“The demands or duties of grace are co-extensive with the divine work of grace. The pattern of regeneration-faith, in which the Spirit inaugurates us into union with Christ, is continued throughout the whole of life. God is sanctifying the whole person, body, soul, and spirit (1 Thes. 5:23); the believer must therefore sanctify the whole person, body, soul, and spirit. God is working in believers both to will and to do of his good pleasure; believers are, therefore, to work out the significance of their union with Christian death to sin and life to God, in lives of universal obedience obedience and consecration (cf. Phil. 2:12-13).” (Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit , p. 151).
Looking at 1 Thessalonians 5 in Sunday afternoon’s Bible Study at Trinity Presbyterian Church.
