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Section 14

Section 14

He has brought the heavenlies into us. When we realize the fact that we share in Christ's ascen­ sion, we experience not only sanctification but also glorification. To be in ascension is to be in glory.

SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE

We need the subjective experience of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory. To be crucified with Christ is to experience righteousness, and to have Christ live in us is to experience holiness. According to His righteousness and through His holiness, the Triune God is dispensed into us in a full way unto His glory. This means that the result of God's dispensation is glory. When peo­ ple contact us or visit our homes, they should be able to sense that we have died with Christ and that Christ is living in us. If this is our situation, then we shall exhibit God's righteousness, holi­ ness, and even His glory.

How we praise the Lord for opening the depths of this book to us! In Romans 3 and 4 we see that Christ died for us and in Romans 6, that we died in Christ. This death was according to God's righteousness and for His righteousness. In Romans 6 through 8 we see that we are being sanctified through the living, acting, moving, and

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