CHAPTER TWELVE

THE SPIRIT'S WORK ON AND IN
THE BELIEVERS

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THE HOLDING LINE IN THE CARRYING OUT
OF THE DIVINE ECONOMY

Scripture Reading: Eph. 1:14; 4:30; 1 Pet. 1:2; Luke 15:8-10, 17-21; Heb. 13:12; 2 Cor. 5:17; John 1:12-13; Rom. 12:2b; Eph. 4:23; Gal. 6:15; 2 Cor. 4:16; 1 Cor. 3:12; 2 Cor. 3:18; Phil. 3:21; Rom. 8:23

OUTLINE

1. The divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy:
1. Holding all of our spiritual experiences from our repentance to our glorification.
2. Going through our regeneration, renewing, transformation, and conformation unto the redemption of our body—Eph. 1:14; 4:30.
3. To sonize us divinely, making us sons of God that we may become the same as God in His life and in His nature (but not in His Godhead), so that we may be God's expression. Hence, God's sanctification is the divine sonizing.
2. The steps of the divine sanctification:
1. The seeking sanctification— the initial sanctification—1 Pet. 1:2:
1. Unto repentance — Luke 15:8-10.
2. To bring us back to God—Luke 15:17-21.
2. The redeeming sanctification—the positional sanctification:
1. By the blood of Christ —Heb. 13:12.
2. To transfer us from Adam to Christ.
3. The regenerating sanctification— the beginning of the dispositional sanctification:
1. Renewing us from our spirit—2 Cor. 5:17.
2. To make us, the sinners, sons of God— John 1:12-13.
4. The renewing sanctification— the continuation of the dispositional sanctification:
1. Renewing our soul from our mind through all the parts of our soul—Rom. 12:2b; Eph. 4:23.
2. To make our soul a part of God's new creation— Gal. 6:15.
5. The transforming sanctification—the daily sanctification—2 Cor. 4:16:
1. Reconstituting us with the element of Christ metabolically.
2. To make us a new constitution as a part of the organic Body of Christ —1 Cor. 3:12.
6. The conforming sanctification— the shaping sanctification:
1. Shaping us in the image of the glorious Christ—2 Cor. 3:18.
2. To make us the expression of Christ.
7. The glorifying sanctification— the consummating sanctification:
1. Redeeming our body by transfiguring it —Phil. 3:21.
2. To make us Christ's expression in full in glory—Rom. 8:23.