A Presentation of Perfection - Media Sabda Org

Another point was made concerning who will be ready for the return of Christ. The author
indicated that only those who were sanctified will be ready for the Lord's return. "The entire
sanctification of spirit, soul and body is "unto" the coming, that is, for the coming. This implies that
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we will not be ready for the glorious manifestation of our Lord unless we are thus sanctified," said
the writer. The author went on to admonish everyone to make sure they were sanctified so they
would be ready for Christ to return.
J. A. Huffman wrote an article called "The Holy Spirit's Relation to Sanctification." The author
established the premise for this article by reminding the reader that they were living in the Holy
Spirit's dispensation. Huffman made the analogy of someone dying and leaving an estate. He said,
Jesus Christ is the deceased who left the estate ... the Holy Spirit, then, is the agent
of pardon, for pardon or forgiveness is a stipulated provision in the atonement, note
from Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14. The Holy Spirit is also the agent of
sanctification, for it, too, is a stipulated provision in the atonement (Hebrews 13:12;
Ephesians 5:25-27). [33]
The theme of growth in the sanctified life was also found in this article. The writer strongly
believed that sanctification happened instantaneously in the life of the believer, but that there was
also a daily growth factor in the holiness life. He commented,
The growth side of sanctification, however, needs to be emphasized. Too many there
are who, having attained to the experience of sanctification, mistakenly suppose that
they are now in possession of the whole thing, and fold their arms in ease or
inactivity, and wither away. [34]
A. M. Hills wrote an article that year called "Snowflake Religion." He said that snow is not as
clean as it looks. There is a lot of dirt and debris scattered throughout the composition of snow. Even
snowflakes themselves are dirty, although it is not always visible to the naked eye.
An analogy was made to those Christians who were regenerated but not yet sanctified. They may
have looked and acted clean, but they still had the dirt of the carnal nature that needed to be purified.
He finished the article with a ray of hope:
The soot can be gotten out of the snowflakes, and the corruption out of man. The
snow can be melted in a retort, and the water boiled into steam, and the vapor
congealed again into pure snow. It is done by fire. So Christ, the Refiner, with the
Holy Spirit fire can melt our hearts and leave in us the gold of holy hearts. [35]
1932
There were four articles that were published during 1932 that deserve our attention. They were
written by Joseph H. Smith, John A. Duryea, A. M. Hills, and Charles H. Stalker. Three of the four
articles put a significant amount of emphasis upon the work of the Holy Spirit in sanctification.