What Sanctification Is Not (pt. 3) 7/29 Monday Meditation

2. Sanctification is not morality, nor any attainments of character... A man cannot build up a good human character himself and then call it the work of God. It will not stand the strain that is sure to come upon it...


3. Sanctification is not your own work: it is not a gradual attainment which you can grow into by your own efforts... It is an obtainment, not an attainment. You cannot sanctify yourselves. The only thing to do is to give yourself wholly to God, a voluntary sacrifice... But He must do the work of cleansing and filling.

-- A.B. Simpson, The Four-fold Gospel