Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 1 Pet. 1:2
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would see that their visiting people is a preparation for the Holy Spirit to sanctify them and that they would contact people to afford the seeking Spirit a “line” to “hook” the lost sinners (1 Pet. 1:2 and note 2 – 5; 2 Thes. 2:13; Luke 15:8-10 and notes 8 – 2 and 8 – 3; John 16:8).
Here the sanctification of the Spirit is not the sanctification of the Spirit that comes after justification through the redemption of Christ (the latter sanctification is revealed in Rom. 6:19, 22; 15:16). Here the sanctification of the Spirit, as the main emphasis in this chapter, an emphasis on holiness (vv. 15-16), comes before obedience to Christ and faith in His redemption, i.e., before justification through Christ’s redemption (1 Cor. 6:11), indicating that the believers’ obedience unto faith in Christ results from the Spirit’s sanctifying work. The Spirit’s sanctification in its various aspects is revealed in an all-inclusive way in 2 Thes. 2:13, and its goal is that God’s chosen people may obtain God’s full salvation. God’s full salvation is carried out in the sphere of the Spirit’s sanctification. 1 Pet. 1:25, footnote on, sanctification, Recovery Version Bible
Although the United States is a Christian country, to my feeling the need of the American people for Christ is much greater than anywhere else. When I began to work in this country thirty-one years ago, the need was not as great as it is today [1993]. We need to go out to visit people and give them a booklet or a tract. Whether we think they will understand it or not, we need to believe that whatever speaks about Christ will work. We do not know what word will touch people. If we give someone a tract, he may throw it on the street, but what one person throws away, another person may pick up and bring home. Then the members of that family, their friends, and the visitors to their home will see it. We do not know what the result will be. Sooner or later, people will be touched by Christ. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups,” ch. 12, pp. 361-363)
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