
Saved and kept totally by the electing, justifying, sanctifying, glorifying, sovereign grace of the Triune God and seeking to give him ALL of the glory for the good in my life and humbly accepting the blame for the bad that will be there until I see Jesus face to face.
Once more, He is their sanctification "efficiently"; by His Spirit, as the author, and by His word, as the means; He is the source of all holiness, it all comes from Him, and is wrought by His Spirit in the heart; which lies in filling the understanding with spiritual light and knowledge; the mind with a sense of sin, and a detestation of it; the heart with the fear of God; the affections with love to divine objects and things; the will with submission and resignation to the will of God in all respects; and is exercised in living a life of faith on Christ, and in living soberly, righteously, and godly, before God and man: and this, though imperfect now, will be perfected from and by Christ, without which it is impossible to see the Lord. John Gill