Holiness

Blessing for Blessing

Ephesians 1:3

… be holy and without blame before Him in love? The objective of our election is our holiness and the objective of every spiritual blessing is our holiness! God …

The Lord And The Leper

Mark 1:40-42

… to them holy company is dull and wearisome; they do not feel free and easy in such society, and therefore they avoid it as much as decency allows …

The Weaned Child

Psalm 131:2

… great, he is sure to be kept lowly before the Lord by the Holy Spirit. The proud man is really little—no, more—he is really nothing even …

Adoption—The Spirit and the Cry

Galatians 4:6

… Out of the heart are the issues of life, and from the affections sanctified by the Holy Ghost all other faculties and powers receive renewal, illumination, sanctification, strengthening …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… Our tongues need a sevenfold sanctification if we are always to speak that which is good and acceptable. And, surely, that is what we desire. Now, we will …

The Lord's Own Salvation

Hosea 1:7

… I pray the Holy Spirit to apply that Truth to any heart here that is heavy by reason of sore conflict at this time. Oh, for Divine Grace …

Christ—Perfect Through Sufferings

Hebrews 2:10

… Christ Jesus hath all fullness dwelling in himself. "More than all in Christ we find:" pardon in his blood; justification in his righteousness; wisdom in his teaching; sanctification …

Who Is This?

Isaiah 62:11

… Resurrection! This salvation leads to holiness, for the text says of those who receive the Savior, "They shall call them, The Holy People." If, dear Friend, you are …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… I am sure that God the Holy Spirit spoke to some of us. If we never heard Him before, we certainly did then feel the power of His …

Co-workers With God

Psalm 127:1

… Some people think so much about their own sanctification that they miss sanctification altogether. They are looking at their own image and admiring it until they are gradually …

Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… God, in His infinite majesty and holiness, does not overwhelm us— "Till God in human flesh I see, My thoughts no comfort find. The holy, just and sacred …

The Hedge of Thorns and the Plain Way

Proverbs 15:19

… There are certain sheep-tracks up the slopes of Scripture which are much more trodden than the rest of the holy fields. I suppose it has always been …

The Last Year at Waterbeach and Cambridge

… a new nature, and holy desires leading to holy acts. This is a gradually progressive work. These three things pardon, justification, and sanctification, — must go together. God will …

S. S.—or, the Sinner Saved

Romans 9:30-33

… no race for the prize of holiness! They were ignorant of such matters as salvation, reconciliation with God, the inward life, sanctification and all the other mysteries and …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Dearly Beloved, we ought to pant after sanctification! It should be the ambition of our spirits to be useful—we ought to be crying and sighing everyday after …

Sow To Yourselves

Hosea 10:12

… you have shown any holy courage or gracious patience, or sacred stability, or hallowed experience, or spiritual joy, or heavenly rapture, or true holiness, it is God's …

"They Were Tempted"

Hebrews 11:37

… flint for Christ and holiness? Has Grace made you a lion-like man? Have you a strong determination worked in you by the Holy Spirit? If not, you …

Simple But Sound

John 9:25

… The argument which our holy religion needs at the present moment is a new appeal to the senses of men. You will ask me, "What is that?" The …

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Revelation 19:9

… the righteousness of Christ? Has Christ put on you His sanctification? Are you changed in heart? Without holiness no man shall see the Lord! Has the Grace of …

For Whom Is The Gospel Meant?

Mark 2:17

… May God the Holy Spirit, in answer to your prayers, grant us a reward this morning after the same proportion as last Thursday and, if so, our heart …

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… If you would have justification, you must have sanctification! If you would have pardon, you must have holiness! It you would be one with Christ, you must be …

God's Thoughts and Ways Far Above Ours

Isaiah 55:8

… God's ways are ways of holiness and purity. God has never done anything unjust to His creature or unrighteous to Himself. But our ways are not so …

The Barrier

Revelation 21:27

… Write my name among them, O my God, and permit me to enter into Your rest! Best of all, remark how holy the Church will be. She shall …

The True Tabernacle, and Its Glory of Grace and Peace

John 1:14

… Today let our congregation be a holy convocation; and as for ourselves, let us be holiness unto the Lord. We are consecrated men and women, seeing the Lord …

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

… Afterwards, in prayer for my own sanctification, my soul breathed freely and ardently after the holiness of God, and this was the best season of the day.” We …

The Priesthood of Believers

1 Peter 2:5

… Aaron had the holy oil poured upon his head until it ran down to the skirt of his garment. So Jesus was anointed of the Holy Spirit without …

The Sine Qua Non

John 13:8

… washing, I believe, is the continual sanctification which faith in Jesus Christ carries on within us by the power of the Holy Spirit. If a man professes to …

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… this? Christ is made of God unto us sanctification—He saves His people from their sins—He makes them holy and so breaks in pieces their enemy. Though …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… The holy man makes his appeal to Jehovah, who alone knows the heart: a man should be slow to do this upon any matter, for the Lord is …

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… So perfectly holy, so inconceivably gracious, so full of everything that makes up perfection, so devoid of any fault or failure, the infinitely glorious Jehovah should be—must …

The Objective of Christ's Death

Galatians 1:4

… Christ came to gather out a people even from among these abominations—and He did gather them out—a holy people who could not and would not live …

The Rule and Reward of Serving Christ

John 12:26

… you into the place of dedication, consecration, sanctification! You desire to be holy? Well, you will never attain to holiness simply by lying in bed—get up and …

The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace

James 4:7-10

… We shall try at this time to show certain uneasy souls why they do not obtain peace and what they must be brought to by the Holy Spirit …

Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs

Romans 8:22-23

… by sanctification, the instruments of righteousness unto the glory of God; and the body which was once a workshop for Satan, becomes a temple for the Holy Ghost …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… This discovery is due to the Holy Spirit. He it is who convinces men of sin. By his mysterious but most blessed agency on the hearts of men …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… There is light in a beam as well as in the sun and so is there Grace in a desire as truly as in complete sanctification! Thirdly, holy …

Christ's Care of His Disciples

John 18:8

… sanctified through the Truth. "I set Myself apart unto holiness, that they, also, might be set apart unto holy uses through the Truth." 20. Neither pray I for …

Righteous Hatred

Psalm 97:10

… is he not shine everlasting Father, even he who is the Prince of Peace? I beseech thee, never demean thy royal lineage, nor let thy holy ancestry be …

David's Holy Wonder at The Lord's Great Goodness

Psalm 31:19

… degrees of sanctification! There is a more eminent nearness of communion than the most of us are aware! The laid-up treasures in the Holy Spirit are probably …

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

… God hath spoken in his holiness. That is, by Samuel he hath promised, as he is an holy God, and true of his word, that I should be …