The Work of the Holy Spirit

First, if man had never been profaned by sin, it would never have entered his mind to sanctify himself; and yet the law would ha ...

fact that the holiness without which no man shall see God is not attained by the departing from some evil and the habitual doing ...

440 III. Sanctification and Justification “Yield your members servants to righteousness unto sanctification.” —Rom.vi. 19. Sanct ...

zeal and love often make us feel ashamed. Yet the feeling does not amount to loathing of self. But in the presence of the holine ...

conscious that God’s decisions are not only right and good, but absolutely righteous and superlatively good. The divine righteou ...

444 IV. Sanctification and Justification (Continued) “He that is holy, let him be holy still.” —Rev.xxii. 11. The divine Righteo ...

before God, man, and angel; while holiness refers, not to any relation, but to the quality of our inner being. We speak of right ...

of the debt. Because righteousness has reference to mutual relations, the right is satisfied as soon as the disturbed relation i ...

448 V. Holy Raiment of One’s Own Weaving. “I dwell in the high and holy places.” —Isa.lvii. 15. Holinessinheres in man’s being. ...

merely, but complete, for everything in them was in perfect accord with God. And the re- deemed in heaven are holy; in death the ...

for the Scripture teaches clearly that in death we are separated from the body. The fact that the body remains impure until the ...

this doctrine, and always opposed it. “There is no Gospel in it,” they said. It is the concision of the Covenant of Grace; layin ...

452 VI. Christ Our Sanctification "Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us...sanctification."—1 Cor.i. 30. The redeemed soul pos ...

“apolutrosis” denotes also here a continued action of being made free from inward and outward misery. The Heidelberg Catechism ( ...

If one asks, Is Christ your holiness as much as He is your righteousnessand in the same sense? we answer: Yes, indeed, bless the ...

so far as the soul is concerned, in death, and, regarding the body, at the coming of the Lord. And since this is wrought by Chri ...

456 VII. Application of Sanctification “Whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, ...

looking up will glorify the Father. And then the fearful continuity of sin called “stain” is broken; then the law that sin must ...

But, altho we forsake Him, He never forsakes us; there is between the converted in his deepest fall and the unconverted this imm ...

460 VIII. Sanctification in Fellowship with Immanuel “But now have ye your fruit unto sanctification, and the end everlasting li ...