Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
–1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NIV)–
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
–Galatians 5:19-21 (NIV)–
The cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
–Revelation 21:8 (NIV)–
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Voice of Truth, “Leonard Ravenhill or Paul Washer: How Can Both Be Right?”
WesleyGospel, The Gospel of Jesus Christ – A Wesleyan approach to soteriology. Presents the order of salvation from Hell, repentance, faith, justification, regeneration, sanctification, conditional security, and Heaven. Also, a response to non-judgmentalism. Extensive bibliography. Intended as preparatory study for evangelistic preaching. 170 pages. Get the paperback here. Listen to the audio here.
—. “The Church Fathers Did Not Teach Entire Sanctification!”
Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1990).
Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1998).
Charles Finney, Victory Over the World (Kregel Publications, 1966).
—. True Submission (Kregel Publications, 1967).
—. True Saints (Kregel Publications, 1967).
The 1689 Baptist Confession, ch. 13: “Of Sanctification.”
Galloway, J. B. A Study of Holiness from the Early Church Fathers. Originally this was published as a small book by Beacon Hill Press in 1951, the publishing house of Church of the Nazarene. It is an overview of quotations from the church fathers (as well as the heretics Clement of Alexandria and Origen), which appear to support entire sanctification in the Wesleyan and Holiness tradition. I obviously disagree with the author’s conclusions and interpretations of these texts; but it is a rare and useful study of the issue.
Gundry, Stanley, ed. Five Views on Sanctification (Zondervan, 1987). I would probably lean mainly or entirely toward “The Reformed Perspective” by Anthony Hoekema. While I adopt many of the things in Wesley’s view of sanctification, such as the use of the moral law, the means of grace, works of charity and piety, etc., I think you will also find all of these aspects in most Reformed views of sanctification. Where I disagree with “The Wesleyan Perspective” is when it implies original sin can be annihilated by entire sanctification in the Holy Spirit:–to me, that idea is imaginary and heretical.
