Many persons, if they are asked what they understand by salvation, will reply, “Being saved from hell and taken to heaven.” This is one result of salvation, but it is not one tithe of what is contained in that boon.

It is true our Lord Jesus Christ does redeem all His people from the wrath to come; He saves them from the fearful condemnation which their sins had brought upon them; but His triumph is far more complete than this.

He saves His people “from their sins.” Oh! sweet deliverance from our worst foes.

Where Christ works a saving work, He casts Satan from his throne, and will not let him be master any longer.

No man is a true Christian if sin reigns in his mortal body.

Sin will be in us — it will never be utterly expelled till the spirit enters glory; but it will never have dominion.

There will be a striving for dominion — a lusting against the new law and the new spirit which God has implanted — but sin will never get the upper hand so as to be absolute monarch of our nature.

Christ will be Master of the heart, and sin must be mortified.

The Lion of the tribe of Judah shall prevail, and the dragon shall be cast out.

Professor! is sin subdued in you?

If your life is unholy your heart is unchanged, and if your heart is unchanged you are an unsaved person.

If the Saviour has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has done nothing in you of a saving character.

The grace which does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit.

Christ saves His people, not in their sins, but from them.

“Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.”

“Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

If not saved from sin, how shall we hope to be counted among His people.

Lord, save me now from all evil, and enable me to honour my Saviour.

Many years after I first read that “without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14), I began following this truth and encouraging everyone with whom I spoke to do the same.

Ten years later God gave me a clearer view than I had ever seen before of the way to obtain holiness—namely, by faith in the Son of God.

Immediately I began sharing with everyone, “We are saved from sin and made holy by faith.” I testified to this in private, in public, and in print, and God confirmed it through a thousand other witnesses.

I have now declared this truth continuously for more than thirty years, and God has continued to confirm my work. JOHN WESLEY IN 1771

I knew Jesus, and He was very precious to me, but I found something deep within me that would not stay pleasant, patient, and kind.

I did what I could to keep those traits suppressed, but they were still there.

Finally I sought Jesus for help, and when I gave Him my will, He came to my heart and removed everything that would not stay pleasant, patient, and kind.

And then He shut the door. GEORGE FOX

At this very moment, my entire heart does not have even a hint of thirst after my acceptance by God.

I am alone with Him and He fills every void.

I do not have one wish, one will, or one desire, except in Him.

He has set my feet in His large room.

And I am in awe, standing amazed that He has conquered everything within me, through His love. LADY HUNTINGTON

Suddenly I felt as if a hand—not weak but omnipotent, and not of wrath but of love—were laid on my forehead.

Yet I did not feel it as much outwardly as inwardly.

It seemed to be pressing in on my entire being and sending a holy, sin-consuming energy throughout me as it moved downward, my heart as well as my head was aware of the presence of this soul-cleansing energy.

Under its power I fell to the floor, and in the joyful wonder of the moment, I cried out in a loud voice.

This hand of power continued to work without and within me, and wherever it moved, it seemed to leave the glorious influence of the Savior’s image.

And for several minutes, the deep ocean of God’s love swallowed me, as all its waves and billows rolled over me. BISHOP HAMLINE

Some of my views on holiness, as I once wrote them, are as follows:

Holiness appears to me to have a sweet, calm, pleasant, charming, and serene nature, all of which brings an inexpressible purity, radiance, peacefulness, and overwhelming joy to the soul.

In other words, holiness makes the soul like a field or garden of God, with every kind of pleasant fruit and flower, and each one delightful and undisturbed, enjoying a sweet calm and the gentle and refreshing rays of the sun. JONATHAN EDWARDS

Love’s resistless current sweeping

All the regions deep within;

Thought and wish and senses keeping

Now, and every instant clean:

Full salvation! Full salvation!

From the guilt and power of sin.

Cain went out from the presence of the Lord .—Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you.—Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.—Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

The way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing.—He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.—The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.—Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Holiness, without which no man can see the Lord.—God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.—But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.—I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.

This is the law of the house: Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy.—Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.—Seeing . . . that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us . . . come boldly unto the throne of grace. that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.—There shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth.—There is no spot in thee.

Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.—As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and . . . put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

Not every one that saith, . . . Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.—Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.—Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.