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Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God is unavailable, but you can change that!

“There was a time,” writes renowned theologian J. I. Packer in this classic book on biblical holiness, “when all Christians laid great emphasis on God’s call to holiness. But how different it is today! To listen to our sermons and to read the books we write, and then to watch the zany, worldly, quarrelsome way we behave, you would never imagine that once the highway of holiness was clearly marked...

Holiness is in fact commanded: God wills it, Christ requires it, and all the Scriptures—the law, the gospel, the prophets, the wisdom writings, the epistles, the history books that tell of judgments past and the book of Revelation that tells of judgment to come—call for it. It is God’s will that you should be sanctified (1 Thess. 4:3). Go now and leave your life of sin (John 8:11). All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that
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