Our Brilliant Heritage: Talks on the Gospel Mystery of Sanctification
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This Book will greatly help seekers after Holiness, because it meets us on the threshold of our life in Christ and leads us along a luminous path of Scriptural teaching, to the full measure of the believer’s identification with his Risen Lord. “The candidates for sanctification are those who have the first-fruits of sanctification in the initial work of grace.” They are then shown that the secret of holiness is the imparted holiness of Jesus Christ. “What a marvellous thing sanctification is. The perfections of Jesus—ours by the sheer gift of God.”
As Chapter II nourishes the heart by leading us to implicit trust in Jesus; so Chapter III feeds the mind with deepest Scriptural truth. It might be described as Spiritualised Theology. And the Chapter on “in Heavenly Places” is an unveiling of the glory and strength and security of the most intimate relationship we can know with our Risen Lord. “Jesus Christ can create in us the image of God even as it was in Himself.” What an arresting sentence is this—“In illustrating the spiritual life, our tendency is to catch the tricks of the world, to watch the energy of the business man, and to apply these methods to God’s work. Jesus Christ tells us to take the lessons of our lives from the things men never look at. “Consider the lilies”†: “Behold the fowls of the air.”† How often do we look at clouds, or grass, at sparrows, or flowers? Why, we have no time to look at them, we are in the rush of things—it is absurd to sit dreaming about sparrows and trees and clouds! Thank God when He raises us to the heavenly places, He manifests in us the very mind that was in Christ Jesus, unhasting and unresting, calm, steady and strong.”
And the last Chapter insists on the possession of the Light, and shows its marvellous ministry in illuminating through His saints the darkness around. “Have we let God raise us up to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and are we learning to walk in the light as God is in the light?”
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers (1874--1917) was a Bible teacher, conference leader, and YMCA chaplain. After his death, his widow compiled his writings in a number of popular daily devotional books, including My Utmost for His Highest, an enduring classic of the Christian faith that continues to inspire men and women the world over.
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Our Brilliant Heritage - Oswald Chambers
Introductory Note
(From the 4th Edition, 1937)
This Book will greatly help seekers after Holiness, because it meets us on the threshold of our life in Christ and leads us along a luminous path of Scriptural teaching, to the full measure of the believer’s identification with his Risen Lord. The candidates for sanctification are those who have the first-fruits of sanctification in the initial work of grace.
They are then shown that the secret of holiness is the imparted holiness of Jesus Christ. What a marvellous thing sanctification is. The perfections of Jesus—ours by the sheer gift of God.
As Chapter II nourishes the heart by leading us to implicit trust in Jesus; so Chapter III feeds the mind with deepest Scriptural truth. It might be described as Spiritualised Theology. And the Chapter on in Heavenly Places
is an unveiling of the glory and strength and security of the most intimate relationship we can know with our Risen Lord. Jesus Christ can create in us the image of God even as it was in Himself.
What an arresting sentence is this—In illustrating the spiritual life, our tendency is to catch the tricks of the world, to watch the energy of the business man, and to apply these methods to God’s work. Jesus Christ tells us to take the lessons of our lives from the things men never look at.
Consider the lilies:
Behold the fowls of the air. How often do we look at clouds, or grass, at sparrows, or flowers? Why, we have no time to look at them, we are in the rush of things—it is absurd to sit dreaming about sparrows and trees and clouds! Thank God when He raises us to the heavenly places, He manifests in us the very mind that was in Christ Jesus, unhasting and unresting, calm, steady and strong.
And the last Chapter insists on the possession of the Light, and shows its marvellous ministry in illuminating through His saints the darkness around. Have we let God raise us up to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and are we learning to walk in the light as God is in the light?
The Mystery of Sanctification
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. 1 Timothy 3:16
By the word mystery we mean something known only to the initiated, therefore if we are going to understand the gospel mystery of Sanctification and fully experience it, we must belong to the initiated, that is, we must be born from above (rv mg) by the Spirit of God. Robert Murray McCheyne said, and I would like his words engraven on my own heart, The greatest need for my people is my personal holiness.
Minister of the gospel, say that of your congregation—The greatest need for my people is my personal holiness.
Teacher, say that of your class—The greatest need for my Sunday School class is my personal holiness.
Am I born again of the Spirit of God? What is the relation of my heart to holiness? Our Lord said, Every tree is known by his own fruit,
and I know whether I am born of the Spirit by the desires of my heart. Do I desire holiness more keenly than I desire any other thing? Do I desire that my motives, my heart, my life, everything in me, should be as pure as God wants it to be? If so, it is a strong witness to the fact that I am amongst the initiated; I am in the place where I can understand the mystery of sanctification sufficiently to enter into it.
1. The Awakening of Desires
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2)
When we are born again of the Spirit of God, the Word of God awakens great desires in us, and in times of prayer the Spirit of God renews our minds; in times of meeting with God’s people the gracious sense of God’s