---
title: 'The Fountainhead of Sanctification'
type: video
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Jonathan Master'
date: 2024-06-09
collection: 'Faculty Q&amp;As'
subcollection: 'Series 1'
topics:
- 'Sanctification'
- 'Christian Life'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 6'
- 'Romans 8'
url: https://confessional.org/faculty-qa/series-1/master-2024-the-fountainhead-of-sanctification
---

# The Fountainhead of Sanctification

Jonathan Master explains the fountainhead of sanctification, tracing its biblical roots and practical implications for Christian growth and holiness.

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## Transcript

And he said it, if I'm not mistaken, in his book On Holiness, which is a profound book, uh, important book.

Uh, but, but what he means is this, is that at the, at the root of all the Bible's teaching on sanctification

is the fact that we've been regenerated. So you look at Paul's exhortations to, uh, put to death the sin that remains in us

and to give no quarter to sin and to to grow in grace and to strive, that is not premised on us having some

innate natural propensity to do that or power to do that. That is premised on the fact that we have been given new hearts by the Holy Spirit.

We have been changed internally and we have the Holy Spirit living within us. And it, and he is the one who is at work within us, both

to will and to do according to his good pleasure. So if you, if you take out that doctrine of regeneration,

if you take out what Ryle calls the fountain head of sanctification, what you have left is either some kind

of moralism or some kind of deformed understanding of sanctification that that doesn't match at all what the Bible teaches.

And so, and so, I, I think it's a, it's a, it's a vital it's image that, that, that, that,

if we cannot talk about sanctification without talking about regeneration, because the Bible never talks about sanctification in that way.

And again, that's true in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, even in the Old Testament when, when God's people are exhorted to obey him,

what the prophets so frequently say, say, and what Moses so frequently says is, but what you really need is a new heart.

And, and that that's exactly what the Apostle Paul sees.

