Futile - The Law Was Futile (v. 1-4)
Fulfilled - The Will of God has Been Fulfilled (v. 5-9)
Finished - The Forgiveness of Sins is Finished. (v. 10-13)
Finalized - Our Sanctification has been and will be Finalized (v. 14-18)
- The Purpose of Sanctification
- The Power for Sanctification
Never let your sin shake your confidence in Christ, for if you are a great sinner, glorify Him by believing Him to be a great Savior —Charles Spurgeon, Commentary on Hebrews
“holiness of life is not precisely a human achievement, however much it demands of human effort. It is a work of the Holy Spirit, who prompts and energizes the human effort as part of it. It is a supernaturalizing of our natural lives, a matter of becoming and so of being what we are as new creatures in Christ – a living out behaviorally of what God is working in us transformationally. We do not sanctify ourselves… . Self-reliance is not the way of holiness, but the negation of it.”” —J. I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness, 91-92.
“it [sanctification] is an ongoing cooperative process in which regenerate persons, alive to God and freed from sin’s dominion, are required to exert themselves in sustained obedience. God’s method of sanctification is neither activism (self-reliant activity) nor apathy (God-reliant passivity), but God-dependent effort.”” —J. I. Packer, Concise Theology
- The Process of Sanctification
“Holiness/Sanctification is primarily about having one’s character shaped by the Holy Spirit and how that transformed inner life expresses itself in conduct. Holiness should never be defined merely in terms of what you don’t do but primarily in terms of how closely you resemble Jesus in your relationships, how closely you reflect Jesus in all your behavior.”” —Sam Storms https://www.samstorms.org/all-articles/post/article-10-things-you-should-know-about-sanctification
You will never get far in the Christian life until you find the courage to give other people the right to get in your face and challenge you about your speech, attitudes, thought life, use of money, relationships, etc. —Sam Storms https://www.samstorms.org/all-articles/post/article-10-things-you-should-know-about-sanctification