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Originally Posted by Jeffrey
Second and Third Blessing. In other words, all of these episodes, whatever you want to call them that suits you personally, refer to a powerful interaction with the Spirit. Wesley believed a similar crisis experience for baptism in the Spirit was what happened for sanctification. Of course his doctrine spun out of control with the Holiness movement and later Pentecostals, and those who believed later that we are imputed (literally) righteousness, which fed into triumphalism and this idea that perfection is realistic, and even a present reality.
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This idea that perfection is a reality? You mean the idea that came from the Lord Jesus Christ?
48: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Matt. 5:48