Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

this "renewal," "sanctification," or "sealing" is just as marked a "stage" or "crisis," and is just as
instantaneous in our "experience" and lives, as is our "regeneration" or "conversion." And, while he
admits that, in a certain sense, there may be frequent "infillings" of the Spirit -- gifts of power -- he
insists that there is -- need be -- but one baptism or sealing. He says:
"Now, as we examine the Scriptures on this point, we shall see that we are required to appropriate
the Spirit as sons in the same way that we appropriate Christ as sinners."
He then puts into the mouth of the earnest believer this prayer:
"O Holy Spirit, I yield to thee now in humble surrender. I receive thee as my Teacher, my
Comforter, my Sanctifier, and my Guide.
He then adds:
"Do not testimonies abound on every hand of new lives resulting from such an act of consecration
as this, lives full of peace and power and victory, among those who before had received the
forgiveness of sins, but not the induement of power?"
Our observation and experience emphatically confirm this view.
Again, in speaking of the result of this baptism, he says:
"Other effects will certainly attend the blessing, a fixed assurance of our acceptance in Christ, and
a holy separateness from the world."
He doubtless speaks from his experience. Farther on he sums up his discussion of the subject with
the following words:
"Thus we have had the induement of the Spirit presented to us under three aspects -- sealing,
filling, and anointing; all of which terms, so far as we can understand, signify the same thing -- the
gift of the Holy Ghost appropriated through faith. Each of these terms is connected with some special
divine endowment -- the seal with assurance and consecration; the filling with power; and the
anointing with knowledge. All these gifts are wrapped up in the one Gift in which they are included,
and without whom we are excluded from their possession."
He closes the chapter with the following:
"Thus does the Power which is externally for us become a Power within us; the law of Sinai with
its tables of stone is replaced by the law of 'the Spirit of life' 'in the fleshly tables of the heart'; the
outward commandment is exchanged for an inward decalogue; hard duty by holy delight, that
henceforth the Christian life may be 'all in Christ, by the Holy Spirit for the glory of God.'"
But, it may be asked again, if Dr. Gordon and the class of writers he represents teach that this
baptism or induement of the Spirit saves one from all sin and spiritual depravity, and makes him