Even Your Sanctification: Scriptural Examples of Holiness

BLJ: If entire sanctification is a true doctrine, there must be Scriptural examples. Today, we read about them.

EXAMPLES OF SCRIPTURAL HOLINESS

Even in dark Old Testament times God had holy men, even perfect men. We will briefly name some of them:

Noah, (Gen. 6:9)

Job (Job 1:1, 7)

Abraham (Gen. 17:1)

Here are a few examples from the New Testament:

The apostles and disciples (John 17, Acts 2)

Appointed Church officials (Acts 6:3)

Stephen, the first martyr (Acts 6:5; 7:35)

The Samaritan Church (Acts 8:17)

The Romans at Caesarea (Acts 10:44-45)

The Apostle Paul (Acts 9:17; 13:9)

Laymen, Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:25-26)

The Greeks at Ephesus (Acts 19:4-6)

The New Testament epistles are filled with prayers and exhortations to believers to seek the experience of entire sanctification as a second work of grace. God intends that all nations should have representatives of full salvation, living proofs of wholly sanctified believers. All should be encouraged to seek this precious gift. Peter preached that the promise of the Spirit's fullness was to young and old alike and would follow to all succeeding generations.

"I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call" (Acts 2:17, 18, 39).