“Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.”
- Charles H. Spurgeon
Reflection:
The God who justifies is also the God who sanctifies, just as the Jesus who was crucified is also the Jesus who was resurrected. Likewise the believer who has truly repented and believed unto salvation, is also the believer who is continually being made holy by the power and work of the Holy Spirit in their life.
We live in a day and age of carnal Christianity. Children at age 8, walk down an aisle and make an emotional decision; the child at age 14 begins to dive into all types of wickedness and sin; at age 30 when the same person realizes that life is not forever, he/she will walk down the aisle once more and 'rededicate' their life to the LORD... When was this person saved?
The Bible explicitly states that true Salvation results in a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) . A new creation that does not desire to fulfill the desires of the flesh, but rather desires to follow God (Romans 8:9). A new creation that may slip or even fall into sin, but does not and can not dwell in it for long (Galatians 5:16-17). True believers will be in a continous process of sanctification that started at the moment they first believed.
- Jakab
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