From Anthony A. Hoekema on “The Reformed View” of sanctification:

How, then, shall we describe the relationship between God’s working and our working? Should we say, as some have done, that sanctification is a work of God in which believers cooperate? This way of stating the doctrine, however, wrongly implies that God and we each do part of the work of sanctification. According to John Murray,

God’s working in us is not suspended because we work, nor our working suspended because God works. Neither is the relation strictly one of cooperation as if God did his part and we did ours. . . . God works in us and we also work. But the relation is that because God works we work.

Amen.

cklewis on November 3rd, 2006 | File Under Believe, Grace, Think | 2 Comments -