essence is unreserved love for God with one’s whole being and, consequently, love for fellow humans. Edward M. Panosian summarizes this in six words: “perfect love toward God and man.”26 J. I. Packer summarizes it in two: “total love.”27 This complete sanctification occurs instantaneously at a point in time subsequent to one’s justification, but God’s gradual working both precedes and follows it.28 The point in time “ordinarily” comes “a little before death,” but those who expect it sooner may experience
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