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fe and that even in the case of the most holy life we still need the forgiving grace of God through the blood of Christ.’ 28 ‘Mission to the Germans’. Baptist Missionary Magazine, 1876, July, p. 270. 30 Baptistic Theologies on sanctification. Despite all that Kargel could have said in a section on sanctification, he is silent on the issue except to say that, ‘the Holy Spirit is accomplishing the sanctification of the newly born again ones’. 29 Kargel’s understanding of sanctification parallels a Keswick understanding of holiness; that is: Premillennialist, Repressionism, internal sense of peace and rest, exultation of faith, element of crisis, the appeal of nature and romantic affinities. Salvation’s intended outcome is sanctification (It is a united process with no breaks) For Kargel, sanctification was the intended outcome of salvation. He, at on -21 times, calls sanctification ‘the fulfilment’^ and at others ‘full salvation’. Salvation and justification are the result of the work of Christ on the cross while sanctification is the result of ‘emptying ourselves for the heavenly Dove so that He will find a quiet resting place for His feet’. " The words of Acts 2:38 to ‘repent, be baptised and receive the Holy Spirit’ are the only command of the Lord to ‘place them into a position to receive the Holy Spirit and His fullness’. The same repentance which leads to salvation should be the same repentance that further leads to the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Stating it another way, Kargel wrote that: justification without sanctification would certainly not be a full salvation. It would be to declare the filthy pure and would leave him to die in his illness; it would forgive the rebel but would allow him to remain as the enemy of his Lord; it would take away consequences, but miss the puipose, and it would assign to us infinite and hopeless work. 34 Salvation was only the beginning of the conversion experience. In 1926, he wrote: If we are engaged only in the justification, without sanctification, it is possible that some people will come to conversion, but they will never leave the carnal views of their mind: the Holy Spirit, from the very beginning, has removed those (carnal views) from the convert but the or convert may again run back to them. In 1925, Kargel explains the two-fold yet concurrent process of salvation and sanctification. Sanctification and salvation ‘occur at the same 29 Alexander de Chalandeau, The Christians in the USSR (Chicago: Harper and Company, 1978), p. 61. 30 Kargel, Sobranie Cochinenij, in ‘What is your Relationship to the Holy Spirit’, p. 158. 31 Ibid., in ‘Christ our Sanctification’, p. 69. 32 Ibid., in ‘What is your Relationship to the Holy Spirit', p. 158. 33 Ibid. 34 Ibid., in ‘Christ our Sanctification’, p. 69. In this context, Kargel is implying that the salvation is not a full salvation rather than making a dogmatic statement that they are not sa