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Sanctification
Sanctification
The New Unger's Bible Handbook, Merrill F. Unger, Revised by Gary N. Larson, Moody Press, Chicago, 1984, p. 481
The Bible teaching on sanctification - Largely misunderstood and abused, sanctification (a setting apart for God's worship and service), as taught by the Scripture, is in three aspects: past, present, future. The following chart will illustrate.
Three Aspects of Sanctification
Past aspect of sanctification | Present aspect of sanctification | Future aspect of sanctification |
Positional (1 Cor. 1:2, 30). All believers were so sanctified as saints, the youngest as well as the oldest, the most carnal as well as the most spiritual. | Experiential. Depends upon our knowledge of and faith in our position in Christ (Rom. 6:1-11), converting our position into experience. Progressive, changeable, depends upon yieldedness, & God's will (Rom. 6:13), | Final. When we see the Lord and are made like Him sinless, sickless, deathless (1 Cor. 4; 15:54; 1 Jn. 3:2). Static, unalterable, Will result in our state in eternity (Phil. 3:21). |
As God sees us in Christ (1 Cor. 1:2 with Phil 1:1, etc.) | As we are in our conduct (2 Thess. 2:13) | As we shall be in glory (Rom 8:29; 1 Cor. 15:49). |
