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  (PRESENT TRUTHS OR THE SUPERNATURAL) 5
  by A.B. Simpson
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"If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you." (Rom. 8: 11.) The redemption
of the body is an accepted truth of Christianity. The chief difference
among Christians is with respect to the extent of its application. Many
believe that this part of our redemption is only to be realized at the
close of the present age in the translation and resurrection at the
coming of our Lord. Others of us have been led to believe that we
anticipate in the present life to a certain extent the power of our
future resurrection, and that we have a foretaste of this part of our
salvation here even as we have a foretaste of heaven.

This, we believe, is what is meant by the use of the word "earnest" or
"first fruits" applied in several instances in relation to the work of
the Holy Ghost in our bodies. An earnest is a first installment, a
pledge in kind of the thing which is afterward to be given in full. As
the earnest of our spiritual future He gives us in our spirit the
foretaste of the heavenly glory, but as the earnest of the resurrection
of the body He gives us the physical life of Christ in our mortal body
and anticipates in our material form now, as far as we are able to
receive it, that which we shall enjoy in boundless fullness in the body
of glory in the ages to come.

An earnest is the very same in kind but less in degree than that of
which it is the pledge. Therefore if the Holy Ghost is to be the earnest
of our physical resurrection it must be through some physical operation
in our being now.

We believe that we shall have a supernatural body in the heavenly world,
but we also believe that we begin to receive the elements of that body
now, if not its form at least its vital element and the hidden power
which is to animate it then.

We are always putting forward God\

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