m that are sanctified by faith in me.'[9] He
Himself is our Sanctification as He is our Justification: for the one as
for the other it is faith that God asks, and both are equally given at
once. The participle used here is not the present, denoting a process or
work that is being carried on, but the aorist, indicating an act done
once for all. When we believe in Christ, we receive the whole Christ,
our justification and our sanctification: we are at once accepted by God
as righteous in Him, and as holy in Him. God counts and calls us, what
we really are, sanctified ones in Christ. It is as we are led to see
what God sees, as our faith grasps that the holy life of Christ is ours
in actual possession, to be accepted and appropriated for daily use,
that we shall really be able to live the life God calls us to, the life
of holy ones in Christ Jesus. We shall then be in the right position in
which what is called our progressive sanctification can be worked out.
It will be, the acceptance and application in daily life of the power of
a holy life which has been prepared in Jesus, which has in the union
with Him become our present and permanent possession, and which works in
us according to the measure of our faith.[10]

From this point of view it is evident that faith has a twofold
operation. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, though _now
actually existing_, the substance of things hoped for, but _not yet
present_. It deals with the unseen present, as well as with the unseen
future. As the evidence of things not seen, it rejoices in Christ our
complete sanctification, as a present possession. Through faith I simply
look to what Christ is, as revealed in the Word by the Holy Spirit.
Claiming all He is as my own, I know that His Holiness, His holy nature
and life, are mine; I am a holy one: by faith in Him I have been
sanctified. This is the first aspect of sanctification: it looks to what
is a complete and finished thing, an absolute reality. As the substance
of things hoped for, this faith reaches out in the assurance of hope to
the future, to things I do not yet see or experience, and claims, day by
day, out of Christ our sanctification, what it needs for practical
holiness, 'to be holy in all manner of living.' This is the second
aspect of sanctification: I depend upon Jesus to supply, in personal
experience, gradually and unceasingly, for the need of each moment,
what has been treasured up in His fulness. 'Of God are