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spiritual plane. But they will have lost the right to plane AT 3 the throne of glory, because they were not overcomes If we prize our Father's love, if we desire our Lord's ap- proval, if we aspire to be members of his body, his Bride, and to sit in his throne, we must fulfil our covenant of sac- rifice iaithfully and willingly,

The majority of the nominal Church is represented by seaion f. Notice that they are not on plane M, but on plane M They are justified but not sandified. They are not fully consecrated to God, and not begotten, therefore, as spirit beings. They are higher than the world, however, because they accept of Jesus as their ransom from sin; but they have not accepted the high-calling of this age to be- come part of the spiritual family of God. If they contin- ue in faith and fully submit to the righteous laws of Christ's Kingdom, in the Times of Restitution, they will finally attain the likeness of the perfe as those who have heard and believed in the salvation through Christ, is a special blessing which they by faith enjoy sooner than the general world (for all shall be brought to an accurate knowledge of the Truth, in the Millennial age). These, however, will have had the advantage of an earlier start and some progress in the right direflion. But class / fails to improve the real benefit of this reckoned justification in the present time. It is granted now for the special purpose of enabling some to make the acceptable sacrifice, and to become the n dass as membeis of "the body of Christ/' Those of class / receive the favor of God [justification] **tn vain" (2 Cor. 6 : i) : they fail to use it to go on and present themselves acceptable

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