You are keying off of your NASV's use of sanctification. My KJ says unto holiness, which as worded suggests a way of life not a process to attain something as in a goal. I live in holiness, it is not something I strive to be, I already am.Surely, but that has nothing to do with the topic.
1. Sure it is . . . when what u are on the insided fails to be on the outside, then u are loosing the battle. Like getting angry at someone who cuts u off on the freeway, or for u mr Boondocks,, when ur dog poops on the floor or chews some of ur shoes . . . at that moment of anger, if u allow ur flesh to have sway, you yell or growl, maybe smack em in the snout out of frustration that u have to now clean the mess or buy something new . . . but where is your hope in that moment? Is it in the ability of a canine to sway the fruit of the Spirit in your life . . . or is it in Christ who will empower you to discipline the dog out of duty and control the anger?
2. Not according to Hebrews and Thessalonians. Sorry but they make it clear that sanctification is something to be arrived at . . . which is DIFFERENT from the sanctified once and for all heart of the believer.
I do normally follow the leading of the Spirit and normally do not sin and certainly do not habitually sin as a life style Gal 5:16-21. I did not say I have arrived and never sin. I agree with Paul's testimony in Rom 7:24. And that is why I John 1:9-2:1 is in my Bible. Now all that is different than my flesh that keeps crawling off the altar Rom 12:1.
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