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  THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SANCTIFICATION
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: The righteousness of sanctification is the Spirit's infusing of
holy principles into the soul, resulting in a new nature created in
righteousness and true holiness.

Topics: "Righteousness", "Sanctification"
Scripture References: Galatians 5:22

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Thomas Brooks emphasizes the significance of the righteousness of
sanctification, which is the work of the Holy Spirit infusing divine
qualities into believers, as outlined in Galatians 5:22-23. He explains
that these qualities represent the new nature created in righteousness
and true holiness, as stated in Ephesians 4:24. Brooks encourages
believers to earnestly seek this righteousness, comparing their desire
to that of a hungry man for food or a thirsty deer for water, assuring
that those who do so will ultimately be filled.

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"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and

self-control." Galatians 5:22-23

The righteousness of sanctification, or imparted

righteousness, lies in the Spirit's infusing into the soul

those holy principles, divine qualities, or supernatural

graces, that the apostle mentions in Galatians 5:22-23.

These habits of grace, are nothing else but the new

nature or new man, which after God is created in

righteousness and true holiness, Eph. 4:24.

He who hungers and thirsts after the righteousness of

sanctification, out of a deep serious sense of his own

unrighteousness; he who hungers and thirsts after the

righteousness of sanctification, as earnestly as hungry

men do for food, or as thirsty men do for drink, or as

the hunted deer does after the water brooks--he is

the blessed soul, and shall at last be filled.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/thomas-brooks/the-righteousness-of-sanctification/
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