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will, and I do believe -- not because I feel, but because He is faithful who has
promised that Jesus now sanctifies my soul. [55]
To support his view Ruth used Hebrews 3:12 as a primary text in the article, "Wherefore Jesus
also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate."
T. M. Anderson preached a sermon at God's Bible School that was published in the God's
Revivalist in 1957. The title was "Oneness Through Sanctification." In the sermon Anderson used
this illustration to show the oneness that is found between Christ and those who are sanctified:
Now bringing the fact into closer view, draw an imaginary circle and place Jesus
Christ, the Sanctifier, and the sanctified people within that circle. They are all one
there are no sanctified ones outside the circle, and no unsanctified ones in it. [56]
Concerning original sin Anderson taught that it must be taken out.
Sanctification must do something. It must take the discord out of us, it must clean us
up on the inside so that we can be one with God, and He would not have to apologize
for bringing us inside of Heaven. [57]
In 1958 a work by A. M. Hills called "A Twofold Disease and a Double Cure" was published.
Hills talked about Christ and how He was able to cleanse the sin nature from the heart when one gets
sanctified. The following quote summed up his position:
But there is a remedy: "Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he
might sanctify and cleanse it" (Ephesians 5:25,26). The pardoned souls who are now
in God's family and form His "church" are not now to be sanctified by being cleansed
from that sin-principle or propensity to sin which regeneration -- the first work of
grace -- did not cure or reach. [58]
E. W. Lawrence was published in 1960 when he wrote an article called "Pardon and Purity." He
saw the sin nature as a dirty heart that needed to be purified and Christ as the person to do it.
Lawrence wrote:
God can and will forgive you when you repent and come to Him seeking His mercy
But He cannot forgive your dirty heart. That has to be purified. There is a precious
verse that tells you all this. 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness' (I John 1:9). [59]
Pentecostal-Substantive 1980-1984
During this five-year period, there were thirty-two out of the fifty articles selected that taught this
theological position concerning sanctification. Some of the writers were Roy Nicholson, R. G.
Flexon, Carl Ryan, Glenn Black, and W. T. Purkiser. "Full Salvation Involves Two Works of Grace"