needs a lot of modifying and a great many qualifiers to save us from being in error: “We are saved by accepting Christ as our Saviour; We are sanctified by accepting Christ as our Lord; We may do the first without doing the second!” The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scriptures. Peter makes it plain that we are “elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience.” What a tragedy that in our day we often
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