AA Hodge wrote,
You
cannot take Christ for justification unless you take Him for sanctification.
Think of the sinner coming to Christ and saying, “I do not want to be holy;” “I
do not want to be saved from sin;” “I would like to be saved in my sins;” “Do
not sanctify me now, but justify me now.” What would be the answer? Could he be
accepted by God? You can no more separate justification from sanctification
than you can separate the circulation of the blood from the inhalation of the
air. Breathing and circulation are two different things, but you cannot have
the one without the other; they go together, and they constitute one life. So
you have justification and sanctification; they go together, and they
constitute one life. If there was ever one who attempted to receive Christ with
justification and not with sanctification, he missed it, thank God! He was no
more justified than he was sanctified.
This blog web site is for the in-depth, sound and basic exegetical study of the Bible in Reformed apologetics; that is, I shall expound upon the inerrant and infallible Word of God, the Holy Scriptures. There shall be biblical studies in world religions and non-Christian cults. I also quote and research reformed writers and I am happy to study from them. May the Lord bless everyone who reads this blog with spiritual riches in Christ which is His imputed merit by faith alone.
