The New Life

The Cleansing of Sin.
heart in -which the Spirit can complete His opera*
tions with a view to sanctifying us, and revealing God
within us.^
Cleansing is through the blood. Forgiveness and
cleansing are both through the blood. The blood
breaks the power that sin has in heaven to condemn
ns. The blood thereby also breaks the power of sin
in the heart to hold us captive. The blood has a
ceaseless operation in heaven from moment to moment.
The blood has likewise a ceaseless operation
in our heart, to purify, to keep pure the heart into
which sin always seeks to penetrate from the flesh.
The blood cleanses the conscience from dead works,
to serve the living God. The marvelous power that
the blood has in heaven, it has also in the heart.'
Cleansing is also through the word, for the word
testifies of the blood and of the power of God.'
Hence also cleansing is through faith. It is a divine
and effectual cleansing, but it must also be received
in faith ere it can be experienced and felt. I believe
that I am cleansed with a divine cleansing, even
while I still perceive sin in the flesh ; through faith
in this blessing, cleansing itself shall be my daily
experience.
Cleansing is ascribed sometimes to God or the
I/ord Jesus; sometimes to man.* That is because
1 Ps. li. 12, Ixxiii. 1 ; Matt. v. 8 ; i Tim. i. 5 ; 2 Tim. ii. 22 ; 1 Pet.
i. 22.
3 John xiii. 10, 11 ; Heb. ix. 14, x. 22 ; i John i. 7.
8 John xiv. 3.
* Ps. li. 3 ;
Ezek. xxx. 25 ;
John xiii. 2 ; 2 Cor. vii. i ; i Tim. v.
•a ; 2 Tim. ii. 21
;
Jas. iv. 8 ; i John iii. 3.
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