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rest of God. Let all our thoughts be gathered up into this one:
Jesus, Blessed Jesus.

4. This holy life in Christ is for to-day, when you read this. For
to-day He is made of God unto you sanctification: to-day He
will indeed be your holiness. Believe in Him for it; trust Him,
praise Him. And remember: _you are in Him_.

Twenty-third Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

Holiness and the Body.

'The temple of God is _holy_, which temple ye are. _The body_ is
for the Lord, and the Lord for _the body_. Know ye not that your
_body_ is the temple of _the Holy Ghost_ which is in you;
therefore glorify God in your _body_.'--1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 13,
19.

'She that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, that
she may be _holy_ both _in body_ and spirit.'--1 Cor. vii. 34.

'Present your _bodies_ a living sacrifice, _holy_, acceptable to
God.'--Rom. xii. 1.

Coming into the world, our Blessed Lord spake: '_A body_ didst Thou
prepare for me; lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.' Leaving this world
again, it was in His own _body_ that He bore our sins upon the tree. So
it was in the body, no less than in soul and spirit, that He did the
will of God. And therefore it is said, 'By which will we have been
sanctified through the offering _of the body_ of Jesus Christ once for
all.'

When praying for the Thessalonians and their sanctification, Paul says,
'And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit
and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame, at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.' Of himself he had spoken as 'always bearing
about _in the body_ the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may
be manifested _in our body_. For we which live are always delivered unto
death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested _in
our mortal flesh_.' His earnest expectation and hope was, 'that Christ
be magnified _in my body_, whether by life or by death.' The relation
between body and spirit is so intimate, the power of sin in the spirit
comes so much through the body, the body is so distinctly the object
both of Christ's redemption and the Holy Spirit's renewal, that our
study of holiness will be seriously defective if we do not take in the
teaching of Scripture on holiness in the body.

It has been well said that the body is, to the soul and spirit dwelling
and acting within it, like the walls of the city. Through them the enem