And thereafter
during the gospel age all who come into Christ receive this anointing
through Christ Jesus the head by virtue of being inducted into the body
of Christ.
[340]Those who are thus anointed have the spirit of the Lord and by
virtue of his spirit are able to understand the mystery of God and to
appreciate the fact that they have the promise of being joint-heirs with
Christ Jesus in his kingdom. To be anointed means to be assigned to a
place in the body of Christ. "The spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also glorified together."--Romans 8:16,17.
SANCTIFICATION
[341]These new creatures in Christ, otherwise called members of his
body, must now be transformed and made into the image and likeness of
their Head. (Romans 8:29) They must be sanctified. Sanctification means
to be set apart for the use of Jehovah. It means the process of making
us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
(Colossians 1:12) It is the process of perfecting the saints. (Ephesians
4:12) This process begins when Jehovah accepts our consecration and
begets us; and must continue until birth upon the spirit plane.
[342]Sanctification, then, is to be made holy, in the likeness of our
Lord.
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