and a head. You can’t have the one without the other. God does not give “gratuitous righteousness” apart from newness of life. While justification, in its action, has nothing to do with sanctification, it does not follow that sanctification is not necessary. “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14). Holiness starts where justification finishes; and if holiness does not start, we have the right to suspect that justification has never started. I sometimes read sermons