SHALOCA International Ministries

It could be a paradise.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin, and restored to the favour of God: by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin, and resto...red to the image of God. All experience, as well as scripture, shows this salvation to be both instantaneous and gradual. It begins the moment we are justified...it gradually increases from that moment, as a ‘grain of mustard seed, which at first is the least of all seeds, but’ gradually ‘puts forth large branches’, and becomes a great tree; till in another instant the heart is cleansed from all sin, and filled with pure love to God and man. But even that love increases more and more, till we ‘grow up in all things into him that is our head’, ‘till we attain the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’ ~ John Wesley (On Working Out Our Own Salvation) See more

Thank you, Principle Augustine David.

The second Sunday of Advent.