IS CHRISTIAN PERFECTION POSSIBLE? Part 4 b

The wisdom of the fathers

IS CHRISTIAN PERFECTION POSSIBLE?? Part 4 b?

Perfect unity

Every sect yoke is destroyed?“because of the anointing.”*?It is the work of the Holy Spirit to effect this unity in us with God and with each other. Every human effort to accomplish this must necessarily end in failure. There are many efforts today to effect a union among Christians, but union is not scriptural unity. Union of sects is far from the scriptural unity of believers.?

A union consists upon a human basis and may consist of a union of sects, or a union of individuals, without any conditions of spirituality whatever. Each individual or body retaining its distinctive and separate division. Scriptural unity is based upon the inner-wrought grace of [complete]sanctification, where everything non-spiritual is entirely destroyed and the Holy Spirit has the right of way in every respect according to the perfect will of God.

It is only as we are thus perfected in this grace that the prayer of Jesus will be fully answered and His people lose every vestige of division. No [completely]sanctified heart can remain loyal to anything that separates the people of God. All sect holiness is below the Bible standard, for it upholds that which [complete]sanctification destroys.?

This is a far-reaching assertion, but in the light of God’s word it is true. Many have lost this experience by listening to the perverted teachings of false shepherds and remaining in sectism. God says the?“anointing”?breaks and destroys the yoke, and no sect yoke will ever again fit on the neck of a [completely]sanctified person, if such remains loyal to the Holy Spirit.

Praise God! He alone can effect perfect unity in us, by His divine process of [complete]sanctification. Then by the careful adherence to Sanctification the teachings of God’s word this beautiful apostolic unity can be maintained and demonstrated among men, and the prayer of Jesus further answered,?“That the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”?

(by William B. Byers)