By: Stephen Burch
“Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” -Paul the Apostle and Prophet of God in Galatians 3:3. The Christian life begins by the regenerating work of...
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.” Sounds like He does it all. God is a real God! Not a cosmic helper.
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As long as we’re throwing out Scripture… “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” (Phil. 2:12-13). I’m not...
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Jed, You’d better hope that your sanctification doesn’t depend on you. Thanks be to God that it doesn’t. What ‘we do’ is the problem…not the solution. You like Bible? Here’s another one, ‘They asked...
View ArticleBy: Nicholas T. Batzig
Steve, Our sanctification does depend on our working out what God is working in. Peter commands us to “Work hard at adding to our faith virtue and to virtue….” We don’t want to fall into a “Let Go and...
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Men Clearly Nick’s explanation is faithful to both the indicative and imperative of Sanctification. If Christ is our “sanctification” the sphere of our labours must be within “Christ” – his finished...
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Matthew, Then how are you ‘doing’, with respect to your sanctification project? I much prefer the unselfconscious doing that they were doing when they said to Jesus, “when did we do that?” They had no...
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