THE HOLY OF HOLIES Part 3

The wisdom of the fathers

THE HOLY OF HOLIES Part 3

The rod, we are told, bore fruit. There is no life so fruitful as the sanctified life. All inward hindrance has been removed, and the fruit and graces of the Spirit grow and flourish without being choked by the bitter weeds of carnality.

In Second Peter, the first chapter, we read of the Christian's having escaped the corruption that is in the world, which means the corrupt, fallen nature, and being made partakers of the Divine nature. Then he bids him add all the graces of the Spirit. "It makes us that we shall neither be barren or unfruitful." Here is a sure guarantee that we shall be fruit-bearing Christians.

Just as Aaron's rod, a dry stick, budded, blossomed and bore fruit all in one night, a believer who goes behind the second veil and gets the experience of holiness will grow more in a short time than he did for years in his justified experience, fighting, as he did, the old man of in-bred sin.

Finally, God Himself is behind the second veil. This is the crown of all blessings, "Thou that dwells between the cherubim, shine forth." ...Friends, this is the climax of the atonement. There is nothing sweeter, higher, nor deeper than God enthroned in a human heart. This is the Christian perfection, sanctification, soul-rest -- the fullness of the blessing, perfect love! It is Heaven on earth. (from "Deeper Things" by J.H. Hames)