Covenanter Witness Vol. 53 - Rparchives.org

perfect."righteousness."er."chips."TheCovenanter JuniorMrs. Philip MartinTHE BOBCAT WEST CLUBHello, Juniors,Are you still reviewing your questionsand proof-texts?Darlene, what two blessings or benefits have we talked aboutwhich come from answering God's call?Yes, Justification and Adoption. Todaywe want to talk about another benefit.Justification and adoption take placein an instant. As soon as weanswerGod's call we are made just-as-if wehad never sinned because Jesus has paidthe penalty for our sins. We also haveGod's name put on us. We are adoptedinto His family and even Satan himself can't take us out of God's family.But Satan doesn't like to see us inGod's family. He does his level best toget us out of God's family. So, we havea war going on in our souls. Let us turnto Galations 5:17. Here we have theword "lusteth" which gives us the ideaof a battle in which one side will finally win. Ronnie, in this verse what islusting or fighting against what? Yes,the two parties in the fight are the fleshand the Spirit. Now by the "flesh" wedo not mean a piece of meat, but wemean that part of us which is the sin"I."ful And the Spirit is the HolySpirit, the third person of the Godhead.As long as there is any sin left in usthis battle will go on. We know that thebattle continues until God frees my spirit from this sinful body and my spiritgoes to be with my Saviour. We call thistime "death."What must happen to the flesh orto the sinful "I"? Let us look at John3:30. Roy, to whom does the "He" refer, in this verse? Yes, in my life Jesusmust increase (get to be more), but"I"must decrease (get to be less). Nowlet us turn to Galatians 2:20what mustto seehappen to the old "I" inus. Kaye, what must happen? Yes,"I"which is full of sin must be crucifieduntil we are full of not I, but Christ.In Matthew 5:48, Jesus said "Be yetherefore PERFECT, even as your Father which is in heaven is Perfection is what God requires, but I cannot be perfect so long as any sin is inmy heart. What shall I do! But hereagain God has given another benefit tothose who are made to answer His call.He requires me to be perfect. He knowsI can't make myself perfect. So His Holy Spirit in my heart is constantly winning battles against the devil in my heartso that really I am dying every dayJuly 14, 1954and living every day. I am dying untosin and I am living unto righteousness.This constant process of dying and living is the way to perfection. God makesus perfect or SANCTIFIES us. We callthe process SANCTIFICATION, the process of making us holyin God"s sight.Let us use Galatians 2:20 for our prooftext."W.S.C.,"Our good old friend,hasdone a fine job of putting into a fewwords the definition of SANCTIFICATION."W.S.C.,"what is sanctification? "Sanctification is thework of God's free grace, whereby weare renewed in the whole man after theimage of God, and are enabled more andmore to die unto sin, and live untoEmblem of the R.T.F.The Chinese writing means"The Word oi God is not Bound."NATIONAL JUNIOR PROJECTThe Reformation Translation Fellowship is an organization started by Covenanter missionaries, which publishesChristian books and magazines in Chinese. It sends these not only to people inChina, but also to Chinese living in many other countries. Right now over 100Chinese in America are getting thesebooks and papers.The R.T.F. has just celebrated itsfifth birthday. It is now much biggerthan it was three or four years ago.It supports a Chinese Christian workerin Japan and one in Hong Kong. Thereis also a branch of the R.T.F. in England.Wehope that sometime the R.T.F.can publish a Chinese Bible story bookfor children. It it does, perhaps the Covenanter Juniors in America can help topay the cost. Right now, the R.T.F. needsa filing and storage cabinet for its papersand records. This will cost about$35.00. Any Covenanter Junior Societythat would like to help pay for this cansend their contribution in the same wayas for other "National Junior Projects."If more than $35 is received, a largercabinet can be purchased, or the moneythe cost ofcan be used to help payprinting Christian books in Chinese.Any Junior Society that would liketo have a sample of one of the R.T.F.Chinese tracts or booklets can haveone by writing to Rev. J. G. Vos, Route1, Clay Center, Kansas.Chinese Christian Children in ManchuriaDON'T BLAME MY HANDSThe Rev. Thomas K. Beecher despiseddeceit in any form. Finding that a clockin his church was habitually too fast ortoo slow, he hunga placard on the wallabove it, reading in large letters: "Don'tblame my hands the trouble lies deepThat is when; the trouble lies with uswhen our hands do wrong, or our feet,or our lips, our thoughts. The troubleliesso deep that only God's miraclepower can deal with it. Sin goes deep;but Christ goes deeper and changes theheart and the will.Christian Witness"He is not the best carpenter whomakes the most25