Sanctification
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Three Stages of Sanctification
Three Stages of Sanctification
Beginning at Regeneration
Beginning at Regeneration
When God calls our dead soul to life through regeneration, the sanctification begins
He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
We become aware of our sin when we are regenerated. This comes through the conviction of the Spirit. This conviction leads to faith and justification. It is in the conviction of our sin that we desire change. 1 Cor. 6:11
Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
God breaks the ruling power of sin in your life. Once you feel the conviction of sin the will for sin diminishes, the desire for righteousness increases.
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Sanctification Increases Throughout your life.
Sanctification Increases Throughout your life.
Just because you have been justified if sin doesn’t mean that you do not still commit sin. We will all commit sin until the day we die. However, we should see a change in our lives that reveal the sanctification in our life. Rom. 6:19
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
Just as we presented ourselves to sin and increased in sin, we are called to forfeit sin and increase in righteousness. This will take a life time.
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
We are to continue to improve in our Christ-likeness. We will never attain perfection in this life, but we should be better today than we were yesterday.
Sanctification is completed at death.
Sanctification is completed at death.
When we die we are made perfect. Heb 12:23
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
Completion of sanctification is our entry way to heaven.
God and Man Participate In Sanctification
God and Man Participate In Sanctification
God’s role
God’s role
God’s role in sanctification is done primarily by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 1 Thess. 5:23
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit guides us into paths of righteousness. He provides the way. He also disciplines us when we sin. Heb. 12:5-11
and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
When we are living in sin God provides adverse circumstances for our sin. He also gives us conviction of our sin.
Jesus earned our right to be sanctified. Without Jesus there would be no reason to be sanctified. We would all be hopeless and left to our selves to live our lives. We would not be sanctified and hence suffer the eternal consequences of our sin. Because Christ paid the price for our sin, He has earned the right for us to be sanctified.
Our Role in sanctification
Our Role in sanctification
We play a passive and active role in sanctification. Passively we must yield ourselves to God for sanctification. Rom. 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
If we are only passive we will never be fully sanctified. The let go and let God mentality distorts our responsibility in sanctification. Phil. 2:12-13
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
We are to “work out” our salvation. This is done by: Heb. 12:14
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
Wholeness of Sanctification
Wholeness of Sanctification
Sanctification affects our mind, emotions, will, spirit, and bodies
Mind
Mind
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
Emotions
Emotions
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Will
Will
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Spirit
Spirit
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Body
Body
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,