The Nature of Entire Sanctification or Christian Perfection Part 2

The following are additional quotes on this subject:
1. Rev. John Fletcher said: “It is the pure love of God and man shed abroad in a faithful believer’s heart by the Holy Ghost given unto him, to cleanse, and to keep him clean.”
2. Dr. Adam Clarke: “What, then, is this complete sanctification? It is the cleansing of the blood, that has not been cleansed; it is washing the soul of a true believer from the remains of sin.”
3. Rev. William McDonald said: “It is the removal from our moral natures, through faith in Christ, of all sinful desires and tempers—all pride, anger, envy, unbelief, and love of the world; and the possession in these purified natures of the unmixed graces of faith, humility, resignation, patience, meekness, self-denial, and love.”
4. Noah Webster wrote: “The act of making holy,...the state of being thus purified or sanctified..” “To sanctify, in a general sense, is to cleanse, purify, or make holy,...to cleanse, purify, or make holy,...to cleanse from corruption, to purify from sin.”

To the lost, we preach salvation through the precious atoning blood of Jesus Christ to be forgiven from your acts of sin. To the believer, we preach entire sanctification through the precious atoning blood of Jesus Christ to have the sin principle (the old carnal man) removed. God offers more than just suppression of the carnal man, He provides complete destruction of the old man. That is the message for the church.