THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S righteousness and sanctification and re demption.” (I Cor. 1:30). The moment the sinner accepts the Saviour, God accepts him “ in the Be loved” (Eph. 1:6) and he sees the be liever complete in Him. (Col. 2:9-10). In Christ he is sanctified, separated unto God. (I Cor. 1 :2). In the plan of God the believer is crucified with Christ, is dead to the law and married to the risen Christ, that in the power of His resur rection life he may bring forth fruit unto God. (Rom. 6:5; Rom. 7 :4). Whenever this truth, that the believer is crucified with Christ and Christ now dwelleth in him, is apprehended, and the child of God through the Holy Spirit is led to take his place of crucifixion with and in Christ from sin, from self and from the world and to walk by faith in loving submission and obedience to the Holy Spirit in all things, he will prove the reality of his deliverance from the thralldom of the old life and the blessed power of the new. “ Sin shall not have dominion over you.” (Rom. 6:14.) God has given us the victory in Jesus Christ, and it is all of grace even as Salvation is all of grace. It is not our holiness as if we pos sessed something of merit apart from the Holy One. It is the Holy One living out His life in and through us. Life in Christ Jesus Hath Made Us Free (Rom. 8:2) For us to continue to walk in sin and defeat is to dishonor our God and His Christ, but remember there is no safety for us apart from Christ. In Him we may Walk in the full power of the cleansing blood (I John 1:6-7) and in the mighty, enabling, victorious power of the Holy Spirit. Timid, faltering, backward one, “ The Lord hath need” of thee. (Roman 12: 1-2) Will you not this very day let Him have entire pos session of that for which He gave His life and seek His gracious, cleansing, enabling power? It is there in Him for you, just now, if you will but be-
953 lieve and put yourself in the place to receive. Put your Iron into the fire and soon the fire will be in your iron. God has in and through Jesus Christ given deliverance from the power of sin, as well as the penalty of sin. Then today tell your Heavenly Father that you de sire and accept His grace; that you take your place as crucified with Christ (Gal. 2:20) to sin, to self, to the world, and that you will trust Him moment by moment through the indwelling Spirit to live out the new, divine, over coming life in you. Through His life and indwelling presence to overcome death; through His light to expel dark ness; through His grace to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Thus will He teach you how to glory in the Cross, through which the world is crucified to you and you to the world. (Gal. 6:14) CINEMA SERVICES Serious as is the Picture Palace craze in itself, it is likely to become “ two fold more the child of hell” (Matt. 23: 15) by regular Church services being turned into Cinema Services. A week ly paper makes the startling statement that: “ In America there are between 5000 and 6000 Churches with complete equip ment for giving movie shows of their own. That they bring people to Church is beyond the shadow of a doubt. Any preacher joining the ‘Film Library’ can get films sent down to illustrate his sermon; or, if preferred, he can get sets of films suggesting sermons. “ Dr. Sprague, who was the first well- known New York preacher to announce a ‘film sermon,’ found the new move so phenomenally successful that he pro phesies that ‘before long the Church not equipped to show motion pictures will be as completely out of the swim as a Church without an organ.’ ” Jesus came not to make men reli gious but to make them spiritually real.
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