A new article added the the book, "Receive the Holy Spirit"!
GOD chose us in Christ “before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Eph. 1:4).
But “all we like sheep have gone astray.” “They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.”
But when we were thus enemies and alienated in our minds by wicked works, when we had altogether missed that for which God chose us, He reconciled us in the body of His flesh through death, to present us holy and blameless and above reproach in His sight” (Col. 1:21, 22).
It is His, not ours, to present us thus. It cost “all the fulness of God” to do this; and only He who could pay that price could have the power, and obtain the right, to do it. And for any one but Him to undertake to “present you holy and blameless and above reproach in His sight,” is to attempt the impossible.