Is sanctification an event, a process, or both?

[glad4mercy]

Point made, it is conditional, therefore it must be a process. It is not unconditional, one can become spotted by the world...

Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Amen! Also...2 Corinthians 7:1- Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

[Fenris]

Eating can sanctify- or unsanctify

Leviticus 11:41 Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten. 42 You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean. 43 Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them. 44 I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. 45 I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

[glad4mercy]

Eating can sanctify- or unsanctify

Leviticus 11:41 Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten. 42 You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean. 43 Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them. 44 I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. 45 I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

Good point, Fenris. So when we sin, ( I believe the dietary laws were in order to teach separation), we defile ourselves and soil our garments. That is why we need the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses us from all sin when we confess. ( 1 John 1:7; 1:9)

Note: Confession is more than naming off all of our sins like a laundry list, it is agreeing with God about our sins, which I believe would involve Godly sorrow and repentance .)

[Nobunaga]

I fully agree with this post.

Yet a good question would be that as we grow in grace and knowledge is it a progressive sanctification, or are we just growing in our walk and appropriating the sanctification that God had already provided in Christ Jesus? Or are they the same thing?

Same thing imo. There has to be a starting point though. A baby is born... then grows, so it is with the Christian. But i'm a simple kinda guy lol

[Noeb]

So God's sanctification is incomplete? The blood is only partly efficacious? Progressive? What happened to once for all?

[Noeb]

Oh, and continual is not progressive.

[glad4mercy]

So God's sanctification is incomplete? The blood is only partly efficacious? Progressive? What happened to once for all?

Who is this post in reply to?

[glad4mercy]

Oh, and continual is not progressive.

Good point. 1 John 1:7 says the blood continually cleanses us, ( present active indicative), but it says nothing about progressively cleansing us. Excellent!

[amazzin]

Sanctification is dedication to God and separation from evil. In experience it is instantaneous and progressive it is produced in the life of the believer by his appropriation of the power of Christ’s blood and risen life through the Person of the Holy Spirit. He draws the believer’s attention to Christ, teaches him through the Word and produces the character of Christ within him. Believers should earnestly seek the baptism in the Holy Spirit according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ

[Noeb]

Why did paul tell a carnal church they are sanctified if their sanctification and the blood were progressive?

[Noeb]

Anyone here going to trust in their progressive sanctification at the judgement seat of Christ? Or are you going to trust in his sanctifying you like you are him justifying you?

[Noeb]

Amazzin, so that would be realized sanctification, right?

[Noeb]

Glad4mercy, that reply was for john, but anyone that believes the same can answer.

[glad4mercy]

In experience it is instantaneous and progressive. it is produced in the life of the believer by his appropriation of the power of Christ’s blood and risen life through the Person of the Holy Spirit...

this pretty much answers it for me. Thank you

[glad4mercy]

Why did paul tell a carnal church they are sanctified if their sanctification and the blood were progressive?

I suppose that a believer is sanctified in Christ instantaneously at conversion, but that sanctification becomes more and more evident in his life as He works out what God has already worked in. So the act is instaneous, but perhaps the fruits of sanctification, ( every one who abides in me is pruned so that they may bear even more fruit), are progressive in that we are transformed from glory to glory to the image of Christ. ( 2 Corinthians 3:18) This would happen as we

1. appropriate the power of Christ's blood and His risen life through the Holy Spirit, ( as Amazin so aptly said)

2. grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus,

3. add to our faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, etc, and ( 2 Peter 1)