Excerpts From Testimonies on the 2nd Day of Pentecost in Gullskogen

Most of those who think they are shepherds and leaders of churches are mystified when it comes to sanctification. A while ago, several of these leaders met in order to discuss this topic, but not one of them knew anything about it. One of them supposed one thing and another supposed something else. Not one of them could get up and give a clear answer. We realize that there is total confusion. One time they say that all sin and all of sinful nature is dead and taken away; next time they say that they have never met a dead man. No one has died with Christ. What folly! What misery beyond all limits! People who have led others for years and have been famous preachers have never walked in the Spirit, have never reckoned themselves to be dead to sin and alive to Christ. If they had done that, they would have had a clear understanding of sanctification. I would have rejoiced beyond measure if I had been there and had had the opportunity of testifying to them that I have been crucified with Christ, that it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. Hallelujah!

The person who has accepted this by faith has once for all considered himself dead to sin, and since then death has been active in all that the light illuminates in his inner man. That is how far the death of Christ works in me, and not any further. Death cannot rule over things over which God has still not given me light in my inner man, as something that has to be put to death. However, as soon as the light shines on it, I say “Yes” to the light’s judgment—on the cross with it—so it can be surrendered into death. If this has happened to me, the commandments that are given to those who are in the world fall away; for the law is given for the transgressors. Commandments and precepts apply to those who live in the world, but we have died to the elementary principles of this world together with Christ. Christ has become our law, our light, and our peace. We have died to the law through the body of Christ and love the requirements of the light. We delight in living and walking in the light; therefore all these laws fall away as if we lived in the world. The world and its lusts are a curse to me, and the world says, “You are a curse to us!” I will glory in the cross of Christ and nothing else, and blessed is everyone who glories in it. Peace be upon the Israel of God. There the church is united in one Spirit.