Sermons & Devotionals by Daniel Steele
Daniel Steele
Native Depravity and the Law
THE opinions of Arminian theologians respecting the relation of native depravity to the law of God are in a state of solution. In what form they will crystallize does not yet appear. But it is enough for me to know that every child born into the world has two fathers: the first Adam, from whom he in... Read More
Daniel Steele
No Distinct Classes in the New Testament
WE are told in this book that "the New Testament churches are nowhere separated into the two distinct classes . . . known as 'the merely justified' and the 'sanctified.'" In his Epistle to the Corinthians Paul, after describing the natural man and the spiritual man, attempts to classify his church m... Read More
Daniel Steele
No Sins of Ignorance
OUR author says, "Unavoidable infirmities and ignorances need no expiation." He could not have read Heb. ix, 7, in his Greek Testament, nor in the Revision, just before writing that sentence: "Not without blood which he offers for the ignorances of the people," or " errors," as in the Authorized Ver... Read More
Daniel Steele
Objections Answered
My dear fellow-Believer in Christ: You have honest objections to the experience of entire sanctification as a distinct blessing. Let me help you to remove them. You may be stumbling over the glaring imperfections of some who profess to be walking in this higher path of Christian life. In the first p... Read More
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OLD TESTAMENT STUMBLING-BLOCKS REMOVED.
There are several misunderstood passages in the Holy Scriptures which seem to justify an unholy life; texts which apparently teach that sin is necessary to the present state, and Christian perfection, or deliverance from inbred sin through the Holy Ghost shedding abroad the love of God in its fullne... Read More
Daniel Steele
Perfect Love as a Definate Blessing
It took four thousand years to unroll the scroll of the sacred Scriptures --"to import God into knowledge," in the phrase of Dr. Bushnell. The patriarchal and Jewish dispensations were occupied by the disclosure and ineradicable inculcation of the Divine unity upon one nation amid surrounding polyth... Read More
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PERVERTED PAULINE TEXTS QUOTED AGAINST HOLINESS.
St. Paul is the great logician of the New Testament. He has long and intricate arguments expressed in an involved style, frequently branching off from the main line of thought and returning to it again further on, making his meaning obscure. Hence, even St. Peter, a brother apostle, and, as the Roma... Read More
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PRAYERS FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF BELIEVERS.
"Blest are the pure in heart; wouldst thou be blest? He'll cleanse thy spotted soul; wouldst thou find rest? Around thy toils and cares he'll breathe a calm, And to thy wounded spirit lay a balm; From fear draw love! and teach thee where to seek Lost strength and grandeur, with the bowed and meek." ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Profession and Confession
THERE is in the Christian Church a strong aversion to a profession of entire sanctification. It is easy to ascribe this to the depravity still lingering in Christian hearts, to prejudice, or to a misapprehension of the subject. All of those things aggravate the evil, but they are not an exhaustive s... Read More
Daniel Steele
Repression not Sanctification
IT is the purpose of this chapter to set forth several insuperable objections to that definition of entire sanctification which makes it consist in the power of the Holy Spirit repressing inbred sin, choking down the old man instead of crucifying him till he is stone dead. 1. Our first objection is ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Retrocession a Prerequisite of Sanctification
THE theory of successive partial sanctifications it up to light," but never reaching the extinction of depravity, seems to imply successive backslidings after every cleansing: When justified, every person is, in the relative or comparative sense, entirely justified. And whenever, at any subsequent p... Read More
Daniel Steele
Righteousness unto Sanctification
IN our Authorized Version it is "righteousness unto holiness," not the initial holiness of regeneration, but, as Alford says, "perfect holiness." "So now render up your members as servants to righteousness unto (leading to, having as its result, perfect) holiness." Both versions recognize an importa... Read More
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Rights in Christ
A RIGHT is that which justly belongs to one; that which he may properly demand as his own. There is always a corresponding obligation on the part of all other persons to abstain from infringing this right. I have natural rights. By the will of my Creator I have a right to life, liberty, property, re... Read More
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Salvation from Artificial Appetites
Jesus once said, "If the Son, therefore make you free, ye shall be free indeed." This emphatic "indeed" has in it a deep significance, fathomed only by those who have led down the sounding-line of experience into the depths of this wonderful freedom. These persons attest that they are not only deliv... Read More
Daniel Steele
Sanctification and Ethics
IT is time that there was a thorough discussion of the relation of entire sanctification to man's moral nature and habits. On no other point is there so much need of light, as on none other are there more widespread and damaging errors. It is alleged that Christians of the most advanced attainments ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Sanctification up to Knowledge
THIS the author regards as the immovable rock on which his book is built. The only condition on which we are saved is such a faith in Jesus Christ as works by love, overcomes the world, and purifies the heart. Knowledge is not a condition of salvation, except as a knowledge of Christ, the object of ... Read More
Daniel Steele
Sanctified Parents of Depraved Children
0UR author is not satisfied with Wesley's declaration, "Sin is entailed upon me, not by immediate generation, but by my first parent;" and he controverts Dr. Miley's statement, that "a gracious state, achieved through the supernatural generation of the Holy Spirit, is not transmissible through natur... Read More
Daniel Steele
Seeking and not Finding
THERE are many persons who seek the pardon of their sins who do not find that great blessing. There are various reasons; but the chief one lies in the fact that the unsuccessful seekers do not really trust in Jesus Christ. They are told to trust, and they try, and they think that they do, but they a... Read More
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SEMI-SPIRITUAL CHRISTIANS
These are not nominal Christians so plentiful in every community, who by some misfortune became church members before they were born again, or who began in the spirit, but ended in the flesh, after running well for a season. Gal. 3:3. For it is a misfortune for the vine to have a fruitless branch, a... Read More
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Seven Sabbatic Years
"On this glad day the glorious Sun Of righteousness arose; On my benighted soul He shone, And filled it with repose. "Sudden expired the legal strife; 'Twas then I ceased to grieve; My SECOND, real, living life I then began to live." THE chief characteristic of the seven past years of my Christian l... Read More
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Daniel Steele was the first great Bible scholar and theologian of the Holiness movement. He was professor of theology at Boston University and, later, became the first president of Syracuse University, then Boston University, becoming a colleague of Borden Parker Bowne, and a writer of significant essays on the Wesleyan theology of sanctification.
His writings are well worth reading, in large part because of their emphasis on Biblical interpretation. Steele was an able defender of the teachings of Wesley and Fletcher.