Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org
Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org
in his heart as he was of previous guilt and pardon, and of a mixed experience of love, joy, and peace resulting therefrom. Indeed, we are satisfied that the knowledge or assurance of this fact is clearer and much more satisfactory. Dr. Steele calls attention to the very important fact that "after the Holy Ghost was given [at Pentecost], a word came into the Greek Testament which is not found in the four Gospels [containing records of pre-Pentecostal facts], a strengthened form of the word 'knowledge' -- epignosis -- meaning exact, clear, full, perfect, satisfactory knowledge of course not exhaustive knowledge of God and spiritual things [for we may forever grow in that sort of knowledge]. All these adjectives are used by the various great scholars of the age now living, and some who have passed away -- by Meyer, Bishops Lightfoot, Ellicott, and Westcott, and Dean Alford, and many others." Dr. Steele notes, too, that "the ordinary word for 'knowledge' in classic Greek is gnosis; but that Paul adds an intensive prefix to it, changing it to epignosis, giving it a stronger meaning. Peter in three instances follows Paul's example." Hence we have "full assurance of faith," "full assurance of hope," "full assurance of understanding," etc., in the Authorized Version of their writings, and "perfect knowledge," "clear knowledge," etc., in other versions. Dean Alford, whom a well-informed, scholarly, and spiritual divine calls "one of the most eminent men of England, who spent his life on the Greek Testament," is uniform and emphatic in rendering this prefix with some such adjective as "full," "perfect," "thorough," etc., making it "full" or "perfect knowledge," in such passages as Ephesians iv. 13; Colossians ii. 2; 2 Timothy iii. 7; 2 Peter i. 8, etc. And we are fully prepared to see the superiority of this experimental knowledge over that which comes from reasoning, when we remember, as Dr. Steele says, that "God reveals himself to us through his Son Jesus Christ, but he communicates himself to us through the Holy Spirit. This is the beautiful relation of the three persons in the Trinity: God the Father revealing himself to the world, to our intelligence, to our faith, in his Son Jesus Christ, but giving a direct and experimental knowledge of himself by communicating himself to our spiritual intuitions through the person of the Holy Ghost." And we believe that if every disciple of Christ will wait on him in consecration and faith for his personal Pentecost, he will receive "the fullness of the Holy Ghost," and that God by his Spirit will be "imported into the very center of his being," carrying to his soul a "full knowledge" of himself. Then it may be said of him as Dr. Steele says of Paul: "He will be neither a gnostic, implying a conceit of spiritual knowledge; nor an agnostic, professing ignorance of revealed truth; nor a merognostic, having only doubtful glimpses of divine verities; but he will be an epignostic, rejoicing in perfect assurance of spiritual realities."
We are profoundly convinced that the believer who receives "the baptism of the Holy Ghost" realizes such an assurance of divine things as absolutely excludes all doubt of the divinity of Christianity, and of his acceptance with God -- such an assurance as expels all doubt of both these facts. *************************************
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We are profoundly convinced that the believer who receives "the baptism of the Holy Ghost"<br />
realizes such an assurance of divine things as absolutely excludes all doubt of the divinity of<br />
Christianity, and of his acceptance with God -- such an assurance as expels all doubt of both these<br />
facts.<br />
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