Simon Ponsonby > Quotes

“Billy Graham once wrote, Everywhere I go I find that God’s people lack something. They are hungry for something. Their Christian experience is not all that they expected and they often have recurring defeat in their lives. Christians today are hungry for spiritual fulfillment. The most desperate need of the nation today is that men and women who profess Jesus be filled with the Holy Spirit.1”
― Simon Ponsonby, More: How You Can Have More of the Spirit When You Already Have Everything in Christ

“Thorough sanctification can never be a veneer of externals.”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Jesus gave us a glimpse of the end-time signs so that we might be faith-filled in expectation, faithful in preparation, and engaged in far-afield gospel proclamation. He called us not to focus primarily on the signs or to be gazing into the heavens, but to look prayerfully on the nations where we must preach the gospel until he comes. Let us not start playing end-time-signs bingo. Rather let us play our part in the end-time signs by preaching the gospel to the nations.”
― Simon Ponsonby, And the Lamb Wins: Why the End of the World Is Really Good News

“Holiness is a way of behaving that is determined by the being of God. David Peterson calls it a life “possessed by God”—a life that becomes like the God who possesses holiness.8”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“John Oswalt said, To measure our acceptance by God on the basis of absolutely perfect performance of holiness, is to condemn ourselves to failure. God is the only one whose performance is absolutely holy.18”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Whatever the ongoing operation of sin in the believer’s life, it is temporal and without eternal consequence. It may accuse, but it cannot condemn. It has no power to undo what God has done. Sin cannot rob me of my rights. It cannot reverse God’s decree and declaration over my life. It is an irritant whose days are numbered. Whatever its presence, its power in my life is broken, its penalty covered. It seeks to undermine God’s work in me and God’s will for me—but it cannot cancel out my new true identity as one united with Christ, or my security of eternity with Christ.”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Not to pursue sanctification is to trample the blood of Jesus underfoot (Heb. 10:26–29)—it is to make a mockery of the misery and mercy of Calvary.”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Christianity is eschatology, and eschatology is hope: Christianity looks to the future and ultimately that future is a glorious one for the Christian.”
― Simon Ponsonby, And the Lamb Wins: Why the End of the World Is Really Good News

“So we see that God imputes positional sanctification (justification) to us in a moment, the instant one believes and receives. This initiates the Christian life but then leads to a practical sanctification process, whereby we as Christians, established righteous through Christ’s righteousness imputed to us, then seek to become practically what we are positionally. Jürgen Moltmann emphasized that sanctification as a gift leads to sanctification as a charge.11”
― Simon Ponsonby, The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation

“Hope rests in God’s sovereignty, rejoices in God’s victory. We are not given a detailed plan of times and dates, just the big picture. Those who stray into straining out the end-time details to the last drop have actually lost the vision of future hope, leaving themselves at risk of being trapped in the shadows cast by the light. Hoffmann says that biblical hope leads to a “renunciation of all calculations of the future, the humble recognition of the limits set to our knowledge.”18”
― Simon Ponsonby, And the Lamb Wins: Why the End of the World Is Really Good News