To mistake freedom from sin only on the conscious level of our
lives for complete deliverance from sin by the atonement through the
Cross of Christ is a great error. No one fully knows what sin is until
he is born again. Sin is what Jesus Christ faced at Calvary. The
evidence that I have been delivered from sin is that I know the real
nature of sin in me. For a person to really know what sin is requires
the full work and deep touch of the atonement of Jesus Christ, that is,
the imparting of His absolute perfection.
The Holy Spirit applies or administers the work of the atonement to
us in the deep unconscious realm as well as in the conscious realm. And
it is not until we truly perceive the unrivaled power of the Spirit in
us that we understand the meaning of 1 John 1:7 , which says, “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
This verse does not refer only to conscious sin, but also to the
tremendously profound understanding of sin which only the Holy Spirit in
me can accomplish.
I must “walk in the light as He is in the light . . .”— not in the
light of my own conscience, but in God’s light. If I will walk there,
with nothing held back or hidden, then this amazing truth is revealed to
me: “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses [me] from all
sin” so that God Almighty can see nothing to rebuke in me. On the
conscious level it produces a keen, sorrowful knowledge of what sin
really is. The love of God working in me causes me to hate, with the
Holy Spirit’s hatred for sin, anything that is not in keeping with God’s
holiness. To “walk in the light” means that everything that is of the
darkness actually drives me closer to the center of the light.
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