THE CREED

Part 7: Entire Sanctification

Apostles’ Creed: “…I believe in the Holy Spirit… the forgiveness of sins.”

1.) Consider yourself united with Christ.

Romans 6:3, 5, “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? …we have been united with him like this in his death…”
John 17:22-23, “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity.”
Galatians 2:20; 2 Cor. 6:14-15; 7:1

2.) Consider yourself dead to sin.

Romans 6:2, 4, 6-7, “Since we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer? We were therefore buried with him... For we know that our old self was crucified with him…”
Ephesians 4:22, 24 “...put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires… put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Col. 3:5, “…put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature.”
James 4:7-8; 1 Cor. 3:1-3; Romans 8:13

3.) Consider yourself able to live a holy life.

Romans 6:4b, “...just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”
2 Cor. 5:17-18, “...If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone the new has come! All of this is from God…”
Phil. 4:13, “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
Galatians 2:20, “…The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God…”
1 Peter 1:14-16, “As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’”