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Originally Posted by good samaritan
I need to dig a little more into that passage. My point was that we are not going to be perfect in the flesh and no matter how much we love God our human will is going to exist. I don't know if I agree with divine impowerment at least in the way some may suggest. Just because we have the Holy Ghost doesn't mean we will never fail again. Those unreal expectations have caused many to walk away and have brought reproach against the church when Christians do fall.
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I taught a message awhile back on the subject. A lot of folks got their entire sanctification confused with a 'one stop shopping experience' and forgot that we must be sanctified DAILY (continually). Also, sanctification is not about 'never being able to fail'. God does not remove our will, there is no 'once saved always saved' nor is there a 'once sanctified always sanctified' as if one did not have to daily (continually) rely on the grace of God by faith.
This needs to be taught more clearly in our ranks, but unfortunately we have allowed a lot of Baptist - evangelical doctrine to cloud the issue.
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