“To be saved is to be rightly related to God, and that is holiness. The whole purpose of evangelism is primarily to tell men what sin has done to them, to tell them why they are what they are, namely, separated from God. It is to tell them that what they need above everything else is not to be made to feel happy, but to be brought back into a right relationship with the God who is ‘light and in him is no darkness at all.’ But that means preaching holiness. To separate these two things, it seems to me, is to deny essential biblical teaching. We must start with holiness, and continue with it; because it is the end for which we are chosen and delivered. We must never think of holiness as something we may decide to go in for; if yo are not holy you are not a Christian. These things belong together.”
D.. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “God’s Ultimate Purpose: An Exposition of Ephesians 1,” p.102
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