9-Progressive Sanctification, pt3

In his epic work, HOLINESS: ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES, & ROOTS, J. C. Ryle writes, "I now proceed to take up...the visible evidence of sanctification. In a word, what are the visible marks of a sanctified man? What may we expect to see in him? This is a wide and difficult department of our subject. It is wide, because it necessitates the mention of many details which cannot be handled fully in the limits of a paper like this. It is difficult, because it cannot possible be treated without giving offence. But at any risk, truth ought to be spoken; and there is some kind of truth which especially requires to be spoken in the present day." He then continues by stating 10 visible evidences of sanctification (the 1st 5 are negative and the last 5 positive): "Sanctification is not 1) talk about religion; 2) religious feelings; 3) outward formalism and external devoutness; 4) retirement from out place in life; 5) occasional performance of right actions; but sanctification is 6) habitual respect to God's law, and habitual desire to live in obedience to it as a rule of life; 7) an habitual endeavor to do Christ's will; 8 ) an habitual desire to live up the standard which St. Paul sets before the churches in his writings; 9) habitual attention to the active graces which our Lord so beautifully exemplified; and 10) habitual attention to the passive graces of Christianity." In midweek live-stream Bible study we'll look for a 3rd time at progressive sanctification and the biblically identifiable fruit of a sanctified life, along with its corresponding attitudes, knowing that attitudes become actions. Join us at 6:00 on Wednesday for "Progressive Sanctification, pt3".