Justification and Sanctification ?

[AbbaLove]

Without sanctification of a Believer - justification of a Believer is not possible according to the following sequence/order ...

1 Corinthians 6:9-11​

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (Titus 3:5)​

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Romans 6:19​

For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.​

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Hebrews 10:14​

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.​

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Hebrews 13:12​

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.​

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Romans 5:1​

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (Hebrews 6:11)​

 

[Rapture Bound]

With all respect, I think that's a distinction without a difference. I mean, the elect will obviously persevere. But to predict that I or anyone else will persevere-that we're definitively numbered among the elect-is a totally different matter. God, alone, knows whose names are written in the Book of Life with perfect certainty.

This is how the enemy works :

A BELIEVING person goes to God, to the Cross, on the day they
are saved, and they are so thankful that GOD saved them. They
know that day, they are saved and who did it, and they know
they are going to HEAVEN, because of God and Christ and The Cross.

2 Yrs later, they are on a forum teaching ....'Here is how you
lose salvation".....>"here are the commandments you need to keep,
and the works you need to do, to STAY SAVED"..

Yet, the day they were saved, they KNEW why they were going to heaven,
as they had the truth then.., and now....= over time they've been
conned out of it by "theology" deceivers."

 

[fhansen]

This is how the enemy works :

A BELIEVING person goes to God, to the Cross, on the day they
are saved, and they are so thankful that GOD saved them. They
know that day, they are saved and who did it, and they know
they are going to HEAVEN, because of God and Christ and The Cross.

2 Yrs later, they are on a forum teaching ....'Here is how you
lose salvation".....>"here are the commandments you need to keep,
and the works you need to do, to STAY SAVED"..

Yet, the day they were saved, they KNEW why they were going to heaven,
as they had the truth then.., and now....= over time they've been
conned out of it by "theology" deceivers."

If that person does not walk justly, then they better question their justification/salvation.

 

[AbbaLove]

It's by complete sanctification that a faithful Believer no longer sins and is justified.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. (Hebrews 13:12)​

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For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14)​

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Now 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. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)​

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How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews 10:29)​

Hebrews 10:29 implies that all of mankind (John 3:16) was initially sanctified (not initially justified).

The majority of Christians have been taught to believe that they are first justified at the cross before being sanctified. However a faithful Believer can't be justified if they aren't first completely sanctified. According to Hebrews 10:29 the initial sanctification (not justification) occured on the cross. It's only later that faithful Believers are justified. Isn't that one reason why Paul also writes the following because sanctification precedes justification ...

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12)​

It's as if Christendom has reversed the order with a Believer being first justified before they are sanctified ("Stop sinning or something worse may happen" and "Go and sin no more")

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"But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
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[fhansen]

It's by complete sanctification that a faithful Believer no longer sins and is justified.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. (Hebrews 13:12)​

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For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14)​

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Now 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. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)​

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How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews 10:29)​

Hebrews 10:29 implies that all of mankind (John 3:16) was initially sanctified (not initially justified).

The majority of Christians have been taught to believe that they are first justified at the cross before being sanctified. However a faithful Believer can't be justified if they aren't first completely sanctified. According to Hebrews 10:29 the initial sanctification (not justification) occured on the cross. It's only later that faithful Believers are justified. Isn't that one reason why Paul also writes the following because sanctification precedes justification ...

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12)​

It's as if Christendom has reversed the order with a Believer being first justified before they are sanctified ("Stop sinning or something worse may happen" and "Go and sin no more")

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"But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
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An alternative teaching from the past maintains that justification and sanctification are part and parcel of the same thing. Justification happens at the beginning as we turn to Him in faith, as a seed of righteousness/holiness/justice which is then meant to expand and grow as we continue to follow Christ, remaining faithful, remaining in Him.

 

[Clare73]

Without sanctification of a Believer - justification of a Believer is not possible according to the following sequence/order ...

In the NT, justification precedes sanctification.

Justification (Gr: dikaioo); i.e., righteousness (Ro 2:13, Ro 3:20), accompanies salvation, both of which are by faith apart from works (Ro 3:28, Ro 3:20-21, Gal 2:16, Gal 3:11, Eph 2:8-9). . .and is a declaration of acquittal of guilt, a pronouncement of right standing with God's justice, which is a forensic righteousness, not the righteousness of sanctification.
Sanctification through obedience of the Christian life in the Holy Spirit follows justification (Ro 6:16, Ro 6:19).

Two different kinds of righteousness in the NT:
justification = pronounced not guilty, penalty paid, good standing with the Court, forensic righteousness
sanctification = actual personal righteousness through obedience in the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 6:9-11​

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (Titus 3:5)​

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Romans 6:19​

For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.​

​

Hebrews 10:14​

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.​

​

Hebrews 13:12​

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.​

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Romans 5:1​

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (Hebrews 6:11)​

 

[BBAS 64]

In the NT, justification precedes sanctification.

Justification (Gr: dikaioo); i.e., righteousness (Ro 2:13, Ro 3:20), accompanies salvation, both of which are by faith apart from works (Ro 3:28, Ro 3:20-21, Gal 2:16, Gal 3:11, Eph 2:8-9) and is a declaration of acquittal of guilt, a pronouncement of right standing with God's justice, which is a forensic righteousness, not the righteousness of sanctification.
Sanctification through obedience of the Christian life in the Holy Spirit follows justification (Ro 6:16, Ro 6:19).

Two different kinds of righteousness in the NT:
justification = pronounced not guilty, penalty paid, forensic righteousness, good standing with the Court
sanctification = actual personal righteousness through obedience in the Holy Spirit

Good Day, Clare

Nice!

Just to add ...

Justification is something said about you
Sanctification is something done to you

I never let my understanding about my Sanctification effect my view of my Justification before God.

I have peace with God though Christ and He is seated at the right hand of the Father and when He falls so will I.



In Him,

Bill

 

[setst777]

Good Day, Clare

Nice!

Just to add ...

Justification is something said about you
Sanctification is something done to you

I never let my understanding about my Sanctification effect my view of my Justification before God.

I have peace with God though Christ and He is seated at the right hand of the Father and when He falls so will I.

In Him,

Bill

We are justified by faith in Lord Jesus, and we are sanctified by God by remaining in that faith manifested by walking in His Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 (WEB) Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Therefore, the work of sanctification is through the Spirit, but only as we are faithful to walk by the Spirit in righteousness - only then will the Spirit (who indwells the believer) guarantee the believer eternal life.

Galatians 6:7-9 (WEB) 7 Do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will {{{from the Spirit}}} reap eternal life. 9 Let {{{us}}} not be weary in doing good, for {{{we}}} will reap in due season, {{{if we}}} do not give up.

All God's promises and guarantees are for those who believe and remain in the faith to the end; for the blood of Christ only cleanses from all sin those who remain faithful to walk in the light of God's Spirit:

1 John 1:6-7 (WEB) 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

 

[AbbaLove]

Justification happens at the beginning as we turn to Him in faith, as a seed of righteousness/holiness/justice which is then meant to expand and grow as we continue to follow Christ, remaining faithful, remaining in Him.

This is where too many "church goers" have accepted bad theology with the result being lukewarm believers lacking in progressive sanctification (i.e. holiness) ... if they even know the meaning and importance of sanctification in order to be justified by faithful obedience that is only possible being guided by the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 13:12).

According to Paul sanctification first occurs at the beginning of ones salvation as we turn to Him in faithful obedience. It is only because of positional sanctification followed by progressive sanctification that we are considered righteous ("Stop sinning or something worse may happen" ... and ... "Go and sin no more"). Only then are we justified when righteous (no longer sin). Whereas way too many church goers consider that they are justified even ehen they can't stop sinning. Thus the reason why Romans 7:14-25 has been misinterpeted.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. (Hebrews 13:12)​

According to the above posts the common belief is that the verse should read "in order to justify the people through His own blood"

So are you saying that Paul has it in the wrong order and that justified should rightly precede sanctified ...

"But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
(1 Corinthians 6:11)
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We all agree that we are "justified" by faithful obedience having the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. Where is there a verse like that of Hebrews 13:12 that says we were first justified (before being sanctified) through the shedding of His own blood.

 

[Clare73]

This is where too many "church goers" have accepted bad theology with the result being lukewarm believers lacking in progressive sanctification (i.e. holiness) ... if they even know the meaning and importance of sanctification in order to be justified by faithful obedience that is only possible being guided by the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 13:12).

According to Paul sanctification first occurs at the beginning of ones salvation as we turn to Him in faithful obedience. It is only because of positional sanctification followed by progressive sanctification that we are considered righteous ("Stop sinning or something worse may happen" ... and ... "Go and sin no more"). Only then are we justified when righteous (no longer sin). Whereas way too many church goers consider that they are justified even ehen they can't stop sinning. Thus the reason why Romans 7:14-25 has been misinterpeted.

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. (Hebrews 13:12)​

According to the above posts the common belief is that the verse should read "in order to justify the people through His own blood"

So are you saying that Paul has it in the wrong order and that justified should rightly precede sanctified ...

"But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
(1 Corinthians 6:11)
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We all agree that we are "justified" by faithful obedience having the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. Where is there a verse like that of Hebrews 13:12 that says we were first justified (before being sanctified) through the shedding of His own blood.

Statements such as 1 Co 6:11, Heb 13:12 in Scripture, unless specifically stating to do so, do not present the order of the Holy Spirit's ministries in the born again.

Heb 13:12:
sanctify = to set apart (from sin and to God)

Jesus died to set us apart from sin and to God. . .which does not imply anything about anything else.
And what the text is pointing out is that Jesus' death outside the city represented the removal of sin, as did the removal to outside the camp of Israel of the bodies of the sacrificial animals who bore their sin (Lev 4:12, Lev 16:27).

Salvation (remission of sin) comes first by faith only, in the person and atoning work (blood, Ro 3:25) of Jesus Christ.

(That remission of sin) salvation causes the declaration of not guilty, in right standing with God's justice, forensic righteousness (justification), again, by faith only (Ro 3:28)

Sanctification follows in the Christiian life of obedience in the Holy Spirit (Ro 6:16-19).

 

[setst777]

Statements such as 1 Co 6:11, Heb 13:12 in Scripture, unless specifically stating to do so, do not present the order of the Holy Spirit's ministries in the born again.

Heb 13:12:
sanctify = to set apart (from sin and to God)

Jesus died to set us apart from sin and to God. . .which does not imply anything about anything else.
And what the text is pointing out is that Jesus' death outside the city represented the removal of sin, as did the removal to outside the camp of Israel of the bodies of the sacrificial animals who bore their sin (Lev 4:12, Lev 16:27).

Salvation (remission of sin) comes first by faith only, in the person and atoning work (blood, Ro 3:25) of Jesus Christ.

(That remission of sin) salvation causes the declaration of not guilty, in right standing with God's justice, forensic righteousness (justification), again, by faith only (Ro 3:28)

Sanctification follows in the Christiian life of obedience in the Holy Spirit (Ro 6:16-19).

Will God justify a person who has not first repented, and so, sanctified (separated) himself to God by faith in Lord Jesus?

Will God justify a person who believes in Jesus but refuses to give up his life of sin, confessing Jesus as LORD of his life?

 

[Clare73]

Will God justify a person who has not first repented, and so, sanctified (separated) himself to God by faith in Lord Jesus?

Will God justify a person who believes in Jesus but refuses to give up his life of sin, confessing Jesus as LORD of his life?

God justifies the person who believes in and trusts on the atoning work of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sin.

Repentence (turning, change of mind) is the origin of faith.

You don't really believe in Jesus if you do not obey him and give up your life of sin.
"Unbelief" and "disobedience" are the same word in the Greek (apeitheo).

They're probably just looking for fire insurance.

 

[setst777]

God justifies the person who believes in and trusts on the atoning work of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sin.

Repentence (turning, change of mind) is the origin of faith.

You don't really believe in Jesus if you do not obey him and give up your life of sin.
"Unbelief" and "disobedience" are the same word in the Greek (apeitheo).

You're probably just looking for fire insurance.

Irrespective of your judgment of me, and despite what you may have learned about justification and sanctification, what you explained in your reply to my questions shows that sanctifying your life to God by faith comes before justification. The Spirit of God indwells the true believer to enable his faith to be victorious over the flesh in that sanctified life that the believer committed to when he first believed.

Now, if this Christian remains in the faith, then the Spirit will continue to lead him in that new life of sanctification. These are the ones who belong to Christ.

Romans 8:3-4 (WEB) 3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Galatians 5:24-25 (WEB) 24 Those who {{{belong to Christ}}} have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25 If we [believers] live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

Therefore, the work of sanctification after one believes is by God through the indwelling Spirit, but only as the Christian continues to walk by the Spirit in righteousness. If the Christian continues to walk in the Spirit, then the Spirit (who indwells the believer) guarantees the believers eternal life; for the Promise of God is for those who believe (continuous believing).

Galatians 6:7-9 (WEB) 7 Do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will {{{from the Spirit}}} reap eternal life. 9 Let {{{us}}} not be weary in doing good, for {{{we}}} will reap in due season, {{{if we}}} do not give up.

All God's promises and guarantees are for those who believe and remain in the faith to the end; for the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin those who remain faithful to walk in the light of God's Spirit:

1 John 1:6-7 (WEB) 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

 

[setst777]

Repentence (turning, change of mind) is the origin of faith.

A Gospel Faith always includes repentance, for:

• If one truly believes the Gospel message and call, then he will repent.
• If one truly repents after learning the Gospel, then he will turn to Lord Jesus by faith.

The origin of faith is the Gospel Call to repentance and faith (Romans 10:12-18) along with convicting work of the Spirit (John 16:7-8). This is how Lord Jesus draws us to himself.

Matthew 28:19-20 (WEB) 19 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you.

Luke 24:45-47 (WEB) 45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. 46 He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Many refuse the worldwide drawing of the Word of God and the Spirit, and so remain condemned:

Acts 7:51 (EWEB) 51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always {{resist the Holy Spirit!}} As your fathers did, so you do.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (ENIV) They perish because {{they refused to love the truth}} and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned {{who have not believed the truth}} but have delighted in wickedness.

John 5:39-40 (EWEB) 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life

John 3:18 (EWEB) 18 He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Matthew 22:3 (ENIV) He sent his servants to those who had been invited [those of Elect Israel] to the banquet to tell them to come, but {{they refused}} to come.

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you refused!

But the gracious loving promise of God is that whoever believes is saved – that is what the Gospel actually states.

John 3:16 (EWEB) 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. [The rebirth of the indwelling Spirit is eternal life]

 

[fhansen]

This is where too many "church goers" have accepted bad theology with the result being lukewarm believers lacking in progressive sanctification (i.e. holiness) ... if they even know the meaning and importance of sanctification in order to be justified by faithful obedience that is only possible being guided by the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 13:12).

I'm not sure you understand. Most "church goers" I know believe that "without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Heb 12:14)-and that this requires our own effort/striving cooperating with grace. God's actions in us, His grace and our response to it, are ordered from the beginning to bring us into true righteousness- to put His law in our minds and write it on our hearts- so that we will not be condemned, so that we will be made just IOW. That's been the teaching since ancient times. Only when people begin to see the gospel as a carte blanc reprieve from the penalty of sin as long as they believe do they stray into error.

 

[AbbaLove]

Statements such as 1 Co 6:11, Heb 13:12 in Scripture, unless specifically stating to do so, do not present the order of the Holy Spirit's ministries in the born again.

This thread and my above post that you referenced is about Clarefication of "sanctification" ... not "the order of the Holy Spirit's ministries in the born again".

God's chosen ones (born again) are first sanctified as sacred vessels for faithful obedience for His righteousness. Their sanctification is referred to as "Substitutionary Atonement" in the sense that Jesus, through His sacrificial death, did for us that which we can never do for ourselves" thus an initial sanctification via HIS Holy Spirit ...

Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside of the gate. (Heb 13:12)​

It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality (1 Thes 4:3)​

From your previous scripture verse posts yesterday about the "law" you should know that as a Messianic Christian i am Pro-Paul. I was premanently banned from the MJ forum over two years ago because i implied that some MJ members come across as being anti-Paul as still beholden to the Mosaic Law.

Whether you know it or not you are a Messianic Christian as wild olive branch grafted into the cultivated olive tree whose root is Jewish origin being Messiah Jesus ...

And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!​

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All Israel Will Be Saved (NIV addition)​

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, (Romans 11:23-25)​

Heb 13:12:
sanctify = to set apart (from sin and to God)
Sanctification follows in the Christiian life of obedience in the Holy Spirit (Ro 6:16-19).

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. (Heb 13:12)​

GOD views His "born again" people as sacred vessels being holy sanctified for works unto His righteousness for His Glory.

It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality (1 Thes 4:3)​

 

[fhansen]

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. (Heb 13:12)
GOD views His "born again" people as sacred vessels being holy sanctified for works unto His righteousness for His Glory.

It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality (1 Thes 4:3)

But few argue with this. Holiness comes from God alone, not from ourselves even if we must continuously submit to it, to Him, in our attaining of that holiness.

 

[Clare73]

Irrespective of your judgment of me,

My statement was not about you, but about the disobedience person.

and despite what you may have learned about justification and sanctification, what you explained in your reply to my questions shows that sanctifying your life to God by faith comes before justification.

No, being cleared of guilt (justification) by faith in and trust on the atoning work (blood, Ro 3:25) of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin comes before sanctification.

You do not understand that the Greek definition of justification/righteousness (Gr: dikaiosis) is forensic: a declaration of debt paid, guilt removed, in right standing with justice.
Justification is not, nor does it depend on sanctification or holiness. It is by faith only (Ro 3:28), not because of works of sanctification.

 

[Clare73]

A Gospel Faith always includes repentance, for:

• If one truly believes the Gospel message and call, then he will repent.
• If one truly repents after learning the Gospel, then he will turn to Lord Jesus by faith.

The origin of faith is the Gospel Call to repentance and faith (Romans 10:12-18) along with convicting work of the Spirit (John 16:7-8). This is how Lord Jesus draws us to himself.

The definition of "repent" is "to turn, to change your mind" to believing the gospel message.
Repentance is the turning to faith.

 

[timothyu]

Repentance is the turning to faith.

Yes but the definition would be more hard hitting if it said a turning away from self absorption. Leaves no room for misinterpretation.