EXTRACT – THE GREAT AND HIGH WALL

A.J.G. I thought perhaps we might … see how the testimony as established on earth met with opposition, as we might expect, it taking the form of threatening in Acts 4, and how that was met, and how opposition only served to bind the saints more closely together. And then how the enemy seeks subtly to counteract what is of God by the introduction of evil, and how fully that was met, chapter 5 serving to bring into prominence how the Spirit of God is spoken of – the Holy Spirit, God, and the Spirit of the Lord. And then further, how the result of all that is an increase of holiness among the people, and complete oneness of accord with regard to the dealing with evil, holiness among the people being built up, so that “Of the rest” it says “durst no man join them”. So we have in principle the great and high wall of the heavenly city in what is built up in the souls of the saints ...

V.B. You referred earlier in your outline to the great and high wall in connection with this…

A.J.G. I was referring to chapter 5. In verse 13 we read “Of the rest durst no man join them”. That is, there was such holiness characterising the saints, that no one who had not the Holy Spirit dared attempt to join them. So that the wall, the true separation that should mark saints, was not a code of regulations, it was simply what was built up in the souls of the saints....

A.J Gardiner ‘Education in view of the testimony’ p.93, 110

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