"Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made
unto us ... sanctification" (1 Cor. 1:30).
If we keep in mind that the Lord Jesus is our
Sanctification, the seemingly difficult subject will clearly unfold for us day
by day.
"Many fall into the Methodistic, or Quaker, or
Pearsall-Smith scheme of sanctification --- all of which is substantially the
same. The true scriptural means of sanctification is that you are set apart to
God. It is not at all a question of whether there is evil in your flesh, for
there is a great deal. Why, that is all the old man is made of!
"But yet you are sanctified. Sanctification has
nothing whatever to do with the extinction of evil in the flesh. That idea,
begun with Pelagius, revived by Thomas a'Kempis, handed down through Jeremy
Taylor, the French and Dutch mystics, Wm. Law and John Wesley, has passed into
other communions where they have no notion whatever whence it came." ---W.K.
"The Christian life is nothing short of the life of
the Lord Jesus (Col. 3:4). It is His life reproduced in us. 'That the life also
of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh' (2 Cor. 4:11). The common
conception of sanctification is that every area of the life should be holy; but
that is not holiness, it is the fruit of holiness: holiness is the Lord Jesus
Christ.
"When we are conscious of pride we fancy that
humility will meet our need, but the answer to pride is not humility, it is the
Lord Jesus, and He is the answer to every need. The Father will not give you
humility or patience or love as separate gifts of grace; He has given you the
Lord Jesus, and if you simply trust Him to live out His life in you, He will be
humble, patient, loving and everything else you need."
"God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth" (2 Thess.
2:13)
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How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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