Colquhoun: The Holy Spirit Applies Christ Through The Gospel

It is by means of the gospel that the Holy Spirit continues to apply Christ, with His righteousness and fullness, to the hearts of believers for increasing their sanctification and consolation. They are said in Scripture to be sanctified “through thy truth” (John 17:17–19), to be clean through the word that Christ has spoken to them (John 15:3), and to have their hearts purified by faith (Acts 15:9). The apostle Paul presented this prayer for the saints at Ephesus: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith…that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” (Eph. 3:17, 19). And he informed them that they were “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets” (Eph. 2:20). It is in proportion, then, as the saints are enabled to believe with application to themselves the offers and promises of the gospel and to trust in Jesus Christ for salvation that they advance in holiness and comfort. And it is “in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God” that they all come “unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”

John Colquhoun | A Treatise on the Law and Gospel (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books), 110-11.


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