When Does Sanctification Begin According To The New Testament

BanjoPicker

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When one truly reckons the" old man" dead and the "new man" alive through Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:6-22). This takes place when one is created in Christ (Eph. 4:22-24; 2 Cor. 5:17; 1 Jn. 5:1-5, 18).

When one refuses to let "sin reign in the mortal body" Rom. 6:12-22. One does this at the new birth (1 Jn. 3:5-10; 5:1-5, 18; Eph. 4:24; 2 Cor. 5:17).

When one quits yielding his members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, and this is at the new birth (Rom. 6:11-22; 1 Jn. 3:8-10; 5:1-18).
 

BanjoPicker

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If the above benefits start at the new birth, then they could not begin some months or years after the new birth. If one had to wait until some indefinite time after the new birth to begin to do righteousness, to cease from sin, to love, to know God, to overcome the world, and to keep himself from that wicked one so the old man cannot touch him, then he would be a sinner until this point after being born again and the new birth would mean nothing to him.
 

BanjoPicker

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Peter also taught that everyone born again is “holy” “be ye holy; for I am holy. . . . Forasmuch as ye know you were not redeemed with corruptible things. . . but with the precious blood of Christ. . . . Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth. . . . See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently; Being born again. . . . By the word of God” 1 Pet. 1:15-23. One is made holy, redeemed, purified, and loves with a pure heart when born again, or this Scripture is untrue. Heart-purity comes at the new birth and redemption, so it could not come sometime later. It is by the blood and by the Word of God that we are born again. This is how we are sacrificed Eph. 5:26; Heb. 13:12, so sanctification and the new birth takes place at the same time and by the same means.
 

BanjoPicker

Senior Member
When one recognizes he is from one master (the old man, the devil) and is a servant to righteousness and the master--God Rom. 6:14-22. Paul here states that acts of obedience indicate what master is being served Rom. 6:16, that a change of obedience indicates a change of masters Rom. 6:17, 18, that the one served indicates the nature of obedience Rom. 6:19, 20, and that the nature of obedience indicates the wages received Rom. 6:21-23. One cannot serve God and Satan at the same time, but one can serve both one at a time Matt. 6:24. Hence the old man or the devil is not in a saved man 1 Jn 5:18.
 

Madman

Senior Member
You are sanctified when you are baptized.

WELL-BELOVED, you have come hither desiring to receive holy Baptism. We have prayed that our Lord Jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receive you, to release you from sin, to sanctify you with the Holy Ghost, to give you the kingdom of heaven, and everlasting life.

1928 BCP
 

Ruger#3

RAMBLIN ADMIN
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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.

1 Corinthians
 

gordon 2

Senior Member
The way I understand sanctification from all the bible verses that mention it is that the Saints are sanctified by the truth or the word of truth that is in God and from God and which motivates Him to act,--- and so by knowing it and being made alive in it due God's favor. And that truth is love, and the word of truth is loving or love , be it ministered by the laying of the hands, by baptism or by the direct self communication of God towards someone. Saints proceed for being sanctified by the truth of God's purpose which cannot but be theirs equally.
 

BanjoPicker

Senior Member
When one is made free from the law of sin and death Rom. 8:1-4, 12, 13; Gal. 5:16-26. Paul illustrates freedom from sin, by the marriage of a man and a woman who are bound to each other till death of one or the other. Only on the death of one is the other one left free to marry again Rom.7:1-6. By the same token, when the believer becomes free from sin by the crucifixion and death of the old man he is then free to marry Christ and enter the new relationship with God under the new covenant. To claim that the old man is not destroyed until sometime after the new birth is compare both Christ and man to adulterers, which would mean they have been illegally married before the old man is dead. Men are freed from sin at the new birth, so this is the time when they are sanctified and are free to marry Christ. If the old man is not destroyed at the new birth when one marries Christ, then Christ marries one who is still married to the devil and who has the devil in him and who is still unclean and lives in sin. This cannot be for “the temple of God is holy” and “and he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit” 1 Cor. 3:16, 17; 6:17-20; Rom. 11:16.
 

BanjoPicker

Senior Member
When one receives the spirit of adoption Rom. 8:1-17. This is at redemption and forgiveness of sins Gal. 4:4-7; Eph. 1:7. Every adopted son is holy according to Eph. 1:4, 5; Heb. 12:5-15; Rom. 11:16.
 

BanjoPicker

Senior Member
When one becomes an heir to the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6:9-11. This is so when one is made righteous according to this Scripture and Rom. 8:1-17; 1 Jn. 2:29; 3:7-10; 5:1-18.
 

BanjoPicker

Senior Member
When one turns from "darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith that is in me" Acts 26:18. Paul here is telling Agrippa what Christ had said to him. If Christ can be depended upon knowing what He says, then it is clear that men are sanctified by faith in Christ at the time they turn to God and have their sins remitted, and become heirs of God. One has just as much right to argue that "forgiveness of sins" is a separate experience from the new birth and occurs some time after it, as to argue that being "sanctified by faith" is after the new birth, because "Forgiveness of sins, "an inheritance" and "sanctified by faith" are all spoken of in this same verse as the result of turning to God and light from Satan and darkness.
 

BanjoPicker

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When one is accepted of God Rom. 15:16. Do men have to wait months or years after the new birth before being accepted by God?

When one gets into Christ 1 Cor. 1:2. This is when one becomes a new creature in Christ. 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:24; Gal. 5:24; Rom. 8:1-7.

When one becomes Christ's: "they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5:24. One cannot belong to Christ until he has done this. But one no longer has the old man when he has done this 1 Jn. 3:7-10; 5:1-5, 18.

When is washed from all sin before justification 1 Cor. 6:9-11. Here Paul gives the true order of these phases of salvation: "but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified."

When one becomes "one in Christ: "he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified, are all of one: for this cause he is not ashamed to call him brethren.
 

Madman

Senior Member
In March, Mr. Hanegraaff answered a caller’s question about the Orthodox teaching of theosis, ably explaining the doctrine of man’s sanctification on both a Biblical and Patristic basis.

“We become Christ-bearers since His Body and Blood are distributed throughout our limbs, as Cyril of Jerusalem said… The whole idea being that we become by grace what God is by nature… We become, as Peter put it, partakers in the divine nature,”

 

Artfuldodger

Senior Member
In March, Mr. Hanegraaff answered a caller’s question about the Orthodox teaching of theosis, ably explaining the doctrine of man’s sanctification on both a Biblical and Patristic basis.
“We become Christ-bearers since His Body and Blood are distributed throughout our limbs, as Cyril of Jerusalem said… The whole idea being that we become by grace what God is by nature… We become, as Peter put it, partakers in the divine nature,”

If Christ's Body and Blood are in us as a part of our sanctification or theosis, and we become by grace what God is by nature, and partakers of the divine nature, then it would have to from the power of God and not man.

1 John 3:2-3
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, / who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

I can't make myself pure nor can I transform my body. But through communion, I have Christ's body & blood in me, and the Holy Spirit.
Right now I can only see a dim reflection.
 

Madman

Senior Member
“We become Christ-bearers since His Body and Blood are distributed throughout our limbs, as Cyril of Jerusalem said… The whole idea being that we become by grace what God is by nature… We become, as Peter put it, partakers in the divine nature,”

If Christ's Body and Blood are in us as a part of our sanctification or theosis, and we become by grace what God is by nature, and partakers of the divine nature, then it would have to from the power of God and not man.

1 John 3:2-3
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, / who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

I can't make myself pure nor can I transform my body. But through communion, I have Christ's body & blood in me, and the Holy Spirit.
Right now I can only see a dim reflection.


I repeat:

“If I am saved, it is all God, if I am not, it is all me.”

The obvious writes it’s self.
 

Madman

Senior Member
A lot goes on in sanctification, and we are expected to be involved.

1 Cor. 7:14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
 

BanjoPicker

Senior Member
When one ais prefect as far as the sin-business is concerned Heb. 10:10-14;

When one accepts the blood of the new Covenant Heb. 10:29; 13:12. All sins are remitted Matt. 26:28, forgiven Eph. 1:7, washed Rev. 1:5, and cleansed 1Jn. 1:7-9; by faith in the blood when men accept it Rom. 3:24, 25.

When one comes to God, He is then saved "to the uttermost" and this must include salvation from the old man Heb. 7:25; 1 Jn. 5:18.

When sins are remitted Heb. 10:17, 18.

When one believes that Jesus is the Christ 1 Jn. 5:1-5. Sin is then finished forever unless sin is committed again 1 Jn. 2:1-3, 29; 3:7-10; 5:18; Col. 2:6, 7; Rom. 8:1-13.

When one is redeemed Lk. 1:68-77;

When one believes the truth 2 Thess. 2:13;

When one gets victory of fornication "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication 1 Thess. 4:3, 4; Gal. 5:24.
 

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