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Becoming A Christian

JUSTIFIED: Salvation (Accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior)

SANCTIFICATION: Being Holy just as GOD IS HOLY

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 "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. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it."

Ephesians 5:25-27 "Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish."

1 Thessalonians 4:3 "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality."

Romans 6:19 "I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. 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."

Romans 6:22 "But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life."

GLORIFY:

Rev. 19:1,2 – "And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great harlot, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

Phil. 4:6 – "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."

Eph. 5:20 – "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;"

Col. 3:15-17 – "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."

Rom. 8:28 – "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

I Cor. 10:31 – "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."