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  FULL SALVATION
  by Charles E. Cowman
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of holiness and how it can
be obtained through faith in the Son of God and a personal experience of
God's love and power.

Topics: "Holiness Movement", "Christian Sanctification"
Scripture References: Psalm 139:23, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Hebrews 12:14

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Charles E. Cowman preaches on the transformative power of holiness
through faith in Jesus Christ, as testified by various spiritual leaders
throughout history. John Wesley emphasizes salvation from sin and
holiness through faith, while George Fox shares a personal experience of
surrendering to Jesus to be made sweet, patient, and kind. Lady
Huntington expresses complete satisfaction and fulfillment in God alone,
experiencing a conquest of her entire being by His love. Bishop Hamline
describes a profound encounter with God's sin-consuming energy that led
to a deep immersion in His love, while Jonathan Edwards portrays
holiness as bringing purity, brightness, and peacefulness to the soul
like a garden of God.

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"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do
it" (1 Thess. 5:23, 24).

Many years since I saw that "without holiness no man shall see the
Lord." I began by following after it and inciting all with whom I had
intercourse to do the same. Ten years after, God gave me a clearer view
than I ever had before of the way to obtain it; namely, by faith in the
Son of God. And immediately I declared to all, "We are saved from sin,
we are made holy by faith." This I testified in private, in public, and
in print, and God confirmed it by a thousand witnesses. I have continued
to declare this for above thirty years, and God has continued to confirm
my work.

--John Wesley in 1771

"I knew Jesus, and He was very precious to my soul; but I found
something in me that would not keep sweet and patient and kind. I did
what I could to keep it down, but it was there. I besought Jesus to do
something for me, and, when I gave Him my will, He came to my heart, and
took out all that would not be sweet, all that would not be kind, all
that would not be patient, and then HE shut the door." --George Fox

My whole heart has not one single grain, this moment, of thirst after
approbation. I feel alone with God; He fills the void; I have not one
wish, one will, one desire, but in Him; He hath set my feet in a large
room. I have wondered and stood amazed that God should make a conquest
of all within me by love. --Lady Huntington

"All at once I felt as though a hand--not feeble, but omnipotent; not of
wrath, but of love--was laid on my brow. I felt it not outwardly but
inwardly. It seemed to press upon my whole being, and to diffuse all
through me a holy, sin-consuming energy. As it passed downward, my heart
as well as my head was conscious of the presence of this soul-cleansing
energy, under the influence of which I fell to the floor, and in the
joyful surprise of the moment, cried out in a loud voice. Still the hand
of power wrought without and within; and wherever it moved, it seemed to
leave the glorious influence of the Saviour's image. For a few minutes
the deep ocean of God's love swallowed me up; all its waves and billows
rolled over me." --Bishop Hamline

Holiness--as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it--appeared
to me to be of a sweet, calm, pleasant, charming, serene nature, which
brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness, ravishment to
the soul; in other words, that it made the soul like a field or garden
of God, with all manner of pleasant fruits and flowers, all delightful
and undisturbed, enjoying a sweet calm and the gentle vivifying beams of
the sun. --Jonathan Edwards

"Love's resistless current sweeping

All the regions deep within;

Thought and wish and senses keeping

Now, and every instant clean:

Full salvation! Full salvation!

From the guilt and power of sin."

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