ed.' 'I come to
do Thy will.' 'In which will we are sanctified.' Christ's
example teaches us that obedience is the only path to the
Holiness or the glory of God. Be this your consecration: a
surrender in everything to seek and do the will of God.

2. We are 'holy in Christ'--in this Christ who did the will of
God and was obedient to the death. In Him it is we are; in Him
we are holy. His obedience is the soil in which we are planted,
and must be rooted. 'It is my meat to do His will;' obedience
was the sustenance of His life; in doing God's will He drew
down Divine nourishment; it must be so with us too.

3. As you study what it is to be and abide in Christ, as you
rejoice you are in Him, always remember it is Christ who obeyed
in whom God has planted you.

4. If ever you feel perplexed about holiness, just yield yourself
again to do God's will, and go and do it. It is ours to obey,
it is God's to sanctify.

5. _Holy in Christ._ Christ sanctified Himself by obedience, by
doing the will of God, and in that will, as done by Him, we
have been sanctified. In accepting that will as done by Him, in
accepting Him, _I am holy_. In accepting that will of God, as
to be done by me, _I become holy_. I am in Him; in every act of
living obedience, I enter into living fellowship with Him, and
draw the power of His life into mine.

6. Obedience depends upon hearing the voice. Do not imagine you
know the will of God. Pray and wait for the inward teaching of
the Spirit.

Eighth Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and Indwelling.

'And let them make me _a holy place_, that I may _dwell_ among
them.'--Ex. xxv. 8.

'And the tent shall be _sanctified_ by my glory, and I will
_dwell_ among the children of Israel, and will be their God.'--Ex.
xxix. 43, 45.

The Presence of God makes holy, even when it descends but for a little
while, as at Horeb, in the burning bush. How much more must that
Presence make holy the place where it dwells, where it fixes its
permanent abode! So much is this the case, that the place where God
dwells came to be called _the_ holy place, 'the holy place of the
habitation of the Most High.' All around where God dwelt was holy: the
holy city, the mountain of God's Holiness, His holy house, till we come
within the veil, to the most holy place, the holy of holies. It is as
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