Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God

by J.I. Packer

The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity. Salvation is, essentially consider...

The greatest saints of God have been characterised, not by haloes and an atmosphere of distant unapproachability, but by their humanity. They have been intensely human and...

Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness-the only genuine humanness there is. Love in the service of God and others, humility and meekness under the divine hand, integrity of behavior expressing integration of character, wisdom with faithfulness, boldness with prayerfulness, sorrow at people's sins, joy at the Father's goodness, and single-mindedness in s...

"Holiness, rightly understood, is a be...

and its beauty is the beauty and tenderness of divine love"-which is precisely the beauty...

It is true that holy living calls for regular times of aloneness with God. But the notion here is that one gains freedom to move ahead with God by cutting oneself off from the communal life of family and churc...

an op...

Without conforming to the world by becoming materialistic, extravagant, or a grabber and empire-builder of any kind, the Christian must operate as a servant of God in the world, serving others for the Lord's sake.

For love to be replaced by resentful contempt between husband and wife, or for that matter between parent and child, or colleague and colleague, is a negation of holiness,

The essential problem is "a self that has not learned to die." But "a true surrender to Christ shrinks our inflated ego to its proper size in relation to him and our fellows, and

imparts reality to our lives."6

Holiness is a matter of both action and motivation, conduct and character, divine grace and human effort, obedience and creativity, submission and initiative, consecration to God and commitment to people, ...

It is a matter of seeking to imitate Jesus' way of behaving, through depending on Jesus for deliverance from carnal self-absorption and for discernme...

It is a matter of patient, persistent uprightness; of taking God's side against sin in our own lives and in the lives of others; ofworship- ing God in the Spirit as one serves Him in the world; and of single-minded, wholehearted,...

Holiness is thus the demonstration of faith w...

we value them more for their proven gifts than for their proven sanctity,

"My people's greatest need is my personal holiness."

How do we Christians formulate the gospel to others in our evangelism, and to ourselves as born-again believe...

The post-Christian culture of the West doubts whether there are any moral absolutes. It is sure that i...

immorality really matter to nobody except the persons ...

When you explain the gospel to others, do you emphasize repentance, and the holiness by which repentance is expressed, as a spiritual necessity?

Holiness is in fact commanded: God wills it, Christ requires it, and all the Scriptures-the law, the gospel, the prophets, the wisdom writings, the epistles, the history books that tell of judgments past and the book of Revelation that tells of judgment to come-call for it.

In reality, holiness is the goal of our redemption. As Christ died in order that we may be justified, so we are justified in order that we may be sanctified and made holy.

Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.