Aaron Hills
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41.) What Paul Said About Holiness 1
Paul wrote the Thessalonians as Christians, unquestionably declaring them to be such in the first chapter; and in the third chapter he as certainly prays that they may have a second work of grace in their hearts, "to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness" (I Thess. 3-13).
Three verses further on (I Thess. 4:3) he writes: ...read more
42.) What Paul Said About Holiness 2
The Apostle Paul is the wisest interpreter and expounder of the gospel of Christ that the ages have produced. It becomes supremely important to learn what he thought of the Pentecostal experience. Did he believe in a distinct, epochal spiritual experience, subsequent to regeneration, and quite as marked in its influence upon the soul?
A goodly ...read more
43.) What Paul Said About Holiness 3
We have seen in the previous two chapters that the chief of the apostles wrote to the Thessalonians his first epistle, urging them in the most explicit terms to seek entire sanctification as a second work of grace. It was a church only recently converted from heathenism, yet entire sanctification was the standard the apostle set for them. But we ho ...read more
44.) What Paul Said About Holiness 4
The apostle writes to the Philippians, his best-loved church. He cannot get through the first chapter without a prayer for their sanctification in these words (verses 9-11): "And this I pray . . . that ye may be sincere and void of offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness." In the next chapter (2:14, 15) he sa ...read more
45.) What Peter Said About Holiness
We have seen in previous chapters how highly Jesus and St. Paul estimated the importance of Pentecost. Paul was the wisest interpreter and greatest theologian of the Christian religion and Church. As we have seen, he urged the Pentecostal experience upon Christian believers, as a second work of grace, in more than seventy passages of scripture. He ...read more
46.) What this Pentecostal Blessing is which People are Rejecting, and how it may be Obtained
If we were to take a text or two to indicate the Divine endorsement of our teaching and give added weight to our words, out of very many that might be taken we select two:
Rom. 6:6: "Knowing this that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin."
I Peter 1:1 ...read more
