vol. 38, Issue #3

Online Journal Article: AWESOME ANALOGIES: KATH¢S CONSTRUCTS IN THE NT - GEORGE J. ZEMEK* JETS 38/3 (September 1995) 337–348

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/38/38-3/38-3-pp337-348_JETS.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/38/38-3/38-3-pp337-348_JETS.pdf

AWESOME ANALOGIES: KATH¢S CONSTRUCTS IN THE NT -
GEORGE J. ZEMEK*
JETS 38/3 (September 1995) 337–348

Excerpt:
Experiential sanctifucation is divinely designed to stand soteriologically in the gap between God’s past and future eras of what has been completed in Christ. The Church’s past salvation history is a fait accompli attributed to the inexplicable, sovereign grace of God. As such, its reality is held up before members of Christ’s body as one of the greatest incentives for holy living in the here and now. The same is true in reference to the divinely guaranteed consummation of the soteric process.
Consequently the theological indicative of salvation history past (i.e. the historically finalized dimension of “already”) is to function ethically in the experiential “not yet” by lovingly goading disciples forward along a pathway of practical righteousness. From the other end our Lord’s inviolable, inscripturated promises concerning ultimate perfection (i.e. the guaranteedto-be-historically-finalized dimension of “already”) are similarly intended to function with impact upon his people in the “not yet,”
transitional phase by graciously drawing them toward their moral goal of Christlikeness. Therefore our area of acute responsibility is conveyed through a theological imperative to be who we are and ultimately shall be in Christ (i.e. we are to live our lives ethically between the unfathomable bookends of theseindicatives). Herein lies the major motif for sanctification according to the NT.
--from the first page of the article.