Receiving Christ's Fullness: The Path to Sanctification
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"In other words, a Christian is a person who is what he is and who has what he has from the Lord Jesus Christ. It is of his fullness of all we receive. The fact that you believe certain things in and of itself doesn't make you a Christian. What makes us Christian is that we receive of his fullness." [00:01:20]
"Sanctification is a progressive deliverance from the power and the pollution of sin, and it is our increasing conformity unto the pattern and the image of God's dear son. Now, this is, of course, a most wonderful aspect of our receiving of that fullness. You see, our salvation doesn't stop at forgiveness." [00:05:12]
"Assurance is the greatest stimulus to sanctification. It isn't sanctification, but it is the greatest stimulus to it. There is nothing that so promotes sanctification as a true assurance. That is why I say that negatively, if what you regard as assurance does not promote sanctification, you can be quite sure that it isn't the assurance which is wrought by the Holy Spirit." [00:13:31]
"The New Testament Epistles never deal with sanctification directly, never. They always start with doctrine. You can divide all these Epistles quite easily into two sections. The first section is always doctrine. What's that for? Well, that is for this reason: it is to remind the people of who they are and what they are." [00:19:46]
"The Holy Spirit brings him to us, manifests him in his glory and in his wonder and in all his excellences, and this is the prime stimulus to sanctification. Nothing so leads to sanctification as to know him and to meditate upon him and to realize something of the glory of his person." [00:25:20]
"The realization of who we are, that we are lights, luminaries in the heavens holding forth the word of life. We are God's children. The apostles are constantly using these appeals. Listen to the Apostle Paul again in Ephesians 5: 'Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children.' That's the appeal. Remember who you are." [00:27:33]
"Assurance of salvation worked by the Holy Spirit is the greatest stimulus of all to sanctification. We are changed from glory into glory as we behold him without a veil and know that we are his and that he is ours. Assurance leads to the inevitable deduction: he that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure." [00:47:37]
"The spirit himself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. Listen to The Great Apostle as he puts that in Romans 8:15 and 16: God, he says, has not given us again the spirit of bondage to fear, but the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, 'Abba, Father.'" [00:35:43]
"Now, there is nothing that is more important than this, that we should know that we are going to rise and rise in the body, and the whole man will be there in the presence of God. Now, there is nothing that is more important from the standpoint of sanctification than to know that." [00:38:41]
"The moment you realize you're in this great purpose of God, it revolutionizes your whole outlook. You don't think of yourself and your ups and downs and this thing that's getting me down. You're delivered out of all that. You're in the purpose of God. You don't think of yourself so much as what you are in the grand purpose of God and the certainty of it all." [00:40:14]
"True assurance humbles us. False assurance fills us with a false pride. It puffs us up as knowledge puffeth up, so does false assurance. But once a man realizes that he, though he is what he is and what he knows himself to be, is in the purpose of God, and that before the very foundation of the world, the Eternal God had seen him and had known him and set his affection upon him and sent his son to die for him, I say he's humble at the thought." [00:43:21]
"The joy of the Lord is your strength. Now, here once more, the analogies from the natural realm suggest themselves to us quite inevitably. It's perfectly true in the ordinary secular realm, ordinary life and living, a spirit of joy and of confidence and of happiness gives us a kind of vigor and of strength." [00:17:46]
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"Sanctification is a progressive deliverance from the power and the pollution of sin, and it is our increasing conformity unto the pattern and the image of God's dear son. Now, this is, of course, a most wonderful aspect of our receiving of that fullness. You see, our salvation doesn't stop at forgiveness." [00:05:12]
"Assurance is the greatest stimulus to sanctification. It isn't sanctification, but it is the greatest stimulus to it. There is nothing that so promotes sanctification as a true assurance. That is why I say that negatively, if what you regard as assurance does not promote sanctification, you can be quite sure that it isn't the assurance which is wrought by the Holy Spirit." [00:13:31]
"The New Testament Epistles never deal with sanctification directly, never. They always start with doctrine. You can divide all these Epistles quite easily into two sections. The first section is always doctrine. What's that for? Well, that is for this reason: it is to remind the people of who they are and what they are." [00:19:46]
"The Holy Spirit brings him to us, manifests him in his glory and in his wonder and in all his excellences, and this is the prime stimulus to sanctification. Nothing so leads to sanctification as to know him and to meditate upon him and to realize something of the glory of his person." [00:25:20]
"The realization of who we are, that we are lights, luminaries in the heavens holding forth the word of life. We are God's children. The apostles are constantly using these appeals. Listen to the Apostle Paul again in Ephesians 5: 'Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children.' That's the appeal. Remember who you are." [00:27:33]
"Assurance of salvation worked by the Holy Spirit is the greatest stimulus of all to sanctification. We are changed from glory into glory as we behold him without a veil and know that we are his and that he is ours. Assurance leads to the inevitable deduction: he that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure." [00:47:37]
"The spirit himself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. Listen to The Great Apostle as he puts that in Romans 8:15 and 16: God, he says, has not given us again the spirit of bondage to fear, but the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, 'Abba, Father.'" [00:35:43]
"Now, there is nothing that is more important than this, that we should know that we are going to rise and rise in the body, and the whole man will be there in the presence of God. Now, there is nothing that is more important from the standpoint of sanctification than to know that." [00:38:41]
"The moment you realize you're in this great purpose of God, it revolutionizes your whole outlook. You don't think of yourself and your ups and downs and this thing that's getting me down. You're delivered out of all that. You're in the purpose of God. You don't think of yourself so much as what you are in the grand purpose of God and the certainty of it all." [00:40:14]
"True assurance humbles us. False assurance fills us with a false pride. It puffs us up as knowledge puffeth up, so does false assurance. But once a man realizes that he, though he is what he is and what he knows himself to be, is in the purpose of God, and that before the very foundation of the world, the Eternal God had seen him and had known him and set his affection upon him and sent his son to die for him, I say he's humble at the thought." [00:43:21]
"The joy of the Lord is your strength. Now, here once more, the analogies from the natural realm suggest themselves to us quite inevitably. It's perfectly true in the ordinary secular realm, ordinary life and living, a spirit of joy and of confidence and of happiness gives us a kind of vigor and of strength." [00:17:46]
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