+in the power of an endless life I may know Him,
+and be known of Him, the Holy One of God.
+Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. In the holiness of Jesus we see what ours must be: righteousness, that
+hates sin and gives everything to have it destroyed; love, that seeks the
+sinner and gives everything to have him saved. &lsquo;Whosoever doeth not
+righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. It is a solemn thought that we may be studying earnestly to know what
+holiness is, and yet have little of it, because we have little of Jesus. It is a
+blessed thought that a man may directly be little occupied with the thought of
+holiness, and yet have much of it, because he is full of Jesus.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. We need the whole of what God teaches in His Word in regard to
+holiness in all its different aspects. We need still more to be ever returning
+to the living centre where God imparts holiness. Jesus is <strong>the Holy One of
+God</strong>: to have <strong>Him</strong> truly, to love <strong>Him</strong> fervently, to trust and obey <strong>Him</strong>, to be
+<strong>in Him</strong>&mdash;this makes us holy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Your holiness is thus treasured up in this Divine, Almighty, and most
+gentle Saviour&mdash;surely there need to be no fear that He will not be ready or
+able to make you holy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. With such a Sanctifier, how comes it that so many seekers after holiness
+fail so sadly, and know so little of the joy of a holy life?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>I am sure it is with very many this one thing: they seek to grasp and hold
+this Christ in their own strength, and know not how it is the Holy Spirit
+within them who must be waited for to reveal this Divine Being, the Holy One
+of God, in their hearts.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.132" id="png.132"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">133</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Fifteenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap15.png" width="195" height="30"
+ alt="The Holy Spirit." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believed on
+Him were to receive: for <em>the Holy Spirit</em> was not yet: because
+Jesus was not yet glorified.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">John</span> vii.&nbsp;39.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The Comforter, even <em>the Holy Spirit</em>, whom the Father
+will send in my name, He shall teach you all things.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">John</span>
+xiv.&nbsp;26.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;God chose you to salvation <em>in sanctification of the Spirit</em>,
+and belief of the truth.&rsquo;&mdash;2&nbsp;<span class="smc">Thess.</span> ii. 13. (See 1&nbsp;Pet. i.&nbsp;2.)</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">It</span> has sometimes been said, that while the Holiness
+of God stands out more prominently in the Old
+Testament, in the New it has to give way to the
+revelation of His love. The remark could hardly
+be made if it were fully realized that the Spirit is
+God, and that when He takes up the epithet Holy
+as His own proper name, it is to teach us that now
+the Holiness of God is to come nearer than ever,
+and to be specially revealed as the power that
+makes us holy. In the Holy Spirit, God the Holy
+One of Israel, and He who was the Holy One of
+God, come nigh for the fulfilment of the promise,
+&lsquo;I am the Lord that make you holy.&rsquo; The unseen
+<a name="png.133" id="png.133"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">134</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and unapproachable holiness of God had been
+revealed and brought near in the life of Christ
+Jesus; all that hindered our participation in it had
+been removed by His death. The name of Holy
+Spirit teaches us that it is specially the Spirit&#8217;s
+work to impart it to us and make it our own.</p>
+
+<p>Try and realize the meaning of this; the epithet
+that through the whole Old Testament has belonged
+to the Holy God, is now appropriated to that Spirit
+which is within you. The Holiness of God in
+Christ becomes holiness <em>in you</em>, because this Spirit
+is in you. The words, and the Divine realities the
+words express, <em>Holy</em> and <em>Spirit</em>, are now inseparably
+and eternally united. You can only have as much
+of the Spirit as you are willing to have of holiness.
+You can only have as much holiness as you have
+of the indwelling Spirit.</p>
+
+<p>There are some who pray for the Spirit because
+they long to have His light and joy and strength.
+And yet their prayers bring little increase of blessing
+or power. It is because they do not rightly know
+or desire Him as the <em>Holy</em> Spirit. His burning
+purity, His searching and convicting light, His
+making dead of the deeds of the body, of self with
+its will and its power, His leading into the fellowship
+of Jesus as He gave up His will and His life
+to the Father,&mdash;of all this they have not thought.
+The Spirit cannot work in power in them because
+they receive Him not as the <em>Holy</em> Spirit, in <em>sanctification</em>
+of the Spirit. At times, in seasons of revival,
+as among the Corinthians and Galatians, He may
+indeed come with His gifts and mighty workings,
+<a name="png.134" id="png.134"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">135</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>while His sanctifying power is but little manifest.
+(1 Cor. xiv. 4, xiii. 8, iii. 1&ndash;3; Gal. iii. 3, v. 15&ndash;26.)
+But unless that sanctifying power be acknowledged
+and accepted, His gifts will be lost. His gifts coming
+on us are but meant to prepare the way for the
+sanctifying power within us. We must take the
+lesson to heart; we can have as much of the Spirit
+as we are willing to have of His Holiness. Be
+full of the Spirit, must mean to us, Be fully holy.</p>
+
+<p>The converse is equally true. We can only have
+so much holiness as we have of the Spirit. Some
+souls do very earnestly seek to be holy, but it is
+very much in their own strength. They will read
+books and listen to addresses most earnestly; they
+will use every effort to lay hold of every thought,
+and act out every advice. And yet they must
+confess that they are still very much strangers to
+the true, deep rest and joy and power of abiding in
+Christ, and being holy in Him. They sought for
+holiness more than for the Spirit. They must learn
+how even all the holiness which is so near and clear
+in Christ, is beyond our reach, except as the Holy
+Spirit dwells within and imparts it. They must
+learn to pray for Him and His mighty strengthening
+(Eph. iii. 16), to believe for Him (John iv. 14,
+vii. 37), in faith to yield to Him as indwelling
+(1 Cor. iii. 14, vi. 19). They must learn to cease
+from self-effort in thinking and believing, in willing
+and in running; to hope in God, and wait patiently
+for Him. He will by His Holy Spirit make us
+holy. Be holy means, Be filled with the Spirit.</p>
+
+<p>If we inquire more closely how it is that this
+<a name="png.135" id="png.135"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">136</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Holy Spirit makes holy, the answer is,&mdash;He reveals
+and imparts the Holiness of Christ. Scripture tells
+us: Christ is made unto us sanctification. He
+sanctified Himself for us, that we ourselves might
+also be sanctified in truth. We have been sanctified
+through the offering of the body of Jesus
+Christ once for all. We are sanctified in Christ
+Jesus. The whole living Christ is just a treasury
+of holiness for man. In His life on earth He
+exchanged the Divine Holiness He possessed into
+the current coin needed for this human earthly life,
+obedience to the Father, and humility, and love,
+and zeal. As God, He has a sufficiency of it for
+every moment of the life of every believer.</p>
+
+<p>And yet, it is all beyond our reach, except as the
+Holy Spirit brings it to us and inwardly communicates
+it. But this is the very work for which He
+bears the Divine Name, the <em>Holy</em> Spirit, to glorify
+Jesus, the Holy One of God, within us, and so make
+us partakers of His Holiness. He does it by revealing
+Christ, so that we begin to see what is in Him. He
+does it by discovering the deep unholiness of our
+nature (Rom. vii. 14&ndash;23). He does it by mightily
+strengthening us to believe, to receive Jesus
+Himself as our life. He does it by leading us
+to utter despair of self, to absolute surrender of
+obedience to Jesus as Lord, to the assured confidence
+of faith in the power of an indwelling Christ. He
+does it by, in the secret silent depths of the heart
+and life, imparting the dispositions and graces of
+Christ, so that from the inner centre of our life,
+which has been renewed and sanctified in Christ,
+<a name="png.136" id="png.136"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">137</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>holiness should flow out and pervade all to the utmost
+circumference. Where the desire has once been
+awakened, and the delight in the law of God after
+the inward man been created, there, as the Spirit of
+this life in Christ Jesus, He makes free from the
+law of sin and death in the members, he leads into
+the glorious liberty of the sons of God. As God
+within us, He communicates what God in Christ
+has prepared.</p>
+
+<p>And if we ask once more how the working of this
+Holy Spirit, who thus makes holy, is to be secured,
+the answer is very simple and clear. He is the
+Spirit of the Holy Father, and of Christ, the Holy
+One of God: from them He must be received.
+&lsquo;He showed me a river of water of life proceeding
+out of the throne of God and the Lamb.&rsquo; Jesus
+speaks of &lsquo;the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
+send in my Name.&rsquo; He taught us to ask the
+Father. Paul prays for the Ephesians: &lsquo;I bow
+my knees to the Father, that He may grant unto
+you, according to the riches of His glory, that ye
+may be strengthened with might by His Spirit in
+the inner man.&rsquo; It is as we look to God in His
+Holiness, and all its revelation from Creation downward,
+and see how the Spirit now flows out from
+the throne of His Holiness as the water of life,
+that our hope will be awakened that God will give
+Him to work mightily in us. And as we then see
+Jesus revealing that holiness in human nature,
+rending the veil in His atoning death, that the
+Spirit from the Holiest of all may come forth and,
+as the Holy Spirit, be His representative, making
+<a name="png.137" id="png.137"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">138</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Him present within us, we shall become confident
+that faith in Jesus will bring the fulness of the
+Spirit. As He told us to ask the Father, He told
+us to believe in Himself. &lsquo;He that believeth in
+me, rivers of living water shall flow out of him.&rsquo;
+Let us bow to the Father in the name of Christ,
+His Son; let us believe very simply in the Son as
+Him in whom we are well-pleasing to the Father,
+and through whom the Father&#8217;s love and blessing
+reach us, and we may be sure the Spirit, who is
+already within us, will, as the Holy Spirit, do His
+work in ever-increasing power. The mystery of
+holiness is the mystery of the Trinity: as we bow
+to the Father, believing in the Son, the Holy
+Spirit will work. And we shall see the true
+meaning of what God spake in Israel: &lsquo;<em>I am holy</em>,&rsquo;
+thus speaks the Father; &lsquo;<em>Be holy</em>,&rsquo; as my Son and in
+my Son; &lsquo;<em>I make holy</em>,&rsquo; through the Spirit of my
+Son dwelling in you. Let our souls worship and
+cry out, &lsquo;Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>The Holy Spirit. All true knowledge of the
+Father in His adorable Holiness, and of the Son in
+His, which is meant to be ours, and all participation
+of it, depend upon our life in the Spirit, upon our
+knowing and owning Him as abiding in us as our
+Life. Oh, what can it be that, with such a Thrice
+Holy God, His Holiness does not more cover
+His Church and children? The Holy Spirit is
+among us, is in us: it must be we grieve and resist
+Him. If <em>you</em> would not do so, at once bow the knee
+to the Father, that He may grant you the Spirit&#8217;s
+<a name="png.138" id="png.138"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">139</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>mighty workings in the inner man. Believe that
+the Holy Spirit, bearer to you of all the Holiness of
+God and of Jesus, is indeed in you. Let Him take
+the place of self, with its thoughts and efforts. Set
+your soul still before God in holy silence, for Him
+to give you wisdom; rest, in emptiness and poverty
+of spirit, in the faith that He will work in His own
+way. As Divine as is the holiness that Jesus brings,
+so Divine is the power in which the Holy Spirit
+communicates it. Yield yourself day by day in
+growing dependence and obedience, to wait on and
+be led of Him. Let the fear of the Holy One be on
+you: sanctify the Lord God in your heart: let Him
+be your fear and dread. Fear not only sin: fear
+above all self, as it thrusts itself in before God with
+its service. Let self die, in refusing and denying its
+work: let the Holy Spirit, in quietness, and dependence,
+in the surrender of obedience and trust, have
+the rule, the free disposal of every faculty. Wait
+for Him&mdash;He can, He will in power reveal and
+impart the Holiness of the Father and the Son.<sup><a name="fna.7" id="fna.7"
+ href="#fn.7">7</a></sup></p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts! the whole
+earth is full of Thy glory! Let that glory fill the
+<a name="png.139" id="png.139"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">140</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>heart of Thy child, as he bows before Thee. I
+come now to drink of the river of the water of life
+that flows from under the throne of God and of the
+Lamb. Glory be to God and to the Lamb for the
+gift that hath not entered into the heart of man
+to conceive&mdash;the gift of the Holy indwelling Spirit.</p>
+
+<p>O my Father! in the name of Jesus I ask Thee
+that I may be strengthened with might by Thy
+Spirit in the inner man. Teach me, I pray Thee,
+to believe that Thou hast given Him, to accept and
+expect Him to fill and rule my whole inner being.
+Teach me to give up to Him; not to will or to run,
+not to think or to work in my strength, but in
+quiet confidence to wait and to know that He
+works in me. Teach me what it is to have
+no confidence in the flesh, and to serve Thee
+in the Spirit. Teach me what it is in all things
+to be led by Thy Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Thy
+Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>And grant, gracious Father, that through Him I
+may hear Thee speak and reveal Thyself to me in
+power: <span class="smc">I am holy</span>. May He glorify to me and in
+me, Jesus, in whom Thy command &lsquo;<span class="smc">Be holy</span>&rsquo; hath
+been so blessedly fulfilled on my behalf. And let
+the Holy Spirit give me the anointing and the sealing
+which bring the perfect assurance that in Him
+Thy promise is being gloriously fulfilled, &lsquo;<span class="smc">I make
+you holy</span>.&rsquo; Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. It it universally admitted that the Holy Spirit has not, in the teaching of
+the Church or the faith of believers, that place of honour and power, which
+becomes Him as the Revealer of the Father and the Son. Seek a deep conviction
+<a name="png.140" id="png.140"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">141</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>that without the Holy Spirit the clearest teaching on holiness,
+the most fervent desires, the most blessed experiences even, will only be
+temporary, will produce no permanent result, will bring no abiding rest.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. The Holy Spirit dwells within, and works within, in the hidden deep of
+your nature. Seek above everything the clear and habitual assurance that He
+is within you, doing His work.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. To this end, deny self and its work in serving God. Your own power to
+think and pray and believe and strive&mdash;lay it all down expressly and distinctly
+in God&#8217;s presence; claim, accept, and believe in the hidden workings of
+the indwelling Spirit.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. As the Son ever spake of the Father, so the Spirit ever points to
+Christ. The soul that yields itself to the Spirit will of Him learn to know
+how Christ is our holiness, how we can always abide in Christ our Sanctification.
+What a vain effort it has often been without the Spirit! &lsquo;<strong>As the
+anointing taught you</strong>, ye abide in Him.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. In the temple of thine heart, beloved believer, there is a secret place,
+within the veil, where dwells, often all unknown, the Spirit of God. Do bow
+in deep reverence before the Father, and ask that He may work mightily.
+Expect the Spirit to do His work: He will make Thy inner man a fit home, Thy
+heart a throne, for Jesus, and reveal Him there.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.7" id="fn.7"
+ href="#fna.7">7</a> I cannot say how deeply I feel that one of the great wants of
+believers is that they do not <em>know</em> the Holy Spirit, who is within
+them, and thereby lose the blessed life He would work in them.
+If it please God, I hope that the next volume of this series may
+be on <em>The Spirit of Christ</em>. May the Father give me a message that
+shall help His children to know what the Holy Spirit can be to
+them.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.141" id="png.141"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">142</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Sixteenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap16.png" width="234" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Truth." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Make them holy</em> in <em>the Truth</em>: Thy word is <em>Truth</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">John</span>
+xvii.&nbsp;17.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;God chose you unto salvation in <em>sanctification</em> and belief of
+<em>the Truth</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;2&nbsp;<span class="smc">Thess.</span> ii.&nbsp;12.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">The</span> chief means of sanctification that God uses
+is His word. And yet how much there is
+of reading and studying, of teaching and preaching
+the word, that has almost no effect in making men
+holy. It is not the word that sanctifies; it is
+God Himself who alone can sanctify. Nor is it
+simply through the word that God does it, but
+through the Truth which is in the word. As a
+means the word is of unspeakable value, as the
+vessel which contains the truth, if God use it; as
+a means it is of no value, if God does not use it.
+Let us strive to connect God&#8217;s Holy Word with the
+Holy God Himself. God sanctifies in the Truth
+through His word.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus had just said, &lsquo;The  words  which  Thou
+gavest me, I  have given them.&rsquo; Let us try and
+<a name="png.142" id="png.142"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">143</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>realize what that means. Think of that great
+transaction in eternity: the Infinite Being, whom
+we call God, <em>giving His words</em> to His Son; in His
+words opening up His heart, communicating His
+mind and will, revealing Himself and all His
+purpose and love. In a Divine power and reality
+passing all conception, God gave Christ His words.
+In the same living power Christ gave them to His
+disciples, all full of a Divine life and energy to
+work in their hearts, as they were able to receive
+them. And just as in the words of a man on
+earth we expect to find all the wisdom or all the
+goodness there is in him, so the word of the Thrice
+Holy One is all alive with the Holiness of God.
+All the holy fire, alike of His burning zeal and
+His burning love, dwells in His words.</p>
+
+<p>And yet men can handle these words, and study
+them, and speak them, and be entire strangers
+to their holiness, or their power to make holy. It
+is God Himself, the Holy One, who must make
+holy through the word. Every seed, in which the
+life of a tree is contained, has around it a husk or
+shell, which protects and hides the inner life. Only
+where the seed finds a place in congenial soil, and
+the husk is burst and removed, can the seed germinate
+and grow up. And it is only where there is a
+heart in harmony with God&#8217;s Holiness, longing for it,
+yielding itself to it, that the word will really make
+holy. It is the heart that is not content with the
+word, but seeks the Living, Holy One in the word,
+to which He will reveal the truth, and in it Himself.
+<a name="png.143" id="png.143"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">144</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>It is the word given to us by Christ as God gave it
+Him, and received by us as it was by Him, to rule
+and fill our life, which has power to make holy.</p>
+
+<p>But we must notice very specially how our Saviour
+says, Sanctify them, not in the word, but in the truth.
+Just as in man there is body, soul, and spirit, so in
+truth too. There is first <em>word-truth</em>; a man may
+have the correct form of words while he does not
+really apprehend the truth they contain. Then there
+is <em>thought-truth</em>; there may be a clear intellectual
+apprehension of truth without the experience of
+its power. The Bible speaks of truth as a living
+reality: this is the <em>life-truth</em>, in which the very
+Spirit of the truth we profess has entered and
+possessed our inner being. Christ calls Himself
+<em>the Truth</em>: He is said to be full of grace and
+truth. The Divine life and grace are in Him as
+an actually substantial existence and reality. He
+not only acts upon us by thoughts and motives,
+but communicates, as a <em>reality</em>, the eternal life He
+brought for us from the Father. The Holy Spirit
+is called the Spirit of Truth; what He imparts is all
+real and actual, the very substance of unseen things;
+He guides into the Truth, not thought-truth or
+doctrine only, but life-truth, the personal possession
+of the Truth as it is in Jesus. As the Spirit of Truth
+He is the Spirit of Holiness; the life of God, which is
+His Holiness, He brings to us as an actual possession.</p>
+
+<p>It is now of this living Truth, which dwells in
+the word, as the seed-life dwells in the husk, that
+Jesus says, &lsquo;Make them holy in the Truth: Thy
+word is Truth.&rsquo; He would have us mark the intimate
+<a name="png.144" id="png.144"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">145</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>connection, as well as the wide difference,
+between the word and the truth. The connection
+is one willed by God and meant to be inseparable.
+&lsquo;Thy word is truth;&rsquo; with God they are one. But
+not with man. Just as there were men in close
+contact and continual intercourse with Jesus, to
+whom He was only a man, and nothing more, so
+there are Christians who know and understand the
+word, and yet are strangers to its true spiritual
+power. They have the letter but not the spirit;
+the Truth comes to them in word but not in power.
+The word does not make them holy, because they
+hold it not in Spirit and in Truth. To others, on the
+contrary, who know what it is to receive the truth
+in the love of it, who yield themselves, in all their
+dealings with the word, to the Spirit of Truth who
+dwells in it and in them too, the word comes indeed
+as Truth, as a Divine reality, communicating and
+working what it speaks of. And it is of such a use
+of the word that the Saviour says, &lsquo;Make them
+holy in the truth: Thy word is truth.&rsquo; As the
+words, which God gave Him, were all in the power
+of the eternal Life and Love and Will of God, the
+revelation and communication of the Father&#8217;s purpose,
+as God&#8217;s word was Truth to Him and in Him,
+so it can be in us. And as we thus receive it, we
+are made holy in the Truth.</p>
+
+<p>And what now are the lessons we have to learn
+here for the path of Holiness? The first is: Let us
+see to it that in all our intercourse with God&#8217;s
+Blessed Word we rest content with nothing short of
+<a name="png.145" id="png.145"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">146</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the experience of it, as truth of God, as spirit and
+as power. Jesus said, &lsquo;If ye abide in my word, ye
+shall know the truth.&rsquo; No analysis can ever find
+or prove the life of a seed: plant it in its proper
+soil, and the growth will testify to the life. It is
+only as the word of God is received in the love
+of it, as it grows and works in us, that we can
+know its truth, can know that it is the Truth of
+God. It is as we live in the words of Jesus, in
+love and obedience, keeping and doing them, that
+the Truth from heaven, the Power of the Divine
+Life which there is in them, will unfold itself to us.
+Christ is the Truth; in Him the love and grace,
+the very life of God, has come to earth as a substantial
+existence, a Living, Mighty Power, something
+new that was never on earth before (John i.
+17); let us yield ourselves to the Living Christ to
+possess us and to rule us as the Living Truth, then
+will God&#8217;s word be Truth to us and in us.</p>
+
+<p>The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of Truth; that
+actual heavenly reality of Divine life and love in
+Christ, the Truth, has a Spirit, who comes to communicate
+and impart it. Let us beware of trying to
+study or understand or take possession of God&#8217;s word
+without that Spirit through whom the word was
+spoken of old; we shall find only the husk, the truth
+or thought and sentiment, very beautiful perhaps,
+but with no power to make us holy. We must have
+<em>the Spirit</em> of the Truth within us. He will lead us
+<em>into</em> the Truth; when we are in the Truth, God makes
+us holy in it and by it. The Truth must be in us,
+and we  in  it. God  desires truth in the inward
+<a name="png.146" id="png.146"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">147</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>parts: we must be of the people of whom Christ
+says, &lsquo;If ye were of the truth,&rsquo; &lsquo;he that is of the
+truth knoweth me.&rsquo; In the lower sphere of daily
+life and conduct, of thought and action, there must
+be an intense love of truth, and a willingness to
+sacrifice everything for it; in the spiritual life, a
+deep hungering to have all our religion every day,
+every moment, stand fully in the truth of God.
+It is to the simple, humble, childlike spirit that
+the truth of the word will be unsealed and revealed.
+In such the Spirit of truth comes to dwell. In
+such, as they daily wait before the Holy One in
+silence and emptiness, in reverence and holy fear,
+His Holy Spirit works and gives the truth within.
+In thus imparting Christ as revealed in the word,
+in His Divine life and love, as their own life, He
+makes them holy with the holiness of Christ.</p>
+
+<p>There is another lesson. Listen to that prayer,
+the earthly echo of the prayer which He ever liveth
+to pray, &lsquo;Holy Father! make them holy in the
+truth.&rsquo; Would you be holy, child of God? cast
+yourself into that mighty current of intercession
+ever flowing into, ever reaching, the Father&#8217;s bosom.
+Let yourself be borne upon it until your whole soul
+cries, with the unutterable groanings, too deep and
+too intense for human speech, &lsquo;Holy Father! make
+me holy in the truth.&rsquo; As you trust in Christ as
+the truth, the reality of what you long for, and
+in His all-prevailing intercession; as you wait for
+the Spirit within as the Spirit of truth; look up
+to the Father, and expect His own direct and
+almighty working to make you holy. The mystery
+<a name="png.147" id="png.147"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">148</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of holiness is the mystery of the Triune One. The
+deeper entrance into the holy life rests in the fellowship
+of the Three in One. It is the Father who
+establishes us in Christ, who gives, in a daily fresh
+giving, the Holy Spirit; it is to the Father, the
+Holy Father, the soul must look up continually in
+the prayer, &lsquo;Make me holy in the truth.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>It has been well said that in the word Holy we
+have the central thought of the high-priestly prayer.
+As the Father&#8217;s attribute (John xvii. 11), as the
+Son&#8217;s work for Himself and us (ver. 19), as the direct
+work of the Father through the Spirit (vers. 17, 20),
+it is the revelation of the glory of God in Himself
+and in us. Let us enter into the Holiest of all, and
+as we bow with our Great High Priest, let the deep,
+unceasing cry go up for all the Church of God,
+&lsquo;Holy Father! make them holy in the truth: Thy
+word is truth.&rsquo; The word in which God makes
+holy is summed up in this, <span class="smc">Holy in Christ</span>. May
+God make it truth in us!</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Father! to Israel Thou didst say, I the
+Lord am holy and make holy. But it is only in
+Thy beloved Son that the full glory of Thy Holiness,
+as making us holy, has been revealed. Thou art our
+Holy Father, who makest us holy in Thy truth.</p>
+
+<p>We thank Thee that Thy Son hath given us the
+words Thou gavest Him, and that as He received
+them from Thee in life and power, we may receive
+them too. O Father! with our whole heart we do
+<a name="png.148" id="png.148"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">149</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>receive them; let the Spirit make them truth and
+life within us. So shall we know Thee as the Holy
+One, consuming the sin, renewing the sinner.</p>
+
+<p>We bless Thee most for Thy Blessed Son, the
+Holy One of God, the Living Word in whom the
+Truth dwelleth. We thank Thee that in His never-ceasing
+intercession, this cry ever reacheth Thee,
+&lsquo;Father, sanctify them in Thy truth,&rsquo; and that the
+answer is ever streaming forth from Thy glory.
+Holy Father! make us holy in Thy truth, in Thy
+wonderful revelation of Thyself in Him who is the
+truth. Let Thy Holy Spirit so have dominion in
+our hearts that Thy Holy Child Jesus, sanctifying
+Himself for us that we may be sanctified in the
+truth, may be to us the Way, the Truth, and the
+Life. May we know that we are in Him in Thy
+presence, and that Thy one word in answer to our
+prayer to make us holy is&mdash;Holy in Christ.    Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. God is the God of truth&mdash;not truth in speaking only, or truth of doctrine&mdash;but
+truth of existence, or life in its Divine reality. And Christ is <strong>the truth</strong>;
+the actual embodiment of this Divine life. And there is a kingdom of truth,
+of Divine Spiritual realities, of which Christ is King. And of all this truth
+of God in Christ, the very essence is, the Spirit. He is the Spirit of truth:
+He leads us into it, so that we are of the truth and walk in it. Of the truth,
+the reality there is in God, Holiness, is the deepest root; the Spirit of <strong>truth</strong>
+is the <strong>Holy</strong> Spirit.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. It is the work of <strong>the Father</strong> to make us holy in the truth: let us bow
+very low in childlike trust as we breathe the prayer: &lsquo;Holy Father! make us
+holy in the truth.&rsquo; <strong>He will do it.</strong></i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. It is the intercession of <strong>the Son</strong> that asks and obtains this blessing:
+let us take our place <strong>in Him</strong>, and rejoice in the assurance of an answer.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. It is <strong>the Spirit of truth</strong> through whom the Father does this work, so
+that we dwell in the truth, and the truth in us. Let us yield very freely and
+very fully to the leading of the Spirit, in our intercourse with God&#8217;s Word, that,
+as the Son prays, the Father may make us holy in the truth.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. Let us, in the light of this work of the Three-One, never read the Word
+but with this aim: to be made holy in the truth by God.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.149" id="png.149"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">150</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Seventeenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap17.png" width="293" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Crucifixion." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;For their sakes I <em>sanctify</em> myself, that they themselves also
+may be <em>sanctified</em> in truth.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">John</span> xvii.&nbsp;19.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;He said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. In which will we
+have been <em>sanctified</em> through the offering of the body of Jesus
+once for all. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever
+them that are <em>sanctified</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Heb.</span> x. 9, 10,&nbsp;14.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">It</span> was in His High-priestly prayer, on His way
+to Gethsemane and Calvary, that Jesus thus
+spake to the Father: &lsquo;I sanctify myself.&rsquo; He had
+not long before spoken of Himself as &lsquo;the Son
+whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the
+world.&rsquo; From the language of Holy Scripture we
+are familiar with the thought that, what God has
+sanctified, man has to sanctify too. The work of
+the Father, in sanctifying the Son, is the basis and
+groundwork of the work of the Son in sanctifying
+Himself. If His Holiness as man was to be a free
+and personal possession, accepted and assimilated in
+voluntary and conscious self-determination, it was
+not enough that the Father sanctify Him: He
+must sanctify Himself too.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.150" id="png.150"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">151</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>This self-sanctifying of our Lord found place
+through His whole life, but culminates and comes
+out in special distinctness in His crucifixion. Wherein
+it consists is made clear by the words from the
+Epistle to the Hebrews. The Messiah spake: &lsquo;Lo,
+I come to do Thy will.&rsquo; And then it is added, &lsquo;In
+the which will we have been sanctified through the
+offering of the body of Christ.&rsquo; It was the offering
+of the body of Christ that was the will of God: in
+doing that will He sanctified us. It was of the
+doing that will in the offering His body that He
+spake, &lsquo;I sanctify myself, that they themselves
+also may be sanctified in truth.&rsquo; The giving up of
+His will to God&#8217;s will in the agony of Gethsemane,
+and then the doing of that will in the obedience
+unto death, this was Christ&#8217;s sanctifying Himself
+and us too. Let us try and understand this.</p>
+
+<p>The Holiness of God is revealed in His will.
+Holiness even in the Divine Being has no moral
+value except as it is freely willed. In speaking of
+the Trinity, theologians have pointed out how, as
+the Father represents the absolute necessity of
+Everlasting Goodness, the Son proves its liberty:
+within the Divine Being it is willed in love. And
+this now was the work of the Son on earth, amid the
+trials and temptations of a human life, to accept
+and hold fast at any sacrifice, with His whole heart
+to will, the will of the Father. &lsquo;Though He was a
+Son, yet He learned obedience in that He suffered.&rsquo;
+In Gethsemane the conflict between the will of
+human nature and the Divine will reached its
+<a name="png.151" id="png.151"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">152</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>height: it manifests itself in language which almost
+makes us tremble for His sinlessness, as He speaks
+of His will in antithesis to God&#8217;s will. But the
+struggle is a victory, because in presence of the
+clearest consciousness of what it means to have His
+own will, He gives it up, and says, &lsquo;Thy will be
+done.&rsquo; To enter into the will of God He gives up His
+very life. In His crucifixion He thus reveals the
+law of sanctification. Holiness is the full entrance
+of our will into God&#8217;s will. Or rather, Holiness is
+the entrance of God&#8217;s will to be the death of our
+will. The only end of our will and deliverance
+from it, is death to it under the righteous judgment
+of God. It was in the surrender to the death of the
+cross that Christ sanctified Himself, and sanctified
+us, that we also might be sanctified in truth.</p>
+
+<p>And now, just as the Father sanctified Him, and
+He in virtue thereof appropriated it and sanctified
+Himself, so we, whom He has sanctified, have to
+appropriate it to ourselves. In no other way than
+crucifixion, the giving up of Himself to the death,
+could Christ realize the sanctification He had from
+the Father. And in no other way can we realize
+the sanctification we have in Him. His own and
+our sanctification bears the common stamp of the
+cross. We have seen before that obedience is the
+path to holiness. In Christ we see that the path
+to perfect holiness is perfect obedience. And that
+is obedience unto death, even to the giving up of
+life, even the death of the cross. As the sanctification
+which Christ wrought out for us, even unto
+the offering of His body, bears the death mark, we
+<a name="png.152" id="png.152"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">153</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>cannot partake of it, we cannot enter it, except as
+we die to self and its will. Crucifixion is the path
+to sanctification.</p>
+
+<p>This lesson is in harmony with all we have seen.
+The first revelation of God&#8217;s Holiness to Moses was
+accompanied with the command, Put off. God&#8217;s
+praise, as Glorious in Holiness, Fearful in Praises,
+was sounded over the dead bodies of the Egyptians.
+When Moses on Sinai was commanded to sanctify
+the Mount, it was said, &lsquo;If any touch it, man or
+beast, it shall not live.&rsquo; The Holiness of God is
+death to all that is in contact with sin. Only
+through death, through blood-shedding, was there
+access to the Holiest of all. Christ chose death,
+even death as a curse, that He might sanctify Himself
+for us, and open to us the path to Holiness, to
+the Holiest of all, to the Holy One. And so it is
+still. No man can see God and live. It is only in
+death, the death of self and of nature, that we can
+draw near and behold God. Christ led the way.
+No man can see God and live. &lsquo;Then let me die,
+Lord,&rsquo; one has cried, &lsquo;but see Thee I must.&rsquo; Yes,
+blessed be God, so real is our interest in Christ and
+our union to Him, that we may live in His death;
+as day by day self is kept in the place of death,
+the life and the holiness of Christ can be ours.<sup><a name="fna.8" id="fna.8"
+ href="#fn.8">8</a></sup></p>
+
+<p>And where is the place of death? And how can
+the crucifixion which leads to Holiness and to God
+be accomplished in us? Thank God! it is no work
+of our own, no weary process of self-crucifixion.
+The crucifixion that is to sanctify us is an
+<a name="png.153" id="png.153"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">154</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>accomplished fact. The cross bears the banner, &lsquo;It is
+finished.&rsquo; On it Christ sanctified Himself for us,
+that we might be sanctified in truth. Our crucifixion,
+as our sanctification, is something that in
+Christ has been completely and perfectly finished.
+&lsquo;We have been sanctified through the offering of
+the body of Jesus Christ once for all.&rsquo; &lsquo;By one
+offering He hath perfected for ever them that are
+sanctified.&rsquo; In that fulness, which it is the Father&#8217;s
+good pleasure should dwell in Christ, the crucifixion
+of our old man, of the flesh, of the world, of ourselves,
+is all a spiritual reality; he that desires
+and knows and accepts Christ, fully receives all this
+in Him. And as the Christ, who had previously
+been known more in His pardoning, quickening, and
+saving grace, is again sought after as a real deliverer
+from the power of sin, as a sanctifier, He comes and
+takes up the soul into the fellowship of the sacrifice
+of His will. &lsquo;He put away sin <em>by the sacrifice of
+Himself</em>,&rsquo; must become true of us as it is of Him.
+He reveals how it is a part of His salvation to
+make us partakers of a will entirely given up to
+the will of God, of a life that had yielded itself
+to the death, and had then been given back from
+the dead by the power of God, a life of which the
+crucifixion of self-will was the spirit and the
+power. He reveals this, and the soul that sees it,
+and consents to it, and yields its will and its life,
+and believes in Jesus as its death and its life, and
+in His crucifixion as its possession and its inheritance,
+enters into the enjoyment and experience of
+it. The language is now, &lsquo;I died that I might
+<a name="png.154" id="png.154"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">155</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>live: I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no
+longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me.&rsquo;
+And the life it now lives is by the faith on the Son
+of God, the daily acceptance in faith of Him who
+lives within us in the power of a death that has
+been passed through and for ever finished.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;I sanctify myself for them, that they themselves
+also may be sanctified in truth.&rsquo; &lsquo;I come to do
+Thy will, O God. In the which will,&rsquo; the will of
+God accomplished by Christ, &lsquo;we have been sanctified
+through the one offering of the body of Christ.&rsquo;
+Let us understand and hold it fast: Christ&#8217;s giving
+up His will in Gethsemane and accepting God&#8217;s will
+in dying; Christ&#8217;s doing that will in the obedience
+to the death of the cross, this is His sanctifying
+Himself, and this is our being sanctified in truth.
+&lsquo;In the which will we have been sanctified.&rsquo; The
+death to self, the utter and most absolute giving up
+of our own life, with its will and its power and its
+aims, to the cross, and into the crucifixion of Christ,
+the daily bearing the cross&mdash;not a cross on which
+we are yet to be crucified, but the cross of the
+crucified Christ in its power to kill and make dead&mdash;this
+is the secret of the life of holiness&mdash;this is
+true sanctification.</p>
+
+<p>Believer! is this the holiness which you are
+seeking? Have you seen and consented that God
+alone is holy, that self is all unholy, and that there
+is no way to be made holy but for the fire of the
+Divine Holiness to come in and be the death of self?
+&lsquo;Always bearing about in the body the dying of
+Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested
+<a name="png.155" id="png.155"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">156</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in our mortal body&rsquo;&mdash;is the pathway for each one
+who seeks to be sanctified in truth, even as He
+sanctified Himself; sanctified just like Jesus.</p>
+
+<p>He sanctified Himself for us, that we ourselves
+also might be sanctified in truth. Yes, our sanctification
+rests and roots in His, in Himself. And we
+are in Him. The secret roots of our being are
+planted into Jesus: deeper down than we can see
+or feel, there is He our Vine, bearing and quickening
+us. Let us by faith understand that, in a manner
+and a measure which are far beyond our comprehension,
+intensely Divine and real, we are in Him
+who sanctified Himself for us. Let us dwell there,
+where we have been placed of God. And let us
+bow our knees to the Father, that He would grant
+us to be mightily strengthened by His Spirit, that
+Christ as our Sanctification may dwell in our hearts,
+that the power of His death and His life may be
+revealed in us, and God&#8217;s will be done in us as
+it was in Him.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Holy Father! I do bless Thee for this precious
+blessed word, for this precious blessed work of Thy
+beloved Son. In His never-ceasing intercession
+Thou ever hearest the wonderful prayer, &lsquo;I sanctify
+myself for them, that they themselves also may be
+sanctified in truth.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Father! I beseech Thee to strengthen me
+mightily by Thy Spirit, that in living faith I may
+<a name="png.156" id="png.156"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">157</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>be able to accept and live the holiness prepared for
+me in my Lord Jesus. Give me spiritual understanding
+to know what it means that He sanctified
+Himself, that my sanctification is secured in His,
+that as by faith I abide in Him, its power will cover
+my whole life. Let His sanctification indeed be the
+law as it is the life of mine. Let His surrender to
+Thy fatherly will, His continual dependence and
+obedience, be its root and its strength. Let His
+death to the world and to sin be its daily rule.
+Above all, <em>let Himself</em>, O my Father! <em>let Himself</em>,
+as sanctified for me, the living Jesus, be my only
+trust and stay. He sanctified Himself for me, that
+I myself also may be sanctified in truth.</p>
+
+<p>Beloved Saviour! how shall I rightly bless and
+love and glorify Thee for this wondrous grace!
+Thou didst give Thyself, so that now I am holy in
+Thee. I give myself, that in Thee I myself may be
+made holy in truth. Amen. Lord Jesus! Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. &lsquo;If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up
+his cross, and follow me.&rsquo; Jesus means that our life shall be the exact
+counterpart of His, including even the crucifixion. The beginning of such a
+life is the denial of self, to give Christ its place. The Jews would not deny
+self, but &lsquo;<strong>denied</strong> the Holy One, and killed the Prince of Life.&rsquo; The choice
+is still between Christ and self. Let us deny the unholy one, and give him
+to the death.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. The steps in this path are these: First, the deliberate decision that self
+shall be given up to the death; then, the surrender to Christ crucified to make
+us partakers of His crucifixion; then, &lsquo;knowing that our old man is crucified,&rsquo;
+the faith that says, &lsquo;I am crucified with Christ;&rsquo; and then, the power
+to live as a crucified one, to glory in the cross of Christ.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. This is God&#8217;s way of holiness, a Divine mystery, which the Holy Spirit
+alone can daily maintain in us. Blessed be God, it is the life which a Christian
+can live, because Christ lives in us.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. The central thought is: We are in Christ, who gave up His will and did
+the will of God. By the Holy Spirit the mind that was in Him is in us, the
+will of self is crucified, and we live in the will of God.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.8" id="fn.8"
+ href="#fna.8">8</a> See <a href="#note:D">Note D</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.157" id="png.157"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">158</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Eighteenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap18.png" width="229" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Faith." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;That they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance
+among them that are <em>sanctified by faith in me</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Acts</span>
+xxvi.&nbsp;18.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">The</span> more we study Scripture in the light of the
+Holy Spirit, or practise the Christian life in
+His power, the deeper becomes our conviction of the
+unique and central place faith has in God&#8217;s plan of
+salvation. And we learn, too, to see that it is meet
+and right that it should be so: the very nature of
+things demands it. Because God is a Spiritual and
+Invisible Being, every revelation of Himself, whether
+in His works, His word, or His Son, calls for faith.
+Faith is the spiritual sense of the soul, being to it
+what the senses are to the body; by it alone we
+enter into communication and contact with God.</p>
+
+<p>Faith is that meekness of soul which waits in
+stillness to hear, to understand, to accept what God
+says; to receive, to retain, to possess what God gives
+or works. By faith we allow, we welcome God
+Himself, the Living  Person, to enter in to make
+<a name="png.158" id="png.158"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">159</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>His abode with us, to become our very life. However
+well we think we know it, we always have to
+learn the truth afresh, for a deeper and fuller
+application of it, that in the Christian life faith is
+the first thing, the one thing that pleases God, and
+brings blessing to us. And because Holiness is
+God&#8217;s highest glory, and the highest blessing He has
+for us, it is especially in the life of holiness that we
+need to live by faith alone.</p>
+
+<p>Our Lord speaks here of &lsquo;them that are sanctified
+by faith in me.&rsquo;<sup><a name="fna.9" id="fna.9"
+ href="#fn.9">9</a></sup> He Himself is our Sanctification
+as He is our Justification: for the one as for
+the other it is faith that God asks, and both are
+equally given at once. The participle used here is not
+the present, denoting a process or work that is being
+carried on, but the aorist, indicating an act done
+once for all. When we believe in Christ, we receive
+the whole Christ, our justification and our sanctification:
+we are at once accepted by God as righteous
+in Him, and as holy in Him. God counts and calls
+us, what we really are, sanctified ones in Christ.
+It is as we are led to see what God sees, as our
+faith grasps that the holy life of Christ is ours in
+actual possession, to be accepted and appropriated for
+daily use, that we shall really be able to live the
+<a name="png.159" id="png.159"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">160</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>life God calls us to, the life of holy ones in Christ
+Jesus. We shall then be in the right position in
+which what is called our progressive sanctification
+can be worked out. It will be, the acceptance and
+application in daily life of the power of a holy life
+which has been prepared in Jesus, which has in the
+union with Him become our present and permanent
+possession, and which works in us according to the
+measure of our faith.<sup><a name="fna.10" id="fna.10"
+ href="#fn.10">10</a></sup></p>
+
+<p>From this point of view it is evident that faith
+has a twofold operation. Faith is the evidence of
+things not seen, though <em>now actually existing</em>, the
+substance of things hoped for, but <em>not yet present</em>.
+It deals with the unseen present, as well as with
+the unseen future. As the evidence of things not
+seen, it rejoices in Christ our complete sanctification,
+as a present possession. Through faith I
+simply look to what Christ is, as revealed in the
+Word by the Holy Spirit. Claiming all He is as
+my own, I know that His Holiness, His holy nature
+and life, are mine; I am a holy one: by faith in
+Him I have been sanctified. This is the first aspect
+of sanctification: it looks to what is a complete and
+finished thing, an absolute reality. As the substance
+of things hoped for, this faith reaches out in the
+assurance of hope to the future, to things I do not
+yet see or experience, and claims, day by day, out of
+Christ our sanctification, what it needs for practical
+holiness, &lsquo;to be holy in all manner of living.&rsquo; This
+is the second aspect of sanctification: I depend upon
+Jesus to supply, in personal experience, gradually
+<a name="png.160" id="png.160"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">161</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and unceasingly, for the need of each moment, what
+has been treasured up in His fulness. &lsquo;Of God are
+ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us
+sanctification.&rsquo; Under its first aspect faith says, I
+know I am in Him, and all His Holiness is mine;
+in its second aspect it speaks, I trust in Him for
+the grace and the strength I need each moment to
+live a holy life.</p>
+
+<p>And yet, it need hardly be said, these two are
+one. It is one Jesus who is our sanctification,
+whether we look at it in the light of what He is
+made for us once for all, or what, as the fruit of
+that, He becomes to our experience day by day.
+And so it is one faith which, the more it studies
+and adores and rejoices in Jesus as made of God
+unto us sanctification, as Him in whom we have
+been sanctified, becomes the bolder to expect the
+fulfilment of every promise for daily life, and the
+stronger to claim the victory over every sin. Faith
+in Jesus is the secret of a holy life: all holy
+conduct, all really holy deeds, are the fruit of faith
+in Jesus as our holiness.</p>
+
+<p>We know how faith acts, and what its great
+hindrances are, in the matter of justification. It
+is well that we remind ourselves that there are the
+same dangers in the exercise of sanctifying as of
+justifying faith. Faith <em>in God</em> stands opposed to
+trust <em>in self</em>: specially to its willing and working.
+Faith is hindered by every effort to do something
+ourselves. Faith looks to God working, and yields
+itself to His strength, as revealed in Christ through
+<a name="png.161" id="png.161"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">162</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the Spirit; it allows God to work both to will and
+to do. Faith must work; without works it is
+dead, by works alone can it be perfected; in Jesus
+Christ, as Paul says, nothing avails but &lsquo;faith
+<em>working</em> by love.&rsquo; But these works, which faith
+in God&#8217;s working inspires and performs, are very
+different from the works in which a believer often
+puts forth his best efforts, only to find that he fails.
+The true life of holiness, the life of them who are
+sanctified in Christ, has its root and its strength in
+an abiding sense of utter impotence, in the deep
+restfulness which trusts to the working of a Divine
+power and life, in the entire personal surrender to
+the loving Saviour, in that faith which consents to
+be nothing, that He may be all. It may appear
+impossible to discern or describe the difference
+between the working that is of self and the working
+that is of Christ through faith: if we but know
+that there is such a difference, if we learn to
+distrust ourselves, and to count on Christ working,
+the Holy Spirit will lead us into this secret of the
+Lord too. Faith&#8217;s works are Christ&#8217;s works.</p>
+
+<p>And as by effort, so faith is also hindered by
+the desire to see and feel. &lsquo;If thou believest, thou
+shalt see;&rsquo; the Holy Spirit will seal our faith with
+a Divine experience; we shall see the glory of God.
+But this is His work: ours is, when all appears
+dark and cold, in the face of all that nature or
+experience testifies, still each moment to believe
+in Jesus as our all-sufficient sanctification, in whom
+we are perfected before God. Complaints as to
+<a name="png.162" id="png.162"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">163</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>want of feeling, as to weakness or deadness, seldom
+profit: it is the soul that refuses to occupy itself
+with itself, either with its own weakness or the
+strength of the enemy, but only looks to what
+Jesus is, and has promised to do, to whom progress
+in holiness will be a joyful march from victory to
+victory. &lsquo;The Lord Himself doth fight for you;&rsquo;
+this thought, so often repeated in connection with
+Israel&#8217;s possession of the promised land, is the food
+of faith: in conscious weakness, in presence of mighty
+enemies, it sings the conqueror&#8217;s song. When God
+appears to be <em>not doing</em> what we trusted Him for,
+then is just the time for faith to glory in Him.</p>
+
+<p>There is perhaps nothing that more reveals the
+true character of faith than joy and praise. You
+give a child the promise of a present to-morrow:
+at once it says, Thank you, and is glad. The
+joyful thanks are the proof of how really your
+promise has entered the heart. You are told by a
+friend of a rich legacy he has left you in his will:
+it may not come true for years, but even now it
+makes you glad. We have already seen what an
+element of holiness joy is: it is especially an
+element of holiness by faith. Each time I really
+see how beautiful and how perfect God&#8217;s provision
+is, by which my holiness is in Jesus, and by which
+I am to allow Him to work in me, my heart ought
+to rise up in praise and thanks. Instead of allowing
+the thought that it is, after all, a life of such
+difficult attainment and such continual self-denial,
+this life of holiness through faith, we ought to
+praise Him exceedingly that He has made it
+<a name="png.163" id="png.163"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">164</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>possible and sure for us: we can be holy, because
+Jesus the Mighty and the Loving One is our
+holiness. Praise will express our faith; praise
+will prove it; praise will strengthen it. &lsquo;Then
+believed they His words; they sang His praise.&rsquo;
+Praise will commit us to faith: we shall see that
+we have but one thing to do, to go on in a faith
+that ever trusts and ever praises. It is in a living,
+loving attachment to Jesus, that rejoices in Him,
+and praises Him continually for what He is to us,
+that faith proves itself, and receives the power of
+holiness.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Sanctified by faith in me.&rsquo; Yes, &lsquo;by faith <em>in
+Me</em>:&rsquo; it is the personal living Jesus who offers
+Himself, Himself in all the riches of His Power
+and Love, as the object, the strength, the life of
+our faith. He tells us that if we would be holy,
+always and in everything holy, we must just see to
+one thing: to be always and altogether full of
+faith in Him. Faith is the eye of the soul: the
+power by which we discern the presence of the
+Unseen One, as He comes to give Himself to us.
+Faith not only sees, but appropriates and assimilates:
+let us set our souls very still for the Holy Spirit
+who dwells in us, to quicken and strengthen that
+faith, for which He has been given us. Faith is
+surrender: yielding ourselves to Jesus to allow Him
+to do His work in us, giving up ourselves to Him
+to live out His life and work out His will in us,
+we shall find Him giving Himself entirely <em>to us</em>,
+and taking complete possession. So faith will be
+power: the power of obedience to do God&#8217;s will:
+<a name="png.164" id="png.164"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">165</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>&lsquo;our most holy faith,&rsquo; &lsquo;the faith delivered to the holy
+ones.&rsquo; And we shall understand how simple, to the
+single-hearted, is the secret of holiness: just Jesus.
+We are in Him, our Sanctification: He personally
+is our Holiness; and the life of faith in Him, that
+receives and possesses Him, must necessarily be a
+life of holiness. Jesus says, &lsquo;Sanctified by faith
+in me.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Beloved Lord! again have I seen, with adoring
+wonder, what Thou art willing to be to me. It is in
+Thyself, and a life of living fellowship with Thyself,
+that I am to become holy. It is in the simple life
+of personal attachment, of trust and love, of surrender
+and consecration, that Thou dost become my all,
+and make me partaker of Thyself and Thy Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Lord Jesus! I do believe in Thee, help
+Thou mine unbelief. I confess what still remains
+of unbelief, and count on Thy presence to conquer
+and cast it out. My soul is opening up continually
+to see more how Thou Thyself art my Life and
+my Holiness. Thou art enlarging my heart to
+rejoice in Thyself as my all, and to be assured that
+Thou dost Thyself take possession and fill the
+temple of my being with Thy glory. Thou art
+teaching me to understand that, however feeble and
+human and disappointing experiences may be, Thy
+Holy Spirit is the strength of my faith, leading
+me on to grow up into a stronger and a larger
+<a name="png.165" id="png.165"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">166</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>confidence in Thee in whom I am holy. O my
+Saviour! I take Thy word this day, &lsquo;Sanctified by
+faith in me,&rsquo; as a new revelation of Thy love and
+its purpose with me. In Thee Thyself is the
+Power of my holiness; in Thee is the Power of my
+faith. Blessed be Thy name that Thou hast given
+me too a place among them of whom Thou speakest:
+&lsquo;Sanctified by faith in me.&rsquo; Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. Let us remember that it is not only the faith that is dealing specially
+with Christ for sanctification, but all living faith, that has the power to sanctify.
+Anything that casts the soul wholly on Jesus, that calls forth intense and
+simple trust, be it the trial of faith, or the prayer of faith, or the work of
+faith, helps to make us holy, because it brings us into living contact with
+the Holy One.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. It is only through the Holy Spirit that Christ and His Holiness are day by
+day revealed and made ours in actual possession. And so the faith which
+receives Him is of the Spirit too. Yield yourself in simplicity and trust to His
+working. Do not be afraid, as if you cannot believe: you have &lsquo;the Spirit of
+faith&rsquo; within you: you have the power to believe. And you may ask God to
+strengthen you mightily by His Spirit in the inner man, for the faith that
+receives Christ in the indwelling that knows no break.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. I have only so much of faith as I have of the Spirit. Is not this then
+what I most need&mdash;to live entirely under the influence of the Spirit?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Just as the eye in seeing is receptive, and yields to let the object placed
+before it make its impression, so faith is the impression God makes on the
+soul when He draws nigh. Was not the faith of Abraham the fruit of God&#8217;s
+drawing near and speaking to him, the impression God made on him? Let
+us be still to gaze on the Divine mystery of Christ our holiness: His Presence,
+waited for and worshipped, will work the faith. That is, the Spirit that
+proceeds from Him into those who cling to Him, will be faith.</i></p>
+
+<p class="hang"><i>5.  <strong>Holiness by faith in Jesus</strong>, not by effort of thine own,</i></p>
+<p class="hangctd"><i>Sin&#8217;s dominion crushed and broken <strong>by the power of grace alone</strong>,&mdash;</i></p>
+<p class="hangctd"><i><strong>God&#8217;s own holiness</strong> within thee, His own beauty on thy brow,&mdash;</i></p>
+<p class="hangctd"><i>This shall be thy pilgrim brightness, this <strong>thy blessed portion now</strong>.</i></p>
+
+<p class="rt"><i>F. R. H.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p><a name="fn.9" id="fn.9"
+ href="#fna.9">9</a> The best commentators connect the expression, &lsquo;by faith in
+me,&rsquo; not with the word &lsquo;sanctified,&rsquo; but with the whole clause,
+&lsquo;that by faith in me they may receive.&rsquo; This will, however, in no
+way affect the application to the word sanctified. Thus read, the
+text tells us that the remission of sin, and the inheritance, and
+the sanctification which qualifies for the inheritance, are all received
+by faith.</p>
+
+<p class="ii"><a name="fn.10" id="fn.10"
+ href="#fna.10">10</a> See <a href="#note:E">Note E</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.166" id="png.166"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">167</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Nineteenth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap19.png" width="313" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Resurrection." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;The Son of God, who was born of the seed of David <em>according
+to the flesh</em>, who was declared to be the Son of God with power,
+<em>according to the Spirit</em> of holiness, by the resurrection of the
+dead.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Rom.</span> i.&nbsp;4.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">These</span> words speak of a twofold birth of Christ.
+According to the flesh, He was born of the
+seed of David. According to the Spirit, He was
+the first begotten from the dead. As He was a Son
+of David in virtue of His birth through the flesh,
+so He was declared to be the Son of God with
+power, in virtue of His resurrection-birth through
+the Spirit of holiness. As the life He received
+through His first birth was a life in and after the
+flesh with its weakness, so the new life He received
+in the resurrection was a life in the power of the
+Spirit of holiness.</p>
+
+<p>The expression, the Spirit of holiness, is a peculiar
+one. It is not the ordinary word for God&#8217;s Holiness
+that is here used as in Heb. xii. 10, describing holiness
+in the abstract as the attribute of an object,
+<a name="png.167" id="png.167"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">168</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>but another word (also used in 2 Cor. vii. 1 and
+1 Thess. iii. 13) expressing the habit of holiness in
+its action&mdash;practical holiness or sanctity.<sup><a name="fna.11" id="fna.11"
+ href="#fn.11">11</a></sup> Paul
+used this word, because He wished to emphasize the
+thought, that Christ&#8217;s resurrection was distinctly the
+result of that life of holiness and self-sanctifying
+which had culminated in His death. It was the
+spirit of the life of holiness which he had lived, in
+the power of which He was raised again. He
+teaches us that that life and death of self-sanctification,
+in which alone our sanctification stands,
+was the root and ground of His resurrection, and of
+its declaration that He was the Son of God with
+power, the first begotten from the dead. The resurrection
+was the fruit which that Life of Holiness bore.</p>
+
+<p>And so the Life of Holiness becomes the
+property of all who are partakers of the resurrection.
+The Resurrection Life and the Spirit of
+Holiness are inseparable. Christ sanctified Himself
+in death, that we ourselves might be sanctified
+in truth: when in virtue of the Spirit of sanctity
+He was raised from the dead, that Spirit of holiness
+was proved to be the power of Resurrection Life,
+and the Resurrection Life to be a Life of Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>As a believer you have part in this Resurrection
+Life. You have been &lsquo;begotten again by the
+resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.&rsquo; You
+are &lsquo;risen with Christ.&rsquo; You are commanded &lsquo;to
+reckon yourself to be alive unto God in Christ Jesus.&rsquo;
+But the life can work in power only as you seek to
+<a name="png.168" id="png.168"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">169</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>know it, to yield to it, to let it have full possession
+and mastery. And if it is to do this, one of the
+most important things for you to realize is, that as
+it was in virtue of the Spirit of holiness that Christ
+was raised, so the Spirit of that same holiness must
+be in you the mark and the power of your life.
+Study to know and possess the Spirit of holiness as
+it was seen in the life of your Lord.</p>
+
+<p>And wherein did it consist? Its secret was, we
+are told: &lsquo;Lo, I am come to do Thy will, O God.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;In the which will,&rsquo; as done by Christ, &lsquo;we have
+been sanctified by the one offering of the body of
+Jesus Christ.&rsquo; This was Christ&#8217;s sanctifying Himself,
+in life and in death; this was what the Spirit
+of holiness wrought in Him; this is what the same
+Spirit, the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus, will
+work in us: a life in the will of God is a life of
+holiness. Seek earnestly to grasp this clearly. Christ
+came to reveal what true holiness would be in the
+conditions of human life and weakness. He came
+to work it out for you, that He might communicate
+it to you by His Spirit. Except you intelligently
+apprehend and heartily accept it, the Spirit cannot
+work it in you. Do seek with your whole heart to
+take hold of it: the will of God unhesitatingly
+accepted, is the power of holiness.</p>
+
+<p>It is in this that any attempt to be holy as
+Christ is holy, with and in His Holiness, must
+have its starting-point. Many seek to take single
+portions of the life or image of Christ for imitation,
+and yet fail greatly in others. They have not seen
+<a name="png.169" id="png.169"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">170</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>that the self-denial, to which Jesus calls, really means
+the denial of self, in the full meaning of that word.
+In not one single thing is the will of self to be done:
+Jesus, as He did the will of the Father only, must
+rule, and not self. To &lsquo;stand perfect and complete in
+all the will of God&rsquo; must be the purpose, the prayer,
+the expectation of the disciple. There need be no
+fear that it is not possible to know the will of the
+Father in everything. &lsquo;If any man will do, he
+shall know.&rsquo; The Father will not keep the willing
+child in ignorance of His will. As the surrender to
+the Spirit of holiness, to Jesus and the dominion of
+His holy life, becomes more simple, sin and self-will
+will be discovered, the spiritual understanding will be
+opened up, and the law written in the inward parts
+become legible and intelligible. There need be no
+fear that it is not possible to do the will of the
+Father when it is known. When once the grief of
+failure and sin has driven the believer into the
+experience of Rom. vii., and the &lsquo;delight in the law
+of God after the inward man&rsquo; has proved its
+earnestness in the cry, &lsquo;O wretched man that I
+am,&rsquo; deliverance will come through Jesus Christ.
+The Spirit works not only to will but to do; where
+the believer could only complain, &lsquo;To perform that
+which is good, I find not,&rsquo; He gives the strength
+and song, &lsquo;The law of the Spirit of life in Christ
+Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and
+death.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>In this faith, that it is possible to know and do
+the will of God in all things, take over from Him,
+<a name="png.170" id="png.170"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">171</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in whom alone you are holy, as your life-principle;
+&lsquo;I come to do Thy will, O God.&rsquo; It is the principle
+of the resurrection life: without it Jesus had never
+been raised again. It is the principle of the new life
+in you. Accept it; study it; realize it; act it out.
+Many a believer has found that some simple words
+of dedication, expressive of the purpose in everything
+to do God&#8217;s will, have been an entrance into
+the joy and power of the resurrection life previously
+unknown. The will of God is the complete expression
+of His moral perfection, His Divine Holiness.
+To take one&#8217;s place in the centre of that will,
+to live it out, to be borne and sustained by it,
+was the power of that life of Jesus that could
+not be held of death, that could not but burst out
+in resurrection glory. What it was to Jesus it will
+be to us.</p>
+
+<p>Holiness is Life: this is the simplest expression
+of the truth our text teaches. There can be no
+holiness until there be a new life implanted. The
+new life cannot grow and break forth in resurrection
+power, cannot bring forth fruit, but as it grows
+in holiness. As long as the believer is living the
+mixed life, part in the flesh and part in the spirit,
+with some of self and some of Christ, he seeks in
+vain for holiness. It is the New Life that is the
+holy life: the full apprehension of it in faith, the
+full surrender to it in conduct, will be the highway
+of holiness. Jesus lived and died and rose again to
+prepare for us a new nature, to be received day by
+day in the obedience of faith: we &lsquo;have put on the
+<a name="png.171" id="png.171"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">172</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>new man, which after God is created in righteousness
+and true holiness.&rsquo; Let the inner life, hid
+with Christ in God, hid also deep in the recesses of
+our inmost being, be acknowledged, be waited on,
+be yielded to, it will work itself out in all the
+beauties of holiness.</p>
+
+<p>There is more. This life is not like the life of
+nature, a blind, non-conscious principle, involuntarily
+working out its ideal in unresisting obedience to
+the law of its being. There is the Spirit of the life
+in Christ Jesus&mdash;the Spirit of holiness&mdash;the Holy
+Spirit dwelling in us as a Divine Person, entering
+into fellowship with us, and leading us into the
+fellowship of the Living Christ. It is this fills our
+life with hope and joy. The Risen Saviour breathed
+the Holy Spirit on His disciples: the Spirit brings
+the Risen One into the field, into our hearts, as a
+personal friend, as a Living Guide and Strengthener.
+The Spirit of holiness is the Spirit, the Presence,
+and the Power of the Living Christ. Jesus said
+of the Spirit, &lsquo;Ye know Him.&rsquo; Is not our great
+need to know this Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ,
+of His Holiness and of ours? How can we &lsquo;walk
+after the Spirit&rsquo; and follow His leading, if we know
+not Him and His voice and His way?</p>
+
+<p>Let us learn one more lesson from our text. <em>It
+is out of the grave of the flesh and the will of
+self that the Spirit of holiness breaks out in resurrection
+power.</em> We must accept death to the flesh,
+death to self with its willing and working, as the
+birthplace of our experience of the power of the
+<a name="png.172" id="png.172"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">173</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Spirit of holiness. In view of each struggle with
+sin, in each exercise of faith or prayer, we must
+enter into the death of Jesus, the death to self, and
+as those who say, &lsquo;we are not sufficient to think
+anything as of ourselves,&rsquo; in quiet faith expect the
+Spirit of Christ to do His work. The Spirit will
+work, strengthening you mightily in the inner man,
+and building up within you an holy temple for
+the Lord. And the time will come, if it has not
+come to you yet, and it may be nearer than you
+dare hope, when the conscious indwelling of Christ
+in your heart by faith, the full revelation and
+enthronement of Him as ruler and keeper of heart
+and life, shall have become a personal experience.
+According to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection
+from the dead, will the Son of God be declared
+with power in the kingdom that is within you.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy Lord God! we do bless Thee that
+Thou didst raise Thy Son from the dead and give
+Him glory, that our faith and hope might be in
+Thee. Thou didst make His resurrection the power
+of eternal life in us, and now, even as He was raised,
+so we may walk in newness of life. As the Spirit
+of holiness dwelt and wrought in Him, it dwells and
+works in us, and becomes in us the Spirit of life.</p>
+
+<p>O God! we beseech Thee to perfect Thy work in
+Thy saints. Give them a deeper sense of the holy
+calling with which Thou hast called them in Christ,
+<a name="png.173" id="png.173"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">174</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the Risen One. Give all to accept the Spirit of
+His life on earth, delight in the will of God, as the
+spirit of their life. May those who have never yet
+fully accepted this be brought to do it, and in faith
+of the power of the new life to say, I accept the
+will of God as my only law. May the Spirit of
+holiness be the spirit of their lives!</p>
+
+<p>Father! we beseech Thee, let Christ thus, in ever
+increasing experience of His resurrection power, be
+revealed in our hearts as the Son of God, Lord and
+Ruler within us. Let His life within inspire all
+the outer life, so that in the home and society, in
+thought and speech and action, in religion and in
+business, His life may shine out from us in the
+beauty of holiness. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. Scripture regards the resurrection in two different aspects. In one view,
+it is the title to the new life, the source of our justification. (Rom. iv. 25,
+1 Cor. xv. 17.) In another it is our regeneration, the power of the new life
+working in us, the source of our sanctification. (Rom. vi. 4; 1 Pet. i. 3.)
+Pardon and holiness are inseparable; they have the same source, union with
+the Risen Living Christ.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. The blessedness to the disciples of having a Risen Christ was this: He,
+whom they thought dead, came and <strong>revealed Himself</strong> to them. Christ lives to
+reveal Himself to thee and to me; wait on Him, trust Him for this. He will
+reveal Himself to thee as thy sanctification. See to it that thou hast Him in
+living possession, and thou hast His Holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. The life of Christ is the holiness of Christ. The reason we so often fail in
+the pursuit of holiness is that the old life, the flesh, in its own strength seeks
+for holiness as a beautiful garment to wear and enter heaven with. It is the
+daily death to self out of which the life of Christ rises up.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. To die thus, to live thus in Christ, to be holy&mdash;how can we attain it? It
+all comes &lsquo;<strong>according to the Spirit of holiness</strong>.&rsquo; Have the Holy Spirit within
+thee. Say daily, &lsquo;I believe in the Holy Ghost.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. <strong>Holy in Christ.</strong> When Christ lives in us, and His mind, as it found
+expression in His words and work on earth, enters and fills our will and personal
+consciousness, then our union with Him becomes what He meant it to be.
+It is the Spirit of His holy conduct, the Spirit of His sanctity, must be in us.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p class="ii"><a name="fn.11" id="fn.11"
+ href="#fna.11">11</a> See <a href="#note:F">Note F</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.174" id="png.174"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">175</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twentieth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap20.png" width="248" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Liberty." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Being made <em>free from sin</em>, ye became servants of righteousness:
+now present your members as servants of righteousness
+<em>unto sanctification</em>. Now being made <em>free from sin</em>, and become
+servants unto God, ye have your fruit <em>unto sanctification</em>, and
+the end eternal life.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Rom.</span> vi. 18, 19,&nbsp;22.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Gal.</span> ii.&nbsp;4.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and
+be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Gal.</span> v.&nbsp;1.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">There</span> is no possession more precious or priceless
+than liberty. There is nothing more inspiring
+and elevating; nothing, on the other hand, more
+depressing and degrading than slavery. It robs a
+man of what constitutes his manhood, the power of
+self-decision, self-action, of being and doing what he
+would.</p>
+
+<p>Sin is slavery; the bondage to a foreign power
+that has obtained the mastery over us, and compels
+often a most reluctant service. The redemption of
+Christ restores our liberty and sets us free from the
+power of sin. If we are truly to live as redeemed ones,
+we need not only to look at the work Christ did to
+<a name="png.175" id="png.175"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">176</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>accomplish our redemption, but to accept and realize
+fully how complete, how sure, how absolute the
+liberty is wherewith He hath made us free. It is
+only as we &lsquo;<em>stand fast</em> in our liberty in Christ
+Jesus,&rsquo; that we can have our fruit unto sanctification.</p>
+
+<p>It is remarkable how seldom the word <em>holy</em> occurs
+in the great argument of the Epistle to the Romans,
+and how, where twice used in chap. vi. in the expression
+&lsquo;unto sanctification,&rsquo; it is distinctly set
+forth as the aim and fruit to be reached through a
+life of righteousness. The twice repeated &lsquo;unto
+sanctification,&rsquo; pointing to a result to be obtained,
+is preceded by a twice repeated &lsquo;being made free
+from sin and become servants of righteousness.&rsquo; It
+teaches us how the liberty from the power of sin
+and the surrender to the service of righteousness are
+not yet of themselves holiness, but the sure and only
+path by which it can be reached. A true insight and
+a full entering into our freedom from sin in Christ
+are indispensable to a life of holiness. It was when
+Israel was freed from Pharaoh that God began to
+reveal Himself as the Holy One: it is as we know
+ourselves &lsquo;freed from sin,&rsquo; delivered from the hand
+of all our enemies, that we shall serve God in
+righteousness and holiness all the days of our life.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Being made free from sin</em>:&rsquo; to understand this
+word aright, we must beware of a twofold error.
+We must neither narrow it down to less, nor import
+into it more, than the Holy Spirit means by it here.
+Paul is speaking neither of an imputation nor an
+<a name="png.176" id="png.176"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">177</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>experience. We must not limit it to being made
+free from the curse or punishment of sin. The
+context shows that he is speaking, not of our
+judicial standing, but of a spiritual reality, our being
+in living union with Christ in His death and resurrection,
+and so being entirely taken out from under
+the dominion or power of sin. &lsquo;Sin shall not have
+dominion over you.&rsquo; Nor is he as yet speaking of
+an experience, that we feel that we are free from
+all sin. He speaks of the great objective fact,
+Christ&#8217;s having finally delivered us from the power
+which sin had to compel us to do its will and its
+works, and urges us, in the faith of this glorious fact,
+boldly to refuse to listen to the bidding or temptation
+of sin. To know our liberty which we have in
+Christ, our freedom from sin&#8217;s mastery and power,
+is the way to realize it as an experience.</p>
+
+<p>In olden times, when Turks or Moors often made
+slaves of Christians, large sums were frequently
+paid for the ransom of those who were in bondage.
+But it happened more than once, away in the
+interior of the slave country, that the ransomed ones
+never got the tidings; the masters were only too
+glad to keep it from them. Others, again, got the
+tidings, but had grown too accustomed to their
+bondage to rouse themselves for the effort of reaching
+the coast. Slothfulness or hopelessness kept
+them in slavery; they could not believe that they
+would be able ever in safety to reach the land of
+liberty. The ransom had been paid; in truth they
+were free; and yet in their experience, by reason of
+<a name="png.177" id="png.177"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">178</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>ignorance or want of courage, they were still in
+bondage. Christ&#8217;s redemption has so completely
+made an end of sin and the legal power it had over
+us,&mdash;for &lsquo;the strength of sin is the law,&rsquo;&mdash;that in
+very deed, in the deepest reality, sin has no power
+to compel our obedience. It is only as we allow it
+again to reign, as we yield ourselves again as its
+servants, that it can exercise the mastery. Satan
+does his utmost to keep believers in ignorance of the
+completeness of this their freedom from his slavery.
+And because believers are so content with their own
+thoughts of what redemption means, and so little
+long and plead to see it and possess it in its fulness
+of deliverance and blessing, the experience of the
+extent to which the freedom from sin can be realized
+is so feeble. &lsquo;Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
+there is liberty.&rsquo; It is by the Holy Spirit, His light
+and leading within, humbly watched for and yielded
+to, that this liberty becomes our possession.</p>
+
+<p>In the sixth chapter Paul speaks of freedom from
+sin, in chap. vii. (vers. 3, 4, 6) of freedom from the
+law, as both being ours in Christ and union with
+Him. In chap. viii. (ver. 2) he speaks of this freedom
+as become ours in experience. He says, &lsquo;The
+law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made
+me free from the law of sin and death.&rsquo; The freedom
+which is ours in Christ, must become ours in
+personal appropriation and enjoyment through the
+Holy Spirit. The latter depends on the former:
+the fuller the faith, the clearer the insight, the
+more triumphant the glorying in Christ Jesus and
+<a name="png.178" id="png.178"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">179</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the liberty with which He has made us free, the
+speedier and the fuller the entrance into the glorious
+liberty of the children of God. As the liberty is in
+Christ alone, so it is the Spirit of Christ alone that
+makes it ours in practical possession, and keeps us
+dwelling in it: &lsquo;the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus
+<em>hath made me free</em> from the law of sin and death.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.&rsquo;
+As the Spirit reveals Jesus to us as Lord and Master,
+the new Master, who alone has ought to say over
+us, and leads us to yield ourselves, to present our
+members, to surrender our whole life to the service
+of God in Christ, our faith in the freedom from sin
+becomes a consciousness and a realization. Believing
+in the completeness of the redemption, the captive
+goes forth as &lsquo;the Lord&#8217;s freedman.&rsquo; He knows
+now that sin has no longer power for one moment
+to command obedience. It may seek to assert its
+old right; it may speak in the tone of authority;
+it may frighten us into fear and submission;
+power it has none over us, except as we, forgetting
+our freedom, yield to its temptation, and ourselves
+give it power.</p>
+
+<p>We are the Lord&#8217;s freedmen. &lsquo;We have our
+liberty in Christ Jesus.&rsquo; In Rom. vii. Paul describes
+the terrible struggles of the soul who still seeks to
+fulfil the law, but finds itself utterly helpless; sold
+under sin, a captive and a slave, without the liberty
+to do what the whole heart desires. But when the
+Spirit takes the place of the law, the complaint,
+&lsquo;O wretched man that I am,&rsquo; is changed into the
+<a name="png.179" id="png.179"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">180</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>song of victory: &lsquo;I thank God, through Jesus
+Christ, the law of the Spirit of life hath made me
+free.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>What numberless complaints of insufficient
+strength to do God&#8217;s will, of unsuccessful effort and
+disappointed hopes, of continual failure, re-echo in a
+thousand different forms the complaint of the captive,
+&lsquo;O wretched man that I am!&rsquo; Thank God!
+there is deliverance. &lsquo;With freedom did Christ set
+us free! Stand fast therefore, and be not entangled
+again in a yoke of bondage.&rsquo; Satan is ever seeking
+to lay on us again the yoke either of sin or the law,
+to beget again the spirit of bondage, as if sin or the
+law with their demands somehow had power over
+us. It is not so: be not entangled; stand fast in
+the liberty with which Christ has made you free.
+Let us listen to the message: &lsquo;Being made free from
+sin, ye became servants unto righteousness; now
+yield your members servants to righteousness <em>unto
+sanctification</em>.&rsquo; &lsquo;Having been made free from sin,
+and having been enslaved unto God, ye have your
+fruit <em>unto sanctification</em>.&rsquo; To be holy, you must be
+free, perfectly free; free for Jesus to rule you, to
+lead you; free for the Holy Spirit to dispose of you,
+to breathe in you, to work His secret, gentle, but
+mighty work, so that you may grow up unto all the
+liberty Jesus has won for you. The temple could
+not be sanctified by the indwelling of God, except
+as it was free from every other master and every
+other use, to be for Him and His service alone.
+The inner temple of our heart cannot be truly and
+<a name="png.180" id="png.180"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">181</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>fully sanctified, except as we are free from every
+other master and power, from every yoke of bondage,
+or fear, or doubt, to let His Spirit lead us
+into the perfect liberty which has its fruit in true
+holiness.</p>
+
+<p>Being made free from sin, having become servants
+unto righteousness, ye have your fruit unto holiness,
+and the end life everlasting. Freedom, Righteousness,
+Holiness&mdash;these are the steps on the way to the
+coming glory. The more deeply we enter by faith
+into our liberty, which we have in Christ, the more
+joyfully and confidently we present our members to
+God as instruments of righteousness. The God is
+the Father whose will we delight to do, whose service
+is perfect liberty. The Redeemer is the Master,
+to whom love binds us in willing obedience. The
+liberty is not lawlessness: &lsquo;we are delivered from our
+enemies, that we may serve Him in righteousness
+and holiness all the days of our life.&rsquo;<sup><a name="fna.12" id="fna.12"
+ href="#fn.12">12</a></sup></p>
+
+<p>The liberty is the condition of the righteousness;
+and this again of the holiness. The doing of God&#8217;s
+will leads up into that fellowship, that heart sympathy
+with God Himself, out of which comes that
+reflection of the Divine Presence, which is Holiness.
+Being made free from sin, being made the slaves of
+righteousness and of God, we have our fruit unto
+holiness, and the end&mdash;the fruit of holiness becomes,
+when ripe, the seed of&mdash;everlasting life.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.181" id="png.181"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">182</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Most glorious God! I pray Thee to open my
+eyes to this wonderful liberty with which Christ
+has made me free. May I enter fully into Thy
+word, that sin shall have no dominion over me
+because I am not under the law but under grace.
+May I know my liberty which I have in Christ
+Jesus, and stand fast in it.</p>
+
+<p>Father! Thy service is perfect liberty: reveal
+this too to me. Thou art the infinitely Free, and
+Thy will knows no limits but what its own perfection
+has placed. And Thou invitest us into Thy will,
+that we may be free as Thou art. O my God!
+show me the beauty of Thy will, as it frees me from
+self and from sin, and let it be my only blessedness.
+Let the service of righteousness so be a joy and a
+strength to me, having its fruit unto sanctification,
+leading me into Thy Holiness.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Lord Jesus! my Deliverer and my Liberty,
+I belong to Thee. I give myself to Thy will, to
+know no will but Thine. Master! Thee and Thee
+alone would I serve. I have my liberty in Thee!
+be Thou my Keeper. I cannot stand for one
+moment out of Thee. In Thee I can stand fast:
+in Thee I put my trust.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy God! as Thy free, obedient, loving
+child, Thou wilt make me holy. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. Liberty is the power to carry out unhindered the impulse of our nature.
+In Christ the child of God is free from every power that could hinder his
+acting out the law of his new nature.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. This liberty is of faith (Gal. v. 5, 6). By faith in Christ I enter
+into it, and stand in it.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. This liberty is of the Holy Spirit. &lsquo;Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
+<a name="png.182" id="png.182"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">183</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>there is liberty.&rsquo; &lsquo;If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.&rsquo; A
+heart filled with the Spirit is made free indeed. But we are not made free
+that we may do our own will. No, made <strong>free to follow the leading of the
+Holy Spirit</strong>. &lsquo;Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. This liberty is in love. &lsquo;Ye were called for freedom; only use not your
+freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants, one to
+another.&rsquo; The freedom with which the Son makes free is a freedom to become
+like Himself, to love and to serve. &lsquo;Though I was free from all men, I brought
+myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.&rsquo; This is the liberty
+of love.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. &lsquo;Being made free from sin, ye became <strong>servants of righteousness</strong> unto
+sanctification.&rsquo; &lsquo;Let my people go, that they may serve me.&rsquo; It is only the
+man that doeth righteousness that can become holy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. This liberty is a thing of joy and singing.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>7. This liberty is the groundwork of holiness. The Redeemer who makes
+free is God the Holy One. As the Holy Spirit He leads into the full possession
+of it. To be so free from everything that God can take complete possession,
+is to be holy.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p class="ii"><a name="fn.12" id="fn.12"
+ href="#fna.12">12</a> See <a href="#note:G">Note G</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.183" id="png.183"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">184</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-first Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap21.png" width="284" height="30"
+ alt="Holiness and Happiness." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Rom.</span> xiv.&nbsp;17.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Acts</span>
+xiii.&nbsp;52.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Then Nehemiah said, This day is <em>holy</em> unto the Lord: neither
+be ye sorry, for the <em>joy</em> of the Lord is your strength. So the
+Levites stilled the people, saying, Hold your peace; for the day
+is <em>holy</em>; neither be ye grieved. And all the people went their
+way to make great <em>mirth</em>, because they had understood the
+words.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Neh.</span> viii. 10&ndash;12.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">The</span> deep significance of joy in the Christian life
+is hardly understood. It is too often regarded
+as something secondary; whereas its presence is
+essential as the proof that God does indeed satisfy
+us, and that His service is our delight. In our
+domestic life we do not feel satisfied if all the
+proprieties of deportment are observed, and each
+does his duty to the other; true love makes us
+happy in each other; as love gives out its warmth
+of affection, gladness is the sunshine that fills the
+home with its brightness. Even in suffering or
+poverty, the members of a loving family are a joy
+<a name="png.184" id="png.184"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">185</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to each other. Without this gladness, especially,
+there is no true obedience on the part of the
+children. It is not the mere fulfilment of a command,
+or performance of a service, that a parent
+looks to; it is the willing, joyful alacrity with
+which it is done that makes it pleasing.</p>
+
+<p>It is just so in the intercourse of God&#8217;s children
+with their Father. Even in the effort after a life of
+consecration and gospel obedience, we are continually
+in danger of coming under the law again, with
+its, Thou shalt. The consequence always is failure.
+The law only worketh wrath; it gives neither life
+nor strength. It is only as long as we are standing
+in the joy of our Lord, in the joy of our deliverance
+from sin, in the joy of His love, and what He
+is for us, in the joy of His presence, that we have
+the power to serve and obey. It is only when
+made free from every master, from sin and self
+and the law, and only when rejoicing in this liberty,
+that we have the power to render service that is
+satisfying either to God or to ourselves. &lsquo;I will see
+you again,&rsquo; Jesus said, &lsquo;and your heart shall rejoice,
+and your joy shall no man take from you.&rsquo; Joy
+is the evidence and the condition of the abiding
+personal presence of Jesus.</p>
+
+<p>If holiness be the beauty and the glory of the
+life of faith, it is manifest that here especially the
+element of joy may not be wanting. We have
+already seen how the first mention of God as the
+Holy One was in the song of praise on the shore
+of the Red Sea; how Hannah and Mary in their
+<a name="png.185" id="png.185"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">186</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>moments of inspiration praised God as the Holy
+One; how the name of the Thrice Holy in heaven
+comes to us in the song of the seraphs; and how
+before the throne both the living creatures and the
+conquering multitude who sing the song of the
+Lamb, adore God as the Holy One. We are to
+&lsquo;worship Him in the beauty of holiness,&rsquo; &lsquo;to sing
+praise at the remembrance of His Holiness;&rsquo; it is
+only in the spirit of worship and praise and joy
+that we fully can know God as holy. Much
+more, it is only under the inspiration of adoring
+love and joy that we can ourselves be made holy.
+It is as we cease from all fear and anxiety, from all
+strain and effort, and rest with singing in what
+Jesus is in His finished work as our sanctification,
+as we rest and rejoice in Him, that we shall be
+made partakers of His Holiness. It is the day of
+rest, is the day that God has blessed, the day of
+blessing and gladness; and it is the day He blessed
+that is His holy day. Holiness and blessedness
+are inseparable.</p>
+
+<p>But is not this at variance with the teaching of
+Scripture and the experience of the saints? Are not
+suffering and sorrow among God&#8217;s chosen means of
+sanctification? Are not the promises to the broken
+in heart, the poor in spirit, and the mourner? Are
+not self-denial and the forsaking of all we have,
+the crucifixion with Christ and the dying daily, the
+path to holiness? and is not all this more matter of
+sorrow and pain than of joy and gladness?</p>
+
+<p>The answer will be found in the right apprehension
+<a name="png.186" id="png.186"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">187</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of the life of faith. Faith lifts above, and
+gives possession of, what is the very opposite of
+what we feel or experience. In the Christian life
+there is always a paradox: what appear irreconcilable
+opposites are found side by side at the same
+moment. Paul expresses it in the words, &lsquo;As
+dying, and, behold, we live; as sorrowful, yet always
+rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having
+nothing, yet possessing all things.&rsquo; And elsewhere
+thus, &lsquo;<em>When</em> I am weak, <em>then</em> am I strong.&rsquo; The
+apparent contradiction has its reconciliation, not
+only in the union of the two lives, the human and
+the Divine, in the person of each believer, but
+specially in our being, at one and the same moment,
+partakers of the death and the resurrection of
+Christ. Christ&#8217;s death was one of pain and suffering,
+a real and terrible death, a rending asunder of
+the bonds that united soul and body, spirit and
+flesh. The power of that death works in us: we
+must let it work mightily if we are to live holy;
+for in that death He sanctified Himself, that we
+ourselves might be sanctified in truth. Our holiness
+is, like His, in the death to our own will, and to all
+our own life. But&mdash;this we must seek to grasp&mdash;we
+do not approach death from the side from which
+Christ met it, as an enemy to be conquered, as a
+suffering to be borne, before the new life can be
+entered on. No, the believer who knows what
+Christ is as the Risen One, approaches death, the
+crucifixion of self and the flesh and the world, from
+the resurrection side, the place of victory, in the
+<a name="png.187" id="png.187"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">188</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>power of the Living Christ. When we were
+baptized into Christ, we were baptized into His
+death and resurrection as ours; and Christ Himself,
+the Risen Living Lord, leads us triumphantly into
+the experience of the power of His death. And so, to
+the believer who truly lives by faith, and seeks not
+in his own strugglings to crucify and mortify the
+flesh, but knows the living Lord, the deep resurrection
+joy never for a moment forsakes Him, but is his
+strength for what may appear to others to be only
+painful sacrifice and cross-bearing. He says with
+Paul, &lsquo;I glory in the cross through which I have been
+crucified.&rsquo; He never, as so many do, asks Paul&#8217;s
+question, &lsquo;Who shall deliver me from the body of this
+death?&rsquo; without sounding the joyful and triumphant
+answer as a present experience, &lsquo;I thank God,
+through Jesus Christ our Lord.&rsquo; &lsquo;Thanks be to God,
+which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ.&rsquo; It
+is the joy of a Present Saviour, of the experience of
+a perfect salvation, the joy of a resurrection life, which
+alone gives the power to enter deeply and fully into
+the death that Christ died, and yield our will and
+our life to be wholly sanctified to God. In the joy
+of that life, from which the power of the death is
+never absent, it is possible to say with the Apostle
+each moment, &lsquo;As dying, and, behold, we live; as
+sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Let us seek to learn the two lessons: Holiness
+is essential to true happiness; happiness essential
+to true holiness. <em>Holiness is essential to true
+happiness.</em> If you would have joy, the fulness
+<a name="png.188" id="png.188"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">189</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of joy, an abiding joy which nothing can take
+away, be holy as God is holy. Holiness is
+blessedness. Nothing can darken or interrupt our
+joy but sin. Whatever be our trial or temptation,
+the joy of Jesus of which Peter says, &lsquo;in whom ye
+now rejoice with joy unspeakable,&rsquo; can more than
+compensate and outweigh. If we lose our joy, it
+must be sin. It may be an actual transgression, or
+an unconscious following of self or the world; it
+may be the stain on conscience of something doubtful,
+or it may be unbelief that would live by sight,
+and thinks more of itself and its joy than of the
+Lord alone: whatever it be, nothing can take away
+our joy but sin. If we would live lives of joy,
+assuring God and man and ourselves that our Lord
+is everything, is more than all to us, oh, let us be
+holy! Let us glory in Him who is our holiness:
+in His presence is fulness of joy. Let us live in
+the Kingdom which is joy in the Holy Ghost; the
+Spirit of holiness is the Spirit of joy, because He
+is the Spirit of God. It is the saints, God&#8217;s holy
+ones, who will shout for joy.</p>
+
+<p>And <em>happiness is essential to true holiness</em>. If
+you would be a holy Christian, you must be a happy
+Christian. Jesus was anointed by God with &lsquo;the
+oil of gladness,&rsquo; that He might give us &lsquo;the oil of
+joy.&rsquo; In all our efforts after holiness, the wheels
+will move heavily if there be not the oil of joy;
+this alone removes all strain and friction, and
+makes the onward progress easy and delightful.
+Study to understand the Divine worth of joy. It
+<a name="png.189" id="png.189"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">190</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>is the evidence of your being in the Father&#8217;s
+presence, and dwelling in His love. It is the
+proof of your being consciously free from the law
+and the strain of the spirit of bondage. It is the
+token of your freedom from care and responsibility,
+because you are rejoicing in Christ Jesus as your
+Sanctification, your Keeper, and your Strength. It
+is the secret of spiritual health and strength, filling
+all your service with the childlike happy assurance
+that the Father asks nothing that He does not give
+strength for, and that He accepts all that is done,
+however feebly, in this spirit. True happiness is
+always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object
+of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us,
+and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through
+our Lord Jesus Christ, as we lose ourselves in the
+adoration and worship of the Thrice Holy, we
+become holy. This is, even here in the wilderness,
+&lsquo;the Highway of Holiness: the ransomed of the
+Lord shall come with singing; the redeemed shall
+walk there; everlasting joy shall be upon their
+heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Do all God&#8217;s children understand this? that
+holiness is just another name, the true name, that
+God gives for happiness; that it is indeed unutterable
+blessedness to know that God does make us
+holy, that our holiness is in Christ, that Christ&#8217;s
+Holy Spirit is within us. There is nothing so
+attractive as joy: have believers understood it that
+this is the joy of the Lord&mdash;to be holy? Or is
+not the idea of strain, and sacrifice, and sighing,
+<a name="png.190" id="png.190"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">191</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of difficulty and distance so prominent, that the
+thought of being holy has hardly ever made the
+heart glad? If it has been so, let it be so no
+longer. &lsquo;Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of
+Israel:&rsquo; let us claim this promise. Let the
+believing assurance that our Loving Father, and
+our Beloved Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit,
+who in dove-like gentleness rests within us, have
+engaged to do the work, and are doing it, fill us with
+gladness. Let us not seek our joy in what we see
+in ourselves of holiness: let us rejoice in the
+Holiness of God in Christ as ours; let us rejoice
+in the Holy One of Israel. So shall our joy be
+unspeakable and unceasing; so shall we give Him
+the glory.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Blessed God! I beseech Thee to reveal to
+me and to all Thy children the secret of rejoicing
+in Thee, the Holy One of Israel.</p>
+
+<p>Thou seest how much of the service of Thine
+own dear children is still in the spirit of bondage,
+and how many have never yet believed that the
+Highway of Holiness is one on which they may
+walk with singing, and shall obtain joy and gladness.
+O Father! teach Thy children to rejoice in Thee.</p>
+
+<p>I ask Thee especially to teach us that, in deep
+poverty of spirit, in humility and contrition and
+utter emptiness, in the consciousness that there is
+no holiness in us, we can sing all the day of Thy
+<a name="png.191" id="png.191"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">192</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Holiness as ours, of Thy glory which Thou layest
+upon us, and which yet all the time is Thine alone.
+O Father! open wide to Thy children the blessed
+mystery of the Kingdom, even the faith which sees
+all in Christ and nothing in itself; which indeed
+has and rejoices in all in Him; which never has or
+rejoices in ought in itself.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed God, in Thy Word Thou hast said, &lsquo;The
+meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the
+poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
+Israel.&rsquo; Oh, give us, by Thy Holy Spirit, in meekness
+and poverty of spirit, to live so in Christ, that
+His Holiness may be our ever-increasing joy, and
+that in Thyself, the Holy One of Israel, we may
+rejoice all the day. And may all see in us what
+blessedness it is to live as God&#8217;s holy ones.
+Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. The great hindrance to joy in God is expecting to find something in ourselves
+to rejoice over. At the commencement of this pursuit of holiness we
+always expect to see a great change wrought in ourselves. As we are led
+deeper into what faith, and the faith-life is, we understand how, though we
+do not see the change as we expected, we may yet rejoice with joy unspeakable
+in what Jesus is. This is the secret of holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Joy must be cultivated. To rejoice is a command more frequently given
+than we know. It is part of the obedience of faith, to rejoice when we do not
+feel like doing so. Faith rejoices and sings, because God is holy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. &lsquo;Filled with joy and the Holy Ghost,&rsquo; &lsquo;The Kingdom is joy in the Holy
+Ghost.&rsquo; The Holy Spirit, the Blessed Spirit of Jesus is within thee, a very
+fountain of living water, of joy and gladness. Oh, seek to know Him, who
+dwells in thee, to work all that Jesus has for thee: He will be in thee the
+Spirit of faith and of joy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for
+the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. &lsquo;The kingdom
+of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.192" id="png.192"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">193</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-second Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap22.png" width="325" height="29"
+ alt="In Christ our Sanctification." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Of God are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom
+from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
+that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory
+in the Lord.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Cor.</span> i. 30,&nbsp;31.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">These</span> words lead us on now to the very centre
+of God&#8217;s revelation of the way of holiness.
+We know the steps of the road leading hither. He
+is holy, and holiness is His. He makes holy by
+coming near. His presence is holiness. In Christ&#8217;s
+life, the holiness that had only been revealed in
+symbol, and as a promise of good things to come,
+had really taken possession of a human will, and
+been made one with true human nature. In His
+death every obstacle had been removed that could
+prevent the transmission of that holy nature to us:
+Christ had truly become our sanctification. In the
+Holy Spirit the actual communication of that holiness
+took place. And now we want to understand
+what the work is the Holy Spirit does, and how He
+communicates this holy nature to us: what our
+<a name="png.193" id="png.193"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">194</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>relation is to Christ as our sanctification, and what
+the position we have to take up toward Him, that
+in its fulness and its power it may do its work
+for us.</p>
+
+<p>The Divine answer to this question is, &lsquo;Of God
+are ye <em>in Christ</em>.&rsquo; The one thing we need to apprehend
+is, what this our position and life in Christ is,
+and how that position and life may on our part be
+accepted and maintained. Of this we may be sure,
+that it is not something that is high and beyond
+our reach. There need be no exhausting effort
+or hopeless sighing, &lsquo;Who shall ascend into heaven,
+that is, to bring Christ down from above?&rsquo; It is a
+life that is meant for the sinful and the weary, for
+the unworthy and the impotent. It is a life that is
+the gift of the Father&#8217;s love, and that He Himself
+will reveal in each one who comes in childlike trust
+to Him. It is a life that is meant for our every-day
+life, that in every varying circumstance and situation
+will make and keep us holy.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Of God are ye <em>in Christ</em>.&rsquo; Ere our Blessed
+Lord left the world, He spake: Lo! I am with you
+alway, even to the end of the world. And it is
+written of Him: &lsquo;He that descended is the same
+that ascended far above all the heavens, that He
+might fill all things.&rsquo; &lsquo;The Church is His body, the
+fulness of Him that filleth all in all.&rsquo; In the Holy
+Spirit the Lord Jesus is with His people here on
+earth. Though unseen, and not in the flesh, His
+Personal Presence is as real on earth as when He
+walked with His disciples. In regeneration the
+<a name="png.194" id="png.194"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">195</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>believer is taken out of his old place &lsquo;in the flesh;&rsquo; he
+is no longer in the flesh, but in the spirit (Rom. viii. 9);
+he is really and actually in Christ. The living Christ
+is around him by His holy Presence. Wherever and
+whatever he be, however ignorant of his position or
+however unfaithful to it, there he is in Christ. By
+an act of Divine and omnipotent grace, he has been
+planted into Christ, encircled on every side by the
+Power and the Love of Him who filleth all things,
+whose fulness specially dwells in His body here
+below, the Church.</p>
+
+<p>And how can one who is longing to know
+Christ fully as his sanctification, come to live out
+what God means and has provided in this&mdash;&lsquo;in
+Christ&rsquo;? The first thing that must be remembered
+is that it is a thing of faith and not of feeling. The
+promise of the indwelling and the quickening of the
+Holy One is to the humble and contrite. Just
+when I feel most deeply that I am not holy, and
+can do nothing to make myself holy, when I feel
+ashamed of myself, just then is the time to turn
+from self and very quietly to say: I am in Christ.
+Here He is all around me. Like the air that
+surrounds me, like the light that shines on me, here
+is my Lord Jesus with me in His hidden but Divine
+and most real presence. My faith must in quiet
+rest and trust bow before the Father, of whom and
+by whose Mighty Grace I am in Christ: He will
+reveal it to me with ever-growing clearness and
+power. He does it as I believe, and in believing
+open my whole soul to receive what is implied in
+<a name="png.195" id="png.195"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">196</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>it: the sense of sinfulness and unholiness must
+become the strength of my trust and dependence.
+In such faith I abide in Christ.</p>
+
+<p>But because it is of faith, therefore it is of the
+Holy Spirit. <em>Of God</em> are ye <em>in Christ</em>. It is not
+as if God placed and planted us in Christ, and left
+it to us now to maintain the union. No, God is
+the Eternal One, the God of the everlasting life,
+who works every moment in a power that does not
+for one moment cease. What God gives, He continues
+with a never-ceasing giving. It is He who
+by the Holy Spirit makes this life in Christ a
+blessed reality in our consciousness. &lsquo;We have
+received the Spirit of God that we might <em>know</em> the
+things that are freely given us of God.&rsquo; Faith is
+not only dependent on God for the gift it is to
+accept, but for the power to accept. Faith not
+only needs the Son as its filling and its food; it
+needs the Spirit as its power to receive and hold.
+And so the blessed possession of all that it means
+to be in Christ our sanctification comes as we learn
+to bow before God in believing prayer for the
+mighty workings of the Spirit, and in the deep
+childlike trust that He will reveal and glorify in us
+this Christ our sanctification in whom we are.</p>
+
+<p>And how will the Spirit reveal this Christ in
+whom we are? It will specially be as the Living
+One, the Personal Friend and Master. Christ is
+not only our Example and our Ideal. His life is
+not only an atmosphere and an inspiration, as we
+speak of a man who mightily influences us by his
+<a name="png.196" id="png.196"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">197</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>writings. Christ is not only a treasury and a
+fulness of grace and power, into which the Spirit is
+to lead us. But Christ is the Living Saviour, with
+a heart that beats with a love that is most tenderly
+human, and yet Divine. It is in this love He
+comes near, and into this love He receives us, when
+the Father plants us into Him. In the power of a
+personal love He wishes to exercise influence, and
+to attach us to Himself. In that love of His we
+have the guarantee that His Holiness will enter us;
+in that love the great power by which it enters.
+As the Spirit reveals to us where we are dwelling, in
+Christ and His love, and that this Christ is a living
+Lord and Saviour, there wakens within us the
+enthusiasm of a personal attachment, and the devotion
+of a loving allegiance, that make us wholly
+His. And it becomes possible for us to believe
+that we can be holy: we feel sure that in the path
+of holiness we can go from strength to strength.</p>
+
+<p>Such believing insight into our relation to Christ
+as being in Him, and such personal attachment to
+Him who has received us into His love and keeps
+us abiding there, becomes the spring of a new
+obedience. The will of God comes to us in the
+light of Christ&#8217;s life and His love&mdash;each command
+first fulfilled by Him, and then passed on to us as
+the sure and most blessed help to more perfect
+fellowship with the Father and His Holiness.
+Christ becomes Lord and King in the soul, in the
+power of the Holy Spirit, guiding the will into all
+the perfect will of God, and proving Himself to be
+<a name="png.197" id="png.197"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">198</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>its sanctification, as He crowns its obedience with
+ever larger inflow of the Presence and the Holiness
+of God.</p>
+
+<p>Is there any dear child of God at all disposed to
+lose heart as he thinks of what manner of man he
+ought to be in all holy living, let me call him to
+take courage. Could God have devised anything
+more wonderful or beautiful for such sinful, impotent
+creatures? Just think, Christ, God&#8217;s own Son, made
+to be sanctification to you. The Mighty, Loving,
+Holy Christ, sanctified through suffering that He
+might have sympathy with you, given to make you
+holy. What more could you desire? Yes, there is
+more: &lsquo;<em>Of God you are in Him.</em>&rsquo; Whether you
+understand it or not, however feebly you realize it,
+there it is, a thing most Divinely true and real.
+You are in Christ, by an act of God&#8217;s own Mighty
+Power. And there, in Christ, God Himself longs to
+establish and confirm you to the end. And you
+have, greatest wonder of all, the Holy Spirit within
+you to teach you to know, and believe, and receive,
+all that there is in Christ for you. And if you
+will but confess that there is in you no wisdom or
+power for holiness, none at all, and allow Christ,
+&lsquo;the Wisdom of God and the Power of God,&rsquo; by the
+Holy Spirit within you, to lead you on, and prove
+how completely, how faithfully, how mightily, He
+can be your sanctification, He will do it most
+gloriously.</p>
+
+<p>O my brother! come and consent more fully to
+God&#8217;s way of holiness. Let Christ be your
+<a name="png.198" id="png.198"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">199</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>sanctification. Not a distant Christ to whom you look, but
+a Christ very near, all around you, in whom you
+are. Not a Christ after the flesh, a Christ of
+the past, but a present Christ in the power of the
+Holy Ghost. Not a Christ whom you can know
+by your wisdom, but the Christ of God, who is a
+Spirit, and whom the Spirit within you, as you die
+to the flesh and self, will reveal in power. Not a
+Christ such as your little thoughts can frame a conception
+of, but a Christ according to the greatness
+of the heart and the love of God. Oh, come and
+accept this Christ, and rejoice in Him! Be content
+now to leave all your feebleness, and foolishness, and
+faithlessness to Him, in the quiet confidence that He
+will do for you more than you can think. And so
+let it henceforth be, as it <ins class="TN" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original reads 'it'">is</ins> written, He that
+glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Blessed Father! I bow in speechless
+adoration before the holy mystery of Thy Divine
+Love&hellip;.</p>
+
+<p>Oh, forgive me, that I have known and believed
+it so little as it is worthy of being known and
+believed.</p>
+
+<p>Accept my praise for what I have seen and
+tasted of its Divine blessedness. Accept, Lord
+God! of the praise of a glad and loving heart that
+only knows that it never can praise Thee aright.</p>
+
+<p>And hear my prayer, O my Father! that in the
+<a name="png.199" id="png.199"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">200</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>power of Thy Holy Spirit, who dwells in me, I may
+each day accept and live out fully what Thou hast
+given me in Christ my sanctification. May the
+unsearchable riches there are in Him be the daily
+supply for my every need. May His Holiness, His
+delight in Thy will, indeed become mine. Teach
+me, above all, how this can most surely be, because I
+am, through the work of Thine Almighty Quickening
+Power, in Him, kept there by Thyself. My Father!
+my faith cries out: I can be holy, blessed be my
+Lord Jesus!</p>
+
+<p>In this faith I yield myself to Thee, Lord Jesus,
+my King and Master, to do Thy will alone. In
+everything I do, great or small, I would act as one
+sanctified in Jesus, united to God&#8217;s will in Him.
+It is Thou alone canst teach me to do this, canst give
+me strength to perform it. But I trust in Thee&mdash;art
+Thou not Christ my sanctification? Blessed
+Lord! I do trust Thee. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Christ, as He lived and died on earth, is our sanctification. His life,
+the Spirit of His life, is what constitutes our holiness. To be in perfect
+harmony with Christ, to have His mind, is to be holy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Christ&#8217;s Holiness had two sides. God sanctified Him by His Spirit:
+Christ sanctified Himself by following the leading of the Spirit, by giving up
+His will to God in everything. So God has made us holy in Christ; and so
+we follow after and perfect holiness by yielding ourselves to God&#8217;s Spirit, by
+giving up our will and living in the will of God.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. It is well that we take in every aspect of what God has revealed of
+holiness in His word. But let us never weary ourselves by seeking to grasp
+all completely. Let us even return to the simplicity that is in Jesus. To
+bow at His feet, to believe that He knows all we need, and has it all, and
+loves to give it all, is rest. And holiness is resting in Jesus the rest of God.
+Let all our thoughts be gathered up into this one: Jesus, Blessed Jesus.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. This holy life in Christ is for to-day, when you read this. For to-day
+He is made of God unto you sanctification: to-day He will indeed be your
+holiness. Believe in Him for it; trust Him, praise Him. And remember:
+<strong>you are in Him</strong>.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.200" id="png.200"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">201</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-third Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap23.png" width="265" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and the Body." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;The temple of God is <em>holy</em>, which temple ye are. <em>The body</em>
+is for the Lord, and the Lord for <em>the body</em>. Know ye not that
+your <em>body</em> is the temple of <em>the Holy Ghost</em> which is in you;
+therefore glorify God in your <em>body</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Cor.</span> iii. 16, vi. 13,&nbsp;19.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;She that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord,
+that she may be <em>holy</em> both <em>in body</em> and spirit.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Cor.</span> vii.&nbsp;34.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Present your <em>bodies</em> a living sacrifice, <em>holy</em>, acceptable to
+God.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Rom.</span> xii.&nbsp;1.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">Coming</span> into the world, our Blessed Lord spake:
+&lsquo;<em>A body</em> didst Thou prepare for me; lo, I
+come to do Thy will, O God.&rsquo; Leaving this world
+again, it was in His own <em>body</em> that He bore our sins
+upon the tree. So it was in the body, no less than in
+soul and spirit, that He did the will of God. And
+therefore it is said, &lsquo;By which will we have been
+sanctified through the offering <em>of the body</em> of Jesus
+Christ once for all.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>When praying for the Thessalonians and their
+sanctification, Paul says, &lsquo;And the God of peace
+Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit
+and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame,
+<a name="png.201" id="png.201"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">202</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.&rsquo; Of himself
+he had spoken as &lsquo;always bearing about <em>in the
+body</em> the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus
+may be manifested <em>in our body</em>. For we which live
+are always delivered unto death for Jesus&#8217; sake, that
+the life also of Jesus may be manifested <em>in our
+mortal flesh</em>.&rsquo; His earnest expectation and hope
+was, &lsquo;that Christ be magnified <em>in my body</em>, whether
+by life or by death.&rsquo; The relation between body
+and spirit is so intimate, the power of sin in the
+spirit comes so much through the body, the body is
+so distinctly the object both of Christ&#8217;s redemption
+and the Holy Spirit&#8217;s renewal, that our study of
+holiness will be seriously defective if we do not
+take in the teaching of Scripture on holiness in the
+body.</p>
+
+<p>It has been well said that the body is, to the
+soul and spirit dwelling and acting within it, like
+the walls of the city. Through them the enemy
+enters in. In time of war, everything yields to the
+defence of the walls. It is often because the
+believer does not know the importance of keeping
+the walls defended, keeping the body sanctified,
+that he fails in having the soul and spirit preserved
+blameless. Or it is because he does not understand
+that the guarding and sanctifying of the body in all
+its parts must be as distinctly a work of faith, and as
+directly through the mighty power of Jesus and the
+indwelling of the Spirit, as the renewing of the inner
+life, that progress in holiness is so feeble. The rule
+of the city we entrust to Jesus: but the defence of
+<a name="png.202" id="png.202"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">203</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the walls we keep in our own hands; the King
+does not keep us as we expected, and we cannot
+discover the secret of failure. It is the God of
+peace <em>Himself</em>, who sanctifies wholly, who must
+preserve spirit and soul <em>and body</em> entire and without
+blame. The tabernacle with its wood, the temple
+with its stone, were as holy as all included within
+their walls: God&#8217;s holy ones need the body to be
+holy.</p>
+
+<p>To realize the full meaning of this, let us remember
+how it was through the body sin entered. &lsquo;The
+woman saw that the tree was good for food,&rsquo; this
+was the temptation in the flesh; through this the
+soul was reached, &lsquo;it was a delight to the eyes;&rsquo;
+through the soul it then passed into the spirit, &lsquo;and
+to be desired to make one wise.&rsquo; In John&#8217;s description
+of what is in the world (1 John ii. 15), we
+find the same threefold division, &lsquo;the lust of the
+flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.&rsquo;
+And the three temptations of Jesus by Satan
+correspond exactly: he first sought to reach Him
+through the body, in the suggestion to satisfy His
+hunger by making bread; the second (see Luke iv.)
+appealed to the soul, in the vision of the kingdoms
+of this world and their glory; the third to the spirit,
+in the call to assert and prove His Divine Sonship
+by casting Himself down. Even to the Son of God
+the first temptation came, as to Adam and all in
+the world, as lust of the flesh, the desire to gratify
+the natural and lawful appetite of hunger. We
+cannot note too carefully that it was on a question
+<a name="png.203" id="png.203"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">204</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of eating what appeared good for food that man&#8217;s
+first sin was committed, and that that same question
+of eating to satisfy hunger was the battleground on
+which the Redeemer&#8217;s first encounter with Satan
+took place. It is on the question of eating and
+drinking what is good and lawful that more
+Christians than are aware of it are foiled by Satan.
+To have every appetite of the body under the rule
+and regulation of the Holy Spirit appears to some
+needless, to others too difficult. And yet it must
+be, if the body is to be holy, as God&#8217;s temple, and
+we are to glorify Him in our body and our spirit.
+The first approaches of sin are made through the
+body: in the body the complete victory will be gained.</p>
+
+<p>What Scripture teaches as to the intimacy of
+the connection between the body and spirit,
+physiology confirms. What appear at first merely
+physical transgressions leave a stain and have a
+degrading influence on the soul, and through it drag
+down the spirit. And on the other side, spiritual
+sins, sins of thought and imagination and disposition,
+pass through the soul into the body, fix themselves
+in the nervous constitution, and express themselves
+even in the countenance and the habits or tendencies
+of the body. Sin must be combated not only
+in the region of the spirit: if we are to perfect
+holiness, we must cleanse ourselves from all defilement
+of flesh <em>and</em> spirit. &lsquo;If through the Spirit
+ye do make dead the deeds of <em>the body</em>, ye
+shall live.&rsquo; If we are indeed to be cleansed from
+sin  and  made  holy  unto  God, the body, as  the
+<a name="png.204" id="png.204"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">205</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>outworks, must very specially be secured from the
+power of Satan and of sin.</p>
+
+<p>And how is this to be done? God has made
+very special provision for this. Holy Scripture
+speaks so explicitly of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit
+that communicates holiness, in connection with the
+body. At first sight it looks as if the word, your
+bodies, were simply used as equivalent to, your
+persons, yourselves. But as the deeper insight into
+the power of sin in the body, and the need of a
+deliverance specially there, quickens our perception,
+we see what is meant by the body being the temple
+of the Holy Spirit. We notice how very specially
+it is of sins in the body that Paul speaks as defiling
+God&#8217;s holy temple; and how it is through the
+power of the Holy Ghost in the body that he would
+have us glorify God. &lsquo;Know ye not that <em>your body</em>
+is the temple of the Holy Ghost: glorify God therefore,
+in the power of the Holy Spirit, in <em>your body</em>.&rsquo;
+The Holy Spirit must not only exercise a restraining
+and regulating influence on the appetites of the
+body and their gratification, so that they be in
+moderation and temperance,&mdash;this is only the
+negative side,&mdash;but there must be a positively
+spiritual element, making the exercise of natural
+functions a service of holy joy and liberty to the
+glory of God; no longer a threatened hindrance to
+the life of obedience and fellowship, but a means of
+grace, a real help to the spiritual life. It is only in
+a body that is full of the holy life, very entirely
+possessed of God&#8217;s Spirit, that this will be the case.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.205" id="png.205"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">206</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>And how can this be obtained? In the true
+Christian life, self-denial is the path to enjoyment,
+renunciation to possession, death to life. As long
+as there is ought that we think we have liberty
+and power to use or enjoy aright, if we but do so
+in moderation, we have not yet seen or confessed
+our own unholiness, or the need of the entire
+renewing of the Holy Spirit. It is not enough to
+say, &lsquo;Every creature of God is good, if it be received
+with thanksgiving;&rsquo; we must remember the addition,
+&lsquo;for it is sanctified by the word and by prayer.&rsquo;
+This sanctifying of every creature and its use is a
+thing as real and solemn as the sanctifying of ourselves.
+And this will only be where, if need be,
+we sacrifice the gift and the liberty to use it, until
+God gives us the power truly to use it to His
+glory alone. Of one of the most sacred of Divine
+institutions, marriage, Paul, who so denounces those
+who would forbid to marry, says distinctly that
+there may be cases in which a voluntary celibacy
+may be the surest and acceptable way of being &lsquo;holy
+both in body and spirit.&rsquo; When to be holy as God
+is holy indeed becomes the great desire and aim of
+life, everything will be cherished or given up as it
+promotes the chief end. The actual and active
+presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the body
+will be the fire that is kept burning continually on
+the altar.</p>
+
+<p>And how is this to be attained? Of the
+body as of the spirit it is God, God in Christ, who
+is our Keeper and our Sanctifier. The guarding of
+<a name="png.206" id="png.206"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">207</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the walls of the city must be entrusted to Him
+who rules within. &lsquo;I am persuaded that He is
+able to guard my deposit,&rsquo; to keep that which I
+have committed to Him, must become as definitely
+true of the body, and of each of its functions of
+which we are conscious that it is the occasion of
+doubt or of stumbling, as it has been of the soul
+we entrusted to Him for salvation. A fixed deposit
+in a bank is money given away out of my hands to
+be kept there: the body or any part of it that needs
+to be made holy must be a deposit with Jesus.
+Faith must trust His acceptance and guarding of
+it; prayer and praise must daily afresh renew
+the assurance, must confirm the committal of the
+deposit, and maintain the fellowship with Jesus.
+Abiding thus in Him and His Holiness, we shall
+receive, in a life of trust and joy, the power to
+prove, even in the body, how fully and wholly we
+are in Him who is made unto us sanctification, how
+real and true the Holiness of God is in His
+people.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Lord! who art my sanctification, I come
+to Thee now with a very special request. O Thou
+who didst in Thine own body bear our sins on
+the tree, and of whom it is written, &lsquo;We have been
+sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
+Christ once for all,&rsquo; be pleased to reveal to me how
+my body may to the full experience the power of
+<a name="png.207" id="png.207"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">208</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Thy wonderful redemption. I do desire in soul
+and body to be holy to the Lord.</p>
+
+<p>Lord! I have too little understood that my body
+is the temple of the Holy Ghost, that there is
+nothing in it that can be matter of indifference, that
+its every state and function is to be holiness to the
+Lord. And where I saw that this should be so,
+I have still sought myself to guard from the
+enemy&#8217;s approaches these the walls of the city. I
+forgot how this part of my being too could alone
+be kept and sanctified by faith, by Thy taking
+and keeping charge of what faith entrusted to Thee.</p>
+
+<p>Lord Jesus! I come now to surrender this body
+with all its needs into Thy hands. In weariness
+and nervousness, in excitement and enjoyment, in
+hunger and want, in health and plenty, O my
+holy Saviour, let my body be in Thy keeping every
+moment. Thou callest us, &lsquo;being made free from
+sin, to present our members as servants of righteousness
+unto sanctification.&rsquo; Saviour! in the faith
+of the freedom from sin which I have in Thee, I
+present every member of my body to Thee: I
+believe the Spirit of life in Thee makes me free
+from the law of sin in my members. Whether
+living or dying, be Thou magnified in my body.
+Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. In the tabernacle and temple, the material part was to be in harmony
+with, and the embodiment of, the holiness that dwelt within. It was therefore
+all made according to the pattern shown in the mount. In the two last
+chapters of Exodus, we have eighteen times &lsquo;as the Lord commanded.&rsquo;
+Everything, even in the exterior, was the embodiment of the will of God.
+Even so our body, as God&#8217;s temple, must in everything be regulated by God&#8217;s
+word, quickened and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="png.208" id="png.208"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">209</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>2. As part of this holiness in the body, Scripture mentions dress. Speaking
+of the &lsquo;outward adorning of plaiting the hair, of wearing jewels, or the
+putting on of apparel,&rsquo; as inconsistent with &lsquo;the apparel of a meek and
+quiet spirit,&rsquo; Peter says, &lsquo;After this manner aforetime <strong>the holy women</strong>,
+who hoped in God, adorned themselves.&rsquo; Holiness was seen in their dressing;
+their body was the temple of the Holy Spirit.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. &lsquo;If ye through the Spirit do make dead the deeds of <strong>the body</strong>, ye shall
+live.&rsquo; His quickening energy must reign through the whole. We are so
+accustomed to connect the spiritual with the ideal and invisible, that it will
+need time and thought and faith to realize how the physical and the sensible
+influence our spiritual life, and must be under the mastery and inspiration
+of God&#8217;s Spirit. Even Paul says, &lsquo;I buffet <strong>my body</strong>, and bring it into
+bondage, lest I myself should be rejected.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. If God actually breathed His Spirit into the body of Adam formed out
+of the ground, let it not be thought strange that the Holy Spirit should now
+animate our bodies too with His sanctifying energy.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. &lsquo;Corporeality is the end of the ways of God.&rsquo; This deep saying of an
+old divine reminds us of a much neglected truth. The great work of God&#8217;s
+Spirit is to ally Himself with matter, and form it into a spiritual body for
+a dwelling for God. In our body the Holy Spirit will do it, if He gets
+complete possession.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. It is on this truth of the Holy Spirit&#8217;s power in the body that what is
+called Faith-healing rests. Through all ages, in times of special spiritual
+quickening, God has given it to some to see how Christ would make, even
+here, the body partaker of the life and power of the Spirit. To those who
+do see it, the link between Holiness and Healing is a very close and blessed
+one, as the Lord Jesus takes possession of the body for Himself.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.209" id="png.209"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">210</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-fourth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap24.png" width="280" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Cleansing." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us <em>cleanse</em> ourselves
+from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting <em>holiness</em>
+in the fear of God.&rsquo;&mdash;2&nbsp;<span class="smc">Cor.</span> vii.&nbsp;1.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">That</span> holiness is more than cleansing, and must
+be preceded by it, is taught us in more than
+one passage of the New Testament. &lsquo;Christ loved
+the Church, and gave Himself up for it, that He
+might <em>sanctify</em> it, having <em>cleansed</em> it by the washing
+of water with the word.&rsquo; &lsquo;If a man <em>cleanse</em> himself
+from these, he shall be a vessel <em>sanctified</em>.&rsquo;
+The cleansing is the negative side, the being separate
+and not touching the unclean thing, the removal of
+impurity; the sanctifying is the positive union and
+fellowship with God, and the participation of the
+graces of the Divine life and holiness (2 Cor.
+vi. 17, 18). So we read too of the altar, that God
+spake to Moses: &lsquo;Thou shalt <em>cleanse</em> the altar,
+when thou makest atonement for it, and thou shalt
+anoint it, to <em>sanctify</em> it&rsquo; (Ex. xxix. 36). Cleansing
+<a name="png.210" id="png.210"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">211</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>must ever prepare the way, and ought always to
+lead on to holiness.</p>
+
+<p>Paul speaks of a twofold defilement, of flesh and
+spirit, from which we must cleanse ourselves. The
+connection between the two is so close, that in
+every sin both are partakers. The lowest and
+most carnal form of sin will enter the spirit, and,
+dragging it down into partnership in crime, will
+defile and degrade it. And so will all defilement
+of spirit in course of time show its power in the
+flesh. Still we may speak of the two classes of
+sins as they owe their origin more directly to the
+flesh or the spirit.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of
+flesh.</em>&rsquo; The functions of our body may be classed
+under the three heads of the nourishment, the
+propagation, and the protection of our life. Through
+the first the world daily solicits our appetite with
+its food and drink. As the fruit good for food
+was the temptation that overcame Eve, so the
+pleasures of eating and drinking are among the
+earliest forms of defilement of the flesh. Closely
+connected with this is what we named second, and
+which is in Scripture specially connected with the
+word flesh. We know how in Paradise the sinful
+eating was at once followed by the awakening of
+sinful lust and of shame. In his First Epistle to
+the Corinthians, Paul closely connects the two
+(1 Cor. vi. 13, 15), as he also links drunkenness
+and impurity (1 Cor. vi. 9, 10). Then comes
+the  third form in which the vitality of the body
+<a name="png.211" id="png.211"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">212</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>displays itself: the instinct of self-preservation,
+setting itself against everything that interferes
+with our pleasures and comfort. What is called
+temper, with its fruits of anger and strife, has its
+roots in the physical constitution, and is one among
+the sins of the flesh. From all this, the Christian,
+who would be holy, must most determinedly cleanse
+himself. He must yield himself to the searching of
+God&#8217;s Spirit, to be taught what there is in the flesh
+that is not in harmony with the temperance and
+self-control demanded both by the law of nature
+and the law of the Spirit. He must believe, what
+Paul felt that the Corinthians so emphatically
+needed to be taught, that the Holy Spirit dwells in
+the body, making its members the members of
+Christ, and in this faith put off the works of the
+flesh; he must cleanse himself from all defilement of
+flesh.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<em>And of spirit.</em>&rsquo; As the source of all defilement
+of the flesh is self-gratification, so self-seeking
+is at the root of all defilement of the spirit. In
+relation to God, it manifests itself in idolatry, be it in
+the worship of other gods after our own heart, the
+love of the world more than God, or the doing our
+will rather than His. In relation to our fellow-men
+it shows itself in envy, hatred, and want of love,
+cold neglect or harsh judging of others. In relation
+to ourselves it is seen as pride, ambition, or envy,
+the disposition that makes self the centre round
+which all must move, and by which all must be
+judged.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.212" id="png.212"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">213</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>For the discovery of such defilement of spirit, no
+less than of the sins of the flesh, the believer needs
+the light of the Holy Spirit; that the uncleanness
+may indeed be cleansed out and cast away for ever.
+Even unconscious sin, if we are not earnestly willing
+to have it shown to us, will most effectually prevent
+our progress in the path of holiness.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Beloved! let us cleanse ourselves.</em>&rsquo; The cleansing
+is sometimes spoken of as the work of God (Acts xv.
+9; 1 John i. 9); sometimes as that of Christ (John
+xv. 3; Eph. v. 26; Tit. ii. 14). Here we are commanded
+to cleanse ourselves. God does His work
+in us by the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit does His
+work by stirring us up and enabling us to do. The
+Spirit is the strength of the new life; in that
+strength we must set ourselves determinedly to cast
+out whatever is unclean. &lsquo;Come out, and be ye
+separate, and touch not the unclean thing.&rsquo; It is
+not only the doing what is sinful, it is not only the
+willing of it, that the Christian must avoid, but even
+the touching it: the involuntary contact with it
+must be so unbearable as to force the cry, O
+wretched man that I am! and to lead on to the
+deliverance which the Spirit of the life of Christ
+does bring.</p>
+
+<p>And how is this cleansing to be done? When
+Hezekiah called the priests to sanctify the temple
+that had been defiled, we read (2 Chron. xxix.), &lsquo;The
+priests went in unto the inner part of the house
+of the Lord to cleanse it, and brought out all the
+uncleanness that they found.&rsquo; Only then could the
+<a name="png.213" id="png.213"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">214</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>sin-offering of atonement and the burnt-offering of
+consecration, with the thankofferings, be brought, and
+God&#8217;s service be restored. Even thus must all that
+is unclean be looked out, and brought out, and
+utterly cast out. However deeply rooted the sin
+may appear, rooted in constitution and habit, we
+must cleanse ourselves of it if we would be holy.
+&lsquo;If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, the
+blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.&rsquo; As
+we bring out every sin from the inner part of the
+house into the light of God and walk in the light,
+the precious blood that justifies will work mightily
+to cleanse too: the blood brings into living contact
+with the life and the love of God. Let us come
+into the light with the sin: the blood will prove
+its mighty power. Let us cleanse ourselves in
+yielding ourselves to the light to reveal and condemn,
+to the blood to cleanse and sanctify.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Let us cleanse ourselves, <em>perfecting holiness in
+the fear of the Lord</em>.&rsquo; We read in Hebrews (x. 14),
+&lsquo;Christ hath perfected forever them that are <ins class="TN" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original reads 'sancti-tified'">sanctified</ins>.&rsquo;
+As we have so often seen that what God has
+made holy man must make holy too, as he accepts and
+appropriates the holiness God has bestowed, so here
+with the perfection which the saints have in Christ.
+We must perfect holiness: holiness must be carried
+out into the whole of life, and carried on even to its
+end. As God&#8217;s holy ones, we must go on to perfection,
+perfecting holiness. Do not let us be afraid of
+the word. Our Blessed Lord used it when He gave
+us the command, &lsquo;Be ye perfect, even as your Father
+<a name="png.214" id="png.214"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">215</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in heaven is perfect.&rsquo; A child striving after the
+perfection in knowledge of his profession, which he
+hopes to attain when he has finished school, is told
+by his teacher that the way to the perfection he
+hopes for at the end of his course is to seek to be
+perfect in the lessons of each day. To be perfect in
+the small portion of the work that each hour brings,
+is the path to the perfection that will crown the
+whole. The Master calls us to a perfection like
+that of the Father: He hath already perfected us
+in Himself: He holds out the prospect of perfection
+ever growing. His word calls us here day by day
+to be perfecting holiness. Let us seek in each duty
+to be whole-hearted and entire. Let us, as teachable
+scholars, in every act of worship or obedience, in
+every temptation and trial, do the very best which
+God&#8217;s Spirit can enable us to do. &lsquo;Let patience
+have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
+entire, lacking in nothing.&rsquo; &lsquo;The God of peace
+make you perfect in every good work to do His will.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<em>Having therefore these promises</em>, beloved, let us
+cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and
+spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.&rsquo; It is
+faith that gives the courage and the power to cleanse
+from all defilement, perfecting holiness in the fear
+of God. It is as the promises of the Divine love
+and indwelling (2 Cor. vi 16&ndash;18) are made ours
+by the Holy spirit, that we shall share the victory
+which overcometh the world, even our faith. In the
+path along which we have already come, from the rest
+in Paradise down through Holy Scripture, we have
+<a name="png.215" id="png.215"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">216</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>seen the wondrous revelation of these promises in
+ever-growing splendour. That God the Holy One
+will make us holy; that God the Holy One will
+dwell with the lowly; that God in His Holy One
+has come to be our holiness; that God has planted
+us in Christ that He may be our sanctification;
+that God, who chose us in sanctification of the Spirit,
+has given us the Holy Spirit in our hearts, and now
+watches over us in His love to work out through
+Him His purposes and to perfect our holiness: such
+are the promises that have been set before us.
+&lsquo;Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us
+cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and
+spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Beloved brother! see here again God&#8217;s way of
+holiness. Arise and step on to it in the faith of
+the promise, fully persuaded that what He hath
+promised He is mighty to perform. Bring out of
+the inner part of the house all uncleanness; bring
+it into the light of God; confess it and cast it at
+His feet, who takes it away, and cleanses you in
+His blood. Yield yourself in faith to perfect, in
+Christ your Strength, the Holiness to which you are
+called. As your Father in heaven is perfect, give
+yourself to Him as a little child to be perfect too in
+your daily lessons and your daily walk. Believe
+that your surrender is accepted: that the charge
+committed to Him is undertaken. And give glory
+to Him who is able to do above what you can ask
+or think.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.216" id="png.216"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">217</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Holy Lord Jesus! Thou didst give Thyself for us,
+that, having cleansed us for Thyself as Thine own,
+Thou mightest sanctify us and present us to Thyself
+a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or
+any such thing. Blessed be Thy Name for the
+wonderful love. Blessed be Thy Name for the
+wonderful cleansing. Through the washing by the
+word and the washing in the blood, Thou hast made
+us clean every whit. And as we walk in the light,
+Thou cleansest every moment.</p>
+
+<p>With these promises, in the power of Thy word
+and blood, Thou callest us to cleanse ourselves from
+all defilement of flesh and spirit. Blessed Lord!
+graciously reveal in Thy Holy Light all that is defilement,
+even its most secret working. Let me live as
+one who is to be presented to Thee without spot or
+wrinkle or any such thing&mdash;cleansed with a Divine
+cleansing, because Thou gavest Thyself to do it.
+Under the living power of Thy word and blood,
+applied by the Holy Spirit, let my way be clean,
+and my hands clean, my lips clean, and my heart
+clean. Cleanse me thoroughly, that I may walk
+with Thee in white here on earth, keeping my
+garments unspotted and undefiled. For Thy great
+love&#8217;s sake, my Blessed Lord. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Cleansing has almost always one aim: a cleansed vessel is fit for use.
+Spiritual work done for God, with the honest desire that He may through
+His Spirit use us, will give urgency to our desire for cleansing. A vessel
+not cleansed cannot be used: is not this the reason that there are some workers
+God cannot bless?</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. <strong>All</strong> defilement: one stain defiles. &lsquo;Let us cleanse ourselves from <strong>all</strong>
+defilement.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. No cleansing without Light. Open the heart for the Light to shine in.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="png.217" id="png.217"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">218</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>4. No cleansing like fire. Give the defilement over to the fire of His Holiness,
+the fire that consumes and purifies. Give it into the death of Jesus, to Jesus
+Himself.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. &lsquo;Perfecting holiness in <strong>the fear of God</strong>:&rsquo; it is a solemn work. Rejoice
+with trembling&mdash;work out your salvation with fear and trembling.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. &lsquo;Having these promises,&rsquo; it is a blessed work to cleanse ourselves&mdash;entering
+into the promises, the purity, the love of our Lord. The fear of God need never
+hinder the faith in Him. And true faith will never hinder the practical work
+of cleansing.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>7. <strong>If we walk in the light, the blood cleanseth.</strong> The light reveals; we
+confess and forsake, and accept the blood; so we cleanse ourselves. Let
+there be a very determined purpose to be clean from all defilement, everything
+that our Father considers a stain.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.218" id="png.218"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">219</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-fifth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap25.png" width="239" height="29"
+ alt="Holy and Blameless." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Ye are witnesses, and God also, how <em>holily</em> and justly and
+<em>unblameably</em> we behaved ourselves among you that believe.&mdash;The
+Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward
+another, and toward all men, to the end He may stablish your
+hearts <em>unblameable in holiness</em> before our God and Father at the
+coming of our Lord Jesus with all His <em>holy ones</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Thess.</span> ii. 10,
+iii. 12,&nbsp;13.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that
+we should be <em>holy and without blemish</em> before Him <em>in love</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Eph.</span>
+i.&nbsp;4.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">There</span> are two Greek words, signifying nearly
+the same, used frequently along with the word
+holy, and following it, to express what the result
+and effect of holiness will be as manifested in the
+visible life. The one is translated without blemish,
+spotless, and is that also used of our Lord and His
+sacrifice, the Lamb without blemish (Heb. ix. 14;
+1 Pet. i. 19). It is then used of God&#8217;s children
+with holy&mdash;holy and without blemish (Eph. i. 4, 5,
+27; Col. i. 22; Phil. ii. 15; Jude 24; 2 Pet. iii.
+14). The other is without blame, faultless (as in
+<a name="png.219" id="png.219"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">220</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Luke i. 6; Phil ii. 15, iii. 6), and is also found in
+conjunction with holy (1 Thess. ii. 10, iii. 13, v. 23).
+In answer to the question as to whether this blamelessness
+has reference to God&#8217;s estimate of the saints
+or men&#8217;s, Scripture clearly connects it with both. In
+some passages (Eph. i. 4, v. 27; Col. i. 22; 1 Thess.
+iii. 15; 2 Pet. iii. 14) the words &lsquo;before Him,&rsquo; &lsquo;to Himself,&rsquo;
+&lsquo;before our God and Father,&rsquo; indicate that the
+first thought is of the spotlessness and faultlessness
+in the presence of a Holy God, which is held out to us
+as His purpose and our privilege. In others (such as
+Phil. ii. 15; 1 Thess. ii. 10), the blamelessness in the
+sight of men stands in the foreground. In each case
+the word may be considered to include both aspects:
+without blemish and without blame must stand the
+double test of the judgment of God and man too.</p>
+
+<p>And what is now the special lesson which this
+linking together of these two words in Scripture,
+and the exposition of holy by the addition of
+blameless, is meant to teach us? A lesson of
+deep importance. In the pursuit of holiness, the
+believer, the more clearly he realizes what a deep
+spiritual blessing it is, to be found only in separation
+from the world, and direct fellowship with God,
+to be possessed fully only through a real Divine
+indwelling, may be in danger of looking too
+exclusively to the Divine side of the blessing, in
+its heavenly and supernatural aspect. He may
+forget how repentance and obedience, as the path
+leading up to holiness, must cover every, even the
+minutest detail of daily life. He may not understand
+<a name="png.220" id="png.220"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">221</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>how faithfulness to the leadings of the Spirit,
+in such measure as we have Him already, faithfulness
+to His faintest whisper in reference to
+ordinary conduct, is essential to all fuller experience
+of His power and work as the Spirit of holiness.
+He may, above all, not have learnt how, not only
+obedience to what he knows to be God&#8217;s will,
+but a very tender and willing teachableness to
+receive all that the Spirit has to show him of his
+imperfections and the Father&#8217;s perfect will concerning
+him, is the only condition on which the Holiness
+of God can be more fully revealed to us and
+in us. And so, while most intent on trying to
+discover the secret of true and full holiness from
+the Divine side, he may be tolerating faults which
+all around him can notice, or remaining,&mdash;and that
+not without sin, because it comes from the want
+of perfect teachableness,&mdash;ignorant of graces and
+beauties of holiness with which the Father would
+have had him adorn the doctrine of holiness before
+men. He may seek to live a very holy, and yet
+think little of a perfectly blameless life.</p>
+
+<p>There have been such saints, holy but hard,
+holy but distant, holy but sharp in their judgments
+of others; holy, but men around said,
+unloving and selfish; the half-heathen Samaritan
+more kind and self-sacrificing than the holy Levite
+and priest. If this be true, it is not the teaching
+of Holy Scripture that is to blame. In linking
+holy and without blemish (or without blame) so
+closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek
+<a name="png.221" id="png.221"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">222</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power
+in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life.
+Let every believer who rejoices in God&#8217;s declaration
+that he is holy in Christ seek also to perfect
+holiness, reach out after nothing less than to be
+&lsquo;unblameable in holiness.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>That this blamelessness has very special reference
+to our intercourse with our fellow-men we see from
+the way in which it is linked with love. So in
+Eph. i. 4, &lsquo;That we should be holy and without
+blemish before Him <em>in love</em>.&rsquo; But specially in that
+remarkable passage: &lsquo;The Lord make you to <em>increase
+and abound in love</em> toward one another, and toward
+all men, <em>to the end He may establish your hearts
+unblameable in holiness</em>.&rsquo; The holiness and the
+blamelessness, the positive hidden Divine life-principle,
+and the external and human life-practice&mdash;both
+are to find their strength, by which we are to
+be established in them, in our abounding and ever-flowing
+love.</p>
+
+<p>Holiness and lovingness&mdash;it is of deep importance
+that these words should <ins class="TN" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original reads 'he'">be</ins> inseparably linked
+in our minds, as their reality in our lives. We
+have seen, in the study of the holiness of God, how
+love is the element in which it dwells and works,
+drawing to itself and making like itself all that it
+can get possession of. Of the fire of Divine holiness
+love is the beautiful flame, reaching out to
+communicate itself and assimilate to itself all it can
+lay hold of. In God&#8217;s children true holiness is the
+same; the Divine fire burns to bring into its own
+<a name="png.222" id="png.222"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">223</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>blessedness all that comes within its reach. When
+Jesus sanctified Himself that we might be sanctified
+in truth, that was nothing but love giving itself
+to the death that the sinful might share His holiness.
+Selfishness and holiness are irreconcilable.
+Ignorance may think of sanctity as a beautiful
+garment with which to adorn itself before God,
+while underneath there is a selfish pride saying, &lsquo;I
+am holier than thou,&rsquo; and quite content that the
+other should want what it boasts of. True holiness,
+on the contrary, is the expulsion and the death of
+selfishness, taking possession of heart and life to be
+the ministers of that fire of love that consumes
+itself, to reach and purify and save others. Holiness
+is love. Abounding love is what Paul prays
+for as the condition of unblameable holiness. It
+is as <em>the Lord makes</em> us to increase and abound in
+love, that <em>He can establish</em> our hearts unblameable
+in holiness.</p>
+
+<p>The Apostle speaks of a twofold love, &lsquo;love toward
+each other, and toward all men.&rsquo; Love to the
+brethren was what our Lord Himself enjoined as
+the chief mark of discipleship. And He prayed the
+Father for it as the chief proof to the world of the
+truth of His Divine mission. It is in the holiness
+of love, in a loving holiness, that the unity of the
+body will be proved and promoted, and prepared for
+the fuller workings of the Holy Spirit. In the
+Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians, division
+and distance among believers are named as the sure
+proof of the life of self and the flesh. Oh, let us,
+<a name="png.223" id="png.223"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">224</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>if we would be holy, begin by being very gentle,
+and patient, and forgiving, and kind, and generous
+in our intercourse with all the Father&#8217;s children.
+Let us study the Divine image of the love that
+seeketh not its own, and pray unceasingly that the
+Lord may make us to abound in love to each other.
+The holiest will be the humblest and most self-forgetting,
+the gentlest and most self-denying, the
+kindest and most thoughtful of others for Jesus&#8217;
+sake. &lsquo;Put on therefore, as God&#8217;s elect, <em>holy and
+beloved</em>, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility,
+meekness, long-suffering&rsquo; (Col. iii. 12,&nbsp;13).</p>
+
+<p>And then the love toward all men. A love proved
+in the conduct and intercourse of daily life. A love
+that not only avoids anger and evil temper and
+harsh judgments, but exhibits the more positive
+virtue of active devotion to the welfare and interests
+of all. A charitable love that cares for the bodies as
+well as the souls. A love that not only is ready to
+help when it is called, but that really gives itself
+up to self-denial and self-sacrifice to seek out and
+relieve the needs of the most wretched and unworthy.
+A love that does indeed take Christ&#8217;s love,
+that brought Him from heaven and led Him to
+choose the cross, as the only law and measure for
+its conduct, and makes everything subordinate to
+the Godlike blessedness of giving, of doing good, of
+embracing and saving the needy and lost. Thus
+abounding in love, we shall be unblameable in
+holiness.</p>
+
+<p>It is in Christ we are holy; of God we are in
+<a name="png.224" id="png.224"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">225</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Christ, who is made of God unto us sanctification:
+it is in this faith that Paul prays that the Lord, our
+Lord Jesus, may make us increase and abound in
+love. The Father is the fountain, He is the
+channel; the Holy Spirit is the living stream. And
+He is our Life, through the Spirit. It is by faith
+in Him, by abiding in Him and in His love, by
+allowing, in close union with Him, the Spirit to shed
+abroad the love of God, that we shall receive the
+answer to our prayer, and shall by Himself be
+established unblameable in holiness. Let it be with
+us a prayer of faith that changes into praise:
+Blessed be the Lord, who will make us increase and
+abound in love, and will establish us unblameable
+in holiness before our God and Father, at the
+coming of our Lord Jesus with His holy ones.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Gracious God and Father! again do I
+thank Thee for that wondrous salvation, through
+sanctification of the Spirit, which has made us
+holy in Christ. And I thank Thee that the
+Spirit can so make us partakers of the life of
+Christ, that we too may be unblameable in holiness.
+And that it is the Lord Himself who makes us to
+increase and abound in love, to the end our hearts
+may be so established; that the abounding love and
+the unblameable holiness are both from Him.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Lord and Saviour! I come now to
+claim and take as my own, what Thou art able to
+<a name="png.225" id="png.225"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">226</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>do for me. I am holy only in Thee; in Thee I am
+holy. In Thee there is for me the power to abound
+in love. O Thou, in whom the fulness of God&#8217;s
+love abides, and in whom I abide, the Lord, my
+Lord, make me to abound in love. In union with
+Thee, in the life of faith in which Thou livest in
+me, it can be and it shall be. By the teaching of
+Thy Holy Spirit lead me in all the footsteps of Thy
+self-denying love, that I too may be consumed in
+blessing others.</p>
+
+<p>And thus, Lord! mightily establish my heart to
+be unblameable in holiness. Let self perish at Thy
+presence. Let Thy Holiness, giving itself to make
+the sinner holy, take entire possession, until my
+heart and life are sanctified wholly, and my whole
+spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless
+unto Thy coming. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Let us pray very earnestly that our interest in the study of holiness
+may not be a thing of the intellect or the emotions, but of the will and the
+life, seen of all men in the daily walk and conversation. &lsquo;Abounding in
+love,&rsquo; &lsquo;unblameable in holiness,&rsquo; will give favour with God and man.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. &lsquo;God is Love;&rsquo; Creation is the outflow of love. Redemption is the sacrifice
+and the triumph of love. Holiness is the fire of love. The beauty of
+the life of Jesus is love. All we enjoy of the Divine we owe to love. Our
+holiness is not God&#8217;s, is not Christ&#8217;s, if we do not love.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. &lsquo;Love seeketh not its own.&rsquo; &lsquo;Love never faileth.&rsquo; &lsquo;Love is the fulfilling
+of the law.&rsquo; &lsquo;The greatest of these is love.&rsquo; &lsquo;The end of the commandment
+is love.&rsquo; To love God and man is to be holy. In the intercourse of daily
+life, holiness can have its simple and sweet beginnings and its exercise; so,
+in its highest attainment, holiness is love made perfect.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Faith has all its worth from love, from the love of God, whence it draws
+and drinks, and the love to God and man which streams out of it. Let us be
+strong in faith, then shall we abound in love.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. &lsquo;The love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
+which was given unto us.&rsquo; Let this be our confidence.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.226" id="png.226"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">227</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-sixth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap26.png" width="290" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and the Will of God." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;This is <em>the will of God</em>, even your <em>sanctification</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Thess.</span>
+iv.&nbsp;3.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Lo, I am come to do <em>Thy will</em>. By <em>which will</em> we have been
+<em>sanctified</em>, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
+for all.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Heb.</span> x. 9,&nbsp;10.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">In</span> the will of God we have the union of His
+Wisdom and Power. The Wisdom decides and
+declares what is to be: the Power secures the performance.
+The declarative will is only one side; its
+complement, the executive will, is the living energy
+in which everything good has its origin and existence.
+So long as we only look at the will of God
+in the former light, as law, we feel it a burden,
+because we have not the power to perform&mdash;it is too
+high for us. When faith looks to the Power that
+works in God&#8217;s will, and carries it out, it has the
+courage to accept it and fulfil it, because it knows
+God Himself is working it out. The surrender in
+faith to the Divine will as Wisdom thus becomes the
+pathway to the experience of it as a Power. &lsquo;He
+<a name="png.227" id="png.227"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">228</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>doeth according to His will,&rsquo; is then the language not
+only of forced submission, but of joyful expectation.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;This is the will of God, your sanctification.&rsquo; In
+the ordinary acceptation of these words, they simply
+mean that among many other things that God has
+willed, sanctification is one; it is something in accordance
+with His will. This thought contains teaching
+of great value. God very distinctly and definitely
+has willed your sanctification: your sanctification
+has its source and certainty in its being God&#8217;s will.
+We are &lsquo;elect in sanctification of the Spirit,&rsquo; &lsquo;chosen
+to be holy;&rsquo; the purpose of God&#8217;s will from eternity,
+and His will now, is our sanctification. We have
+only to think of what we said of God&#8217;s will being a
+Divine power that works out what His wisdom has
+chosen, to see what strength this truth will give to
+our faith that we shall be holy: God wills it, and
+will work it out for all and in all who do not resist
+it, but yield themselves to its power. Seek your
+sanctification, not only in the will of God, as a
+declaration of what He wants you to be, but as
+a revelation of what He Himself will work out in
+you.</p>
+
+<p>There is, however, another most precious thought
+suggested. If our sanctification be God&#8217;s will, its
+central thought and its contents, <em>every part of that will</em>
+must bear upon it, and the sure entrance to sanctification
+will be the hearty acceptance of the will of God
+in all things. To be one with God&#8217;s will is to be
+holy. Let him who would be holy take his place
+here and &lsquo;stand in all the will of God.&rsquo; He will there
+<a name="png.228" id="png.228"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">229</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>meet God Himself, and be made partaker of His
+Holiness, because His will works out its purpose in
+power to each one who yields himself to it. Everything
+in a life of holiness depends upon our being in
+the right relation to the will of God.</p>
+
+<p>There are many Christians to whom it appears
+impossible to think of their accepting all the will of
+God, or of their being one with it. They look upon
+the will of God in its thousand commands, and
+its numberless providential orderings. They have
+sometimes found it so hard to obey one single command,
+or to give up willingly to some light disappointment.
+They imagine that they would need
+to be a thousandfold holier and stronger in grace,
+before venturing to say that they do accept all
+God&#8217;s will, whether to do or to bear. They cannot
+understand that all the difficulty comes from their
+not occupying the right standpoint. They are
+looking at God&#8217;s will as at variance with their
+natural will, and they feel that that natural will
+will never delight in all God&#8217;s will. They forget that
+the new man has a renewed will. This new will
+delights in the will of God, because it is born of it.
+This new will sees the beauty and the glory of God&#8217;s
+will, and is in harmony with it. If they are indeed
+God&#8217;s children, the very first impulse of the spirit of
+a child is surely to do the will of the Father in
+heaven. And they have but to yield themselves
+heartily and wholly to this spirit of sonship, and
+they need not fear to accept God&#8217;s will as theirs.</p>
+
+<p>The mistake they make is a very serious one.
+<a name="png.229" id="png.229"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">230</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Instead of living by faith they judge by feeling, in
+which the old nature speaks and rules. It tells
+them that God&#8217;s will is often a burden too hard to
+be borne, and that they never can have the strength
+to do it. Faith speaks differently. It reminds us
+that God is Love, and that His will is nothing but
+Love revealed. It asks if we do not know that there
+is nothing more perfect or beautiful in heaven or
+earth than the will of God. It shows us how in
+our conversion we have already professed to accept
+God as Father and Lord. It assures us, above all,
+that if we will but definitely and trustingly give
+ourselves to that will which is Love, it will as Love
+fill our hearts and make us delight in it, and so
+become the power that enables us joyfully to do
+and to bear. Faith reveals to us that the will of God
+is the power of His love, working out its plan in
+Divine beauty in each one who wholly yields to it.</p>
+
+<p>And which shall we now choose? And where
+shall we take our place? Shall we attempt to accept
+Christ as a Saviour without accepting His will? Shall
+we profess to be the Father&#8217;s children, and yet spend
+our life in debating how much of His will we shall
+perform? Shall we be content to go on from day
+to day with the painful consciousness that our will
+is not in harmony with God&#8217;s will? Or shall we not
+at once and for ever give up our will as sinful to His,&mdash;to
+that Will which He has already written on our
+heart? This is a thing that is possible. It can be
+done. In a simple, definite transaction with God,
+we can say that we do accept His holy will to be
+<a name="png.230" id="png.230"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">231</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>ours. Faith knows that God will not pass such a
+surrender unnoticed, but accept it. In the trust that
+He now takes us up into His will, and undertakes to
+breathe it into us, with the love and the power to
+perform it&mdash;in this faith let us enter into God&#8217;s
+will, and begin a new life; standing in, abiding in
+the very centre of this most holy will.</p>
+
+<p>Such an acceptance of God&#8217;s will prepares the
+believer, through the Holy Spirit, to recognise and
+know that will in whatever form it comes. The
+great difference between the carnal and the spiritual
+Christian is that the latter acknowledges God, under
+whatever low and poor and human appearances He
+manifests Himself. When God comes in trials which
+can be traced to no hand but His, he says, &lsquo;Thy will
+be done.&rsquo; When trials come through the weakness
+of men or his own folly, when circumstances appear
+unfavourable to his religious progress, and temptations
+threaten to be too much for him and to overcome
+him, he learns first of all to see God in everything,
+and still to say, &lsquo;Thy will be done.&rsquo; He knows that
+a child of God cannot possibly be in any situation
+without the will of His Heavenly Father, even when
+that will has been to leave him to his own wilfulness
+for a time, or to suffer the consequences of his own
+or others&#8217; sin. He sees this, and in accepting his
+circumstances as the will of God to try and prove him,
+he is in the right position for now knowing and doing
+what is right. Seeing and honouring God&#8217;s will thus
+in everything, he learns always to abide in that will.</p>
+
+<p>He does so also by doing that will. As his
+<a name="png.231" id="png.231"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">232</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>spiritual discernment grows to say of whatever
+happens, &lsquo;All things are of God,&rsquo; so he grows too
+in wisdom and spiritual understanding to know the
+will of God as it is to be done. In the indications
+of conscience and of Providence, in the teaching of
+the word and the Spirit, he learns to see how God&#8217;s
+will has reference to every part and duty of life, and
+it becomes his joy, in all things, to live, &lsquo;doing the
+will of God from the heart, as unto the Lord and not
+unto men.&rsquo; &lsquo;Labouring fervently in prayer to stand
+complete and fully assured in all the will of God,&rsquo;
+he finds how blessedly the Father has accepted his
+surrender, and supplies all the light and strength
+that is needed that His will may be done by him
+on earth as it is in heaven.</p>
+
+<p>Let me ask every reader to say to a Holy God,
+whether he has indeed given himself to Him to be
+made holy? Whether he has accepted, and entered
+into, and is living in, the good and perfect will of
+God? The question is not, whether, when affliction
+comes, he accepts the inevitable and submits to a
+will he cannot resist. But whether he has chosen
+the will of God as his chief good, and has taken the
+life-principle of Christ to be his: &lsquo;I delight to do
+Thy will, O God.&rsquo; This was the holiness of Christ,
+in which He sanctified Himself and us, the doing
+God&#8217;s will. &lsquo;In which will we have been sanctified.&rsquo;
+It is this will of God which is our
+sanctification.</p>
+
+<p>Brother! are you in earnest to be holy? wholly
+possessed of God? Here is the path. I plead with
+<a name="png.232" id="png.232"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">233</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>you not to be afraid or to hold back. You have
+taken God to be your God; have you really taken
+His will to be your will? Oh, think of the privilege,
+the blessedness, of having one will with God! and
+fear not to surrender yourself to it most unreservedly.
+The will of God is, in every part of it,
+and in all its Divine power, your sanctification.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Father! I come to say that I see that
+Thy will is my sanctification, and there alone I
+would seek it. Graciously grant that, by Thy Holy
+Spirit which dwelleth in me, the glory of that will,
+and the blessedness of abiding in it, may be fully
+revealed to me.</p>
+
+<p>Teach me to know it as the Will of Love, purposing
+always what is the very best and most blest
+for Thy child. Teach me to know it as the Will of
+Omnipotence, able to work out its every counsel in
+me. Teach me to know it in Christ, fulfilled perfectly
+on my behalf. Teach me to know it as what the
+Spirit wills and works in each one who yields to Him.</p>
+
+<p>O my Father! I acknowledge Thy claim to have
+Thy will alone done, and am here for it to do with
+me as Thou pleasest. With my whole heart I enter
+into it, to be one with it for ever. Thy Holy Spirit
+can maintain this oneness without interruption. I
+trust Thee, my Father, step by step, to let the light
+of Thy will shine in my heart and on my path,
+through that Spirit.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.233" id="png.233"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">234</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>May this be the holiness in which I live, that I
+forget and lose self in pleasing and honouring Thee.
+Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. Make it a study, in meditation and prayer and worship, to get a full
+impression of the Majesty, the Perfection, the Glory of the Will of God, with
+the privilege and possibility of living in it.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Study it, too, as the expression of an infinite Love and Fatherliness; its
+every manifestation full of loving-kindness. Every providence is <strong>God&#8217;s will</strong>;
+whatever happens, meet God in it in humble worship. Every precept is
+<strong>God&#8217;s will</strong>; meet God in it with loving obedience. Every promise is <strong>God&#8217;s
+will</strong>; meet God in it with full trust. A life in the will of God is rest and
+strength and blessing.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. And forget not, above all, to believe in its Omnipotent Power. <strong>He worketh
+all things after the counsel of His will.</strong> In nature and those who resist
+Him, without their consent. In His children, according to their faith, and as
+far as they will it. Do believe that the will of God will work out its counsel in
+you, as you trust it to do so.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. This will is Infinite Benevolence and Beneficence revealed in the self-sacrifice
+of Jesus. Live for others: so can you become an instrument for the
+Divine will to use (Matt. xviii. 14; John vi. 39, 40). Yield yourselves to this
+redeeming will of God, that it may get full possession, and work out through
+you too its saving purpose.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. Christ is just the embodiment of God&#8217;s will: He is, God&#8217;s will done.
+Abide in Him, by abiding in, by doing heartily and always, the will of God. A
+Christian is, like Christ, a man given up to the Will of God.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.234" id="png.234"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">235</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-seventh Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap27.png" width="250" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Service." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;If a man therefore cleanse himself from these, he shall be a
+vessel unto honour, <em>sanctified</em>, meet <em>for the Master&#8217;s use</em>, prepared
+<em>unto every good work</em>.&rsquo;&mdash;2&nbsp;<span class="smc">Tim.</span> ii.&nbsp;21.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;A <em>holy</em> priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices. A <em>holy</em>
+nation, that ye may <em>show forth the excellences of Him</em> who
+called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">Pet.</span>
+ii. 5,&nbsp;9.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">Through</span> the whole of Scripture we have
+seen that whatever God sanctifies is to be
+used in the service of His Holiness. His Holiness
+is an infinite energy that only finds its
+rest in making holy: to the revelation of what
+He is in Himself, &lsquo;I the Lord <em>am holy</em>,&rsquo; God
+continually adds the declaration of what He
+does, &lsquo;I am the Lord that <em>make holy</em>.&rsquo; Holiness
+is a burning fire that extends itself, that seeks to
+consume what is unholy, and to communicate its
+own blessedness to all that will receive it. Holiness
+and selfishness, holiness and inactivity, holiness and
+sloth, holiness and helplessness, are utterly irreconcilable.
+<a name="png.235" id="png.235"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">236</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Whatever we read of as holy, was taken
+into the service of the Holiness of God.</p>
+
+<p>Let us just look back on the revelation of what
+is holy in Scripture. The seventh day was made
+holy, that in it God might make His people holy.
+The tabernacle was holy, to serve as a dwelling for
+the Holy One, as the centre whence His Holiness
+might manifest itself to the people. The altar was
+most holy, that it might sanctify the gifts laid on it.
+The priests with their garments, the house with its
+furniture and vessels, the sacrifices and the blood,&mdash;whatever
+bore the name of holy had a use and a
+purpose. Of Israel, whom God redeemed from Egypt
+that they might be a <em>holy</em> nation, God said, &lsquo;Let
+my people go, that they may <em>serve</em> me.&rsquo; The holy
+angels, the holy prophets and apostles, the holy
+Scriptures,&mdash;all bore the title as having been sanctified
+for the service of God. Our Lord speaks of
+Himself &lsquo;as the Son, whom the Father <em>sanctified
+and sent</em> into the world.&rsquo; And when He says, &lsquo;I
+sanctify myself,&rsquo; He adds at once the purpose: it is
+in the service of the Father and His redeemed ones,&mdash;&lsquo;that
+they themselves may be sanctified in truth.&rsquo;
+And can it be thought possible, now that God, in
+Christ the Holy One, and in the Holy Spirit, is
+accomplishing His purpose, and gathering a people
+of saints, &lsquo;holy ones,&rsquo; &lsquo;made holy in Christ,&rsquo; that now
+holiness and service would be put asunder? Impossible!
+Here first we shall fully realize how
+essential they are to each other. Let us try and
+grasp their mutual relation. We are only made
+<a name="png.236" id="png.236"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">237</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>holy that we may serve. We can only serve as we
+are holy.</p>
+
+<p><em>Holiness is essential to effectual service.</em> In the
+Old Testament we see degrees of holiness, not only
+in the holy places, but as much in the holy persons.
+In the nation, the Levites, the priests, and then
+the High Priest, there is an advance from step to
+step: as in each succeeding stage the circle narrows,
+and the service is more direct and entire, so the
+holiness required is higher and more distinct. It is
+even so in this more spiritual dispensation: the
+more of holiness, the greater the fitness for service;
+the more there is of true holiness, the more there is
+of God, and the more true and deep is the entrance
+He has had into the soul. The hold He has on the
+soul to use it in His service is more complete.</p>
+
+<p>In the Church of Christ there is a vast amount
+of work done which yields very little fruit. Many
+throw themselves into work in whom there is but
+little true holiness, little of the Holy Spirit. They
+often work most diligently, and, as far as human
+influence is concerned, most successfully. And yet
+true spiritual results in the building up of a holy
+temple in the Lord are but few. The Lord cannot
+work in them, because He has not the mastery of
+their inner life. His personal indwelling and fellowship,
+the rest of His Holy Presence, His Holiness
+reigning and ruling in the heart and life,&mdash;to all these
+they are comparative strangers. It has been rightly
+said that work is the cure for spiritual poverty and
+disease; to some believers who had been seeking
+<a name="png.237" id="png.237"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">238</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>holiness apart from service, the call to work has
+been an unspeakable blessing. But to many it has
+only been an additional blind to cover up the
+terrible want of heart-holiness and heart-fellowship
+with the living God. They have thrown themselves
+into work more earnestly than ever, and yet have
+not in their heart the rest-giving and refreshing
+witness that their work is acceptable and accepted.</p>
+
+<p>My brother! listen to the message. &lsquo;If a man
+<em>cleanse</em> himself, he shall be a vessel unto honour,
+<em>sanctified</em>, <em>meet</em> for the Master&#8217;s use, <em>prepared</em> unto
+every good work.&rsquo; You cannot have the law of
+service more clearly or beautifully laid down. A
+vessel of honour, one whom the King will delight
+to honour, must be a vessel <em>cleansed</em> from all
+defilement of flesh and spirit. Then only can it
+be a <em>sanctified</em> vessel, possessed and indwelt by
+God&#8217;s Holy Spirit. So it becomes <em>meet for the
+Master&#8217;s use</em>. He can use it, and work in it, and
+wield it. And so, clean and holy, and yielded into
+the Master&#8217;s hands, we are Divinely prepared for
+every good work. Holiness is essential to service.
+If service is to be acceptable to God, and effectual
+for its work on souls, and to be a joy and a strength
+to ourselves, we must be holy. The will of God
+must first live in us, if it is to be done by us.</p>
+
+<p>How many faithful workers there are, mourning
+the want of power; longing and praying for it, and
+yet not obtaining it! They have spent their strength
+more in the outer court of work and service, than
+in the inner life of fellowship and faith. They
+<a name="png.238" id="png.238"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">239</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>truly have never understood that only as the Master
+gets possession of them, as the Holy Spirit has them
+at His disposal, can He use them, can they have
+true power. They often long and cry for what
+they call a baptism of power. They forget that the
+way to have God&#8217;s power in us is for ourselves to
+be in His power. Put yourself into the power of
+God; let His holy will live in you; live in it and in
+obedience to it, as one who has no power to dispose
+of himself; let the Holy Spirit dwell within, as in
+His Holy Temple, revealing the Holy One on the
+throne, ruling all; He will without fail use you as a
+vessel of honour, sanctified and meet for the Master&#8217;s
+use. Holiness is essential to effectual service.</p>
+
+<p><em>And service is no less essential to true holiness.</em>
+We have repeated it so often: Holiness is an energy,
+an intense energy of desire and self-sacrifice, to make
+others partakers of its own purity and perfection.
+Christ sacrificed Himself&mdash;wherein did that sacrifice
+consist, and what was its aim? He sanctified Himself
+that we might be sanctified too. A holiness
+that is selfish is a delusion. True holiness, God&#8217;s
+holiness in us, works itself out in love, in seeking
+and loving the unholy, that they may become
+holy too. Self-sacrificing love is of the very essence
+of holiness. The Holy One of Israel is its
+Redeemer. The Holy One of God is the dying
+Saviour. The Holy Spirit of God makes holy.
+There is no holiness in God but what is most
+actively engaged in loving and saving and blessing.
+It must be so in us too. Let every thought of holiness,
+<a name="png.239" id="png.239"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">240</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>every act of faith or prayer, every effort in
+pursuit of it, be animated by the desire and the
+surrender to the Holiness of God for use in the
+attaining of its object. Let your whole life be one
+distinctly and definitely given up to God for His
+use and service. Your circumstances may appear
+to be unfavourable. God may appear to keep the
+door closed against your working for Him in the
+way you would wish; your sense of unfitness
+may be painful. Still, let it be a matter settled
+between God and the soul, that your longing for
+holiness is that you may be fitter for Him to use,
+and that what He has given you of His Holiness
+in Christ and the Spirit is all at His disposal, waiting
+to be used. Be ready for Him to use; live
+out, in a daily life of humble, self-denying, loving
+service of others, what grace you have received.
+You will find that in the union and interchange of
+worship and work, God&#8217;s Holiness will rest upon
+you.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The Father <em>sanctified</em> the Son, <em>and sent</em> Him
+into the world.&rsquo; The world is the place for the
+sanctified one, to be its light, its salt, its life. We
+are &lsquo;sanctified in Christ Jesus,&rsquo; and sent into the
+world too. Oh, let us not fear to accept our position&mdash;our
+double position; in the world, and in Christ!
+In the world, with its sin and sorrow, with its
+thousands of needs touching us at every point, and
+its millions of souls all waiting for us. And
+in Christ too. For the sake of that world we &lsquo;have
+been sanctified in Christ,&rsquo; we are &lsquo;holy in Christ,&rsquo;
+<a name="png.240" id="png.240"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">241</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>we have &lsquo;the spirit of sanctification&rsquo; dwelling in
+us. As a holy salt in a sinful world, let us give
+ourselves to our holy calling. Let us come nearer
+and nearer to God who has called us. Let us root
+deeper and deeper in Christ our sanctification, in
+whom we are of God. Let us enter more firmly
+and more fully into that faith in Him in whom we
+are, by which our whole life will be covered and
+taken up in His. Let us beseech the Father to
+teach us that His Holy Spirit does dwell in us every
+moment, making, if we live by faith, Christ with
+His Holiness, our home, our abode, our sure defence,
+and our infinite supply. As He which hath called
+us is holy, let us be holy in His own Son, through
+His own Spirit, and the fire of His Holy Love will
+work through us its work of judging and condemning,
+of saving and sanctifying. A sanctified soul God
+will use to save.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Master! I thank Thee for being anew
+reminded of the purpose of Thy Redeeming Love.
+Thou gavest Thyself that Thou mightest cleanse
+for Thyself a people of Thine own, zealous in good
+works. Thou wouldest make of each of us a vessel of
+honour, cleansed and sanctified, meet for Thy use,
+and prepared for every good work.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Lord! write the lessons of Thy word deep
+in my heart. Teach me and all Thy people that if
+we would work for Thee, if we would have Thee
+<a name="png.241" id="png.241"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">242</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>work in us, and use us, we must be very holy, holy
+as God is holy. And that if we would be holy, we
+must be serving Thee. It is Thy own Spirit, by
+which Thou dost sanctify us to use us, and dost
+sanctify in using. To be entirely possessed of Thee
+is the path to sanctity and service both.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy Saviour! we are in Thee as our
+sanctification: in Thee we would abide. In the
+rest of a faith that trusts Thee for all, in the power
+of a surrender that would have no will but Thine,
+in a love that would lose itself to be wholly Thine,
+Blessed Jesus, we do abide in Thee. In Thee we
+are holy: in Thee we shall bear much fruit.</p>
+
+<p>Oh, be pleased to perfect Thine own work in us!
+Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. It is difficult to make it clear in words how growth in holiness will simply
+reveal itself as an increasing simplicity and self-forgetfulness, accompanied
+by the restful and most blessed assurance that God has complete possession
+of us and will use us. We pass from the stage in which work presses as an
+obligation; it becomes the joy of fruit-bearing; faith&#8217;s assurance that He is
+working out His will through us.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. It has sometimes been said that people might be better employed in
+working for God than attending Holiness Conventions. This is surely a misunderstanding.
+It was before the throne of the Thrice Holy One, and as he
+heard the Seraphim sing of God&#8217;s Holiness, that the prophet said, &lsquo;Here am
+I, send me.&rsquo; As the mission of Moses, and Isaiah, and the Son, whom the
+Father <strong>sanctified and sent</strong>, each had its origin in the revelation of God&#8217;s
+Holiness, our missions will receive new power as they are more directly born
+out of the worship of God as the Holy One, and baptized into the Spirit of
+Holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Let every worker take time to hear God&#8217;s double call. If you would work,
+be very holy. If you would be holy, give yourself to God to use in His work.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Note the connection between &lsquo;sanctified&rsquo; and &lsquo;meet for <strong>the Master&#8217;s
+use</strong>.&rsquo; True holiness is being possessed of God; true service being used of God.
+How much service there is in which we are the chief agents, and ask God to
+help and to bless us. True service is being yielded up to the Master <strong>for Him
+to use</strong>. Then the Holy Ghost is the Agent, and we are the Instruments of His
+will. Such service is Holiness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. &lsquo;I sanctify <strong>Myself</strong>, that <strong>they also</strong>:&rsquo; a reference to others is the root
+principle of all true holiness.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.242" id="png.242"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">243</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-eighth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap28.png" width="293" height="29"
+ alt="The Way into the Holiest." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into <em>the
+Holiest</em> by <em>the blood</em> of Jesus, by <em>the way</em> which He dedicated,
+a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh:
+and having a <em>great Priest</em> over the house of God; let us draw
+near with a true heart, in fulness of faith.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Heb.</span> x. 19&ndash;22.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">When</span> the High Priest once a year entered
+into the second tabernacle within the veil,
+it was, we are told in the Epistle to the Hebrews,
+&lsquo;the Holy Ghost signifying that the way into <em>the
+Holiest of all</em> was not yet made manifest.&rsquo; When
+Christ died, the veil was rent; all who were
+serving in the holy place had free access at once
+into the Most Holy; the way into the Holiest of
+all was opened up. When the Epistle passes over
+to its practical application (x. 19), all its teaching
+is summed up in the words: &lsquo;Having therefore,
+brethren, boldness to enter into <em>the Holiest</em>, let
+us draw near.&rsquo; Christ&#8217;s redemption has opened
+the way to the Holiest of all: our acceptance of it
+must lead to nothing less than our drawing near
+<a name="png.243" id="png.243"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">244</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and entering in. The words of our text suggest
+to us four very precious thoughts in regard to the
+place of access, the right of access, the way of
+access, the power of access.</p>
+
+<p><i>The place of access.</i> Whither are we invited to
+draw nigh? &lsquo;Having boldness to enter into <em>the
+Holiest</em>.&rsquo; The priests in Israel might enter the
+holy place, but were always kept excluded from the
+Holiest, God&#8217;s immediate presence. The rent veil
+proclaimed liberty of access into that Presence. It
+is there that believers as a royal priesthood are
+now to live and walk. Within the veil, in the very
+Holiest of all, in the same place, the heavenlies, in
+which God dwells, in God&#8217;s very Presence, is to be
+our abode&mdash;our home. Some speak as if the,
+&lsquo;Let us draw near,&rsquo; meant prayer, and that in our
+special approach to God in acts of worship we
+enter the Holiest. No; great as this privilege
+is, God has meant something for us infinitely
+greater. We are to draw near, and dwell always,
+to live our life and do our work within the sphere,
+the atmosphere, of the inner sanctuary. It is
+God&#8217;s Presence makes holy ground; God&#8217;s immediate
+Presence in Christ makes any place the
+Holiest of all: and this is it into which we are to
+draw nigh, and in which we are to abide. There
+is not a single moment of the day, there is not
+a circumstance or surrounding, in which the believer
+may not be kept dwelling in the secret place
+of the Most High. As by faith he enters into the
+completeness of his reconciliation with God, and
+<a name="png.244" id="png.244"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">245</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the reality of his oneness with Christ, as he thus,
+abiding in Christ, yields to the Holy Spirit to
+reveal within the Presence of the Holy One, the
+Holiest of all is around him, he is indeed in it.
+With an uninterrupted access he draws near.<sup><a name="fna.13" id="fna.13"
+ href="#fn.13">13</a></sup></p>
+
+<p><i>The right of access.</i> The thought comes up, and
+the question is asked: Is this not simply an ideal?
+can it be a reality, an experience in daily life to
+those who know how sinful their nature is?
+Blessed be God! it is meant to be. It is possible,
+because our right of access rests not in what we
+are, but in the blood of Jesus. &lsquo;Having <em>boldness</em>
+to enter into the Holiest <em>by the blood</em> of Jesus,
+let us draw near.&rsquo; In the Passover we saw how
+redemption, and the holiness it aimed at, were dependent
+on the blood. In the sanctuary, God&#8217;s
+dwelling, we know how in each part, the court,
+the holy place, the Most Holy, the sprinkling of
+blood was what alone secured access to God. And
+now that the blood of Jesus has been shed&mdash;oh! in
+what Divine power, what intense reality, what
+everlasting efficacy, we now have access into the
+Holiest of all, the Most Holy of God&#8217;s heart and
+His love! We are indeed brought nigh by the
+blood. We have boldness to enter by the blood.
+&lsquo;The worshippers, being once cleansed, have no
+more conscience of sins.&rsquo; Walking in the light,
+<a name="png.245" id="png.245"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">246</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the blood of Jesus cleanses in the power of an
+endless life, with a cleansing that never ceases.
+No consciousness of unworthiness or remaining
+sinfulness need hinder the boldness of access: the
+liberty to draw near rests in the never-failing, ever-acting,
+ever-living efficacy of the Precious Blood. It
+is possible for a believer to dwell in the Holiest of all.</p>
+
+<p><i>The way of access.</i> It is often thought that
+what is said of <em>the new and living way</em>, dedicated
+for us by Jesus, means nothing different from the
+boldness through His blood. This is not the case.
+The words mean a great deal more. &lsquo;Having
+boldness <em>by the blood</em> of Jesus, let us draw near
+<em>by the way</em> which He dedicated for us.&rsquo; That is,
+He opened for us a way to walk in, as He walked
+in it, &lsquo;a new and living way, through the veil, that
+is to say, His flesh.&rsquo; The way in which Christ
+walked when He gave His blood, is the very same
+in which we must walk too. That way is the way
+of the Cross. There must not only be faith in
+Christ&#8217;s sacrifice, but fellowship with Him in it.
+That way led to the rending of the veil of the flesh,
+and so through the rent veil of the flesh, in to God.
+And was the veil of Christ&#8217;s holy flesh rent that the
+veil of our sinful flesh might be spared? Verily,
+no. He meant us to walk in the very same way in
+which He did, following closely after Himself. He
+dedicated for us a new and living way through the
+veil, that is, His flesh. As we go in through the
+rent veil of <em>His flesh</em>, we find in it at once the
+need and the power for our flesh being rent too:
+<a name="png.246" id="png.246"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">247</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>following Jesus ever means conformity to Jesus.
+It is Jesus with the rent flesh, in whom we are,
+in whom we walk.<sup><a name="fna.14" id="fna.14"
+ href="#fn.14">14</a></sup> There is no way to God but
+through the rending of the flesh. In acceptance of
+Christ&#8217;s life and death by faith as the power that
+works in us, in the power of the Spirit which
+makes us truly one with Christ, we all follow
+Christ as He passes on through the rent veil, that is,
+His flesh, and become partakers with Him of His
+crucifixion and death. The way of the cross, &lsquo;by
+which I have been crucified,&rsquo; is the way through
+the rent veil. Man&#8217;s destiny, fellowship with God
+in the power of the Holy Spirit, is only reached
+through the sacrifice of the flesh.</p>
+
+<p>And here we find now the solution of a great
+mystery&mdash;why so many Christians remain standing
+afar off, and never enter this Holiest of all;
+why the holiness of God&#8217;s Presence is so little seen
+on them. They thought that it was only in
+Christ that the flesh needed to be rent, not in
+themselves. They thought that the liberty they
+had in the blood was the new and living way.
+They knew not that the way into true and full
+holiness, into the Holiest of all, that the full
+entrance into the fellowship of the holiness of the
+Great High Priest, was only to be reached through
+<a name="png.247" id="png.247"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">248</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the rent veil of the flesh, through conformity to
+the death of Jesus. This is in very deed the way
+He dedicated for us. He is Himself the way;
+into His self-denial, His self-sacrifice, His crucifixion,
+He takes up all who long to be holy with
+His Holiness, holy as He is holy.</p>
+
+<p><i>The power of access.</i> Does any one shrink back
+from entering the very Holiest for fear of this
+rending of the flesh, because he doubts whether he
+could bear it, whether he could indeed walk in such
+a path? Let him listen once more. Hear what
+follows: &lsquo;And <em>having a Great Priest</em> over the
+House of God, let us draw near.&rsquo; We have not
+only the Holiest of all inviting us, and the blood
+giving us boldness, and the way through the rent
+veil consecrated for us, but the Great Priest over
+the House of God, the Blessed Living Saviour, to
+draw, to help, and to welcome us. He is our
+Aaron. On His heart we see our name, because
+He only lives to think of us, and pray for us.
+On His forehead we see God&#8217;s name, &lsquo;Holy to
+the Lord,&rsquo; because in His Holiness the sins of our
+holy things are covered. <em>In Him</em> we are accepted
+and sanctified; God receives us as holy ones. In
+the power of His love and His Spirit, in the power
+of Him the Holy One, in the joy of drawing nearer
+to Him and being drawn by Him, we gladly accept
+the way He has dedicated, and walk in His holy
+footsteps of self-denial and self-sacrifice. We see
+how the flesh is the thick veil that separates from
+the Holy One who is a Spirit, and it becomes an
+<a name="png.248" id="png.248"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">249</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>unceasing and most fervent prayer, that the crucifixion
+of the flesh may, in the power of the Holy
+Spirit, be in us a blessed reality. With the glory
+of the Holiest of all shining out on us through the
+opened veil, and the Precious Blood speaking so
+loudly of boldness of access, and the Great Priest
+beckoning us with His loving Presence to draw
+near and be blessed,&mdash;with all this, we dare no
+longer fear, but choose the way of the rent veil as
+the path we love to tread, and give ourselves to
+enter in and dwell within the veil, in the very
+Holiest of all.</p>
+
+<p>And so our life here will be the earnest of the
+glory that is to come, as it is written&mdash;note how
+we have the four great thoughts of our text over
+again&mdash;&lsquo;These are they which came out of great
+tribulation,&rsquo; that is, by the way of the rent flesh;
+&lsquo;and they washed their robes, and made them
+white in the blood of the Lamb,&rsquo; their boldness
+through the blood; &lsquo;therefore are they before
+the throne of God,&rsquo; their dwelling in the Holiest
+of all; &lsquo;the Lamb, which is in the midst of the
+throne, shall be their Shepherd,&rsquo; the Great Priest
+still the Shepherd, Jesus Himself their all in all.</p>
+
+<p>Brother! do you see what holiness is, and how
+it is to be found? It is not something wrought in
+yourself. It is not something put on you from
+without. Holiness is the Presence of God resting
+on you. Holiness comes as you consciously abide
+in that Presence, doing all your work, and living
+all  your  life  as   a   sacrifice  to  Him, acceptable
+<a name="png.249" id="png.249"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">250</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>through Jesus Christ, sanctified by the Holy
+Ghost. Oh, be no longer fearful, as if this life
+were not for you! Look to Jesus; having a Great
+Priest over the House of God, let us draw near.
+Be occupied with Jesus. Our Brother has charge
+of the Temple; He has liberty to show us all, to
+lead us into the secret of the Father&#8217;s presence.
+The entire management of the Temple has been
+given into His hands with this very purpose, that
+all the feeble and doubting ones might come with
+confidence. Only trust yourself to Jesus, to His
+leading and keeping. Only trust Jesus, God&#8217;s Holy
+One, your Holy One; it is His delight to reveal to
+you what He has purchased with His blood. Trust
+Him to teach you the ordinances of the sanctuary.
+&lsquo;That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to
+behave thyself in the House of God,&rsquo; He has been
+given. <em>Having a Great Priest</em>, let us enter in, let
+us dwell in the Holiest of all. In the power of
+the blood, in the power of the new and living way,
+in the power of the Living Jesus, let the Holiest of
+all, the Presence of God, be the home of our soul.
+You are &lsquo;Holy in Christ;&rsquo; in Christ you are in
+God&#8217;s Holy Presence and Love; just stay there.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+
+<p>Most Holy God! how shall I praise Thee for the
+liberty to enter into the Holiest of all, and dwell
+there? And for the precious Blood, that brings us
+nigh? And for the new and living way, through
+<a name="png.250" id="png.250"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">251</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the rent veil of that flesh which had separated us
+from Thee, in which my flesh now too has been
+crucified? And for the Great Priest over the
+House of God, our Living Lord Jesus, with Whom
+and in Whom we appear before Thee? Glory be to
+Thy Holy Name for this wonderful and most complete
+redemption.</p>
+
+<p>I beseech Thee, O my God! give me, and all Thy
+children, some right sense of how really and surely
+we may live each day, may spend our whole life,
+within the veil, in Thine own Immediate Presence.
+Give us the spirit of revelation, I pray Thee, that
+we may see how, through the rent veil, the glory of
+Thy Presence streameth forth from the Most Holy
+into the holy place; how, in the pouring out of the
+Holy Spirit, the kingdom of heaven came to earth,
+and all who yield themselves to that Spirit may
+know that in Christ they are indeed so near, so
+very near to Thee. O Blessed Father! let Thy
+Spirit teach us that this indeed is the holy life: a
+life in Christ the Holy One, always in the Light
+and the Presence of Thy Holy Majesty.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy God! I draw nigh. In the power of
+the Holy Spirit I enter in. I am now in the Holiest
+of all. And here I would abide in Jesus, my Great
+Priest&mdash;here, in the Holiest of all. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort">
+<p><i>1. To abide in Christ is to dwell in the Holiest of all. Christ is not only the
+Sacrifice, and the Way, and the Great Priest, but also Himself the Temple.
+&lsquo;The Lamb is the Temple.&rsquo; As the Holy Spirit reveals my union to Christ
+more clearly, and heart and will lose themselves in Him, I dwell in the Holy
+Presence, which is the Holiest of all. You are &lsquo;holy in Christ&rsquo;&mdash;draw near,
+enter in with boldness, and take possession&mdash;have no home but in the Holiest
+of all.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="png.251" id="png.251"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">252</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span><i>2. &lsquo;Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify
+it.&rsquo; <strong>He gave Himself!</strong> Have you caught the force of that word? Because
+He would have no one else do it, because none could do it; to sanctify His
+Church, <strong>He gave Himself</strong> to do it. And so it is His own special beloved
+work to sanctify the Church He loved. Just accept Himself to do it. He can
+and will make you holy, that He may present you to <strong>Himself</strong> glorious, without
+spot or wrinkle. Let that word <strong>Himself</strong> live in you. The whole life and
+walk in the House of God is in His charge. <strong>Having</strong> a Great Priest, let us
+draw near.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. This entrance into the Holiest of all&mdash;an ever fresh and ever deeper
+entrance&mdash;is, at the same time, an ever blessed resting in the Father&#8217;s
+Presence. Faith in the blood, following in the way of the rent flesh, and
+fellowship with the Living Jesus, are the three chief steps.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. Enter into the Holiest of all, and dwell there. It will enter into thee,
+and transform thee, and dwell in thee. And thy heart will be the Holiest of
+all, in which He dwells.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. Have we not at times been lifted, by an effort of thought and will, or in
+the fellowship of the saints, into what seemed the Holiest of all, and speedily
+felt that the flesh had entered there too? It was because we entered not by
+the new way of life&mdash;the way through death to life&mdash;the way of the rent veil
+of the flesh. O our crucified Lord! teach us what this means; give it us; be
+it Thyself to us.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>6. Let me remember that my access into the Holiest is as a Priest. Let me
+dwell before the Lord all the day as an Intercessor, offering, unceasingly,
+pleadings which are acceptable in Christ. May God&#8217;s Church be like her of
+whom it is written, &lsquo;She departed not from the temple, but served God with
+fastings and prayers night and day.&rsquo; It is for this we have access to the
+Holiest of all.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="footnote" />
+<div class="footnote pgbrk">
+<p class="ii"><a name="fn.13" id="fn.13"
+ href="#fna.13">13</a> So near, so very near to God,<br
+ /><span class="padl">I</span> cannot nearer be;<br
+ />For in the person of His Son,<br
+ /><span class="padl">I</span> am as near as He.</p>
+
+<p class="ii"><a name="fn.14" id="fn.14"
+ href="#fna.14">14</a> &lsquo;Christ suffered, that He might bring us to God, being put to
+death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit.&rsquo; &lsquo;Forasmuch
+then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with
+the same mind.&rsquo; The flesh and the Spirit are antagonistic: as the
+flesh dies, the Spirit lives.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.252" id="png.252"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">253</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Twenty-ninth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap29.png" width="317" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Chastisement." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;He chasteneth us for our profit, that we may be partakers of
+<em>His holiness</em>. Follow after <em>sanctification</em>, without which no
+man shall see the Lord.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Heb.</span> xii. 10,&nbsp;14.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">There</span> is perhaps no part of God&#8217;s word which
+sheds such Divine light upon suffering as the
+Epistle to the Hebrews. It does this because it
+teaches us what suffering was to the Son of God.
+It perfected His humanity. It so fitted Him for
+His work as the Compassionate High Priest. It
+proved that He, who had fulfilled God&#8217;s will in
+suffering obedience, was indeed worthy to be its
+executor in glory, and to sit down on the right
+hand of the Majesty on high. &lsquo;It became God,
+in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the
+Author of their salvation <em>perfect</em> through <em>sufferings</em>.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Though He was a Son, yet <em>learned</em> He <em>obedience</em> by
+the things which He <em>suffered</em>, and having been
+made <em>perfect</em>, became the Author of eternal salvation
+to all them that obey Him.&rsquo; As He said
+<a name="png.253" id="png.253"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">254</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Himself of His suffering, &lsquo;I sanctify myself,&rsquo; so we
+see here that His sufferings were indeed to Him
+the pathway to perfection and holiness.</p>
+
+<p>What Christ was and won was all for us. The
+power which suffering was proved to have in Him
+to work out perfection, the power which He imparted
+to it in sanctifying Himself through suffering,
+is the power of the new life that comes from
+Him to us. In the light of His example we can
+see, in the faith of His power we too can prove,
+that suffering is to God&#8217;s child the token of the
+Father&#8217;s love, and the channel of His richest blessing.
+To such faith the apparent mystery of suffering
+is seen to be nothing but a Divine need&mdash;the
+light affliction that works out&mdash;yea, <em>works out</em> and
+actually effects the exceeding weight of glory. We
+agree not only to what is written, &lsquo;It <em>became</em> Him
+to make the Author of salvation perfect through
+suffering,&rsquo; but understand somewhat how Divinely
+becoming and meet it is that we too should be
+sanctified by suffering.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;He chasteneth us for our profit, that we should
+be made partakers of His holiness.&rsquo; Of all the
+precious words Holy Scripture has for the sorrowful,
+there is hardly one that leads us more directly and
+more deeply into the fulness of blessing that suffering
+is meant to bring. It is <em>His Holiness</em>, God&#8217;s
+own Holiness, we are to be made partakers of.
+The Epistle had spoken very clearly of our sanctification
+from its Divine side, as wrought out for us,
+and to be wrought in us, by Jesus Himself. &lsquo;He
+<a name="png.254" id="png.254"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">255</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>which sanctifieth and they which are sanctified are
+all of one.&rsquo; &lsquo;We have been sanctified by the one
+offering of Christ.&rsquo; In our text we have the other
+side, the progressive work by which we are personally
+to accept and voluntarily to appropriate this
+Divine Holiness. In view of all there is in us that
+is at variance with God&#8217;s will, and that must be
+discovered and broken down, before we understand
+what it is to give up our will and delight in God&#8217;s;
+in view of the personal fellowship of suffering
+which alone can lead to the full appreciation of
+what Jesus bore and did for us; in view, too, of the
+full personal entrance into and satisfaction with
+the love of God as our sufficient portion; chastisement
+and suffering are indispensable elements in
+God&#8217;s work of making holy. In these three aspects
+we shall see how what the Son needed is what
+we need, how what was of such unspeakable
+value to the Son will to us be no less rich in
+blessing.</p>
+
+<p><i>Chastisement leads to the acceptance of God&#8217;s will.</i>
+We have seen how God&#8217;s will is our sanctification;
+how it is in the will of God Christ has sanctified
+us; yea more, how He found the power to sanctify
+us in sanctifying Himself by the entire surrender of
+His will to God. His &lsquo;I delight to do Thy will&rsquo;
+derived its worth from His continual &lsquo;Not my
+will.&rsquo; And wherever God comes with chastisement
+or suffering, the very first object He has in view
+is, to ask and to work in us union with His own
+blessed will, that through it we may have union
+<a name="png.255" id="png.255"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">256</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>with Himself and His love. He comes in some
+one single point in which His will crosses our most
+cherished affection or desire, and asks the surrender
+of what we will to what He wills. When this is
+done willingly and lovingly, He leads the soul on
+to see how the claim for the sacrifice in the individual
+matter is the assertion of a principle&mdash;that
+in everything His will is to be our one desire.
+Happy the soul to whom affliction is not a series
+of single acts of conflict and submission to single
+acts of His will, but an entrance into the school
+where we prove and approve all the good and
+perfect and acceptable will of God.</p>
+
+<p>It has sometimes appeared, even to God&#8217;s children,
+as if affliction were not a blessing: it so rouses
+the evil nature, and calls forth all the opposition of
+the heart against God&#8217;s will, that it has brought
+the loss of the peace and the piety that once
+appeared to reign. Even in such cases it is
+working out God&#8217;s purpose. &lsquo;That He might
+humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was
+in thine heart,&rsquo; is still His object in leading into
+the wilderness. To an extent we are not aware of,
+our religion is often selfish and superficial: when
+we accept the teaching of chastisement in discovering
+the self-will and love of the world which still
+prevails, we have learnt one of its first and most
+needful lessons.</p>
+
+<p>This lesson has special difficulty when the trial
+does not come direct from God, but through men
+or circumstances. In looking at second causes,
+<a name="png.256" id="png.256"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">257</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and in seeking for their removal, in the feeling
+of indignation or of grief, we often entirely forget
+to see God&#8217;s will in everything His Providence
+allows. As long as we do so, the chastisement is
+fruitless; and perhaps only hardens the more. If,
+in our study of the pathway of Holiness, there has
+been awakened in us the desire to accept and adore,
+and stand complete in, <em>all the will</em> of God, let
+us in the very first place seek to recognise that will
+in everything that comes on us. The sin of him
+who vexes us is not God&#8217;s will. But it is God&#8217;s
+will that we should be in that position of difficulty
+to be tried and tested. Let our first thought be:
+this position of difficulty is my Father&#8217;s will for
+me: I accept that will as my place now where He
+sees it fit to try me. Such acceptance of the trial
+is the way to turn it into blessing. It will lead
+on to an ever clearer abiding in all the will of God
+all the day.</p>
+
+<p><i>Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God&#8217;s Son.</i>
+The will of God out of Christ is a law we cannot
+fulfil. The will of God in Christ is a life that fills
+us. He came in the name of our fallen humanity,
+and accepted all God&#8217;s will as it rested on us, both
+in the demands of the law, and in the consequences
+which sin had brought upon man. He gave Himself
+entirely to God&#8217;s will, whatever it cost Him.
+And so He paved for us a way through suffering,
+not only through it in the sense of past it and
+out of it, but by means and in virtue of it, into the
+love and glory of the Father. And it is in the
+<a name="png.257" id="png.257"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">258</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>power which Christ gives in fellowship with Himself
+that we too can love the way of the Cross, as
+the best and most blessed way to the Crown.
+Scripture says that the will of God is our sanctification,
+and also that Christ is our Sanctification.
+It is only in Christ that we have the power to
+love and rejoice in the will of God. In Him we
+have the power. He became our Sanctification
+once for all by delighting to do that will; He
+becomes our Sanctification in personal experience,
+by teaching us to delight to do it. He learned
+to do it; He could not become perfect in doing
+it otherwise than by suffering. In suffering He
+draws nigh; He makes our suffering the fellowship
+of His suffering; and in it makes Himself, who was
+perfected through suffering, our Sanctification.</p>
+
+<p>O ye suffering ones! all ye whom the Father is
+chastening! come and see Jesus suffering, giving up
+His will, being made perfect, sanctifying Himself.
+<em>His suffering is the secret of His Holiness, of His
+Glory, of His Life.</em> Will you not thank God for
+anything that can admit you into the nearer fellowship
+of your blessed Lord? Shall we not accept
+every trial, great or small, as the call of His love
+to be one with Himself in living only for God&#8217;s
+will. This is Holiness, to be one with Jesus as He
+does the will of God, to abide in Jesus who was
+made perfect through suffering.</p>
+
+<p><i>Chastisement leads to the enjoyment of God&#8217;s love.</i>
+Many a father has been surprised as he made his
+first experience of how a child, after being punished
+<a name="png.258" id="png.258"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">259</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>in love, began to cling to him more tenderly than
+before. Even so, while to those who live at a distance
+from their Father, the misery in this world appears
+to be the one thing that shakes their faith in God&#8217;s
+Love, it is just through suffering that His children
+learn to know the Reality of that Love. The
+chastening is so distinctly a father&#8217;s prerogative;
+it leads so directly to the confession of its needfulness
+and its lovingness; it wakens so powerfully
+the longing for pardon and comfort and deliverance,
+that it does indeed become, strange though
+this may seem, one of the surest guides into the
+deeper experience of the Divine Love. Chastening
+is the school in which the blessed lesson is learnt
+that the will of God is all Love, and that Holiness
+is the fire of Love, consuming that it may purify,
+destroying the dross only that it may assimilate
+into its own perfect purity all that yields itself to
+the wondrous change.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;We know and have believed the love which God
+hath in us. God is love: and he that abideth in love
+abideth in God, and God in Him.&rsquo; Man&#8217;s destiny is
+fellowship with God, the fellowship, the mutual indwelling
+of love. It is only by faith that this Love
+of God can be known. And faith can only grow by
+exercise, can only thrive in trial: when visible things
+fail, its energy is roused to yield itself to be possessed
+by the Invisible, by the Divine. Chastisement is
+the nurse of faith; one of its chosen attendants, to
+lead deeper into the Love of God. This is the new
+and living way, the way of the rent flesh in fellowship
+<a name="png.259" id="png.259"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">260</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>with Jesus leading up into the Holiest of all.
+There it is seen how the Justice that will not spare
+the child, and the Love that sustains and sanctifies
+it, are both one in the Holiness of God.</p>
+
+<p>0 ye chastened saints! who are so specially being
+led in the way that goes through the rent veil of
+the flesh, you have boldness to enter in. Draw
+near; come and dwell in the Holiest of all. Make
+your abode in the Holiest of all: there you are
+made partakers of <em>His</em> Holiness. Chastisement is
+bringing your heart into unity with God&#8217;s Will,
+God&#8217;s Son, God&#8217;s Love. Abide in God&#8217;s Will. Abide
+in God&#8217;s Son. Abide in God&#8217;s Love. Dwell, within
+the veil, in the Holiest of all.</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy God! once again I bless Thee for the
+wondrous revelation of Thy Holiness. Not only
+have I heard Thee speak, &lsquo;I am holy,&rsquo; but Thou hast
+invited me to fellowship with Thyself: &lsquo;Be holy, as
+I am holy.&rsquo; Blessed be Thy name! I have heard
+more even: &lsquo;I make holy,&rsquo; is Thy word of promise,
+pledging Thine own Power to work out the purpose
+of Thy Love. I do thank Thee for what Thou hast
+revealed in Thy Son, in Thy Spirit, in Thy Word,
+of the path of Holiness. But how shall I bless
+Thee for the lesson of this day, that there is
+not a loss or sorrow, not a pain or care, not a
+temptation or trial, but Thy love also means it, and
+makes it, to be a help in working out the holiness
+<a name="png.260" id="png.260"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">261</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of Thy people. Through each Thou drawest to
+Thyself, that they may taste how, in accepting Thy
+Will of Love, there is blessing and deliverance.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Father! Thou knowest how often I
+have looked upon the circumstances and the difficulties
+of this life as hindrances. Oh, let them
+all, in the light of Thy holy purpose to make us
+partakers of Thy Holiness, in the light of Thy Will
+and Thy Love, from this hour be helps. Let, above
+all, the path of Thy Blessed Son, proving how suffering
+is the discipline of a Father&#8217;s love, and surrender
+the secret of holiness, and sacrifice the entrance to the
+Holiest of all, be so revealed that in the power of His
+Spirit and His grace that path may become mine.
+Let even chastening, even the least, be from Thine own
+hand, making me partaker of Thy Holiness. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. How wonderful the revelation in the Epistle to the Hebrews of the
+holiness and the holy making power of suffering, as seen in the Son of God!
+&lsquo;He <strong>learned obedience</strong> by the things which He suffered.&rsquo; &lsquo;It became God
+to make the Author of our salvation <strong>perfect</strong> through suffering, for both He
+that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one.&rsquo; &lsquo;In that He Himself
+hath suffered, He is <strong>able to succour</strong>.&rsquo; &lsquo;We behold Jesus, because of
+the suffering of death, <strong>crowned with glory</strong> and honour.&rsquo; Suffering is the
+way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened
+for us. Let all sufferers study this. Let all who are &lsquo;holy in Christ&rsquo; here
+learn to know the Christ <strong>in whom</strong> they are holy, and the way in which
+He sanctified Himself and sanctifies us.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. If we begin by realizing the sympathy of Jesus with us in our suffering,
+it will lead us on to what is more: sympathy with Jesus in His suffering,
+fellowship with Him to suffer even as He did.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Let suffering and holiness be inseparably linked, as in God&#8217;s mind and in
+Christ&#8217;s person, so in your life through the Spirit. &lsquo;It became God to make
+Him perfect through suffering; for both He that sanctifieth and they who are
+sanctified are all of one.&rsquo; Let <strong>every trial</strong>, small or great, be the touch of
+God&#8217;s hand, laying hold on you, to lead you to holiness. Give yourself into
+that hand.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. &lsquo;Insomuch as ye are partakers of <strong>Christ&#8217;s sufferings</strong>, rejoice; for <strong>the
+Spirit of glory</strong> and of God resteth on you.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.261" id="png.261"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">262</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Thirtieth Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap30.png" width="368" height="29"
+ alt="The Unction from the Holy One." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;And ye have <em>an anointing from the Holy One</em>, and ye know
+all things. And as for you, the anointing which ye received of
+Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you;
+but as His anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is
+true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in
+Him.&rsquo;&mdash;1&nbsp;<span class="smc">John</span> ii. 20,&nbsp;27.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">In</span> the revelation by Moses of God&#8217;s Holiness and
+His way of making holy, the priests, and
+specially the high priests, were the chief expression
+of God&#8217;s Holiness in man. In the priests themselves,
+the holy anointing oil was the one great
+symbol of the grace that made holy. Moses was
+to make an holy anointing oil: &lsquo;And thou shalt
+take of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon
+Aaron and upon his sons, and he shall be hallowed,
+and his sons with him.&rsquo; &lsquo;This shall be an holy
+anointing oil unto me. Upon man&#8217;s flesh shall it
+not be poured; neither shall ye make any other
+like it; it is holy, it shall be holy unto you&rsquo; (Exod.
+xxix. 21, xxx. 25&ndash;32). With this the priests, and
+<a name="png.262" id="png.262"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">263</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>specially the high priests, were to be anointed and
+consecrated: &lsquo;He that is the high priest among you,
+upon whose head the anointing oil was poured,
+shall not go out of the holy place, nor profane the
+holy place of his God; for <em>the crown of the anointing
+oil of his God</em> is upon him&rsquo; (Lev. xxi. 10, 12).
+And even so it is said of David, as type of the
+Messiah, &lsquo;Our king is <em>of the Holy One of Israel</em>. I
+have found David, my servant; with my <em>holy oil</em>
+have I anointed him.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>We know how the Hebrew name <em>Messiah</em>, and
+the Greek <em>Christ</em>, has reference to this. So, in the
+passage just quoted, the Hebrew is, &lsquo;with my holy
+oil I have <em>messiahed</em> him.&rsquo; And so in a passage
+like Acts x. 38: &lsquo;Concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
+whom God <em>christed</em> with the Holy Ghost and with
+power.&rsquo; Or Ps. xlv.: &lsquo;God hath <em>messiahed</em> thee with
+the oil of gladness above thy fellows;&rsquo; in Heb. i. 9,
+&lsquo;Thy God hath <em>christed</em> thee with the oil of gladness.&rsquo;
+And so (as one of our Reformed Catechisms, the
+Heidelberg, has it, in answer to the question, Why
+art thou called a Christian?) we are called Christians,
+because we are fellow-partakers with Him of His
+christing, His anointing. This is the anointing of
+which John speaks, the chrisma or christing of the
+Holy One. The Holy Spirit is the holy anointing
+which every believer receives: what God did to His
+Son to make Him the Christ, He does to me to make
+me a Christian. &lsquo;Ye have the anointing of the
+Holy One.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>1. <cite>Ye have an anointing from the Holy One.</cite> It
+<a name="png.263" id="png.263"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">264</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>is as the Holy One that the Father gives the
+anointing: that wherewith He anoints is called
+the oil of holiness, the Holy Spirit. Holiness is
+indeed a Divine ointment. Just as there is nothing
+so subtle and penetrating as the odour with which
+the ointment fills a house, so holiness is an indescribable,
+all-pervading breath of heavenliness which
+pervades the man on whom the anointing rests.
+Holiness does not consist in certain actions: this
+is righteousness. Holiness is the unseen and yet
+manifest presence of the Holy One resting on His
+anointed. Direct from the Holy One, the anointing
+is alone received, or rather, only in the abiding fellowship
+with Him in Christ, who is the Holy One of God.</p>
+
+<p>And who receives it? Only he who has given himself
+entirely to be holy as God is holy. It was the
+priest, who was separated to be holy to the Lord,
+who received the anointing: upon other men&#8217;s flesh
+it was not to be poured. How many would fain have
+the precious ointment for the sake of its perfume to
+themselves! No, only he who is wholly consecrated
+to the service of the Holy One, to the work of the
+sanctuary, may receive it. If any one had said: I
+would fain have the anointing, but not be made a
+priest; I am not ready to go and always be at the
+call of sinners seeking their God, he could have no
+share in it. Holiness is the energy that only lives
+to make holy, and to bless in so doing: the anointing
+of the Holy One is for the priest, the servant
+of God Most High. It is only in the intensity of a
+soul truly roused and given up to God&#8217;s glory, God&#8217;s
+<a name="png.264" id="png.264"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">265</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>kingdom, God&#8217;s work, that holiness becomes a reality.
+The holy garments were only prepared for priests
+and their service. In all our seekings after holiness,
+let us remember this. As we beware of the
+error of thinking that work for Christ will make
+holy, let us also watch against the other, the straining
+after holiness without work. It is the priest
+who is set apart for the service of the holy place
+and the Holy One, it is the believer who is ready
+to live and die that the Holiness of God may
+triumph among men around him, who will receive
+the anointing.</p>
+
+<p>2. &lsquo;<cite>The anointing teacheth you.</cite>&rsquo; The new man is
+created in <em>knowledge</em>, as well as in righteousness and
+holiness. Christ is made to us <em>wisdom</em>, as well as
+righteousness and sanctification. God&#8217;s service and
+our holiness are above all to be a free and full,
+an intelligent and most willing, approval of His
+blessed will. And so the anointing, to fit us for
+the service of the sanctuary, teaches us to know all
+things. Just as the perfume of the ointment is the
+most subtle essence, something that has never yet
+been found or felt, except as it is smelt, so the
+spiritual faculty which the anointing gives is the
+most subtle there can be. It makes &lsquo;quick of
+scent in the fear of the Lord:&rsquo; it teaches us by a
+Divine instinct, by which the anointed one recognises
+what has the heavenly fragrance in it, and
+what is of earth. It is the anointing that makes
+the Word and the name of Jesus in the Word to
+be indeed as ointment poured forth.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.265" id="png.265"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">266</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>The great mark of the anointing is thus, teachableness.
+It is the great mark of Christ, the Holy
+One of God, the Anointed One, that He listens:
+&lsquo;I speak not of myself; as I hear, so I speak.&rsquo;
+And so it is of the Holy Spirit too: &lsquo;He shall not
+speak out of Himself: whatsoever He shall hear,
+that shall He speak.&rsquo; It cannot be otherwise: one
+anointed with the anointing of this Christ, with this
+Holy Spirit, will be teachable, will listen to be
+taught. &lsquo;The anointing teacheth.&rsquo; &lsquo;And ye need
+not that any one teach you: but the anointing
+teacheth you concerning all things.&rsquo; &lsquo;They shall
+be all taught of God,&rsquo; includes every believer. The
+secret of true holiness is a very direct and personal
+relation to the Holy One: all the teaching through
+the word or men made entirely dependent on and
+subordinate to the personal teaching of the Holy
+Ghost. The teaching comes through the anointing.
+Not, in the first place, in the thoughts or feelings,
+but in that all-pervading fragrance which comes
+from the fresh oil having penetrated the whole
+inner man.</p>
+
+<p>3. &lsquo;<cite>And the anointing abideth in you.</cite>&rsquo; &lsquo;<em>In you.</em>&rsquo;
+In the spiritual life it is of deep importance ever
+to maintain the harmony between the objective and
+the subjective: God in Christ above me, God in the
+Spirit within me. In us, not as in a locality, but <em>in
+us</em>, as one with us, entering into the most secret part
+of our being, and pervading all, dwelling in our very
+body, the anointing abideth <em>in us</em>, forming part of
+our very selves. And this just in proportion as we
+<a name="png.266" id="png.266"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">267</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>know it and yield ourselves to it, as we wait and
+are still to let the secret fragrance permeate our
+whole being. And this, again, not interruptedly,
+but as a continuous and unvarying experience.
+Above circumstances and feelings, &lsquo;the anointing
+abideth.&rsquo; Not, indeed, as a fixed state or as something
+in our own possession; but, according to the
+law of the new life, in the dependence of faith on
+the Holy One, and in the fellowship of Jesus. &lsquo;I
+am anointed with fresh oil,&rsquo;&mdash;this is the objective
+side; every new morning the believer waits for the
+renewal of the Divine gift from the Father. &lsquo;The
+anointing abideth in you,&rsquo;&mdash;this is the subjective
+side; the holy life, the life of faith and fellowship,
+the anointing, is always, from moment to moment, a
+spiritual reality. The holy anointing oil, always
+fresh, the anointing abiding always, is the secret of
+holiness.</p>
+
+<p>4. &lsquo;<cite>And even as it taught you, ye abide in Him.</cite>&rsquo;
+Here we have again the Holy Trinity: the Holy
+One, from whom the holy anointing comes; the
+Holy Spirit, who is Himself the anointing; and
+Christ, the Holy One of God, in whom the anointing
+teaches us to abide. In Christ the unseen
+holiness of God was set before us, and brought
+nigh: it became human, vested in a human nature,
+that it might be communicated to us. Within us
+dwells and works the Holy Spirit, drawing us out
+to the Christ of God, uniting us in heart and will
+to Him, revealing Him, forming Him within us, so
+that His likeness and mind are embodied in us. It
+<a name="png.267" id="png.267"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">268</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>is thus we abide in Christ: the holy anointing of
+the Holy One teacheth it to us. It is this that is
+the test of the true anointing: abiding in Christ, as
+He meant it, becomes truth in us. Here is the life
+of holiness as the Thrice Holy gives it: the Father,
+the first, the Holy One, making holy; the Son, the
+second, His Holy One, in whom we are; the Spirit,
+the third, who dwells in us, and through whom we
+abide in Christ, and Christ in us. Thus it is that
+the Thrice Holy makes us holy.</p>
+
+<p>Let us study the Divine anointing. It comes
+from the Holy One. There is no other like it. It
+is God&#8217;s way of making us holy&mdash;His holy priests.
+It is God&#8217;s way of making us partakers of holiness
+in Christ. The anointing, received of Him day by
+day, abiding in us, teaching us all things, especially
+teaching us to abide in Christ, must be on us
+every day. Its subtle, all-pervading power must go
+through our whole life: the odour of the ointment
+must fill the house. Blessed be God, it can do so!
+The anointing that abideth makes the abiding in
+Christ a reality and a certainty; and God Himself,
+the Holy One, makes the abiding anointing a reality
+and a certainty too. To His Holy Name be the
+praise!</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be holy, for I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>O Thou, who art the Holy One, I come to Thee
+now for the renewed anointing. O Father! this is
+the one gift Thy child may most surely count on&mdash;the
+<a name="png.268" id="png.268"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">269</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>gift of Thy Holy Spirit. Grant me now to
+sing, &lsquo;Thou anointest my head;&rsquo; &lsquo;I am anointed
+with fresh oil.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>I desire to confess with deep shame that Thy
+Spirit has been sorely grieved and dishonoured.
+How often the fleshly mind has usurped His place
+in Thy worship! How much the fleshly will has
+sought to do His work! O my Father! let Thy
+light shine through me to convince me very
+deeply of this. Let Thy judgment come on all
+that there is of human willing and running.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed Father! grant me, according to the
+riches of Thy glory, even now to be strengthened
+with might by Thy Spirit in the inner man.
+Strengthen my faith to believe in Christ for a full
+share in His anointing. Oh, teach me day by day
+to wait for and receive the anointing with fresh
+oil!</p>
+
+<p>O my Father! draw me and all Thy children to
+see that for the abiding in Christ we need the
+abiding anointing. Father! we would walk humbly,
+in the dependence of faith, counting upon the inner
+and ever-abiding anointing. May we so be a sweet
+savour of Christ to all. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. I think I know now the reason why at times we fail in the abiding. We
+think and read, we listen and pray, we try to believe and strive to look to
+Jesus only, and yet we fail. What was wanting was this: &lsquo;His anointing
+teacheth you; <strong>even as</strong> it taught you, ye abide in him;&rsquo; so far, and no
+farther.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. The washing always precedes the anointing: we cannot have the anointing
+if we fail in the cleansing. When cleansed and anointed we are fit for
+use.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. Would you have the abiding anointing? Yield yourself wholly to be
+sanctified and made meet for the Master&#8217;s use: dwell in the Holiest of all, in
+<a name="png.269" id="png.269"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">270</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>God&#8217;s presence: accept every chastisement as a fellowship in the way of the
+rent flesh: be sure the anointing will flow in union with Jesus. &lsquo;It is like the
+precious ointment upon the head of Aaron, that went down to the skirts of his
+garments.&rsquo;</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. The anointing is the Divine eye-salve, opening the eyes of the heart to
+know Jesus. So it teaches to abide in Him. I am sure most Christians have
+no conception of the danger and deceitfulness of a thought religion, with
+sweet and precious thoughts coming to us in books and preaching, and little
+power. The teaching of the Holy Spirit is in the heart first; man&#8217;s teaching
+in the mind. Let all our thinking ever lead us to cease from thought, and to
+open the heart and will to the Spirit to teach there in His own Divine way,
+deeper than thought and feeling. Unseen, within the veil, the Holy Spirit
+abideth. Be silent and still, believe and expect, and cling to Jesus.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>5. Oh that God would visit His Church, and teach His children what it is to
+wait for, and receive, and walk in the full anointing, the anointing that
+abideth and teacheth to abide! Oh that the truth of the personal leading of
+the Holy Spirit in every believer were restored in the Church! He is doing it;
+He will do it.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h3 class="chap"><a name="png.270" id="png.270"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">271</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>Thirty-first Day.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h3>
+
+<h2 class="chap">HOLY IN CHRIST.<br
+ /><img src="images/chap31.png" width="249" height="29"
+ alt="Holiness and Heaven." title="" /></h2>
+
+<div class="epigraph">
+<p>&lsquo;Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner
+of men ought ye to be in all <em>holy</em> living and
+godliness?&rsquo;&mdash;2&nbsp;<span class="smc">Pet.</span> iii.&nbsp;11.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Follow after <em>the sanctification</em> without which no man shall
+see the Lord.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Heb.</span> xii.&nbsp;14.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;He that is <em>holy</em>, let him be made <em>holy</em> still&hellip;. The grace
+of the Lord Jesus be with the <em>holy ones</em>. Amen.&rsquo;&mdash;<span class="smc">Rev.</span> xxii.
+11,&nbsp;21.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="chapstart"><span class="start">O my</span> brother, we are on our way to see God.
+We have been invited to meet the Holy One
+face to face. The infinite mystery of holiness, the
+glory of the Invisible God, before which the seraphim
+veil their faces, is to be unveiled, to be
+revealed to us. And that not as a thing we are
+to look upon and to study. But we are to see the
+Thrice Holy One, the Living God Himself. God,
+the Holy One, will show Himself to us: we are to
+see God. Oh, the infinite grace, the inconceivable
+blessedness! we are to see God.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.271" id="png.271"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">272</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>We are to see God, the Holy One. And all our
+schooling here in the life of holiness is simply the
+preparation for that meeting and that vision.
+&lsquo;Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see
+God.&rsquo; &lsquo;Follow after the sanctification, without
+which no man shall see the Lord.&rsquo; Since the time
+when God said to Israel, &lsquo;Be ye holy, as I am holy,&rsquo;
+Holiness was revealed as the only meeting-place
+between God and His people. To be holy was to
+be the common ground on which they were to
+stand with Him; the one attribute in which they
+were to be like God; the one thing that was to
+prepare them for the glorious time when He
+would no longer need to keep them away, but
+would admit them to the full fellowship of
+His glory, to have the word fulfilled in them:
+&lsquo;He that is holy, let him be made yet more
+holy.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>In his second epistle, Peter reminds believers
+that the coming of the day of the Lord is to be
+preceded and accompanied by the most tremendous
+catastrophe&mdash;the dissolution of the heavens and the
+earth. He makes it a plea with them to give diligence
+that they may be found without spot and
+blameless in His sight. And he asks them to think
+and say, under the deep sense of what the coming
+of the day of God would be and would bring, what
+the life of those ought to be who look for such
+things: &lsquo;What manner of person ought ye to be in
+all holy living and <ins class="TN" title="Transcriber's note:
+ original lacks closing quote">godliness?&rsquo;</ins> Holiness must be
+its one, its universal characteristic. At the close
+<a name="png.272" id="png.272"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">273</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of our meditations on God&#8217;s call to Holiness, we
+may take Peter&#8217;s question, and in the light of all
+that God has revealed of His Holiness, and all that
+waits still to be revealed, ask ourselves, &lsquo;What
+manner of men ought we to be in all holy living and
+godliness?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Note first the meaning of the question. In the
+original Greek, the words living and godliness are
+plural. Alford says, &lsquo;<em>In holy behaviours and pieties</em>;
+the plurals mark the holy behaviour and piety <em>in
+all its forms and examples</em>.&rsquo; Peter would plead for
+a life of holiness pervading the whole man: our
+behaviours towards men, and our pieties towards
+God. True holiness cannot be found in anything
+less. Holiness must be the one, the universal
+characteristic of our Christian life. In God we
+have seen that holiness is the central attribute, the
+comprehensive expression for Divine perfection, the
+attribute of all the attributes, the all-including
+epithet by which He Himself, as Redeemer and
+Father, His Son and His Spirit, His Day, His
+House, His Law, His Servants, His People, His
+Name, are marked and known. Always and in
+everything, in Judgment as in Mercy, in His Exaltation
+and His Condescension, in His Hiddenness
+and His Revelation, always and in everything,
+God is the Holy One. And the Word would teach
+us that the reign of Holiness, to be true and pleasing
+to God, must be supreme, must be in all holy
+living and godliness. There must not be a moment
+of the day, nor a relation in life; there must be
+<a name="png.273" id="png.273"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">274</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>nothing in the outer conduct, nor in the inmost
+recesses of the heart; there must be nothing belonging
+to us, whether in worship or in business, that is
+not holy. The Holiness of Jesus, the Holiness
+which comes of the Spirit&#8217;s anointing, must cover
+and pervade all. Nothing, nothing may be excluded,
+if we are to be holy; it must be as Peter
+said when he spoke of God&#8217;s call&mdash;holy in all
+manner of living; it must be as he says here&mdash;&lsquo;in
+all holy living and godliness.&rsquo; To use the
+significant language of the Holy Spirit: Everything
+must be done, &lsquo;worthily of the holy ones,&rsquo;
+&lsquo;as becometh holy ones&rsquo; (Rom. xvi. 3; Eph.
+v.&nbsp;3).</p>
+
+<p>Note, too, the force of the question. Peter
+says, &lsquo;Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for
+these things.&rsquo; Yes, let us think what that means.
+We have been studying, down through the course
+of Revelation, the wondrous grace and patience
+with which God has made known and made partaker
+of His holiness, all in preparation for what
+is to come. We have heard God, the Holy One,
+calling us, pleading with us, commanding us to be
+holy, as He is holy. And we expect to meet Him,
+and to dwell through eternity in His Light, holy as
+He is holy. It is not a dream; it is a living
+reality; we are looking forward to it, as the only
+one thing that makes life worth living. We are looking
+forward to Love to welcome us, as with the
+confidence of childlike love we come as His holy
+ones to cry, Holy Father!</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.274" id="png.274"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">275</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>We have learnt to know Jesus, the Holy One of
+God, our Sanctification. We are living in Him,
+day by day, as those who are holy in Christ Jesus.
+We are drawing on His Holiness without ceasing.
+We are walking in that will of God which He did,
+and which He enables us to do. And we are looking
+forward to meet Him with great joy, &lsquo;when He
+shall come to be glorified in the holy ones, and to be
+admired in all them that believe.&rsquo; We have within
+us the Holy Spirit, the Holiness of God in Christ
+come down to be at home within us, as the earnest
+of our inheritance. He, the Spirit of Holiness, is
+secretly transforming us within, sanctifying our
+spirit, soul, and body, to be blameless at His coming,
+and making us meet for the inheritance of the holy
+ones in light. We are looking forward to the time
+when He shall have completed His work, when the
+body of Christ shall be perfected, and the bride, all
+filled and streaming with the life and glory of the
+Spirit within her, shall be set with Him on His
+throne, even as He sat with the Father on His throne.
+We hope through eternity to worship and adore the
+mystery of the Thrice Holy One. Even here it fills
+our souls with trembling joy and wonder: when
+God&#8217;s work of making holy is complete, how we
+shall join in the song, &lsquo;Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God
+Almighty, which wast, and art, and art to come!&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>In preparation for all this the most wonderful
+events are to take place. The Lord Jesus Himself
+is to appear, the power of sin and the world is to
+be destroyed; this visible system of things is to be
+<a name="png.275" id="png.275"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">276</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>broken up; the power of the Spirit is to triumph
+through all creation; there is to be a new heaven
+and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
+And holiness is then to be unfolded in ever-growing
+blessedness and glory in the fellowship of
+the Thrice Holy: &lsquo;He that is holy, let him be holy
+yet more.&rsquo; Surely it but needs the question to be
+put for each believer to feel and acknowledge its
+force: &lsquo;Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for
+these things, what manner of men ought ye to be
+in all holy living and godliness?&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>And note now the need and the point of the
+question. &lsquo;What manner of persons ought ye to
+be?&rsquo; But is such a question needed? Can it be
+that God&#8217;s holy ones, made holy in Christ Jesus,
+with the very spirit of holiness dwelling with them,
+on the way to meet the Holy One in His Glory
+and Love, can it be that they need the question?
+Alas! alas! it was so in the time of Peter; it is
+but too much so in our days too. Alas! how many
+Christians there are to whom the very word Holy,
+though it be the name by which the Father, in His
+New Testament, loves to call His children more
+than any other, is strange and unintelligible. And
+again, alas! for how many Christians there are for
+whom, when the word is heard, it has but little
+attraction, because it has never yet been shown to
+them as a life that is indeed possible, and unutterably
+blessed. And yet again, alas! for how many
+are there not, even workers in the Master&#8217;s service,
+to whom the &lsquo;all holy living and godliness&rsquo; is yet
+<a name="png.276" id="png.276"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">277</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>a secret and a burden, because they have not yet
+consented to give up all, both their will and their
+work, for the Holy One to take and fill with His
+Holy Spirit. And yet once more, alas! as the cry
+comes, even from those who do know the power of
+a holy life, lamenting their unfaithfulness and unbelief,
+as they see how much richer their entrance
+into the Holy Life might have been, and how much
+fuller the blessing they still feel so feeble to communicate
+to others. Oh, the question is needed!
+Shall not each of us take it, and keep it, and
+answer it by the Holy Spirit through whom it came,
+and then pass it on to our brethren, that we
+and they may help each other in faith, and live in
+joy and hope to give the answer our God would
+have?</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Seeing that these things are, then, all to be dissolved,
+what manner of persons ought we to be in
+all holy living and godliness?&rsquo; Brethren! the time
+is short. The world is passing away. The heathen
+are perishing. Christians are sleeping. Satan is
+active and mighty. God&#8217;s holy ones are the hope
+of the Church and the world. It is they their Lord
+can use. &lsquo;What manner of persons shall we be in
+all holy living and godliness!&rsquo; Shall we not seek
+to be such as the Father commands, &lsquo;Holy, as He is
+holy&rsquo;? Shall we not yield ourselves afresh and
+undividedly to Him who is our Sanctification, and
+to His Blessed Spirit, to make us holy in all
+behaviours and pieties? Oh! shall we not, in
+thought of the love of our Lord Jesus, in thought
+<a name="png.277" id="png.277"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">278</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of the coming glory, in view of the coming end, of
+the need of the Church and the world, give ourselves
+to be holy as He is holy, that we may have power
+to bless each believer we meet with the message of
+what God will do, and that in concert with them
+we may be a light and a blessing to this perishing
+world?</p>
+
+<p>I close with the closing words of God&#8217;s Blessed
+Book, &lsquo;He which testifieth these things saith, Yea,
+I come quickly. Amen: Come, Lord Jesus. The
+grace of the Lord Jesus be with the holy ones.
+Amen.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p class="holy"><span>Be ye holy, as I am holy</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Most Holy God! who hast called us to be holy,
+we have heard Thy voice asking, What manner of
+persons we ought to be in all holy living and godliness?
+With our whole soul we answer in deep
+contrition and humility: Holy Father! we ought
+to be so different from what we have been. In
+faith and love, in zeal and devotion, in Christlike
+humility and holiness, O Father! we have not
+been, before Thee and the world, what we ought to
+be, what we could be. Holy Father! we now pray
+for all who unite with us in this prayer, and implore
+of Thee to grant a great revival of True Holiness in
+us and in all Thy Church. Visit, we beseech Thee,
+visit all ministers of Thy word, that in view of Thy
+coming they may take up and sound abroad the
+question, What manner of persons ought ye to be?
+<a name="png.278" id="png.278"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">279</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Lay upon them, and all Thy people, such a burden
+under surrounding unholiness and worldliness, that
+they may not cease to cry to Thee. Grant them
+such a vision of the highway of holiness, the new
+and living way in Christ, that they may preach
+Christ our Sanctification in the power and the joy
+of the Holy Ghost, with the confident and triumphant
+voice of witnesses who rejoice in what Thou dost
+for them. O God! roll away the reproach of Thy
+people, that their profession does not make them
+humbler or holier, more loving, and more heavenly
+than others.</p>
+
+<p>O Holy God! give Thou Thyself the answer to
+Thy question, and teach us and the world what
+manner of persons Thy people can be, in the day
+of Thy power, in the beauty of holiness. We bow
+our knee to Thee, O Father, that Thou wouldst
+grant us, according to the riches of Thy glory, to be
+mightily strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit
+of Holiness. Amen.</p>
+
+<div class="exhort pgbrk">
+<p><i>1. What manner of men ought ye to be in all the holy living? This is a
+question God has written down for us. Might it not help us if we were to
+write down the answer, and say how holy we think we ought to be? The
+clearer and more distinct our views are of what God wishes, of what He has
+made possible, of what in reality <strong>ought</strong> to be, the more definite our acts of
+confession, of surrender, and of faith can become.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>2. Let every believer, who longs to be holy, join in the daily prayer that
+God would visit His people with a great outpouring of the Spirit of Holiness.
+Pray without ceasing that every believer may live as a holy one.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>3. &lsquo;Seeing that <strong>ye look for</strong> these things.&rsquo; Our life depends, in more than
+one sense, upon what we look at. &lsquo;We look not at the things which are
+seen.&rsquo; It is only as we look at the Invisible and Spiritual, and come under
+its power, that we shall be what we ought to be in all holy living and
+godliness.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>4. <strong>Holy in Christ.</strong> Let this be our parting word. However strong the
+branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight
+<a name="png.279" id="png.279"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">280</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that
+one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too.
+All the outer circumference of my life has its centre in the ego&mdash;the living,
+conscious I myself, in which my being roots. And this I is rooted in Christ.
+Down in the depths of my inner life, there is Christ holding, bearing, guiding,
+quickening me into holiness and fruitfulness. In Him I am, In Him I will
+abide. His will and commands will I keep; His Love and Power will I trust.
+And I will daily seek to praise God that I am Holy in Christ.</i></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2 class="chap top4"><a name="png.280" id="png.280"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">281</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>NOTES.<br
+ /><small class="toclink"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></small></h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:A" id="note:A">NOTE A.</a></h3>
+
+<h4 class="note">Holiness as Proprietorship.</h4>
+
+<p><span class="smc">In</span> a little book&mdash;<cite>Holiness, as understood by the Writers
+of the Bible; A Bible Study by Joseph Agar Beet</cite>&mdash;the
+thought that by Holiness is meant our relation to God,
+and the claim He has upon us, has been very carefully
+worked out. Holy ground was such because &lsquo;it stood in
+<em>special relation</em> to Himself.&rsquo; The first-born &lsquo;were to stand
+<em>in a special relation to God as His property</em>.&rsquo; So with the
+entire nation; when God declares that they shall be holy,
+He means &lsquo;that they shall render to Him the devotion
+He requires.&rsquo; &lsquo;All holy objects stand in a special relation
+to God as His property.&rsquo; The priests are said to sanctify
+themselves; they did this &lsquo;by formally placing themselves
+at God&#8217;s disposal, or by separating themselves
+from whatever was inconsistent with the service of God.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;When God declares He is holy, the word must represent
+the same idea in the hundreds of passages in which it is
+predicated of men and things.&rsquo; &lsquo;Holiness is <em>God&#8217;s claim
+to the ownership</em> of men and things; and the objects
+claimed were called holy. Now, <em>God&#8217;s claim</em> was a new
+and wondrous revelation of His nature. To Aaron God
+was now the Great Being who had claimed from him a
+lifelong and exclusive service. <em>This claim</em> was a new
+era, not only in his everyday life, but in his conception
+of God. Consequently the word <em>holy</em>, which expressed
+<em>Aaron&#8217;s relation to God</em>, was suitably used to express
+<a name="png.281" id="png.281"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">282</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span><em>God&#8217;s relation to Aaron</em>. In other words, to Aaron and
+Israel God was holy in the sense that He claimed the
+exclusive ownership of the entire nation. When men
+yielded to God the devotion He claimed, they were said
+to sanctify God.&rsquo; &lsquo;Jehovah and Israel stood in special
+relation to each other; therefore Jehovah was <em>the Holy
+One of Israel</em>, and Israel was <em>Holy to Jehovah</em>. This
+mutual relation rested upon God&#8217;s claim that Israel
+should specially be His; and this claim implied that in
+a special manner He would belong to Israel. This claim
+was a manifestation of the nature of God.&rsquo; &lsquo;The peculiar
+relation arises from God&#8217;s own claim, in consequence
+of which they stand in a new and solemn relation to Him.
+This may be called objective holiness. This is the most
+common sense of the word. In this sense God sanctified
+these objects for Himself. But since some of these
+objects were intelligent beings, and the others were in
+control of such, the word sanctify denotes these ones&#8217;
+formal surrender of themselves and their possessions to
+God. This may be called subjective holiness. From the
+word holy predicated of God, we learn that God&#8217;s claim
+was not merely occasional, but an outflow of His Essence.
+As the one Being who claims unlimited and absolute
+ownership and supreme devotion, God is the Holy One.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>In the New Testament the Spirit of God claims the
+epithet holy &lsquo;as being in a very special manner the source
+and influence of which God is the one and only aim.&rsquo;
+Here &lsquo;our conception of the holiness of God increases
+with our increasing perception of the greatness of His
+claim upon us, and that this claim springs from the very
+essence of God. In the incarnate Son of God we see the
+full development and realization of the Biblical idea of
+holiness. We find Him standing in a special relation to
+God, and living a life of which the one and only aim is to
+advance the purposes of God.&rsquo; We see in Him &lsquo;holiness
+in its highest degree, <i>i.e.</i> the highest conceivable devotion
+to God and to the advancement of His kingdom.&rsquo; &lsquo;In
+virtue of His intelligent, hearty, continued appropriation
+<a name="png.282" id="png.282"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">283</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>of the Father&#8217;s purpose, and in virtue of its realization in
+all the details of the Saviour&#8217;s life, He was called <em>the
+Holy One of God</em>.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The word <em>saint</em> is very appropriate as a designation of
+the followers of Christ; for it declares what God requires
+them to be. By calling His people <em>saints</em>, God declares
+His will that we live a life of which He is the one and
+only aim. This is the objective holiness of the Church of
+Christ. In some passages holiness is set before the people
+of God as a standard for their attainment. In these
+passages <em>holy</em> denotes a realization in man of God&#8217;s
+purpose that he live a life of which God is the one and
+only aim. This is the subjective holiness of God&#8217;s
+people.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Holiness is God&#8217;s claim that His creatures use all
+their powers and opportunities to work out His purposes.
+Holiness, thus understood, is an attribute of God. For
+His claim springs from His nature, even from that love
+which is the very essence of God. His love to us moves
+Him to claim our devotion; for only by absolute devotion
+to Him can we attain our highest happiness.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Though without purity we cannot be subjectively
+holy, yet holiness is much more than purity. Purity is
+a mere negative excellence; holiness implies the most
+intense mental and bodily activity of which we are
+capable. For it is the employment of all our powers and
+opportunities to advance God&#8217;s purposes.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>The question &lsquo;How we become holy,&rsquo; is answered thus:
+&lsquo;Our devotion to God is a result of inward spiritual
+contact with Him who once lived a human life on earth,
+and now lives a glorified human life on the throne, simply
+and only to work out the Father&#8217;s purposes. We live for
+God because Christ does so, and because Christ lives in
+us, and we in Him: the Spirit of Christ is the Agent
+of the spiritual contact with Christ which imparts to us
+His life, and reproduces in us His life. He is the bearer
+of the power as well as of the holiness of Christ.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;That God claims from His people unreserved devotion
+<a name="png.283" id="png.283"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">284</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>to Himself, and that what He claims He works in all
+who believe it, by His own power operating through the
+inward presence of the Holy Spirit, placing us in spiritual
+contact with Christ, is the great doctrine of sanctification
+by faith.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>The same view, that holiness is a relation, had previously
+been worked out very elaborately by Diestel. In what
+has been said on redemption and proprietorship as related
+to holiness (see &lsquo;Sixth Day&rsquo;), we have seen what truth
+there is in the thought. But holiness is something more.
+What is holy is not only God-devoted, but God-accepted,
+God-appropriated, God-possessed. God not only possesses
+the heart, but absolutely occupies and fills it with His
+life. It is this makes it holy.</p>
+
+<p>However much truth there be in the above exposition,
+it hardly meets our desire for an insight into what is
+one of the highest attributes of the very Being of God.
+When the seraphs worship Him as the Holy One, and
+in their Thrice Holy reflect something of the deepest
+mystery of Godhead, it surely means more than merely
+the expression of God&#8217;s claim as Sovereign Proprietor
+of all.</p>
+
+<p>The mistake appears to originate in taking first the
+meaning of the word <em>holy</em> from earthly objects, and then
+from that deducing that holiness in God cannot mean
+more than it does when applied to men. The Scriptures
+point to the opposite way. When Old and New Testaments
+say, &lsquo;Be ye holy, for I am holy, I make holy,&rsquo; they
+point to God&#8217;s Holiness as the first, both the reason and
+the source of ours. We ought first to discover what
+holiness in God is. When we read at creation of God&#8217;s
+<em>sanctifying</em> the Sabbath day, we have to do, not with a
+thought or word of Moses as to what God had done, but
+with a Divine revelation of a Power in God greater
+and more wonderful than creation, the Power which is
+later on revealed as the deepest mystery of the Divine
+Being.</p>
+
+<p>This Holiness in God, as it appears to me, cannot be a
+<a name="png.284" id="png.284"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">285</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>mere relation. To indicate a relation, tells me nothing
+positively about the personal character or worth of the
+related parties. To say that when God sanctifies men
+He claims them as His own, does not say what the nature
+is of the work He does for them and in them, or what the
+Power by which He does it. And yet that word ought to
+reveal to me what it is that God bestows. To say that
+that claim has its root in His very nature, and in His
+love, and that holiness is therefore an attribute, makes it
+an attribute, not like love or wisdom, immanent in the
+Divine Being, ere creatures were, but simply an effect of
+Love, moving God to claim His creatures as His special
+possession. We should then have no attribute expressive
+of God&#8217;s moral perfection. Nor would the word holy of
+the Son and the Spirit any longer indicate that deep and
+mysterious communication of the very nature and life of
+God in which sanctification has its glory. In the Divine
+holiness we have the highest and inconceivably glorious
+revelation of the very essence of the Divine Being; in
+the holiness of the saints the deepest revelation of the
+change by which their inmost nature is renewed into the
+likeness of God.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap topii" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:B" id="note:B">NOTE B.</a></h3>
+
+<h4 class="note">On the Word for Holiness.</h4>
+
+<p>The proper meaning of the Hebrew word for holy,
+<i>kadosh</i>, is matter of uncertainty. It may come from a
+root signifying to shine. (So Gesenius, Oehler, Fürst,
+and formerly Delitzsch, on Heb. ii. 11.) Or from another
+denoting new and bright (Diestel), or an Arabic form
+meaning to cut, to separate. (So Delitzsch now, on Ps.
+xxii. 4.) Whatever the root be, the chief idea appears to
+be not only separate or set apart, for which the Hebrew
+has entirely different words, but that by which a thing
+<a name="png.285" id="png.285"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">286</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>that is separated from others for its worth is distinguished
+above them. It indicates not only separation as an act
+or fact, but the superiority or excellence in virtue of
+which, either as already possessed or sought after, the
+separation takes place.</p>
+
+<p>In his <cite>Lexicon of New Testament Greek</cite>, Cremer has an
+exhaustive article on the Greek <i>hagios</i>, pointing out how
+holiness is an entirely Biblical idea, and &lsquo;how the scriptural
+conceptions of God&#8217;s Holiness, notwithstanding the
+original affinity, is diametrically opposite to all the Greek
+notions; and how, whereas these very views of holiness
+exclude from the gods all possibility of love, the scriptural
+conception of holiness unfolds itself only when in closest
+connection with Divine love.&rsquo; It is a most suggestive
+thought that we owe both the word and the thought distinctly
+to revelation. Every other attribute of God has
+some notion to correspond with it in the human mind:
+the thought of holiness is distinctly Divine. Is not this
+the reason that, though God has so distinctly in the New
+Testament called His people holy ones, the word <em>holy</em> has
+so little entered into the daily language and life of the
+Christian Church?</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap topii" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:C" id="note:C">NOTE C.</a></h3>
+
+<h4 class="note">The Holiness of God.</h4>
+
+<p>There is not a word so exclusively scriptural, so distinctly
+Divine, as the word holy in its revelation and its meaning.
+As a consequence of this its Divine origin, it is a word
+of inexhaustible significance. There is not one of the
+attributes of God which theologians have found it so
+difficult to define, or concerning which they differ so much.
+A short survey of the various views that have been taken
+may teach us how little the idea of the Divine Holiness
+can be comprehended or exhausted by human definition,
+<a name="png.286" id="png.286"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">287</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>and how it is only in the life of fellowship and adoration
+that the holiness which passes all understanding can, as
+a truth and a reality, be apprehended.</p>
+
+<p>1. The most external view, in which the ethical was
+very much lost sight of, is that in which holiness is identified
+with God&#8217;s Separateness from the creation, and elevation
+above it. Holiness was defined as the incomparable
+Glory of God, His exclusive adorableness, His infinite
+Majesty. Sufficient attention was not paid to the fact that
+though all these thoughts are closely connected with God&#8217;s
+Holiness, they are but a formal definition of the results
+and surroundings of the Holiness, but do not lead us to
+the apprehension of that wherein its real essence consists.</p>
+
+<p>2. Another view, which also commences from the
+external, and makes that the basis of its interpretation,
+regards holiness simply as the expression of a relation.
+Because what was set apart for God&#8217;s service was called
+holy, the idea of separation, of consecration, of ownership,
+is taken as the starting-point. And so, because we are
+said to be holy, as belonging to God, God is holy as
+claiming us and belonging to us too. Instead of regarding
+holiness as a positive reality in the Divine nature, from
+which our holiness is to be derived, our holiness is made
+the starting-point for expounding the Holiness of God.
+&lsquo;God is holy as being, within the covenant, not only the
+Proprietor, but the Property of His people, their highest
+good and their only rule&rsquo; (Diestel). Of this view mention
+has already been made in the note to &lsquo;Sixth Day,&rsquo;
+on <a href="#note:A">Holiness as Proprietorship</a>.</p>
+
+<p>3. Passing over to the views of those who regard holiness
+as being a moral attribute, the most common one is
+that of purity, freedom from sin. &lsquo;Holiness is a general
+term for the moral excellence of God. There is none holy
+as the Lord: no other being absolutely pure and free from
+all limitations in His moral perfection. Holiness, on
+the one hand, implies entire freedom from moral evil;
+and, upon the other, absolute moral perfection.&rsquo; (Hodge,
+<cite>Syst. Theol.</cite>) The idea of holiness as the infinite Purity
+<a name="png.287" id="png.287"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">288</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>which is free from all sin, which hates and punishes it, is
+what in the popular conception is the most prominent
+idea. The negative stands more in the foreground than
+the positive. The view has its truth and its value from
+the fact that in our sinful state the first impression the
+Holiness of God must make is that of fear and dread in
+the consciousness of our sinfulness and unholiness. But it
+does not tell us wherein this moral excellence or perfection
+of God really consists.</p>
+
+<p>4. It is an advance on this view when the attempt is
+made to define what this perfection of God is. A thing
+is perfect when it is in everything as it ought to be. It
+is easy thus to define perfection, but not so easy to define
+what the perfection of any special object is: this needs
+the knowledge of what its nature is. And we have to
+rest content with very general terms defining God&#8217;s Holiness
+as the essential and absolute good. &lsquo;Holiness is the
+free, deliberate, calm, and immutable affirmation of Himself,
+who is goodness, or of goodness, which is Himself&rsquo; (Godet
+<cite>on John</cite> xvii. 11). &lsquo;Holiness is that attribute in virtue
+of which Jehovah makes Himself the absolute standard
+of Himself, of His being and revelation.&rsquo; (Kubel.)</p>
+
+<p>5. Closely allied to this is the view that holiness
+is not so much an attribute, but the &lsquo;whole complex
+of that which we are wont to look at and represent singly
+in the individual attributes of God.&rsquo; So Bengel looked
+upon holiness as the Divine nature, in which all the
+attributes are contained. In the same spirit what Howe
+says of holiness as the Divine beauty, the result of the
+perfect harmony of all the attributes, &lsquo;Holiness is intellectual
+beauty. Divine holiness is the most perfect beauty,
+and the measure of all other. The Divine Holiness is the
+most perfect pulchritude, the ineffable and immortal pulchritude,
+that cannot be declared by words, or seen by eyes.
+This may therefore be called a transcendental attribute
+that, as it were, runs through the rest, and casts a glory
+upon every one. It is an attribute of attributes. These
+are fit predications, <em>holy</em> power, <em>holy</em> love. And so it is
+<a name="png.288" id="png.288"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">289</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>the very lustre and glory of His other perfections. He is
+glorious in holiness.&rsquo; (Howe in <cite>Whyte&#8217;s Shorter Catechism</cite>.)
+This was the aspect of the Divine Holiness on which
+Jonathan Edwards delighted to dwell. &lsquo;The mutual
+love of the Father and the Son makes the third, the personal
+Holy Spirit, or the Holiness of God, which is His
+infinite beauty.&rsquo; &lsquo;By the communication of God&#8217;s Holiness
+the creature partakes of God&#8217;s moral excellence,
+which is perfection, the beauty of the Divine nature.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;Holiness comprehends all the true moral excellence of
+intelligent beings. So the Holiness of God is the same
+with the moral excellency of the Divine nature, comprehending
+all His perfections, His righteousness, faithfulness,
+and goodness. There are two kinds of attributes in
+God, according to our way of conceiving Him: His <em>moral</em>
+attributes, which are summed up in His Holiness, and His
+<em>natural</em>, as strength, knowledge, etc., which constitute His
+greatness. Holy persons, in the exercise of holy affection,
+love God in the first place for the beauty of His Holiness.&rsquo;
+&lsquo;The holiness of an intelligent creature is that which
+gives beauty to all his natural perfections. And so it is
+in God: holiness is in a peculiar manner the beauty of
+the Divine being. Hence we often read of the beauty of
+holiness (Ps. xxix. 2, xcvi. 9, cx. 3). This renders all
+the other attributes glorious and lovely.&rsquo; &lsquo;Therefore, if
+the true loveliness of God&#8217;s perfections arise from the
+loveliness of His Holiness, the true love of all His perfections
+will arise from the love of His Holiness. And
+as the beauty of the Divine nature primarily consists
+in God&#8217;s Holiness, so does the beauty of all Divine
+things.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>6. In speaking of God&#8217;s Holiness as denoting the essential
+good, the absolute excellence of His nature, some press
+very strongly the <em>ethical</em> aspect. The good in God must
+not be from mere natural impulse only, flowing from the
+necessity of His nature, without being freely willed by
+Himself. &lsquo;What is naturally good is not the true realization
+of the good. The actual and living will to be the
+<a name="png.289" id="png.289"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">290</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>good He is, must also have its place in God, otherwise
+God would only be naturally ethical. Only in the will
+which consciously determines itself, is there the possibility
+given of the ethical. The ethical has such a power in
+God that He is the holy Power, who cannot and will not
+renounce Himself, who must be, and would be thought to
+be, the holy necessity of the goodness which is Himself,&mdash;to
+be the Holy. The love of God is essentially holy; it
+desires and preserves the ethically necessary or holy, which
+God is.&rsquo; (Dorner, <cite>System</cite>, vol. i.)</p>
+
+<p>7. It was felt in such views that there was not a sufficient
+acknowledgment of the truth that it is especially as
+the Holy One that God is called the Redeemer, and that
+He does the work of love to make holy. This led to the
+view that holiness and love are, if not identical, at least
+correlated expressions. &lsquo;God is holy, exalted above all
+the praise of the creature in His incomparable praise-worthiness,
+on account of His free and loving condescension
+to the creature, to manifest in it the glory of His
+love.&rsquo; &lsquo;God is holy, inasmuch as love in Him has
+restrained and conquered the righteous wrath (as Hosea
+says, xi. 9), and judgment is exercised only after every
+way of mercy has been tried. This holiness is disclosed
+in the New Testament name, as exalted as it is condescending,
+of Father.&rsquo; (Stier <cite>on John</cite> xvii.)</p>
+
+<p>8. The large measure of truth in this view is met by
+an expression in which the true aspects of the Holiness of
+God are combined. It is defined as being the harmony
+of self-preservation and self-communication. As the Holy
+One, God hates sin, and seeks to destroy it. As the
+Holy One, He makes the sinner holy, and then takes him
+up into His love. In maintaining His love, He never for a
+moment loses His Divine purity and perfection; in maintaining
+His righteousness, He still communicates Himself
+to the fallen creature. Holiness is the Divine glory,
+of which love and righteousness are the two sides, and
+which in their work on earth they reveal.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Holiness is the self-preservation of God, whereby He
+<a name="png.290" id="png.290"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">291</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>keeps Himself free from the world without Him, and
+remains consistent with Himself and faithful to His Being,
+and whereby He, with this view, creates a Divine world
+that lives for Himself alone in the organization of His
+Church.&rsquo; (Lange.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The Holiness of God is God&#8217;s self-preservation, or
+keeping to Himself, in virtue of which He remains the
+same in all relationships which exist within His Deity, or
+into which He enters, never sacrifices what is Divine, or
+admits what is not Divine. But this is only one aspect.
+God&#8217;s Holiness would not be holiness, but exclusiveness,
+if it did not provide for God&#8217;s entering into manifold
+relations, and so revealing and communicating Himself.
+Holiness is therefore the union and interpretation of
+God&#8217;s keeping to Himself and communicating Himself;
+of His nearness and His distance; of His exclusiveness
+and His self-revelation; of separateness and fellowship.&rsquo;
+(Schmieder.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The Divine Holiness is mainly seclusion from the impurity
+and sinfulness of the creature, or, expressed positively,
+the cleanness and purity of the Divine nature,
+which excludes all connection with the wicked. In
+harmony with this, the Divine Holiness, as an attribute
+of revelation, is not merely an abstract power, but is the
+Divine self-representation and self-testimony for the purpose
+of giving to the world the participation in the Divine life.&rsquo;
+(Oehler, <cite>Theol. of O.&nbsp;T.</cite> i.&nbsp;160.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Opposition to sin is the first impression which man
+receives of God&#8217;s Holiness. Exclusion, election, cleansing,
+redemption&mdash;these are the four forms in which God&#8217;s
+Holiness appears in the sphere of humanity; and we may
+say that God&#8217;s Holiness signifies <em>His opposition to sin
+manifesting itself in atonement and redemption, or in
+judgment</em>. Or as holiness, so far as it is embodied in
+law, must be the highest moral perfection, we may say,
+&ldquo;<em>holiness is the purity of God manifesting itself in atonement
+and redemption, and correspondingly in judgment</em>.&rdquo;
+By this view all the above elements are done justice to;
+<a name="png.291" id="png.291"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">292</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>holiness asserts itself in judging righteousness, and in
+electing, purifying, and redeeming love, and thus it
+appears as the impelling and formative principle of the
+revelation of redemption, without a knowledge of which
+an understanding of the revelation is impossible, and by
+the perception of which it is seen in its full, clear light.
+God is light: this is a full and exhaustive New Testament
+phrase for God&#8217;s Holiness&rsquo; (1&nbsp;John i. 5). (Cremer.)</p>
+
+<p>This view is brought out with special distinctness in
+the writings of J.&nbsp;T. Beck. &lsquo;It is God&#8217;s Holiness which,
+taking the good which was given in creation in strict
+faithfulness to that good and perfect will of God, as the
+eternal life-purpose of love, in righteousness and mercy
+carried out to its completion in God Himself to a life of
+perfection. God does this as the Alone Holy. In the
+world of sin Divine <em>love</em> can only bring deliverance by a
+mediation in which it is reconciled to the Divine <em>wrath</em>
+within <em>their common centre, the Holiness of God</em>, in such a
+way that while wrath manifests its destroying reality, love
+shall prove its restoring power in the life it gives.&rsquo; (Beck,
+<cite>Lehrwissenschaft</cite>, 168,&nbsp;547.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Holiness is the sum and substance of the Divine life,
+as, in comparison with all that is created, it exists as a
+perfect life, but as it, at the same time, opens itself to
+the creature to take it up into a Godlike perfection&mdash;that
+is, to be holy as God is holy. Holiness is thus so far from
+being in opposition to the Divine love that it is its essential
+feature or norm, and the actual contents of love. In
+holiness there is combined the Divine self-existence as a
+perfection of life, and the Divine self-exertion in the
+realizing a Godlike perfection of life in the world.
+Holiness as an attribute of the Divine Being is His pure
+and inviolably self-contained personality in its absolute
+perfection. Hence it is that in holiness, as the absolute
+unity and purity of the Divine Being and working, all the
+attributes of Divine revelation centre. And so holiness,
+as expressive of the Being of God, qualifies the love as
+essentially Divine.</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.292" id="png.292"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">293</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>&lsquo;Love is the groundform of the Divine will, but as such
+it receives its Divine filling and character from the Divine
+Holiness, as the Divine self-existence and self-exertion.
+As such the Divine will manifests itself in two modes&mdash;in
+its pure love as <em>Goodness</em>, in its holy harmony as
+<em>Righteousness</em>. These two do not exist separately, but
+permeate each other in reciprocal immanence, just as God
+in His Holiness is love, and in His love is holiness. In
+goodness the Divine love shows itself as the pleasure in
+well-being. But in this goodness the righteousness of
+God, to secure the well-doing, also acts.&rsquo; (J.&nbsp;T. Beck,
+<cite>Glaubenslehre</cite>.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;God is holy, separate from all darkness and sin, but
+not in isolated majesty banishing the imperfect and the
+sinful from His presence: for God is light, God is love.
+It is the nature of light to communicate itself. Remaining
+pure and bright, undiminished and unsullied, it
+overcomes darkness and kindles light. The Holiness of
+God is likewise mentioned in Scripture, mostly in connection
+with love, communicating itself and drawing
+into itself. &ldquo;I am holy&rdquo;&mdash;but God does not remain alone,
+separate&mdash;&ldquo;be ye also holy.&rdquo;&rsquo; (Saphir <cite>on Hebrews</cite> xii.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;When we think of God as light and love, we realize
+most fully the idea of holiness, combining <em>separateness</em>
+and <em>purity</em> with <em>communion</em>.&rsquo; (Saphir, <cite>The Lord&#8217;s
+Prayer</cite>,  p.&nbsp;128.)</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;It is especially as the spirit of His Church, and as
+dwelling in the human heart, that God is the Holy One.&rsquo;
+(Nitsch.)</p>
+
+<p>That in the Holiness of God we have the union of love
+and righteousness, has been perhaps put by no one more
+clearly than Godet. In his <cite>Commentary on Romans</cite> iii.
+25, 26, he writes:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The necessity of the expiatory sacrifice arises from
+His whole Divine character; in other words, from His
+Holiness, the principle at once of His love and righteousness,
+and not of His righteousness exclusively.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;In this question we have to do not with God in His
+<a name="png.293" id="png.293"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">294</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>essence, but with God in His relation to free man. Now
+the latter is not holy to begin with; the use which he
+makes of his liberty is not yet regulated by love. The
+attribute of righteousness, and the firm resolution to
+maintain the Divine <em>holiness</em>, must therefore appear as a
+necessary safeguard as soon as liberty comes on the stage,
+and with it the possibility of disorder; and this attribute
+must remain in exercise as long as the educational period
+of the creature lasts&mdash;that is to say, until he has reached
+perfection in love. Then all these factors&mdash;right, law,
+justice&mdash;will return to their latent state&hellip;.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;It is common to regard <em>love</em> as the fundamental feature
+of the Divine character; in this way it is very difficult to
+reach the attribute of righteousness. Most thinkers, indeed,
+do not reach it at all. This one fact should show
+the error in which they are entangled. <em>Holy, holy, holy</em>,
+say the creatures nearest to God, and not <em>Good, good, good</em>.
+Holiness, such is the essence of God; and holiness is the
+absolute love of the good, the absolute horror of the evil.
+From this it is not difficult to deduce both love and righteousness.
+Love is the goodwill of God toward all free
+beings who are destined to realize the good. Love goes
+out to the individuals, as holiness itself to the good which
+they ought to produce. Righteousness, on the other hand,
+is the firm purpose of God to maintain the normal relations
+between all these creatures by His blessings and punishments.
+It is obvious that righteousness is included, no
+less than love itself, in the fundamental feature of the
+Divine character, holiness. It is no offence, therefore, by
+God to speak of His justice and His rights. It is, on the
+contrary, a glory to God, who knows that in preserving
+His place He is securing the good of others. For God,
+in maintaining His supreme dignity, preserves to His
+creatures <em>their most precious treasure</em>, a God worthy of
+their respect and love.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>And in his <cite>Defence of the Christian Faith</cite> Godet writes,
+on &lsquo;The Perfect Holiness of Jesus Christ,&rsquo; as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;The supernatural in its highest form is not the
+<a name="png.294" id="png.294"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">295</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>miraculous, it is holiness. In the miraculous we see
+Omnipotence breaking forth to act upon the material
+world in the interests of the moral order. But holiness
+is morality itself in its sublimest manifestation. What
+is goodness? It has recently been said, with a precision
+which leaves nothing to be desired, Goodness is not an
+entity&mdash;a thing. It is a law determining the relations
+between things, relations which have to be realized by
+free wills. Perfect good is therefore the realization, at
+once normal and free, of the right relations to one another
+of all beings; each being occupying, by virtue of this
+relation, that place in the great whole, and playing that
+part in it, which befits it.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Now, just as in a human family there is one central
+relation on which all the rest depend,&mdash;that of the father
+to all the members of this little whole,&mdash;so is there in the
+universe one supreme position, which is the support of all
+the rest, and which, in the interest of all beings, must be
+above all others preserved intact&mdash;that of God. And
+just here, in the general sphere of good, is the special
+domain of holiness. Holiness in God Himself is His
+fixed determination to maintain intact the order which
+ought to reign among all beings that exist, and to bring
+them to realize that relation to each other which ought to
+bind them together in a great unity, and consequently to
+preserve, above all, intact and in its proper dignity, His
+own position relatively to free beings. The Holiness of
+God thus understood comprehends two things&mdash;the importation
+of all the wealth of His own Divine life to each
+free being who is willing to acknowledge His sovereignty,
+and who sincerely acquiesces in it; and the withholding or
+the withdrawal of that perfect life from every being who
+either attacks or denies that sovereignty, and who seeks
+to shake off that bond of dependence by which he ought
+to be bound to God. Holiness in the creature is its own
+voluntary acquiescence in the supremacy of God. The
+man who, with all the powers of his nature, does homage
+to God as the Supreme, the absolute Being, the only One
+<a name="png.295" id="png.295"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">296</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>who veritably is; the man who, in His presence, voluntarily
+prostrates himself in the sense of his own nothingness,
+and seeks to draw all his fellow-creatures into the
+same voluntary self-annihilation, in so doing puts on the
+character of holiness. This holiness comprehends in him,
+as it does in God, love and righteousness; love by which
+he rejoices in recognising God, and all beings who surround
+God, as placed where they are by Him. He loves them
+and wills their existence, because he loves and wills the
+existence of God, and at the same time of all that God
+wills and loves; and righteousness, by which he respects
+and, as much as in him lies, causes others to respect God,
+and the sphere assigned by God to each being. Such is
+holiness as it exists in God and in man: in God it is His
+own inflexible self-assertion; in man it is his inflexible
+assertion of God.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;It is in Jesus that human nature sees how man can
+assert God and all that God asserts, not only humbly, but
+joyously and filially, with all the powers of his being, and
+even to the complete sacrifice of <em>himself</em>.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Careful reflection will show us that in each of the above
+views there is a measure of truth. It will convince us
+how the very difficulty of formulating to human thought
+the conception of the Divine Holiness proves that it is the
+highest expression for that ineffable and inconceivable
+glory of the Divine Being which constitutes Him the
+Infinite and Glorious God. Every attribute of God&mdash;wisdom
+and power, righteousness and love&mdash;has its image
+in human nature, and was in the religion or the philosophy
+of the heathen connected with the idea of God.
+From ourselves, when we take away the idea of imperfection,
+we can form some conception of what God is. But
+holiness is that which is characteristically Divine, the special
+contents of a Divine revelation. Let us learn to confess
+that however much we may seek, now from one, then from
+another side, to grasp the thought, the holiness of God is
+something that transcends all thought, a glory not so much
+to be thought, as to be known, in adoration and fellowship.
+<a name="png.296" id="png.296"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">297</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Scripture speaks not so much of holiness, as the Holy
+One. It is as we worship and fear, obey and love; it is
+in a life with God, that something of the mystery of His
+glory will be unfolded. As the Divine light shines in us
+and through us, will the Holy One be revealed.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap topii" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:D" id="note:D">NOTE D.</a></h3>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Our holiness does not consist in our changing and
+becoming better ourselves: it is rather <em>He</em>, He Himself,
+born and growing in us, in such a way as to fill our
+hearts, and to drive out our natural self, &ldquo;our old man,&rdquo;
+which cannot itself improve, and whose destiny is only
+to perish.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;And how is this kind of incarnation effected, by which
+Christ Himself becomes our new self? By a process of
+a free and moral nature, described by Jesus in words
+which surprise, because they place His sanctification upon
+nearly the same footing as our own: &ldquo;As the living
+Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that
+eateth me shall live by me.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Jesus derived the nourishment of His life from the
+Father who had sent Him: He lived by the Father.
+The meaning of that, doubtless, is, that every time He
+had to act or speak, He first effaced Himself; then left it
+to the Father to think, to will, to act, to be everything
+in Him. Similarly, when we are called upon to do any
+act, or speak any word, we must first efface ourselves in
+presence of Jesus; and after having suppressed in ourselves,
+by an act of the will, every wish, every thought,
+every act of our own self, we are to leave it to Jesus
+to manifest in us His will, His wisdom, His power.
+Then it is that we live by Him, as He lives by the
+Father. The process is identical in Jesus and in us.
+Only in Jesus it was carried on with God directly,
+because He  was in immediate communion with Him;
+<a name="png.297" id="png.297"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">298</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>whilst in our case the transaction is with Jesus, because
+it is with Him that the believer holds direct communication,
+and through Him that we can find and possess
+the living Father. In that lies <em>the secret</em>, generally so
+little understood, <em>of Christian sanctification</em>.&rsquo; (Godet,
+<cite>Biblical Studies, N.&nbsp;T.</cite>, p.&nbsp;190.)</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap topii" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:E" id="note:E">NOTE E.</a></h3>
+
+<p>Let me once more refer all students of holiness to
+Marshall on Sanctification, and specially his third and
+fourth chapters. If they will compare him with our
+modern works&mdash;say, for instance, <cite>God&#8217;s Way of Holiness</cite>,
+by so eminent an author as Dr. H. Bonar&mdash;they cannot
+but be struck by the prominence which Marshall gives to
+the one thought, that our holiness, a holy nature, is
+provided in Jesus, and that as faith accepts and maintains
+our union with Jesus in personal intercourse, sanctification
+is by faith. While, in other works, the union to Jesus,
+and faith in Him, are but incidentally mentioned, and
+the chief stress is laid upon duties and the motives
+which urge to their performance, Marshall points out
+how motives never can supply the strength we need: it
+is the power of Christ&#8217;s life in us, it is Christ Himself, as
+we by faith are rooted in Him, who works all our works
+in us.</p>
+
+<p>An abridgment of the work, for popular use, is published
+by Nisbet &amp;&nbsp;Co.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap topii" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:F" id="note:F">NOTE F.</a></h3>
+
+<h4 class="note">Note from Bengel on Rom. i.&nbsp;4.</h4>
+
+<p>&lsquo;<cite>According to the Spirit of Holiness.</cite> The word <i>hagios</i>,
+holy, when God is spoken of, not only denotes the blameless
+<a name="png.298" id="png.298"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">299</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>rectitude in action, but the very Godhead, or to
+speak more properly, the <em>divinity</em>, or excellence of the
+Divine nature. Hence <i>hagiosune</i> (the word here used)
+has a kind of middle sense between <i>hagiotes</i>, holiness,
+and <i>hagiasmos</i>, sanctification. Comp. Heb. xii. 10
+(<i>hagiotes</i> or holiness), v. 14 (<i>hagiasmos</i> or sanctification).
+So that there are, as it were, three degrees: <em>sanctification</em>,
+<em>sanctity of life</em>, <em>holiness</em>. Holiness is ascribed to the
+Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And since here the
+Holy Spirit is not mentioned, but the spirit of holiness
+(prop. sanctity, <i>hagiosune</i>), we must further inquire what
+this remarkable expression denotes. The name spirit
+is expressly and very frequently given to the Holy Spirit;
+but God is also called a spirit; and the Lord Jesus
+Christ is called a spirit, but in contrast to the latter.
+(2 Cor. iii. 17.) With this we must compare the fact that,
+as in this passage, so often the antithesis of flesh and
+spirit is found where Christ is spoken of. (1 Tim. iii. 16;
+1 Pet. iii. 18.) In these passages the Spirit is applied to
+whatever belongs to Christ (apart from the flesh, although
+this was pure and holy, and above the flesh), through His
+generation of the Father, who sanctified Him: in short,
+His Godhead itself. For here, <em>flesh</em> and <em>spirit</em>, and
+chap. ix. 5, <em>flesh</em> and <em>Godhead</em>, stand in mutual contrast.
+This spirit is here called not the spirit of holiness, the
+usual title of the Holy Spirit; but it is called in this
+passage <em>the spirit of sanctity</em>, to suggest at once the efficacy
+of that holiness or divinity, which led of necessity
+to the Saviour&#8217;s resurrection, and by which it was most
+forcibly illustrated, and also that spiritual and holy, or
+Divine power of Jesus who has been glorified and yet
+retained a spiritual body. Before the resurrection the
+spirit was concealed under the flesh; after the resurrection
+the spirit of sanctity concealed the flesh. In reference to
+the former, He was wont to call Himself the Son of man;
+in reference to the latter, He is known as the Son of God.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>Beck, in his <cite>Lehrwissenschaft</cite>, p.&nbsp;604, puts it very
+clearly, thus&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><a name="png.299" id="png.299"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">300</span><span class="ns">]<br
+ /></span>&lsquo;Inasmuch as the innocence and purity of Christ were
+not present in His sufferings and death as a quiescent
+attribute, but were in full action in the indestructible
+life-power of the Spirit, as He sanctified His own self
+to God for us (&ldquo;through the eternal spirit,&rdquo; Heb. ix. 14&mdash;therefore,
+in Rom. i. 4, <i>hagiosune</i>, the habit of holiness
+in its action or sanctity, not <i>hagiotes</i>, only an inner
+attribute, or <i>hagiasmos</i>, holiness in its formation)&mdash;His
+suffering effected an everlasting redemption.&rsquo;</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap topii" />
+
+<h3 class="note"><a name="note:G" id="note:G">NOTE G.</a></h3>
+
+<h4 class="note">&lsquo;Freed&rsquo; and &lsquo;Possessed&rsquo;&mdash;The Twofold Result of
+Redemption.</h4>
+
+<h5>(<i>From an address by Pastor Stockmaiev.</i>)</h5>
+
+<p>&lsquo;Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us
+from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself <em>a people for
+His own possession</em>, zealous of good works.&rsquo;</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;In the redemption work of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
+there are two definite parts. You will never find the
+secret of abiding in Christ, so long as you cannot see
+these two definite distinct parts. The first is &ldquo;Jesus for
+me,&rdquo; the other &ldquo;I for Jesus.&rdquo; Blessed be our Saviour that
+He came for sinners. <em>He for us.</em> Blessed be the Lord
+that there is redemption from penalty; but that is not
+yet all that redemption means. You must have a clear
+apprehension of the second part of redemption, by that
+same Holy Ghost who is the guide to introduce us into
+the full possession of all that Christ, living and dying, has
+wrought out for us. He gave Himself that He might
+redeem us from all iniquity&mdash;not that we might have the
+pleasure of being pleased with our own purity or holiness,
+or such things; but that He might have us altogether
+for Himself, to purify <em>unto Himself</em>, for Himself, not for
+<a name="png.300" id="png.300"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">301</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>Himself and themselves, but <em>unto Himself</em>, a people of His
+own possession.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;What is now redemption?&mdash;freedom from self, even
+spiritual self. We are not to be our own centre, the
+centre of our joy, our progress, having in our poor weak
+hands the threads of our spiritual life. There is no real
+spiritual life but Christ&#8217;s life, and He must have the care
+of it altogether from the beginning to the end. Lift up
+your eyes, dear brethren, you who were creeping on the
+ground. We are made for the glory of God, to be possessed
+by Jesus. The Lord God found a way, in giving
+His Son, the Lamb of God, His Lamb, to get such selfish
+people, who even in the line of the Christian life found
+means to seek and to nourish self, to get such people into
+His own real practical possession, to be possessed by Jesus.
+That is redemption, and that only; that is liberty, and
+that is reality; that is what satisfies, not to be satisfied
+with any experiences of your own, but to let go your
+experiences, and to say, I am free, so free as the people
+of Israel were coming out of Egypt, free to serve God.
+&ldquo;Let my people go, that they may serve me.&rdquo; You are
+free, free through the blood of Christ, free through the
+power of the Holy Ghost&mdash;no flesh, no hand, no self being
+able to keep you back. The Lord has stretched out His
+arms upon all the powers who had kept us in the bondage
+of Egypt, and He triumphed over them. You are free as
+the bird of the air to live in Jesus&mdash;that is freedom; you
+are free in your daily life, free in the deepest, inmost
+depths of your being, free for Jesus, possessed by Him, a
+people of His own possession. Let my people go, said
+God. So, I have given my blood, said Jesus; and no flesh,
+no sin, no self can claim against the blood of Jesus. He
+has redeemed unto Himself, not for us, a people of His
+own possession&hellip;.</p>
+
+<p>&lsquo;You are inquiring about the secret of abiding in Jesus.
+Have you not seen this in the 15th of John, that abiding
+and bearing fruit are inseparable? You cannot abide in
+Jesus for His joy, <em>and your inward satisfaction</em>. The
+<a name="png.301" id="png.301"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span
+ class="pgmark">302</span><span class="ns">]
+ </span>secret of abiding is to stand as a redeemed one, as firmly
+in the second part of redemption as the first. I am now
+living for Jesus, and I have only to ask, Lord, what wilt
+Thou have done now? I am for Thee. I am for Jesus.
+I have only to follow, to follow as a sanctified one, as a
+possessed one, as one who is no more living for himself,
+who has given his life up into the hands of Jesus. Oh,
+how these questions of abiding become simple! It is not
+mysticism; it is not some special experience. It is
+simply a fact. I need Jesus for every moment, and my
+temptations as well as my duties become opportunities of
+realizing this life of fellowship with Christ. Oh, yes,
+this is redemption! Oh, mighty power of God the
+Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, engaged
+to keep such a weak, helpless, unfaithful thing as you and
+myself in the centre of life! Sealed by the Holy Ghost,
+and God will never break His own seal.&rsquo;</p>
+
+
+<p class="ctr top4">THE END.</p>
+
+
+<p class="ctr top4"><small>MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.</small></p>
+
+</div>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Holy in Christ, by Andrew Murray
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: Holy in Christ
+       Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
+
+Author: Andrew Murray
+
+Release Date: October 22, 2008 [EBook #26990]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOLY IN CHRIST ***
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+
+                        HOLY IN CHRIST:
+
+           Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children
+                   to be Holy as He is Holy.
+
+                               BY
+                      REV. ANDREW MURRAY,
+
+        AUTHOR OF 'ABIDE IN CHRIST,' 'LIKE CHRIST,' ETC.
+
+
+
+                          _'I am holy:
+                       ye shall be holy.'_
+
+
+
+                   FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY,
+                  CHICAGO, NEW YORK, TORONTO,
+             Publishers of Evangelical Literature.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+There is not in Scripture a word more distinctly Divine in its origin
+and meaning than the word holy. There is not a word that leads us higher
+into the mystery of Deity, nor deeper into the privilege and the
+blessedness of God's children. And yet it is a word that many a
+Christian has never studied or understood.
+
+There are not a few who can praise God that during the past twenty years
+the watchword BE HOLY has been taken up in many a church and Christian
+circle with greater earnestness than before. In books and magazines, in
+conventions and conferences, in the testimonies and the lives of
+believers, we have abundant tokens that what is called the
+Holiness-movement is a reality.
+
+And yet how much is still wanting! What multitudes of believing
+Christians there are who have none but the very vaguest thoughts of what
+holiness is! And of those who are seeking after it how many who have
+hardly learnt what it is to come to God's Word and to God Himself for
+the teaching that can alone reveal this part of the mystery of Christ
+and of God! To many, holiness has simply been a general expression for
+the Christian life in its more earnest form, without much thought of
+what the term really means.
+
+In writing this little book, my object has been to discover in what
+sense God uses the word, that so it may mean to us what it means to Him.
+I have sought to trace the word through some of the most important
+passages of Holy Scripture where it occurs, there to learn what God's
+holiness is, what ours is to be, and what the way by which we attain it.
+I have been specially anxious to point out how many and various the
+elements are that go to make up true holiness as the Divine expression
+of the Christian life in all its fulness and perfection. I have at the
+same time striven continually to keep in mind the wonderful unity and
+simplicity there is in it, as centred in the person of Jesus. As I
+proceeded in my work, I felt ever more deeply how high the task was I
+had undertaken in offering to guide others even into the outer courts of
+the Holy Place of the Most High. And yet the very difficulty of the task
+convinced me of how needful it was.
+
+I fear there are some to whom the book may be a disappointment. They
+have heard that the entrance to the life of holiness is often but a
+step. They have heard of or seen believers who could tell of the blessed
+change that has come over their lives since they found the wonderful
+secret of holiness by faith. And now they are seeking for this secret.
+They cannot understand that the secret comes to those who seek it not,
+but only seek Jesus. They might fain have a book in which all they need
+to know of Holiness and the way to it is gathered into a few simple
+lessons, easy to learn, to remember, and to practise. This they will not
+find. There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the disciples of
+Jesus; but it comes to him who has forsaken all to follow Jesus only,
+and in following fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct
+him. There are often very blessed revelations of Christ, as a Saviour
+from sin, both in the secret chamber and in the meetings of the saints;
+but these are given to those for whom they have been prepared, and who
+have been prepared to receive. Let all learn to trust in Jesus, and
+rejoice in Him, even though their experience be not what they would
+wish. He will make us holy. But whether we have entered the blessed life
+of faith in Jesus as our sanctification, or are still longing for it
+from afar, we all need one thing, the simple, believing, and obedient
+acceptance of each word that our God has spoken. It has been my earnest
+desire that I might be a helper of the faith of my brethren in seeking
+to trace with them the wondrous revelation of God's Holiness through the
+ages as recorded in His blessed Word. It has been my continual prayer
+that God might use what is written to increase in His children the
+conviction that we must be holy, the knowledge of how we are to be holy,
+the joy that we may be holy, the faith that we can be holy. And may He
+stir us all to cry day and night to Him for a visitation of the Spirit
+and the Power of Holiness upon all His people, that the name of
+Christian and of saint may be synonymous, and every believer be a vessel
+made holy and meet for the Master's use.
+
+  A. M.
+
+  Wellington, _16th November 1887_.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+  DAY                                                         PAGE
+   1. God's Call to Holiness--1 Pet. i. 15, 16,                 11
+
+   2. God's Provision for Holiness--1 Cor. i. 2,                19
+
+   3. Holiness and Creation--Gen. ii. 3,                        28
+
+   4. Holiness and Revelation--Ex. iii. 4-6,                    36
+
+   5. Holiness and Redemption--Ex. xiii. 2,                     46
+
+   6. Holiness and Glory--Ex. xv. 11-17,                        55
+
+   7. Holiness and Obedience--Ex. xix. 5, 6,                    64
+
+   8. Holiness and Indwelling--Ex. xxv. 8,                      73
+
+   9. Holiness and Meditation--Ex. xxviii. 36-38,               81
+
+  10. Holiness and Separation--Lev. xx. 24, 26,                 89
+
+  11. The Holy One of Israel--Lev. xi. 45,                      98
+
+  12. The Thrice Holy One--Isa. vi. 1-3,                       107
+
+  13. Holiness and Humility--Isa. lvii. 15,                    117
+
+  14. The Holy One of God--John vi. 69,                        125
+
+  15. The Holy Spirit--John vii. 39,                           133
+
+  16. Holiness and Truth--John xvii. 17,                       142
+
+  17. Holiness and Crucifixion--John xvii. 19,                 150
+
+  18. Holiness and Faith--Acts xxvi. 18,                       158
+
+  19. Holiness and Resurrection--Rom. i. 4,                    167
+
+  20. Holiness and Liberty--Rom. vi. 18-22,                    175
+
+  21. Holiness and Happiness--Rom. xiv. 17,                    184
+
+  22. In Christ our Sanctification--1 Cor. i. 30, 31,          192
+
+  23. Holiness and the Body--1 Cor. iii. 16,                   201
+
+  24. Holiness and Cleansing--2 Cor. vii. 1,                   210
+
+  25. Holiness and Blamelessness--1 Thess. iii. 12, 13,        219
+
+  26. Holiness and the Will of God--1 Thess. iv. 3,            227
+
+  27. Holiness and Service--2 Tim. ii. 21,                     235
+
+  28. The Way into the Holiest--Heb. x. 19,                    243
+
+  29. Holiness and Chastisement--Heb. xii. 10, 14,             253
+
+  30. The Unction from the Holy One--1 John ii. 20, 27,        262
+
+  31. Holiness and Heaven--2 Pet. iii. 11,                     271
+
+      Notes,                                                   281
+
+
+
+
+First Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+God's Call to Holiness.
+
+  'Like as He which called you is _holy_, be ye yourselves also _holy_
+  in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be _holy_,
+  for I am _holy_.'--1 Pet. i. 15, 16.
+
+
+The call of God is the manifestation in time of the purpose of eternity:
+'Whom He predestinated, them He also _called_.' Believers are 'the
+_called_ according to His purpose.' In His call He reveals to us what
+His thoughts and His will concerning us are, and what the life to which
+He invites us. In His call He makes clear to us what the hope of our
+calling is; as we spiritually apprehend and enter into this, our life on
+earth will be the reflection of His purpose in eternity.
+
+Holy Scripture uses more than one word to indicate the object or aim of
+our calling, but none more frequently than what Peter speaks of
+here--God has called us _to be holy_ as He is holy. Paul addresses
+believers twice as 'called to be _holy_' (Rom. i. 7; 1 Cor. i. 2). 'God
+called us', he says, 'not for uncleanness, but _in sanctification_'
+(1 Thess. iv. 7). When he writes, 'The God of peace _sanctify_ you
+wholly,' he adds, 'Faithful is He which _calleth_ you, who also will do
+it' (1 Thess. v. 24). The calling itself is spoken of as 'a _holy_
+calling.' The eternal purpose of which the calling is the outcome, is
+continually also connected with holiness as its aim. 'He hath _chosen_
+us in Him, that we should be _holy_ and without blame' (Eph. i. 4).
+'Whom God _chose_ from the beginning unto _salvation in sanctification_'
+(2 Thess. ii. 12). '_Elect_ according to the foreknowledge of the
+Father, through _sanctification_ of the Spirit' (1 Pet. i. 2). The call
+is the unveiling of the purpose that the Father from eternity had set
+His heart upon: that we should be holy.
+
+It needs no proof that it is of infinite importance to know aright what
+God has called us to. A misunderstanding here may have fatal results.
+You may have heard that God calls you to salvation or to happiness, to
+receive pardon or to obtain heaven, and never noticed that all these
+were subordinate. It was to 'salvation _in sanctification_,' it was to
+Holiness in the first place, as the element in which salvation and
+heaven are to be found. The complaints of many Christians as to lack of
+joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to
+this--the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in
+their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on
+this.
+
+No wonder that Paul, in the chapter in which he had spoken to the
+Ephesians of their being 'chosen to be holy' prays for the spirit of
+wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God to be given to believers,
+that they might know 'the hope of their _calling_' (i. 17, 18). Let all
+of us, who feel that we have too little realized that we are called to
+Holiness, pray this prayer. It is just what we need. Let us ask God to
+show us how, as He who hath called us is Himself holy, so we are to be
+holy too; our calling is a holy calling, a calling before and above
+everything, to Holiness. Let us ask Him to show us what Holiness is, His
+Holiness first, and then our Holiness; to show us how He has set His
+heart upon it as the one thing He wants to see in us, as being His own
+image and likeness; to show us too the unutterable blessedness and glory
+of sharing with Christ in His Holiness. Oh! that God by His Spirit would
+teach us what it means that we are called to be holy as He is holy. We
+can easily conceive what a mighty influence it would exert.
+
+'Like as He which called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy'. How
+this call of God shows us the true _motive_ to Holiness. 'Be ye holy,
+for I am holy.' It is as if God said, Holiness is my blessedness and my
+glory: without this you cannot, in the very nature of things, see me or
+enjoy me. Holiness is my blessedness and my glory: there is nothing
+higher to be conceived; I invite you to share with me in it, I invite
+you to likeness to myself: 'Be ye holy, for I am holy.' Is it not
+enough, has it no attraction, does it not move and draw you mightily,
+the hope of being with me, partakers of my Holiness? I have nothing
+better to offer--I offer you myself: 'Be holy, for I am holy.' Shall we
+not cry earnestly to God to show us the glory of His Holiness, that our
+souls may be made willing to give everything in response to this
+wondrous call?
+
+As we listen to the call, it shows also the _nature_ of true Holiness.
+'_Like as_ He is holy, so be ye also holy.' To be holy is to be Godlike,
+to have a disposition, a will, a character like God. The thought almost
+looks like blasphemy, until we listen again, 'He hath chosen us _in
+Christ_ to be holy.' In Christ the Holiness of God appeared in a human
+life: in Christ's example, in His mind and Spirit, we have the Holiness
+of the Invisible One translated into the forms of human life and
+conduct. To be Christlike is to be Godlike; to be Christlike is to be
+holy as God is holy.
+
+The call equally reveals the _power_ of Holiness. 'There is none holy
+but the Lord;' there is no Holiness but what He has, or rather what He
+is, and gives. Holiness is not something we do or attain: it is the
+communication of the Divine life, the inbreathing of the Divine nature,
+the power of the Divine Presence resting on us. And our power to become
+holy is to be found in the call of God: the Holy One calls us to
+Himself, that He may make us holy in possessing Himself. He not only
+says 'I am holy,' but 'I am the Lord, who make holy.' It is because the
+call to Holiness comes from the God of infinite Power and Love that we
+may have the confidence: we can be holy.
+
+The call no less reveals the _standard_ of Holiness. '_Like as He_ is
+holy, _so ye also_ yourselves,' or (as in margin, R.V.), 'Like the Holy
+One, which calleth you, be ye yourselves also holy.' There is not one
+standard of Holiness for God and another for man. The nature of light is
+the same, whether we see it in the sun or in a candle: the nature of
+Holiness remains unchanged, whether it be God or man in whom it dwells.
+The Lord Jesus could say nothing less than, 'Be perfect, even as your
+Father in heaven is perfect.' When God calls us to Holiness, He calls us
+to Himself and His own life: the more carefully we listen to the voice,
+and let it sink into our hearts, the more will all human standards fall
+away, and only the words be heard, Holy, as I am holy.
+
+And the call shows us the _path_ to Holiness. The calling of God is one
+of mighty efficacy, an effectual calling. Oh! let us but listen to it,
+let us but listen to Him, and the call will with Divine power work what
+it offers. He calleth the things that are not as though they were: His
+call gives life to the dead, and holiness to those whom He has made
+alive. He calls us to listen as He speaks of His Holiness, and of our
+holiness like His. He calls us to Himself, to study, to fear, to love,
+to claim His Holiness. He calls us to Christ, in whom Divine Holiness
+became human Holiness, to see and admire, to desire and accept what is
+all for us. He calls us to the indwelling and the teaching of the
+Spirit of Holiness, to yield ourselves that He may bring home to us and
+breathe within us what is ours in Christ. Christian! listen to God
+calling thee to Holiness. Come and learn what His Holiness is, and what
+thine is and must be.
+
+Yes, be very silent and listen. When God called Abraham, he answered,
+Here am I. When God called Moses from the bush, he answered, Here am I,
+and he hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. God is calling
+thee to Holiness, to Himself the Holy One, that He may make thee holy.
+Let thy whole soul answer, Here am I, Lord! Speak, Lord! Show Thyself,
+Lord! Here am I. As you listen, the voice will sound ever deeper and
+ever stiller: Be holy, _as_ I am holy. Be holy, _for_ I am holy. You
+will hear a voice coming out of the great eternity, from the
+council-chamber of redemption, and as you catch its distant whisper, it
+will be, Be holy, I am holy. You will hear a voice from Paradise, the
+Creator making the seventh day holy for man whom He had created, and
+saying, Be holy. You will hear the voice from Sinai, amid thunderings
+and lightnings, and still it is, Be holy, as I am holy. You will hear a
+voice from Calvary, and there above all it is, Be holy, for I am holy.
+
+Child of God, have you ever realized it, our Father is calling us to
+Himself, to be holy as He is holy? Must we not confess that happiness
+has been to us more than holiness, salvation than sanctification? Oh! it
+is not too late to redeem the error. Let us now band ourselves together
+to listen to the voice that calls, to draw nigh, and find out and know
+what Holiness is, or rather, find out and know Himself the Holy One. And
+if the first approach to Him fill us with shame and confusion, make us
+fear and shrink back, let us still listen to the Voice and the Call, 'Be
+holy, as I am holy.' 'Faithful is He which _calleth_, who also _will do
+it_.' All our fears and questions will be met by the Holy One who has
+revealed His Holiness, with this one purpose in view, that we might
+share it with Him. As we yield ourselves in deep stillness of soul to
+listen to the Holy Voice that calls us, it will waken within us new
+desire and strong faith, and the most precious of all promises will be
+to us this word of Divine command:
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Lord! the alone Holy One, Thou hast called us to be holy, even as Thou
+art holy. Lord! how can we, unless Thou reveal to us Thy Holiness. Show
+us, we pray Thee, how Thou art holy, how holy Thou art, what Thy
+holiness is, that we may know how we are to be holy, how holy we are to
+be. And when the sight of Thy Holiness only shows us the more how unholy
+we are, teach us that Thou makest partakers of Thy own Holiness those
+who come to Thee for it.
+
+O God! we come to Thee, the Holy One. It is in knowing and finding and
+having Thyself, that the soul finds Holiness. We do beseech Thee, as we
+now come to Thee, establish it in the thoughts of our heart, that the
+one object of Thy calling us, and of our coming to Thee, is Holiness.
+Thou wouldst have us like Thyself, partakers of Thy Holiness. If ever
+our heart becomes afraid, as if it were too high, or rests content with
+a salvation less than Holiness, Blessed God! let us hear Thy voice
+calling again, Be holy, I am holy. Let that call be our motive and our
+strength, because faithful is He that calleth, who also will do it. Let
+that call mark our standard and our path; oh! let our life be such as
+Thou art able to make it.
+
+Holy Father! I bow in lowly worship and silence before Thee. Let now
+Thine own voice sound in the depths of my heart calling me, Be holy, as
+I am holy. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Let me press it upon every reader of this little book, that if
+     it is to help him in the pursuit of Holiness, he must begin _with
+     God Himself_. You must go _to Him who calls you_. It is only in the
+     personal revelation of God to you, as He speaks, I am holy, that
+     the command, Be ye holy, can have life or power.
+
+  2. Remember, as a believer, you have already accepted God's call,
+     even though you did not fully understand it. Let it be a settled
+     matter, that whatever you see to be the meaning of the call, you
+     will at once accept and carry out. If God calls me to be holy, holy
+     I will be.
+
+  3. Take fast hold of the word: 'The God of peace sanctify you wholly:
+     faithful is He which _calleth_ you, _who also will do it_.' In that
+     faith listen to God calling you.
+
+  4. Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for
+     and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open
+     your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the
+     answer you have to give to this call.
+
+
+
+
+Second Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+God's Provision for Holiness.
+
+  'To those that are _made holy_ in Christ Jesus, called to be
+  _holy_.'--1 Cor. i. 2.
+
+  'To all the _holy ones_ in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi. Salute
+  every _holy one_ in Christ Jesus.'[1]--Phil. i. 1, iv. 21.
+
+
+HOLY! IN CHRIST! In these two expressions we have perhaps the most
+wonderful words of all the Bible.
+
+HOLY! the word of unfathomable meaning, which the Seraphs utter with
+veiled faces. HOLY! the word in which all God's perfections centre, and
+of which His glory is but the streaming forth. HOLY! the word which
+reveals the purpose with which God from eternity thought of man, and
+tells what man's highest glory in the coming eternity is to be; to be
+partaker of His Holiness!
+
+IN CHRIST! the word in which all the wisdom and love of God are
+unveiled! The Father giving His Son to be one with us! the Son dying on
+the cross to make us one with Himself! the Holy Spirit of the Father
+dwelling in us to establish and maintain that union! IN CHRIST! what a
+summary of what redemption has done, and of the inconceivably blessed
+life in which the child of God is permitted to dwell. IN CHRIST! the one
+lesson we have to study on earth. God's one answer to all our needs and
+prayers. IN CHRIST! the guarantee and the foretaste of eternal glory.
+
+What wealth of meaning and blessing in the two words combined: HOLY IN
+CHRIST! Here is God's provision for our holiness, God's response to our
+question, How to be holy? Often and often as we hear the call, Be _ye_
+holy, _even as I_ am holy, it is as if there is and ever must be a great
+gulf between the holiness of God and man. IN CHRIST! is the bridge that
+crosses the gulf; nay rather, His fulness has filled it up. IN CHRIST!
+God and man meet; IN CHRIST! the Holiness of God has found us, and made
+us its own; has become human, and can indeed become our very own. To the
+anxious cries and the heart-yearnings of thousands of thirsty souls who
+have believed in Jesus and yet know not how to be holy, here is God's
+answer: YE ARE HOLY IN CHRIST JESUS. Would they but hearken, and
+believe; would they but take these Divine words, and say them over, if
+need be, a thousand times, how God's light would shine, and fill their
+hearts with joy and love as they echo them back: Yes, now I see it. Holy
+in Christ! Made holy in Christ Jesus!
+
+As we set ourselves to study these wondrous words, let us remember that
+it is only God Himself who can reveal to us what Holiness truly is. Let
+us fear our own thoughts, and crucify our own wisdom. Let us give up
+ourselves to receive, in the power of the life of God Himself, working
+in us by the Holy Spirit, that which is deeper and truer than human
+thought, Christ Himself as our Holiness. In this dependence upon the
+teaching of the Spirit of Holiness, let us seek simply to accept what
+Holy Scripture sets before us; as the revelation of the Holy One of old
+was a very slow and gradual one, so let us be content patiently to
+follow step by step the path of the shining light through the Word; it
+will shine more and more unto the perfect day.
+
+We shall first have to study the word Holy in the Old Testament. In
+Israel as the holy people, the type of us who now are holy in Christ, we
+shall see with what fulness of symbol God sought to work into the very
+constitution of the people some apprehension of what He would have them
+be. In the law we shall see how HOLY is the great keyword of the
+redemption which it was meant to serve and prepare for. In the prophets
+we shall hear how the Holiness of God is revealed as the source whence
+the coming redemption should spring: it is not so much Holiness as the
+Holy One they speak of, who would, in redeeming love and saving
+righteousness, make Himself known as the God of His people.
+
+And when the meaning of the word has been somewhat opened up, and the
+deep need of the blessing made manifest in the Old Testament, we shall
+come to the New to find how that need was fulfilled. In Christ, the Holy
+One of God, Divine Holiness will be found in human life and human
+nature; a truly human will being made perfect and growing up through
+obedience into complete union with all the Holy Will of God. In the
+sacrifice of Himself on the cross, that holy nature gave itself up to
+the death, that, like the seed-corn, it might through death live again
+and reproduce itself in us. In the gift from the throne of the Spirit of
+God's Holiness, representing and revealing and communicating the unseen
+Christ, the holy life of Christ descends and takes possession of His
+people, and they become one with Him. As the Old Testament had no higher
+word than that HOLY, the New has none deeper than this, IN CHRIST. The
+being in Him, the abiding in Him, the being rooted in Him, the growing
+up in Him and into Him in all things, are the Divine expressions in
+which the wonderful and complete oneness between us and our Saviour are
+brought as near us as human language can do.
+
+And when Old and New Testament have each given their message, the one in
+teaching us what _Holy_, the other what _in Christ_ means, we have in
+the word of God, that unites the two, the most complete summary of the
+Great Redemption that God's love has provided. The everlasting
+certainty, the wonderful sufficiency, the infinite efficacy of the
+Holiness that God has prepared for us in His Son, are all revealed in
+this blessed, HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+'The Holy Ones in Christ Jesus!' Such is the name, beloved
+fellow-believers, which we bear in Holy Scripture, in the language of
+the Holy Spirit. It is no mere statement of doctrine, that we are holy
+in Christ: it is no deep theological discussion to which we are invited;
+but out of the depths of God's loving heart, there comes a voice thus
+addressing His beloved children. It is the name by which the Father
+calls His children. That name tells us of God's provision for our being
+holy. It is the revelation of what God has given us, and what we already
+are; of what God waits to work in us, and what can be ours in personal
+practical possession. That name, gratefully accepted, joyfully
+confessed, trustfully pleaded, will be the pledge and the power of our
+attainment of the Holiness to which we have been called.
+
+And so we shall find that as we go along, all our study and all God's
+teaching will be comprised in three great lessons. The first a
+revelation, '_I am holy_;' the second a command, '_Be ye holy_;' the
+third a gift, the link between the two, '_Ye are holy in Christ_.'
+
+First comes the revelation, 'I am holy.' Our study must be on bended
+knee, in the spirit of worship and deep humility. God must reveal
+Himself to us, if we are to know what Holy is. The deep unholiness of
+our nature and all that is of nature must be shown us; with Moses and
+Isaiah, when the Holy One revealed Himself to them, we must fear and
+tremble, and confess how utterly unfit we are for the revelation or the
+fellowship, without the cleansing of fire. In the consciousness of the
+utter impotence of our own wisdom or understanding to know God, our
+souls must in contrition, brokenness from ourselves and our power or
+efforts, yield to God's Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to reveal God as
+the Holy One. And as we begin to know Him in His infinite righteousness,
+in His fiery burning zeal against all that is sin, and His infinite
+self-sacrificing love to free the sinner from his sin, and to bring him
+to His own perfection, we shall learn to wonder at and worship this
+glorious God, to feel and deplore our terrible unlikeness to Him, to
+long and cry for some share in the Divine beauty and blessedness of this
+Holiness.
+
+And then will come with new meaning the command, 'Be holy, as I am
+holy.' Oh, my brethren! ye who profess to obey the commands of your God,
+do give this all-surpassing and all-including command that first place
+in your heart and life which it claims. Do be holy with the likeness of
+God's Holiness. Do be holy as He is holy. And if you find that the more
+you meditate and study, the less you can grasp this infinite holiness;
+that the more you at moments grasp of it, the more you despair of a
+holiness so Divine; remember that such breaking down and such despair is
+just what the command was meant to work. Learn to cease from your own
+wisdom as well as your own goodness; draw near in poverty of spirit to
+let the Holy One show you how utterly above human knowledge or human
+power is the holiness He demands; to the soul that ceases from self, and
+has no confidence in the flesh, He will show and give the holiness He
+calls us to.
+
+It is to such that the great gift of Holiness in Christ becomes
+intelligible and acceptable. Christ brings the Holiness of God nigh by
+showing it in human conduct and intercourse. He brings it nigh by
+removing the barrier between it and us, between God and us. He brings it
+nigh, because He makes us one with Himself. 'Holy in Christ:' our
+holiness is a Divine bestowment, held for us, communicated to us,
+working mightily in us because we are _in Him_. 'In Christ!' oh, that
+wonderful _in_! our very life rooted in the life of Christ. That holy
+Son and Servant of the Father, beautiful in His life of love and
+obedience on earth, sanctifying Himself for us--that life of Christ, the
+ground in which I am planted and rooted, the soil from which I draw as
+my nourishment its every quality and its very nature. How that word
+sheds its light both on the revelation, 'I am holy,' and on the command,
+'Be ye holy, as I am,' and binds them in one! In Christ I see what God's
+Holiness is, and what my holiness is. In Him both are one, and both are
+mine. In Him I am holy; abiding and growing up in Him, I can be holy in
+all manner of living, as God is holy.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Most Holy God! we do beseech Thee, reveal Thou to Thy children what it
+meaneth that Thou hast not only called them to holiness, but even called
+them by this name, 'the holy ones in Christ Jesus.' Oh that every child
+of Thine might know that He bears this name, might know what it means,
+and what power there is in it to make Him what it calls him. Holy Lord
+God! oh that the time of Thy visitation might speedily come, and each
+child of Thine on earth be known as a holy one!
+
+To this end we pray Thee to reveal to Thy saints what Thy Holiness is.
+Teach us to worship and to wait until Thou hast spoken unto our souls
+with Divine Power Thy word, 'I am holy.' Oh that it may search out and
+convict us of our unholiness!
+
+And reveal to us, we pray Thee, that as holy as Thou art, even a
+consuming fire, so holy is Thy command in its determined and
+uncompromising purpose to have us holy. O God! let Thy voice sound
+through the depth of our being, with a power from which there is no
+escape: Be holy, be holy.
+
+And let us thus, between Thine infinite Holiness on the one hand and our
+unholiness on the other, be driven and be drawn to accept of Christ as
+our sanctification, to abide in Him as our life and our power to be what
+Thou wouldst have us--'Holy in Christ Jesus.'
+
+O Father! let Thy Spirit make this precious word life and truth within
+us. Amen.
+
+
+  1. You are entering anew on the study of a Divine mystery. 'Trust
+     not to your own understanding;' wait for the teaching of the Spirit
+     of truth.
+
+  2. _In Christ._ A commentator says, 'The phrase denotes two moral
+     facts--first, the act of faith whereby a man lays hold of Christ;
+     second, the community of life with Him contracted by means of this
+     faith.' There is still another fact, the greatest of all: that it
+     is by an act of Divine power that I am in Christ and am kept in
+     Him. It is this I want to realize: the Divineness of my position in
+     Jesus.
+  3. Grasp the two sides of the truth. _You are_ holy in Christ with
+     a Divine holiness. In the faith of that, you are to _be holy_, to
+     _become holy_ with a human holiness, the Divine Holiness manifest
+     in all the conduct of a human life.
+  4. This Christ is a Living Person, a Loving Saviour: how He will
+     delight to get complete possession, and do all the work in you!
+     Keep hold of this all along as we go on: you have a claim on
+     Christ, on His Love and Power, to make you holy. As His redeemed
+     one, you are at this moment, whatever and wherever you be, _in
+     Him_. His Holy Presence and Love are around you. You are _in Him_,
+     in the enclosure of that tender love, which ever encircles you with
+     His Holy Presence. _In that Presence, accepted and realized, is
+     your holiness._
+
+
+    [1] There is one disadvantage in English in our having synonyms of
+        which some are derived from Saxon and others from Latin.
+        Ordinary readers are apt to forget that in our translation of
+        the Bible we may use two different words for what in the
+        original is expressed by one term. This is the case with the
+        words _holy_, _holiness_, _keep holy_, _hallow_, _saint_,
+        _sanctify_, and _sanctification_. When God or Christ is called
+        the Holy One, the word in Hebrew and Greek is exactly the same
+        that is used when the believer is called a saint: he too is a
+        holy one. So the three words _hallow_, _keep holy_, _sanctify_,
+        all represent but one term in the original, of which the real
+        meaning is to make holy, as it is in Dutch, _heiliging_
+        (holying), and _heiligmaking_ (holy-making).
+
+
+
+
+Third Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Creation.
+
+  'And God blessed the Sabbath day, and _sanctified_ it, because
+  that in it He had rested from all the work which God created and
+  made.'--Gen. ii. 3.
+
+
+In Genesis we have the Book of Beginnings. To its first three chapters
+we are specially indebted for a Divine light shining on the many
+questions to which human wisdom never could find an answer. In our
+search after Holiness, we are led thither too. In the whole book of
+Genesis the word Holy occurs but once. But that once in such a
+connection as to open to us the secret spring whence flows all that the
+Bible has to teach or to give us of this heavenly blessing. The full
+meaning of the precious word we want to master, of the priceless
+blessing we want to get possession of, '_Sanctified in Christ_,' takes
+its rise in what is here written of that wondrous act of God, by which
+He closed His creation work, and revealed how wonderfully it would be
+continued and perfected. When God blessed the seventh day, and
+_sanctified_ it, He lifted it above the other days, and set it apart to
+a work and a revelation of Himself, excelling in glory all that had
+preceded. In this simple expression, Scripture reveals to us the
+character of God as the Holy One, who _makes holy_; the way in which He
+makes holy, by entering in and _resting_; and the power of _blessing_
+with which God's making holy is ever accompanied. These three lessons we
+shall find it of the deepest importance to study well, as containing the
+root-principles of all the Scripture will have to teach us in our
+pursuit of Holiness.
+
+1. God _sanctified_ the Sabbath day. Of the previous six days the
+keyword was, from the first calling into existence of the heaven and the
+earth, down to the making of man: _God created_. All at once a new word
+and a new work of God, is introduced: _God sanctified_. Something higher
+than creation, that for which creation is to exist, is now to be
+revealed; God Almighty is now to be known as God Most Holy. And just as
+the work of creation shows His Power, without that Power being
+mentioned, so His making holy the seventh day reveals His character as
+the Holy One. As Omnipotence is the chief of His natural, so Holiness is
+the first of His moral attributes. And just as He alone is Creator, so
+He alone is Sanctifier; to make holy is His work as truly and
+exclusively as to create. Blessed is the child of God who truly and
+fully believes this!
+
+God sanctified the Sabbath day. The word can teach us what the nature
+is of the work God does when He makes holy. Sanctification in Paradise
+cannot be essentially different from Sanctification in Redemption. God
+had pronounced all His works, and man the chief of them, very good. And
+yet they were not holy. The six days' work had nought of defilement or
+sin, and yet it was not holy. The seventh day needed to be specially
+made holy, for the great work of making holy man, who was already very
+good. In Exodus, God says distinctly that He sanctified the Sabbath day,
+with a view to man's sanctification. 'That ye may know that I am the
+Lord that doth _sanctify you_.' Goodness, innocence, purity, freedom
+from sin, is not Holiness. Goodness is the work of omnipotence, an
+attribute of nature, as God creates it: holiness is something infinitely
+higher. We speak of the holiness of God as His infinite moral
+perfection; man's moral perfection could only come in the use of his
+will, consenting freely to and abiding in the will of God. Thus alone
+could he become holy. The seventh day was made holy by God as a pledge
+that He would make man holy. In the ages that preceded the seventh day,
+the Creation period, God's Power, Wisdom, and Goodness had been
+displayed. The age to come, in the seventh day period, is to be the
+dispensation of holiness: God made holy the seventh day.
+
+2. God sanctified the Sabbath day, _because in it He rested_ from all
+His work. This rest was something real. In Creation, God had, as it
+were, gone out of Himself to bring forth something new: in resting He
+now returns from His creating work into Himself, to rejoice in His love
+over the man He has created, and communicate Himself to him. This opens
+up to us the way in which God makes holy. The connection between the
+resting and making holy was no arbitrary one; the making holy was no
+after-thought; in the very nature of things it could not be otherwise:
+He sanctified _because_ He rested in it; He sanctified by resting. As He
+regards His finished work, more especially man, rejoices in it, and, as
+we have it in Exodus, 'is refreshed,' this time of His Divine rest is
+the time in which He will carry on unto perfection what He has begun,
+and make man, created in His image, in very deed partaker of His highest
+glory, His Holiness.
+
+_Where God rests in complacency and love, He makes holy._ The Presence
+of God revealing itself, entering in, and taking possession, is what
+constitutes true Holiness. As we go down the ages, studying the
+progressive unfolding of what Holiness is, this truth will continually
+meet us. In God's indwelling in heaven, in His temple on earth, in His
+beloved Son, in the person of the believer through the Holy Spirit, we
+shall everywhere find that Holiness is not something that man is or
+does, but that it always comes where God comes. In the deepest meaning
+of the words: where God enters to rest, there He sanctifies. And when we
+come to study the New Testament revelation of the way in which we are
+to be holy, we shall find in this one of our earliest and deepest
+lessons. It is as we enter into the rest of God that we become partakers
+of His Holiness. 'We which have believed do enter into that rest;' 'He
+that hath entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works,
+as God did from His.' It is as the soul ceases from its own efforts, and
+rests in Him who has finished all for us, and will finish all in us, as
+the soul yields itself in the quiet confidence of true faith to rest in
+God, that it will know what true Holiness is. Where the soul enters into
+the Sabbath stillness of perfect trust, God comes to keep His Sabbath
+holy; and the soul where He rests He sanctifies. Whether we speak of His
+own day, 'He sanctified it,' or His own people 'sanctified in Christ,'
+the secret of Holiness is ever the same: 'He sanctified because he
+rested.'
+
+3. And then we read, '_He blessed_ and sanctified it.' As used in the
+first chapter and throughout the book of Genesis, the word 'God blessed'
+is one of great significance. 'Be fruitful and multiply' was, as to
+Adam, so later to Noah and Abraham, the Divine exposition of its
+meaning. The blessing with which God blessed Adam and Noah and Abraham
+was that of fruitfulness and increase, the power to reproduce and
+multiply. When God blessed the seventh day, He filled it so with the
+living power of His Holiness, that in it that Holiness might increase
+and reproduce itself in those who, like Him, seek to enter into its rest
+and sanctify it. The seventh day is that in which we are still living.
+Of each of the creation days it is written, up to the last, 'There was
+evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.' Of the seventh the
+record has not yet been made; we are living in it now, God's own day of
+rest and holiness and blessing. Entering into it in a very special
+manner, and taking possession of it, as the time for His rejoicing in
+His creature, and manifesting the fulness of His love in sanctifying
+him, He has made the dispensation we now live in one of Divine and
+mighty blessing. And He has at the same time taught us what the blessing
+is. Holiness is blessedness. Fellowship with God in His holy rest is
+blessedness. And as all God's blessings in Christ have but one fountain,
+God's Holiness, so they all have but one aim, making us partakers of
+that Holiness. God created, _and blessed_; with the creation blessing.
+God sanctified, _and blessed_; with the Sabbath blessing of His rest.
+The Creation blessing, of goodness and fruitfulness and dominion, is to
+be crowned by the Sabbath blessing of rest in God and holiness in
+fellowship with Him.
+
+God's finished work of Creation was marred by sin, and our fellowship
+with Him in the blessing of His holy rest cut off. The finished work of
+redemption opened for us a truer rest and a surer entrance into the
+Holiness of God. As He rested in His holy day, so He now rests in His
+Holy Son. In Him we now can enter fully into the rest of God. 'Made holy
+in Christ,' let us rest in Him. Let us rest, because we see that as
+wonderfully as God by His mighty power finished His work of Creation,
+will He complete and perfect His work of sanctification. Let us yield
+ourselves to God in Christ, to rest where He rested, to be made holy
+with His own holiness, and to be blessed with God's own blessing. God
+the Sanctifier is the name now inscribed upon the throne of God the
+Creator. At the threshold of the history of the human race there shines
+this word of infinite promise and hope: 'God blessed and sanctified the
+seventh day because in it He rested.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Lord God! I bow before Thee in lowly worship. I adore Thee as
+God the Creator, and God the Sanctifier. Thou hast revealed Thyself as
+God Almighty and God Most Holy. I beseech Thee, teach me to know and to
+trust Thee as such.
+
+I humbly ask Thee for grace to learn and hold fast the deep spiritual
+truths Thou hast revealed in making holy the Sabbath day. Thy purpose in
+man's creation is to show forth Thy Holiness, and make him partaker of
+it. Oh, teach me to believe in Thee as God my Creator and Sanctifier, to
+believe with my whole heart that the same Almighty power which gave the
+sixth-day blessing of creation, secures to us the seventh-day blessing
+of sanctification. Thy will is our sanctification.
+
+And teach me, Lord, to understand better how this blessing comes. It is
+where Thou enterest to rest, to refresh and reveal Thyself, that Thou
+makest holy. O my God! may my heart be Thy resting-place. I would, in
+the stillness and confidence of a restful faith, rest in Thee, believing
+that Thou doest all in me. Let such fellowship with Thee, and Thy love,
+and Thy will be to me the secret of a life of holiness. I ask it in the
+name of our Lord Jesus, in whom Thou hast sanctified us. Amen.
+
+
+  1. God the Creator is God the Sanctifier. The Omnipotence that did
+     the first work does the second too. I can trust God Almighty to
+     make me holy. God is holy: if God is everything to me, His presence
+     will be my holiness.
+
+  2. Rest is ceasing from work, not to work no more, but to begin a
+     new work. God rests and begins at once to make holy that in which
+     He rests. He created by the word of His power; He rests in His
+     love. Creation was the building of the temple; sanctification is
+     the entering in and taking possession. Oh, that wonderful entering
+     into human nature!
+
+  3. God rests only in what is restful, wholly at His disposal. It is
+     in the restfulness of faith that we must look to God the
+     Sanctifier; He will come in and keep His holy Sabbath in the
+     restful soul. We rest in God's rest; God rests in our rest.
+
+  4. The God that rests in man whom He made, and in resting sanctifies,
+     and in sanctifying blesses: this is our God; praise and worship
+     Him. _And trust Him to do His work._
+
+  5. Rest! what a simple word. The Rest of God! what an inconceivable
+     fulness of Life and Love in that word. Let us meditate on it and
+     worship before Him, until it overshadow us and we enter into
+     it--the Rest of God. _Rest_ belongeth unto God: He alone can give
+     it, by making us share His own.
+
+
+
+
+Fourth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Revelation.
+
+  'And when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see, He called
+  unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And
+  he said, Here am I. And He said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy
+  shoes from thy feet, for the place where thou standest is _holy_
+  ground. And Moses hid his face, for He was afraid to look upon
+  God.'--Ex. iii. 4-6.
+
+
+And why was it holy ground? Because God had come there and occupied it.
+Where God is, there is holiness; it is the presence of God makes holy.
+This is the truth we met with in Paradise when man was just created;
+here, where Scripture uses the word _Holy_ for the second time, it is
+repeated and enforced. A careful study of the word in the light of the
+burning bush will further open its deep significance. Let us see what
+the sacred history, what the revelation of God, and what Moses teaches
+us of this holy ground.
+
+1. Note the place this first direct revelation of God to man as the Holy
+One takes in sacred history. In Paradise we found the word _Holy_ used
+of the seventh day. Since that time twenty-five centuries have elapsed.
+We found in God's sanctifying the day of rest a promise of a new
+dispensation--the revelation of the Almighty Creator to be followed by
+that of the Holy One making holy. And yet throughout the book of Genesis
+the word never occurs again; it is as if God's Holiness is in abeyance;
+only in Exodus, with the calling of Moses, does it make its appearance
+again. This is a fact of deep import. Just as a parent or teacher seeks,
+in early childhood, to impress one lesson at a time, so God deals in the
+education of the human race. After having in the flood exhibited His
+righteous judgment against sin, He calls Abraham to be the father of a
+chosen people. And as the foundation of all His dealings with that
+people, He teaches him and his seed first of all the lesson of
+_childlike trust_--trust in Him as the Almighty, with whom nothing is
+too wonderful, and trust in Him as the Faithful One, whose oath could
+not be broken. With the growth of Israel to a people we see the
+revelation advancing to a new stage. The simplicity of childhood gives
+way to the waywardness of youth, and God must now interfere with the
+discipline and restriction of law. Having gained a right to a place in
+their confidence as the God of their fathers, He prepares them for a
+further revelation. Of the God of Abraham the chief attribute was that
+He was the Almighty One; of the God of Israel, Jehovah, that He is the
+Holy One.
+
+And what is to be the special mark of the new period that is now about
+to be inaugurated, and which is introduced by the word holy? God tells
+Moses that He is now about to reveal Himself in a new character. He had
+been known to Abraham as God Almighty, the God of Promise (Ex. vi. 3).
+He would now manifest Himself as Jehovah, the God of Fulfilment,
+especially in the redemption and deliverance of His people from the
+oppression He had foretold to Abraham. God Almighty is the God of
+Creation: Abraham believed in God, 'who quickeneth the dead, and calleth
+the things that are not as though they were.' Jehovah is the God of
+Redemption and of Holiness. With Abraham there was not a word of sin or
+guilt, and therefore not of redemption or holiness. To Israel the law is
+to be given, to convince of sin and prepare the way for holiness; it is
+Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, who now appears. And it
+is the presence of this Holy One that makes the holy ground.
+
+2. And how does this Presence reveal itself? In the burning bush God
+makes Himself known as dwelling in the midst of the fire. Elsewhere in
+Holy Scripture the connection between fire and the Holiness of God is
+clearly expressed: 'The light of Israel shall be for a fire, and the
+Holy One for a flame.' The nature of fire may be either beneficent or
+destructive. The sun, the great central fire, may give life and
+fruitfulness, or may scorch to death. All depends upon occupying the
+right position, upon the relation in which we stand to it. And so
+wherever God the Holy One reveals Himself, we shall find the two sides
+together: God's Holiness as judgment against sin, destroying the sinner
+who remains in it, and as Mercy freeing His people from it. Judgment and
+Mercy ever go together. Of the elements of nature there is none of such
+spiritual and mighty energy as Fire: what it consumes it takes and
+changes into its own spiritual nature, rejecting as smoke and ashes what
+cannot be assimilated. And so the Holiness of God is that infinite
+Perfection by which He keeps Himself free from all that is not Divine,
+and yet has fellowship with the creature, and takes it up into union
+with Himself, destroying and casting out all that will not yield itself
+to Him.
+
+It is thus as One who dwells in the fire, who is a fire, that God
+reveals Himself at the opening of this new redemption period. With
+Abraham and the patriarchs, as we have said, there had been little
+teaching about sin or redemption; the nearness and friendship of God had
+been revealed. Now the law will be given, sin will be made manifest, the
+distance from God will be felt, that man, in learning to know himself
+and his sinfulness, may learn to know and long for God to make him holy.
+In all God's revelation of Himself we shall find the combination of the
+two elements, the one repelling, the other attracting. In His house He
+will dwell in the midst of Israel, and yet it will be in the awful
+unapproachable solitude and darkness of the holiest of all within the
+veil. He will come near to them, and yet keep them at a distance. As we
+study the Holiness of God, we shall see in increasing clearness how,
+like fire, it repels and attracts, how it combines into one His infinite
+distance and His infinite nearness.
+
+3. But the distance will be that which comes out first and most
+strongly. This we see in Moses: he hid his face, for He feared to look
+upon God. The first impression which God's Holiness produces is that of
+fear and awe. Until man, both as a creature and a sinner, learns how
+high God is above him, how different and distant he is from God, the
+Holiness of God will have little real value or attraction. Moses hiding
+his face shows us the effect of the drawing nigh of the Holy One, and
+the path to His further revelation.
+
+How distinctly this comes out in God's own words: 'Draw not nigh hither;
+put off thy shoes from off thy feet.' Yes, God had drawn nigh, but Moses
+may not. God comes near: man must stand back. In the same breath God
+says, Draw nigh, and, Draw not nigh. There can be no knowledge of God or
+nearness to Him, where we have not first heard His, Draw not nigh. The
+sense of sin, of unfitness for God's presence, is the groundwork of true
+knowledge or worship of Him as the Holy One. 'Put off thy shoes from off
+thy feet.' The shoes are the means of intercourse with the world, the
+aids through which the flesh or nature does its will, moves about and
+does its work. In standing upon holy ground, all this must be put away.
+It is with naked feet, naked and stript of every covering, that man must
+bow before a holy God. Our utter unfitness to draw nigh or have any
+dealings with the Holy One, is the very first lesson we have to learn,
+if ever we are to participate in His Holiness. That _Put off!_ must
+exercise its condemning power through our whole being, until we come to
+realize the full extent of its meaning in the great, '_Put off_ the old
+man; put on the Lord Jesus,' and what 'the _putting off_ of the body of
+the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,' is. Yes, all that is of
+nature and the flesh, all that is of our own doing or willing or
+working--our very life, must be put off and given unto the death, if
+God, as the Holy One, is to make Himself known to us.
+
+We have seen before that Holiness is more than goodness or freedom from
+sin: even unfallen nature is not holy. Holiness is that awful glory by
+which Divinity is separated from all that is created. Therefore even the
+seraphs veil their faces with their wings when they sing the Thrice
+Holy. But oh! when the distance and the difference is not that of the
+creature only, but of the sinner, who can express, who can realize, the
+humiliation, the fear, the shame with which we ought to bow before the
+voice of the Holy One? Alas! this is one of the most terrible effects of
+sin, that it blinds us. We know not how unholy, how abominable, sin and
+the sinful nature are in God's sight. We have lost the power of
+recognising the Holiness of God: heathen philosophy had not even the
+idea of using the word as expressive of the moral character of its gods.
+In losing the light of the glory of God, we have lost the power of
+knowing what sin is. And now God's first work in drawing nigh to us is
+to make us feel that we may not draw nigh as we are; that there will
+have to be a very real and a very solemn putting off, and even giving up
+to the death, of all that appears most lawful and most needful. Not only
+our shoes are soiled with contact with this unholy earth; even our face
+must be covered and our eyes closed, in token that the eyes of our
+heart, all our human wisdom and understanding, are incapable of
+beholding the Holy One. The first lesson in the school of personal
+holiness is, to fear and hide our face before the Holiness of God. 'Thus
+saith the High and Lofty One, whose name is holy, I dwell in the High
+and Holy Place, and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit.'
+Contrition, brokenness of spirit, fear and trembling are God's first
+demand of those who would see His Holiness.
+
+Moses was to be the first preacher of the Holiness of God. Of the full
+communication of God's Holiness to us in Christ, His first revelation to
+Moses was the type and the pledge. From Moses' lips the people of
+Israel, from his pen the Church of Christ, was to receive the message,
+'Be holy: I am holy: I make holy.' His preparation for being the
+messenger of the Holy One was here, where he hid his face, because he
+was afraid to look upon God. It is with the face in the dust, it is in
+the putting off not only of the shoes, but of all that has been in
+contact with the world and self and sin, that the soul draws nigh to the
+fire, in which God dwells, and which burns, but does not consume. Oh
+that every believer, who seeks to witness for God as the Holy One, might
+thus learn how the fulfilment of the type of the Burning Bush is the
+Crucified Christ, and how, as we die with Him, we receive that Baptism
+of Fire, which reveals in each of us what it means: the Holy One
+dwelling in a Burning Bush. Only so can we learn what it is to be holy,
+as He is holy.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! I have seen Thee, who dwellest in the fire. I have heard
+Thy voice, Draw not nigh hither; put thy shoes off from thy feet. And my
+soul has feared to look upon God, the Holy One.
+
+And yet, O my God! I must see Thee. Thou didst create me for Thy
+likeness. Thou hast taught that this likeness is Thy Holiness: 'Be holy,
+as I am holy.' O my God! how shall I know to be holy, unless I may see
+Thee, the Holy One? To be holy, I must look upon God.
+
+I bless Thee for the revelation of Thyself in the flames of the
+thorn-bush, in the fire of the accursed tree. I bow in amazement and
+deep abasement at the great sight: Thy Son in the weakness of His human
+nature, in the fire, burning but not consumed. O my God! in fear and
+trembling I have yielded myself as a sinner to die like Him. Oh, let the
+fire consume all that is unholy in me! Let me too know Thee as the God
+that dwelleth in the fire, to melt down and purge out and destroy what
+is not of Thee, to save and take up into Thine own Holiness what is
+Thine own.
+
+O Holy Lord God! I bow in the dust before this great mystery. Reveal to
+me Thy Holiness, that I too may be its witness and its messenger on
+earth. Amen.
+
+
+  1. _Holiness as the fire of God._ Praise God that there is a
+     Power that can consume the vile and the dross, a Power that
+     will not leave it undisturbed. 'The bush burning but not
+     consumed' is not only the motto of the Church in time of
+     persecution; it is the watchword of every soul in God's
+     sanctifying work.
+
+  2. There is a new Theology, which only speaks of the love of
+     God as seen in the cross. It sees not the glory of His
+     Righteousness, and His righteous judgment. This is not the God
+     of Scripture. 'Our God is a consuming fire,' is New Testament
+     Theology. To 'offer service with reverence and awe,' is New
+     Testament religion. In Holiness, Judgment and Mercy meet.
+
+  3. _Holiness as the fear of God._ Hiding the face before God
+     for fear, not daring to look or speak,--this is the beginning
+     of rest in God. It is not yet the true rest, but on the way to
+     it. May God give us a deep fear of whatever could grieve or
+     anger Him. May we have a deep fear of ourselves, and all that
+     is of the old, the condemned nature, lest it rise again. 'The
+     spirit of the fear of the Lord' is the first manifestation of
+     the spirit of holiness, and prepares the way for the joy of
+     holiness. 'Walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort
+     of the Holy Ghost;' these are the two sides of the Christian
+     life.
+
+  4. The Holiness of God was revealed to Moses that he might be
+     its messenger. The Church needs nothing so much to-day as men
+     and women who can testify for the Holiness of God. Will you be
+     one?
+
+
+NOTE.
+
+The connection between the fear of God and holiness is most intimate.
+There are some who seek most earnestly for holiness, and yet never
+exhibit it in a light that will attract the world or even believers,
+because this element is wanting. It is the fear of the Lord that works
+that meekness and gentleness, that deliverance from self-confidence and
+self-consciousness, which form the true groundwork of a saintly
+character. The passages of God's Word in which the two words are linked
+together are well worthy of a careful study. 'Who is like unto Thee,
+glorious in _holiness_, _fearful_ in praises?' 'In Thy _fear_ will I
+worship towards Thy _holy_ temple.' 'O _fear_ the Lord, ye His _holy
+ones_.' 'O worship the Lord, in the beauty of _holiness_; _fear_ before
+Him, all the earth.' 'Let them praise Thy great and _terrible_ name;
+_holy_ is He.' 'The _fear_ of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and
+the knowledge of the _Holy One_ is understanding.' 'The Lord of hosts,
+Him shall ye _sanctify_; let Him be your _fear_, and let Him be your
+dread.' 'Perfecting _holiness_ in the _fear_ of the Lord.' 'Like as He
+which _called you_ is holy, be ye yourselves also _holy_; and if ye
+_call on Him_ as father, pass the time of your sojourning in _fear_.'
+And so on through the whole of Scripture, from the Song of Moses on to
+the Song of the Lamb: 'Who shall not _fear_ Thee, O Lord! and glorify
+Thy name, for Thou only art _holy_.' If we yield ourselves to the
+impression of such passages, we shall feel more deeply that the fear of
+God, the tender fear of in any way offending Him, the fear especially of
+entering into His holy presence with what is human and carnal, with
+aught of our own wisdom and effort, is of the very essence of the
+holiness we are to follow after. It is this fear of God will make us,
+like Moses, fall down and hide our face in God's presence, and wait for
+His own Holy Spirit to open in us the eyes, and breathe in us the
+thoughts and the worship, with which we draw nigh to Him, the Holy One.
+It is in this holy fear that that stillness of soul is wrought which
+leads it to rest in God, and opens the way for what we saw in Paradise
+to be the secret of holiness: God keeping His Sabbath, and sanctifying
+the soul in which He rests.
+
+
+
+
+Fifth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Redemption.
+
+  '_Sanctify_ unto _me_ all the first-born.'--Ex. xiii. 2.
+
+  'All the first-born _are mine_; for on the day I smote all the
+  first-born in the land of Egypt _I sanctified_ unto _me_ all the
+  first-born in Israel: _mine_ they shall be: I am the Lord.'--Num.
+  iii. 13, viii. 17.
+
+  'For I am the Lord your God that bringeth you up out of the land
+  of Egypt to be your God: ye shall therefore _be holy_, for I am
+  _holy_.'--Lev. xi. 45.
+
+  'I have redeemed thee; thou art mine.'--Isa. xliii. 1.
+
+
+At Horeb we saw how the first mention of the word holy in the history of
+fallen man was connected with the inauguration of a new period in the
+revelation of God, that of Redemption. In the passover we have the first
+manifestation of what Redemption is; and here the more frequent use of
+the word holy begins. In the feast of unleavened bread we have the
+symbol of the putting off of the old and the putting on of the new, to
+which redemption through blood is to lead. Of the seven days we read:
+'In the first day there shall be an _holy_ convocation, and in the
+seventh day there shall be an _holy_ convocation;' the meeting of the
+redeemed people to commemorate its deliverance is a holy gathering; they
+meet under the covering of their Redeemer, the Holy One. As soon as the
+people had been redeemed from Egypt, God's very first word to them was,
+'Sanctify--make holy unto me all the first-born: it is mine.' (See Ex.
+xiii. 2.) The word reveals how proprietorship is one of the central
+thoughts both in redemption and in sanctification, the link that binds
+them together. And though the word is here only used of the first-born,
+they are regarded as the type of the whole people. We know how all
+growth and organization commence from a centre, around which in
+ever-widening circles the life of the organism spreads. If holiness in
+the human race is to be true and real, free as that of God, it must be
+the result of a self-appropriating development. And so the first-born
+are sanctified, and afterwards the priests in their place, as the type
+of what the whole people is to be as God's first-born among the nations,
+His peculiar treasure, 'an holy nation.' This idea of proprietorship as
+related to redemption and sanctification comes out with especial
+clearness when God speaks of the exchange of the priests for the
+first-born (Num. iii. 12, 13, viii. 16, 17): 'The Levites are _wholly
+given unto me_; instead of the first-born have I _taken them unto me_;
+for all the first-born _are mine_; in the day that I smote every
+first-born in the land of Egypt _I sanctified them for myself_.'
+
+Let us try and realize the relation existing between redemption and
+holiness. In Paradise we saw what God's sanctifying the seventh day was:
+He took possession of it, He blessed it, He rested in it and refreshed
+Himself. Where God enters and rests, there is holiness: the more
+perfectly the object is fitted for Him to enter and dwell, the more
+perfect the holiness. The seventh day was sanctified as the period for
+man's sanctification. At the very first step God took to lead him to His
+Holiness--the command not to eat of the tree--man fell. God did not give
+up His plan, but had now to pursue a different and slower path. After
+twenty-five centuries' slow but needful preparation, He now reveals
+Himself as the Redeemer. A people whom He had chosen and formed for
+Himself He gives up to oppression and slavery, that their hearts may be
+prepared to long for and welcome a Deliverer. In a series of mighty
+wonders He proves Himself the Conqueror of their enemies, and then, in
+the blood of the Paschal Lamb on their doors, teaches them what
+redemption is, not only from an unjust oppressor here on earth, but from
+the righteous judgment their sins had deserved. The Passover is to be to
+them the transition from the seen and temporal to the unseen and
+spiritual, revealing God not only as the Mighty but as the Holy One,
+freeing them not only from the house of bondage but the Destroying
+Angel.
+
+And having thus redeemed them, He tells them that they are now His own.
+During their stay at Sinai and in the wilderness, the thought is
+continually pressed upon them that they are now the Lord's people, whom
+He has made His own by the strength of His arm, that He may make them
+holy for Himself, even as He is holy. The purpose of redemption is
+Possession, and the purpose of Possession is likeness to Him who is
+Redeemer and Owner, is Holiness.
+
+In regard to this Holiness, and the way it is to be attained as the
+result of redemption, there is more than one lesson the sanctifying of
+the first-born will teach us.
+
+First of all, we want to realize how inseparable redemption and holiness
+are. Neither can exist without the other. _Only redemption leads to
+holiness._ If I am seeking holiness, I must abide in the clear and full
+experience of being a redeemed one, and as such of being owned and
+possessed by God. Redemption is too often looked at from its negative
+side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of
+being redeemed unto Himself. Full possession of a house means
+occupation: if I own a house without occupying it, it may be the home of
+all that is foul and evil. God has redeemed me and made me His own with
+the view of getting complete possession of me. He says of my soul, 'It
+is mine,' and seeks to have His right of ownership acknowledged and made
+fully manifest. That will be perfect holiness, where God has entered in
+and taken complete and entire possession.[2] It is redemption gives God
+His right and power over me; it is redemption sets me free for God now
+to possess and bless: it is redemption realized and filling my soul,
+that will bring me the assurance and experience of all His power will
+work in me. In God, redemption and sanctification are one: the more
+redemption as a Divine reality possesses me, the closer am I linked to
+the Redeemer-God, the Holy One.
+
+And just so, _only holiness brings the assurance and enjoyment of
+redemption_. If I am seeking to hold fast redemption on lower ground, I
+may be deceived. If I have become unwatchful or careless, I should
+tremble at the very idea of trusting in redemption apart from holiness
+as its object. To Israel God spake, 'I brought you up out of the land of
+Egypt: _therefore_ ye shall be holy, for I am holy.' It is God the
+Redeemer who made us His own, who calls us too to be holy: let Holiness
+be to us the most essential, the most precious part of redemption: the
+yielding of ourselves to Him who has _taken_ us as His own, and has
+undertaken to _make_ us His own entirely.
+
+A second lesson suggested is the connection between God's and man's
+working in sanctification. To Moses the Lord speaks, '_Sanctify_ unto me
+all the first-born.' He afterwards says, '_I sanctified_ all the
+first-born for myself.' What God does He does to be carried out and
+appropriated through us. When He tells us that we are made holy in
+Christ Jesus, that we are His holy ones, He speaks not only of His
+purpose, but of what He has really done; we have been sanctified in the
+one offering of Christ, and in our being created anew in Him. But this
+work has a human side. To us comes the call to be holy, to follow after
+holiness, to perfect holiness. God has made us His own, and allows us to
+say that we are His: but He waits for us now to yield Him an enlarged
+entrance into the secret places of our inner being, for Him to fill it
+all with His fulness. Holiness is not something we bring to God or do
+for Him. Holiness is what there is of God in us. God has made us His own
+in redemption, that He might make Himself our own in sanctification. And
+our work in becoming holy is the bringing our whole life, and every part
+of it, into subjection to the rule of this holy God, putting every
+member and every power upon His altar.
+
+And this teaches us the answer to the question as to the connection
+between the sudden and the gradual in sanctification: between its being
+a thing once for all complete, and yet imperfect and needing to be
+perfected. What God sanctifies is holy with a Divine and perfect
+holiness as His gift: man has to sanctify by acknowledging and
+maintaining and carrying out that holiness in relation to what God has
+made holy. God sanctified the Sabbath day: man has to sanctify it, that
+is, to keep it holy. God sanctified the first-born as His own: Israel
+had to sanctify them, to treat them and give them up to God as holy. God
+is holy: we are to sanctify Him in acknowledging and adoring and
+honouring that holiness. God has sanctified His great name, His name is
+Holy: we sanctify or hallow that name as we fear and trust and use it
+as the revelation of His Holiness. God sanctified Christ: Christ
+sanctified Himself, manifesting in His personal will and action perfect
+conformity to the Holiness with which God had made Him holy. God has
+sanctified us in Christ Jesus: we are to be holy by yielding ourselves
+to the power of that holiness, by acting it out, and manifesting it in
+all our life and walk. The objective Divine gift, bestowed once for all
+and completely, must be appropriated as a subjective personal
+possession; we must cleanse ourselves, perfecting holiness. Redeemed
+unto holiness: as the two thoughts are linked in the mind and work of
+God, they must be linked in our heart and life.
+
+When Isaiah announced the second, the true redemption, it was given to
+him, even more clearly and fully than to Moses, to reveal the name of
+God as 'The Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.' The more we study this
+name, and hallow it, and worship God by it, the more inseparably will
+the words become connected, and we shall see how, as the Redeemer is the
+Holy One, the redeemed are holy ones too. Isaiah says of 'the way of
+holiness,' the 'redeemed shall walk therein.' The redemption that comes
+out from the Holiness of God must lead up into it too. We shall
+understand that to be redeemed in Christ is to be holy in Christ, and
+the call of our redeeming God will acquire new meaning: 'I am _holy_:
+_be ye holy_.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Lord God! the Holy One of Israel and his Redeemer! I worship before
+Thee in deep humility. I confess with shame that I so long sought Thee
+more as the Redeemer than as the Holy One. I knew not that it was as the
+Holy One Thou hadst redeemed, that redemption was the outcome and the
+fruit of Thy Holiness; that a participation in Thy Holiness was its one
+purpose and its highest beauty. I only thought of being redeemed from
+bondage and death: like Israel, I understood not that without fellowship
+and conformity to Thyself redemption would lose its value.
+
+Most holy God! I praise Thee for the patience with which Thou bearest
+with the selfishness and the slowness of Thy redeemed ones. I praise
+Thee for the teaching of the Spirit of Thy Holiness, leading Thy saints,
+and me too, to see how it is Thy Holiness, and the call to become
+partaker of it, that gives redemption its value; how it is for Thyself
+as the Holy One, to be Thine own, possessed and sanctified of Thee, that
+we are redeemed.
+
+O my God! with a love and a joy and a thanksgiving that cannot be
+uttered, I praise Thee for Christ, who has been made unto us of Thee
+sanctification and redemption. In Him Thou art my Redeemer, my Holy One.
+In Him I am Thy redeemed, Thy holy one. O God! in speechless adoration I
+fall down to worship the love that passeth knowledge, that hath done
+this for us, and to believe that in one who is now before Thee, holy in
+Christ, Thou wilt fulfil all Thy glorious purposes according to the
+greatness of Thy power. Amen.
+
+
+  1. 'Redemption through His blood.' The blood we meet at the
+     threshold of the pathway of Holiness. For it is the blood of
+     the sacrifice which the fire of God consumed, and yet could not
+     consume. That blood has such power of holiness in it, that we
+     read, 'Sanctified by His own blood.' Always think of holiness,
+     or pray for it, as one redeemed by blood. Live under the
+     covering of the blood in its daily cleansing power.
+
+  2. It is only as we know the Holiness of God as Fire, and bow
+     before His righteous judgment, that we can appreciate the
+     preciousness of the blood or the reality of the redemption. As
+     long as we only think of the love of God as goodness, we may
+     aim at being good; faith in God who redeems will waken in us
+     the need and the joy of being _holy in Christ_.
+
+  3. Have you understood the right of property God has in what He
+     has redeemed? Have you heard a voice say, _Mine. Thou art
+     Mine._ Ask God very humbly to speak it to you. Listen very
+     gently for it.
+
+  4. The holiness of the creature has its origin in the Divine
+     will, in the Divine election, redemption, and possession. Give
+     yourself up to this will of God and rejoice in it.
+
+  5. As God created, so He redeemed, to sanctify. Have great
+     faith in Him for this.
+
+  6. Let God have the entire possession and disposal of you.
+     Holiness is His; our holiness is to let Him, the Holy One, be
+     all.
+
+
+    [2] See Note A on Holiness as Proprietorship.
+
+
+
+
+Sixth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Glory.
+
+  'Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! among the gods?
+  Who is like unto Thee, _glorious in holiness_,
+  Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
+  Thou in Thy mercy hast led Thy people which Thou hast redeemed:
+  Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to the habitation of
+      _Thy holiness_ ...
+  _The holy place_, O Lord, which Thy hands have established.'
+
+        --Ex. xv. 11-17.
+
+
+In these words we have another step in advance in the revelation of
+Holiness. We have here for the first time Holiness predicated of God
+Himself. _He is_ glorious in holiness: and it is to the dwelling-place
+of _His Holiness_ that He is guiding His people.
+
+Let us first note the expression used here: glorious in holiness.
+Throughout Scripture we find the glory and the holiness of God mentioned
+together. In Ex. xxix. 43 we read, 'And the tent shall be _made holy_ by
+my _glory_,' that glory of the Lord of which we afterwards read that it
+filled the house. The glory of an object, of a thing or person, is its
+intrinsic worth or excellence: to glorify is to remove everything that
+could hinder the full revelation of that excellence. In the Holiness of
+God His glory is hidden; in the glory of God His Holiness is manifested:
+His glory, the revelation of Himself as the Holy One, would make the
+house holy. In the same way the two are connected in Lev. x. 3, 'I will
+be _sanctified_ in them that come nigh unto me, and before all the
+people I will be _glorified_.' The acknowledgment of His Holiness in the
+priests would be the manifestation of His glory to the people. So, too,
+in the song of the Seraphim (Isa. vi. 3), '_Holy, holy, holy_, Lord God
+of Hosts: the whole earth is full of His _glory_.' God is He who
+dwelleth in a light that is unapproachable, whom no man hath seen or can
+see: it is the _light_ of the knowledge of the _glory_ of God that He
+gives into our hearts. The glory is that which can be seen and known of
+the invisible and unapproachable light: that light itself, and the
+glorious fire of which that light is the shining out, that light is the
+Holiness of God. Holiness is not so much an attribute of God, as the
+comprehensive summary of all His perfections.
+
+It is on the shore of the Red Sea that Israel thus praises God: 'Who is
+like unto Thee, O Lord! Who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness?' He
+is the Incomparable One, there is none like Him. And wherein has He
+proved this, and revealed the glory of His Holiness? With Moses in
+Horeb we saw God's glory in the fire, in its double aspect of salvation
+and destruction: consuming what could not be purified, purifying what
+was not consumed. We see it here too in the song of Moses: Israel sings
+of judgment and of mercy. The pillar of fire and of the cloud came
+between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel: it was a cloud
+and darkness to those, but it gave light by night to these. The two
+thoughts run through the whole song. But in the two verses that follow
+the ascription of holiness, we find the sum of the whole. 'Thou
+stretchedst out Thy right hand: the earth swallowed them.' 'The Lord
+looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and
+discomfited them.' This is the glory of Holiness as judgment and
+destruction of the enemy. 'Thou in Thy mercy hast led _Thy people_ which
+thou hast redeemed. Thou hast guided _them_ in Thy strength to the
+habitation of Thy Holiness.' This is the glory of Holiness in mercy and
+redemption--a Holiness that not only delivers but guides to the
+habitation of holiness, where the Holy One is to dwell with and in His
+people. In the inspiration of the hour of triumph it is thus early
+revealed that the great object and fruit of redemption, as wrought out
+by the Holy One, is to be His indwelling: with nothing short of this can
+the Holy One rest content, or the full glory of His Holiness be made
+manifest.
+
+And now, observe further, how, as it is in the redemption of His people
+that God's Holiness is revealed, so it is in the song of redemption that
+the personal ascription of Holiness to God is found. We know how in
+Scripture, after some striking special interposition of God as Redeemer,
+the special influence of the Spirit is manifested in some song of
+praise. It is remarkable how it is in these outbursts of holy
+enthusiasm, God is praised as the Holy One. See it in the song of Hannah
+(1 Sam. ii. 2), 'There is none holy as the Lord.' The language of the
+Seraphim (Isa. vi.) is that of a song of adoration. In the great day of
+Israel's deliverance the song will be, 'The Lord Jehovah is become my
+strength and song. Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done excellent
+things. Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is _the
+Holy One_ of Israel in the midst of thee.' Mary sings, 'For He that is
+mighty hath done great things to me: and _holy_ is His name.' The book
+of Revelation reveals the living creatures giving glory and honour and
+thanks to Him that sitteth on the throne; 'and they have no rest day and
+night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, which
+was, and which is, and which is to come.' And when the song of Moses and
+of the Lamb is sung by the sea of glass, it will still be, 'Who shall
+not fear, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy.' It is
+in the moments of highest inspiration, under the fullest manifestation
+of God's redeeming power, that His servants speak of His Holiness. In
+Ps. xcvii. we read, 'Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks
+at the remembrance of His Holiness.' And in Ps. xcix., which has, with
+its thrice repeated holy, been called the echo on earth of the Thrice
+Holy of heaven, we sing--
+
+  Let them praise Thy great and terrible name.
+  HOLY IS HE.
+
+  Exalt ye the Lord our God,
+  and worship at His footstool:
+  HOLY IS HE.
+
+  Exalt ye the Lord our God,
+  and worship at His holy hill:
+  For the Lord our God is HOLY.
+
+It is only under the influence of high spiritual elevation and joy that
+God's holiness can be fully apprehended or rightly worshipped. The
+sentiment that becomes us as we worship the Holy One, that fits us for
+knowing and worshipping Him aright, is the spirit of praise that sings
+and shouts for joy in the experience of His full salvation.
+
+But is not this at variance with the lesson we learnt at Horeb, when God
+spake, 'Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes,' and where Moses feared
+and hid his face? And is not this in very deed the posture that becomes
+us as creatures and sinners? It is indeed: and yet the two sentiments
+are not at variance: rather they are indispensable to each other; the
+fear is the preparation for the praise and the glory. Or is it not that
+same Moses who hid his face and feared to look upon God, who afterwards
+beheld His glory until his own face shone with a brightness that men
+could not bear to look upon? And is not the song that sings here of God
+as glorious in holiness, also the song of Moses who feared and hid his
+face? Have we not seen in the fire, and in God, and specially in His
+Holiness, the twofold aspect; consuming and purifying, repelling and
+attracting, judging and saving, with the latter in each case not only
+the accompaniment but the result of the former? And so we shall find
+that the deeper the humbling and the fear in God's Holy Presence, and
+the more real and complete the putting off of all that is of self and of
+nature, even to the putting off, the complete death of the old man and
+his will, the more hearty the giving up to be consumed of what is
+sinful, the deeper and fuller will be the praise and joy with which we
+daily sing our song of redemption: 'Who is like unto Thee, O Lord,
+glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?'
+
+'_Glorious_ in holiness; _fearful_ in praises:' the song itself
+harmonizes the apparently conflicting elements. Yes, I will sing of
+judgment and of mercy. I will rejoice with trembling as I praise the
+Holy One. As I look upon the two sides of His Holiness, as revealed to
+the Egyptians and the Israelites, I remember that what was there
+separated is in me united. By nature I am the Egyptian, an enemy doomed
+to destruction; by grace, an Israelite chosen for redemption. In me the
+fire must consume and destroy; only as judgment does its work, can mercy
+fully save. It is only as I tremble before the Searching Light and the
+Burning Fire and the Consuming Heat of the Holy One, as I yield the
+Egyptian nature to be judged and condemned and slain, that the Israelite
+will be redeemed to know aright his God as the God of salvation, and to
+rejoice in Him.
+
+Blessed be God! the judgment is past. In Christ, the burning bush, the
+fire of the Divine Holiness did its double work: in Him sin was
+condemned in the flesh; in Him we are free. In giving up His will to the
+death, and doing God's will, Christ sanctified Himself; and in that will
+we are sanctified too. His crucifixion, with its judgment of the flesh,
+His death, with its entire putting off of what is of nature, is not only
+for us, but is really ours; a life and a power working within us by His
+Spirit. Day by day we abide in Him. Tremblingly but rejoicingly we take
+our stand in Him, for the Power of Holiness as Judgment to vindicate
+within us its fierce vengeance against what is sin and flesh, and so to
+let the Power of Holiness as Redemption accomplish that glorious work
+that makes us give thanks at the remembrance of His Holiness. And so the
+shout of Salvation rings ever deeper and truer and louder through our
+life, 'Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like unto
+Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+'_Who_ is like unto Thee, O Lord! glorious in holiness, fearful in
+praises, doing wonders?' With my whole heart would I join in this song
+of redemption, and rejoice in Thee as the God of my salvation.
+
+O my God! let Thy Spirit, from whom these words of holy joy and triumph
+came, so reveal within me the great redemption as a personal experience,
+that my whole life may be one song of trembling and adoring wonder.
+
+I beseech Thee especially, let my whole heart be filled with Thyself,
+glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, who alone doest wonders. Let
+the fear of Thy Holiness make me tremble at all there is in me of self
+and flesh, and lead me in my worship to deny and crucify my own wisdom,
+that the Spirit of Thy Holiness may breathe in me. Let the fear of the
+Lord give its deep undertone to all my coming in and going out in Thy
+Holy Presence. Prepare me thus for giving praise without ceasing at the
+remembrance of Thy holiness. O my God! I would rejoice in Thee as my
+Redeemer, MY HOLY ONE, with a joy unspeakable and full of glory. As my
+Redeemer, Thou makest me holy. With my whole heart do I trust Thee to do
+it, to sanctify me wholly. I do believe in Thy promise. I do believe in
+Thyself, and believing I receive Thee, the Holy One, my Redeemer.
+
+Who is like unto Thee, O Lord! glorious in holiness, fearful in praises,
+doing wonders?
+
+
+  1. _God's Holiness as Glory._ God is glorified in the holiness
+     of His people. True holiness always gives glory to God alone.
+     Live to the glory of God: that is holiness. Live holily: that
+     will glorify God. To lose sight of self, and seek only God's
+     glory, is holiness.
+
+  2. _Our Holiness as Praise._ Praise gives glory to God, and is
+     thus an element of holiness. 'Thou art holy, Thou that
+     inhabitest the praises of Israel.'
+
+  3. God's Holiness, His holy redeeming love, is cause of unceasing
+     joy and praise. Praise God every day for it. But you cannot do
+     this unless you live in it. May God's holiness become so
+     glorious to us, as we understand that whatever we see of His
+     glory is just the outshining of His holiness, that we cannot
+     help rejoicing in it, and in Him the Holy One.
+
+  4. The spirit of the fear of the Lord and the spirit of praise
+     may, at first sight, appear to be at variance. But it is not
+     so. The humility that fears the Holy One will also praise Him:
+     'Ye that fear the Lord: praise the Lord.' The lower we lie in
+     the fear of God, and the fear of self, the more surely will He
+     lift us up in due time to praise Him.
+
+
+
+
+Seventh Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Obedience.
+
+  'Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on
+  eagles' wings, and brought you _unto myself_. Now therefore, if ye
+  will _obey my voice indeed_, and keep my covenant, ye shall be a
+  peculiar treasure unto me above all people: ye shall be unto me an
+  _holy_ nation.'--Ex. xix. 4-6.
+
+
+Israel has reached Horeb. The law is to be given and the covenant made.
+Here are God's first words to the people; He speaks of redemption and
+its blessing, fellowship with Himself: 'Ye have seen how I brought you
+_unto myself_.' He speaks of holiness as His purpose in redemption: 'Ye
+shall be unto me an _holy_ nation.' And as the link between the two He
+places obedience: 'If ye will indeed _obey_ my voice, ye shall be unto
+me an _holy_ nation.' God's will is the expression of His holiness; as
+we do His will, we come into contact with His holiness. The link between
+Redemption and Holiness is Obedience.
+
+This takes us back to what we saw in Paradise. God sanctified the
+seventh day as the time for sanctifying man. And what was the first
+thing He did with this purpose? He gave him a commandment. Obedience to
+that commandment would have opened the door, would have been the
+entrance, into the Holiness of God. Holiness is a moral attribute; and
+moral is that which a free will chooses and determines for itself. What
+God creates and gives is only naturally good; what man wills to have of
+God and His will, and really appropriates, has moral worth, and leads to
+holiness. In creation God manifested His wise and good will. His holy
+will He speaks in His commands. As that holy will enters man's will, as
+man's will accepts and unites itself with God's will, he becomes holy.
+After creation, in the seventh day, God took man up into His work of
+sanctification to make him holy. Obedience is the path to holiness,
+because it is the path to union with God's holy will; with man unfallen,
+as with fallen man, in redemption here and in glory above, in all the
+holy angels, in Christ the Holy One of God Himself, obedience is the
+path of holiness. It is not itself holiness: but as the will opens
+itself to accept and to do the will of God, God communicates Himself and
+His Holiness. To obey His voice is to follow Him as He leads in the way
+to the full revelation and communication of Himself and His blessed
+nature as the Holy One.
+
+Obedience. Not knowledge of the will of God, not even approval, not even
+the will to do it, but the doing of it. Knowledge, and approval, and
+will must lead to action; the will of God must be _done_. 'If ye indeed
+obey my voice, ye shall be unto me an holy nation.' It is not faith, and
+not worship, and not profession, that God here asks in the first place
+from His people when He speaks of holiness; it is obedience. God's will
+must be _done_ on earth, as in heaven. 'Remember _and do_ all my
+commandments, that ye may be holy to your God' (Num. xv. 40). 'Sanctify
+yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; and ye shall keep my statutes _and
+do_ them. I am the Lord which sanctify you' (Lev. xx. 7, 8). 'Therefore
+shall ye keep my commandments _and do_ them: I am the Lord: I will be
+hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,
+that brought you up out of the land of Egypt' (xxii 21, 33).
+
+A moment's reflection will make the reason of this clear to us. It is in
+a man's work that he manifests what he is. I may know what is good, and
+yet not approve it. I may approve, and yet not will it. I may in a
+certain sense will it, and yet be wanting in the energy, or the
+self-sacrifice, or the power that will rouse and do the thing. Thinking
+is easier than willing, and willing is easier than doing. Action alone
+proves whether the object of my interest has complete mastery over me.
+God wants His will _done_. This alone is obedience. In this alone it is
+seen whether the whole heart, with all its strength and will, has given
+itself over to the will of God; whether we live it, and are ready at any
+sacrifice to make it our own by doing it. God has no other way for
+making us holy. 'Ye shall keep my statutes _and do_ them: I am the Lord
+which make you holy.'
+
+To all seekers after holiness this is a lesson of deep importance.
+Obedience is not holiness; holiness is something far higher, something
+that comes from God to us, or rather, something of God coming into us.
+But obedience is _indispensable_ to holiness: it cannot exist without
+it. While, therefore, your heart seeks to follow the teaching of God's
+word, and looks in faith to what God has done, as He has made you _holy
+in Christ_, and to what God is still to do through the Spirit of
+Holiness as He fulfils the promise, 'The very God of peace sanctify you
+wholly,' never for one moment forget to be obedient. 'If ye shall indeed
+obey my voice, ye shall be an holy nation to me.' Begin by doing at once
+whatever appears right to do. Give up at once whatever conscience tells
+that you dare not say is according to the will of God. Not only pray for
+light and strength, but _act_; do what God says. 'He that _doeth_ the
+will of God is my brother,' Jesus says. Every son of God has been
+begotten of the will of God: in it he has his life. To do the Father's
+will is the meat, the strength, the mark, of every son of God.
+
+It is nothing less than the surrender to such a life of simple and
+entire obedience that is implied in becoming a Christian. There are,
+alas! too many Christians who, from the want either of proper
+instruction, or of proper attention to the teaching of God's word, have
+never realized the place of supreme importance that obedience takes in
+the Christian life. They know not that Christ, and redemption, and faith
+all lead to it, because through it alone is the way to the fellowship of
+the Love, and the Likeness, and the Glory of God. We have all, possibly,
+suffered from it ourselves: in our prayers and efforts after the perfect
+peace and the rest of faith, after the abiding joy and the increasing
+power of the Christian life, there has been a secret something hindering
+the blessing, or causing the speedy loss of what had been apprehended. A
+wrong impression as to the absolute necessity of obedience was probably
+the cause. It cannot too earnestly be insisted on that the freeness and
+mighty power of grace has this for its object from our conversion
+onwards, the restoring us to the active obedience and harmony with God's
+will from which we had fallen through the first sin in Paradise.
+Obedience leads to God and His Holiness. It is in obedience that the
+will is moulded, and the character fashioned, and an inner man built up
+which God can clothe and adorn with the beauty of holiness.
+
+When a Christian discovers that this has been the missing link, the
+cause of failure and darkness, there is nothing for it but, in a grand
+act of surrender, deliberately to choose obedience, universal,
+whole-hearted obedience, as the law of his life in the power of the Holy
+Spirit. Let him not fear to make his own the words of Israel at Sinai,
+in answer to the message of God we are considering: 'All that the Lord
+hath spoken, _we will do_;' 'All that the Lord hath said _will we do_,
+and be obedient.' What the law could not do, in that it was weak through
+the flesh, God hath done by the gift of His Son and Spirit. The
+law-giving of Sinai on tables of stone has been succeeded by the
+law-giving of the Spirit on the table of the heart: the Holy Spirit is
+the power of obedience, and is so the Spirit of Holiness, who, in
+obedience, prepares our hearts for being the dwelling of the Holy One.
+Let us in this faith yield ourselves to a life of obedience: it is the
+New Testament path to the realization of the promise: 'If ye will _obey_
+my voice indeed, ye shall be unto me an _holy_ nation.'
+
+We have already seen how holiness in its very nature supposes the
+personal relation to God, His personal presence. 'I have brought you
+_unto myself_; if ye obey, ye shall be _unto me_ an holy nation.' It is
+as we understand and hold fast this personal element that obedience will
+become possible, and will lead to holiness. Mark well God's words: 'If
+ye will obey my _voice_, and keep my covenant.' The voice is more than a
+law or a book; it always implies a living person and intercourse with
+him. It is this that is the secret of gospel obedience: hearing the
+voice and following the lead of Jesus as a personal friend, a living
+Saviour. It is being led by the Spirit of God, having Him to reveal the
+Presence, and the Will, and the Love of the Father, that will work in us
+that personal relation which the New Testament means when it speaks of
+doing everything unto the Lord, as pleasing God.
+
+Such obedience is the pathway of holiness. Its every act is a link to
+the living God, a surrender of the being for God's will, for God Himself
+to take possession. In the process of assimilation, slow but sure, by
+which the will of God, as the meat of our souls, is taken up into our
+inmost being, our spiritual nature is strengthened, is spiritualized,
+growing up into an holy temple in which God can reveal Himself and take
+up His abode.
+
+Let every believer study to realize this. When God sanctified the
+seventh day as His period of making holy, He taught us that He could not
+do it at once. The revelation and communication of holiness must be
+gradual, as man is prepared to receive it. God's sanctifying work with
+each of us, as with the race, needs time. The time it needs and seeks is
+the life of daily, hourly obedience. All that is spent in self-will, and
+not in the living relation to the Lord, is lost. But when the heart
+seeks day by day to hearken to the voice and to obey it, the Holy One
+Himself watches over His words to fulfil them: 'Ye shall be unto me an
+holy nation.' In a way of which the soul beforehand can have but little
+conception, God will overshadow and make His abode in the obedient
+heart. The habit of always listening for the voice and obeying it will
+only be the building of the temple: the Living God Himself, the Holy
+One, will come to take up His abode. The glory of the Lord will fill
+the house, and the promise be made true, 'I will sanctify it by my
+glory.'
+
+'I brought you _unto myself_; if ye will obey _my voice_ in deed, ye
+shall be _unto me_ an holy nation.' Seekers after holiness! God has
+brought you to Himself. And now His voice speaks to you all the thoughts
+of His heart, that as you take them in, and make them your own, and make
+His will your own by living and doing it, you may enter into the most
+complete union with Himself, the union of will as well as of life, and
+so become a holy people unto Him. Let obedience, the listening to and
+the doing the will of God, be the joy and the glory of your life; it
+will give you access unto the Holiness of God.
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O my God! Thou hast redeemed me for Thyself, that Thou mightest have me
+wholly as Thine own, possessing, filling my inmost being with Thy own
+likeness, Thy perfect will, and the glory of Thy Holiness. And Thou
+seekest to train me, in the power of a free and loving will, to take Thy
+will and make it my own, that in the very centre of my being I may have
+Thine own perfection dwelling in me. And in Thy words Thou revealest Thy
+will, that as I accept and keep them I may master their Divine contents,
+and will all that Thou willest.
+
+O my God! let me live day by day in such fellowship with Thee, that I
+may indeed in everything hear Thy voice, the living voice of the living
+God speaking to me. Let the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Thy Holiness, be
+to me Thy voice guiding me in the path of simple, childlike obedience. I
+do bless Thee that I have seen that Christ, in whom I am holy, was the
+obedient one, that in obedience He sanctified Himself to become my
+sanctification, and that abiding in Him, Thy obedient, holy Child, is
+abiding in Thy will as once done by Him, and now to be done by me. O my
+God! I will indeed obey Thy will: make Thou me one of Thy holy nation, a
+peculiar treasure above all people. Amen.
+
+
+  1. 'He became obedient unto death.' 'Though He was a Son, yet He
+     learned obedience by the things which He suffered.' 'I come to
+     do Thy will.' 'In which will we are sanctified.' Christ's
+     example teaches us that obedience is the only path to the
+     Holiness or the glory of God. Be this your consecration: a
+     surrender in everything to seek and do the will of God.
+
+  2. We are 'holy in Christ'--in this Christ who did the will of
+     God and was obedient to the death. In Him it is we are; in Him
+     we are holy. His obedience is the soil in which we are planted,
+     and must be rooted. 'It is my meat to do His will;' obedience
+     was the sustenance of His life; in doing God's will He drew
+     down Divine nourishment; it must be so with us too.
+
+  3. As you study what it is to be and abide in Christ, as you
+     rejoice you are in Him, always remember it is Christ who obeyed
+     in whom God has planted you.
+
+  4. If ever you feel perplexed about holiness, just yield yourself
+     again to do God's will, and go and do it. It is ours to obey,
+     it is God's to sanctify.
+
+  5. _Holy in Christ._ Christ sanctified Himself by obedience, by
+     doing the will of God, and in that will, as done by Him, we
+     have been sanctified. In accepting that will as done by Him, in
+     accepting Him, _I am holy_. In accepting that will of God, as
+     to be done by me, _I become holy_. I am in Him; in every act of
+     living obedience, I enter into living fellowship with Him, and
+     draw the power of His life into mine.
+
+  6. Obedience depends upon hearing the voice. Do not imagine you
+     know the will of God. Pray and wait for the inward teaching of
+     the Spirit.
+
+
+
+
+Eighth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Indwelling.
+
+  'And let them make me _a holy place_, that I may _dwell_ among
+  them.'--Ex. xxv. 8.
+
+  'And the tent shall be _sanctified_ by my glory, and I will
+  _dwell_ among the children of Israel, and will be their God.'--Ex.
+  xxix. 43, 45.
+
+
+The Presence of God makes holy, even when it descends but for a little
+while, as at Horeb, in the burning bush. How much more must that
+Presence make holy the place where it dwells, where it fixes its
+permanent abode! So much is this the case, that the place where God
+dwells came to be called _the_ holy place, 'the holy place of the
+habitation of the Most High.' All around where God dwelt was holy: the
+holy city, the mountain of God's Holiness, His holy house, till we come
+within the veil, to the most holy place, the holy of holies. It is as
+_the indwelling God_ that He sanctifies His house, that He reveals
+Himself as the Holy One in Israel, that He makes us holy too.
+
+Because God is holy, _the house_ in which He dwells is holy too. This
+is the only attribute of God which He can communicate to His house; but
+this one He can and does communicate. Among men there is a very close
+link between the character of a house and its occupants. When there is
+no obstacle to prevent it, the house unintentionally reflects the
+master's likeness. Holiness expresses not so much an attribute as the
+very being of God in His infinite perfection, and His house testifies to
+this one truth, that He is holy, that where He dwells He must have
+holiness, that His indwelling makes holy. In His first command to His
+people to build Him a holy place, God distinctly said that it was that
+He might dwell among them: the dwelling in the house was to be the
+shadowing forth of His dwelling in the midst of His people. The house
+with its holiness thus leads us on to the holiness of His dwelling among
+His redeemed ones.
+
+The holy place, the habitation of God's Holiness, was the centre of all
+God's work in making _Israel_ holy. Everything connected with it was
+holy. The altar, the priests, the sacrifices, the oil, the bread, the
+vessels, all were holy, because they belonged to God. From the house
+there issued the twofold voice--God's call to be holy, God's promise to
+make holy. God's claim was manifested in the demand for cleansing, for
+atonement, for holiness, in all who were to draw near, whether as
+priests or worshippers. And God's promise shone forth from His house in
+the provision for making holy, in the sanctifying power of the altar, of
+the blood and the oil. The house embodied the two sides that are united
+in holiness, the repelling and the attracting, the condemning and the
+saving. Now by keeping the people at a distance, then by inviting and
+bringing them nigh, God's house was the great symbol of His own
+Holiness. He had come nigh even to dwell among them; and yet they might
+not come nigh, they might never enter the secret place of His presence.
+
+All these things are written on our behalf. It is as the Indwelling One
+that God is the sanctifier of _His people_ still: the Indwelling
+Presence alone makes us holy. This comes out with special clearness if
+we note how, the nearer the Presence was, the greater the degree of
+holiness. Because God dwelt among them, the camp was holy: all
+uncleanness was to be removed from it. But the holiness of the court of
+the tabernacle was greater: uncleanness which did not exclude from the
+camp would not be tolerated there. Then the holy place was still holier,
+because still nearer God. And the inner sanctuary, where the Presence
+dwelt on the mercy-seat, was the Holiest of All, was most holy. The
+principle still holds good: holiness is measured by nearness to God; the
+more of His Presence, the more of true holiness; perfect indwelling will
+be perfect holiness. There is none holy but the Lord; there is no
+holiness but in Him. He cannot part with somewhat of His holiness, and
+give it to us apart from Himself; we have only so much of holiness as we
+have of God Himself. And to have Himself truly and fully, we must have
+Him as the Indwelling One. And His indwelling in a house or locality,
+without life or spirit, is only a faint shadow of the true indwelling as
+the Living One, when He enters into and penetrates our very being, and
+fills us, our very selves, with His own life.
+
+There is no union so intimate, so real, so perfect, as that of an
+indwelling life. Think of the life that circulates through a large and
+fruitful tree. How it penetrates and fills every portion; how
+inseparably it unites the whole as long as it really is to exist!--in
+wood and leaf, in flower and fruit, everywhere the indwelling life flows
+and fills. This life is the life of nature, the life of the Spirit of
+God which dwells in nature. It is the same life that animates our
+bodies, the spirit of nature pervading every portion of them with the
+power of sensibility and action.
+
+Not less intimate, yea rather, far more wonderful and real, is the
+indwelling of the Spirit of the New Life, through whom God dwells in the
+heart of the believer. And it is as this indwelling becomes a matter of
+conscious longing and faith, that the soul obeys the command, 'Let them
+make me a holy place, that I may dwell among them,' and experiences the
+truth of the promise, 'The tent shall be sanctified by my glory, and I
+will dwell among the children of Israel.'
+
+It was as the Indwelling One that God revealed Himself in the Son, whom
+He sanctified and sent into the world. More than once our Lord insisted
+upon it, 'Believe me, that I am in the Father and _the Father in me_;
+the Father _abiding in me_ doeth the works.' It is specially as the
+temple of God that believers are more than once called holy in the New
+Testament: 'The temple of God is _holy_, which temple ye are.' 'Your
+body is a temple of the _Holy_ Spirit.' 'All the building groweth unto
+an holy temple in the Lord.' It is--we shall later on learn to
+understand this better--just because it is through the Spirit that the
+heart is prepared for the indwelling, and the indwelling effected and
+maintained, that the Spirit so peculiarly takes the attribute of Holy.
+The Indwelling Spirit is the Holy Spirit. The measure of His indwelling,
+or rather of His revealing the Indwelling Christ, is the measure of
+holiness.
+
+We have seen what the various degrees of nearness to God's Presence in
+Israel were. They are still to be found. You have Christians who dwell
+in the camp, but know little of drawing nigh to the Holy One. Then you
+have outer court Christians: they long for pardon and peace, they come
+ever again to the altar of atonement; but they know little of true
+nearness or holiness; of their privilege as priests to enter the holy
+place. Others there are who have learnt that this is their calling, and
+long to draw near, and yet hardly understand the boldness they have to
+enter into the Holiest of all, and to dwell there. Blessed they to whom
+this, the secret of the Lord, has been revealed. _They know_ what the
+rent veil means, and the access into the immediate Presence. The veil
+hath been taken away from their hearts: they have found the secret of
+true holiness in the Indwelling of the Holy One, the God who is holy and
+makes holy.
+
+Believer! the God who calls you to holiness is the God of the Indwelling
+Life. The tabernacle typifies it, the Son reveals it, the Spirit
+communicates it, the eternal glory will fully manifest it. And you may
+experience it. It is your calling as a believer to be God's Holy Temple.
+Oh, do but yield yourself to His full indwelling! seek not holiness in
+the first place in what you are or do; seek it in God. Seek it not even
+as a gift from God, seek it in God Himself, in His indwelling Presence.
+Worship Him in the beauty of holiness, as He dwells in the high and holy
+place. And as you worship, listen to His voice: 'Thus saith the high and
+lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the
+high and holy place, _with him also_ that is of a contrite and humble
+spirit.' It is as the Spirit strengthens us mightily in the inward man,
+so that Christ dwells in our heart by faith, and the Father comes and
+makes with Him His abode in us, that we are truly holy. Oh, let us but,
+in true, true-hearted consecration, yield ourselves to be, as distinctly
+as was the tabernacle or the temple, given up entirely to be the
+dwelling of the Most High, the habitation of His Holiness. A house
+filled with the glory of God, a heart filled with all the fulness of
+God, is God's promise, is our portion. Let us in faith claim and accept
+and hold fast the blessing: Christ, the Holy One of God, will in His
+Father's Name, enter and take possession. Then faith will bring the
+solution of all our difficulties, the victory over all our failures, the
+fulfilment of all our desires: 'The tent, the heart, shall be sanctified
+by my glory; and I will dwell among them.' The open secret of true
+holiness, the secret of the joy unspeakable, is Christ dwelling in the
+heart by faith.
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+We bow our knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus, that He would grant
+unto us, according to the riches of His glory, what He Himself has
+taught us to ask for. We ask nothing less than this, that Christ may
+dwell in our hearts by faith. We long for that most blessed, permanent,
+conscious indwelling of the Lord Jesus in the heart, which He so
+distinctly promised as the fruit of the Holy Spirit's coming. Father! we
+ask for what He meant when He spake of the loving, obedient disciple: 'I
+will come and manifest myself to him. We will come and take up our abode
+with him.' Oh, grant unto us this indwelling of Christ in the heart by
+faith!
+
+And for this, we beseech Thee, grant us to be strengthened with might by
+Thy Spirit in the inner man. O Most Mighty God! let the spirit of Thy
+Divine Power work mightily within us, renewing our mind, and will, and
+affections, so that the heart be all prepared and furnished as a
+temple, as a home, for Jesus. Let that Blessed Spirit strengthen us to
+the faith that receives the Blessed Saviour and His indwelling Presence.
+
+O Most Gracious Father! hear our cry. We do bow our knee to Thee. We
+plead the riches of Thy glory. We praise Thee who art mighty to do above
+what we can ask or think. We wait on Thee, O our Father: oh, grant us a
+mighty strengthening by the Spirit in the inner man, that this bliss may
+be ours in its full blessedness, our Lord Jesus dwelling in the heart.
+
+We ask it in His Name. Amen.
+
+
+  1. God's dwelling in the midst of Israel was the great central
+     fact to which all the commands concerning holiness were but
+     preparatory and subordinate. So the work of the Holy Spirit
+     also culminates in the personal indwelling of Christ. (John
+     xiv. 21, 23. Eph. iii. 16, 17.) Aim at this and expect it.
+
+  2. The tabernacle with its three divisions was, as of other
+     spiritual truths, so the image of man's threefold nature. Our
+     spirit is the Holiest of all, where God is meant to dwell,
+     where the Holy Spirit is given. The life of the soul, with its
+     powers of feeling, knowing, and willing, is the holy place. And
+     the outer life of the body, of conduct and action, is the outer
+     court. Begin by believing that the Spirit dwells in the inmost
+     sanctuary, where His workings are secret and hidden. Honour Him
+     by trusting Him to work, by yielding to Him in silent worship
+     before God. From within He will take possession of thought and
+     will; He will even fill the outer court, the body, with the
+     Holiness of God. 'The God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly;
+     and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved entire,
+     without blame. Faithful is He which calleth you, who will also
+     do it.'
+
+  3. God's indwelling was within the veil, in the unseen, the
+     secret place. Faith knew it, and served Him with holy fear. Our
+     faith knows that God the Holy Spirit has His abode in the
+     hidden place of our inner life. Set open your inmost being to
+     Him; bow in lowly reverence before the Holy One as you yield
+     yourself to His working. Holiness is the presence of the
+     Indwelling One.
+
+
+
+
+Ninth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Mediation.
+
+  'And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it,
+  HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that
+  Aaron may bear the iniquity of the _holy_ things, which the
+  children of Israel shall _hallow_ in all their _holy_ gifts; and
+  it shall always be upon his forehead, that they may be accepted
+  before the Lord.'--Ex. xxviii. 36, 38.
+
+
+God's house was to be the dwelling-place of His Holiness, the place
+where He was to reveal Himself; as the Holy One, not to be approached
+but with fear and trembling; as the Holy-making One, drawing to Himself
+all who would be made partakers of His Holiness. Of the revelation of
+His Holy and His Holy-making Presence, the centre is found in the person
+of the high priest, in his double capacity of representing God with man,
+and man with God. He is the embodiment of the Divine Holiness in human
+form, and of human holiness as a Divine gift, as far as the dispensation
+of symbol and shadow could offer and express it. In him God came near to
+sanctify and bless the people. In him the people came their very
+nearest to God. And yet the very Day of Atonement, in which he might
+enter into the Most Holy, was but the proof of how unholy man was, and
+how unfit to abide in God's Presence. In himself a proof of Israel's
+unholiness, he yet was a type and picture of the coming Saviour, our
+blessed Lord Jesus, a wondrous exhibition of the way in which hereafter
+the holiness of God should become the portion of His people.
+
+Among the many points in which the high priest typified Christ as our
+sanctification, there is, perhaps, none more suggestive or beautiful
+than _the holy crown_ he wore on his forehead. Everything about him was
+to be holy. His garments were holy garments. But there was to be one
+thing in which this holiness reached its fullest manifestation. On his
+forehead he was always to wear a plate of gold, with the words engraved
+on it, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. Every one was to read there that the whole
+object of his existence, the one thing he lived for, was, to be the
+embodiment and the bearer of the Divine holiness, the chosen one through
+whom God's holiness might flow out in blessing upon the people.
+
+The way in which the blessing of the holy crown was to act was a most
+remarkable one. In bearing HOLINESS TO THE LORD on his forehead, he is,
+we read, 'to bear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of
+Israel hallow; that they may be accepted before the Lord.' For every sin
+some sacrifice or way of atonement had been devised. But how about the
+sin that cleaves to the very sacrifice and religious service itself?
+'Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.' How painfully the worshipper
+might be oppressed by the consciousness that his penitence, his faith,
+his love, his obedience, his consecration, were all imperfect and
+defiled! For this need, too, of the worshipper, God had provided. The
+holiness of the high priest covered the sin and the unholiness of his
+holy things. The holy crown was God's pledge that the holiness of the
+high priest rendered the worshipper acceptable. If he was unholy, there
+was one among his brethren who was holy, who had a holiness that could
+avail for him too, a holiness he could trust in. He could look to the
+high priest not only to effect atonement by his blood-sprinkling, but in
+his person to secure a holiness too that made him and his gifts most
+acceptable. In the consciousness of personal unholiness he might rejoice
+in a mediator, in the holiness of Another than himself, the priest whom
+God had provided.
+
+Have we not here a most precious lesson, leading us a step farther on in
+the way of holiness? To our question, How God makes holy, we have the
+Divine answer: Through a man whom the Divine Holiness has chosen to rest
+upon, and whose holiness belongs to us, as His brethren, the very
+members of His own body. Through a holiness which is of such efficacy,
+that the very sins of our holy things disappear, and we can enter the
+Holy Presence with the assurance of being altogether well-pleasing.
+
+And is not just this the lesson that many earnest seekers after holiness
+need? They know all that the Word teaches of the blessed Atonement, and
+the full pardon it has brought. They believe in the Father's wonderful
+love, and what He is ready to do for them. And yet, when they hear of
+the childlike simplicity, the assurance of faith, the loving obedience,
+and the blessed surrender with which the Father expects them to come and
+receive the blessing, their heart fails for fear. It is as if the
+blessing were all beyond their reach. What avails that the Holy One is
+said to come so nigh? their unholiness renders them incapable of
+claiming or grasping the Presence that offers itself to them. Just see
+how the Holy One here reveals His way of making holy, and preparing for
+the fellowship of His Holiness. In His Elect One as Mediator, holiness
+is prepared and treasured up enough for all who come through Him. As I
+bow to pray or worship, and feel how much there is still wanting of that
+humility, and fervency, and faith, that God has a right to demand, I may
+look up to the High Priest in His Holiness, to the holy crown upon His
+forehead, and believe that the iniquity of my holy things is borne and
+taken away. I may, with all my deficiency and unworthiness, know most
+assuredly that my prayer is acceptable, a sweet-smelling savour. I may
+look up to the Holy One to see Him smiling on me, for the sake of His
+Anointed One. 'The holy crown shall always be on His forehead, that they
+may be accepted before the Lord.' It is the blessed truth of
+Substitution--One for all--of Mediatorship; God's way of making us holy.
+The sacrifice of the worshipping Israelite is holy and acceptable in
+virtue of the holiness of Another.
+
+The Old Testament shadow can never adequately set forth the New
+Testament reality with its fulness of grace and truth. As we proceed in
+our study, we shall find that the holiness of Jesus our sanctification
+is not only imputed but imparted, because we are _in Him_; the new man
+we have put on is created in true holiness. We are not only counted
+holy; we are holy, we have received a new holy nature in Christ Jesus.
+'He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all _of One_;
+therefore He is not ashamed to call them brethren.' It is our living
+union with Jesus, God's Holy One, that has given us the new and holy
+nature, and with that a claim and a share in all the holiness there is
+in Jesus. And so, as often as we are conscious of how unholy we are, we
+have only to come under the covering of the Holiness of Jesus, to enjoy
+the full assurance that we and our gifts are most acceptable. However
+great be the weakness of our faith, the shortcoming in our desire for
+God's glory, the lack in our love or zeal, as we see Jesus, with
+Holiness to the Lord on His forehead, we lift up our faces to receive
+the Divine smile of full approval and perfect acceptance.
+
+This is God's way of making holy. Not only with the holy place, as we
+have seen, but with the holy persons too, He begins with a centre, and
+from that in ever-widening circle makes holy. And that this Divine
+method will be crowned with success we may be sure. In the Word we find
+a most remarkable illustration of the extent to which it will be
+realized. We find the words on the holy crown once again in the Old
+Testament at its close. In the day of the Lord, 'there shall be upon the
+bells of the horses, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.' The high priest's motto
+shall then have become the watchword of daily life; every article of
+beauty or of service shall be holy too; from the head it shall have
+extended to the skirts of the garments. Let us begin with realizing the
+Holiness of Jesus in its power to cover the iniquity of our holy things;
+let us make proof of it, and no longer suffer our unworthiness to keep
+us back or make us doubt; let us believe that we and our holy things are
+acceptable, because in Christ holy to the Lord; let us live in this
+consciousness of acceptance, and enter into fellowship with the Holy
+One. As we enter in and abide in the holiness of Jesus, it will enter in
+and abide in us. It will take possession and spread its conquering power
+through our whole life, until with us too upon everything that belongs
+to us the word shall shine, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And we shall again
+find how God's way of holiness is ever from a centre, here the centre of
+our renewed nature, throughout the whole circumference of our being, to
+make His Holiness prove its power. Let us but dwell under the covering
+of the Holiness of Jesus, as He takes away the iniquity of our holy
+things, He will make us and our life holy to the Lord.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O my God and Father! my soul doth bless Thee for this wondrous
+revelation of what Thy way and Thy grace is with those whom Thou hast
+called 'Holy in Christ.' Thou knowest, O Lord, how continually our
+hearts have limited our acceptance with Thee by our attainments, and
+conscious shortcoming has wrought condemnation. We knew too little how,
+in the Holiness of Him who makes us holy, there is a Divinely infinite
+efficacy to cover our iniquities, and give us the assurance of perfect
+acceptance. Blessed Father! open our eyes to see, and our hearts to
+understand this holy crown of our blessed Jesus, with its wondrous and
+most blessed, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
+
+And when our hearts condemn us, because our prayers are so little
+consciously according to the will or to the glory of God, or truly in
+the name of Jesus, O most Holy Father, be pleased by Thy Spirit to show
+us how bright the smile and how hearty the welcome is we still have with
+Thee. Teach us to come in the Holiness of our High Priest, and enter
+into Thine, until it take possession of us, and permeate our whole
+being, and all that is in us be holy to the Lord. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Holiness is not something I can see or admire in myself: it
+     is covering myself, losing myself, in the Holiness of Jesus.
+     How wonderfully this is typified in Aaron and the holy crown.
+     And the more I see and have apprehended of the Holiness of
+     Jesus, the less shall I see or seek of holiness in myself.
+
+  2. He will make me holy: my tempers and dispositions will be
+     renewed; my heart and mind cleansed and sanctified; holiness
+     will be a new nature; and yet there will be all along the
+     consciousness, humbling and yet full of joy: it is not I;
+     Christ liveth in me.
+
+  3. Let us lie very low and tender before God, that the Holy
+     Spirit may reveal to us what it is to be holy in the Holiness
+     of Another, in the Holiness of Jesus, that is, in the Holiness
+     of God.
+
+  4. Do not trouble or weary too much to grasp this with the
+     intellect. Just believe it, and look in simplicity and trust to
+     Jesus to make it all right for you.
+
+  5. _Holy in Christ._ In childlike faith I take Christ's holiness
+     afresh as my covering before God. In loving obedience I take it
+     into my will and life. I trust and I follow Jesus: this is the
+     path of holiness.
+
+  6. If we gather up the lessons we have found in the Word from
+     Paradise downward, we see that the elements of holiness in us
+     are these, each corresponding to some special aspect of God's
+     holiness: deep Restfulness (ch. 3), humble Reverence (ch. 4),
+     entire Surrender (ch. 5), joyful Adoration (ch. 6), simple
+     Obedience (ch. 7). These all prepare for the Divine Indwelling
+     (ch. 8), and this again we have through the Abiding in Jesus
+     with the Crown of Holiness on His head.
+
+
+
+
+Tenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Separation.
+
+  'I am the Lord your God, which have _separated_ you from other
+  people. And ye shall be _holy_ unto me, for I the Lord am _holy_,
+  and have _separated_ you from other people that ye should be
+  _Mine_.'--Lev. xx. 24, 26.
+
+  'Until the days be fulfilled, in the which he _separateth_ himself
+  unto the Lord, he shall be _holy_.... All the days of his
+  _separation_ he is _holy_ unto the Lord.'--Num. vi. 5, 8.
+
+  'Wherefore Jesus also, that He might _sanctify_ the people through
+  His own blood, suffered _without the gate_. Let us therefore go
+  forth unto Him _without the camp_, bearing His reproach.'--Heb.
+  xiii. 12, 13.
+
+
+Separation is not holiness, but is the way to it. Though there can be no
+holiness without separation, there can be separation that does not lead
+to holiness. It is of deep importance to understand both the difference
+and the connection, that we may be kept from the right-hand error of
+counting separation alone as holiness, as well as the left-hand error of
+seeking holiness without separation.
+
+The Hebrew word for holiness possibly comes from a root that means to
+separate. But where we have in our translation 'separate' or 'sever' or
+'set apart,' we have quite different words.[3] The word for holy is used
+exclusively to express that special idea. And though the idea of holy
+always includes that of separation, it is itself something infinitely
+higher. It is of great importance to understand this well, because the
+being set apart to God, the surrender to His claim, the devotion or
+consecration to His service, is often spoken of as if this constituted
+holiness. We cannot too earnestly press the thought that this is only
+the beginning, the presupposition: holiness itself is infinitely more;
+not what I am, or do, or give, is holiness, but what God is, and gives,
+and does to me. It is God's taking possession of me that makes me holy;
+it is the Presence and the glory of God that really makes holy. A
+careful study of God's words to Israel will make this clear to us. Eight
+times we find the expression in Leviticus, 'Ye shall be holy, for I am
+holy.' Holiness is the highest attribute of God, expressive not only of
+His relation to Israel, but of His very being and nature, His infinite
+moral perfection. And though it is by very slow and gradual steps that
+He can teach the carnal darkened mind of man what this means, yet from
+the very commencement He tells His people that His purpose is that they
+should be like Himself--holy because and as He is holy. To tell me that
+God separates men for Himself to be His, even as He gives Himself to be
+theirs, tells me of a relation that exists, but tells me nothing of the
+real nature of this Holy Being, or of the essential worth of the
+holiness He will communicate to me. Separation is only the setting apart
+and taking possession of the vessel to be cleansed and used; it is the
+filling of it with the precious contents we entrust to it that gives it
+its real value. Holiness is the Divine filling without which the
+separation leaves us empty. Separation is not holiness.
+
+But separation is essential to holiness. 'I have separated you from
+other people, and ye shall be holy.' Until I have chosen out and
+separated a vessel from those around it, and, if need be, cleansed it, I
+cannot fill or use it. I must have it in my hand, full and exclusive
+command of it for the time being, or I will not pour into it the
+precious milk or wine. And just so God separated His people when He
+brought them up out of Egypt, separated them _unto Himself_ when He gave
+them His covenant and His law, that He might have them under His control
+and power, to work out His purpose of making them holy. This He could
+not do until He had them apart, and had wakened in them the
+consciousness that they were His peculiar people, wholly and only His,
+until He had so taught them also to separate themselves to Him.
+Separation is essential to holiness.
+
+The institution of the Nazarite will confirm this, and will also bring
+out very clearly what separation means. Israel was meant to be a holy
+nation. Its holiness was specially typified in its priests. With regard
+to the individual Israelite, we nowhere read in the books of Moses of
+his being holy. But there were ordinances through which the Israelite,
+who would fain prove his desire to be entirely holy, could do so. He
+might separate himself from the ordinary life of the nation around him,
+and live the life of a Nazarite, a separated one. This separation was
+accepted, in those days of shadow and type, as holiness. 'All the days
+of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.'
+
+The separation consisted specially in three things--temperance, in
+abstinence from the fruit of the vine; humiliation, in not cutting or
+shaving his hair ('it is a shame for a man if he have long hair');
+self-sacrifice, in not defiling himself for even father or mother, on
+their death. What we must specially note is that the separation was not
+from things unlawful, but things lawful. There was nothing sinful in
+itself in Abraham living in his father's house, or in Israel dwelling in
+Egypt. It is in giving up, not only what can be proved to be sin, but
+all that may hinder the full intensity of our surrender into God's hands
+to make us holy, that the spirit of separation is manifested.
+
+Let us learn the lessons this truth suggests. We must know _the need_
+for separation. It is no arbitrary demand of God, but has its ground in
+the very nature of things. To separate a thing is to set it free for one
+special use or purpose, that it may with undivided power fulfil the will
+of him who chose it, and so realize its destiny. It is the principle
+that lies at the root of all division of labour; complete separation to
+one branch of study or labour is the way to success and perfection. I
+have before me an oak forest with the trees all shooting up straight and
+close to each other. On the outskirts there is one tree separated from
+his fellows; its heavy trunk and wide-spreading branches prove how its
+being separated, and having a large piece of ground separated to its own
+use, over which roots and branches can spread, is the secret of growth
+and greatness. Our human powers are limited; if God is to take full
+possession, if we are fully to enjoy Him, separation to Him is nothing
+but the simple, natural, indispensable requisite. God wants us all to
+Himself, that He may give Himself all to us.
+
+We must know the _purpose_ of separation. It is to be found in what God
+has said, 'Ye shall be holy unto me, for I the Lord am holy, and have
+separated you from the people, that ye should be MINE.' God has
+separated us _for Himself_ in the deepest sense of the word; that He
+might enter into us, and show forth Himself in us. His holiness is the
+sum and the centre of all His perfections; it is that He may make us
+holy like Himself that He has separated us. Separation never has any
+value in itself; it may become most wrong or hurtful; everything depends
+upon the object proposed. It is as God gets and takes full possession of
+us, as the eternal life in Christ has the mastery of our whole being, as
+the Holy Spirit flows fully and freely through us, so that we dwell in
+God, and God in us, that separation will be, not a thing of ordinances
+and observances, but a spiritual reality. And it is as this purpose of
+God is seen and accepted and followed after, that difficult questions as
+to what we must be separated from, and how much sacrifice separation
+demands, will find an easy answer. God separates from all that does not
+lead us into His holiness and fellowship.
+
+We need, above all, to know _the power_ of separation, the power that
+leads us into it in the spirit of desire and of joy, of liberty and of
+love. The great separating word in human language is the word _Mine_. In
+this we have the great spring of effort and of happiness: in the child
+with its toys, in labour with its gains and rewards, in the patriot who
+dies for his country, it is this _Mine_ that lays its hand on what it
+sets apart from all else. It is the great word that love uses. Be it the
+child that says to its mother, My own mamma, and calls forth the
+response, My own child; the bridegroom who draws the daughter from her
+beloved home and parents to become his; or the Holy God who speaks: 'I
+have separated you from the people, that ye should be _Mine_;' it is
+always with that _Mine_ that love exerts its mighty power, and draws
+from all else to itself. God Himself knows no mightier argument, can put
+forth no more powerful attraction than this, 'that ye should be _Mine_.'
+And the power of separation will come to us, and work in us, just as we
+yield ourselves to study and realize that holy purpose, to listen to and
+appropriate that wondrous _Mine_, to be apprehended and possessed of
+that Almighty Love.
+
+Let us study step by step the wondrous path in which Divine Love does it
+separating work. In redemption it prepares the way. Israel is separated
+from Egypt by the blood of the Lamb and the guiding pillar of fire. In
+its command, 'Come out and be separate,' it wakens man to action; in its
+promises, 'I will be your God,' it stirs desire and strengthens faith.
+In all the holy saints and servants of God, and at last in Him who was
+holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, it points the way. In
+the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, it seals the
+separation by the Presence of the Indwelling God. This is indeed the
+power of separation. _The separating power of the Presence of God_; this
+it is we need to know. 'Wherein now shall it be known that I have found
+grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people?' said Moses: 'is it not in _that
+Thou goest with us_? _so_ shall we be _separated_, I and Thy people,
+from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.' It is the
+consciousness of God's Indwelling Presence, making and keeping us His
+very own, that works the true separateness from the world and its
+spirit, from ourselves and our own will. And it is as this separation is
+accepted and prized and persevered in by us, that the holiness of God
+will enter in and take possession. And we shall realize that to be the
+Lord's property, a people of His own, is infinitely more than merely to
+be accounted or acknowledged as His, that it means nothing less than
+that God, in the power and indwelling of the Holy Ghost, fills our
+being, our affections, and our will with His own life and holiness. He
+separates us for Himself, and sanctifies us to be His dwelling. He comes
+Himself to take personal possession by the indwelling of Christ in the
+heart. And we are then truly separate, and kept separate, by the
+presence of God within us.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O my God! who hast separated me for Thyself, I beseech Thee, by Thy
+mighty power, to make this Divine separation deed and truth to me. May
+within, in the depths of my own spirit, and without, in all my
+intercourse, the crown of separation of my God be upon me.
+
+I pray Thee especially, O my God, to perfect in power the separation
+from self! Let Thy Presence in the indwelling of my Lord Jesus be the
+power that banishes self from the throne. I have turned from it with
+abhorrence; oh, my Father, reveal Thy Son fully in me! it is His
+enthronement in my heart can keep me as Thy own, as Himself takes the
+place of myself.
+
+And give me grace, Lord, in my outward life to wait for a Divine wisdom,
+that I may know to witness, for Thy glory and for what Thy people need,
+to the blessedness of an entire giving up of everything for God, a
+separation that holds back nothing, to be His and His alone.
+
+Holy Lord God! visit Thy people. Oh, withdraw Thou them from the world
+and conformity to it. Separate, Lord, separate Thine own for Thyself.
+Separate, Lord, the wheat from the chaff; separate, as by fire, the gold
+from the dross; that it may be seen who are the Lord's, even His holy
+ones. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Love separates effectually. With what jealousy a husband claims
+     his wife, a mother her children, a miser his possessions! Pray that
+     the Holy Spirit may show how God brought you to Himself, that you
+     should be His. 'He is a holy God; He is a Jealous God.' God's love
+     shed abroad in the heart makes separation easy.
+
+  2. Death separates effectually. If I reckon myself to be indeed
+     dead in Christ, I am separated from self by the power of Christ's
+     death. Life separates still more mightily. As I say, 'Not I, but
+     Christ liveth in me,' I am lifted up out of the life of self.
+
+  3. Separation must be manifest; it is meant as a witness to others
+     and ourselves; it must find expression in the external, if
+     internally it is to be real and strong. It is the characteristic of
+     a symbolic action that it not merely expresses a feeling, but
+     nourishes and strengthens the feeling to which it corresponds. When
+     the soul enters the fellowship of God, it feels the need of
+     external separation, sometimes even from what appears to others
+     harmless. If animated by the spirit of lowly consecration to God,
+     the external may be a great strengthening of the true separateness.
+
+  4. Separation to God and appropriation by Him go together. This has
+     been the blessing that has come to martyrs, confessors,
+     missionaries,--all who have given distinct expression to the
+     forsaking all.
+
+  5. Separation begins in love, and ends in love. The spirit of
+     separation is the spirit of self-sacrifice, of surrender to the
+     love of God; the truly separate one will be the most loving and
+     love-winning, given up to serve God and man. Is not what separates,
+     what distinguishes Jesus from all others, His self-sacrificing
+     love? This is His separateness, in which we are to be made like
+     Him.
+
+  6. God's holiness is His separateness; let us enter into _His_
+     separateness from the world; that will be our holiness. Unite
+     thyself to God. Then art thou separate and holy. God separates for
+     Himself, not by an act from without, but as His Will and Presence
+     take possession of us.
+
+
+    [3] See Note B.
+
+
+
+
+Eleventh Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Holy One of Israel.
+
+  'I am the Lord that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be
+  _your God_; ye shall therefore _be holy_, for _I am holy_. I the
+  Lord which _make you holy, am holy_.'--Lev. xi. 45, xxi. 8.
+
+  'I am the Lord Thy God, _the Holy One of Israel_, Thy Saviour.
+  Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, _the Holy One of Israel_: I am
+  the Lord, _your Holy One_, the Creator of Israel, your
+  King.'--Isa. xliii. 3, 14, 15.
+
+
+In the book of Exodus we found God making provision for the Holiness of
+His people. In the holy times and holy places, holy persons, holy
+things, and holy services, He had taught His people that everything
+around Him, that all that would come near Him, must be holy. He would
+only dwell in the midst of holiness; His people must be a holy people.
+But there is no direct mention of God Himself as holy. In the book of
+Leviticus we are led on a step further. Here first we have God speaking
+of His own holiness, and making it the plea for the holiness of His
+people, as well as its pledge and power. Without this the revelation of
+holiness were incomplete, and the call to holiness powerless. True
+holiness will come to us as we learn that God Himself alone is holy. It
+is He alone makes holy; it is as we come to Himself, and in obedience
+and love are linked to Himself, that His Holiness can rest on us.[4]
+
+From the books of Moses onwards we shall find that the name of God as
+holy is found but seldom in the inspired writings, until we come to
+Isaiah, the evangelist prophet. There it occurs twenty-six times, and
+has its true meaning opened up in the way in which it is linked with the
+name of Saviour and Redeemer. The sentiments of joy and trust and
+praise, with which a redeemed people would look upon their Deliverer,
+are all mentioned in connection with the name of the Holy One. 'Cry
+aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great is _the Holy One of
+Israel_ in the midst of thee.' 'The poor among men shall rejoice in _the
+Holy One of Israel_.' 'Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory
+in _the Holy One of Israel_.' In Paradise we saw that God the Creator
+was God the Sanctifier, perfecting the work of His hands. In Israel we
+saw that God the Redeemer was ever God the Sanctifier, making holy the
+people He had chosen for Himself. Here in Isaiah we see how it is God
+the Sanctifier, the Holy One, who is to bring about the great redemption
+of the New Testament: as the Holy One, He is the Redeemer. God redeems
+because He is holy, and loves to make holy: Holiness will be Redemption
+perfected. Redemption and Holiness together are to be found in the
+personal relation to God. The key to the secret of holiness is offered
+to each believer in that word: 'Thus saith the Lord, your Redeemer, the
+Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord, your Holy One.' To come near, to
+know, to possess the Holy One, and be possessed of Him, is Holiness.
+
+If God's Holiness is thus the only hope for ours, it is right that we
+seek to know what that Holiness is. And though we may find it indeed to
+be something that passeth knowledge, it will not be in vain to gather up
+what has been revealed in the Word concerning it. Let us do so in the
+spirit of holy fear and worship, trusting to the Holy Spirit to be our
+teacher.
+
+And let us first notice how this Holiness of God, though it is often
+mentioned as one of the Divine attributes, can hardly be counted such,
+on a level with the others. The other attributes all refer to some
+special aspect or characteristic of the Divine Nature; Holiness appears
+to express what is the very essence or perfection of the Divine Being
+Himself. None of the attributes can be predicated of all that belongs to
+God; but Scripture speaks of His Holy Name, His Holy Day, His Holy
+Habitation, His Holy Word. In the word Holy we have the nearest possible
+approach to a summary of all the Divine perfections, the description of
+what Divinity is. We speak of the other attributes as Divine
+perfections, but in this we have the only human expression for the
+Divine Perfection itself. It is for this reason that theologians have
+found such difficulty in framing a definition that can express all the
+word means.[5]
+
+The original Hebrew word, whether derived from a root signifying to
+separate, or another with the idea of shining, expressed the idea of
+something distinguished from others, separate from them by superior
+excellence. God is Separate and different from all that is created,
+keeps Himself separate from all that is not God; as the Holy One He
+maintains His Divine glory and perfection against whatever might
+interfere with it: 'There is none holy, but the Lord;' 'To whom will you
+liken me? or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.' As Holy, God is
+indeed the Incomparable One; Holiness is His alone; there is nothing
+like it in heaven or earth, except when He gives it. And so our holiness
+will consist, not in a human separation in which we attempt to imitate
+God's,--no, but in entering into His separateness; belonging entirely to
+Him; set apart by Him and for Himself.
+
+Closely connected with this is the idea of Exaltation: 'Thus saith the
+High and Holy One, whose name is Holy.' It was the Holy One who was seen
+sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, the object of the worship of
+the seraphim. In Psalm xcix. God's Holiness is specially spoken of in
+connection with His exaltation. For this reason, too, His Holiness is so
+often connected with His Glory and Majesty (see 'Sixth Day'). And here
+our holiness will be seen to be nothing but the poverty and humility
+which comes when 'the loftiness of man is brought low, and the Lord
+alone is exalted.'
+
+If we inquire more closely wherein the infinite excellence of this
+Separateness and Exaltation consists, we are led to think of the Divine
+Purity, and that not only in its negative aspect--as hatred of sin--but
+with the more positive element of perfect beauty. Because we are
+sinners, and the revelation of God's Holiness is in a world of sin, it
+is natural, it is right and meet, that the first, that the abiding
+impression of God's Holiness should be that of an Infinite Purity that
+cannot look upon sin, in whose Presence it becomes the sinner to hide
+his face and tremble. The Righteousness of God, forbidding and
+condemning and punishing sin, has its root in His Holiness, is one of
+its two elements--the devouring and destroying power of the consuming
+fire. 'God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness' (Isa. v. 16); in
+righteousness the Holiness of the Holy One is maintained and revealed.
+But Light not only discovers what is impure, that it may be purified,
+but is in itself a thing of infinite beauty. And so some of our holiest
+men have not hesitated to speak of God's Holiness as the infinite
+Pulchritude or Beauty of the Divine Being, the Perfect Purity and Beauty
+of that Light in which God dwelleth. And if the Holiness of God is to
+become ours, to rest upon us, and enter into us, there must be, without
+ceasing, the holy fear that trembles at the thought of grieving the
+infinite sensitiveness of this Holy One by our sins, and yet side by
+side, and in perfect harmony with it, the deep longing to behold the
+Beauty of the Lord, an admiration of its Divine glory, and a joyful
+surrender to be His alone.
+
+We must go one step further. When God says, 'I am holy: _I make holy_,'
+we see that one of the chief elements of His Holiness is this, that it
+seeks to communicate itself, to make partaker of its own perfection and
+blessedness. This is nought but Love. In the wonderful revelation in
+Isaiah of what the Holy One is to His people, we must beware of
+misreading God's precious Word. It is not said, that _though_ God is the
+Holy One, and hates sin, and ought to punish and destroy, that
+notwithstanding this He will save. By no means. But we are taught that
+_as_ the Holy One, _just because_ He is the Holy One, who delights to
+make holy, He will be the Deliverer of His people. (See Hos. xi. 9.) It
+is Holiness above everything else that we are invited to look to, to
+trust in, to rejoice in. The Holy One is the Holy-making One: He redeems
+and saves that He may win our confidence for Himself, that He may draw
+us to Himself as the Holy One, that in the personal attachment to
+Himself we may learn to obey, to become of one mind with Him, to be holy
+as He is holy.
+
+The Divine Holiness is thus that infinite Perfection of Divinity in
+which Righteousness and Love are in perfect harmony, out of which they
+proceed, and which together they reveal. It is that Energy of the Divine
+life in the power of which God not only keeps Himself free from all
+creature weakness or sin, but unceasingly seeks to lift the creature
+into union with Himself and the full participation of His own purity and
+perfection. The glory of God as God, as the God of Creation and
+Redemption, is His Holiness. It is in this that the Separateness and
+Exaltation of God, even above all thought of man, really consists. 'God
+is Light;' in His infinite Purity He reveals all darkness, and yet has
+no fellowship with it. He judges and condemns it; He saves out of it,
+and lifts up into the fellowship of His own purity and blessedness. This
+is the Holy One of Israel.
+
+It is this God who speaks to us, 'I am the Lord your God: I am holy: I
+make holy.' It is in the adoring contemplation of His Holiness, in the
+trustful surrender to it, in the loving fellowship with Himself, the
+Holy One, that we can be made holy. My brother! would you be holy?
+listen again, and let, in the deep silence of trust, God's words sink
+into your heart--'Your Holy One.' Come to Himself and claim Him as your
+God, and claim all that He, as the Holy One who makes holy, can do for
+you. Just remember that Holiness is Himself. Come to _Him_; worship
+_Him_; give _Him_ the glory. Seek not, even from Him, holiness in
+yourself; let self be abased, and be content that the Holiness is His.
+As _His_ presence fills your heart, as _His_ Holiness and Glory are your
+one desire, as _His_ holy Will and Love are your delight,--as the Holy
+One becomes all in all to you,--you will be holy with the holiness He
+loves to see. And as, to the end, you see nothing to admire in self, and
+only Beauty in Him, you will know that He has laid of His glory on you;
+and your holiness will be found in the song, There is none holy, but the
+Lord.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O God! we have again heard the wonderful revelation of Thyself, 'I am
+holy.' And as we felt how infinitely exalted above all our conceptions
+Thy Holiness is, we heard Thy call, almost still more wonderful, 'Be ye
+holy, as I am holy.' And as every thought of how we were to be holy, as
+Thou art holy, failed us, we heard Thy voice once again, in this most
+wonderful word of all, 'I make you holy.' I am 'your Holy One.'
+
+Most Holy God! we do beseech Thee, give us in some due measure to
+realize how unholy we are, and so to take the place that becomes us in
+Thy presence. Oh that the sinfulness of our nature, and all that is of
+self, may be so discovered to us, that it may be no longer possible to
+live in it! May the Light that reveals this, reveal too, how Thy
+Holiness is our only hope, our sure refuge, our complete deliverance.
+O Lord! speak into our souls the word, 'The Holy One, your Redeemer,'
+'Your Holy One,' with such power by Thy Spirit, that our faith may grow
+into the assured confidence that we can be holy as Thou art holy.
+
+Holy Lord God! we wait for Thee. Reveal Thyself in power within us, and
+fit us to be the messengers of Thy Holiness, to tell Thy people how holy
+Thou art, and how holy we must be, and how holy Thou dost make us. Amen.
+
+
+  1. This Holy One is God Almighty. Before He revealed Himself to
+     Israel as the Holy One, He made Himself known to Abraham as the
+     Almighty, 'who quickeneth the dead.' In all your dealings with
+     God for holiness, remember He is the Almighty One, who can do
+     wonders in you. Say often, 'Glory to Him who is mighty to do
+     exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think.'
+
+  2. This Holy One is the Righteous God, a consuming fire. Cast
+     yourself into it, that all that is sinful may be destroyed. As
+     you lay yourself upon the altar, expect the fire. 'And yield
+     your members unto God as instruments of Righteousness.'
+
+  3. This Holy One is the God of Love. He is your Father; yield
+     yourself to let the Holy Spirit cry in you, Abba Father! that
+     is, to let Him shed abroad and fill your heart with God's
+     father-love. God's Holiness is His fatherliness; our holiness
+     is childlikeness. Be simple, loving, trustful.
+
+  4. This Holy One is God. Let Him be God to you; ruling all,
+     filling all, working all. Worship Him, come near to Him, live
+     with and in and for Him: He will be your holiness.
+
+
+    [4] 'I am the Lord your God; ye shall therefore _make holy_
+        yourselves, and _be holy, for I am holy_' (Lev. xi. 44).
+
+        'I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt to
+        be your God: ye shall therefore _be holy, for I am holy_'
+        (Lev. xi. 45).
+
+        'Ye shall _be holy_, for _I the Lord your God am holy_'
+        (Lev. xix. 2).
+
+        '_Make holy_ yourselves therefore, and _be ye holy_, for I am
+        the Lord your God; ye shall keep my statutes and do them: I am
+        the Lord which _make you holy_' (Lev. xx. 7, 8).
+
+        'Ye shall _be holy_ unto me, for _I the Lord am holy_, and have
+        separated you from other people, that ye should be mine'
+        (Lev. xx. 26).
+
+        'The priest shall be _holy_ unto thee, for _I the Lord which
+        make you holy, am holy_' (Lev. xxi. 8).
+
+        'I will be _hallowed_ among the children of Israel; I am the
+        Lord _which make you holy_' (Lev. xxii. 32).
+
+        'I am the Lord _which make them holy_' (Lev. xxi. 15, 23;
+        xxii. 9, 16).
+
+    [5] See Note C for some account of the different definitions that
+        have been given.
+
+
+
+
+Twelfth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Thrice Holy One.
+
+  'I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up. Above Him
+  stood the seraphim. And one cried to another, and said, _Holy,
+  holy, holy_ is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His
+  glory.'--Isa. vi. 1-3.
+
+  'And the four living creatures, they have no rest day and night,
+  saying, _Holy, holy, holy_ is the Lord God, the Almighty, which
+  was, and which is, and which is to come.'--Rev. iv. 8.
+
+
+It is not only on earth, but in heaven too, that the Holiness of God is
+His chief and most glorious attribute. It is not only on earth, but in
+heaven too, that the highest inspiration of adoration and praise makes
+mention of His Holiness. The brightest of living beings, they who are
+ever before and around and above the throne, find their glory in adoring
+and proclaiming the Holiness of God: surely there can be for us no
+higher honour than to study and to know, to worship and adore, to
+proclaim and show forth the glory of the Thrice Holy One.
+
+After Moses, as we know, Isaiah was the chief messenger of the Holiness
+of God. Each had a special preparation for his commission to make known
+the Holy One. Moses saw the Holy One in the fire, and hid his face and
+feared to look upon God, and so was prepared for being His messenger,
+and for praising Him as 'glorious in holiness.' Isaiah, as he heard the
+song of the seraphim, and saw the fire on the altar, and the house
+filled with the smoke, cried out, 'Woe is me.' It was not till, in the
+deep sense of the need of cleansing, he had received the touch of the
+fire and the purging of his sin, that he might bear to Israel the Gospel
+of the Holy One as its Redeemer. May it be in the spirit of fear and
+lowly worship that we listen to the song of the seraphim, and seek to
+know and worship the Thrice Holy One. And may ours too be the cleansing
+with the fire, that we may be found fit to tell God's people that He is
+the Holy One of Israel, their Redeemer.
+
+The threefold repetition of the HOLY has at all times by the Church of
+Christ been connected with the Holy Trinity. The song of the living
+creatures around the throne (Rev. iv.) is evidence of the truth of this
+thought. We there find it followed by the adoration of Him who was, and
+is, and is to come, the Almighty: the Eternal Source, the present
+manifestation in the Son, the future perfecting of the revelation of God
+in the Spirit's work in His Church. The truth of the Holy Trinity is
+often regarded as an abstract doctrine, with little direct bearing on
+practical life. So far is this from being the case, that a living faith
+must root in it: some spiritual insight into the relation and the
+operation of each of the Three, and the reality of their living Oneness,
+is an essential element of true growth in knowledge and spiritual
+understanding.[6] Let us here regard the Trinity specially in its
+relation to God's Holiness and as the source of ours. What does it mean
+that we adore the Thrice Holy One? God is not only holy, but makes holy:
+in the revelation of the Three Persons we have the revelation of the way
+in which God makes holy.
+
+The Trinity teaches us that God has revealed Himself in two ways. The
+Son is _the Form of God_, His manifestation as He shows Himself to man,
+the Image in which His unseen glory is embodied, and to which man is to
+be conformed. The Spirit is _the Power of God_, working in man, and
+leading him up to that Image. In Jesus, He who had been in the form of
+God took the form of man; and the Divine Holiness was literally
+manifested in the form of a human life and the members of a human body.
+A new holy human nature was formed in Christ, to be communicated to us.
+In His death His own personal holiness was perfected as human obedience,
+and so the power of sin conquered and broken. Therefore in the
+resurrection, through the Spirit of Holiness, He was declared to be the
+Son of God with power to impart His life to us. There the Spirit of
+Holiness was set free from the veil of the flesh, the trammels that
+hindered it, and obtained power to enter and dwell in man. The Holy
+Spirit was poured out as the fruit of Resurrection and Ascension. And
+the Spirit is now the Power of God in us, working upwards towards
+Christ, to reproduce His life and Holiness in us, to fit us for fully
+receiving and showing forth Him in our lives. Christ from above comes to
+us as the embodiment of the Unseen Holiness of God: the Spirit from
+within lifts us up to meet Him, and fits us to receive and make our own
+all that is in Him.
+
+The Triune God whom we adore is the Thrice Holy One: the mystery of the
+Trinity is the mystery of Holiness: the Glory and the Power of the
+Trinity is the Glory and Power of God who makes us holy. There is God
+dwelling in light inaccessible, a consuming fire of Holy Love,
+destroying all that resists, glorifying into its own purity all that
+yields. There is the Son, casting Himself into that consuming fire,
+whether in its eternal blessedness in heaven, or its angry wrath on
+earth, a willing sacrifice, to be its food and its satisfaction, as
+well as the revelation of its power to destroy and to save. And there is
+the Spirit of Holiness, the flames of that mighty fire spreading on
+every side, convicting and judging as the Spirit of Burning, and then
+transforming into its own brightness and holiness all that it can reach.
+All the relations of the Three Persons to each other and to us have
+their root and their meaning in the revelation of God as the Holy One.
+As we know and partake of Him, we shall know and partake of Holiness.
+
+And how shall we know Him? Let us learn to know the Holiness of God as
+the seraphs do: in the worship of the Thrice Holy One. Let us with
+veiled faces join in the ceaseless song of adoration: 'Holy, holy, holy
+is the Lord of hosts.' Each time we meditate on the Word, each prayer to
+the Holy God, each act of faith in Christ the Holy One, each exercise of
+waiting dependence on the Holy Spirit, let it be in the spirit of
+worship: Holy, holy, holy. Let us learn to know the Holiness of God as
+Isaiah did. He was to be the chosen messenger to reveal and interpret to
+the people the name, the Holy One of Israel. His preparation was the
+vision that made him cry out, 'Woe is me! for mine eyes have seen the
+King, the Lord of hosts.' Let us bow in silence before the Holy One,
+until our comeliness too be turned into corruption. And then let us
+believe in the cleansing fire from the altar, the touch of the live
+coals of the burning holiness, which not only consumes, but purges lips
+and heart to say, 'Here am I, send me.' Yes, let us worship, whether
+like the adoring seraphim, or like the trembling prophet, until we know
+that our service too is accepted, to tell forth the praise of the Thrice
+Holy One.
+
+Holy, holy, holy: if we are indeed to be the messengers of the Holy One,
+let us seek to enter fully into what this Thrice Holy means. HOLY, the
+Father, _God above us_, High and Lifted up, whom no man hath seen or can
+see, whose Holiness none dare approach, but who doth Himself in His
+Holiness draw nigh to make holy. HOLY, the Son, _God with us_, revealing
+Divine Holiness in human life, maintaining it amid the suffering of
+death for us, and preparing a holy life and nature for His people. HOLY,
+the Spirit, _God in us_, the Power of Holiness within us, reaching out
+to and embracing Christ, and transforming our inner life into the union
+and communion of Him in whom we are holy. Holy, holy, holy! it is all
+holiness. It is only holiness--perfect holiness. This is Divine
+holiness: holiness hidden and unapproachable; holiness manifested and
+maintained in human nature; holiness communicated and made our very own.
+
+The mystery of the Holy Trinity is the mystery of the Christian life,
+the mystery of Holiness. The Three are One, and we need to enter ever
+more deeply into the truth that neither of the Three ever works separate
+or independent of the other. The Son reveals the Father, and the Father
+reveals the Son. The Father gives not Himself, but the Spirit: the
+Spirit speaks not of Himself, but cries Abba Father! The Son is our
+Sanctification, our Life, our All: the fulness is in Him. And yet we
+have ever to bow our knees to the Father for Him to reveal Christ in us,
+for Him to establish us in Christ. And the Father does not this without
+the Spirit: so that we have to ask to be strengthened mightily by the
+Spirit, that Christ may dwell in us. Christ gives the Spirit to them
+that believe and love and obey; the Spirit again gives Christ, formed
+within and dwelling in the heart. And so in each act of worship, and
+each step of growth, and each blessed experience of grace, all the Three
+Persons are actively engaged: the One is ever Three, the Three are ever
+One.
+
+Would you apply this in the life of holiness, let faith in the Holy
+Trinity be a living practical reality. In every prayer to _the Father_
+to sanctify you, take up your position _in Christ_, and do it in the
+power of _the Spirit within you_. In every exercise of faith _in Christ_
+as your Sanctification, let your posture be that of prayer to _the
+Father_ and trust in Him as He delights to honour the Son, and of quiet
+expectancy of _the Spirit's_ working, through whom the Father glorifies
+the Son. In every surrender of the soul to the sanctification of _the
+Spirit_, to His leading as the Spirit of Holiness, look to _the Father_
+who grants His mighty working, and who sanctifies through faith in _the
+Son_, and expect the Spirit's power to manifest itself in showing the
+will of God, and Jesus as your Sanctification. If for a time this
+appears at variance with the simplicity of childlike faith and prayer,
+be assured that as God has thus revealed Himself, He will teach you so
+to worship and believe. And so the Holy, holy, holy will become the deep
+undertone of all our worship and all our life.
+
+Children of God! called to be holy as He is holy, oh, come let us bow
+down and worship in His holy presence! Come and veil the face: withdraw
+eye and mind from gazing on what passes knowledge, and let the soul be
+gathered into that inner stillness, in which the worship of the heavenly
+Sanctuary alone can be heard. Come and cover the feet: withdraw from the
+rush of work and haste, be it worldly or religious, and learn to
+worship. Come, and as you fall down in self-abasement, the glory of the
+Holy One will shine upon you. And as you hear and take up and sing the
+song, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, you will find how in such knowledge and worship
+of the Thrice Holy One is the power that makes you holy.
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God Almighty! which wast, and art, and art to
+come! I worship Thee as the Triune God. With face veiled and feet
+covered, I would bow in deep humility and silence, till Thy mercy lift
+me as on eagles' wings to behold Thy glory.
+
+Most merciful God! who hast called me to be holy as Thou art holy, oh,
+reveal to me somewhat of Thy Holiness! As it shines upon me and strikes
+death into the creature and the flesh, may even the most involuntary
+taint of sin, and its slightest movement, become unbearable. As it
+shines and revives the hope of being partaker of Thy Holiness, may the
+confidence grow strong that Thou Thyself art making me holy, wilt even
+make me a messenger of Thy Holiness.
+
+Thrice Holy God! I worship Thee as my God. HOLY! THE FATHER; holy and
+making holy; making holy His own Son and sending Him into the world,
+that we might behold the very glory of God in a human face, the face of
+Jesus Christ. HOLY! THE SON; the Holy One of God, fulfilling the will of
+the Father, and so making holy Himself that He might be our holiness.
+HOLY! THE SPIRIT; the Spirit of Holiness, dwelling within us, making the
+Son and His Holiness our own, and so making us partakers of the Holiness
+of God. O my God! I bow down, and worship, and adore.
+
+May even now the worship of heaven that rests not day or night be the
+worship my soul renders Thee without ceasing. May its song be, down in
+the depths of the heart, the keynote of my life: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, Lord
+God Almighty! which wast, and art, and art to come. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Thought always needs to distinguish and separate: in life
+     alone there is perfect unity. The more we know the living God,
+     the more we shall realize how truly the Three are One. In each
+     act of One Person the other Two are present. There is not a
+     prayer rises but the Presence of the Holy Three is needed
+     through Christ, in the Spirit, we speak to the Father.
+
+  2. In faith to apprehend this is to have the secret of holiness.
+     The Holy God above us, ever giving and working; the Holy One of
+     God, the living gift, who has possession of us, in whom we are;
+     the Holy Spirit, God within us, through whom the Father works,
+     and the Son is revealed: this is the God who says, I am holy, I
+     make holy. In the perfect unity of the work of the Three,
+     holiness is found.
+
+  3. No wonder that the love of the Father and the grace of the
+     Son do not accomplish more, when the fellowship of the Holy
+     Spirit is little understood or sought or accepted. The Holy
+     Spirit is the fruit and crown of the Divine Revelation, through
+     whom the Son and the Father come to us. If you would know God,
+     if you would be holy, you must be taught and led of the Spirit.
+
+  4. As often as you worship the Thrice Holy One, hearken if no
+     voice be heard: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Let
+     the answer rise, Here am I, send me, and offer yourself to be
+     _a messenger of the holiness of God_ to those around you.
+
+  5. When in meditation and worship you have sought to take in and
+     express what God's word has taught, then comes the time for
+     confessing how you know nothing, and for waiting on God _to
+     reveal Himself_.
+
+
+    [6] The Divine necessity and meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity
+        is seen from the counterpart we have of it in nature. In every
+        living object that exists we distinguish first _the life_, then
+        _the form_ or _shape_ in which that life manifests itself, then
+        _the power_ or _effect_ as seen in the result which the life
+        acting in its form or manifestation produces. And so we have God
+        as the Unseen One, the Fountain of life; the Son as the Form or
+        Image of God, the manifestation of the Unseen Life; and the Holy
+        Spirit as the Power of that life proceeding from the Father and
+        the Son, and working out the purpose of God's will in the
+        Church. Applying this thought to God as the Holy One, we shall
+        understand better the place of the Son and the Spirit as they
+        bring to us the Holiness of God.
+
+
+
+
+Thirteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Humility.
+
+  'Thus saith the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
+  name is _Holy_: I dwell in the High and _Holy_ place, with him
+  that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of
+  the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.'--Isa.
+  lvii. 15.
+
+
+Very wonderful is the revelation we have in Isaiah of God, the Holy One,
+as the Redeemer and the Saviour of His people. In the midst of the
+people whom He created and formed for Himself, He will as the Holy One
+dwell, showing forth His power and His glory, filling them with joy and
+gladness. All these promises have, however, reference to the people as a
+whole. Our text to-day reveals a new and specially beautiful feature of
+the Divine Holiness in its relation to the individual. The High and
+Lofty One, whose name is Holy, and whose only fit dwelling-place is
+eternity, He looks to the man who is of a humble and contrite heart;
+with him will He dwell. God's Holiness is His condescending Love. As it
+is a consuming fire against all who exalt themselves before Him, it is
+to the spirit of the humble like the shining of the sun, heart-reviving
+and life-giving.
+
+The deep significance of this promise comes out clearly when we connect
+it with the other promises of New Testament times. The great feature of
+the New Covenant, in its superiority to the old, is this, that whereas
+in the law and its institution all was external, in the New the kingdom
+of God would be within. God's laws given and written into the heart, a
+new spirit put within us, God's own Spirit given to dwell within our
+spirit, and so the heart and the inner life fitted to be the temple and
+home of God; it is this constitutes the peculiar privilege of the
+ministration of the Spirit. Our text is perhaps the only one in the Old
+Testament in which this indwelling of the Holy One, not among the people
+only, but in the heart of the individual believer, is clearly brought
+out. In this the two aspects of the Divine Holiness would reach their
+full manifestation: I dwell in the High and Holy place, and with him
+also that is of a contrite and humble spirit. In His heaven above, the
+high and lofty place, and in our heart, contrite and humble, God has His
+home. God's Holiness is His glory that separates Him by an infinite
+distance, not only from sin, but even from the creature, lifting Him
+high above it. God's Holiness is His Love, drawing Him down to the
+sinner, that He may lift him into His fellowship and likeness, and make
+him holy as He is holy. The Holy One seeks the humble; the humble find
+the Holy One: such are the two lessons we have to learn to-day.
+
+_The Holy One seeks the humble._ There is nothing that has such an
+attraction for God, that has such affinity with holiness, as a contrite
+and humble spirit. The reason is evident. There is no law in the natural
+and the spiritual world more simple, than that two bodies cannot at the
+same moment occupy the same space. Only so much as the new occupant can
+expel of what the space was filled with can it really possess. In man,
+self has possession, and self-will the mastery, and there is no room for
+God. It is simply impossible for God to dwell or rule when self is on
+the throne. As long as, through the blinding influence of sin and
+self-love, even the believer is not truly conscious of the extent to
+which this self-will reigns, there can be no true contrition or
+humility. But as it is discovered by God's Spirit, and the soul sees how
+it has just been self that has been secretly keeping out God, with what
+shame it is broken down, and how it longs to break utterly away from
+self, that God may have His place! It is this brokenness, and continued
+breaking down, that is expressed by the word contrition. And as the soul
+sees what folly and guilt it has been, by its secret honouring of self,
+to keep the Holy One from the place which He alone has a right to, and
+which He would so blessedly have filled, it casts itself down in utter
+self-abasement, with the one desire to be nothing, and to give God the
+place and the praise that is His due.
+
+Such breaking down and humiliation is painful. Its intense reality
+consists in this, that the soul can see nothing in itself to trust or
+hope in. And least of all can it imagine that it should be an object of
+Divine complacency, or a fit vessel for the Divine blessing. And yet
+just this is the message which the Word of the Lord brings to our faith.
+It tells us that the Holy One, who dwells in the High and Lofty place,
+is seeking and preparing for Himself a dwelling here on this earth. It
+tells us, just what the truly contrite and humble never could imagine,
+and even now can hardly believe, that it is even, that it is only, with
+such that He will dwell. These are they in whom God can be glorified, in
+whom there is room for Him to take the place of self and to fill the
+emptied place with Himself. The Holy One seeks the humble. Just when we
+see that there is nothing in us to admire or rest in, God sees in us
+everything to admire and to rest in, because there is room for Himself.
+The lowly one is the home of the Holy One.
+
+_The humble find the Holy One._ Just when the consciousness of sin and
+weakness, and the discovery of how much of self there is, makes you fear
+that you can never be holy, the Holy One gives Himself. Not as you look
+at self, and seek to know whether now you are contrite and humble
+enough--no, but when no longer looking at self, because you have given
+up all hope of seeing anything in it but sin, you look up to the Holy
+One, you will see how His promise is your only hope. It is in faith
+that the Holy One is revealed to the contrite soul. Faith is ever the
+opposite of what we see and feel; it looks to God alone. And it believes
+that in its deepest consciousness of unholiness, and its fear that it
+never can be holy, God, the Holy One, who makes holy, is near as
+Redeemer and Saviour. And it is content to be low, in the consciousness
+of unworthiness and emptiness, and yet to rejoice in the assurance that
+God Himself does take possession and revive the heart of the contrite
+one. Happy the soul who is willing at once to learn the lesson that, all
+along, it is going to be the simultaneous experience of weakness and
+power, of emptiness and filling, of deep, real humiliation, and the as
+real and most wonderful indwelling of the Holy One.
+
+This is indeed the deep mystery of the Divine life. To human reason it
+is a paradox. When Paul says of himself, 'as dying, and behold we live;
+as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as having nothing, yet possessing
+all things,' he only gives expression to the law of the kingdom, that as
+self is displaced and man becomes nothing, God will become all. Side by
+side with deepest sense of nothingness and weakness, the sense of
+infinite riches and the joy unspeakable can fill the heart. However deep
+and blessed the experience becomes of the nearness, the blessing, the
+love, the actual indwelling of the Holy One, it is never an indwelling
+in the old self; it is ever a Divine Presence humbling self to make
+place for God alone to be exalted. The power of Christ's death, the
+fellowship of His cross, works each moment side by side with the power
+and the joy of His resurrection. 'He that humbleth himself shall be
+exalted;' in the blessed life of faith the humiliation and the
+exaltation are simultaneous, each dependent on the other.
+
+The humble find the Holy One; and when they have found, the possession
+only humbles all the more. Not that there is no danger or temptation of
+the flesh exalting itself in the possession, but, once knowing the
+danger, the humble soul seeks for grace to fear continually, with a fear
+that only clings more firmly to God alone. Never for a moment imagine
+that you attain a state in which self or the flesh are absolutely dead.
+No; by faith you enter into and abide in a fellowship with Jesus, in
+whom they are crucified; abiding in Him, you are free from their power,
+but only as you believe, and, in believing, have gone out of self and
+dwell in Jesus. Therefore, the more abundant God's grace becomes, and
+the more blessed the indwelling of the Holy One, keep so much the lower.
+Your danger is greater, but your Help is now nearer: be content in
+trembling to confess the danger, it will make you bold in faith to claim
+the victory.
+
+Believers, who profess to be nothing, and to trust in grace alone, I
+pray you, do listen to the wondrous message. The High and Lofty One,
+whose name is Holy, and who dwells in the Holy Place, and who can dwell
+nowhere but in a Holy Place, seeks a dwelling here on earth. Will you
+give it Him? Will you not fall down in the dust, that He may find in
+you the humble heart He loves to dwell in? Will you not now believe that
+even in you, however low and broken you feel, He doth delight to make
+His dwelling? 'Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the
+Kingdom;' with them the King dwells. Oh, this is the path to holiness!
+be humble, and the holy nearness and presence of God in you will be your
+holiness. As you hear the command, Be holy, as I am holy, let faith
+claim the promise, and answer, I will be holy, O Most Holy God! if Thou,
+the Holy One, wilt dwell with me.
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Lord! Thou art the High and Lofty One, whose Name is Holy. And yet
+Thou speakest, 'I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him that is
+of a contrite and humble spirit.' Yes, Lord! when the soul takes the low
+place, and has low thoughts of itself, that it feels it is nothing, Thou
+dost love to come and comfort, to dwell with it and revive it.
+
+O my God! my creature nothingness humbles me; my many transgressions
+humble me; my innate sinfulness humbles me; but this humbles me most of
+all, Thine infinite condescension, and the ineffable indwelling Thou
+dost vouchsafe. It is Thy Holiness, in Christ bearing our sin, Thy Holy
+Love bearing with our sin, and consenting to dwell in us; O God! it is
+this love that passeth knowledge that humbles me. I do beseech Thee, let
+it do its work, until self hides its head and flees away at the presence
+of Thy glory, and Thou alone art all.
+
+Holy Lord God! I pray Thee to humble me. Didst Thou not of old meet Thy
+servants, and show Thyself unto them until they fell upon their faces
+and feared? Thou knowest, my God! I have no humility which I can bring
+Thee. In my blessed Saviour, who humbled Himself in the form of a
+servant, and unto the death of the cross, I hide myself. In Him, in His
+spirit and likeness, I would live before Thee. Work Thou it in me, by
+the Holy Spirit dwelling in me, and as I am dead to self in Him, and His
+cross makes me nothing, let Thy holy indwelling revive and quicken me.
+Amen.
+
+
+  1. Lowliness and holiness. Keep fast hold of the intimate
+     connection. Lowliness is taking the place that becomes me;
+     holiness, giving God the place that becomes Him. If I be
+     nothing before Him, and God be all to me, I am in the sure path
+     of holiness. Lowliness is holiness, because it gives all the
+     glory to God.
+
+  2. 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
+     heaven.' These first words of the Master when He opened His
+     lips to proclaim the Kingdom, are often the last in the hearts
+     of His disciples. 'The Kingdom is in the Holy Ghost:' to the
+     poor in spirit, those who know they have nothing that is really
+     spiritual, the Holy Spirit comes to be their life. The poor in
+     spirit are the Kingdom of the Saints: in them the Holy Spirit
+     reveals the King.
+
+  3. Many strive hard to be humble with God, but with men they
+     maintain their rights, and nourish self. Remember that the
+     great school of humility before God, is to accept the humbling
+     of man. Christ sanctified Himself in accepting the humiliation
+     and injustice which evil men laid upon Him.
+
+  4. Humility never sees its own beauty, because it refuses to look
+     to itself: It only wonders at the condescension of the Holy
+     God, and rejoices in the humility of Jesus, God's Holy One, our
+     Holy One.
+
+  5. The link between holiness and humility is indwelling. The
+     Lofty One, whose name is Holy, _dwells_ with the contrite one.
+     And where He dwells is _the Holy Place_.
+
+
+
+
+Fourteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Holy One of God.
+
+  'Therefore also that _holy_ thing which shall be born of thee
+  shall be called the Son of God.'--Luke i. 35.
+
+  'We have believed and know that Thou art _the Holy One of
+  God_.'--John vi. 69.
+
+
+'The holy one of the Lord'--only once (Ps. cvi. 16) the expression is
+found in the Old Testament. It is spoken of Aaron, in whom holiness, as
+far as it could then be revealed, had found its most complete
+embodiment. The title waited for its fulfilment in Him who alone, in His
+own person, could perfectly show forth the holiness of God on
+earth--Jesus the Son of the Father. In Him we see holiness, as Divine,
+as human, as our very own.
+
+1. In Him we see wherein that Incomparable Excellence of the Divine
+Nature consists. 'Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest iniquity,
+therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness
+above Thy fellows.' God's infinite hatred of sin, and His maintenance of
+the Right, might appear to have little moral worth, as being a
+necessity of His nature. In the Son we see Divine Holiness tested. He is
+tried and tempted. He suffers, being tempted. He proves that Holiness
+has indeed a moral worth: it is ready to make any sacrifice, yea to give
+up life and cease to be, rather than consent to sin. In giving Himself
+to die, rather than yield to the temptation of sin; in giving Himself to
+die, that the Father's righteous judgment may be honoured; Jesus proved
+how Righteousness is an element of the Divine Holiness, and how the Holy
+One is sanctified in Righteousness.
+
+But this is only one side of Holiness. The fire that consumes also
+purifies: it makes partakers of its own beautiful Light-nature all that
+is capable of assimilation. So Divine Holiness not only maintains its
+own purity; it communicates it too. Herein was Jesus indeed seen to be
+the Holy One of God, that He never said, 'Stand by, for I am holier than
+thou.' His holiness proved itself to be the very incarnation of Him who
+had spoken, 'Thus saith the High and Lofty One, whose Name is Holy: I
+dwell in the High and Holy place, and with him who is of a contrite
+spirit.' In Him was seen the affinity holiness has for all that is lost
+and helpless and sinful. He proved that holiness is not only the energy
+which in holy anger separates itself from all that is impure, but which
+in holy love separates to itself even what is most sinful, to save and
+to bless. In Him we see how the Divine Holiness is the harmony of
+Infinite Righteousness with Infinite Love.
+
+2. Such is the Divine aspect of the character of Christ, as He shows in
+human form what God's Holiness is. But there is another aspect, to us no
+less interesting and important. We not only want to know how God is
+holy, but how man must act to be holy as God is holy. Jesus came to
+teach us that it is possible to be men, and yet to have the life of God
+dwelling in us. We ordinarily think that the glory and the infinite
+Perfection of Deity are the proper setting in which the beauty of
+holiness is to be seen: Jesus proved the perfect adaptation and
+suitability of human nature for showing forth that which is the
+essential glory of Deity. He showed us how, in choosing and doing the
+will of God, and making it his own will, man may truly be holy as God is
+holy.
+
+The value of this aspect of the Incarnation depends upon our realizing
+intensely the true humanity of our Lord. The awful separating and
+purifying process that is ever being carried on in the fiery furnace of
+the Divine Holiness, ever consuming and ever assimilating, we expect to
+see in Him in the struggles of a truly human will. Holiness, to be truly
+human, must not only be a gift, but an acquirement. Coming from God, it
+must be accepted and personally appropriated, in the voluntary surrender
+of all that is not in accordance with it. In Jesus, as He distinctly
+gave up His own will, and did and suffered the Father's will, we have
+the revelation of what human holiness is, and how truly man, through
+the unity of will, can be holy as God is holy.
+
+3. But what avails that we have seen in Jesus that a man can be holy?
+His example were indeed a mockery if He show us not the way, and give us
+not the power, to become like Himself. To bring us this, was indeed the
+supreme object of the Incarnation. The Divine nature of Christ did not
+simply make _His_ humanity partaker of its holiness, leaving Him still
+nothing more than an individual man. His Divinity gave the human
+holiness He wrought out, the holy human nature which He perfected, an
+infinite value and power of communication. With Him a new life, the
+Eternal Life, was grafted into the stem of humanity. For all who believe
+in Him, He sanctified Himself, that they themselves might also be
+sanctified in truth. Because His death was the great triumph of His
+obedience to the will of the Father, it broke for ever the dominion of
+sin, it atoned for our guilt, and won for Him from the Father the power
+to make His people partakers of His own life and holiness. In His
+Resurrection and Ascension the power of the New Life, and its right to
+universal dominion, were made manifest, and He is now in full truth the
+Holy One of God, holding in Himself as Head the power of a Holiness, at
+once Divine and human, to communicate to every member of His body.
+
+THE HOLY ONE OF GOD! in a fulness of meaning that passeth knowledge, in
+spirit and in truth, Jesus now bears this title. He is now the One Holy
+One whom God sees, of such an infinite compass and power of holiness,
+that He can be holiness to each of His brethren. And even as He is to
+God the Holy One, in whom He delights, and for whose sake He delights in
+all who are in Him, so Christ may now be to us too the One Holy One in
+whom we delight, in whom the Holiness of God is become ours. 'We have
+believed and know that Thou art _the Holy One of God_,'--blessed they
+who can say this, and know themselves to be holy in Christ.
+
+In speaking of the mystery of the Holy Trinity, we saw how Christ stands
+midway between the Father and the Spirit, as the point of union in which
+they meet. In the Son, 'the very image of His substance' (Heb. i. 3), we
+have the objective revelation of Deity, the Divine Holiness embodied and
+brought nigh. In the Holy Spirit we have the same revelation
+subjectively, _the Divine Holiness entering our inmost being and
+revealing itself there_. The work of the Holy Spirit is to reveal and
+glorify Christ as the Holy One of God, as He takes of His Holiness and
+makes it ours. He shows us how all is in Christ; how Christ is all for
+us; how we are in Christ; and how, as a living Saviour, Christ through
+His Spirit takes and keeps charge of us and our life of holiness. He
+makes Christ indeed to be to us _the Holy One of God_.
+
+My Brother! wouldst thou be holy, wouldst thou know God's way of
+holiness--learn to know Christ as the Holy One of God. Thou art _in
+Him_, 'holy in Christ.' Thou hast been placed, by an act of Divine
+Power, in Christ, and that same Power keeps thee there, planted and
+rooted in that Divine fulness of life and holiness which there is in
+Him. His Holy Presence, and the power of His eternal life, surround
+thee: let the Holy Spirit reveal this to thee. The Holy Spirit is within
+thee as the power of Christ and His life. Secretly, silently, but
+mightily, if thou wilt look to the Father for His working, will He
+strengthen the faith that thou art in Christ, and that the Divine life,
+which thus encircles thee on every side, will enter in and take
+possession of thee. Study and pray to believe and realize that it is in
+Christ as the Holy One of God, in Christ in whom the Holiness of God is
+prepared for thee as a holy nature and holy living, that thou art, and
+that thou mayest abide.
+
+And then remember, also, that this Christ is thy Saviour, the most
+patient and compassionate of teachers. Study holiness in the light of
+His countenance, looking up into His face. _He came from heaven for the
+very purpose of making thee holy._ His love and power are more than thy
+slowness and sinfulness. Do learn to think of holiness as the
+inheritance prepared for thee, as the power of a new life which Jesus
+waits and lives to dispense. Just think of it as all in Him, and of its
+possession as being dependent upon the possession of Himself. And as the
+disciples, though they scarce understood what they confessed, or knew
+whither the Lord was leading them, became His saints, His holy ones, in
+virtue of their intense attachment to Him, so wilt thou find that to
+love Jesus fervently, and obey Him simply, is the sure path to holiness
+and the fulness of the Holy Spirit.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy Lord God! I do bless Thee that Thy beloved Son, whom Thou
+didst sanctify and send into the world, is now to us _the Holy One of
+God_. I beseech Thee that my inner life may so be enlightened by the
+Spirit that I may in faith fully know what this means.
+
+May I know Him as the revelation of Thy Holiness, the incarnation in
+human nature, even unto the death, of Thine infinite and unconquerable
+hatred of sin, as of Thy amazing love to the sinner. May my soul be
+filled with great fear and trust of Thee.
+
+May I know Him as the exhibition of the Holiness in which we are now to
+walk before Thee. He lived in Thy holy will. May I know Him as He
+wrought out that holiness, to be communicated to us in a new human
+nature, making it possible for us to live a holy life.
+
+May I know Him as Thou hast placed me in Him in heaven, holy in Christ,
+and as I may abide in Him by faith.
+
+May I know Him, as He dwells in me, the Holy One of God on the throne of
+my heart, breathing His Holy Spirit and maintaining His holy rule. So
+shall I live holy in Christ.
+
+O my Father! it pleased Thee that in Thy Son should all the fulness
+dwell. In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; in Him
+dwell the unsearchable riches of grace and holiness. I beseech Thee,
+reveal Him to me, reveal Him in me, that I may not have to satisfy
+myself with thoughts and desires, without the reality, but that in the
+power of an endless life I may know Him, and be known of Him, the Holy
+One of God. Amen.
+
+
+  1. In the holiness of Jesus we see what ours must be:
+     righteousness, that hates sin and gives everything to have it
+     destroyed; love, that seeks the sinner and gives everything to
+     have him saved. 'Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of
+     God, neither he that loveth not his brother.'
+
+  2. It is a solemn thought that we may be studying earnestly to
+     know what holiness is, and yet have little of it, because we
+     have little of Jesus. It is a blessed thought that a man may
+     directly be little occupied with the thought of holiness, and
+     yet have much of it, because he is full of Jesus.
+
+  3. We need the whole of what God teaches in His Word in regard
+     to holiness in all its different aspects. We need still more to
+     be ever returning to the living centre where God imparts
+     holiness. Jesus is _the Holy One of God_: to have _Him_ truly,
+     to love _Him_ fervently, to trust and obey _Him_, to be _in
+     Him_--this makes us holy.
+
+  4. Your holiness is thus treasured up in this Divine, Almighty,
+     and most gentle Saviour--surely there need to be no fear that
+     He will not be ready or able to make you holy.
+
+  5. With such a Sanctifier, how comes it that so many seekers
+     after holiness fail so sadly, and know so little of the joy of
+     a holy life?
+
+     I am sure it is with very many this one thing: they seek to
+     grasp and hold this Christ in their own strength, and know not
+     how it is the Holy Spirit within them who must be waited for to
+     reveal this Divine Being, the Holy One of God, in their hearts.
+
+
+
+
+Fifteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Holy Spirit.
+
+  'But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believed on Him
+  were to receive: for _the Holy Spirit_ was not yet: because Jesus
+  was not yet glorified.'--John vii. 39.
+
+  'The Comforter, even _the Holy Spirit_, whom the Father will send
+  in my name, He shall teach you all things.'--John xiv. 26.
+
+  'God chose you to salvation _in sanctification of the Spirit_, and
+  belief of the truth.'--2 Thess. ii. 13. (See 1 Pet. i. 2.)
+
+
+It has sometimes been said, that while the Holiness of God stands out
+more prominently in the Old Testament, in the New it has to give way to
+the revelation of His love. The remark could hardly be made if it were
+fully realized that the Spirit is God, and that when He takes up the
+epithet Holy as His own proper name, it is to teach us that now the
+Holiness of God is to come nearer than ever, and to be specially
+revealed as the power that makes us holy. In the Holy Spirit, God the
+Holy One of Israel, and He who was the Holy One of God, come nigh for
+the fulfilment of the promise, 'I am the Lord that make you holy.' The
+unseen and unapproachable holiness of God had been revealed and brought
+near in the life of Christ Jesus; all that hindered our participation in
+it had been removed by His death. The name of Holy Spirit teaches us
+that it is specially the Spirit's work to impart it to us and make it
+our own.
+
+Try and realize the meaning of this; the epithet that through the whole
+Old Testament has belonged to the Holy God, is now appropriated to that
+Spirit which is within you. The Holiness of God in Christ becomes
+holiness _in you_, because this Spirit is in you. The words, and the
+Divine realities the words express, _Holy_ and _Spirit_, are now
+inseparably and eternally united. You can only have as much of the
+Spirit as you are willing to have of holiness. You can only have as much
+holiness as you have of the indwelling Spirit.
+
+There are some who pray for the Spirit because they long to have His
+light and joy and strength. And yet their prayers bring little increase
+of blessing or power. It is because they do not rightly know or desire
+Him as the _Holy_ Spirit. His burning purity, His searching and
+convicting light, His making dead of the deeds of the body, of self with
+its will and its power, His leading into the fellowship of Jesus as He
+gave up His will and His life to the Father,--of all this they have not
+thought. The Spirit cannot work in power in them because they receive
+Him not as the _Holy_ Spirit, in _sanctification_ of the Spirit. At
+times, in seasons of revival, as among the Corinthians and Galatians, He
+may indeed come with His gifts and mighty workings, while His
+sanctifying power is but little manifest. (1 Cor. xiv. 4, xiii. 8, iii.
+1-3; Gal. iii. 3, v. 15-26.) But unless that sanctifying power be
+acknowledged and accepted, His gifts will be lost. His gifts coming on
+us are but meant to prepare the way for the sanctifying power within us.
+We must take the lesson to heart; we can have as much of the Spirit as
+we are willing to have of His Holiness. Be full of the Spirit, must mean
+to us, Be fully holy.
+
+The converse is equally true. We can only have so much holiness as we
+have of the Spirit. Some souls do very earnestly seek to be holy, but it
+is very much in their own strength. They will read books and listen to
+addresses most earnestly; they will use every effort to lay hold of
+every thought, and act out every advice. And yet they must confess that
+they are still very much strangers to the true, deep rest and joy and
+power of abiding in Christ, and being holy in Him. They sought for
+holiness more than for the Spirit. They must learn how even all the
+holiness which is so near and clear in Christ, is beyond our reach,
+except as the Holy Spirit dwells within and imparts it. They must learn
+to pray for Him and His mighty strengthening (Eph. iii. 16), to believe
+for Him (John iv. 14, vii. 37), in faith to yield to Him as indwelling
+(1 Cor. iii. 14, vi. 19). They must learn to cease from self-effort in
+thinking and believing, in willing and in running; to hope in God, and
+wait patiently for Him. He will by His Holy Spirit make us holy. Be holy
+means, Be filled with the Spirit.
+
+If we inquire more closely how it is that this Holy Spirit makes holy,
+the answer is,--He reveals and imparts the Holiness of Christ. Scripture
+tells us: Christ is made unto us sanctification. He sanctified Himself
+for us, that we ourselves might also be sanctified in truth. We have
+been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
+for all. We are sanctified in Christ Jesus. The whole living Christ is
+just a treasury of holiness for man. In His life on earth He exchanged
+the Divine Holiness He possessed into the current coin needed for this
+human earthly life, obedience to the Father, and humility, and love, and
+zeal. As God, He has a sufficiency of it for every moment of the life of
+every believer.
+
+And yet, it is all beyond our reach, except as the Holy Spirit brings it
+to us and inwardly communicates it. But this is the very work for which
+He bears the Divine Name, the _Holy_ Spirit, to glorify Jesus, the Holy
+One of God, within us, and so make us partakers of His Holiness. He does
+it by revealing Christ, so that we begin to see what is in Him. He does
+it by discovering the deep unholiness of our nature (Rom. vii. 14-23).
+He does it by mightily strengthening us to believe, to receive Jesus
+Himself as our life. He does it by leading us to utter despair of self,
+to absolute surrender of obedience to Jesus as Lord, to the assured
+confidence of faith in the power of an indwelling Christ. He does it by,
+in the secret silent depths of the heart and life, imparting the
+dispositions and graces of Christ, so that from the inner centre of our
+life, which has been renewed and sanctified in Christ, holiness should
+flow out and pervade all to the utmost circumference. Where the desire
+has once been awakened, and the delight in the law of God after the
+inward man been created, there, as the Spirit of this life in Christ
+Jesus, He makes free from the law of sin and death in the members, he
+leads into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. As God within us, He
+communicates what God in Christ has prepared.
+
+And if we ask once more how the working of this Holy Spirit, who thus
+makes holy, is to be secured, the answer is very simple and clear. He is
+the Spirit of the Holy Father, and of Christ, the Holy One of God: from
+them He must be received. 'He showed me a river of water of life
+proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.' Jesus speaks of 'the
+Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my Name.' He taught us to ask
+the Father. Paul prays for the Ephesians: 'I bow my knees to the Father,
+that He may grant unto you, according to the riches of His glory, that
+ye may be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.' It is
+as we look to God in His Holiness, and all its revelation from Creation
+downward, and see how the Spirit now flows out from the throne of His
+Holiness as the water of life, that our hope will be awakened that God
+will give Him to work mightily in us. And as we then see Jesus revealing
+that holiness in human nature, rending the veil in His atoning death,
+that the Spirit from the Holiest of all may come forth and, as the Holy
+Spirit, be His representative, making Him present within us, we shall
+become confident that faith in Jesus will bring the fulness of the
+Spirit. As He told us to ask the Father, He told us to believe in
+Himself. 'He that believeth in me, rivers of living water shall flow out
+of him.' Let us bow to the Father in the name of Christ, His Son; let us
+believe very simply in the Son as Him in whom we are well-pleasing to
+the Father, and through whom the Father's love and blessing reach us,
+and we may be sure the Spirit, who is already within us, will, as the
+Holy Spirit, do His work in ever-increasing power. The mystery of
+holiness is the mystery of the Trinity: as we bow to the Father,
+believing in the Son, the Holy Spirit will work. And we shall see the
+true meaning of what God spake in Israel: '_I am holy_,' thus speaks the
+Father; '_Be holy_,' as my Son and in my Son; '_I make holy_,' through
+the Spirit of my Son dwelling in you. Let our souls worship and cry out,
+'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.'
+
+The Holy Spirit. All true knowledge of the Father in His adorable
+Holiness, and of the Son in His, which is meant to be ours, and all
+participation of it, depend upon our life in the Spirit, upon our
+knowing and owning Him as abiding in us as our Life. Oh, what can it be
+that, with such a Thrice Holy God, His Holiness does not more cover His
+Church and children? The Holy Spirit is among us, is in us: it must be
+we grieve and resist Him. If _you_ would not do so, at once bow the knee
+to the Father, that He may grant you the Spirit's mighty workings in
+the inner man. Believe that the Holy Spirit, bearer to you of all the
+Holiness of God and of Jesus, is indeed in you. Let Him take the place
+of self, with its thoughts and efforts. Set your soul still before God
+in holy silence, for Him to give you wisdom; rest, in emptiness and
+poverty of spirit, in the faith that He will work in His own way. As
+Divine as is the holiness that Jesus brings, so Divine is the power in
+which the Holy Spirit communicates it. Yield yourself day by day in
+growing dependence and obedience, to wait on and be led of Him. Let the
+fear of the Holy One be on you: sanctify the Lord God in your heart: let
+Him be your fear and dread. Fear not only sin: fear above all self, as
+it thrusts itself in before God with its service. Let self die, in
+refusing and denying its work: let the Holy Spirit, in quietness, and
+dependence, in the surrender of obedience and trust, have the rule, the
+free disposal of every faculty. Wait for Him--He can, He will in power
+reveal and impart the Holiness of the Father and the Son.[7]
+
+  BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts! the whole earth is full of Thy
+glory! Let that glory fill the heart of Thy child, as he bows before
+Thee. I come now to drink of the river of the water of life that flows
+from under the throne of God and of the Lamb. Glory be to God and to the
+Lamb for the gift that hath not entered into the heart of man to
+conceive--the gift of the Holy indwelling Spirit.
+
+O my Father! in the name of Jesus I ask Thee that I may be strengthened
+with might by Thy Spirit in the inner man. Teach me, I pray Thee, to
+believe that Thou hast given Him, to accept and expect Him to fill and
+rule my whole inner being. Teach me to give up to Him; not to will or to
+run, not to think or to work in my strength, but in quiet confidence to
+wait and to know that He works in me. Teach me what it is to have no
+confidence in the flesh, and to serve Thee in the Spirit. Teach me what
+it is in all things to be led by Thy Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Thy
+Holiness.
+
+And grant, gracious Father, that through Him I may hear Thee speak and
+reveal Thyself to me in power: I AM HOLY. May He glorify to me and in
+me, Jesus, in whom Thy command 'BE HOLY' hath been so blessedly
+fulfilled on my behalf. And let the Holy Spirit give me the anointing
+and the sealing which bring the perfect assurance that in Him Thy
+promise is being gloriously fulfilled, 'I MAKE YOU HOLY.' Amen.
+
+
+  1. It it universally admitted that the Holy Spirit has not, in
+     the teaching of the Church or the faith of believers, that
+     place of honour and power, which becomes Him as the Revealer of
+     the Father and the Son. Seek a deep conviction that without the
+     Holy Spirit the clearest teaching on holiness, the most fervent
+     desires, the most blessed experiences even, will only be
+     temporary, will produce no permanent result, will bring no
+     abiding rest.
+
+  2. The Holy Spirit dwells within, and works within, in the hidden
+     deep of your nature. Seek above everything the clear and
+     habitual assurance that He is within you, doing His work.
+
+  3. To this end, deny self and its work in serving God. Your own
+     power to think and pray and believe and strive--lay it all down
+     expressly and distinctly in God's presence; claim, accept, and
+     believe in the hidden workings of the indwelling Spirit.
+
+  4. As the Son ever spake of the Father, so the Spirit ever points
+     to Christ. The soul that yields itself to the Spirit will of
+     Him learn to know how Christ is our holiness, how we can always
+     abide in Christ our Sanctification. What a vain effort it has
+     often been without the Spirit! '_As the anointing taught you_,
+     ye abide in Him.'
+
+  5. In the temple of thine heart, beloved believer, there is a
+     secret place, within the veil, where dwells, often all unknown,
+     the Spirit of God. Do bow in deep reverence before the Father,
+     and ask that He may work mightily. Expect the Spirit to do His
+     work: He will make Thy inner man a fit home, Thy heart a
+     throne, for Jesus, and reveal Him there.
+
+
+    [7] I cannot say how deeply I feel that one of the great wants of
+        believers is that they do not _know_ the Holy Spirit, who is
+        within them, and thereby lose the blessed life He would work in
+        them. If it please God, I hope that the next volume of this
+        series may be on _The Spirit of Christ_. May the Father give me
+        a message that shall help His children to know what the Holy
+        Spirit can be to them.
+
+
+
+
+Sixteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Truth.
+
+  '_Make them holy_ in _the Truth_: Thy word is _Truth_.'--John
+  xvii. 17.
+
+  'God chose you unto salvation in _sanctification_ and belief of
+  _the Truth_.'--2 Thess. ii. 12.
+
+
+The chief means of sanctification that God uses is His word. And yet how
+much there is of reading and studying, of teaching and preaching the
+word, that has almost no effect in making men holy. It is not the word
+that sanctifies; it is God Himself who alone can sanctify. Nor is it
+simply through the word that God does it, but through the Truth which is
+in the word. As a means the word is of unspeakable value, as the vessel
+which contains the truth, if God use it; as a means it is of no value,
+if God does not use it. Let us strive to connect God's Holy Word with
+the Holy God Himself. God sanctifies in the Truth through His word.
+
+Jesus had just said, 'The words which Thou gavest me, I have given
+them.' Let us try and realize what that means. Think of that great
+transaction in eternity: the Infinite Being, whom we call God, _giving
+His words_ to His Son; in His words opening up His heart, communicating
+His mind and will, revealing Himself and all His purpose and love. In a
+Divine power and reality passing all conception, God gave Christ His
+words. In the same living power Christ gave them to His disciples, all
+full of a Divine life and energy to work in their hearts, as they were
+able to receive them. And just as in the words of a man on earth we
+expect to find all the wisdom or all the goodness there is in him, so
+the word of the Thrice Holy One is all alive with the Holiness of God.
+All the holy fire, alike of His burning zeal and His burning love,
+dwells in His words.
+
+And yet men can handle these words, and study them, and speak them, and
+be entire strangers to their holiness, or their power to make holy. It
+is God Himself, the Holy One, who must make holy through the word. Every
+seed, in which the life of a tree is contained, has around it a husk or
+shell, which protects and hides the inner life. Only where the seed
+finds a place in congenial soil, and the husk is burst and removed, can
+the seed germinate and grow up. And it is only where there is a heart in
+harmony with God's Holiness, longing for it, yielding itself to it, that
+the word will really make holy. It is the heart that is not content with
+the word, but seeks the Living, Holy One in the word, to which He will
+reveal the truth, and in it Himself. It is the word given to us by
+Christ as God gave it Him, and received by us as it was by Him, to rule
+and fill our life, which has power to make holy.
+
+But we must notice very specially how our Saviour says, Sanctify them,
+not in the word, but in the truth. Just as in man there is body, soul,
+and spirit, so in truth too. There is first _word-truth_; a man may have
+the correct form of words while he does not really apprehend the truth
+they contain. Then there is _thought-truth_; there may be a clear
+intellectual apprehension of truth without the experience of its power.
+The Bible speaks of truth as a living reality: this is the _life-truth_,
+in which the very Spirit of the truth we profess has entered and
+possessed our inner being. Christ calls Himself _the Truth_: He is said
+to be full of grace and truth. The Divine life and grace are in Him as
+an actually substantial existence and reality. He not only acts upon us
+by thoughts and motives, but communicates, as a _reality_, the eternal
+life He brought for us from the Father. The Holy Spirit is called the
+Spirit of Truth; what He imparts is all real and actual, the very
+substance of unseen things; He guides into the Truth, not thought-truth
+or doctrine only, but life-truth, the personal possession of the Truth
+as it is in Jesus. As the Spirit of Truth He is the Spirit of Holiness;
+the life of God, which is His Holiness, He brings to us as an actual
+possession.
+
+It is now of this living Truth, which dwells in the word, as the
+seed-life dwells in the husk, that Jesus says, 'Make them holy in the
+Truth: Thy word is Truth.' He would have us mark the intimate
+connection, as well as the wide difference, between the word and the
+truth. The connection is one willed by God and meant to be inseparable.
+'Thy word is truth;' with God they are one. But not with man. Just as
+there were men in close contact and continual intercourse with Jesus, to
+whom He was only a man, and nothing more, so there are Christians who
+know and understand the word, and yet are strangers to its true
+spiritual power. They have the letter but not the spirit; the Truth
+comes to them in word but not in power. The word does not make them
+holy, because they hold it not in Spirit and in Truth. To others, on the
+contrary, who know what it is to receive the truth in the love of it,
+who yield themselves, in all their dealings with the word, to the Spirit
+of Truth who dwells in it and in them too, the word comes indeed as
+Truth, as a Divine reality, communicating and working what it speaks of.
+And it is of such a use of the word that the Saviour says, 'Make them
+holy in the truth: Thy word is truth.' As the words, which God gave Him,
+were all in the power of the eternal Life and Love and Will of God, the
+revelation and communication of the Father's purpose, as God's word was
+Truth to Him and in Him, so it can be in us. And as we thus receive it,
+we are made holy in the Truth.
+
+And what now are the lessons we have to learn here for the path of
+Holiness? The first is: Let us see to it that in all our intercourse
+with God's Blessed Word we rest content with nothing short of the
+experience of it, as truth of God, as spirit and as power. Jesus said,
+'If ye abide in my word, ye shall know the truth.' No analysis can ever
+find or prove the life of a seed: plant it in its proper soil, and the
+growth will testify to the life. It is only as the word of God is
+received in the love of it, as it grows and works in us, that we can
+know its truth, can know that it is the Truth of God. It is as we live
+in the words of Jesus, in love and obedience, keeping and doing them,
+that the Truth from heaven, the Power of the Divine Life which there is
+in them, will unfold itself to us. Christ is the Truth; in Him the love
+and grace, the very life of God, has come to earth as a substantial
+existence, a Living, Mighty Power, something new that was never on earth
+before (John i. 17); let us yield ourselves to the Living Christ to
+possess us and to rule us as the Living Truth, then will God's word be
+Truth to us and in us.
+
+The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of Truth; that actual heavenly
+reality of Divine life and love in Christ, the Truth, has a Spirit, who
+comes to communicate and impart it. Let us beware of trying to study or
+understand or take possession of God's word without that Spirit through
+whom the word was spoken of old; we shall find only the husk, the truth
+or thought and sentiment, very beautiful perhaps, but with no power to
+make us holy. We must have _the Spirit_ of the Truth within us. He will
+lead us _into_ the Truth; when we are in the Truth, God makes us holy in
+it and by it. The Truth must be in us, and we in it. God desires truth
+in the inward parts: we must be of the people of whom Christ says, 'If
+ye were of the truth,' 'he that is of the truth knoweth me.' In the
+lower sphere of daily life and conduct, of thought and action, there
+must be an intense love of truth, and a willingness to sacrifice
+everything for it; in the spiritual life, a deep hungering to have all
+our religion every day, every moment, stand fully in the truth of God.
+It is to the simple, humble, childlike spirit that the truth of the word
+will be unsealed and revealed. In such the Spirit of truth comes to
+dwell. In such, as they daily wait before the Holy One in silence and
+emptiness, in reverence and holy fear, His Holy Spirit works and gives
+the truth within. In thus imparting Christ as revealed in the word, in
+His Divine life and love, as their own life, He makes them holy with the
+holiness of Christ.
+
+There is another lesson. Listen to that prayer, the earthly echo of the
+prayer which He ever liveth to pray, 'Holy Father! make them holy in the
+truth.' Would you be holy, child of God? cast yourself into that mighty
+current of intercession ever flowing into, ever reaching, the Father's
+bosom. Let yourself be borne upon it until your whole soul cries, with
+the unutterable groanings, too deep and too intense for human speech,
+'Holy Father! make me holy in the truth.' As you trust in Christ as the
+truth, the reality of what you long for, and in His all-prevailing
+intercession; as you wait for the Spirit within as the Spirit of truth;
+look up to the Father, and expect His own direct and almighty working to
+make you holy. The mystery of holiness is the mystery of the Triune
+One. The deeper entrance into the holy life rests in the fellowship of
+the Three in One. It is the Father who establishes us in Christ, who
+gives, in a daily fresh giving, the Holy Spirit; it is to the Father,
+the Holy Father, the soul must look up continually in the prayer, 'Make
+me holy in the truth.'
+
+It has been well said that in the word Holy we have the central thought
+of the high-priestly prayer. As the Father's attribute (John xvii. 11),
+as the Son's work for Himself and us (ver. 19), as the direct work of
+the Father through the Spirit (vers. 17, 20), it is the revelation of
+the glory of God in Himself and in us. Let us enter into the Holiest of
+all, and as we bow with our Great High Priest, let the deep, unceasing
+cry go up for all the Church of God, 'Holy Father! make them holy in the
+truth: Thy word is truth.' The word in which God makes holy is summed up
+in this, HOLY IN CHRIST. May God make it truth in us!
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Father! to Israel Thou didst say, I the Lord am holy and make
+holy. But it is only in Thy beloved Son that the full glory of Thy
+Holiness, as making us holy, has been revealed. Thou art our Holy
+Father, who makest us holy in Thy truth.
+
+We thank Thee that Thy Son hath given us the words Thou gavest Him, and
+that as He received them from Thee in life and power, we may receive
+them too. O Father! with our whole heart we do receive them; let the
+Spirit make them truth and life within us. So shall we know Thee as the
+Holy One, consuming the sin, renewing the sinner.
+
+We bless Thee most for Thy Blessed Son, the Holy One of God, the Living
+Word in whom the Truth dwelleth. We thank Thee that in His never-ceasing
+intercession, this cry ever reacheth Thee, 'Father, sanctify them in Thy
+truth,' and that the answer is ever streaming forth from Thy glory. Holy
+Father! make us holy in Thy truth, in Thy wonderful revelation of
+Thyself in Him who is the truth. Let Thy Holy Spirit so have dominion in
+our hearts that Thy Holy Child Jesus, sanctifying Himself for us that we
+may be sanctified in the truth, may be to us the Way, the Truth, and the
+Life. May we know that we are in Him in Thy presence, and that Thy one
+word in answer to our prayer to make us holy is--Holy in Christ. Amen.
+
+
+  1. God is the God of truth--not truth in speaking only, or truth of
+     doctrine--but truth of existence, or life in its Divine reality.
+     And Christ is _the truth_; the actual embodiment of this Divine
+     life. And there is a kingdom of truth, of Divine Spiritual
+     realities, of which Christ is King. And of all this truth of God in
+     Christ, the very essence is, the Spirit. He is the Spirit of truth:
+     He leads us into it, so that we are of the truth and walk in it. Of
+     the truth, the reality there is in God, Holiness, is the deepest
+     root; the Spirit of _truth_ is the _Holy_ Spirit.
+
+  2. It is the work of _the Father_ to make us holy in the truth: let
+     us bow very low in childlike trust as we breathe the prayer: 'Holy
+     Father! make us holy in the truth.' _He will do it._
+
+  3. It is the intercession of _the Son_ that asks and obtains this
+     blessing: let us take our place _in Him_, and rejoice in the
+     assurance of an answer.
+
+  4. It is _the Spirit of truth_ through whom the Father does this
+     work, so that we dwell in the truth, and the truth in us. Let us
+     yield very freely and very fully to the leading of the Spirit, in
+     our intercourse with God's Word, that, as the Son prays, the Father
+     may make us holy in the truth.
+
+  5. Let us, in the light of this work of the Three-One, never read
+     the Word but with this aim: to be made holy in the truth by God.
+
+
+
+
+Seventeenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Crucifixion.
+
+  'For their sakes I _sanctify_ myself, that they themselves also
+  may be _sanctified_ in truth.'--John xvii. 19.
+
+  'He said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. In which will we have been
+  _sanctified_ through the offering of the body of Jesus once for
+  all. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are
+  _sanctified_.'--Heb. x. 9, 10, 14.
+
+
+It was in His High-priestly prayer, on His way to Gethsemane and
+Calvary, that Jesus thus spake to the Father: 'I sanctify myself.' He
+had not long before spoken of Himself as 'the Son whom the Father hath
+sanctified and sent into the world.' From the language of Holy Scripture
+we are familiar with the thought that, what God has sanctified, man has
+to sanctify too. The work of the Father, in sanctifying the Son, is the
+basis and groundwork of the work of the Son in sanctifying Himself. If
+His Holiness as man was to be a free and personal possession, accepted
+and assimilated in voluntary and conscious self-determination, it was
+not enough that the Father sanctify Him: He must sanctify Himself too.
+
+This self-sanctifying of our Lord found place through His whole life,
+but culminates and comes out in special distinctness in His crucifixion.
+Wherein it consists is made clear by the words from the Epistle to the
+Hebrews. The Messiah spake: 'Lo, I come to do Thy will.' And then it is
+added, 'In the which will we have been sanctified through the offering
+of the body of Christ.' It was the offering of the body of Christ that
+was the will of God: in doing that will He sanctified us. It was of the
+doing that will in the offering His body that He spake, 'I sanctify
+myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.' The
+giving up of His will to God's will in the agony of Gethsemane, and then
+the doing of that will in the obedience unto death, this was Christ's
+sanctifying Himself and us too. Let us try and understand this.
+
+The Holiness of God is revealed in His will. Holiness even in the Divine
+Being has no moral value except as it is freely willed. In speaking of
+the Trinity, theologians have pointed out how, as the Father represents
+the absolute necessity of Everlasting Goodness, the Son proves its
+liberty: within the Divine Being it is willed in love. And this now was
+the work of the Son on earth, amid the trials and temptations of a human
+life, to accept and hold fast at any sacrifice, with His whole heart to
+will, the will of the Father. 'Though He was a Son, yet He learned
+obedience in that He suffered.' In Gethsemane the conflict between the
+will of human nature and the Divine will reached its height: it
+manifests itself in language which almost makes us tremble for His
+sinlessness, as He speaks of His will in antithesis to God's will. But
+the struggle is a victory, because in presence of the clearest
+consciousness of what it means to have His own will, He gives it up, and
+says, 'Thy will be done.' To enter into the will of God He gives up His
+very life. In His crucifixion He thus reveals the law of sanctification.
+Holiness is the full entrance of our will into God's will. Or rather,
+Holiness is the entrance of God's will to be the death of our will. The
+only end of our will and deliverance from it, is death to it under the
+righteous judgment of God. It was in the surrender to the death of the
+cross that Christ sanctified Himself, and sanctified us, that we also
+might be sanctified in truth.
+
+And now, just as the Father sanctified Him, and He in virtue thereof
+appropriated it and sanctified Himself, so we, whom He has sanctified,
+have to appropriate it to ourselves. In no other way than crucifixion,
+the giving up of Himself to the death, could Christ realize the
+sanctification He had from the Father. And in no other way can we
+realize the sanctification we have in Him. His own and our
+sanctification bears the common stamp of the cross. We have seen before
+that obedience is the path to holiness. In Christ we see that the path
+to perfect holiness is perfect obedience. And that is obedience unto
+death, even to the giving up of life, even the death of the cross. As
+the sanctification which Christ wrought out for us, even unto the
+offering of His body, bears the death mark, we cannot partake of it, we
+cannot enter it, except as we die to self and its will. Crucifixion is
+the path to sanctification.
+
+This lesson is in harmony with all we have seen. The first revelation of
+God's Holiness to Moses was accompanied with the command, Put off. God's
+praise, as Glorious in Holiness, Fearful in Praises, was sounded over
+the dead bodies of the Egyptians. When Moses on Sinai was commanded to
+sanctify the Mount, it was said, 'If any touch it, man or beast, it
+shall not live.' The Holiness of God is death to all that is in contact
+with sin. Only through death, through blood-shedding, was there access
+to the Holiest of all. Christ chose death, even death as a curse, that
+He might sanctify Himself for us, and open to us the path to Holiness,
+to the Holiest of all, to the Holy One. And so it is still. No man can
+see God and live. It is only in death, the death of self and of nature,
+that we can draw near and behold God. Christ led the way. No man can see
+God and live. 'Then let me die, Lord,' one has cried, 'but see Thee I
+must.' Yes, blessed be God, so real is our interest in Christ and our
+union to Him, that we may live in His death; as day by day self is kept
+in the place of death, the life and the holiness of Christ can be
+ours.[8]
+
+And where is the place of death? And how can the crucifixion which leads
+to Holiness and to God be accomplished in us? Thank God! it is no work
+of our own, no weary process of self-crucifixion. The crucifixion that
+is to sanctify us is an accomplished fact. The cross bears the banner,
+'It is finished.' On it Christ sanctified Himself for us, that we might
+be sanctified in truth. Our crucifixion, as our sanctification, is
+something that in Christ has been completely and perfectly finished. 'We
+have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
+once for all.' 'By one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are
+sanctified.' In that fulness, which it is the Father's good pleasure
+should dwell in Christ, the crucifixion of our old man, of the flesh, of
+the world, of ourselves, is all a spiritual reality; he that desires and
+knows and accepts Christ, fully receives all this in Him. And as the
+Christ, who had previously been known more in His pardoning, quickening,
+and saving grace, is again sought after as a real deliverer from the
+power of sin, as a sanctifier, He comes and takes up the soul into the
+fellowship of the sacrifice of His will. 'He put away sin _by the
+sacrifice of Himself_,' must become true of us as it is of Him. He
+reveals how it is a part of His salvation to make us partakers of a will
+entirely given up to the will of God, of a life that had yielded itself
+to the death, and had then been given back from the dead by the power of
+God, a life of which the crucifixion of self-will was the spirit and the
+power. He reveals this, and the soul that sees it, and consents to it,
+and yields its will and its life, and believes in Jesus as its death and
+its life, and in His crucifixion as its possession and its inheritance,
+enters into the enjoyment and experience of it. The language is now, 'I
+died that I might live: I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no
+longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me.' And the life it now
+lives is by the faith on the Son of God, the daily acceptance in faith
+of Him who lives within us in the power of a death that has been passed
+through and for ever finished.
+
+'I sanctify myself for them, that they themselves also may be sanctified
+in truth.' 'I come to do Thy will, O God. In the which will,' the will
+of God accomplished by Christ, 'we have been sanctified through the one
+offering of the body of Christ.' Let us understand and hold it fast:
+Christ's giving up His will in Gethsemane and accepting God's will in
+dying; Christ's doing that will in the obedience to the death of the
+cross, this is His sanctifying Himself, and this is our being sanctified
+in truth. 'In the which will we have been sanctified.' The death to
+self, the utter and most absolute giving up of our own life, with its
+will and its power and its aims, to the cross, and into the crucifixion
+of Christ, the daily bearing the cross--not a cross on which we are yet
+to be crucified, but the cross of the crucified Christ in its power to
+kill and make dead--this is the secret of the life of holiness--this is
+true sanctification.
+
+Believer! is this the holiness which you are seeking? Have you seen and
+consented that God alone is holy, that self is all unholy, and that
+there is no way to be made holy but for the fire of the Divine Holiness
+to come in and be the death of self? 'Always bearing about in the body
+the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in
+our mortal body'--is the pathway for each one who seeks to be sanctified
+in truth, even as He sanctified Himself; sanctified just like Jesus.
+
+He sanctified Himself for us, that we ourselves also might be sanctified
+in truth. Yes, our sanctification rests and roots in His, in Himself.
+And we are in Him. The secret roots of our being are planted into Jesus:
+deeper down than we can see or feel, there is He our Vine, bearing and
+quickening us. Let us by faith understand that, in a manner and a
+measure which are far beyond our comprehension, intensely Divine and
+real, we are in Him who sanctified Himself for us. Let us dwell there,
+where we have been placed of God. And let us bow our knees to the
+Father, that He would grant us to be mightily strengthened by His
+Spirit, that Christ as our Sanctification may dwell in our hearts, that
+the power of His death and His life may be revealed in us, and God's
+will be done in us as it was in Him.
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy Father! I do bless Thee for this precious blessed word, for this
+precious blessed work of Thy beloved Son. In His never-ceasing
+intercession Thou ever hearest the wonderful prayer, 'I sanctify myself
+for them, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.'
+
+Blessed Father! I beseech Thee to strengthen me mightily by Thy Spirit,
+that in living faith I may be able to accept and live the holiness
+prepared for me in my Lord Jesus. Give me spiritual understanding to
+know what it means that He sanctified Himself, that my sanctification is
+secured in His, that as by faith I abide in Him, its power will cover my
+whole life. Let His sanctification indeed be the law as it is the life
+of mine. Let His surrender to Thy fatherly will, His continual
+dependence and obedience, be its root and its strength. Let His death to
+the world and to sin be its daily rule. Above all, _let Himself_, O my
+Father! _let Himself_, as sanctified for me, the living Jesus, be my
+only trust and stay. He sanctified Himself for me, that I myself also
+may be sanctified in truth.
+
+Beloved Saviour! how shall I rightly bless and love and glorify Thee for
+this wondrous grace! Thou didst give Thyself, so that now I am holy in
+Thee. I give myself, that in Thee I myself may be made holy in truth.
+Amen. Lord Jesus! Amen.
+
+
+  1. 'If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take
+     up his cross, and follow me.' Jesus means that our life shall be
+     the exact counterpart of His, including even the crucifixion. The
+     beginning of such a life is the denial of self, to give Christ its
+     place. The Jews would not deny self, but '_denied_ the Holy One,
+     and killed the Prince of Life.' The choice is still between Christ
+     and self. Let us deny the unholy one, and give him to the death.
+
+  2. The steps in this path are these: First, the deliberate decision
+     that self shall be given up to the death; then, the surrender to
+     Christ crucified to make us partakers of His crucifixion; then,
+     'knowing that our old man is crucified,' the faith that says, 'I am
+     crucified with Christ;' and then, the power to live as a crucified
+     one, to glory in the cross of Christ.
+
+  3. This is God's way of holiness, a Divine mystery, which the Holy
+     Spirit alone can daily maintain in us. Blessed be God, it is the
+     life which a Christian can live, because Christ lives in us.
+
+  4. The central thought is: We are in Christ, who gave up His will
+     and did the will of God. By the Holy Spirit the mind that was in
+     Him is in us, the will of self is crucified, and we live in the
+     will of God.
+
+
+    [8] See Note D.
+
+
+
+
+Eighteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Faith.
+
+  'That they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among
+  them that are _sanctified by faith in me_.'--Acts xxvi. 18.
+
+
+The more we study Scripture in the light of the Holy Spirit, or practise
+the Christian life in His power, the deeper becomes our conviction of
+the unique and central place faith has in God's plan of salvation. And
+we learn, too, to see that it is meet and right that it should be so:
+the very nature of things demands it. Because God is a Spiritual and
+Invisible Being, every revelation of Himself, whether in His works, His
+word, or His Son, calls for faith. Faith is the spiritual sense of the
+soul, being to it what the senses are to the body; by it alone we enter
+into communication and contact with God.
+
+Faith is that meekness of soul which waits in stillness to hear, to
+understand, to accept what God says; to receive, to retain, to possess
+what God gives or works. By faith we allow, we welcome God Himself, the
+Living Person, to enter in to make His abode with us, to become our
+very life. However well we think we know it, we always have to learn the
+truth afresh, for a deeper and fuller application of it, that in the
+Christian life faith is the first thing, the one thing that pleases God,
+and brings blessing to us. And because Holiness is God's highest glory,
+and the highest blessing He has for us, it is especially in the life of
+holiness that we need to live by faith alone.
+
+Our Lord speaks here of 'them that are sanctified by faith in me.'[9] He
+Himself is our Sanctification as He is our Justification: for the one as
+for the other it is faith that God asks, and both are equally given at
+once. The participle used here is not the present, denoting a process or
+work that is being carried on, but the aorist, indicating an act done
+once for all. When we believe in Christ, we receive the whole Christ,
+our justification and our sanctification: we are at once accepted by God
+as righteous in Him, and as holy in Him. God counts and calls us, what
+we really are, sanctified ones in Christ. It is as we are led to see
+what God sees, as our faith grasps that the holy life of Christ is ours
+in actual possession, to be accepted and appropriated for daily use,
+that we shall really be able to live the life God calls us to, the life
+of holy ones in Christ Jesus. We shall then be in the right position in
+which what is called our progressive sanctification can be worked out.
+It will be, the acceptance and application in daily life of the power of
+a holy life which has been prepared in Jesus, which has in the union
+with Him become our present and permanent possession, and which works in
+us according to the measure of our faith.[10]
+
+From this point of view it is evident that faith has a twofold
+operation. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, though _now
+actually existing_, the substance of things hoped for, but _not yet
+present_. It deals with the unseen present, as well as with the unseen
+future. As the evidence of things not seen, it rejoices in Christ our
+complete sanctification, as a present possession. Through faith I simply
+look to what Christ is, as revealed in the Word by the Holy Spirit.
+Claiming all He is as my own, I know that His Holiness, His holy nature
+and life, are mine; I am a holy one: by faith in Him I have been
+sanctified. This is the first aspect of sanctification: it looks to what
+is a complete and finished thing, an absolute reality. As the substance
+of things hoped for, this faith reaches out in the assurance of hope to
+the future, to things I do not yet see or experience, and claims, day by
+day, out of Christ our sanctification, what it needs for practical
+holiness, 'to be holy in all manner of living.' This is the second
+aspect of sanctification: I depend upon Jesus to supply, in personal
+experience, gradually and unceasingly, for the need of each moment,
+what has been treasured up in His fulness. 'Of God are ye in Christ
+Jesus, who of God is made unto us sanctification.' Under its first
+aspect faith says, I know I am in Him, and all His Holiness is mine; in
+its second aspect it speaks, I trust in Him for the grace and the
+strength I need each moment to live a holy life.
+
+And yet, it need hardly be said, these two are one. It is one Jesus who
+is our sanctification, whether we look at it in the light of what He is
+made for us once for all, or what, as the fruit of that, He becomes to
+our experience day by day. And so it is one faith which, the more it
+studies and adores and rejoices in Jesus as made of God unto us
+sanctification, as Him in whom we have been sanctified, becomes the
+bolder to expect the fulfilment of every promise for daily life, and the
+stronger to claim the victory over every sin. Faith in Jesus is the
+secret of a holy life: all holy conduct, all really holy deeds, are the
+fruit of faith in Jesus as our holiness.
+
+We know how faith acts, and what its great hindrances are, in the matter
+of justification. It is well that we remind ourselves that there are the
+same dangers in the exercise of sanctifying as of justifying faith.
+Faith _in God_ stands opposed to trust _in self_: specially to its
+willing and working. Faith is hindered by every effort to do something
+ourselves. Faith looks to God working, and yields itself to His
+strength, as revealed in Christ through the Spirit; it allows God to
+work both to will and to do. Faith must work; without works it is dead,
+by works alone can it be perfected; in Jesus Christ, as Paul says,
+nothing avails but 'faith _working_ by love.' But these works, which
+faith in God's working inspires and performs, are very different from
+the works in which a believer often puts forth his best efforts, only to
+find that he fails. The true life of holiness, the life of them who are
+sanctified in Christ, has its root and its strength in an abiding sense
+of utter impotence, in the deep restfulness which trusts to the working
+of a Divine power and life, in the entire personal surrender to the
+loving Saviour, in that faith which consents to be nothing, that He may
+be all. It may appear impossible to discern or describe the difference
+between the working that is of self and the working that is of Christ
+through faith: if we but know that there is such a difference, if we
+learn to distrust ourselves, and to count on Christ working, the Holy
+Spirit will lead us into this secret of the Lord too. Faith's works are
+Christ's works.
+
+And as by effort, so faith is also hindered by the desire to see and
+feel. 'If thou believest, thou shalt see;' the Holy Spirit will seal our
+faith with a Divine experience; we shall see the glory of God. But this
+is His work: ours is, when all appears dark and cold, in the face of all
+that nature or experience testifies, still each moment to believe in
+Jesus as our all-sufficient sanctification, in whom we are perfected
+before God. Complaints as to want of feeling, as to weakness or
+deadness, seldom profit: it is the soul that refuses to occupy itself
+with itself, either with its own weakness or the strength of the enemy,
+but only looks to what Jesus is, and has promised to do, to whom
+progress in holiness will be a joyful march from victory to victory.
+'The Lord Himself doth fight for you;' this thought, so often repeated
+in connection with Israel's possession of the promised land, is the food
+of faith: in conscious weakness, in presence of mighty enemies, it sings
+the conqueror's song. When God appears to be _not doing_ what we trusted
+Him for, then is just the time for faith to glory in Him.
+
+There is perhaps nothing that more reveals the true character of faith
+than joy and praise. You give a child the promise of a present
+to-morrow: at once it says, Thank you, and is glad. The joyful thanks
+are the proof of how really your promise has entered the heart. You are
+told by a friend of a rich legacy he has left you in his will: it may
+not come true for years, but even now it makes you glad. We have already
+seen what an element of holiness joy is: it is especially an element of
+holiness by faith. Each time I really see how beautiful and how perfect
+God's provision is, by which my holiness is in Jesus, and by which I am
+to allow Him to work in me, my heart ought to rise up in praise and
+thanks. Instead of allowing the thought that it is, after all, a life of
+such difficult attainment and such continual self-denial, this life of
+holiness through faith, we ought to praise Him exceedingly that He has
+made it possible and sure for us: we can be holy, because Jesus the
+Mighty and the Loving One is our holiness. Praise will express our
+faith; praise will prove it; praise will strengthen it. 'Then believed
+they His words; they sang His praise.' Praise will commit us to faith:
+we shall see that we have but one thing to do, to go on in a faith that
+ever trusts and ever praises. It is in a living, loving attachment to
+Jesus, that rejoices in Him, and praises Him continually for what He is
+to us, that faith proves itself, and receives the power of holiness.
+
+'Sanctified by faith in me.' Yes, 'by faith _in Me_:' it is the personal
+living Jesus who offers Himself, Himself in all the riches of His Power
+and Love, as the object, the strength, the life of our faith. He tells
+us that if we would be holy, always and in everything holy, we must just
+see to one thing: to be always and altogether full of faith in Him.
+Faith is the eye of the soul: the power by which we discern the presence
+of the Unseen One, as He comes to give Himself to us. Faith not only
+sees, but appropriates and assimilates: let us set our souls very still
+for the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, to quicken and strengthen that
+faith, for which He has been given us. Faith is surrender: yielding
+ourselves to Jesus to allow Him to do His work in us, giving up
+ourselves to Him to live out His life and work out His will in us, we
+shall find Him giving Himself entirely _to us_, and taking complete
+possession. So faith will be power: the power of obedience to do God's
+will: 'our most holy faith,' 'the faith delivered to the holy ones.'
+And we shall understand how simple, to the single-hearted, is the secret
+of holiness: just Jesus. We are in Him, our Sanctification: He
+personally is our Holiness; and the life of faith in Him, that receives
+and possesses Him, must necessarily be a life of holiness. Jesus says,
+'Sanctified by faith in me.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Beloved Lord! again have I seen, with adoring wonder, what Thou art
+willing to be to me. It is in Thyself, and a life of living fellowship
+with Thyself, that I am to become holy. It is in the simple life of
+personal attachment, of trust and love, of surrender and consecration,
+that Thou dost become my all, and make me partaker of Thyself and Thy
+Holiness.
+
+Blessed Lord Jesus! I do believe in Thee, help Thou mine unbelief. I
+confess what still remains of unbelief, and count on Thy presence to
+conquer and cast it out. My soul is opening up continually to see more
+how Thou Thyself art my Life and my Holiness. Thou art enlarging my
+heart to rejoice in Thyself as my all, and to be assured that Thou dost
+Thyself take possession and fill the temple of my being with Thy glory.
+Thou art teaching me to understand that, however feeble and human and
+disappointing experiences may be, Thy Holy Spirit is the strength of my
+faith, leading me on to grow up into a stronger and a larger confidence
+in Thee in whom I am holy. O my Saviour! I take Thy word this day,
+'Sanctified by faith in me,' as a new revelation of Thy love and its
+purpose with me. In Thee Thyself is the Power of my holiness; in Thee is
+the Power of my faith. Blessed be Thy name that Thou hast given me too a
+place among them of whom Thou speakest: 'Sanctified by faith in me.'
+Amen.
+
+
+  1. Let us remember that it is not only the faith that is dealing
+     specially with Christ for sanctification, but all living faith,
+     that has the power to sanctify. Anything that casts the soul wholly
+     on Jesus, that calls forth intense and simple trust, be it the
+     trial of faith, or the prayer of faith, or the work of faith, helps
+     to make us holy, because it brings us into living contact with the
+     Holy One.
+
+  2. It is only through the Holy Spirit that Christ and His Holiness
+     are day by day revealed and made ours in actual possession. And so
+     the faith which receives Him is of the Spirit too. Yield yourself
+     in simplicity and trust to His working. Do not be afraid, as if you
+     cannot believe: you have 'the Spirit of faith' within you: you have
+     the power to believe. And you may ask God to strengthen you
+     mightily by His Spirit in the inner man, for the faith that
+     receives Christ in the indwelling that knows no break.
+
+  3. I have only so much of faith as I have of the Spirit. Is not
+     this then what I most need--to live entirely under the influence of
+     the Spirit?
+
+  4. Just as the eye in seeing is receptive, and yields to let the
+     object placed before it make its impression, so faith is the
+     impression God makes on the soul when He draws nigh. Was not the
+     faith of Abraham the fruit of God's drawing near and speaking to
+     him, the impression God made on him? Let us be still to gaze on the
+     Divine mystery of Christ our holiness: His Presence, waited for and
+     worshipped, will work the faith. That is, the Spirit that proceeds
+     from Him into those who cling to Him, will be faith.
+
+  5. _Holiness by faith in Jesus_, not by effort of thine own,
+      Sin's dominion crushed and broken _by the power of grace alone_,--
+     _God's own holiness_ within thee, His own beauty on thy brow,--
+      This shall be thy pilgrim brightness, this _thy blessed portion now_.
+
+        F. R. H.
+
+
+    [9] The best commentators connect the expression, 'by faith in me,'
+        not with the word 'sanctified,' but with the whole clause, 'that
+        by faith in me they may receive.' This will, however, in no way
+        affect the application to the word sanctified. Thus read, the
+        text tells us that the remission of sin, and the inheritance,
+        and the sanctification which qualifies for the inheritance, are
+        all received by faith.
+
+   [10] See Note E.
+
+
+
+
+Nineteenth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Resurrection.
+
+  'The Son of God, who was born of the seed of David _according to
+  the flesh_, who was declared to be the Son of God with power,
+  _according to the Spirit_ of holiness, by the resurrection of the
+  dead.'--Rom. i. 4.
+
+
+These words speak of a twofold birth of Christ. According to the flesh,
+He was born of the seed of David. According to the Spirit, He was the
+first begotten from the dead. As He was a Son of David in virtue of His
+birth through the flesh, so He was declared to be the Son of God with
+power, in virtue of His resurrection-birth through the Spirit of
+holiness. As the life He received through His first birth was a life in
+and after the flesh with its weakness, so the new life He received in
+the resurrection was a life in the power of the Spirit of holiness.
+
+The expression, the Spirit of holiness, is a peculiar one. It is not the
+ordinary word for God's Holiness that is here used as in Heb. xii. 10,
+describing holiness in the abstract as the attribute of an object, but
+another word (also used in 2 Cor. vii. 1 and 1 Thess. iii. 13)
+expressing the habit of holiness in its action--practical holiness or
+sanctity.[11] Paul used this word, because He wished to emphasize the
+thought, that Christ's resurrection was distinctly the result of that
+life of holiness and self-sanctifying which had culminated in His death.
+It was the spirit of the life of holiness which he had lived, in the
+power of which He was raised again. He teaches us that that life and
+death of self-sanctification, in which alone our sanctification stands,
+was the root and ground of His resurrection, and of its declaration that
+He was the Son of God with power, the first begotten from the dead. The
+resurrection was the fruit which that Life of Holiness bore.
+
+And so the Life of Holiness becomes the property of all who are
+partakers of the resurrection. The Resurrection Life and the Spirit of
+Holiness are inseparable. Christ sanctified Himself in death, that we
+ourselves might be sanctified in truth: when in virtue of the Spirit of
+sanctity He was raised from the dead, that Spirit of holiness was proved
+to be the power of Resurrection Life, and the Resurrection Life to be a
+Life of Holiness.
+
+As a believer you have part in this Resurrection Life. You have been
+'begotten again by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.' You
+are 'risen with Christ.' You are commanded 'to reckon yourself to be
+alive unto God in Christ Jesus.' But the life can work in power only as
+you seek to know it, to yield to it, to let it have full possession and
+mastery. And if it is to do this, one of the most important things for
+you to realize is, that as it was in virtue of the Spirit of holiness
+that Christ was raised, so the Spirit of that same holiness must be in
+you the mark and the power of your life. Study to know and possess the
+Spirit of holiness as it was seen in the life of your Lord.
+
+And wherein did it consist? Its secret was, we are told: 'Lo, I am come
+to do Thy will, O God.' 'In the which will,' as done by Christ, 'we have
+been sanctified by the one offering of the body of Jesus Christ.' This
+was Christ's sanctifying Himself, in life and in death; this was what
+the Spirit of holiness wrought in Him; this is what the same Spirit, the
+Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus, will work in us: a life in the will
+of God is a life of holiness. Seek earnestly to grasp this clearly.
+Christ came to reveal what true holiness would be in the conditions of
+human life and weakness. He came to work it out for you, that He might
+communicate it to you by His Spirit. Except you intelligently apprehend
+and heartily accept it, the Spirit cannot work it in you. Do seek with
+your whole heart to take hold of it: the will of God unhesitatingly
+accepted, is the power of holiness.
+
+It is in this that any attempt to be holy as Christ is holy, with and in
+His Holiness, must have its starting-point. Many seek to take single
+portions of the life or image of Christ for imitation, and yet fail
+greatly in others. They have not seen that the self-denial, to which
+Jesus calls, really means the denial of self, in the full meaning of
+that word. In not one single thing is the will of self to be done:
+Jesus, as He did the will of the Father only, must rule, and not self.
+To 'stand perfect and complete in all the will of God' must be the
+purpose, the prayer, the expectation of the disciple. There need be no
+fear that it is not possible to know the will of the Father in
+everything. 'If any man will do, he shall know.' The Father will not
+keep the willing child in ignorance of His will. As the surrender to the
+Spirit of holiness, to Jesus and the dominion of His holy life, becomes
+more simple, sin and self-will will be discovered, the spiritual
+understanding will be opened up, and the law written in the inward parts
+become legible and intelligible. There need be no fear that it is not
+possible to do the will of the Father when it is known. When once the
+grief of failure and sin has driven the believer into the experience of
+Rom. vii., and the 'delight in the law of God after the inward man' has
+proved its earnestness in the cry, 'O wretched man that I am,'
+deliverance will come through Jesus Christ. The Spirit works not only to
+will but to do; where the believer could only complain, 'To perform that
+which is good, I find not,' He gives the strength and song, 'The law of
+the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin
+and death.'
+
+In this faith, that it is possible to know and do the will of God in all
+things, take over from Him, in whom alone you are holy, as your
+life-principle; 'I come to do Thy will, O God.' It is the principle of
+the resurrection life: without it Jesus had never been raised again. It
+is the principle of the new life in you. Accept it; study it; realize
+it; act it out. Many a believer has found that some simple words of
+dedication, expressive of the purpose in everything to do God's will,
+have been an entrance into the joy and power of the resurrection life
+previously unknown. The will of God is the complete expression of His
+moral perfection, His Divine Holiness. To take one's place in the centre
+of that will, to live it out, to be borne and sustained by it, was the
+power of that life of Jesus that could not be held of death, that could
+not but burst out in resurrection glory. What it was to Jesus it will be
+to us.
+
+Holiness is Life: this is the simplest expression of the truth our text
+teaches. There can be no holiness until there be a new life implanted.
+The new life cannot grow and break forth in resurrection power, cannot
+bring forth fruit, but as it grows in holiness. As long as the believer
+is living the mixed life, part in the flesh and part in the spirit, with
+some of self and some of Christ, he seeks in vain for holiness. It is
+the New Life that is the holy life: the full apprehension of it in
+faith, the full surrender to it in conduct, will be the highway of
+holiness. Jesus lived and died and rose again to prepare for us a new
+nature, to be received day by day in the obedience of faith: we 'have
+put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and
+true holiness.' Let the inner life, hid with Christ in God, hid also
+deep in the recesses of our inmost being, be acknowledged, be waited on,
+be yielded to, it will work itself out in all the beauties of holiness.
+
+There is more. This life is not like the life of nature, a blind,
+non-conscious principle, involuntarily working out its ideal in
+unresisting obedience to the law of its being. There is the Spirit of
+the life in Christ Jesus--the Spirit of holiness--the Holy Spirit
+dwelling in us as a Divine Person, entering into fellowship with us, and
+leading us into the fellowship of the Living Christ. It is this fills
+our life with hope and joy. The Risen Saviour breathed the Holy Spirit
+on His disciples: the Spirit brings the Risen One into the field, into
+our hearts, as a personal friend, as a Living Guide and Strengthener.
+The Spirit of holiness is the Spirit, the Presence, and the Power of the
+Living Christ. Jesus said of the Spirit, 'Ye know Him.' Is not our great
+need to know this Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, of His Holiness and
+of ours? How can we 'walk after the Spirit' and follow His leading, if
+we know not Him and His voice and His way?
+
+Let us learn one more lesson from our text. _It is out of the grave of
+the flesh and the will of self that the Spirit of holiness breaks out in
+resurrection power._ We must accept death to the flesh, death to self
+with its willing and working, as the birthplace of our experience of the
+power of the Spirit of holiness. In view of each struggle with sin, in
+each exercise of faith or prayer, we must enter into the death of Jesus,
+the death to self, and as those who say, 'we are not sufficient to think
+anything as of ourselves,' in quiet faith expect the Spirit of Christ to
+do His work. The Spirit will work, strengthening you mightily in the
+inner man, and building up within you an holy temple for the Lord. And
+the time will come, if it has not come to you yet, and it may be nearer
+than you dare hope, when the conscious indwelling of Christ in your
+heart by faith, the full revelation and enthronement of Him as ruler and
+keeper of heart and life, shall have become a personal experience.
+According to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,
+will the Son of God be declared with power in the kingdom that is within
+you.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy Lord God! we do bless Thee that Thou didst raise Thy Son from
+the dead and give Him glory, that our faith and hope might be in Thee.
+Thou didst make His resurrection the power of eternal life in us, and
+now, even as He was raised, so we may walk in newness of life. As the
+Spirit of holiness dwelt and wrought in Him, it dwells and works in us,
+and becomes in us the Spirit of life.
+
+O God! we beseech Thee to perfect Thy work in Thy saints. Give them a
+deeper sense of the holy calling with which Thou hast called them in
+Christ, the Risen One. Give all to accept the Spirit of His life on
+earth, delight in the will of God, as the spirit of their life. May
+those who have never yet fully accepted this be brought to do it, and in
+faith of the power of the new life to say, I accept the will of God as
+my only law. May the Spirit of holiness be the spirit of their lives!
+
+Father! we beseech Thee, let Christ thus, in ever increasing experience
+of His resurrection power, be revealed in our hearts as the Son of God,
+Lord and Ruler within us. Let His life within inspire all the outer
+life, so that in the home and society, in thought and speech and action,
+in religion and in business, His life may shine out from us in the
+beauty of holiness. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Scripture regards the resurrection in two different aspects.
+     In one view, it is the title to the new life, the source of our
+     justification. (Rom. iv. 25, 1 Cor. xv. 17.) In another it is
+     our regeneration, the power of the new life working in us, the
+     source of our sanctification. (Rom. vi. 4; 1 Pet. i. 3.) Pardon
+     and holiness are inseparable; they have the same source, union
+     with the Risen Living Christ.
+
+  2. The blessedness to the disciples of having a Risen Christ
+     was this: He, whom they thought dead, came and _revealed
+     Himself_ to them. Christ lives to reveal Himself to thee and to
+     me; wait on Him, trust Him for this. He will reveal Himself to
+     thee as thy sanctification. See to it that thou hast Him in
+     living possession, and thou hast His Holiness.
+
+  3. The life of Christ is the holiness of Christ. The reason we
+     so often fail in the pursuit of holiness is that the old life,
+     the flesh, in its own strength seeks for holiness as a
+     beautiful garment to wear and enter heaven with. It is the
+     daily death to self out of which the life of Christ rises up.
+
+  4. To die thus, to live thus in Christ, to be holy--how can we
+     attain it? It all comes '_according to the Spirit of
+     holiness_.' Have the Holy Spirit within thee. Say daily, 'I
+     believe in the Holy Ghost.'
+
+  5. _Holy in Christ._ When Christ lives in us, and His mind, as
+     it found expression in His words and work on earth, enters and
+     fills our will and personal consciousness, then our union with
+     Him becomes what He meant it to be. It is the Spirit of His
+     holy conduct, the Spirit of His sanctity, must be in us.
+
+
+   [11] See Note F.
+
+
+
+
+Twentieth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Liberty.
+
+  'Being made _free from sin_, ye became servants of righteousness:
+  now present your members as servants of righteousness _unto
+  sanctification_. Now being made _free from sin_, and become
+  servants unto God, ye have your fruit _unto sanctification_, and
+  the end eternal life.'--Rom. vi. 18, 19, 22.
+
+  'Our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus.'--Gal. ii. 4.
+
+  'With freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be
+  not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.'--Gal. v. 1.
+
+
+There is no possession more precious or priceless than liberty. There is
+nothing more inspiring and elevating; nothing, on the other hand, more
+depressing and degrading than slavery. It robs a man of what constitutes
+his manhood, the power of self-decision, self-action, of being and doing
+what he would.
+
+Sin is slavery; the bondage to a foreign power that has obtained the
+mastery over us, and compels often a most reluctant service. The
+redemption of Christ restores our liberty and sets us free from the
+power of sin. If we are truly to live as redeemed ones, we need not only
+to look at the work Christ did to accomplish our redemption, but to
+accept and realize fully how complete, how sure, how absolute the
+liberty is wherewith He hath made us free. It is only as we '_stand
+fast_ in our liberty in Christ Jesus,' that we can have our fruit unto
+sanctification.
+
+It is remarkable how seldom the word _holy_ occurs in the great argument
+of the Epistle to the Romans, and how, where twice used in chap. vi. in
+the expression 'unto sanctification,' it is distinctly set forth as the
+aim and fruit to be reached through a life of righteousness. The twice
+repeated 'unto sanctification,' pointing to a result to be obtained, is
+preceded by a twice repeated 'being made free from sin and become
+servants of righteousness.' It teaches us how the liberty from the power
+of sin and the surrender to the service of righteousness are not yet of
+themselves holiness, but the sure and only path by which it can be
+reached. A true insight and a full entering into our freedom from sin in
+Christ are indispensable to a life of holiness. It was when Israel was
+freed from Pharaoh that God began to reveal Himself as the Holy One: it
+is as we know ourselves 'freed from sin,' delivered from the hand of all
+our enemies, that we shall serve God in righteousness and holiness all
+the days of our life.
+
+'_Being made free from sin_:' to understand this word aright, we must
+beware of a twofold error. We must neither narrow it down to less, nor
+import into it more, than the Holy Spirit means by it here. Paul is
+speaking neither of an imputation nor an experience. We must not limit
+it to being made free from the curse or punishment of sin. The context
+shows that he is speaking, not of our judicial standing, but of a
+spiritual reality, our being in living union with Christ in His death
+and resurrection, and so being entirely taken out from under the
+dominion or power of sin. 'Sin shall not have dominion over you.' Nor is
+he as yet speaking of an experience, that we feel that we are free from
+all sin. He speaks of the great objective fact, Christ's having finally
+delivered us from the power which sin had to compel us to do its will
+and its works, and urges us, in the faith of this glorious fact, boldly
+to refuse to listen to the bidding or temptation of sin. To know our
+liberty which we have in Christ, our freedom from sin's mastery and
+power, is the way to realize it as an experience.
+
+In olden times, when Turks or Moors often made slaves of Christians,
+large sums were frequently paid for the ransom of those who were in
+bondage. But it happened more than once, away in the interior of the
+slave country, that the ransomed ones never got the tidings; the masters
+were only too glad to keep it from them. Others, again, got the tidings,
+but had grown too accustomed to their bondage to rouse themselves for
+the effort of reaching the coast. Slothfulness or hopelessness kept them
+in slavery; they could not believe that they would be able ever in
+safety to reach the land of liberty. The ransom had been paid; in truth
+they were free; and yet in their experience, by reason of ignorance or
+want of courage, they were still in bondage. Christ's redemption has so
+completely made an end of sin and the legal power it had over us,--for
+'the strength of sin is the law,'--that in very deed, in the deepest
+reality, sin has no power to compel our obedience. It is only as we
+allow it again to reign, as we yield ourselves again as its servants,
+that it can exercise the mastery. Satan does his utmost to keep
+believers in ignorance of the completeness of this their freedom from
+his slavery. And because believers are so content with their own
+thoughts of what redemption means, and so little long and plead to see
+it and possess it in its fulness of deliverance and blessing, the
+experience of the extent to which the freedom from sin can be realized
+is so feeble. 'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' It is
+by the Holy Spirit, His light and leading within, humbly watched for and
+yielded to, that this liberty becomes our possession.
+
+In the sixth chapter Paul speaks of freedom from sin, in chap. vii.
+(vers. 3, 4, 6) of freedom from the law, as both being ours in Christ
+and union with Him. In chap. viii. (ver. 2) he speaks of this freedom as
+become ours in experience. He says, 'The law of the Spirit of life in
+Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.' The
+freedom which is ours in Christ, must become ours in personal
+appropriation and enjoyment through the Holy Spirit. The latter depends
+on the former: the fuller the faith, the clearer the insight, the more
+triumphant the glorying in Christ Jesus and the liberty with which He
+has made us free, the speedier and the fuller the entrance into the
+glorious liberty of the children of God. As the liberty is in Christ
+alone, so it is the Spirit of Christ alone that makes it ours in
+practical possession, and keeps us dwelling in it: 'the spirit of the
+life in Christ Jesus _hath made me free_ from the law of sin and death.'
+'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' As the Spirit
+reveals Jesus to us as Lord and Master, the new Master, who alone has
+ought to say over us, and leads us to yield ourselves, to present our
+members, to surrender our whole life to the service of God in Christ,
+our faith in the freedom from sin becomes a consciousness and a
+realization. Believing in the completeness of the redemption, the
+captive goes forth as 'the Lord's freedman.' He knows now that sin has
+no longer power for one moment to command obedience. It may seek to
+assert its old right; it may speak in the tone of authority; it may
+frighten us into fear and submission; power it has none over us, except
+as we, forgetting our freedom, yield to its temptation, and ourselves
+give it power.
+
+We are the Lord's freedmen. 'We have our liberty in Christ Jesus.' In
+Rom. vii. Paul describes the terrible struggles of the soul who still
+seeks to fulfil the law, but finds itself utterly helpless; sold under
+sin, a captive and a slave, without the liberty to do what the whole
+heart desires. But when the Spirit takes the place of the law, the
+complaint, 'O wretched man that I am,' is changed into the song of
+victory: 'I thank God, through Jesus Christ, the law of the Spirit of
+life hath made me free.'
+
+What numberless complaints of insufficient strength to do God's will, of
+unsuccessful effort and disappointed hopes, of continual failure,
+re-echo in a thousand different forms the complaint of the captive, 'O
+wretched man that I am!' Thank God! there is deliverance. 'With freedom
+did Christ set us free! Stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again
+in a yoke of bondage.' Satan is ever seeking to lay on us again the yoke
+either of sin or the law, to beget again the spirit of bondage, as if
+sin or the law with their demands somehow had power over us. It is not
+so: be not entangled; stand fast in the liberty with which Christ has
+made you free. Let us listen to the message: 'Being made free from sin,
+ye became servants unto righteousness; now yield your members servants
+to righteousness _unto sanctification_.' 'Having been made free from
+sin, and having been enslaved unto God, ye have your fruit _unto
+sanctification_.' To be holy, you must be free, perfectly free; free for
+Jesus to rule you, to lead you; free for the Holy Spirit to dispose of
+you, to breathe in you, to work His secret, gentle, but mighty work, so
+that you may grow up unto all the liberty Jesus has won for you. The
+temple could not be sanctified by the indwelling of God, except as it
+was free from every other master and every other use, to be for Him and
+His service alone. The inner temple of our heart cannot be truly and
+fully sanctified, except as we are free from every other master and
+power, from every yoke of bondage, or fear, or doubt, to let His Spirit
+lead us into the perfect liberty which has its fruit in true holiness.
+
+Being made free from sin, having become servants unto righteousness, ye
+have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life everlasting. Freedom,
+Righteousness, Holiness--these are the steps on the way to the coming
+glory. The more deeply we enter by faith into our liberty, which we have
+in Christ, the more joyfully and confidently we present our members to
+God as instruments of righteousness. The God is the Father whose will we
+delight to do, whose service is perfect liberty. The Redeemer is the
+Master, to whom love binds us in willing obedience. The liberty is not
+lawlessness: 'we are delivered from our enemies, that we may serve Him
+in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life.'[12]
+
+The liberty is the condition of the righteousness; and this again of the
+holiness. The doing of God's will leads up into that fellowship, that
+heart sympathy with God Himself, out of which comes that reflection of
+the Divine Presence, which is Holiness. Being made free from sin, being
+made the slaves of righteousness and of God, we have our fruit unto
+holiness, and the end--the fruit of holiness becomes, when ripe, the
+seed of--everlasting life.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most glorious God! I pray Thee to open my eyes to this wonderful liberty
+with which Christ has made me free. May I enter fully into Thy word,
+that sin shall have no dominion over me because I am not under the law
+but under grace. May I know my liberty which I have in Christ Jesus, and
+stand fast in it.
+
+Father! Thy service is perfect liberty: reveal this too to me. Thou art
+the infinitely Free, and Thy will knows no limits but what its own
+perfection has placed. And Thou invitest us into Thy will, that we may
+be free as Thou art. O my God! show me the beauty of Thy will, as it
+frees me from self and from sin, and let it be my only blessedness. Let
+the service of righteousness so be a joy and a strength to me, having
+its fruit unto sanctification, leading me into Thy Holiness.
+
+Blessed Lord Jesus! my Deliverer and my Liberty, I belong to Thee. I
+give myself to Thy will, to know no will but Thine. Master! Thee and
+Thee alone would I serve. I have my liberty in Thee! be Thou my Keeper.
+I cannot stand for one moment out of Thee. In Thee I can stand fast: in
+Thee I put my trust.
+
+Most Holy God! as Thy free, obedient, loving child, Thou wilt make me
+holy. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Liberty is the power to carry out unhindered the impulse of our
+     nature. In Christ the child of God is free from every power
+     that could hinder his acting out the law of his new nature.
+
+  2. This liberty is of faith (Gal. v. 5, 6). By faith in Christ I
+     enter into it, and stand in it.
+
+  3. This liberty is of the Holy Spirit. 'Where the Spirit of the
+     Lord is, there is liberty.' 'If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are
+     not under the law.' A heart filled with the Spirit is made free
+     indeed. But we are not made free that we may do our own will.
+     No, made _free to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit_.
+     'Where the Spirit is, there is liberty.'
+
+  4. This liberty is in love. 'Ye were called for freedom; only use
+     not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love
+     be servants, one to another.' The freedom with which the Son
+     makes free is a freedom to become like Himself, to love and to
+     serve. 'Though I was free from all men, I brought myself under
+     bondage to all, that I might gain the more.' This is the
+     liberty of love.
+
+  5. 'Being made free from sin, ye became _servants of
+     righteousness_ unto sanctification.' 'Let my people go, that
+     they may serve me.' It is only the man that doeth righteousness
+     that can become holy.
+
+  6. This liberty is a thing of joy and singing.
+
+  7. This liberty is the groundwork of holiness. The Redeemer who
+     makes free is God the Holy One. As the Holy Spirit He leads
+     into the full possession of it. To be so free from everything
+     that God can take complete possession, is to be holy.
+
+
+   [12] See Note G.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-first Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Happiness.
+
+  'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.'--Rom. xiv. 17.
+
+  'The disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Ghost.'--Acts
+  xiii. 52.
+
+  'Then Nehemiah said, This day is _holy_ unto the Lord: neither be
+  ye sorry, for the _joy_ of the Lord is your strength. So the
+  Levites stilled the people, saying, Hold your peace; for the day
+  is _holy_; neither be ye grieved. And all the people went their
+  way to make great _mirth_, because they had understood the
+  words.'--Neh. viii. 10-12.
+
+
+The deep significance of joy in the Christian life is hardly understood.
+It is too often regarded as something secondary; whereas its presence is
+essential as the proof that God does indeed satisfy us, and that His
+service is our delight. In our domestic life we do not feel satisfied if
+all the proprieties of deportment are observed, and each does his duty
+to the other; true love makes us happy in each other; as love gives out
+its warmth of affection, gladness is the sunshine that fills the home
+with its brightness. Even in suffering or poverty, the members of a
+loving family are a joy to each other. Without this gladness,
+especially, there is no true obedience on the part of the children. It
+is not the mere fulfilment of a command, or performance of a service,
+that a parent looks to; it is the willing, joyful alacrity with which it
+is done that makes it pleasing.
+
+It is just so in the intercourse of God's children with their Father.
+Even in the effort after a life of consecration and gospel obedience, we
+are continually in danger of coming under the law again, with its, Thou
+shalt. The consequence always is failure. The law only worketh wrath; it
+gives neither life nor strength. It is only as long as we are standing
+in the joy of our Lord, in the joy of our deliverance from sin, in the
+joy of His love, and what He is for us, in the joy of His presence, that
+we have the power to serve and obey. It is only when made free from
+every master, from sin and self and the law, and only when rejoicing in
+this liberty, that we have the power to render service that is
+satisfying either to God or to ourselves. 'I will see you again,' Jesus
+said, 'and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy shall no man take from
+you.' Joy is the evidence and the condition of the abiding personal
+presence of Jesus.
+
+If holiness be the beauty and the glory of the life of faith, it is
+manifest that here especially the element of joy may not be wanting. We
+have already seen how the first mention of God as the Holy One was in
+the song of praise on the shore of the Red Sea; how Hannah and Mary in
+their moments of inspiration praised God as the Holy One; how the name
+of the Thrice Holy in heaven comes to us in the song of the seraphs; and
+how before the throne both the living creatures and the conquering
+multitude who sing the song of the Lamb, adore God as the Holy One. We
+are to 'worship Him in the beauty of holiness,' 'to sing praise at the
+remembrance of His Holiness;' it is only in the spirit of worship and
+praise and joy that we fully can know God as holy. Much more, it is only
+under the inspiration of adoring love and joy that we can ourselves be
+made holy. It is as we cease from all fear and anxiety, from all strain
+and effort, and rest with singing in what Jesus is in His finished work
+as our sanctification, as we rest and rejoice in Him, that we shall be
+made partakers of His Holiness. It is the day of rest, is the day that
+God has blessed, the day of blessing and gladness; and it is the day He
+blessed that is His holy day. Holiness and blessedness are inseparable.
+
+But is not this at variance with the teaching of Scripture and the
+experience of the saints? Are not suffering and sorrow among God's
+chosen means of sanctification? Are not the promises to the broken in
+heart, the poor in spirit, and the mourner? Are not self-denial and the
+forsaking of all we have, the crucifixion with Christ and the dying
+daily, the path to holiness? and is not all this more matter of sorrow
+and pain than of joy and gladness?
+
+The answer will be found in the right apprehension of the life of
+faith. Faith lifts above, and gives possession of, what is the very
+opposite of what we feel or experience. In the Christian life there is
+always a paradox: what appear irreconcilable opposites are found side by
+side at the same moment. Paul expresses it in the words, 'As dying, and,
+behold, we live; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making
+many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.' And elsewhere
+thus, '_When_ I am weak, _then_ am I strong.' The apparent contradiction
+has its reconciliation, not only in the union of the two lives, the
+human and the Divine, in the person of each believer, but specially in
+our being, at one and the same moment, partakers of the death and the
+resurrection of Christ. Christ's death was one of pain and suffering, a
+real and terrible death, a rending asunder of the bonds that united soul
+and body, spirit and flesh. The power of that death works in us: we must
+let it work mightily if we are to live holy; for in that death He
+sanctified Himself, that we ourselves might be sanctified in truth. Our
+holiness is, like His, in the death to our own will, and to all our own
+life. But--this we must seek to grasp--we do not approach death from the
+side from which Christ met it, as an enemy to be conquered, as a
+suffering to be borne, before the new life can be entered on. No, the
+believer who knows what Christ is as the Risen One, approaches death,
+the crucifixion of self and the flesh and the world, from the
+resurrection side, the place of victory, in the power of the Living
+Christ. When we were baptized into Christ, we were baptized into His
+death and resurrection as ours; and Christ Himself, the Risen Living
+Lord, leads us triumphantly into the experience of the power of His
+death. And so, to the believer who truly lives by faith, and seeks not
+in his own strugglings to crucify and mortify the flesh, but knows the
+living Lord, the deep resurrection joy never for a moment forsakes Him,
+but is his strength for what may appear to others to be only painful
+sacrifice and cross-bearing. He says with Paul, 'I glory in the cross
+through which I have been crucified.' He never, as so many do, asks
+Paul's question, 'Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?'
+without sounding the joyful and triumphant answer as a present
+experience, 'I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.' 'Thanks be to
+God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ.' It is the joy of a
+Present Saviour, of the experience of a perfect salvation, the joy of a
+resurrection life, which alone gives the power to enter deeply and fully
+into the death that Christ died, and yield our will and our life to be
+wholly sanctified to God. In the joy of that life, from which the power
+of the death is never absent, it is possible to say with the Apostle
+each moment, 'As dying, and, behold, we live; as sorrowful, yet always
+rejoicing.'
+
+Let us seek to learn the two lessons: Holiness is essential to true
+happiness; happiness essential to true holiness. _Holiness is essential
+to true happiness._ If you would have joy, the fulness of joy, an
+abiding joy which nothing can take away, be holy as God is holy.
+Holiness is blessedness. Nothing can darken or interrupt our joy but
+sin. Whatever be our trial or temptation, the joy of Jesus of which
+Peter says, 'in whom ye now rejoice with joy unspeakable,' can more than
+compensate and outweigh. If we lose our joy, it must be sin. It may be
+an actual transgression, or an unconscious following of self or the
+world; it may be the stain on conscience of something doubtful, or it
+may be unbelief that would live by sight, and thinks more of itself and
+its joy than of the Lord alone: whatever it be, nothing can take away
+our joy but sin. If we would live lives of joy, assuring God and man and
+ourselves that our Lord is everything, is more than all to us, oh, let
+us be holy! Let us glory in Him who is our holiness: in His presence is
+fulness of joy. Let us live in the Kingdom which is joy in the Holy
+Ghost; the Spirit of holiness is the Spirit of joy, because He is the
+Spirit of God. It is the saints, God's holy ones, who will shout for
+joy.
+
+And _happiness is essential to true holiness_. If you would be a holy
+Christian, you must be a happy Christian. Jesus was anointed by God with
+'the oil of gladness,' that He might give us 'the oil of joy.' In all
+our efforts after holiness, the wheels will move heavily if there be not
+the oil of joy; this alone removes all strain and friction, and makes
+the onward progress easy and delightful. Study to understand the Divine
+worth of joy. It is the evidence of your being in the Father's
+presence, and dwelling in His love. It is the proof of your being
+consciously free from the law and the strain of the spirit of bondage.
+It is the token of your freedom from care and responsibility, because
+you are rejoicing in Christ Jesus as your Sanctification, your Keeper,
+and your Strength. It is the secret of spiritual health and strength,
+filling all your service with the childlike happy assurance that the
+Father asks nothing that He does not give strength for, and that He
+accepts all that is done, however feebly, in this spirit. True happiness
+is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As
+the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One,
+through our Lord Jesus Christ, as we lose ourselves in the adoration and
+worship of the Thrice Holy, we become holy. This is, even here in the
+wilderness, 'the Highway of Holiness: the ransomed of the Lord shall
+come with singing; the redeemed shall walk there; everlasting joy shall
+be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness.'
+
+Do all God's children understand this? that holiness is just another
+name, the true name, that God gives for happiness; that it is indeed
+unutterable blessedness to know that God does make us holy, that our
+holiness is in Christ, that Christ's Holy Spirit is within us. There is
+nothing so attractive as joy: have believers understood it that this is
+the joy of the Lord--to be holy? Or is not the idea of strain, and
+sacrifice, and sighing, of difficulty and distance so prominent, that
+the thought of being holy has hardly ever made the heart glad? If it has
+been so, let it be so no longer. 'Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of
+Israel:' let us claim this promise. Let the believing assurance that our
+Loving Father, and our Beloved Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, who in
+dove-like gentleness rests within us, have engaged to do the work, and
+are doing it, fill us with gladness. Let us not seek our joy in what we
+see in ourselves of holiness: let us rejoice in the Holiness of God in
+Christ as ours; let us rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. So shall our
+joy be unspeakable and unceasing; so shall we give Him the glory.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Blessed God! I beseech Thee to reveal to me and to all Thy children
+the secret of rejoicing in Thee, the Holy One of Israel.
+
+Thou seest how much of the service of Thine own dear children is still
+in the spirit of bondage, and how many have never yet believed that the
+Highway of Holiness is one on which they may walk with singing, and
+shall obtain joy and gladness. O Father! teach Thy children to rejoice
+in Thee.
+
+I ask Thee especially to teach us that, in deep poverty of spirit, in
+humility and contrition and utter emptiness, in the consciousness that
+there is no holiness in us, we can sing all the day of Thy Holiness as
+ours, of Thy glory which Thou layest upon us, and which yet all the time
+is Thine alone. O Father! open wide to Thy children the blessed mystery
+of the Kingdom, even the faith which sees all in Christ and nothing in
+itself; which indeed has and rejoices in all in Him; which never has or
+rejoices in ought in itself.
+
+Blessed God, in Thy Word Thou hast said, 'The meek shall increase their
+joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
+Israel.' Oh, give us, by Thy Holy Spirit, in meekness and poverty of
+spirit, to live so in Christ, that His Holiness may be our
+ever-increasing joy, and that in Thyself, the Holy One of Israel, we may
+rejoice all the day. And may all see in us what blessedness it is to
+live as God's holy ones. Amen.
+
+
+  1. The great hindrance to joy in God is expecting to find
+     something in ourselves to rejoice over. At the commencement of
+     this pursuit of holiness we always expect to see a great change
+     wrought in ourselves. As we are led deeper into what faith, and
+     the faith-life is, we understand how, though we do not see the
+     change as we expected, we may yet rejoice with joy unspeakable
+     in what Jesus is. This is the secret of holiness.
+
+  2. Joy must be cultivated. To rejoice is a command more frequently
+     given than we know. It is part of the obedience of faith, to
+     rejoice when we do not feel like doing so. Faith rejoices and
+     sings, because God is holy.
+
+  3. 'Filled with joy and the Holy Ghost,' 'The Kingdom is joy in
+     the Holy Ghost.' The Holy Spirit, the Blessed Spirit of Jesus
+     is within thee, a very fountain of living water, of joy and
+     gladness. Oh, seek to know Him, who dwells in thee, to work all
+     that Jesus has for thee: He will be in thee the Spirit of faith
+     and of joy.
+
+  4. Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting
+     itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the
+     joy of God. 'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.'
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-second Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+In Christ our Sanctification.
+
+  'Of God are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from
+  God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption; that,
+  according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
+  Lord.'--1 Cor. i. 30, 31.
+
+
+These words lead us on now to the very centre of God's revelation of the
+way of holiness. We know the steps of the road leading hither. He is
+holy, and holiness is His. He makes holy by coming near. His presence is
+holiness. In Christ's life, the holiness that had only been revealed in
+symbol, and as a promise of good things to come, had really taken
+possession of a human will, and been made one with true human nature. In
+His death every obstacle had been removed that could prevent the
+transmission of that holy nature to us: Christ had truly become our
+sanctification. In the Holy Spirit the actual communication of that
+holiness took place. And now we want to understand what the work is the
+Holy Spirit does, and how He communicates this holy nature to us: what
+our relation is to Christ as our sanctification, and what the position
+we have to take up toward Him, that in its fulness and its power it may
+do its work for us.
+
+The Divine answer to this question is, 'Of God are ye _in Christ_.' The
+one thing we need to apprehend is, what this our position and life in
+Christ is, and how that position and life may on our part be accepted
+and maintained. Of this we may be sure, that it is not something that is
+high and beyond our reach. There need be no exhausting effort or
+hopeless sighing, 'Who shall ascend into heaven, that is, to bring
+Christ down from above?' It is a life that is meant for the sinful and
+the weary, for the unworthy and the impotent. It is a life that is the
+gift of the Father's love, and that He Himself will reveal in each one
+who comes in childlike trust to Him. It is a life that is meant for our
+every-day life, that in every varying circumstance and situation will
+make and keep us holy.
+
+'Of God are ye _in Christ_.' Ere our Blessed Lord left the world, He
+spake: Lo! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world. And it is
+written of Him: 'He that descended is the same that ascended far above
+all the heavens, that He might fill all things.' 'The Church is His
+body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.' In the Holy Spirit
+the Lord Jesus is with His people here on earth. Though unseen, and not
+in the flesh, His Personal Presence is as real on earth as when He
+walked with His disciples. In regeneration the believer is taken out of
+his old place 'in the flesh;' he is no longer in the flesh, but in the
+spirit (Rom. viii. 9); he is really and actually in Christ. The living
+Christ is around him by His holy Presence. Wherever and whatever he be,
+however ignorant of his position or however unfaithful to it, there he
+is in Christ. By an act of Divine and omnipotent grace, he has been
+planted into Christ, encircled on every side by the Power and the Love
+of Him who filleth all things, whose fulness specially dwells in His
+body here below, the Church.
+
+And how can one who is longing to know Christ fully as his
+sanctification, come to live out what God means and has provided in
+this--'in Christ'? The first thing that must be remembered is that it is
+a thing of faith and not of feeling. The promise of the indwelling and
+the quickening of the Holy One is to the humble and contrite. Just when
+I feel most deeply that I am not holy, and can do nothing to make myself
+holy, when I feel ashamed of myself, just then is the time to turn from
+self and very quietly to say: I am in Christ. Here He is all around me.
+Like the air that surrounds me, like the light that shines on me, here
+is my Lord Jesus with me in His hidden but Divine and most real
+presence. My faith must in quiet rest and trust bow before the Father,
+of whom and by whose Mighty Grace I am in Christ: He will reveal it to
+me with ever-growing clearness and power. He does it as I believe, and
+in believing open my whole soul to receive what is implied in it: the
+sense of sinfulness and unholiness must become the strength of my trust
+and dependence. In such faith I abide in Christ.
+
+But because it is of faith, therefore it is of the Holy Spirit. _Of God_
+are ye _in Christ_. It is not as if God placed and planted us in Christ,
+and left it to us now to maintain the union. No, God is the Eternal One,
+the God of the everlasting life, who works every moment in a power that
+does not for one moment cease. What God gives, He continues with a
+never-ceasing giving. It is He who by the Holy Spirit makes this life in
+Christ a blessed reality in our consciousness. 'We have received the
+Spirit of God that we might _know_ the things that are freely given us
+of God.' Faith is not only dependent on God for the gift it is to
+accept, but for the power to accept. Faith not only needs the Son as its
+filling and its food; it needs the Spirit as its power to receive and
+hold. And so the blessed possession of all that it means to be in Christ
+our sanctification comes as we learn to bow before God in believing
+prayer for the mighty workings of the Spirit, and in the deep childlike
+trust that He will reveal and glorify in us this Christ our
+sanctification in whom we are.
+
+And how will the Spirit reveal this Christ in whom we are? It will
+specially be as the Living One, the Personal Friend and Master. Christ
+is not only our Example and our Ideal. His life is not only an
+atmosphere and an inspiration, as we speak of a man who mightily
+influences us by his writings. Christ is not only a treasury and a
+fulness of grace and power, into which the Spirit is to lead us. But
+Christ is the Living Saviour, with a heart that beats with a love that
+is most tenderly human, and yet Divine. It is in this love He comes
+near, and into this love He receives us, when the Father plants us into
+Him. In the power of a personal love He wishes to exercise influence,
+and to attach us to Himself. In that love of His we have the guarantee
+that His Holiness will enter us; in that love the great power by which
+it enters. As the Spirit reveals to us where we are dwelling, in Christ
+and His love, and that this Christ is a living Lord and Saviour, there
+wakens within us the enthusiasm of a personal attachment, and the
+devotion of a loving allegiance, that make us wholly His. And it becomes
+possible for us to believe that we can be holy: we feel sure that in the
+path of holiness we can go from strength to strength.
+
+Such believing insight into our relation to Christ as being in Him, and
+such personal attachment to Him who has received us into His love and
+keeps us abiding there, becomes the spring of a new obedience. The will
+of God comes to us in the light of Christ's life and His love--each
+command first fulfilled by Him, and then passed on to us as the sure and
+most blessed help to more perfect fellowship with the Father and His
+Holiness. Christ becomes Lord and King in the soul, in the power of the
+Holy Spirit, guiding the will into all the perfect will of God, and
+proving Himself to be its sanctification, as He crowns its obedience
+with ever larger inflow of the Presence and the Holiness of God.
+
+Is there any dear child of God at all disposed to lose heart as he
+thinks of what manner of man he ought to be in all holy living, let me
+call him to take courage. Could God have devised anything more wonderful
+or beautiful for such sinful, impotent creatures? Just think, Christ,
+God's own Son, made to be sanctification to you. The Mighty, Loving,
+Holy Christ, sanctified through suffering that He might have sympathy
+with you, given to make you holy. What more could you desire? Yes, there
+is more: '_Of God you are in Him._' Whether you understand it or not,
+however feebly you realize it, there it is, a thing most Divinely true
+and real. You are in Christ, by an act of God's own Mighty Power. And
+there, in Christ, God Himself longs to establish and confirm you to the
+end. And you have, greatest wonder of all, the Holy Spirit within you to
+teach you to know, and believe, and receive, all that there is in Christ
+for you. And if you will but confess that there is in you no wisdom or
+power for holiness, none at all, and allow Christ, 'the Wisdom of God
+and the Power of God,' by the Holy Spirit within you, to lead you on,
+and prove how completely, how faithfully, how mightily, He can be your
+sanctification, He will do it most gloriously.
+
+O my brother! come and consent more fully to God's way of holiness. Let
+Christ be your sanctification. Not a distant Christ to whom you look,
+but a Christ very near, all around you, in whom you are. Not a Christ
+after the flesh, a Christ of the past, but a present Christ in the power
+of the Holy Ghost. Not a Christ whom you can know by your wisdom, but
+the Christ of God, who is a Spirit, and whom the Spirit within you, as
+you die to the flesh and self, will reveal in power. Not a Christ such
+as your little thoughts can frame a conception of, but a Christ
+according to the greatness of the heart and the love of God. Oh, come
+and accept this Christ, and rejoice in Him! Be content now to leave all
+your feebleness, and foolishness, and faithlessness to Him, in the quiet
+confidence that He will do for you more than you can think. And so let
+it henceforth be, as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in
+the Lord.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Blessed Father! I bow in speechless adoration before the holy
+mystery of Thy Divine Love....
+
+Oh, forgive me, that I have known and believed it so little as it is
+worthy of being known and believed.
+
+Accept my praise for what I have seen and tasted of its Divine
+blessedness. Accept, Lord God! of the praise of a glad and loving heart
+that only knows that it never can praise Thee aright.
+
+And hear my prayer, O my Father! that in the power of Thy Holy Spirit,
+who dwells in me, I may each day accept and live out fully what Thou
+hast given me in Christ my sanctification. May the unsearchable riches
+there are in Him be the daily supply for my every need. May His
+Holiness, His delight in Thy will, indeed become mine. Teach me, above
+all, how this can most surely be, because I am, through the work of
+Thine Almighty Quickening Power, in Him, kept there by Thyself. My
+Father! my faith cries out: I can be holy, blessed be my Lord Jesus!
+
+In this faith I yield myself to Thee, Lord Jesus, my King and Master, to
+do Thy will alone. In everything I do, great or small, I would act as
+one sanctified in Jesus, united to God's will in Him. It is Thou alone
+canst teach me to do this, canst give me strength to perform it. But I
+trust in Thee--art Thou not Christ my sanctification? Blessed Lord! I do
+trust Thee. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Christ, as He lived and died on earth, is our sanctification.
+     His life, the Spirit of His life, is what constitutes our
+     holiness. To be in perfect harmony with Christ, to have His
+     mind, is to be holy.
+
+  2. Christ's Holiness had two sides. God sanctified Him by His
+     Spirit: Christ sanctified Himself by following the leading of
+     the Spirit, by giving up His will to God in everything. So God
+     has made us holy in Christ; and so we follow after and perfect
+     holiness by yielding ourselves to God's Spirit, by giving up
+     our will and living in the will of God.
+
+  3. It is well that we take in every aspect of what God has
+     revealed of holiness in His word. But let us never weary
+     ourselves by seeking to grasp all completely. Let us even
+     return to the simplicity that is in Jesus. To bow at His feet,
+     to believe that He knows all we need, and has it all, and loves
+     to give it all, is rest. And holiness is resting in Jesus the
+     rest of God. Let all our thoughts be gathered up into this one:
+     Jesus, Blessed Jesus.
+
+  4. This holy life in Christ is for to-day, when you read this. For
+     to-day He is made of God unto you sanctification: to-day He
+     will indeed be your holiness. Believe in Him for it; trust Him,
+     praise Him. And remember: _you are in Him_.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-third Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and the Body.
+
+  'The temple of God is _holy_, which temple ye are. _The body_ is
+  for the Lord, and the Lord for _the body_. Know ye not that your
+  _body_ is the temple of _the Holy Ghost_ which is in you;
+  therefore glorify God in your _body_.'--1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 13,
+  19.
+
+  'She that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, that
+  she may be _holy_ both _in body_ and spirit.'--1 Cor. vii. 34.
+
+  'Present your _bodies_ a living sacrifice, _holy_, acceptable to
+  God.'--Rom. xii. 1.
+
+
+Coming into the world, our Blessed Lord spake: '_A body_ didst Thou
+prepare for me; lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.' Leaving this world
+again, it was in His own _body_ that He bore our sins upon the tree. So
+it was in the body, no less than in soul and spirit, that He did the
+will of God. And therefore it is said, 'By which will we have been
+sanctified through the offering _of the body_ of Jesus Christ once for
+all.'
+
+When praying for the Thessalonians and their sanctification, Paul says,
+'And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit
+and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame, at the coming of
+our Lord Jesus Christ.' Of himself he had spoken as 'always bearing
+about _in the body_ the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may
+be manifested _in our body_. For we which live are always delivered unto
+death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested _in
+our mortal flesh_.' His earnest expectation and hope was, 'that Christ
+be magnified _in my body_, whether by life or by death.' The relation
+between body and spirit is so intimate, the power of sin in the spirit
+comes so much through the body, the body is so distinctly the object
+both of Christ's redemption and the Holy Spirit's renewal, that our
+study of holiness will be seriously defective if we do not take in the
+teaching of Scripture on holiness in the body.
+
+It has been well said that the body is, to the soul and spirit dwelling
+and acting within it, like the walls of the city. Through them the enemy
+enters in. In time of war, everything yields to the defence of the
+walls. It is often because the believer does not know the importance of
+keeping the walls defended, keeping the body sanctified, that he fails
+in having the soul and spirit preserved blameless. Or it is because he
+does not understand that the guarding and sanctifying of the body in all
+its parts must be as distinctly a work of faith, and as directly through
+the mighty power of Jesus and the indwelling of the Spirit, as the
+renewing of the inner life, that progress in holiness is so feeble. The
+rule of the city we entrust to Jesus: but the defence of the walls we
+keep in our own hands; the King does not keep us as we expected, and we
+cannot discover the secret of failure. It is the God of peace _Himself_,
+who sanctifies wholly, who must preserve spirit and soul _and body_
+entire and without blame. The tabernacle with its wood, the temple with
+its stone, were as holy as all included within their walls: God's holy
+ones need the body to be holy.
+
+To realize the full meaning of this, let us remember how it was through
+the body sin entered. 'The woman saw that the tree was good for food,'
+this was the temptation in the flesh; through this the soul was reached,
+'it was a delight to the eyes;' through the soul it then passed into the
+spirit, 'and to be desired to make one wise.' In John's description of
+what is in the world (1 John ii. 15), we find the same threefold
+division, 'the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
+life.' And the three temptations of Jesus by Satan correspond exactly:
+he first sought to reach Him through the body, in the suggestion to
+satisfy His hunger by making bread; the second (see Luke iv.) appealed
+to the soul, in the vision of the kingdoms of this world and their
+glory; the third to the spirit, in the call to assert and prove His
+Divine Sonship by casting Himself down. Even to the Son of God the first
+temptation came, as to Adam and all in the world, as lust of the flesh,
+the desire to gratify the natural and lawful appetite of hunger. We
+cannot note too carefully that it was on a question of eating what
+appeared good for food that man's first sin was committed, and that that
+same question of eating to satisfy hunger was the battleground on which
+the Redeemer's first encounter with Satan took place. It is on the
+question of eating and drinking what is good and lawful that more
+Christians than are aware of it are foiled by Satan. To have every
+appetite of the body under the rule and regulation of the Holy Spirit
+appears to some needless, to others too difficult. And yet it must be,
+if the body is to be holy, as God's temple, and we are to glorify Him in
+our body and our spirit. The first approaches of sin are made through
+the body: in the body the complete victory will be gained.
+
+What Scripture teaches as to the intimacy of the connection between the
+body and spirit, physiology confirms. What appear at first merely
+physical transgressions leave a stain and have a degrading influence on
+the soul, and through it drag down the spirit. And on the other side,
+spiritual sins, sins of thought and imagination and disposition, pass
+through the soul into the body, fix themselves in the nervous
+constitution, and express themselves even in the countenance and the
+habits or tendencies of the body. Sin must be combated not only in the
+region of the spirit: if we are to perfect holiness, we must cleanse
+ourselves from all defilement of flesh _and_ spirit. 'If through the
+Spirit ye do make dead the deeds of _the body_, ye shall live.' If we
+are indeed to be cleansed from sin and made holy unto God, the body, as
+the outworks, must very specially be secured from the power of Satan
+and of sin.
+
+And how is this to be done? God has made very special provision for
+this. Holy Scripture speaks so explicitly of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit
+that communicates holiness, in connection with the body. At first sight
+it looks as if the word, your bodies, were simply used as equivalent to,
+your persons, yourselves. But as the deeper insight into the power of
+sin in the body, and the need of a deliverance specially there, quickens
+our perception, we see what is meant by the body being the temple of the
+Holy Spirit. We notice how very specially it is of sins in the body that
+Paul speaks as defiling God's holy temple; and how it is through the
+power of the Holy Ghost in the body that he would have us glorify God.
+'Know ye not that _your body_ is the temple of the Holy Ghost: glorify
+God therefore, in the power of the Holy Spirit, in _your body_.' The
+Holy Spirit must not only exercise a restraining and regulating
+influence on the appetites of the body and their gratification, so that
+they be in moderation and temperance,--this is only the negative
+side,--but there must be a positively spiritual element, making the
+exercise of natural functions a service of holy joy and liberty to the
+glory of God; no longer a threatened hindrance to the life of obedience
+and fellowship, but a means of grace, a real help to the spiritual life.
+It is only in a body that is full of the holy life, very entirely
+possessed of God's Spirit, that this will be the case.
+
+And how can this be obtained? In the true Christian life, self-denial is
+the path to enjoyment, renunciation to possession, death to life. As
+long as there is ought that we think we have liberty and power to use or
+enjoy aright, if we but do so in moderation, we have not yet seen or
+confessed our own unholiness, or the need of the entire renewing of the
+Holy Spirit. It is not enough to say, 'Every creature of God is good, if
+it be received with thanksgiving;' we must remember the addition, 'for
+it is sanctified by the word and by prayer.' This sanctifying of every
+creature and its use is a thing as real and solemn as the sanctifying of
+ourselves. And this will only be where, if need be, we sacrifice the
+gift and the liberty to use it, until God gives us the power truly to
+use it to His glory alone. Of one of the most sacred of Divine
+institutions, marriage, Paul, who so denounces those who would forbid to
+marry, says distinctly that there may be cases in which a voluntary
+celibacy may be the surest and acceptable way of being 'holy both in
+body and spirit.' When to be holy as God is holy indeed becomes the
+great desire and aim of life, everything will be cherished or given up
+as it promotes the chief end. The actual and active presence of the Holy
+Spirit in the life of the body will be the fire that is kept burning
+continually on the altar.
+
+And how is this to be attained? Of the body as of the spirit it is God,
+God in Christ, who is our Keeper and our Sanctifier. The guarding of
+the walls of the city must be entrusted to Him who rules within. 'I am
+persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit,' to keep that which I
+have committed to Him, must become as definitely true of the body, and
+of each of its functions of which we are conscious that it is the
+occasion of doubt or of stumbling, as it has been of the soul we
+entrusted to Him for salvation. A fixed deposit in a bank is money given
+away out of my hands to be kept there: the body or any part of it that
+needs to be made holy must be a deposit with Jesus. Faith must trust His
+acceptance and guarding of it; prayer and praise must daily afresh renew
+the assurance, must confirm the committal of the deposit, and maintain
+the fellowship with Jesus. Abiding thus in Him and His Holiness, we
+shall receive, in a life of trust and joy, the power to prove, even in
+the body, how fully and wholly we are in Him who is made unto us
+sanctification, how real and true the Holiness of God is in His people.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Lord! who art my sanctification, I come to Thee now with a very
+special request. O Thou who didst in Thine own body bear our sins on the
+tree, and of whom it is written, 'We have been sanctified through the
+offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all,' be pleased to reveal
+to me how my body may to the full experience the power of Thy wonderful
+redemption. I do desire in soul and body to be holy to the Lord.
+
+Lord! I have too little understood that my body is the temple of the
+Holy Ghost, that there is nothing in it that can be matter of
+indifference, that its every state and function is to be holiness to the
+Lord. And where I saw that this should be so, I have still sought myself
+to guard from the enemy's approaches these the walls of the city. I
+forgot how this part of my being too could alone be kept and sanctified
+by faith, by Thy taking and keeping charge of what faith entrusted to
+Thee.
+
+Lord Jesus! I come now to surrender this body with all its needs into
+Thy hands. In weariness and nervousness, in excitement and enjoyment, in
+hunger and want, in health and plenty, O my holy Saviour, let my body be
+in Thy keeping every moment. Thou callest us, 'being made free from sin,
+to present our members as servants of righteousness unto
+sanctification.' Saviour! in the faith of the freedom from sin which I
+have in Thee, I present every member of my body to Thee: I believe the
+Spirit of life in Thee makes me free from the law of sin in my members.
+Whether living or dying, be Thou magnified in my body. Amen.
+
+
+  1. In the tabernacle and temple, the material part was to be in
+     harmony with, and the embodiment of, the holiness that dwelt
+     within. It was therefore all made according to the pattern
+     shown in the mount. In the two last chapters of Exodus, we have
+     eighteen times 'as the Lord commanded.' Everything, even in the
+     exterior, was the embodiment of the will of God. Even so our
+     body, as God's temple, must in everything be regulated by God's
+     word, quickened and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
+
+  2. As part of this holiness in the body, Scripture mentions dress.
+     Speaking of the 'outward adorning of plaiting the hair, of
+     wearing jewels, or the putting on of apparel,' as inconsistent
+     with 'the apparel of a meek and quiet spirit,' Peter says,
+     'After this manner aforetime _the holy women_, who hoped in
+     God, adorned themselves.' Holiness was seen in their dressing;
+     their body was the temple of the Holy Spirit.
+
+  3. 'If ye through the Spirit do make dead the deeds of _the body_,
+     ye shall live.' His quickening energy must reign through the
+     whole. We are so accustomed to connect the spiritual with the
+     ideal and invisible, that it will need time and thought and
+     faith to realize how the physical and the sensible influence
+     our spiritual life, and must be under the mastery and
+     inspiration of God's Spirit. Even Paul says, 'I buffet _my
+     body_, and bring it into bondage, lest I myself should be
+     rejected.'
+
+  4. If God actually breathed His Spirit into the body of Adam
+     formed out of the ground, let it not be thought strange that
+     the Holy Spirit should now animate our bodies too with His
+     sanctifying energy.
+
+  5. 'Corporeality is the end of the ways of God.' This deep saying
+     of an old divine reminds us of a much neglected truth. The
+     great work of God's Spirit is to ally Himself with matter, and
+     form it into a spiritual body for a dwelling for God. In our
+     body the Holy Spirit will do it, if He gets complete
+     possession.
+
+  6. It is on this truth of the Holy Spirit's power in the body that
+     what is called Faith-healing rests. Through all ages, in times
+     of special spiritual quickening, God has given it to some to
+     see how Christ would make, even here, the body partaker of the
+     life and power of the Spirit. To those who do see it, the link
+     between Holiness and Healing is a very close and blessed one,
+     as the Lord Jesus takes possession of the body for Himself.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-fourth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Cleansing.
+
+  'Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us _cleanse_
+  ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting
+  _holiness_ in the fear of God.'--2 Cor. vii. 1.
+
+
+That holiness is more than cleansing, and must be preceded by it, is
+taught us in more than one passage of the New Testament. 'Christ loved
+the Church, and gave Himself up for it, that He might _sanctify_ it,
+having _cleansed_ it by the washing of water with the word.' 'If a man
+_cleanse_ himself from these, he shall be a vessel _sanctified_.' The
+cleansing is the negative side, the being separate and not touching the
+unclean thing, the removal of impurity; the sanctifying is the positive
+union and fellowship with God, and the participation of the graces of
+the Divine life and holiness (2 Cor. vi. 17, 18). So we read too of the
+altar, that God spake to Moses: 'Thou shalt _cleanse_ the altar, when
+thou makest atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to _sanctify_
+it' (Ex. xxix. 36). Cleansing must ever prepare the way, and ought
+always to lead on to holiness.
+
+Paul speaks of a twofold defilement, of flesh and spirit, from which we
+must cleanse ourselves. The connection between the two is so close, that
+in every sin both are partakers. The lowest and most carnal form of sin
+will enter the spirit, and, dragging it down into partnership in crime,
+will defile and degrade it. And so will all defilement of spirit in
+course of time show its power in the flesh. Still we may speak of the
+two classes of sins as they owe their origin more directly to the flesh
+or the spirit.
+
+'_Let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh._' The functions
+of our body may be classed under the three heads of the nourishment, the
+propagation, and the protection of our life. Through the first the world
+daily solicits our appetite with its food and drink. As the fruit good
+for food was the temptation that overcame Eve, so the pleasures of
+eating and drinking are among the earliest forms of defilement of the
+flesh. Closely connected with this is what we named second, and which is
+in Scripture specially connected with the word flesh. We know how in
+Paradise the sinful eating was at once followed by the awakening of
+sinful lust and of shame. In his First Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul
+closely connects the two (1 Cor. vi. 13, 15), as he also links
+drunkenness and impurity (1 Cor. vi. 9, 10). Then comes the third form
+in which the vitality of the body displays itself: the instinct of
+self-preservation, setting itself against everything that interferes
+with our pleasures and comfort. What is called temper, with its fruits
+of anger and strife, has its roots in the physical constitution, and is
+one among the sins of the flesh. From all this, the Christian, who would
+be holy, must most determinedly cleanse himself. He must yield himself
+to the searching of God's Spirit, to be taught what there is in the
+flesh that is not in harmony with the temperance and self-control
+demanded both by the law of nature and the law of the Spirit. He must
+believe, what Paul felt that the Corinthians so emphatically needed to
+be taught, that the Holy Spirit dwells in the body, making its members
+the members of Christ, and in this faith put off the works of the flesh;
+he must cleanse himself from all defilement of flesh.
+
+'_And of spirit._' As the source of all defilement of the flesh is
+self-gratification, so self-seeking is at the root of all defilement of
+the spirit. In relation to God, it manifests itself in idolatry, be it
+in the worship of other gods after our own heart, the love of the world
+more than God, or the doing our will rather than His. In relation to our
+fellow-men it shows itself in envy, hatred, and want of love, cold
+neglect or harsh judging of others. In relation to ourselves it is seen
+as pride, ambition, or envy, the disposition that makes self the centre
+round which all must move, and by which all must be judged.
+
+For the discovery of such defilement of spirit, no less than of the sins
+of the flesh, the believer needs the light of the Holy Spirit; that the
+uncleanness may indeed be cleansed out and cast away for ever. Even
+unconscious sin, if we are not earnestly willing to have it shown to us,
+will most effectually prevent our progress in the path of holiness.
+
+'_Beloved! let us cleanse ourselves._' The cleansing is sometimes spoken
+of as the work of God (Acts xv. 9; 1 John i. 9); sometimes as that of
+Christ (John xv. 3; Eph. v. 26; Tit. ii. 14). Here we are commanded to
+cleanse ourselves. God does His work in us by the Holy Spirit; the Holy
+Spirit does His work by stirring us up and enabling us to do. The Spirit
+is the strength of the new life; in that strength we must set ourselves
+determinedly to cast out whatever is unclean. 'Come out, and be ye
+separate, and touch not the unclean thing.' It is not only the doing
+what is sinful, it is not only the willing of it, that the Christian
+must avoid, but even the touching it: the involuntary contact with it
+must be so unbearable as to force the cry, O wretched man that I am! and
+to lead on to the deliverance which the Spirit of the life of Christ
+does bring.
+
+And how is this cleansing to be done? When Hezekiah called the priests
+to sanctify the temple that had been defiled, we read (2 Chron. xxix.),
+'The priests went in unto the inner part of the house of the Lord to
+cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found.' Only
+then could the sin-offering of atonement and the burnt-offering of
+consecration, with the thankofferings, be brought, and God's service be
+restored. Even thus must all that is unclean be looked out, and brought
+out, and utterly cast out. However deeply rooted the sin may appear,
+rooted in constitution and habit, we must cleanse ourselves of it if we
+would be holy. 'If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, the
+blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.' As we bring out every sin
+from the inner part of the house into the light of God and walk in the
+light, the precious blood that justifies will work mightily to cleanse
+too: the blood brings into living contact with the life and the love of
+God. Let us come into the light with the sin: the blood will prove its
+mighty power. Let us cleanse ourselves in yielding ourselves to the
+light to reveal and condemn, to the blood to cleanse and sanctify.
+
+'Let us cleanse ourselves, _perfecting holiness in the fear of the
+Lord_.' We read in Hebrews (x. 14), 'Christ hath perfected forever them
+that are sanctified.' As we have so often seen that what God has made
+holy man must make holy too, as he accepts and appropriates the holiness
+God has bestowed, so here with the perfection which the saints have in
+Christ. We must perfect holiness: holiness must be carried out into the
+whole of life, and carried on even to its end. As God's holy ones, we
+must go on to perfection, perfecting holiness. Do not let us be afraid
+of the word. Our Blessed Lord used it when He gave us the command, 'Be
+ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.' A child striving
+after the perfection in knowledge of his profession, which he hopes to
+attain when he has finished school, is told by his teacher that the way
+to the perfection he hopes for at the end of his course is to seek to be
+perfect in the lessons of each day. To be perfect in the small portion
+of the work that each hour brings, is the path to the perfection that
+will crown the whole. The Master calls us to a perfection like that of
+the Father: He hath already perfected us in Himself: He holds out the
+prospect of perfection ever growing. His word calls us here day by day
+to be perfecting holiness. Let us seek in each duty to be whole-hearted
+and entire. Let us, as teachable scholars, in every act of worship or
+obedience, in every temptation and trial, do the very best which God's
+Spirit can enable us to do. 'Let patience have its perfect work, that ye
+may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.' 'The God of peace make
+you perfect in every good work to do His will.'
+
+'_Having therefore these promises_, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves
+from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear
+of God.' It is faith that gives the courage and the power to cleanse
+from all defilement, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. It is as
+the promises of the Divine love and indwelling (2 Cor. vi 16-18) are
+made ours by the Holy spirit, that we shall share the victory which
+overcometh the world, even our faith. In the path along which we have
+already come, from the rest in Paradise down through Holy Scripture, we
+have seen the wondrous revelation of these promises in ever-growing
+splendour. That God the Holy One will make us holy; that God the Holy
+One will dwell with the lowly; that God in His Holy One has come to be
+our holiness; that God has planted us in Christ that He may be our
+sanctification; that God, who chose us in sanctification of the Spirit,
+has given us the Holy Spirit in our hearts, and now watches over us in
+His love to work out through Him His purposes and to perfect our
+holiness: such are the promises that have been set before us. 'Having
+therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
+filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.'
+
+Beloved brother! see here again God's way of holiness. Arise and step on
+to it in the faith of the promise, fully persuaded that what He hath
+promised He is mighty to perform. Bring out of the inner part of the
+house all uncleanness; bring it into the light of God; confess it and
+cast it at His feet, who takes it away, and cleanses you in His blood.
+Yield yourself in faith to perfect, in Christ your Strength, the
+Holiness to which you are called. As your Father in heaven is perfect,
+give yourself to Him as a little child to be perfect too in your daily
+lessons and your daily walk. Believe that your surrender is accepted:
+that the charge committed to Him is undertaken. And give glory to Him
+who is able to do above what you can ask or think.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Holy Lord Jesus! Thou didst give Thyself for us, that, having cleansed
+us for Thyself as Thine own, Thou mightest sanctify us and present us to
+Thyself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing.
+Blessed be Thy Name for the wonderful love. Blessed be Thy Name for the
+wonderful cleansing. Through the washing by the word and the washing in
+the blood, Thou hast made us clean every whit. And as we walk in the
+light, Thou cleansest every moment.
+
+With these promises, in the power of Thy word and blood, Thou callest us
+to cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit. Blessed
+Lord! graciously reveal in Thy Holy Light all that is defilement, even
+its most secret working. Let me live as one who is to be presented to
+Thee without spot or wrinkle or any such thing--cleansed with a Divine
+cleansing, because Thou gavest Thyself to do it. Under the living power
+of Thy word and blood, applied by the Holy Spirit, let my way be clean,
+and my hands clean, my lips clean, and my heart clean. Cleanse me
+thoroughly, that I may walk with Thee in white here on earth, keeping my
+garments unspotted and undefiled. For Thy great love's sake, my Blessed
+Lord. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Cleansing has almost always one aim: a cleansed vessel is fit
+     for use. Spiritual work done for God, with the honest desire
+     that He may through His Spirit use us, will give urgency to our
+     desire for cleansing. A vessel not cleansed cannot be used: is
+     not this the reason that there are some workers God cannot
+     bless?
+
+  2. _All_ defilement: one stain defiles. 'Let us cleanse ourselves
+     from _all_ defilement.'
+
+  3. No cleansing without Light. Open the heart for the Light to
+     shine in.
+
+  4. No cleansing like fire. Give the defilement over to the fire of
+     His Holiness, the fire that consumes and purifies. Give it into
+     the death of Jesus, to Jesus Himself.
+
+  5. 'Perfecting holiness in _the fear of God_:' it is a solemn
+     work. Rejoice with trembling--work out your salvation with fear
+     and trembling.
+
+  6. 'Having these promises,' it is a blessed work to cleanse
+     ourselves--entering into the promises, the purity, the love of
+     our Lord. The fear of God need never hinder the faith in Him.
+     And true faith will never hinder the practical work of
+     cleansing.
+
+  7. _If we walk in the light, the blood cleanseth._ The light
+     reveals; we confess and forsake, and accept the blood; so we
+     cleanse ourselves. Let there be a very determined purpose to be
+     clean from all defilement, everything that our Father considers
+     a stain.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-fifth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holy and Blameless.
+
+  'Ye are witnesses, and God also, how _holily_ and justly and
+  _unblameably_ we behaved ourselves among you that believe.--The
+  Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another,
+  and toward all men, to the end He may stablish your hearts
+  _unblameable in holiness_ before our God and Father at the coming
+  of our Lord Jesus with all His _holy ones_.'--1 Thess. ii. 10,
+  iii. 12, 13.
+
+  'He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we
+  should be _holy and without blemish_ before Him _in love_.'--Eph.
+  i. 4.
+
+
+There are two Greek words, signifying nearly the same, used frequently
+along with the word holy, and following it, to express what the result and
+effect of holiness will be as manifested in the visible life. The one is
+translated without blemish, spotless, and is that also used of our Lord
+and His sacrifice, the Lamb without blemish (Heb. ix. 14; 1 Pet. i. 19).
+It is then used of God's children with holy--holy and without blemish
+(Eph. i. 4, 5, 27; Col. i. 22; Phil. ii. 15; Jude 24; 2 Pet. iii. 14). The
+other is without blame, faultless (as in Luke i. 6; Phil ii. 15, iii. 6),
+and is also found in conjunction with holy (1 Thess. ii. 10, iii. 13, v.
+23). In answer to the question as to whether this blamelessness has
+reference to God's estimate of the saints or men's, Scripture clearly
+connects it with both. In some passages (Eph. i. 4, v. 27; Col. i. 22;
+1 Thess. iii. 15; 2 Pet. iii. 14) the words 'before Him,' 'to Himself,'
+'before our God and Father,' indicate that the first thought is of the
+spotlessness and faultlessness in the presence of a Holy God, which is
+held out to us as His purpose and our privilege. In others (such as Phil.
+ii. 15; 1 Thess. ii. 10), the blamelessness in the sight of men stands in
+the foreground. In each case the word may be considered to include both
+aspects: without blemish and without blame must stand the double test of
+the judgment of God and man too.
+
+And what is now the special lesson which this linking together of these
+two words in Scripture, and the exposition of holy by the addition of
+blameless, is meant to teach us? A lesson of deep importance. In the
+pursuit of holiness, the believer, the more clearly he realizes what a
+deep spiritual blessing it is, to be found only in separation from the
+world, and direct fellowship with God, to be possessed fully only
+through a real Divine indwelling, may be in danger of looking too
+exclusively to the Divine side of the blessing, in its heavenly and
+supernatural aspect. He may forget how repentance and obedience, as the
+path leading up to holiness, must cover every, even the minutest detail
+of daily life. He may not understand how faithfulness to the leadings
+of the Spirit, in such measure as we have Him already, faithfulness to
+His faintest whisper in reference to ordinary conduct, is essential to
+all fuller experience of His power and work as the Spirit of holiness.
+He may, above all, not have learnt how, not only obedience to what he
+knows to be God's will, but a very tender and willing teachableness to
+receive all that the Spirit has to show him of his imperfections and the
+Father's perfect will concerning him, is the only condition on which the
+Holiness of God can be more fully revealed to us and in us. And so,
+while most intent on trying to discover the secret of true and full
+holiness from the Divine side, he may be tolerating faults which all
+around him can notice, or remaining,--and that not without sin, because
+it comes from the want of perfect teachableness,--ignorant of graces and
+beauties of holiness with which the Father would have had him adorn the
+doctrine of holiness before men. He may seek to live a very holy, and
+yet think little of a perfectly blameless life.
+
+There have been such saints, holy but hard, holy but distant, holy but
+sharp in their judgments of others; holy, but men around said, unloving
+and selfish; the half-heathen Samaritan more kind and self-sacrificing
+than the holy Levite and priest. If this be true, it is not the teaching
+of Holy Scripture that is to blame. In linking holy and without blemish
+(or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to
+seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the
+blamelessness of practice and of daily life. Let every believer who
+rejoices in God's declaration that he is holy in Christ seek also to
+perfect holiness, reach out after nothing less than to be 'unblameable
+in holiness.'
+
+That this blamelessness has very special reference to our intercourse
+with our fellow-men we see from the way in which it is linked with love.
+So in Eph. i. 4, 'That we should be holy and without blemish before Him
+_in love_.' But specially in that remarkable passage: 'The Lord make you
+to _increase and abound in love_ toward one another, and toward all men,
+_to the end He may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness_.' The
+holiness and the blamelessness, the positive hidden Divine
+life-principle, and the external and human life-practice--both are to
+find their strength, by which we are to be established in them, in our
+abounding and ever-flowing love.
+
+Holiness and lovingness--it is of deep importance that these words
+should be inseparably linked in our minds, as their reality in our
+lives. We have seen, in the study of the holiness of God, how love is
+the element in which it dwells and works, drawing to itself and making
+like itself all that it can get possession of. Of the fire of Divine
+holiness love is the beautiful flame, reaching out to communicate itself
+and assimilate to itself all it can lay hold of. In God's children true
+holiness is the same; the Divine fire burns to bring into its own
+blessedness all that comes within its reach. When Jesus sanctified
+Himself that we might be sanctified in truth, that was nothing but love
+giving itself to the death that the sinful might share His holiness.
+Selfishness and holiness are irreconcilable. Ignorance may think of
+sanctity as a beautiful garment with which to adorn itself before God,
+while underneath there is a selfish pride saying, 'I am holier than
+thou,' and quite content that the other should want what it boasts of.
+True holiness, on the contrary, is the expulsion and the death of
+selfishness, taking possession of heart and life to be the ministers of
+that fire of love that consumes itself, to reach and purify and save
+others. Holiness is love. Abounding love is what Paul prays for as the
+condition of unblameable holiness. It is as _the Lord makes_ us to
+increase and abound in love, that _He can establish_ our hearts
+unblameable in holiness.
+
+The Apostle speaks of a twofold love, 'love toward each other, and
+toward all men.' Love to the brethren was what our Lord Himself enjoined
+as the chief mark of discipleship. And He prayed the Father for it as
+the chief proof to the world of the truth of His Divine mission. It is
+in the holiness of love, in a loving holiness, that the unity of the
+body will be proved and promoted, and prepared for the fuller workings
+of the Holy Spirit. In the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians,
+division and distance among believers are named as the sure proof of the
+life of self and the flesh. Oh, let us, if we would be holy, begin by
+being very gentle, and patient, and forgiving, and kind, and generous in
+our intercourse with all the Father's children. Let us study the Divine
+image of the love that seeketh not its own, and pray unceasingly that
+the Lord may make us to abound in love to each other. The holiest will
+be the humblest and most self-forgetting, the gentlest and most
+self-denying, the kindest and most thoughtful of others for Jesus' sake.
+'Put on therefore, as God's elect, _holy and beloved_, a heart of
+compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering' (Col. iii. 12,
+13).
+
+And then the love toward all men. A love proved in the conduct and
+intercourse of daily life. A love that not only avoids anger and evil
+temper and harsh judgments, but exhibits the more positive virtue of
+active devotion to the welfare and interests of all. A charitable love
+that cares for the bodies as well as the souls. A love that not only is
+ready to help when it is called, but that really gives itself up to
+self-denial and self-sacrifice to seek out and relieve the needs of the
+most wretched and unworthy. A love that does indeed take Christ's love,
+that brought Him from heaven and led Him to choose the cross, as the
+only law and measure for its conduct, and makes everything subordinate
+to the Godlike blessedness of giving, of doing good, of embracing and
+saving the needy and lost. Thus abounding in love, we shall be
+unblameable in holiness.
+
+It is in Christ we are holy; of God we are in Christ, who is made of
+God unto us sanctification: it is in this faith that Paul prays that the
+Lord, our Lord Jesus, may make us increase and abound in love. The
+Father is the fountain, He is the channel; the Holy Spirit is the living
+stream. And He is our Life, through the Spirit. It is by faith in Him,
+by abiding in Him and in His love, by allowing, in close union with Him,
+the Spirit to shed abroad the love of God, that we shall receive the
+answer to our prayer, and shall by Himself be established unblameable in
+holiness. Let it be with us a prayer of faith that changes into praise:
+Blessed be the Lord, who will make us increase and abound in love, and
+will establish us unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at
+the coming of our Lord Jesus with His holy ones.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Gracious God and Father! again do I thank Thee for that wondrous
+salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, which has made us holy
+in Christ. And I thank Thee that the Spirit can so make us partakers of
+the life of Christ, that we too may be unblameable in holiness. And that
+it is the Lord Himself who makes us to increase and abound in love, to
+the end our hearts may be so established; that the abounding love and
+the unblameable holiness are both from Him.
+
+Blessed Lord and Saviour! I come now to claim and take as my own, what
+Thou art able to do for me. I am holy only in Thee; in Thee I am holy.
+In Thee there is for me the power to abound in love. O Thou, in whom the
+fulness of God's love abides, and in whom I abide, the Lord, my Lord,
+make me to abound in love. In union with Thee, in the life of faith in
+which Thou livest in me, it can be and it shall be. By the teaching of
+Thy Holy Spirit lead me in all the footsteps of Thy self-denying love,
+that I too may be consumed in blessing others.
+
+And thus, Lord! mightily establish my heart to be unblameable in
+holiness. Let self perish at Thy presence. Let Thy Holiness, giving
+itself to make the sinner holy, take entire possession, until my heart
+and life are sanctified wholly, and my whole spirit and soul and body be
+preserved blameless unto Thy coming. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Let us pray very earnestly that our interest in the study of
+     holiness may not be a thing of the intellect or the emotions,
+     but of the will and the life, seen of all men in the daily walk
+     and conversation. 'Abounding in love,' 'unblameable in
+     holiness,' will give favour with God and man.
+
+  2. 'God is Love;' Creation is the outflow of love. Redemption is
+     the sacrifice and the triumph of love. Holiness is the fire of
+     love. The beauty of the life of Jesus is love. All we enjoy of
+     the Divine we owe to love. Our holiness is not God's, is not
+     Christ's, if we do not love.
+
+  3. 'Love seeketh not its own.' 'Love never faileth.' 'Love is the
+     fulfilling of the law.' 'The greatest of these is love.' 'The
+     end of the commandment is love.' To love God and man is to be
+     holy. In the intercourse of daily life, holiness can have its
+     simple and sweet beginnings and its exercise; so, in its
+     highest attainment, holiness is love made perfect.
+
+  4. Faith has all its worth from love, from the love of God, whence
+     it draws and drinks, and the love to God and man which streams
+     out of it. Let us be strong in faith, then shall we abound in
+     love.
+
+  5. 'The love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the
+     Holy Ghost which was given unto us.' Let this be our
+     confidence.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-sixth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and the Will of God.
+
+  'This is _the will of God_, even your _sanctification_.'--1 Thess.
+  iv. 3.
+
+  'Lo, I am come to do _Thy will_. By _which will_ we have been
+  _sanctified_, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
+  once for all.'--Heb. x. 9, 10.
+
+
+In the will of God we have the union of His Wisdom and Power. The Wisdom
+decides and declares what is to be: the Power secures the performance.
+The declarative will is only one side; its complement, the executive
+will, is the living energy in which everything good has its origin and
+existence. So long as we only look at the will of God in the former
+light, as law, we feel it a burden, because we have not the power to
+perform--it is too high for us. When faith looks to the Power that works
+in God's will, and carries it out, it has the courage to accept it and
+fulfil it, because it knows God Himself is working it out. The surrender
+in faith to the Divine will as Wisdom thus becomes the pathway to the
+experience of it as a Power. 'He doeth according to His will,' is then
+the language not only of forced submission, but of joyful expectation.
+
+'This is the will of God, your sanctification.' In the ordinary
+acceptation of these words, they simply mean that among many other
+things that God has willed, sanctification is one; it is something in
+accordance with His will. This thought contains teaching of great value.
+God very distinctly and definitely has willed your sanctification: your
+sanctification has its source and certainty in its being God's will. We
+are 'elect in sanctification of the Spirit,' 'chosen to be holy;' the
+purpose of God's will from eternity, and His will now, is our
+sanctification. We have only to think of what we said of God's will
+being a Divine power that works out what His wisdom has chosen, to see
+what strength this truth will give to our faith that we shall be holy:
+God wills it, and will work it out for all and in all who do not resist
+it, but yield themselves to its power. Seek your sanctification, not
+only in the will of God, as a declaration of what He wants you to be,
+but as a revelation of what He Himself will work out in you.
+
+There is, however, another most precious thought suggested. If our
+sanctification be God's will, its central thought and its contents,
+_every part of that will_ must bear upon it, and the sure entrance to
+sanctification will be the hearty acceptance of the will of God in all
+things. To be one with God's will is to be holy. Let him who would be
+holy take his place here and 'stand in all the will of God.' He will
+there meet God Himself, and be made partaker of His Holiness, because
+His will works out its purpose in power to each one who yields himself
+to it. Everything in a life of holiness depends upon our being in the
+right relation to the will of God.
+
+There are many Christians to whom it appears impossible to think of
+their accepting all the will of God, or of their being one with it. They
+look upon the will of God in its thousand commands, and its numberless
+providential orderings. They have sometimes found it so hard to obey one
+single command, or to give up willingly to some light disappointment.
+They imagine that they would need to be a thousandfold holier and
+stronger in grace, before venturing to say that they do accept all God's
+will, whether to do or to bear. They cannot understand that all the
+difficulty comes from their not occupying the right standpoint. They are
+looking at God's will as at variance with their natural will, and they
+feel that that natural will will never delight in all God's will. They
+forget that the new man has a renewed will. This new will delights in
+the will of God, because it is born of it. This new will sees the beauty
+and the glory of God's will, and is in harmony with it. If they are
+indeed God's children, the very first impulse of the spirit of a child
+is surely to do the will of the Father in heaven. And they have but to
+yield themselves heartily and wholly to this spirit of sonship, and they
+need not fear to accept God's will as theirs.
+
+The mistake they make is a very serious one. Instead of living by faith
+they judge by feeling, in which the old nature speaks and rules. It
+tells them that God's will is often a burden too hard to be borne, and
+that they never can have the strength to do it. Faith speaks
+differently. It reminds us that God is Love, and that His will is
+nothing but Love revealed. It asks if we do not know that there is
+nothing more perfect or beautiful in heaven or earth than the will of
+God. It shows us how in our conversion we have already professed to
+accept God as Father and Lord. It assures us, above all, that if we will
+but definitely and trustingly give ourselves to that will which is Love,
+it will as Love fill our hearts and make us delight in it, and so become
+the power that enables us joyfully to do and to bear. Faith reveals to
+us that the will of God is the power of His love, working out its plan
+in Divine beauty in each one who wholly yields to it.
+
+And which shall we now choose? And where shall we take our place? Shall
+we attempt to accept Christ as a Saviour without accepting His will?
+Shall we profess to be the Father's children, and yet spend our life in
+debating how much of His will we shall perform? Shall we be content to
+go on from day to day with the painful consciousness that our will is
+not in harmony with God's will? Or shall we not at once and for ever
+give up our will as sinful to His,--to that Will which He has already
+written on our heart? This is a thing that is possible. It can be done.
+In a simple, definite transaction with God, we can say that we do accept
+His holy will to be ours. Faith knows that God will not pass such a
+surrender unnoticed, but accept it. In the trust that He now takes us up
+into His will, and undertakes to breathe it into us, with the love and
+the power to perform it--in this faith let us enter into God's will, and
+begin a new life; standing in, abiding in the very centre of this most
+holy will.
+
+Such an acceptance of God's will prepares the believer, through the Holy
+Spirit, to recognise and know that will in whatever form it comes. The
+great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that
+the latter acknowledges God, under whatever low and poor and human
+appearances He manifests Himself. When God comes in trials which can be
+traced to no hand but His, he says, 'Thy will be done.' When trials come
+through the weakness of men or his own folly, when circumstances appear
+unfavourable to his religious progress, and temptations threaten to be
+too much for him and to overcome him, he learns first of all to see God
+in everything, and still to say, 'Thy will be done.' He knows that a
+child of God cannot possibly be in any situation without the will of His
+Heavenly Father, even when that will has been to leave him to his own
+wilfulness for a time, or to suffer the consequences of his own or
+others' sin. He sees this, and in accepting his circumstances as the
+will of God to try and prove him, he is in the right position for now
+knowing and doing what is right. Seeing and honouring God's will thus in
+everything, he learns always to abide in that will.
+
+He does so also by doing that will. As his spiritual discernment grows
+to say of whatever happens, 'All things are of God,' so he grows too in
+wisdom and spiritual understanding to know the will of God as it is to
+be done. In the indications of conscience and of Providence, in the
+teaching of the word and the Spirit, he learns to see how God's will has
+reference to every part and duty of life, and it becomes his joy, in all
+things, to live, 'doing the will of God from the heart, as unto the Lord
+and not unto men.' 'Labouring fervently in prayer to stand complete and
+fully assured in all the will of God,' he finds how blessedly the Father
+has accepted his surrender, and supplies all the light and strength that
+is needed that His will may be done by him on earth as it is in heaven.
+
+Let me ask every reader to say to a Holy God, whether he has indeed
+given himself to Him to be made holy? Whether he has accepted, and
+entered into, and is living in, the good and perfect will of God? The
+question is not, whether, when affliction comes, he accepts the
+inevitable and submits to a will he cannot resist. But whether he has
+chosen the will of God as his chief good, and has taken the
+life-principle of Christ to be his: 'I delight to do Thy will, O God.'
+This was the holiness of Christ, in which He sanctified Himself and us,
+the doing God's will. 'In which will we have been sanctified.' It is
+this will of God which is our sanctification.
+
+Brother! are you in earnest to be holy? wholly possessed of God? Here is
+the path. I plead with you not to be afraid or to hold back. You have
+taken God to be your God; have you really taken His will to be your
+will? Oh, think of the privilege, the blessedness, of having one will
+with God! and fear not to surrender yourself to it most unreservedly.
+The will of God is, in every part of it, and in all its Divine power,
+your sanctification.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Father! I come to say that I see that Thy will is my
+sanctification, and there alone I would seek it. Graciously grant that,
+by Thy Holy Spirit which dwelleth in me, the glory of that will, and the
+blessedness of abiding in it, may be fully revealed to me.
+
+Teach me to know it as the Will of Love, purposing always what is the
+very best and most blest for Thy child. Teach me to know it as the Will
+of Omnipotence, able to work out its every counsel in me. Teach me to
+know it in Christ, fulfilled perfectly on my behalf. Teach me to know it
+as what the Spirit wills and works in each one who yields to Him.
+
+O my Father! I acknowledge Thy claim to have Thy will alone done, and am
+here for it to do with me as Thou pleasest. With my whole heart I enter
+into it, to be one with it for ever. Thy Holy Spirit can maintain this
+oneness without interruption. I trust Thee, my Father, step by step, to
+let the light of Thy will shine in my heart and on my path, through that
+Spirit.
+
+May this be the holiness in which I live, that I forget and lose self in
+pleasing and honouring Thee. Amen.
+
+
+  1. Make it a study, in meditation and prayer and worship, to get a
+     full impression of the Majesty, the Perfection, the Glory of
+     the Will of God, with the privilege and possibility of living
+     in it.
+
+  2. Study it, too, as the expression of an infinite Love and
+     Fatherliness; its every manifestation full of loving-kindness.
+     Every providence is _God's will_; whatever happens, meet God in
+     it in humble worship. Every precept is _God's will_; meet God
+     in it with loving obedience. Every promise is _God's will_;
+     meet God in it with full trust. A life in the will of God is
+     rest and strength and blessing.
+
+  3. And forget not, above all, to believe in its Omnipotent Power.
+     _He worketh all things after the counsel of His will._ In
+     nature and those who resist Him, without their consent. In His
+     children, according to their faith, and as far as they will it.
+     Do believe that the will of God will work out its counsel in
+     you, as you trust it to do so.
+
+  4. This will is Infinite Benevolence and Beneficence revealed in
+     the self-sacrifice of Jesus. Live for others: so can you become
+     an instrument for the Divine will to use (Matt. xviii. 14; John
+     vi. 39, 40). Yield yourselves to this redeeming will of God,
+     that it may get full possession, and work out through you too
+     its saving purpose.
+
+  5. Christ is just the embodiment of God's will: He is, God's will
+     done. Abide in Him, by abiding in, by doing heartily and
+     always, the will of God. A Christian is, like Christ, a man
+     given up to the Will of God.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-seventh Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Service.
+
+  'If a man therefore cleanse himself from these, he shall be a
+  vessel unto honour, _sanctified_, meet _for the Master's use_,
+  prepared _unto every good work_.'--2 Tim. ii. 21.
+
+  'A _holy_ priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices. A _holy_
+  nation, that ye may _show forth the excellences of Him_ who called
+  you out of darkness into His marvellous light.'--1 Pet. ii. 5, 9.
+
+
+Through the whole of Scripture we have seen that whatever God sanctifies
+is to be used in the service of His Holiness. His Holiness is an
+infinite energy that only finds its rest in making holy: to the
+revelation of what He is in Himself, 'I the Lord _am holy_,' God
+continually adds the declaration of what He does, 'I am the Lord that
+_make holy_.' Holiness is a burning fire that extends itself, that seeks
+to consume what is unholy, and to communicate its own blessedness to all
+that will receive it. Holiness and selfishness, holiness and inactivity,
+holiness and sloth, holiness and helplessness, are utterly
+irreconcilable. Whatever we read of as holy, was taken into the service
+of the Holiness of God.
+
+Let us just look back on the revelation of what is holy in Scripture.
+The seventh day was made holy, that in it God might make His people
+holy. The tabernacle was holy, to serve as a dwelling for the Holy One,
+as the centre whence His Holiness might manifest itself to the people.
+The altar was most holy, that it might sanctify the gifts laid on it.
+The priests with their garments, the house with its furniture and
+vessels, the sacrifices and the blood,--whatever bore the name of holy
+had a use and a purpose. Of Israel, whom God redeemed from Egypt that
+they might be a _holy_ nation, God said, 'Let my people go, that they
+may _serve_ me.' The holy angels, the holy prophets and apostles, the
+holy Scriptures,--all bore the title as having been sanctified for the
+service of God. Our Lord speaks of Himself 'as the Son, whom the Father
+_sanctified and sent_ into the world.' And when He says, 'I sanctify
+myself,' He adds at once the purpose: it is in the service of the Father
+and His redeemed ones,--'that they themselves may be sanctified in
+truth.' And can it be thought possible, now that God, in Christ the Holy
+One, and in the Holy Spirit, is accomplishing His purpose, and gathering
+a people of saints, 'holy ones,' 'made holy in Christ,' that now
+holiness and service would be put asunder? Impossible! Here first we
+shall fully realize how essential they are to each other. Let us try and
+grasp their mutual relation. We are only made holy that we may serve.
+We can only serve as we are holy.
+
+_Holiness is essential to effectual service._ In the Old Testament we
+see degrees of holiness, not only in the holy places, but as much in the
+holy persons. In the nation, the Levites, the priests, and then the High
+Priest, there is an advance from step to step: as in each succeeding
+stage the circle narrows, and the service is more direct and entire, so
+the holiness required is higher and more distinct. It is even so in this
+more spiritual dispensation: the more of holiness, the greater the
+fitness for service; the more there is of true holiness, the more there
+is of God, and the more true and deep is the entrance He has had into
+the soul. The hold He has on the soul to use it in His service is more
+complete.
+
+In the Church of Christ there is a vast amount of work done which yields
+very little fruit. Many throw themselves into work in whom there is but
+little true holiness, little of the Holy Spirit. They often work most
+diligently, and, as far as human influence is concerned, most
+successfully. And yet true spiritual results in the building up of a
+holy temple in the Lord are but few. The Lord cannot work in them,
+because He has not the mastery of their inner life. His personal
+indwelling and fellowship, the rest of His Holy Presence, His Holiness
+reigning and ruling in the heart and life,--to all these they are
+comparative strangers. It has been rightly said that work is the cure
+for spiritual poverty and disease; to some believers who had been
+seeking holiness apart from service, the call to work has been an
+unspeakable blessing. But to many it has only been an additional blind
+to cover up the terrible want of heart-holiness and heart-fellowship
+with the living God. They have thrown themselves into work more
+earnestly than ever, and yet have not in their heart the rest-giving and
+refreshing witness that their work is acceptable and accepted.
+
+My brother! listen to the message. 'If a man _cleanse_ himself, he shall
+be a vessel unto honour, _sanctified_, _meet_ for the Master's use,
+_prepared_ unto every good work.' You cannot have the law of service
+more clearly or beautifully laid down. A vessel of honour, one whom the
+King will delight to honour, must be a vessel _cleansed_ from all
+defilement of flesh and spirit. Then only can it be a _sanctified_
+vessel, possessed and indwelt by God's Holy Spirit. So it becomes _meet
+for the Master's use_. He can use it, and work in it, and wield it. And
+so, clean and holy, and yielded into the Master's hands, we are Divinely
+prepared for every good work. Holiness is essential to service. If
+service is to be acceptable to God, and effectual for its work on souls,
+and to be a joy and a strength to ourselves, we must be holy. The will
+of God must first live in us, if it is to be done by us.
+
+How many faithful workers there are, mourning the want of power; longing
+and praying for it, and yet not obtaining it! They have spent their
+strength more in the outer court of work and service, than in the inner
+life of fellowship and faith. They truly have never understood that
+only as the Master gets possession of them, as the Holy Spirit has them
+at His disposal, can He use them, can they have true power. They often
+long and cry for what they call a baptism of power. They forget that the
+way to have God's power in us is for ourselves to be in His power. Put
+yourself into the power of God; let His holy will live in you; live in
+it and in obedience to it, as one who has no power to dispose of
+himself; let the Holy Spirit dwell within, as in His Holy Temple,
+revealing the Holy One on the throne, ruling all; He will without fail
+use you as a vessel of honour, sanctified and meet for the Master's use.
+Holiness is essential to effectual service.
+
+_And service is no less essential to true holiness._ We have repeated it
+so often: Holiness is an energy, an intense energy of desire and
+self-sacrifice, to make others partakers of its own purity and
+perfection. Christ sacrificed Himself--wherein did that sacrifice
+consist, and what was its aim? He sanctified Himself that we might be
+sanctified too. A holiness that is selfish is a delusion. True holiness,
+God's holiness in us, works itself out in love, in seeking and loving
+the unholy, that they may become holy too. Self-sacrificing love is of
+the very essence of holiness. The Holy One of Israel is its Redeemer.
+The Holy One of God is the dying Saviour. The Holy Spirit of God makes
+holy. There is no holiness in God but what is most actively engaged in
+loving and saving and blessing. It must be so in us too. Let every
+thought of holiness, every act of faith or prayer, every effort in
+pursuit of it, be animated by the desire and the surrender to the
+Holiness of God for use in the attaining of its object. Let your whole
+life be one distinctly and definitely given up to God for His use and
+service. Your circumstances may appear to be unfavourable. God may
+appear to keep the door closed against your working for Him in the way
+you would wish; your sense of unfitness may be painful. Still, let it be
+a matter settled between God and the soul, that your longing for
+holiness is that you may be fitter for Him to use, and that what He has
+given you of His Holiness in Christ and the Spirit is all at His
+disposal, waiting to be used. Be ready for Him to use; live out, in a
+daily life of humble, self-denying, loving service of others, what grace
+you have received. You will find that in the union and interchange of
+worship and work, God's Holiness will rest upon you.
+
+'The Father _sanctified_ the Son, _and sent_ Him into the world.' The
+world is the place for the sanctified one, to be its light, its salt,
+its life. We are 'sanctified in Christ Jesus,' and sent into the world
+too. Oh, let us not fear to accept our position--our double position; in
+the world, and in Christ! In the world, with its sin and sorrow, with
+its thousands of needs touching us at every point, and its millions of
+souls all waiting for us. And in Christ too. For the sake of that world
+we 'have been sanctified in Christ,' we are 'holy in Christ,' we have
+'the spirit of sanctification' dwelling in us. As a holy salt in a
+sinful world, let us give ourselves to our holy calling. Let us come
+nearer and nearer to God who has called us. Let us root deeper and
+deeper in Christ our sanctification, in whom we are of God. Let us enter
+more firmly and more fully into that faith in Him in whom we are, by
+which our whole life will be covered and taken up in His. Let us beseech
+the Father to teach us that His Holy Spirit does dwell in us every
+moment, making, if we live by faith, Christ with His Holiness, our home,
+our abode, our sure defence, and our infinite supply. As He which hath
+called us is holy, let us be holy in His own Son, through His own
+Spirit, and the fire of His Holy Love will work through us its work of
+judging and condemning, of saving and sanctifying. A sanctified soul God
+will use to save.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Blessed Master! I thank Thee for being anew reminded of the purpose of
+Thy Redeeming Love. Thou gavest Thyself that Thou mightest cleanse for
+Thyself a people of Thine own, zealous in good works. Thou wouldest make
+of each of us a vessel of honour, cleansed and sanctified, meet for Thy
+use, and prepared for every good work.
+
+Blessed Lord! write the lessons of Thy word deep in my heart. Teach me
+and all Thy people that if we would work for Thee, if we would have
+Thee work in us, and use us, we must be very holy, holy as God is holy.
+And that if we would be holy, we must be serving Thee. It is Thy own
+Spirit, by which Thou dost sanctify us to use us, and dost sanctify in
+using. To be entirely possessed of Thee is the path to sanctity and
+service both.
+
+Most Holy Saviour! we are in Thee as our sanctification: in Thee we
+would abide. In the rest of a faith that trusts Thee for all, in the
+power of a surrender that would have no will but Thine, in a love that
+would lose itself to be wholly Thine, Blessed Jesus, we do abide in
+Thee. In Thee we are holy: in Thee we shall bear much fruit.
+
+Oh, be pleased to perfect Thine own work in us! Amen.
+
+
+  1. It is difficult to make it clear in words how growth in
+     holiness will simply reveal itself as an increasing simplicity
+     and self-forgetfulness, accompanied by the restful and most
+     blessed assurance that God has complete possession of us and
+     will use us. We pass from the stage in which work presses as an
+     obligation; it becomes the joy of fruit-bearing; faith's
+     assurance that He is working out His will through us.
+
+  2. It has sometimes been said that people might be better employed
+     in working for God than attending Holiness Conventions. This is
+     surely a misunderstanding. It was before the throne of the
+     Thrice Holy One, and as he heard the Seraphim sing of God's
+     Holiness, that the prophet said, 'Here am I, send me.' As the
+     mission of Moses, and Isaiah, and the Son, whom the Father
+     _sanctified and sent_, each had its origin in the revelation of
+     God's Holiness, our missions will receive new power as they are
+     more directly born out of the worship of God as the Holy One,
+     and baptized into the Spirit of Holiness.
+
+  3. Let every worker take time to hear God's double call. If you
+     would work, be very holy. If you would be holy, give yourself
+     to God to use in His work.
+
+  4. Note the connection between 'sanctified' and 'meet for _the
+     Master's use_.' True holiness is being possessed of God; true
+     service being used of God. How much service there is in which
+     we are the chief agents, and ask God to help and to bless us.
+     True service is being yielded up to the Master _for Him to
+     use_. Then the Holy Ghost is the Agent, and we are the
+     Instruments of His will. Such service is Holiness.
+
+  5. 'I sanctify _Myself_, that _they also_:' a reference to others
+     is the root principle of all true holiness.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-eighth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Way into the Holiest.
+
+  'Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into _the Holiest_
+  by _the blood_ of Jesus, by _the way_ which He dedicated, a new
+  and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh: and
+  having a _great Priest_ over the house of God; let us draw near
+  with a true heart, in fulness of faith.'--Heb. x. 19-22.
+
+
+When the High Priest once a year entered into the second tabernacle
+within the veil, it was, we are told in the Epistle to the Hebrews, 'the
+Holy Ghost signifying that the way into _the Holiest of all_ was not yet
+made manifest.' When Christ died, the veil was rent; all who were
+serving in the holy place had free access at once into the Most Holy;
+the way into the Holiest of all was opened up. When the Epistle passes
+over to its practical application (x. 19), all its teaching is summed up
+in the words: 'Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into _the
+Holiest_, let us draw near.' Christ's redemption has opened the way to
+the Holiest of all: our acceptance of it must lead to nothing less than
+our drawing near and entering in. The words of our text suggest to us
+four very precious thoughts in regard to the place of access, the right
+of access, the way of access, the power of access.
+
+_The place of access._ Whither are we invited to draw nigh? 'Having
+boldness to enter into _the Holiest_.' The priests in Israel might enter
+the holy place, but were always kept excluded from the Holiest, God's
+immediate presence. The rent veil proclaimed liberty of access into that
+Presence. It is there that believers as a royal priesthood are now to
+live and walk. Within the veil, in the very Holiest of all, in the same
+place, the heavenlies, in which God dwells, in God's very Presence, is
+to be our abode--our home. Some speak as if the, 'Let us draw near,'
+meant prayer, and that in our special approach to God in acts of worship
+we enter the Holiest. No; great as this privilege is, God has meant
+something for us infinitely greater. We are to draw near, and dwell
+always, to live our life and do our work within the sphere, the
+atmosphere, of the inner sanctuary. It is God's Presence makes holy
+ground; God's immediate Presence in Christ makes any place the Holiest
+of all: and this is it into which we are to draw nigh, and in which we
+are to abide. There is not a single moment of the day, there is not a
+circumstance or surrounding, in which the believer may not be kept
+dwelling in the secret place of the Most High. As by faith he enters
+into the completeness of his reconciliation with God, and the reality
+of his oneness with Christ, as he thus, abiding in Christ, yields to the
+Holy Spirit to reveal within the Presence of the Holy One, the Holiest
+of all is around him, he is indeed in it. With an uninterrupted access
+he draws near.[13]
+
+_The right of access._ The thought comes up, and the question is asked:
+Is this not simply an ideal? can it be a reality, an experience in daily
+life to those who know how sinful their nature is? Blessed be God! it is
+meant to be. It is possible, because our right of access rests not in
+what we are, but in the blood of Jesus. 'Having _boldness_ to enter into
+the Holiest _by the blood_ of Jesus, let us draw near.' In the Passover
+we saw how redemption, and the holiness it aimed at, were dependent on
+the blood. In the sanctuary, God's dwelling, we know how in each part,
+the court, the holy place, the Most Holy, the sprinkling of blood was
+what alone secured access to God. And now that the blood of Jesus has
+been shed--oh! in what Divine power, what intense reality, what
+everlasting efficacy, we now have access into the Holiest of all, the
+Most Holy of God's heart and His love! We are indeed brought nigh by the
+blood. We have boldness to enter by the blood. 'The worshippers, being
+once cleansed, have no more conscience of sins.' Walking in the light,
+the blood of Jesus cleanses in the power of an endless life, with a
+cleansing that never ceases. No consciousness of unworthiness or
+remaining sinfulness need hinder the boldness of access: the liberty to
+draw near rests in the never-failing, ever-acting, ever-living efficacy
+of the Precious Blood. It is possible for a believer to dwell in the
+Holiest of all.
+
+_The way of access._ It is often thought that what is said of _the new
+and living way_, dedicated for us by Jesus, means nothing different from
+the boldness through His blood. This is not the case. The words mean a
+great deal more. 'Having boldness _by the blood_ of Jesus, let us draw
+near _by the way_ which He dedicated for us.' That is, He opened for us
+a way to walk in, as He walked in it, 'a new and living way, through the
+veil, that is to say, His flesh.' The way in which Christ walked when He
+gave His blood, is the very same in which we must walk too. That way is
+the way of the Cross. There must not only be faith in Christ's
+sacrifice, but fellowship with Him in it. That way led to the rending of
+the veil of the flesh, and so through the rent veil of the flesh, in to
+God. And was the veil of Christ's holy flesh rent that the veil of our
+sinful flesh might be spared? Verily, no. He meant us to walk in the
+very same way in which He did, following closely after Himself. He
+dedicated for us a new and living way through the veil, that is, His
+flesh. As we go in through the rent veil of _His flesh_, we find in it
+at once the need and the power for our flesh being rent too: following
+Jesus ever means conformity to Jesus. It is Jesus with the rent flesh,
+in whom we are, in whom we walk.[14] There is no way to God but through
+the rending of the flesh. In acceptance of Christ's life and death by
+faith as the power that works in us, in the power of the Spirit which
+makes us truly one with Christ, we all follow Christ as He passes on
+through the rent veil, that is, His flesh, and become partakers with Him
+of His crucifixion and death. The way of the cross, 'by which I have
+been crucified,' is the way through the rent veil. Man's destiny,
+fellowship with God in the power of the Holy Spirit, is only reached
+through the sacrifice of the flesh.
+
+And here we find now the solution of a great mystery--why so many
+Christians remain standing afar off, and never enter this Holiest of
+all; why the holiness of God's Presence is so little seen on them. They
+thought that it was only in Christ that the flesh needed to be rent, not
+in themselves. They thought that the liberty they had in the blood was
+the new and living way. They knew not that the way into true and full
+holiness, into the Holiest of all, that the full entrance into the
+fellowship of the holiness of the Great High Priest, was only to be
+reached through the rent veil of the flesh, through conformity to the
+death of Jesus. This is in very deed the way He dedicated for us. He is
+Himself the way; into His self-denial, His self-sacrifice, His
+crucifixion, He takes up all who long to be holy with His Holiness, holy
+as He is holy.
+
+_The power of access._ Does any one shrink back from entering the very
+Holiest for fear of this rending of the flesh, because he doubts whether
+he could bear it, whether he could indeed walk in such a path? Let him
+listen once more. Hear what follows: 'And _having a Great Priest_ over
+the House of God, let us draw near.' We have not only the Holiest of all
+inviting us, and the blood giving us boldness, and the way through the
+rent veil consecrated for us, but the Great Priest over the House of
+God, the Blessed Living Saviour, to draw, to help, and to welcome us. He
+is our Aaron. On His heart we see our name, because He only lives to
+think of us, and pray for us. On His forehead we see God's name, 'Holy
+to the Lord,' because in His Holiness the sins of our holy things are
+covered. _In Him_ we are accepted and sanctified; God receives us as
+holy ones. In the power of His love and His Spirit, in the power of Him
+the Holy One, in the joy of drawing nearer to Him and being drawn by
+Him, we gladly accept the way He has dedicated, and walk in His holy
+footsteps of self-denial and self-sacrifice. We see how the flesh is the
+thick veil that separates from the Holy One who is a Spirit, and it
+becomes an unceasing and most fervent prayer, that the crucifixion of
+the flesh may, in the power of the Holy Spirit, be in us a blessed
+reality. With the glory of the Holiest of all shining out on us through
+the opened veil, and the Precious Blood speaking so loudly of boldness
+of access, and the Great Priest beckoning us with His loving Presence to
+draw near and be blessed,--with all this, we dare no longer fear, but
+choose the way of the rent veil as the path we love to tread, and give
+ourselves to enter in and dwell within the veil, in the very Holiest of
+all.
+
+And so our life here will be the earnest of the glory that is to come,
+as it is written--note how we have the four great thoughts of our text
+over again--'These are they which came out of great tribulation,' that
+is, by the way of the rent flesh; 'and they washed their robes, and made
+them white in the blood of the Lamb,' their boldness through the blood;
+'therefore are they before the throne of God,' their dwelling in the
+Holiest of all; 'the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall be
+their Shepherd,' the Great Priest still the Shepherd, Jesus Himself
+their all in all.
+
+Brother! do you see what holiness is, and how it is to be found? It is
+not something wrought in yourself. It is not something put on you from
+without. Holiness is the Presence of God resting on you. Holiness comes
+as you consciously abide in that Presence, doing all your work, and
+living all your life as a sacrifice to Him, acceptable through Jesus
+Christ, sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Oh, be no longer fearful, as if
+this life were not for you! Look to Jesus; having a Great Priest over
+the House of God, let us draw near. Be occupied with Jesus. Our Brother
+has charge of the Temple; He has liberty to show us all, to lead us into
+the secret of the Father's presence. The entire management of the Temple
+has been given into His hands with this very purpose, that all the
+feeble and doubting ones might come with confidence. Only trust yourself
+to Jesus, to His leading and keeping. Only trust Jesus, God's Holy One,
+your Holy One; it is His delight to reveal to you what He has purchased
+with His blood. Trust Him to teach you the ordinances of the sanctuary.
+'That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the House
+of God,' He has been given. _Having a Great Priest_, let us enter in,
+let us dwell in the Holiest of all. In the power of the blood, in the
+power of the new and living way, in the power of the Living Jesus, let
+the Holiest of all, the Presence of God, be the home of our soul. You
+are 'Holy in Christ;' in Christ you are in God's Holy Presence and Love;
+just stay there.
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! how shall I praise Thee for the liberty to enter into the
+Holiest of all, and dwell there? And for the precious Blood, that brings
+us nigh? And for the new and living way, through the rent veil of that
+flesh which had separated us from Thee, in which my flesh now too has
+been crucified? And for the Great Priest over the House of God, our
+Living Lord Jesus, with Whom and in Whom we appear before Thee? Glory be
+to Thy Holy Name for this wonderful and most complete redemption.
+
+I beseech Thee, O my God! give me, and all Thy children, some right
+sense of how really and surely we may live each day, may spend our whole
+life, within the veil, in Thine own Immediate Presence. Give us the
+spirit of revelation, I pray Thee, that we may see how, through the rent
+veil, the glory of Thy Presence streameth forth from the Most Holy into
+the holy place; how, in the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, the kingdom
+of heaven came to earth, and all who yield themselves to that Spirit may
+know that in Christ they are indeed so near, so very near to Thee.
+O Blessed Father! let Thy Spirit teach us that this indeed is the holy
+life: a life in Christ the Holy One, always in the Light and the
+Presence of Thy Holy Majesty.
+
+Most Holy God! I draw nigh. In the power of the Holy Spirit I enter in.
+I am now in the Holiest of all. And here I would abide in Jesus, my
+Great Priest--here, in the Holiest of all. Amen.
+
+
+  1. To abide in Christ is to dwell in the Holiest of all. Christ is
+     not only the Sacrifice, and the Way, and the Great Priest, but
+     also Himself the Temple. 'The Lamb is the Temple.' As the Holy
+     Spirit reveals my union to Christ more clearly, and heart and
+     will lose themselves in Him, I dwell in the Holy Presence,
+     which is the Holiest of all. You are 'holy in Christ'--draw
+     near, enter in with boldness, and take possession--have no home
+     but in the Holiest of all.
+
+  2. 'Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He
+     might sanctify it.' _He gave Himself!_ Have you caught the
+     force of that word? Because He would have no one else do it,
+     because none could do it; to sanctify His Church, _He gave
+     Himself_ to do it. And so it is His own special beloved work to
+     sanctify the Church He loved. Just accept Himself to do it. He
+     can and will make you holy, that He may present you to
+     _Himself_ glorious, without spot or wrinkle. Let that word
+     _Himself_ live in you. The whole life and walk in the House of
+     God is in His charge. _Having_ a Great Priest, let us draw
+     near.
+
+  3. This entrance into the Holiest of all--an ever fresh and ever
+     deeper entrance--is, at the same time, an ever blessed resting
+     in the Father's Presence. Faith in the blood, following in the
+     way of the rent flesh, and fellowship with the Living Jesus,
+     are the three chief steps.
+
+  4. Enter into the Holiest of all, and dwell there. It will enter
+     into thee, and transform thee, and dwell in thee. And thy heart
+     will be the Holiest of all, in which He dwells.
+
+  5. Have we not at times been lifted, by an effort of thought and
+     will, or in the fellowship of the saints, into what seemed the
+     Holiest of all, and speedily felt that the flesh had entered
+     there too? It was because we entered not by the new way of
+     life--the way through death to life--the way of the rent veil
+     of the flesh. O our crucified Lord! teach us what this means;
+     give it us; be it Thyself to us.
+
+  6. Let me remember that my access into the Holiest is as a Priest.
+     Let me dwell before the Lord all the day as an Intercessor,
+     offering, unceasingly, pleadings which are acceptable in
+     Christ. May God's Church be like her of whom it is written,
+     'She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings
+     and prayers night and day.' It is for this we have access to
+     the Holiest of all.
+
+
+   [13] So near, so very near to God,
+          I cannot nearer be;
+        For in the person of His Son,
+          I am as near as He.
+
+   [14] 'Christ suffered, that He might bring us to God, being put to
+        death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit.' 'Forasmuch
+        then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also
+        with the same mind.' The flesh and the Spirit are antagonistic:
+        as the flesh dies, the Spirit lives.
+
+
+
+
+Twenty-ninth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Chastisement.
+
+  'He chasteneth us for our profit, that we may be partakers of _His
+  holiness_. Follow after _sanctification_, without which no man
+  shall see the Lord.'--Heb. xii. 10, 14.
+
+
+There is perhaps no part of God's word which sheds such Divine light
+upon suffering as the Epistle to the Hebrews. It does this because it
+teaches us what suffering was to the Son of God. It perfected His
+humanity. It so fitted Him for His work as the Compassionate High
+Priest. It proved that He, who had fulfilled God's will in suffering
+obedience, was indeed worthy to be its executor in glory, and to sit
+down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. 'It became God, in
+bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Author of their salvation
+_perfect_ through _sufferings_.' 'Though He was a Son, yet _learned_ He
+_obedience_ by the things which He _suffered_, and having been made
+_perfect_, became the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey
+Him.' As He said Himself of His suffering, 'I sanctify myself,' so we
+see here that His sufferings were indeed to Him the pathway to
+perfection and holiness.
+
+What Christ was and won was all for us. The power which suffering was
+proved to have in Him to work out perfection, the power which He
+imparted to it in sanctifying Himself through suffering, is the power of
+the new life that comes from Him to us. In the light of His example we
+can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is
+to God's child the token of the Father's love, and the channel of His
+richest blessing. To such faith the apparent mystery of suffering is
+seen to be nothing but a Divine need--the light affliction that works
+out--yea, _works out_ and actually effects the exceeding weight of
+glory. We agree not only to what is written, 'It _became_ Him to make
+the Author of salvation perfect through suffering,' but understand
+somewhat how Divinely becoming and meet it is that we too should be
+sanctified by suffering.
+
+'He chasteneth us for our profit, that we should be made partakers of
+His holiness.' Of all the precious words Holy Scripture has for the
+sorrowful, there is hardly one that leads us more directly and more
+deeply into the fulness of blessing that suffering is meant to bring. It
+is _His Holiness_, God's own Holiness, we are to be made partakers of.
+The Epistle had spoken very clearly of our sanctification from its
+Divine side, as wrought out for us, and to be wrought in us, by Jesus
+Himself. 'He which sanctifieth and they which are sanctified are all of
+one.' 'We have been sanctified by the one offering of Christ.' In our
+text we have the other side, the progressive work by which we are
+personally to accept and voluntarily to appropriate this Divine
+Holiness. In view of all there is in us that is at variance with God's
+will, and that must be discovered and broken down, before we understand
+what it is to give up our will and delight in God's; in view of the
+personal fellowship of suffering which alone can lead to the full
+appreciation of what Jesus bore and did for us; in view, too, of the
+full personal entrance into and satisfaction with the love of God as our
+sufficient portion; chastisement and suffering are indispensable
+elements in God's work of making holy. In these three aspects we shall
+see how what the Son needed is what we need, how what was of such
+unspeakable value to the Son will to us be no less rich in blessing.
+
+_Chastisement leads to the acceptance of God's will._ We have seen how
+God's will is our sanctification; how it is in the will of God Christ
+has sanctified us; yea more, how He found the power to sanctify us in
+sanctifying Himself by the entire surrender of His will to God. His 'I
+delight to do Thy will' derived its worth from His continual 'Not my
+will.' And wherever God comes with chastisement or suffering, the very
+first object He has in view is, to ask and to work in us union with His
+own blessed will, that through it we may have union with Himself and
+His love. He comes in some one single point in which His will crosses
+our most cherished affection or desire, and asks the surrender of what
+we will to what He wills. When this is done willingly and lovingly, He
+leads the soul on to see how the claim for the sacrifice in the
+individual matter is the assertion of a principle--that in everything
+His will is to be our one desire. Happy the soul to whom affliction is
+not a series of single acts of conflict and submission to single acts of
+His will, but an entrance into the school where we prove and approve all
+the good and perfect and acceptable will of God.
+
+It has sometimes appeared, even to God's children, as if affliction were
+not a blessing: it so rouses the evil nature, and calls forth all the
+opposition of the heart against God's will, that it has brought the loss
+of the peace and the piety that once appeared to reign. Even in such
+cases it is working out God's purpose. 'That He might humble thee, to
+prove thee, to know what was in thine heart,' is still His object in
+leading into the wilderness. To an extent we are not aware of, our
+religion is often selfish and superficial: when we accept the teaching
+of chastisement in discovering the self-will and love of the world which
+still prevails, we have learnt one of its first and most needful
+lessons.
+
+This lesson has special difficulty when the trial does not come direct
+from God, but through men or circumstances. In looking at second
+causes, and in seeking for their removal, in the feeling of indignation
+or of grief, we often entirely forget to see God's will in everything
+His Providence allows. As long as we do so, the chastisement is
+fruitless; and perhaps only hardens the more. If, in our study of the
+pathway of Holiness, there has been awakened in us the desire to accept
+and adore, and stand complete in, _all the will_ of God, let us in the
+very first place seek to recognise that will in everything that comes on
+us. The sin of him who vexes us is not God's will. But it is God's will
+that we should be in that position of difficulty to be tried and tested.
+Let our first thought be: this position of difficulty is my Father's
+will for me: I accept that will as my place now where He sees it fit to
+try me. Such acceptance of the trial is the way to turn it into
+blessing. It will lead on to an ever clearer abiding in all the will of
+God all the day.
+
+_Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son._ The will of God out
+of Christ is a law we cannot fulfil. The will of God in Christ is a life
+that fills us. He came in the name of our fallen humanity, and accepted
+all God's will as it rested on us, both in the demands of the law, and
+in the consequences which sin had brought upon man. He gave Himself
+entirely to God's will, whatever it cost Him. And so He paved for us a
+way through suffering, not only through it in the sense of past it and
+out of it, but by means and in virtue of it, into the love and glory of
+the Father. And it is in the power which Christ gives in fellowship
+with Himself that we too can love the way of the Cross, as the best and
+most blessed way to the Crown. Scripture says that the will of God is
+our sanctification, and also that Christ is our Sanctification. It is
+only in Christ that we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of
+God. In Him we have the power. He became our Sanctification once for all
+by delighting to do that will; He becomes our Sanctification in personal
+experience, by teaching us to delight to do it. He learned to do it; He
+could not become perfect in doing it otherwise than by suffering. In
+suffering He draws nigh; He makes our suffering the fellowship of His
+suffering; and in it makes Himself, who was perfected through suffering,
+our Sanctification.
+
+O ye suffering ones! all ye whom the Father is chastening! come and see
+Jesus suffering, giving up His will, being made perfect, sanctifying
+Himself. _His suffering is the secret of His Holiness, of His Glory, of
+His Life._ Will you not thank God for anything that can admit you into
+the nearer fellowship of your blessed Lord? Shall we not accept every
+trial, great or small, as the call of His love to be one with Himself in
+living only for God's will. This is Holiness, to be one with Jesus as He
+does the will of God, to abide in Jesus who was made perfect through
+suffering.
+
+_Chastisement leads to the enjoyment of God's love._ Many a father has
+been surprised as he made his first experience of how a child, after
+being punished in love, began to cling to him more tenderly than
+before. Even so, while to those who live at a distance from their
+Father, the misery in this world appears to be the one thing that shakes
+their faith in God's Love, it is just through suffering that His
+children learn to know the Reality of that Love. The chastening is so
+distinctly a father's prerogative; it leads so directly to the
+confession of its needfulness and its lovingness; it wakens so
+powerfully the longing for pardon and comfort and deliverance, that it
+does indeed become, strange though this may seem, one of the surest
+guides into the deeper experience of the Divine Love. Chastening is the
+school in which the blessed lesson is learnt that the will of God is all
+Love, and that Holiness is the fire of Love, consuming that it may
+purify, destroying the dross only that it may assimilate into its own
+perfect purity all that yields itself to the wondrous change.
+
+'We know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love:
+and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in Him.' Man's
+destiny is fellowship with God, the fellowship, the mutual indwelling of
+love. It is only by faith that this Love of God can be known. And faith
+can only grow by exercise, can only thrive in trial: when visible things
+fail, its energy is roused to yield itself to be possessed by the
+Invisible, by the Divine. Chastisement is the nurse of faith; one of its
+chosen attendants, to lead deeper into the Love of God. This is the new
+and living way, the way of the rent flesh in fellowship with Jesus
+leading up into the Holiest of all. There it is seen how the Justice
+that will not spare the child, and the Love that sustains and sanctifies
+it, are both one in the Holiness of God.
+
+0 ye chastened saints! who are so specially being led in the way that
+goes through the rent veil of the flesh, you have boldness to enter in.
+Draw near; come and dwell in the Holiest of all. Make your abode in the
+Holiest of all: there you are made partakers of _His_ Holiness.
+Chastisement is bringing your heart into unity with God's Will, God's
+Son, God's Love. Abide in God's Will. Abide in God's Son. Abide in God's
+Love. Dwell, within the veil, in the Holiest of all.
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! once again I bless Thee for the wondrous revelation of
+Thy Holiness. Not only have I heard Thee speak, 'I am holy,' but Thou
+hast invited me to fellowship with Thyself: 'Be holy, as I am holy.'
+Blessed be Thy name! I have heard more even: 'I make holy,' is Thy word
+of promise, pledging Thine own Power to work out the purpose of Thy
+Love. I do thank Thee for what Thou hast revealed in Thy Son, in Thy
+Spirit, in Thy Word, of the path of Holiness. But how shall I bless Thee
+for the lesson of this day, that there is not a loss or sorrow, not a
+pain or care, not a temptation or trial, but Thy love also means it, and
+makes it, to be a help in working out the holiness of Thy people.
+Through each Thou drawest to Thyself, that they may taste how, in
+accepting Thy Will of Love, there is blessing and deliverance.
+
+Blessed Father! Thou knowest how often I have looked upon the
+circumstances and the difficulties of this life as hindrances. Oh, let
+them all, in the light of Thy holy purpose to make us partakers of Thy
+Holiness, in the light of Thy Will and Thy Love, from this hour be
+helps. Let, above all, the path of Thy Blessed Son, proving how
+suffering is the discipline of a Father's love, and surrender the secret
+of holiness, and sacrifice the entrance to the Holiest of all, be so
+revealed that in the power of His Spirit and His grace that path may
+become mine. Let even chastening, even the least, be from Thine own
+hand, making me partaker of Thy Holiness. Amen.
+
+
+  1. How wonderful the revelation in the Epistle to the Hebrews of
+     the holiness and the holy making power of suffering, as seen in
+     the Son of God! 'He _learned obedience_ by the things which He
+     suffered.' 'It became God to make the Author of our salvation
+     _perfect_ through suffering, for both He that sanctifieth and
+     they who are sanctified are all of one.' 'In that He Himself
+     hath suffered, He is _able to succour_.' 'We behold Jesus,
+     because of the suffering of death, _crowned with glory_ and
+     honour.' Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and
+     living way Jesus walked in and opened for us. Let all sufferers
+     study this. Let all who are 'holy in Christ' here learn to know
+     the Christ _in whom_ they are holy, and the way in which He
+     sanctified Himself and sanctifies us.
+
+  2. If we begin by realizing the sympathy of Jesus with us in our
+     suffering, it will lead us on to what is more: sympathy with
+     Jesus in His suffering, fellowship with Him to suffer even as
+     He did.
+
+  3. Let suffering and holiness be inseparably linked, as in God's
+     mind and in Christ's person, so in your life through the
+     Spirit. 'It became God to make Him perfect through suffering;
+     for both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are
+     all of one.' Let _every trial_, small or great, be the touch of
+     God's hand, laying hold on you, to lead you to holiness. Give
+     yourself into that hand.
+
+  4. 'Insomuch as ye are partakers of _Christ's sufferings_,
+     rejoice; for _the Spirit of glory_ and of God resteth on you.'
+
+
+
+
+Thirtieth Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+The Unction from the Holy One.
+
+  'And ye have _an anointing from the Holy One_, and ye know all
+  things. And as for you, the anointing which ye received of Him
+  abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as His
+  anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is
+  no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in Him.'--1 John ii.
+  20, 27.
+
+
+In the revelation by Moses of God's Holiness and His way of making holy,
+the priests, and specially the high priests, were the chief expression
+of God's Holiness in man. In the priests themselves, the holy anointing
+oil was the one great symbol of the grace that made holy. Moses was to
+make an holy anointing oil: 'And thou shalt take of the anointing oil,
+and sprinkle it upon Aaron and upon his sons, and he shall be hallowed,
+and his sons with him.' 'This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me.
+Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured; neither shall ye make any other
+like it; it is holy, it shall be holy unto you' (Exod. xxix. 21, xxx.
+25-32). With this the priests, and specially the high priests, were to
+be anointed and consecrated: 'He that is the high priest among you, upon
+whose head the anointing oil was poured, shall not go out of the holy
+place, nor profane the holy place of his God; for _the crown of the
+anointing oil of his God_ is upon him' (Lev. xxi. 10, 12). And even so
+it is said of David, as type of the Messiah, 'Our king is _of the Holy
+One of Israel_. I have found David, my servant; with my _holy oil_ have
+I anointed him.'
+
+We know how the Hebrew name _Messiah_, and the Greek _Christ_, has
+reference to this. So, in the passage just quoted, the Hebrew is, 'with
+my holy oil I have _messiahed_ him.' And so in a passage like Acts x.
+38: 'Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, whom God _christed_ with the Holy
+Ghost and with power.' Or Ps. xlv.: 'God hath _messiahed_ thee with the
+oil of gladness above thy fellows;' in Heb. i. 9, 'Thy God hath
+_christed_ thee with the oil of gladness.' And so (as one of our
+Reformed Catechisms, the Heidelberg, has it, in answer to the question,
+Why art thou called a Christian?) we are called Christians, because we
+are fellow-partakers with Him of His christing, His anointing. This is
+the anointing of which John speaks, the chrisma or christing of the Holy
+One. The Holy Spirit is the holy anointing which every believer
+receives: what God did to His Son to make Him the Christ, He does to me
+to make me a Christian. 'Ye have the anointing of the Holy One.'
+
+1. _Ye have an anointing from the Holy One._ It is as the Holy One that
+the Father gives the anointing: that wherewith He anoints is called the
+oil of holiness, the Holy Spirit. Holiness is indeed a Divine ointment.
+Just as there is nothing so subtle and penetrating as the odour with
+which the ointment fills a house, so holiness is an indescribable,
+all-pervading breath of heavenliness which pervades the man on whom the
+anointing rests. Holiness does not consist in certain actions: this is
+righteousness. Holiness is the unseen and yet manifest presence of the
+Holy One resting on His anointed. Direct from the Holy One, the
+anointing is alone received, or rather, only in the abiding fellowship
+with Him in Christ, who is the Holy One of God.
+
+And who receives it? Only he who has given himself entirely to be holy
+as God is holy. It was the priest, who was separated to be holy to the
+Lord, who received the anointing: upon other men's flesh it was not to
+be poured. How many would fain have the precious ointment for the sake
+of its perfume to themselves! No, only he who is wholly consecrated to
+the service of the Holy One, to the work of the sanctuary, may receive
+it. If any one had said: I would fain have the anointing, but not be
+made a priest; I am not ready to go and always be at the call of sinners
+seeking their God, he could have no share in it. Holiness is the energy
+that only lives to make holy, and to bless in so doing: the anointing of
+the Holy One is for the priest, the servant of God Most High. It is only
+in the intensity of a soul truly roused and given up to God's glory,
+God's kingdom, God's work, that holiness becomes a reality. The holy
+garments were only prepared for priests and their service. In all our
+seekings after holiness, let us remember this. As we beware of the error
+of thinking that work for Christ will make holy, let us also watch
+against the other, the straining after holiness without work. It is the
+priest who is set apart for the service of the holy place and the Holy
+One, it is the believer who is ready to live and die that the Holiness
+of God may triumph among men around him, who will receive the anointing.
+
+2. '_The anointing teacheth you._' The new man is created in
+_knowledge_, as well as in righteousness and holiness. Christ is made to
+us _wisdom_, as well as righteousness and sanctification. God's service
+and our holiness are above all to be a free and full, an intelligent and
+most willing, approval of His blessed will. And so the anointing, to fit
+us for the service of the sanctuary, teaches us to know all things. Just
+as the perfume of the ointment is the most subtle essence, something
+that has never yet been found or felt, except as it is smelt, so the
+spiritual faculty which the anointing gives is the most subtle there can
+be. It makes 'quick of scent in the fear of the Lord:' it teaches us by
+a Divine instinct, by which the anointed one recognises what has the
+heavenly fragrance in it, and what is of earth. It is the anointing that
+makes the Word and the name of Jesus in the Word to be indeed as
+ointment poured forth.
+
+The great mark of the anointing is thus, teachableness. It is the great
+mark of Christ, the Holy One of God, the Anointed One, that He listens:
+'I speak not of myself; as I hear, so I speak.' And so it is of the Holy
+Spirit too: 'He shall not speak out of Himself: whatsoever He shall
+hear, that shall He speak.' It cannot be otherwise: one anointed with
+the anointing of this Christ, with this Holy Spirit, will be teachable,
+will listen to be taught. 'The anointing teacheth.' 'And ye need not
+that any one teach you: but the anointing teacheth you concerning all
+things.' 'They shall be all taught of God,' includes every believer. The
+secret of true holiness is a very direct and personal relation to the
+Holy One: all the teaching through the word or men made entirely
+dependent on and subordinate to the personal teaching of the Holy Ghost.
+The teaching comes through the anointing. Not, in the first place, in
+the thoughts or feelings, but in that all-pervading fragrance which
+comes from the fresh oil having penetrated the whole inner man.
+
+3. '_And the anointing abideth in you._' '_In you._' In the spiritual
+life it is of deep importance ever to maintain the harmony between the
+objective and the subjective: God in Christ above me, God in the Spirit
+within me. In us, not as in a locality, but _in us_, as one with us,
+entering into the most secret part of our being, and pervading all,
+dwelling in our very body, the anointing abideth _in us_, forming part
+of our very selves. And this just in proportion as we know it and yield
+ourselves to it, as we wait and are still to let the secret fragrance
+permeate our whole being. And this, again, not interruptedly, but as a
+continuous and unvarying experience. Above circumstances and feelings,
+'the anointing abideth.' Not, indeed, as a fixed state or as something
+in our own possession; but, according to the law of the new life, in the
+dependence of faith on the Holy One, and in the fellowship of Jesus. 'I
+am anointed with fresh oil,'--this is the objective side; every new
+morning the believer waits for the renewal of the Divine gift from the
+Father. 'The anointing abideth in you,'--this is the subjective side;
+the holy life, the life of faith and fellowship, the anointing, is
+always, from moment to moment, a spiritual reality. The holy anointing
+oil, always fresh, the anointing abiding always, is the secret of
+holiness.
+
+4. '_And even as it taught you, ye abide in Him._' Here we have again
+the Holy Trinity: the Holy One, from whom the holy anointing comes; the
+Holy Spirit, who is Himself the anointing; and Christ, the Holy One of
+God, in whom the anointing teaches us to abide. In Christ the unseen
+holiness of God was set before us, and brought nigh: it became human,
+vested in a human nature, that it might be communicated to us. Within us
+dwells and works the Holy Spirit, drawing us out to the Christ of God,
+uniting us in heart and will to Him, revealing Him, forming Him within
+us, so that His likeness and mind are embodied in us. It is thus we
+abide in Christ: the holy anointing of the Holy One teacheth it to us.
+It is this that is the test of the true anointing: abiding in Christ, as
+He meant it, becomes truth in us. Here is the life of holiness as the
+Thrice Holy gives it: the Father, the first, the Holy One, making holy;
+the Son, the second, His Holy One, in whom we are; the Spirit, the
+third, who dwells in us, and through whom we abide in Christ, and Christ
+in us. Thus it is that the Thrice Holy makes us holy.
+
+Let us study the Divine anointing. It comes from the Holy One. There is
+no other like it. It is God's way of making us holy--His holy priests.
+It is God's way of making us partakers of holiness in Christ. The
+anointing, received of Him day by day, abiding in us, teaching us all
+things, especially teaching us to abide in Christ, must be on us every
+day. Its subtle, all-pervading power must go through our whole life: the
+odour of the ointment must fill the house. Blessed be God, it can do so!
+The anointing that abideth makes the abiding in Christ a reality and a
+certainty; and God Himself, the Holy One, makes the abiding anointing a
+reality and a certainty too. To His Holy Name be the praise!
+
+  BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
+
+
+O Thou, who art the Holy One, I come to Thee now for the renewed
+anointing. O Father! this is the one gift Thy child may most surely
+count on--the gift of Thy Holy Spirit. Grant me now to sing, 'Thou
+anointest my head;' 'I am anointed with fresh oil.'
+
+I desire to confess with deep shame that Thy Spirit has been sorely
+grieved and dishonoured. How often the fleshly mind has usurped His
+place in Thy worship! How much the fleshly will has sought to do His
+work! O my Father! let Thy light shine through me to convince me very
+deeply of this. Let Thy judgment come on all that there is of human
+willing and running.
+
+Blessed Father! grant me, according to the riches of Thy glory, even now
+to be strengthened with might by Thy Spirit in the inner man. Strengthen
+my faith to believe in Christ for a full share in His anointing. Oh,
+teach me day by day to wait for and receive the anointing with fresh
+oil!
+
+O my Father! draw me and all Thy children to see that for the abiding in
+Christ we need the abiding anointing. Father! we would walk humbly, in
+the dependence of faith, counting upon the inner and ever-abiding
+anointing. May we so be a sweet savour of Christ to all. Amen.
+
+
+  1. I think I know now the reason why at times we fail in the
+     abiding. We think and read, we listen and pray, we try to
+     believe and strive to look to Jesus only, and yet we fail. What
+     was wanting was this: 'His anointing teacheth you; _even as_ it
+     taught you, ye abide in him;' so far, and no farther.
+
+  2. The washing always precedes the anointing: we cannot have the
+     anointing if we fail in the cleansing. When cleansed and
+     anointed we are fit for use.
+
+  3. Would you have the abiding anointing? Yield yourself wholly
+     to be sanctified and made meet for the Master's use: dwell in
+     the Holiest of all, in God's presence: accept every
+     chastisement as a fellowship in the way of the rent flesh: be
+     sure the anointing will flow in union with Jesus. 'It is like
+     the precious ointment upon the head of Aaron, that went down to
+     the skirts of his garments.'
+
+  4. The anointing is the Divine eye-salve, opening the eyes of the
+     heart to know Jesus. So it teaches to abide in Him. I am sure
+     most Christians have no conception of the danger and
+     deceitfulness of a thought religion, with sweet and precious
+     thoughts coming to us in books and preaching, and little power.
+     The teaching of the Holy Spirit is in the heart first; man's
+     teaching in the mind. Let all our thinking ever lead us to
+     cease from thought, and to open the heart and will to the
+     Spirit to teach there in His own Divine way, deeper than
+     thought and feeling. Unseen, within the veil, the Holy Spirit
+     abideth. Be silent and still, believe and expect, and cling to
+     Jesus.
+
+  5. Oh that God would visit His Church, and teach His children what
+     it is to wait for, and receive, and walk in the full anointing,
+     the anointing that abideth and teacheth to abide! Oh that the
+     truth of the personal leading of the Holy Spirit in every
+     believer were restored in the Church! He is doing it; He will
+     do it.
+
+
+
+
+Thirty-first Day.
+
+
+HOLY IN CHRIST.
+
+Holiness and Heaven.
+
+  'Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of
+  men ought ye to be in all _holy_ living and godliness?'--2 Pet.
+  iii. 11.
+
+  'Follow after _the sanctification_ without which no man shall see
+  the Lord.'--Heb. xii. 14.
+
+  'He that is _holy_, let him be made _holy_ still.... The grace of
+  the Lord Jesus be with the _holy ones_. Amen.'--Rev. xxii. 11, 21.
+
+
+O my brother, we are on our way to see God. We have been invited to meet
+the Holy One face to face. The infinite mystery of holiness, the glory
+of the Invisible God, before which the seraphim veil their faces, is to
+be unveiled, to be revealed to us. And that not as a thing we are to
+look upon and to study. But we are to see the Thrice Holy One, the
+Living God Himself. God, the Holy One, will show Himself to us: we are
+to see God. Oh, the infinite grace, the inconceivable blessedness! we
+are to see God.
+
+We are to see God, the Holy One. And all our schooling here in the life
+of holiness is simply the preparation for that meeting and that vision.
+'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.' 'Follow after
+the sanctification, without which no man shall see the Lord.' Since the
+time when God said to Israel, 'Be ye holy, as I am holy,' Holiness was
+revealed as the only meeting-place between God and His people. To be
+holy was to be the common ground on which they were to stand with Him;
+the one attribute in which they were to be like God; the one thing that
+was to prepare them for the glorious time when He would no longer need
+to keep them away, but would admit them to the full fellowship of His
+glory, to have the word fulfilled in them: 'He that is holy, let him be
+made yet more holy.'
+
+In his second epistle, Peter reminds believers that the coming of the
+day of the Lord is to be preceded and accompanied by the most tremendous
+catastrophe--the dissolution of the heavens and the earth. He makes it a
+plea with them to give diligence that they may be found without spot and
+blameless in His sight. And he asks them to think and say, under the
+deep sense of what the coming of the day of God would be and would
+bring, what the life of those ought to be who look for such things:
+'What manner of person ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness?'
+Holiness must be its one, its universal characteristic. At the close of
+our meditations on God's call to Holiness, we may take Peter's question,
+and in the light of all that God has revealed of His Holiness, and all
+that waits still to be revealed, ask ourselves, 'What manner of men
+ought we to be in all holy living and godliness?'
+
+Note first the meaning of the question. In the original Greek, the words
+living and godliness are plural. Alford says, '_In holy behaviours and
+pieties_; the plurals mark the holy behaviour and piety _in all its
+forms and examples_.' Peter would plead for a life of holiness pervading
+the whole man: our behaviours towards men, and our pieties towards God.
+True holiness cannot be found in anything less. Holiness must be the
+one, the universal characteristic of our Christian life. In God we have
+seen that holiness is the central attribute, the comprehensive
+expression for Divine perfection, the attribute of all the attributes,
+the all-including epithet by which He Himself, as Redeemer and Father,
+His Son and His Spirit, His Day, His House, His Law, His Servants, His
+People, His Name, are marked and known. Always and in everything, in
+Judgment as in Mercy, in His Exaltation and His Condescension, in His
+Hiddenness and His Revelation, always and in everything, God is the Holy
+One. And the Word would teach us that the reign of Holiness, to be true
+and pleasing to God, must be supreme, must be in all holy living and
+godliness. There must not be a moment of the day, nor a relation in
+life; there must be nothing in the outer conduct, nor in the inmost
+recesses of the heart; there must be nothing belonging to us, whether
+in worship or in business, that is not holy. The Holiness of Jesus, the
+Holiness which comes of the Spirit's anointing, must cover and pervade
+all. Nothing, nothing may be excluded, if we are to be holy; it must be
+as Peter said when he spoke of God's call--holy in all manner of living;
+it must be as he says here--'in all holy living and godliness.' To use
+the significant language of the Holy Spirit: Everything must be done,
+'worthily of the holy ones,' 'as becometh holy ones' (Rom. xvi. 3; Eph.
+v. 3).
+
+Note, too, the force of the question. Peter says, 'Wherefore, beloved,
+seeing that ye look for these things.' Yes, let us think what that
+means. We have been studying, down through the course of Revelation,
+the wondrous grace and patience with which God has made known and made
+partaker of His holiness, all in preparation for what is to come. We
+have heard God, the Holy One, calling us, pleading with us, commanding
+us to be holy, as He is holy. And we expect to meet Him, and to dwell
+through eternity in His Light, holy as He is holy. It is not a dream; it
+is a living reality; we are looking forward to it, as the only one thing
+that makes life worth living. We are looking forward to Love to welcome
+us, as with the confidence of childlike love we come as His holy ones to
+cry, Holy Father!
+
+We have learnt to know Jesus, the Holy One of God, our Sanctification.
+We are living in Him, day by day, as those who are holy in Christ Jesus.
+We are drawing on His Holiness without ceasing. We are walking in that
+will of God which He did, and which He enables us to do. And we are
+looking forward to meet Him with great joy, 'when He shall come to be
+glorified in the holy ones, and to be admired in all them that believe.'
+We have within us the Holy Spirit, the Holiness of God in Christ come
+down to be at home within us, as the earnest of our inheritance. He, the
+Spirit of Holiness, is secretly transforming us within, sanctifying our
+spirit, soul, and body, to be blameless at His coming, and making us
+meet for the inheritance of the holy ones in light. We are looking
+forward to the time when He shall have completed His work, when the body
+of Christ shall be perfected, and the bride, all filled and streaming
+with the life and glory of the Spirit within her, shall be set with Him
+on His throne, even as He sat with the Father on His throne. We hope
+through eternity to worship and adore the mystery of the Thrice Holy
+One. Even here it fills our souls with trembling joy and wonder: when
+God's work of making holy is complete, how we shall join in the song,
+'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which wast, and art, and art to
+come!'
+
+In preparation for all this the most wonderful events are to take place.
+The Lord Jesus Himself is to appear, the power of sin and the world is
+to be destroyed; this visible system of things is to be broken up; the
+power of the Spirit is to triumph through all creation; there is to be a
+new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. And holiness
+is then to be unfolded in ever-growing blessedness and glory in the
+fellowship of the Thrice Holy: 'He that is holy, let him be holy yet
+more.' Surely it but needs the question to be put for each believer to
+feel and acknowledge its force: 'Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look
+for these things, what manner of men ought ye to be in all holy living
+and godliness?'
+
+And note now the need and the point of the question. 'What manner of
+persons ought ye to be?' But is such a question needed? Can it be that
+God's holy ones, made holy in Christ Jesus, with the very spirit of
+holiness dwelling with them, on the way to meet the Holy One in His
+Glory and Love, can it be that they need the question? Alas! alas! it
+was so in the time of Peter; it is but too much so in our days too.
+Alas! how many Christians there are to whom the very word Holy, though
+it be the name by which the Father, in His New Testament, loves to call
+His children more than any other, is strange and unintelligible. And
+again, alas! for how many Christians there are for whom, when the word
+is heard, it has but little attraction, because it has never yet been
+shown to them as a life that is indeed possible, and unutterably
+blessed. And yet again, alas! for how many are there not, even workers
+in the Master's service, to whom the 'all holy living and godliness' is
+yet a secret and a burden, because they have not yet consented to give
+up all, both their will and their work, for the Holy One to take and
+fill with His Holy Spirit. And yet once more, alas! as the cry comes,
+even from those who do know the power of a holy life, lamenting their
+unfaithfulness and unbelief, as they see how much richer their entrance
+into the Holy Life might have been, and how much fuller the blessing
+they still feel so feeble to communicate to others. Oh, the question is
+needed! Shall not each of us take it, and keep it, and answer it by the
+Holy Spirit through whom it came, and then pass it on to our brethren,
+that we and they may help each other in faith, and live in joy and hope
+to give the answer our God would have?
+
+'Seeing that these things are, then, all to be dissolved, what manner of
+persons ought we to be in all holy living and godliness?' Brethren! the
+time is short. The world is passing away. The heathen are perishing.
+Christians are sleeping. Satan is active and mighty. God's holy ones are
+the hope of the Church and the world. It is they their Lord can use.
+'What manner of persons shall we be in all holy living and godliness!'
+Shall we not seek to be such as the Father commands, 'Holy, as He is
+holy'? Shall we not yield ourselves afresh and undividedly to Him who is
+our Sanctification, and to His Blessed Spirit, to make us holy in all
+behaviours and pieties? Oh! shall we not, in thought of the love of our
+Lord Jesus, in thought of the coming glory, in view of the coming end,
+of the need of the Church and the world, give ourselves to be holy as He
+is holy, that we may have power to bless each believer we meet with the
+message of what God will do, and that in concert with them we may be a
+light and a blessing to this perishing world?
+
+I close with the closing words of God's Blessed Book, 'He which
+testifieth these things saith, Yea, I come quickly. Amen: Come, Lord
+Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the holy ones. Amen.'
+
+  BE YE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.
+
+
+Most Holy God! who hast called us to be holy, we have heard Thy voice
+asking, What manner of persons we ought to be in all holy living and
+godliness? With our whole soul we answer in deep contrition and
+humility: Holy Father! we ought to be so different from what we have
+been. In faith and love, in zeal and devotion, in Christlike humility
+and holiness, O Father! we have not been, before Thee and the world,
+what we ought to be, what we could be. Holy Father! we now pray for all
+who unite with us in this prayer, and implore of Thee to grant a great
+revival of True Holiness in us and in all Thy Church. Visit, we beseech
+Thee, visit all ministers of Thy word, that in view of Thy coming they
+may take up and sound abroad the question, What manner of persons ought
+ye to be? Lay upon them, and all Thy people, such a burden under
+surrounding unholiness and worldliness, that they may not cease to cry
+to Thee. Grant them such a vision of the highway of holiness, the new
+and living way in Christ, that they may preach Christ our Sanctification
+in the power and the joy of the Holy Ghost, with the confident and
+triumphant voice of witnesses who rejoice in what Thou dost for them.
+O God! roll away the reproach of Thy people, that their profession does
+not make them humbler or holier, more loving, and more heavenly than
+others.
+
+O Holy God! give Thou Thyself the answer to Thy question, and teach us
+and the world what manner of persons Thy people can be, in the day of
+Thy power, in the beauty of holiness. We bow our knee to Thee, O Father,
+that Thou wouldst grant us, according to the riches of Thy glory, to be
+mightily strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of Holiness. Amen.
+
+
+  1. What manner of men ought ye to be in all the holy living? This
+     is a question God has written down for us. Might it not help us
+     if we were to write down the answer, and say how holy we think
+     we ought to be? The clearer and more distinct our views are of
+     what God wishes, of what He has made possible, of what in
+     reality _ought_ to be, the more definite our acts of
+     confession, of surrender, and of faith can become.
+
+  2. Let every believer, who longs to be holy, join in the daily
+     prayer that God would visit His people with a great outpouring
+     of the Spirit of Holiness. Pray without ceasing that every
+     believer may live as a holy one.
+
+  3. 'Seeing that _ye look for_ these things.' Our life depends, in
+     more than one sense, upon what we look at. 'We look not at the
+     things which are seen.' It is only as we look at the Invisible
+     and Spiritual, and come under its power, that we shall be what
+     we ought to be in all holy living and godliness.
+
+  4. _Holy in Christ._ Let this be our parting word. However
+     strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round
+     the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its
+     fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where
+     it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too. All the outer
+     circumference of my life has its centre in the ego--the living,
+     conscious I myself, in which my being roots. And this I is
+     rooted in Christ. Down in the depths of my inner life, there is
+     Christ holding, bearing, guiding, quickening me into holiness
+     and fruitfulness. In Him I am, In Him I will abide. His will
+     and commands will I keep; His Love and Power will I trust. And
+     I will daily seek to praise God that I am Holy in Christ.
+
+
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+
+NOTE A.
+
+Holiness as Proprietorship.
+
+
+In a little book--_Holiness, as understood by the Writers of the Bible;
+A Bible Study by Joseph Agar Beet_--the thought that by Holiness is
+meant our relation to God, and the claim He has upon us, has been very
+carefully worked out. Holy ground was such because 'it stood in _special
+relation_ to Himself.' The first-born 'were to stand _in a special
+relation to God as His property_.' So with the entire nation; when God
+declares that they shall be holy, He means 'that they shall render to
+Him the devotion He requires.' 'All holy objects stand in a special
+relation to God as His property.' The priests are said to sanctify
+themselves; they did this 'by formally placing themselves at God's
+disposal, or by separating themselves from whatever was inconsistent
+with the service of God.' 'When God declares He is holy, the word must
+represent the same idea in the hundreds of passages in which it is
+predicated of men and things.' 'Holiness is _God's claim to the
+ownership_ of men and things; and the objects claimed were called holy.
+Now, _God's claim_ was a new and wondrous revelation of His nature. To
+Aaron God was now the Great Being who had claimed from him a lifelong
+and exclusive service. _This claim_ was a new era, not only in his
+everyday life, but in his conception of God. Consequently the word
+_holy_, which expressed _Aaron's relation to God_, was suitably used to
+express _God's relation to Aaron_. In other words, to Aaron and Israel
+God was holy in the sense that He claimed the exclusive ownership of the
+entire nation. When men yielded to God the devotion He claimed, they
+were said to sanctify God.' 'Jehovah and Israel stood in special
+relation to each other; therefore Jehovah was _the Holy One of Israel_,
+and Israel was _Holy to Jehovah_. This mutual relation rested upon God's
+claim that Israel should specially be His; and this claim implied that
+in a special manner He would belong to Israel. This claim was a
+manifestation of the nature of God.' 'The peculiar relation arises from
+God's own claim, in consequence of which they stand in a new and solemn
+relation to Him. This may be called objective holiness. This is the most
+common sense of the word. In this sense God sanctified these objects for
+Himself. But since some of these objects were intelligent beings, and
+the others were in control of such, the word sanctify denotes these
+ones' formal surrender of themselves and their possessions to God. This
+may be called subjective holiness. From the word holy predicated of God,
+we learn that God's claim was not merely occasional, but an outflow of
+His Essence. As the one Being who claims unlimited and absolute
+ownership and supreme devotion, God is the Holy One.'
+
+In the New Testament the Spirit of God claims the epithet holy 'as being
+in a very special manner the source and influence of which God is the
+one and only aim.' Here 'our conception of the holiness of God increases
+with our increasing perception of the greatness of His claim upon us,
+and that this claim springs from the very essence of God. In the
+incarnate Son of God we see the full development and realization of the
+Biblical idea of holiness. We find Him standing in a special relation to
+God, and living a life of which the one and only aim is to advance the
+purposes of God.' We see in Him 'holiness in its highest degree, _i.e._
+the highest conceivable devotion to God and to the advancement of His
+kingdom.' 'In virtue of His intelligent, hearty, continued
+appropriation of the Father's purpose, and in virtue of its realization
+in all the details of the Saviour's life, He was called _the Holy One of
+God_.'
+
+'The word _saint_ is very appropriate as a designation of the followers
+of Christ; for it declares what God requires them to be. By calling His
+people _saints_, God declares His will that we live a life of which He
+is the one and only aim. This is the objective holiness of the Church of
+Christ. In some passages holiness is set before the people of God as a
+standard for their attainment. In these passages _holy_ denotes a
+realization in man of God's purpose that he live a life of which God is
+the one and only aim. This is the subjective holiness of God's people.
+
+'Holiness is God's claim that His creatures use all their powers and
+opportunities to work out His purposes. Holiness, thus understood, is an
+attribute of God. For His claim springs from His nature, even from that
+love which is the very essence of God. His love to us moves Him to claim
+our devotion; for only by absolute devotion to Him can we attain our
+highest happiness.'
+
+'Though without purity we cannot be subjectively holy, yet holiness is
+much more than purity. Purity is a mere negative excellence; holiness
+implies the most intense mental and bodily activity of which we are
+capable. For it is the employment of all our powers and opportunities to
+advance God's purposes.'
+
+The question 'How we become holy,' is answered thus: 'Our devotion to
+God is a result of inward spiritual contact with Him who once lived a
+human life on earth, and now lives a glorified human life on the throne,
+simply and only to work out the Father's purposes. We live for God
+because Christ does so, and because Christ lives in us, and we in Him:
+the Spirit of Christ is the Agent of the spiritual contact with Christ
+which imparts to us His life, and reproduces in us His life. He is the
+bearer of the power as well as of the holiness of Christ.'
+
+'That God claims from His people unreserved devotion to Himself, and
+that what He claims He works in all who believe it, by His own power
+operating through the inward presence of the Holy Spirit, placing us in
+spiritual contact with Christ, is the great doctrine of sanctification
+by faith.'
+
+The same view, that holiness is a relation, had previously been worked
+out very elaborately by Diestel. In what has been said on redemption and
+proprietorship as related to holiness (see 'Sixth Day'), we have seen
+what truth there is in the thought. But holiness is something more. What
+is holy is not only God-devoted, but God-accepted, God-appropriated,
+God-possessed. God not only possesses the heart, but absolutely occupies
+and fills it with His life. It is this makes it holy.
+
+However much truth there be in the above exposition, it hardly meets our
+desire for an insight into what is one of the highest attributes of the
+very Being of God. When the seraphs worship Him as the Holy One, and in
+their Thrice Holy reflect something of the deepest mystery of Godhead,
+it surely means more than merely the expression of God's claim as
+Sovereign Proprietor of all.
+
+The mistake appears to originate in taking first the meaning of the word
+_holy_ from earthly objects, and then from that deducing that holiness
+in God cannot mean more than it does when applied to men. The Scriptures
+point to the opposite way. When Old and New Testaments say, 'Be ye holy,
+for I am holy, I make holy,' they point to God's Holiness as the first,
+both the reason and the source of ours. We ought first to discover what
+holiness in God is. When we read at creation of God's _sanctifying_ the
+Sabbath day, we have to do, not with a thought or word of Moses as to
+what God had done, but with a Divine revelation of a Power in God
+greater and more wonderful than creation, the Power which is later on
+revealed as the deepest mystery of the Divine Being.
+
+This Holiness in God, as it appears to me, cannot be a mere relation.
+To indicate a relation, tells me nothing positively about the personal
+character or worth of the related parties. To say that when God
+sanctifies men He claims them as His own, does not say what the nature
+is of the work He does for them and in them, or what the Power by which
+He does it. And yet that word ought to reveal to me what it is that God
+bestows. To say that that claim has its root in His very nature, and in
+His love, and that holiness is therefore an attribute, makes it an
+attribute, not like love or wisdom, immanent in the Divine Being, ere
+creatures were, but simply an effect of Love, moving God to claim His
+creatures as His special possession. We should then have no attribute
+expressive of God's moral perfection. Nor would the word holy of the Son
+and the Spirit any longer indicate that deep and mysterious
+communication of the very nature and life of God in which sanctification
+has its glory. In the Divine holiness we have the highest and
+inconceivably glorious revelation of the very essence of the Divine
+Being; in the holiness of the saints the deepest revelation of the
+change by which their inmost nature is renewed into the likeness of God.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE B.
+
+On the Word for Holiness.
+
+
+The proper meaning of the Hebrew word for holy, _kadosh_, is matter of
+uncertainty. It may come from a root signifying to shine. (So Gesenius,
+Oehler, Fuerst, and formerly Delitzsch, on Heb. ii. 11.) Or from another
+denoting new and bright (Diestel), or an Arabic form meaning to cut, to
+separate. (So Delitzsch now, on Ps. xxii. 4.) Whatever the root be, the
+chief idea appears to be not only separate or set apart, for which the
+Hebrew has entirely different words, but that by which a thing that is
+separated from others for its worth is distinguished above them. It
+indicates not only separation as an act or fact, but the superiority or
+excellence in virtue of which, either as already possessed or sought
+after, the separation takes place.
+
+In his _Lexicon of New Testament Greek_, Cremer has an exhaustive
+article on the Greek _hagios_, pointing out how holiness is an entirely
+Biblical idea, and 'how the scriptural conceptions of God's Holiness,
+notwithstanding the original affinity, is diametrically opposite to all
+the Greek notions; and how, whereas these very views of holiness exclude
+from the gods all possibility of love, the scriptural conception of
+holiness unfolds itself only when in closest connection with Divine
+love.' It is a most suggestive thought that we owe both the word and the
+thought distinctly to revelation. Every other attribute of God has some
+notion to correspond with it in the human mind: the thought of holiness
+is distinctly Divine. Is not this the reason that, though God has so
+distinctly in the New Testament called His people holy ones, the word
+_holy_ has so little entered into the daily language and life of the
+Christian Church?
+
+
+
+
+NOTE C.
+
+The Holiness of God.
+
+
+There is not a word so exclusively scriptural, so distinctly Divine, as
+the word holy in its revelation and its meaning. As a consequence of
+this its Divine origin, it is a word of inexhaustible significance.
+There is not one of the attributes of God which theologians have found
+it so difficult to define, or concerning which they differ so much. A
+short survey of the various views that have been taken may teach us how
+little the idea of the Divine Holiness can be comprehended or exhausted
+by human definition, and how it is only in the life of fellowship and
+adoration that the holiness which passes all understanding can, as a
+truth and a reality, be apprehended.
+
+1. The most external view, in which the ethical was very much lost sight
+of, is that in which holiness is identified with God's Separateness from
+the creation, and elevation above it. Holiness was defined as the
+incomparable Glory of God, His exclusive adorableness, His infinite
+Majesty. Sufficient attention was not paid to the fact that though all
+these thoughts are closely connected with God's Holiness, they are but a
+formal definition of the results and surroundings of the Holiness, but
+do not lead us to the apprehension of that wherein its real essence
+consists.
+
+2. Another view, which also commences from the external, and makes that
+the basis of its interpretation, regards holiness simply as the
+expression of a relation. Because what was set apart for God's service
+was called holy, the idea of separation, of consecration, of ownership,
+is taken as the starting-point. And so, because we are said to be holy,
+as belonging to God, God is holy as claiming us and belonging to us too.
+Instead of regarding holiness as a positive reality in the Divine
+nature, from which our holiness is to be derived, our holiness is made
+the starting-point for expounding the Holiness of God. 'God is holy as
+being, within the covenant, not only the Proprietor, but the Property of
+His people, their highest good and their only rule' (Diestel). Of this
+view mention has already been made in the note to 'Sixth Day,' on
+Holiness as Proprietorship.
+
+3. Passing over to the views of those who regard holiness as being a
+moral attribute, the most common one is that of purity, freedom from
+sin. 'Holiness is a general term for the moral excellence of God. There
+is none holy as the Lord: no other being absolutely pure and free from
+all limitations in His moral perfection. Holiness, on the one hand,
+implies entire freedom from moral evil; and, upon the other, absolute
+moral perfection.' (Hodge, _Syst. Theol._) The idea of holiness as the
+infinite Purity which is free from all sin, which hates and punishes
+it, is what in the popular conception is the most prominent idea. The
+negative stands more in the foreground than the positive. The view has
+its truth and its value from the fact that in our sinful state the first
+impression the Holiness of God must make is that of fear and dread in
+the consciousness of our sinfulness and unholiness. But it does not tell
+us wherein this moral excellence or perfection of God really consists.
+
+4. It is an advance on this view when the attempt is made to define what
+this perfection of God is. A thing is perfect when it is in everything
+as it ought to be. It is easy thus to define perfection, but not so easy
+to define what the perfection of any special object is: this needs the
+knowledge of what its nature is. And we have to rest content with very
+general terms defining God's Holiness as the essential and absolute
+good. 'Holiness is the free, deliberate, calm, and immutable affirmation
+of Himself, who is goodness, or of goodness, which is Himself' (Godet
+_on John_ xvii. 11). 'Holiness is that attribute in virtue of which
+Jehovah makes Himself the absolute standard of Himself, of His being and
+revelation.' (Kubel.)
+
+5. Closely allied to this is the view that holiness is not so much an
+attribute, but the 'whole complex of that which we are wont to look at
+and represent singly in the individual attributes of God.' So Bengel
+looked upon holiness as the Divine nature, in which all the attributes
+are contained. In the same spirit what Howe says of holiness as the
+Divine beauty, the result of the perfect harmony of all the attributes,
+'Holiness is intellectual beauty. Divine holiness is the most perfect
+beauty, and the measure of all other. The Divine Holiness is the most
+perfect pulchritude, the ineffable and immortal pulchritude, that cannot
+be declared by words, or seen by eyes. This may therefore be called a
+transcendental attribute that, as it were, runs through the rest, and
+casts a glory upon every one. It is an attribute of attributes. These
+are fit predications, _holy_ power, _holy_ love. And so it is the very
+lustre and glory of His other perfections. He is glorious in holiness.'
+(Howe in _Whyte's Shorter Catechism_.) This was the aspect of the Divine
+Holiness on which Jonathan Edwards delighted to dwell. 'The mutual love
+of the Father and the Son makes the third, the personal Holy Spirit, or
+the Holiness of God, which is His infinite beauty.' 'By the
+communication of God's Holiness the creature partakes of God's moral
+excellence, which is perfection, the beauty of the Divine nature.'
+'Holiness comprehends all the true moral excellence of intelligent
+beings. So the Holiness of God is the same with the moral excellency of
+the Divine nature, comprehending all His perfections, His righteousness,
+faithfulness, and goodness. There are two kinds of attributes in God,
+according to our way of conceiving Him: His _moral_ attributes, which
+are summed up in His Holiness, and His _natural_, as strength,
+knowledge, etc., which constitute His greatness. Holy persons, in the
+exercise of holy affection, love God in the first place for the beauty
+of His Holiness.' 'The holiness of an intelligent creature is that which
+gives beauty to all his natural perfections. And so it is in God:
+holiness is in a peculiar manner the beauty of the Divine being. Hence
+we often read of the beauty of holiness (Ps. xxix. 2, xcvi. 9, cx. 3).
+This renders all the other attributes glorious and lovely.' 'Therefore,
+if the true loveliness of God's perfections arise from the loveliness of
+His Holiness, the true love of all His perfections will arise from the
+love of His Holiness. And as the beauty of the Divine nature primarily
+consists in God's Holiness, so does the beauty of all Divine things.'
+
+6. In speaking of God's Holiness as denoting the essential good, the
+absolute excellence of His nature, some press very strongly the
+_ethical_ aspect. The good in God must not be from mere natural impulse
+only, flowing from the necessity of His nature, without being freely
+willed by Himself. 'What is naturally good is not the true realization
+of the good. The actual and living will to be the good He is, must also
+have its place in God, otherwise God would only be naturally ethical.
+Only in the will which consciously determines itself, is there the
+possibility given of the ethical. The ethical has such a power in God
+that He is the holy Power, who cannot and will not renounce Himself, who
+must be, and would be thought to be, the holy necessity of the goodness
+which is Himself,--to be the Holy. The love of God is essentially holy;
+it desires and preserves the ethically necessary or holy, which God is.'
+(Dorner, _System_, vol. i.)
+
+7. It was felt in such views that there was not a sufficient
+acknowledgment of the truth that it is especially as the Holy One that
+God is called the Redeemer, and that He does the work of love to make
+holy. This led to the view that holiness and love are, if not identical,
+at least correlated expressions. 'God is holy, exalted above all the
+praise of the creature in His incomparable praise-worthiness, on account
+of His free and loving condescension to the creature, to manifest in it
+the glory of His love.' 'God is holy, inasmuch as love in Him has
+restrained and conquered the righteous wrath (as Hosea says, xi. 9), and
+judgment is exercised only after every way of mercy has been tried. This
+holiness is disclosed in the New Testament name, as exalted as it is
+condescending, of Father.' (Stier _on John_ xvii.)
+
+8. The large measure of truth in this view is met by an expression in
+which the true aspects of the Holiness of God are combined. It is
+defined as being the harmony of self-preservation and
+self-communication. As the Holy One, God hates sin, and seeks to destroy
+it. As the Holy One, He makes the sinner holy, and then takes him up
+into His love. In maintaining His love, He never for a moment loses His
+Divine purity and perfection; in maintaining His righteousness, He still
+communicates Himself to the fallen creature. Holiness is the Divine
+glory, of which love and righteousness are the two sides, and which in
+their work on earth they reveal.
+
+'Holiness is the self-preservation of God, whereby He keeps Himself
+free from the world without Him, and remains consistent with Himself and
+faithful to His Being, and whereby He, with this view, creates a Divine
+world that lives for Himself alone in the organization of His Church.'
+(Lange.)
+
+'The Holiness of God is God's self-preservation, or keeping to Himself,
+in virtue of which He remains the same in all relationships which exist
+within His Deity, or into which He enters, never sacrifices what is
+Divine, or admits what is not Divine. But this is only one aspect. God's
+Holiness would not be holiness, but exclusiveness, if it did not provide
+for God's entering into manifold relations, and so revealing and
+communicating Himself. Holiness is therefore the union and
+interpretation of God's keeping to Himself and communicating Himself; of
+His nearness and His distance; of His exclusiveness and His
+self-revelation; of separateness and fellowship.' (Schmieder.)
+
+'The Divine Holiness is mainly seclusion from the impurity and
+sinfulness of the creature, or, expressed positively, the cleanness and
+purity of the Divine nature, which excludes all connection with the
+wicked. In harmony with this, the Divine Holiness, as an attribute of
+revelation, is not merely an abstract power, but is the Divine
+self-representation and self-testimony for the purpose of giving to the
+world the participation in the Divine life.' (Oehler, _Theol. of O. T._
+i. 160.)
+
+'Opposition to sin is the first impression which man receives of God's
+Holiness. Exclusion, election, cleansing, redemption--these are the four
+forms in which God's Holiness appears in the sphere of humanity; and we
+may say that God's Holiness signifies _His opposition to sin manifesting
+itself in atonement and redemption, or in judgment_. Or as holiness, so
+far as it is embodied in law, must be the highest moral perfection, we
+may say, "_holiness is the purity of God manifesting itself in atonement
+and redemption, and correspondingly in judgment_." By this view all the
+above elements are done justice to; holiness asserts itself in judging
+righteousness, and in electing, purifying, and redeeming love, and thus
+it appears as the impelling and formative principle of the revelation of
+redemption, without a knowledge of which an understanding of the
+revelation is impossible, and by the perception of which it is seen in
+its full, clear light. God is light: this is a full and exhaustive New
+Testament phrase for God's Holiness' (1 John i. 5). (Cremer.)
+
+This view is brought out with special distinctness in the writings of J.
+T. Beck. 'It is God's Holiness which, taking the good which was given in
+creation in strict faithfulness to that good and perfect will of God, as
+the eternal life-purpose of love, in righteousness and mercy carried out
+to its completion in God Himself to a life of perfection. God does this
+as the Alone Holy. In the world of sin Divine _love_ can only bring
+deliverance by a mediation in which it is reconciled to the Divine
+_wrath_ within _their common centre, the Holiness of God_, in such a way
+that while wrath manifests its destroying reality, love shall prove its
+restoring power in the life it gives.' (Beck, _Lehrwissenschaft_, 168,
+547.)
+
+'Holiness is the sum and substance of the Divine life, as, in comparison
+with all that is created, it exists as a perfect life, but as it, at the
+same time, opens itself to the creature to take it up into a Godlike
+perfection--that is, to be holy as God is holy. Holiness is thus so far
+from being in opposition to the Divine love that it is its essential
+feature or norm, and the actual contents of love. In holiness there is
+combined the Divine self-existence as a perfection of life, and the
+Divine self-exertion in the realizing a Godlike perfection of life in
+the world. Holiness as an attribute of the Divine Being is His pure and
+inviolably self-contained personality in its absolute perfection. Hence
+it is that in holiness, as the absolute unity and purity of the Divine
+Being and working, all the attributes of Divine revelation centre. And
+so holiness, as expressive of the Being of God, qualifies the love as
+essentially Divine.
+
+'Love is the groundform of the Divine will, but as such it receives its
+Divine filling and character from the Divine Holiness, as the Divine
+self-existence and self-exertion. As such the Divine will manifests
+itself in two modes--in its pure love as _Goodness_, in its holy harmony
+as _Righteousness_. These two do not exist separately, but permeate each
+other in reciprocal immanence, just as God in His Holiness is love, and
+in His love is holiness. In goodness the Divine love shows itself as the
+pleasure in well-being. But in this goodness the righteousness of God,
+to secure the well-doing, also acts.' (J. T. Beck, _Glaubenslehre_.)
+
+'God is holy, separate from all darkness and sin, but not in isolated
+majesty banishing the imperfect and the sinful from His presence: for
+God is light, God is love. It is the nature of light to communicate
+itself. Remaining pure and bright, undiminished and unsullied, it
+overcomes darkness and kindles light. The Holiness of God is likewise
+mentioned in Scripture, mostly in connection with love, communicating
+itself and drawing into itself. "I am holy"--but God does not remain
+alone, separate--"be ye also holy."' (Saphir _on Hebrews_ xii.)
+
+'When we think of God as light and love, we realize most fully the idea
+of holiness, combining _separateness_ and _purity_ with _communion_.'
+(Saphir, _The Lord's Prayer_, p. 128.)
+
+'It is especially as the spirit of His Church, and as dwelling in the
+human heart, that God is the Holy One.' (Nitsch.)
+
+That in the Holiness of God we have the union of love and righteousness,
+has been perhaps put by no one more clearly than Godet. In his
+_Commentary on Romans_ iii. 25, 26, he writes:--
+
+'The necessity of the expiatory sacrifice arises from His whole Divine
+character; in other words, from His Holiness, the principle at once of
+His love and righteousness, and not of His righteousness exclusively.'
+
+'In this question we have to do not with God in His essence, but with
+God in His relation to free man. Now the latter is not holy to begin
+with; the use which he makes of his liberty is not yet regulated by
+love. The attribute of righteousness, and the firm resolution to
+maintain the Divine _holiness_, must therefore appear as a necessary
+safeguard as soon as liberty comes on the stage, and with it the
+possibility of disorder; and this attribute must remain in exercise as
+long as the educational period of the creature lasts--that is to say,
+until he has reached perfection in love. Then all these factors--right,
+law, justice--will return to their latent state....
+
+'It is common to regard _love_ as the fundamental feature of the Divine
+character; in this way it is very difficult to reach the attribute of
+righteousness. Most thinkers, indeed, do not reach it at all. This one
+fact should show the error in which they are entangled. _Holy, holy,
+holy_, say the creatures nearest to God, and not _Good, good, good_.
+Holiness, such is the essence of God; and holiness is the absolute love
+of the good, the absolute horror of the evil. From this it is not
+difficult to deduce both love and righteousness. Love is the goodwill of
+God toward all free beings who are destined to realize the good. Love
+goes out to the individuals, as holiness itself to the good which they
+ought to produce. Righteousness, on the other hand, is the firm purpose
+of God to maintain the normal relations between all these creatures by
+His blessings and punishments. It is obvious that righteousness is
+included, no less than love itself, in the fundamental feature of the
+Divine character, holiness. It is no offence, therefore, by God to speak
+of His justice and His rights. It is, on the contrary, a glory to God,
+who knows that in preserving His place He is securing the good of
+others. For God, in maintaining His supreme dignity, preserves to His
+creatures _their most precious treasure_, a God worthy of their respect
+and love.'
+
+And in his _Defence of the Christian Faith_ Godet writes, on 'The
+Perfect Holiness of Jesus Christ,' as follows:--
+
+'The supernatural in its highest form is not the miraculous, it is
+holiness. In the miraculous we see Omnipotence breaking forth to act
+upon the material world in the interests of the moral order. But
+holiness is morality itself in its sublimest manifestation. What is
+goodness? It has recently been said, with a precision which leaves
+nothing to be desired, Goodness is not an entity--a thing. It is a law
+determining the relations between things, relations which have to be
+realized by free wills. Perfect good is therefore the realization, at
+once normal and free, of the right relations to one another of all
+beings; each being occupying, by virtue of this relation, that place in
+the great whole, and playing that part in it, which befits it.
+
+'Now, just as in a human family there is one central relation on which
+all the rest depend,--that of the father to all the members of this
+little whole,--so is there in the universe one supreme position, which
+is the support of all the rest, and which, in the interest of all
+beings, must be above all others preserved intact--that of God. And just
+here, in the general sphere of good, is the special domain of holiness.
+Holiness in God Himself is His fixed determination to maintain intact
+the order which ought to reign among all beings that exist, and to bring
+them to realize that relation to each other which ought to bind them
+together in a great unity, and consequently to preserve, above all,
+intact and in its proper dignity, His own position relatively to free
+beings. The Holiness of God thus understood comprehends two things--the
+importation of all the wealth of His own Divine life to each free being
+who is willing to acknowledge His sovereignty, and who sincerely
+acquiesces in it; and the withholding or the withdrawal of that perfect
+life from every being who either attacks or denies that sovereignty, and
+who seeks to shake off that bond of dependence by which he ought to be
+bound to God. Holiness in the creature is its own voluntary acquiescence
+in the supremacy of God. The man who, with all the powers of his nature,
+does homage to God as the Supreme, the absolute Being, the only One who
+veritably is; the man who, in His presence, voluntarily prostrates
+himself in the sense of his own nothingness, and seeks to draw all his
+fellow-creatures into the same voluntary self-annihilation, in so doing
+puts on the character of holiness. This holiness comprehends in him, as
+it does in God, love and righteousness; love by which he rejoices in
+recognising God, and all beings who surround God, as placed where they
+are by Him. He loves them and wills their existence, because he loves
+and wills the existence of God, and at the same time of all that God
+wills and loves; and righteousness, by which he respects and, as much as
+in him lies, causes others to respect God, and the sphere assigned by
+God to each being. Such is holiness as it exists in God and in man: in
+God it is His own inflexible self-assertion; in man it is his inflexible
+assertion of God.
+
+'It is in Jesus that human nature sees how man can assert God and all
+that God asserts, not only humbly, but joyously and filially, with all
+the powers of his being, and even to the complete sacrifice of
+_himself_.'
+
+Careful reflection will show us that in each of the above views there is
+a measure of truth. It will convince us how the very difficulty of
+formulating to human thought the conception of the Divine Holiness
+proves that it is the highest expression for that ineffable and
+inconceivable glory of the Divine Being which constitutes Him the
+Infinite and Glorious God. Every attribute of God--wisdom and power,
+righteousness and love--has its image in human nature, and was in the
+religion or the philosophy of the heathen connected with the idea of
+God. From ourselves, when we take away the idea of imperfection, we can
+form some conception of what God is. But holiness is that which is
+characteristically Divine, the special contents of a Divine revelation.
+Let us learn to confess that however much we may seek, now from one,
+then from another side, to grasp the thought, the holiness of God is
+something that transcends all thought, a glory not so much to be
+thought, as to be known, in adoration and fellowship. Scripture speaks
+not so much of holiness, as the Holy One. It is as we worship and fear,
+obey and love; it is in a life with God, that something of the mystery
+of His glory will be unfolded. As the Divine light shines in us and
+through us, will the Holy One be revealed.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE D.
+
+'Our holiness does not consist in our changing and becoming better
+ourselves: it is rather _He_, He Himself, born and growing in us, in
+such a way as to fill our hearts, and to drive out our natural self,
+"our old man," which cannot itself improve, and whose destiny is only to
+perish.
+
+'And how is this kind of incarnation effected, by which Christ Himself
+becomes our new self? By a process of a free and moral nature, described
+by Jesus in words which surprise, because they place His sanctification
+upon nearly the same footing as our own: "As the living Father hath sent
+me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me shall live by me."
+
+'Jesus derived the nourishment of His life from the Father who had sent
+Him: He lived by the Father. The meaning of that, doubtless, is, that
+every time He had to act or speak, He first effaced Himself; then left
+it to the Father to think, to will, to act, to be everything in Him.
+Similarly, when we are called upon to do any act, or speak any word, we
+must first efface ourselves in presence of Jesus; and after having
+suppressed in ourselves, by an act of the will, every wish, every
+thought, every act of our own self, we are to leave it to Jesus to
+manifest in us His will, His wisdom, His power. Then it is that we live
+by Him, as He lives by the Father. The process is identical in Jesus and
+in us. Only in Jesus it was carried on with God directly, because He was
+in immediate communion with Him; whilst in our case the transaction is
+with Jesus, because it is with Him that the believer holds direct
+communication, and through Him that we can find and possess the living
+Father. In that lies _the secret_, generally so little understood, _of
+Christian sanctification_.' (Godet, _Biblical Studies, N. T._, p. 190.)
+
+
+
+
+NOTE E.
+
+Let me once more refer all students of holiness to Marshall on
+Sanctification, and specially his third and fourth chapters. If they
+will compare him with our modern works--say, for instance, _God's Way of
+Holiness_, by so eminent an author as Dr. H. Bonar--they cannot but be
+struck by the prominence which Marshall gives to the one thought, that
+our holiness, a holy nature, is provided in Jesus, and that as faith
+accepts and maintains our union with Jesus in personal intercourse,
+sanctification is by faith. While, in other works, the union to Jesus,
+and faith in Him, are but incidentally mentioned, and the chief stress
+is laid upon duties and the motives which urge to their performance,
+Marshall points out how motives never can supply the strength we need:
+it is the power of Christ's life in us, it is Christ Himself, as we by
+faith are rooted in Him, who works all our works in us.
+
+An abridgment of the work, for popular use, is published by Nisbet & Co.
+
+
+
+
+NOTE F.
+
+Note from Bengel on Rom. i. 4.
+
+
+'_According to the Spirit of Holiness._ The word _hagios_, holy, when
+God is spoken of, not only denotes the blameless rectitude in action,
+but the very Godhead, or to speak more properly, the _divinity_, or
+excellence of the Divine nature. Hence _hagiosune_ (the word here used)
+has a kind of middle sense between _hagiotes_, holiness, and
+_hagiasmos_, sanctification. Comp. Heb. xii. 10 (_hagiotes_ or
+holiness), v. 14 (_hagiasmos_ or sanctification). So that there are, as
+it were, three degrees: _sanctification_, _sanctity of life_,
+_holiness_. Holiness is ascribed to the Father, the Son, and the Holy
+Ghost. And since here the Holy Spirit is not mentioned, but the spirit
+of holiness (prop. sanctity, _hagiosune_), we must further inquire what
+this remarkable expression denotes. The name spirit is expressly and
+very frequently given to the Holy Spirit; but God is also called a
+spirit; and the Lord Jesus Christ is called a spirit, but in contrast to
+the latter. (2 Cor. iii. 17.) With this we must compare the fact that,
+as in this passage, so often the antithesis of flesh and spirit is found
+where Christ is spoken of. (1 Tim. iii. 16; 1 Pet. iii. 18.) In these
+passages the Spirit is applied to whatever belongs to Christ (apart from
+the flesh, although this was pure and holy, and above the flesh),
+through His generation of the Father, who sanctified Him: in short, His
+Godhead itself. For here, _flesh_ and _spirit_, and chap. ix. 5, _flesh_
+and _Godhead_, stand in mutual contrast. This spirit is here called not
+the spirit of holiness, the usual title of the Holy Spirit; but it is
+called in this passage _the spirit of sanctity_, to suggest at once the
+efficacy of that holiness or divinity, which led of necessity to the
+Saviour's resurrection, and by which it was most forcibly illustrated,
+and also that spiritual and holy, or Divine power of Jesus who has been
+glorified and yet retained a spiritual body. Before the resurrection the
+spirit was concealed under the flesh; after the resurrection the spirit
+of sanctity concealed the flesh. In reference to the former, He was wont
+to call Himself the Son of man; in reference to the latter, He is known
+as the Son of God.'
+
+Beck, in his _Lehrwissenschaft_, p. 604, puts it very clearly, thus--
+
+'Inasmuch as the innocence and purity of Christ were not present in His
+sufferings and death as a quiescent attribute, but were in full action
+in the indestructible life-power of the Spirit, as He sanctified His own
+self to God for us ("through the eternal spirit," Heb. ix.
+14--therefore, in Rom. i. 4, _hagiosune_, the habit of holiness in its
+action or sanctity, not _hagiotes_, only an inner attribute, or
+_hagiasmos_, holiness in its formation)--His suffering effected an
+everlasting redemption.'
+
+
+
+
+NOTE G.
+
+'Freed' and 'Possessed'--The Twofold Result of
+Redemption.
+
+(_From an address by Pastor Stockmaiev._)
+
+
+'Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and
+purify unto Himself _a people for His own possession_, zealous of good
+works.'
+
+'In the redemption work of our Saviour Jesus Christ, there are two
+definite parts. You will never find the secret of abiding in Christ, so
+long as you cannot see these two definite distinct parts. The first is
+"Jesus for me," the other "I for Jesus." Blessed be our Saviour that He
+came for sinners. _He for us._ Blessed be the Lord that there is
+redemption from penalty; but that is not yet all that redemption means.
+You must have a clear apprehension of the second part of redemption, by
+that same Holy Ghost who is the guide to introduce us into the full
+possession of all that Christ, living and dying, has wrought out for us.
+He gave Himself that He might redeem us from all iniquity--not that we
+might have the pleasure of being pleased with our own purity or
+holiness, or such things; but that He might have us altogether for
+Himself, to purify _unto Himself_, for Himself, not for Himself and
+themselves, but _unto Himself_, a people of His own possession.
+
+'What is now redemption?--freedom from self, even spiritual self. We are
+not to be our own centre, the centre of our joy, our progress, having in
+our poor weak hands the threads of our spiritual life. There is no real
+spiritual life but Christ's life, and He must have the care of it
+altogether from the beginning to the end. Lift up your eyes, dear
+brethren, you who were creeping on the ground. We are made for the glory
+of God, to be possessed by Jesus. The Lord God found a way, in giving
+His Son, the Lamb of God, His Lamb, to get such selfish people, who even
+in the line of the Christian life found means to seek and to nourish
+self, to get such people into His own real practical possession, to be
+possessed by Jesus. That is redemption, and that only; that is liberty,
+and that is reality; that is what satisfies, not to be satisfied with
+any experiences of your own, but to let go your experiences, and to say,
+I am free, so free as the people of Israel were coming out of Egypt,
+free to serve God. "Let my people go, that they may serve me." You are
+free, free through the blood of Christ, free through the power of the
+Holy Ghost--no flesh, no hand, no self being able to keep you back. The
+Lord has stretched out His arms upon all the powers who had kept us in
+the bondage of Egypt, and He triumphed over them. You are free as the
+bird of the air to live in Jesus--that is freedom; you are free in your
+daily life, free in the deepest, inmost depths of your being, free for
+Jesus, possessed by Him, a people of His own possession. Let my people
+go, said God. So, I have given my blood, said Jesus; and no flesh, no
+sin, no self can claim against the blood of Jesus. He has redeemed unto
+Himself, not for us, a people of His own possession....
+
+'You are inquiring about the secret of abiding in Jesus. Have you not
+seen this in the 15th of John, that abiding and bearing fruit are
+inseparable? You cannot abide in Jesus for His joy, _and your inward
+satisfaction_. The secret of abiding is to stand as a redeemed one, as
+firmly in the second part of redemption as the first. I am now living
+for Jesus, and I have only to ask, Lord, what wilt Thou have done now? I
+am for Thee. I am for Jesus. I have only to follow, to follow as a
+sanctified one, as a possessed one, as one who is no more living for
+himself, who has given his life up into the hands of Jesus. Oh, how
+these questions of abiding become simple! It is not mysticism; it is not
+some special experience. It is simply a fact. I need Jesus for every
+moment, and my temptations as well as my duties become opportunities of
+realizing this life of fellowship with Christ. Oh, yes, this is
+redemption! Oh, mighty power of God the Father, God the Son, God the
+Holy Ghost, engaged to keep such a weak, helpless, unfaithful thing as
+you and myself in the centre of life! Sealed by the Holy Ghost, and God
+will never break His own seal.'
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
+
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