Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

Mr. Murray gives quotations of like tenor from Godet, Beck, and Saphir to confirm his views. The
late Rev John McNeil, a Presbyterian minister, in his admirable work, The Spirit-Filled Life, presents
the same view in the following words:
"This being filled with the Spirit is a definite blessing, quite distinct from being 'born of the
Spirit.' It is objected by some that every Christian has the Spirit; quite true, for 'if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his'; and 'no man can say Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit'; but
to 'have the Spirit' and to be 'filled with the Spirit' are two different things ... As far as God is
concerned, there is no reason why this filling should not take place at the hour of conversion -- of
the new birth ... But it were a fatal blunder to assert that all men on believing [unto pardon] receive
the Holy Ghost in a similar manner, or were thus "filled with the Spirit"; most certainly in Bible
times it was not so."
The Keswick movement in Great Britain, which started some half century ago, and which has
gone forward with constantly augmenting force up to this time, and which has so wonderfully
quickened the religious thought and life of the United Kingdom, extending its influence to America
and elsewhere, is based on this theory. Andrew Murray is connected with that movement. The Rev.
Dr. Arthur T. Pierson regards the movement "as one of the most important developments of the last
half century." He has attended many of their meetings and conventions held to secure the conversion
of the ungodly and "for the deepening of spiritual life" in believers, and gives in The Missionary
Review of the World for December, 1897, a synopsis of their teaching. He says:
"Keswick teaching is definite and unmistakable. It affirms a possible and practicable deliverance
from continuance in known sin; a renewal of the spirit of the mind, a dominion of love, and an
experience of inward peace. It maintains that it is a sin to be anxious, because where anxiety begins
faith ends, and where faith begins anxiety ends; that it is not necessary to be under the dominion of
any lust of the body or mind, to live a life of doubt and despondency, or interrupted communion with
God. Forfeited joy means broken fellowship. Keswick maintains that to every trusting, obedient soul,
who dares to take God at his word and count every commandment as an enablement, there is an
immediate deliverance from the palsied limbs that make impossible a holy walk with God; from the
withered hand that prevents a holy work for God, and from moral deformity that bows one together,
so that it is impossible to lift up oneself to spiritual uprightness and erectness."
He says, too, that this teaching lays "special emphasis an the induement and the filling of the Holy
Spirit," and "insists that holiness is the result, not of a prolonged and persistent self-effort [in
growth], but of a simple appropriation of Christ as the Victor over evil" [an instantaneous work].
In speaking of the method, spirit, and result of this teaching, Dr. Pierson says:
"Keswick has been a fountain of spiritual life, because four great scriptural laws have there
singular exemplification: Habitual prayerfulness, prominence of the word of God, unity among all
believers, and dependence on the Holy Spirit. It may seem an exaggeration to some, but we know
of nothing nowadays which so closely reproduces the assemblies of the primitive apostolic Church."