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Lips Are Sanctified, February 10
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isaiah 6:7
.
By His heavenly gifts the Lord has made ample provision for His people.
An earthly parent cannot give his child a sanctified character. He cannot
transfer his character to his child. God alone can transform us. Christ breathed
on His disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (
John 20:22
). This is
the great gift of heaven. Christ imparted to them through the Spirit His own
sanctification. He imbued them with His power, that they might win souls to
the gospel. Henceforth Christ would live through their faculties, and speak
through their words. They were privileged to know that hereafter He and
they were to be one. They must cherish His principles and be controlled by
His Spirit. They were no longer to follow their own way, to speak their own
words. The words they spoke were to proceed from a sanctified heart, and
fall from sanctified lips. No longer were they to live their own selfish life;
Christ was to live in them and speak through them. He would give to them
the glory that He had with the Father, that He and they might be one in God.
The Lord Jesus is our great high priest, our advocate in the courts of
heaven. The solemn position in which we stand to Him as worshipers is
not appreciated. For our present and eternal good we need to understand
this relation. If we are His children we are bound together in the bonds of
Christian brotherhood, loving one another as He has loved us, united in the
sacred relation of those washed in the blood of the Lamb. Bound up with
Christ in God, we are to love as brethren.
Thank God that we have a great High Priest, who has passed into the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God. Christ has not entered into the holy place
made with hands, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God
for us. By virtue of His own blood He entered in once for all into the holy
place above, having obtained eternal redemption for us.—
General Conference
Bulletin, October 1, 1899
, fourth quarter 1899.
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