A Study on Sanctification
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Define Sanctification (pg. 61, Five Views of Sanctification)
Two meanings of holiness (Ephesians 5:25-26)
separation from the sinful practices of this present world
consecration to God’s service
How are we sanctified?
Truth
Faith
Power of the Holy Spirit
Setting a pattern of sanctification: likeness to God, and therefore likeness to Christ (2 Cor 4:4; Colossians 1:15)
God makes us more like Him (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Have a desire to want to be like Jesus (Philippians 2:5-11)
Is perfectionism possible?
Is perfectionism biblical?
Defining the view:
a distinct experience, separate from and subsequent to justification
an instantaneous experience, involving the removal of nature
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him.
6 If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” and yet we walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth.
7 If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
16 I say, then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.
17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.