What a great salvation we have been brought close to. Summed up in three words, Salvation, sanctification, and glorification.
Salvation is free, glorification is also a gift. What of sanctification in the life of the believer?
Many who make the claim that they are saved by Grace through Faith when confronted with the question of sanctification say it is to get them ready for Heaven. This however is not the purpose of sanctification. There are also many arguments as to what Sanctification is. One says it is also only a gift and another says it is from obedience.
Sanctification is to be set apart by obedience through faith. Just as Salvation comes by way of grace through faith.
Sanctification is the process of being made Holy through the Word of Elohim. What does scripture say about Holiness? It says no-one can see the Kingdom without Holiness. Also it says that in the end days people who have an appearance of Holiness but reject the power of the word to make them holy.
So what advantage does living a life of sanctification do for the believer? It is proof that they are saved and working towards the good goal and promise of glorification. Does it only do this? No. The over all purpose I believe is for our neighbors and friends. That is the example of Messiah lived out through the life of the sanctified believers has shown others what life we are to live today. A person is not saved through sanctification, rather if a person does set their needs, wants, and desires aside for the Kingdom they most assuredly are saved already. These "Good Works" are the only good works because they come from the Father who is the only Good One.
Shalom in Messiah
John Talmid
We ARE sanctified!
1 Corinthians 6:11 KJV
[11] And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
We are saved (if we trust Christ) yet we are being saved in this life. We are sanctified in Christ however we are to still sanctify things and be sanctified.
1 Peter 3:15 KJV
[15] But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
We ARE sanctified but we are I also sanctify the Lord God in our hearts.
Folks who are born again are sanctified with “his own blood”.
Hebrews 13:12 KJV
[12] Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
We have a soul, a spirit, and a body which makes us “whole”. God wants us sanctified “wholly”.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV
[23] And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What does sanctify mean according to scripture! Make certain to provide scripture for your teachings.
The Lord Jesus Christ uses his words to “sanctify and cleanse”
Ephesians 5:25-26 KJV
[25] Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; [26] That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
We are sanctified
by Gods words; which is the TRUTH! The words of God are for sanctification not good works nor anything else. It’s a heart issue!
John 17:17 KJV
[17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
God blessed the seventh day and “sanctified” it. This is the first usage of the word in any form (sanctify, sanctified, sanctification, etc) in scripture. Sanctification has to do with cleansing and washing! Both testaments testify of this.
Genesis 2:3 KJV
[3] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Christians are sanctified and commanded of God.
Isaiah 13:3 KJV
[3] I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
God “commanded his SANCTIFIED ones”. They ARE presently sanctified.
John 17:17-19 KJV
[17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. [18] As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. [19] And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Our Savour says we are “sanctied” through the truth and Gods “word is truth”! There’s no way around these passages.
Acts 20:32 KJV
[32] And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Again, we (saved folks) are sanctified presently, right now!!!
Acts 26:18 KJV
[18] To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Folks have wrote long extensive paragraphs teaching the “Bible” on this forum, yet most NEVER give scripture references for the doctrines they teach. A great example would be this post in sanctification! Who gave scripture for what they are teaching?
If it ain’t coming from Gods words then it is (Col 2:8) “philosophy and vain deceit” and it’s after “the rudiments if the world and not after Christ”. I’m amazed at how many Christians claim all this faith in God yet they know very little scripture that supports these beliefs. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” our faith is in “the holy scriptures” (of course the gospel is part of his words) rather than our own understanding. NEVER follow your heart.
Proverbs 28:26 KJV
[26] He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Your heart WILL DECEIVE YOU!
Psalm 7:9 KJV
[9] Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
God “trieth” our hearts because they are “desperately wicked”.
Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
[9] The heart is deceitful above all things , and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Our OWN heart will deceive us and defile us!
Matthew 15:18-20 KJV
[18] But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. [19] For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: [20] These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Mark 7:20-23 KJV
[20] And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. [21] For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, [22] Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: [23] All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Like Job, our hearts walk “after mine eyes”
Job 31:7 KJV
[7] If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Jeremiah 7:24 KJV
[24] But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
