A. J. Gordon, Ministry of the Spirit, 63, 109‐111—“The church is Christian no more than as it is the organ of the continuous passion of Christ. We must suffer with sinning and lost humanity, and so ‘_fill up ... that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ_’ (_Col. 1:24_). Christ’s crucifixion must be prolonged side by side with his resurrection. There are three deaths: 1. death in sin, our natural condition; 2. death for sin, our judicial condition; 3. death to sin, our sanctified condition.... As the ascending sap in the tree crowds off the dead leaves which in spite of storm and frost cling to the branches all the winter long, so does the Holy Spirit within us, when allowed full sway, subdue and expel the remnants of our sinful nature.” (_e_) The agency through which God effects the sanctification of the believer is the indwelling Spirit of Christ. _John 14:17, 18_—“_the Spirit of truth ... he abideth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you desolate; I come unto you_”; _15:3‐5_—“_Already ye are clean.... Abide in me ... apart from me ye can do nothing_”; _Rom. 8:9, 10_—“_the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness_”; _1 Cor. 1:2, 30_—“_sanctified in Christ Jesus ... Christ Jesus, who was made unto us ... sanctification_”; _6:19_—“_know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God?_” _Gal. 5:16_—“_Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh_”; _Eph. 5:18_—“_And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit_”; _Col. 1:27‐29_—“_the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily_”; _2 Tim. 1:14_—“_That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us._”