The purpose "that we should be holy and without blame before Him" cannot be

attained now, apart from redemption, and so we find this great purpose of the Father

brought to pass by the Son (Eph. 5: 25-27, "sanctify, cleanse, present it a church in

glory . . . . . holy and without blemish."). So also Col. 1: 22: by redemption those who

had forfeited their inheritance "are made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the

saints in the light".

Space will not allow much upon the present witness of the Spirit (Eph. 1: 13, 14).

There we read of the "earnest", the pledge, and that earnest is nothing less than the

earnest of our INHERITANCE, which, being connected with such an expression as "unto

the redemption of the purchased possession", shews once more that redemption has in

view, primarily, the purchase of the forfeited inheritance.