"Believers find within themselves contrary urgings."

Boy, that is the understatement of the year!

J.I. Packer's helpful overview of Sanctification is, as usual, helpful. Here are a few excerpts:

"The concept is not of sin being totally eradicated (that is to claim too much) or merely counteracted (that is to say too little), but of a divinely wrought character change freeing us from sinful habits and forming in us Christlike affections, dispositions, and virtues."

"God's method of sanctification is neither activism (self-reliant activity) nor apathy (God-reliant passivity), but God-dependent effort (2 Cor. 7:1; Phil. 3:10-14; Heb. 12:14)."

"Believers find within themselves contrary urgings."

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