Thank you for the book as well as the postcard and letter. The book was heavy reading due to the author’s detailed attempts to explain himself. It was only toward the end, when he tore himself free from his own human reasoning and was better able to give himself over to the Spirit, that the book improved somewhat. I have sent you The Baptism With the Holy Spirit. This is a good book, which clearly outlines the doctrine that leads to godliness. I don’t really know if you have any interest in the doctrine that leads to godliness. Perhaps you are content with the common teaching so you can maintain a good reputation according to the flesh without losing it for the sake of godliness. There’s no denying that I have felt some of the conflict for you that is described in Col. 2:1 through 5. Read those verses thoughtfully. It is necessary to forget everything that is behind and reach forward toward the things that are ahead. It is necessary to count all things as dung compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, He who has accomplished a work which the angels long to look into. It is a work which we are not only permitted to look into, we can enter into it. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. The law can make nothing perfect. It was only given so that people could become aware of sin. Now we have been made free from the curse of the law through the offering of the body of Christ, once for all. For what the law could not do, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh. The law condemned sin outside of the body, but the Spirit condemns sin within the body. The Spirit convicts of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged. Now judgment is coming over this world; now the ruler of this world is to be cast out, and God will quickly crush Satan under our feet. Now the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God, and we are his house. Judgment comes over us first, and if we would judge ourselves, we would not be condemned together with the world. For us it is not enough that we have put off sinful works which the law condemns. Far from it! There is an inner judgment, because we have access to the new and living way through the veil, which is His flesh. Through His flesh we are able to look into the perfect law of liberty because the thing which cast a shadow has been torn apart, and light shines freely through the opening. That’s why it is written that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and that our bodies are members of the body of Christ where a destruction takes place in the death of Christ. That’s why it is written, “What you sow is not made alive unless it dies.” That’s why Christ came, to put to death the body of sin—whose members we are—in order to raise up a glorious body—whose members we are according to our inner man. No one ascends to heaven except the One who descended from heaven—Jesus Christ who is in heaven. But this descending and ascending has not yet been completed because the Mediator is not only for one, but God is one. Therefore we can bear the death of Christ today—1900 years after His death—because the sin I bear in my body today actually died 1900 years ago. However, since I did not exist yet 1900 years ago, my life is moved back 1900 years. Or, to put it another way, the death of Christ is moved forward 1900 years; for just as the Spirit of Christ in the prophets testified beforehand of Christ’s sufferings and death, that Spirit now testifies back to His sufferings and death. That is why it is written that when the Helper comes, He will remind you of all that I have spoken to you. My longing is that we might go deeper and deeper into all the riches of this full assurance of insight and understanding, because the mysteries of Christ are revealed in the Spirit, who searches out the deep things of God. Among the deep things of God we find the work of Christ, into which angels long to look. The Spirit of Christ possesses within it the fullness and the completion of the work; we have the Spirit of Christ, and we long for its fullness.

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