Less of me, more of You//Más de Ti, menos de mí

When you click on the scriptures that are underlined in this blog, it will direct you to the page online where the scripture is read. Also at the bottom of this blog; where it says to summarize, the words justification, maturity, and glorification are underlined, when you click on it; will lead you to a page from gotquestions.com that will have a broader study of the word.

Sanctification is God’s will for us (1 Thessalonians 4:3). The word sanctification is related to the word saint; both words have to do with holiness. To “sanctify” something is to set it apart for special use; to “sanctify” a person is to make him holy. Therefore God’s people are sometimes said to be sanctified because they are set apart for God’s special purposes in the world: “Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.

Jesus had a lot to say about sanctification in John 17. In verse 16 the Lord says, “They are not of the world, even as I am not of it,” and this is before His request: “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth” (verse 17). In Christian theology, sanctification is a state of separation unto God; all believers enter into this state when they are born of God: “You are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30, ESV). The sanctification mentioned in this verse is a once-for-ever separation of believers unto God. It is a work God performs, an intricate part of our salvation and our connection with Christ (Hebrews 10:10). Theologians sometimes refer to this state of holiness before God as “positional” sanctification; it is the same as justification.

While we are positionally holy (“set free from every sin” by the blood of Christ, Acts 13:39), we know that we still sin (1 John 1:10). That’s why the Bible also refers to sanctification as a practical experience of our separation unto God. “Progressive” or “experiential” sanctification, as it is sometimes called, is the effect of obedience to the Word of God in one’s life. It is the same as growing in the Lord (2 Peter 3:18) or spiritual maturity. God started the work of making us like Christ, and He is continuing it (Philippians 1:6). This type of sanctification is to be pursued by the believer earnestly (1 Peter 1:15; Hebrews 12:14) and is affected by the application of the Word (John 17:17). Progressive sanctification has in view the setting apart of believers for the purpose for which they are sent into the world: “As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified” (John 17:18–19). That Jesus set Himself apart for God’s purpose is both the basis and the condition of our being set apart (see John 10:36). We are sanctified and sent because Jesus was. Our Lord’s sanctification is the pattern of power for our own. The sending and the sanctifying are inseparable. On this account, we are called “saints” (hagioi in the Greek), or “sanctified ones.” Prior to salvation, our behavior bore witness to our standing in the world in separation from God, but now our behavior should bear witness to our standing before God in separation from the world. Little by little, every day, “those who are being sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14, ESV) are becoming more like Christ.

There is a third sense in which the word sanctification is used in Scripture—a “complete” or “ultimate” sanctification. This is the same as glorification. Paul prays in 1 Thessalonians 5:23, “May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (ESV). Paul speaks of Christ as “the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27) and links the glorious appearing of Christ to our personal glorification: “When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). This glorified state will be our ultimate separation from sin, total sanctification in every regard. “We know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).

To summarize, “sanctification” is a translation of the Greek word hagiasmos, meaning “holiness” or “a separation.” In the past, God granted us justification, once-for-all, positional holiness in Christ. Now, God guides us to maturity, practical, progressive holiness. In the future, God will give us glorification, permanent, ultimate holiness. These three phases of sanctification separate the believer from the penalty of sin (justification), the power of sin (maturity), and the presence of sin (glorification). (Information received from the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and gotquestions.com )

Steps to sanctification/Holiness:

1st step is to proclaim Jesus as your Lord and Savior as it says in Romans 10:9 and John 4:6.

2nd step is to get baptized by submersion, in the name of the Father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Which represents the public declaration of your faith in Jesus, the death of the old self to begin a new life with the Holy Spirit, as it says in John 3.

3rd step is to spend time every day reading the Bible, starting with the Gospel, the good news of Jesus: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, then reading from the beginning of the Bible till the end day by day.

4th step is listening to Christian worship music, watching sermons as the Lord leads or teaches, and asking the Holy Spirit to guide you as to where and who to receive from, every day.

5th step pick up your cross daily (Matthew 16:24) and give it to Jesus to receive, forgiveness, forgive, healing, restoration, purpose, eternal life, fruits(Galatians 5), gifts(Romans 12, Ephesians 4, 1 Corinthians 12,13 &14), sanctification, and all that is needed to answer the great commission(Matthew 28) and walk in the authority of the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ name. 

Jesus wants you to know that HE LOVES YOU. He wants a relationship with you. Our sins separate us from God when we break his commandments. But if we repent and accept Jesus as our God and Savior, there is forgiveness, healing, restoration, purpose, eternal life, and much more. Talk to Him.🙏He wants to hear from you. 🖤 We are born to be loved by the Lord, to worship HIM, and to obey HIM through HIS Great Commission.

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