Holiness

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… However wise and advisable a human interpolation may be, it has no authority with us; we bow to holy Scripture, but not to glosses which theologians may choose …

The Wedding Garment

Matthew 22:11-14

… But we might with equal truth say that the wedding dress is a holy character, the imparted righteousness which the Holy Spirit works in us, and which is …

The Memory Of Christ's Love

Solomon 1:4

… But I am sure of this, that the greatest instrument of sanctification is the love of Jesus! One asked what he should think of to make him holy …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:20

… We hunger to be holy! Here I must correct myself as to our one desire, for surely, if the Lord would make us holy we should then desire …

Angelic Interest in the Gospel

1 Peter 1:12

… That which grieves the Holy Spirit must be grievous to holy angels, too, and that which gladdens the heart of God must also make glad the spirits that …

The Parent's and Pastor's Joy

… It should be the holy ambition of every parent that all his house should be renewed by the Holy Spirit. It is a great joy when our children …

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… THIS passage is a piece of holy teaching set forth under the parable of rising in the morning and preparing for the work of the day. May the …

Wonders

Joel 2:26

… Behold and wonder—the Infinite enters into covenant with the finite—the Holy engages Himself to sinners! We well may sit before the Lord as David did, in …

Marrow and Fatness

2 Samuel 7:18-22

… apart for holy uses, admitted to new company, filled with holy joys, instructed in heavenly truths and dedicated to sacred duties! Praise Him for sanctification which has made …

Leaning On Our Beloved

Solomon 8:5

… sanctification through the blood, for it is a purifier as well as a pardoner. The same blood which puts away the guilt of sin is, by the Holy …

A Present Religion

1 John 3:2

… Did you ever hear of a Christian acting the counterpart? Did you ever hear of any one on his death-bed looking back on a life of holiness …

Who Are The Elect?

1 Samuel 16:12

… constrained to ascribe all to Sovereign Grace? Is your heart a holy heart? Do you desire holiness? Do you find your pleasure in it? Is your heart bold …

'As' and 'So'

Colossians 2:6

… Be as holy as it is possible for you to become, but do not prate and brag about your holiness as some have done. Be not like those …

Laus Deo

Romans 11:36

… Oh, to serve Him every day, lifting up my heart from Sunday to Sunday, till I reach the ever-ending Sunday! Reaching from sanctification to sanctification, from love …

God's Will and Man's Will

Romans 9:16

… As to the sanctification which is the result and outgrowth of the new birth, that also is according to God's holy will. In the first of Thessalonians …

The Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

… The Spirit of God bore witness to Christ in the types and prophecies, ‘Holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost;’ and Jesus …

Sweet Savor

Ezekiel 20:41

… God, as a Spirit infinitely and exclusively holy, delights in holiness! As a truthful Spirit He cannot be satisfied with anything that is untruthful. As a most just …

Spices, Flowers, Lilies and Myrrh

Solomon 5:13

… Complete sanctification will be the lot of every redeemed soul! If we have known the Lord and have already had something of His likeness, we shall go on …

The Sinner's Savior

Luke 19:7

… Man's nature becomes renewed by the faith which, some say, will cause him to become indifferent to holiness. A man's whole life is changed by his …

David's Sublime Consolation

2 Samuel 23:5

… First, then, we shill ponder, and may the Holy Spirit make it greatly to profit everyone of us— I. DAVID'S GRAVE LAMENT. His house, he declares, was …

Salvation As It Is Now Received

1 Peter 1:8

… but as He which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, be you holy; for I Am …

The One Foundation

1 Corinthians 3:11

… There is pardon through His blood, justification through His righteousness and sanctification through His Spirit. Complete salvation is freely provided for Believers in Him and the Grace of …

A Marvelous Change

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

… Justification makes us righteous in the sight of God and sanctification gives us true holiness. Justification gives us imputed holiness, so that we stand before God, first in …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… that we may be holy as He who has called us is holy. Let us think of this love by striving after sanctification and let us think of …

Three Precious Things

1 Peter 2:7

… Gain Him, and you will want no other, for He is made of God unto you "wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption," and all your souls can want. Yes, He …

A Home Mission Sermon

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… The thief upon the cross had no long time for the process of sanctification; for thus spake the Saviour. “Verily I say unto thee this day shalt thou …

The Stony Heart Removed

Ezekiel 36:26

… John Bunyan, in his history of the "Holy War," represents old Diabolus, the devil, as providing for the people of Mansoul a coat of armour, of which the …

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… Precious when of wrath the surges Overwhelmed His holy soul! Precious in His death victorious, He the host of Hell overthrows, In His Resurrection glorious, Victor crowned over …

God's Remembrance of His Covenant

Psalm 106:44

… God unto us wisdom, righteousness and sanctification? He that has God has everything! Will you belittle your God and limit the Holy One of Israel? Come, find your …

The Covenant Promise of the Spirit

Ezekiel 36:27

… The Holy Spirit is the life of holiness. At the same time, the coming of the Holy Spirit into the soul gives a mortal stab to the power …

Dei Gratia

Ephesians 1:6

… You are honoring God better by holiness than by writing the sweetest poetry, or by uttering the most seraphic sentences upon it. Holy living is "to the praise …

War! War! War!

1 Samuel 18:17

… Smite them first with the weapon of holy example. Be yourselves what you would have others be. be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. Be …

First Things First

… exhibit the infused righteousness which comes of sanctification. Brothers in Christ, let us aspire after a high degree of holiness! We are called to be saints and saints …

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Psalm 149:4-6

… Out of meekness also comes holiness—and who has not heard of "the beauty of holiness"? When one is made to subdue his temper and curb his will …

The Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2

… the eyes of a holy God. This is justification, full, complete, everlasting. But we are all aware, that in the matter of sanctification, we are not, as yet …

Jesus No Phantom

Matthew 14:26

… Oh, the benefit of the heavenly eye salve by which the eyes are cleared! May the Holy Spirit anoint our eyes therewith. Oh, the excellence of faith which …

The Mediator’The Interpreter

Exodus 20:18-20

… It was meet that with great solemnity the law of the Most High should be proclaimed, that Israel might have a holy reverence for its commands. This terrible …

The Beginning of Months

Exodus 12:1

… Now, it is always a pity when we are preaching Justification by Faith, to bring in sanctification as to make it a part of justification—but it is …

The Works of the Devil Destroyed

1 John 3:8

… after sanctification. Let us labor after holiness and let us abound in it to the glory of God. Despite our failures and mistakes let us pursue holiness! Taking …

The Sinner'S Advocate

1 John 2:1

… I dare to say it—the best faith or the highest degree of sanctification to which a Christian ever attained on earth, has still so much of the …