Thank you for sharing your views on this matter, I appreciate it.
My view on the other hand is that when a farmer plants or sows seeds into his field, he expects them to grow in more or less than four months before he harvests them.
If the seed sown is a fruit tree, fruits are expected after some years of growth. If a tree does not bear fruit, scripture tells us that it is cut down and burned (used as firewood).(Luke 3:9)
We know that seeds need to be watered, need sunlight, care and attention for them to grow.
In the same way, salvation goes to a process of growth and maturity.
Salvation through justification is the first step and it’s the process of cultivation which prepares the land soil before sowing the seeds. This is when believers are forgiven of their sins, washed clean and reconciled to God. Justification gives life to a once DEAD in sin person (Romans 5:18). In the same way that a farmer do not sow fresh seeds.( hope you know what I mean since I am not a farmer) Man has no part in Justification. Let man give all the glory to God the Father and His only begotten son, our LORD Jesus Christ.
After cultivating the land, the seeds are sown, watered and grown. This is the process of salvation through sanctification. Believers receive the WORD of truth in which the WORD is the Spirit.(john 1:1-3 & 14, 6:63, 14:17, 15:26, 17:17, 2 Corinthians 3:17)). Believers receive the Holy Spirit through FAITH, (Galatians 3:14) giving them the power to obey God.
So in my view, Sanctification is the salvation process wherein believers grow in their FAITH and live by the Spirit. It is when we do the works God had before ordained for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10), to walk in LOVE.(2 john 1:6) and bear fruits of the Spirit (galatians 5:22). It is when obedience leads to righteousness which leads to holiness and the result is eternal life.(Romans 6:16-22)
This is my view and I believe that.. “OUR SALVATION IS NEARER NOW THAN WHEN WE FIRST BELIEVE.”(Romans 13:11)
…. And that is what some of you were. 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 6:9-11)
...“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”(John 4:34-38)
... Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men? What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.(1 Corinthians 3:1-9)
My view on the other hand is that when a farmer plants or sows seeds into his field, he expects them to grow in more or less than four months before he harvests them.
If the seed sown is a fruit tree, fruits are expected after some years of growth. If a tree does not bear fruit, scripture tells us that it is cut down and burned (used as firewood).(Luke 3:9)
We know that seeds need to be watered, need sunlight, care and attention for them to grow.
In the same way, salvation goes to a process of growth and maturity.
Salvation through justification is the first step and it’s the process of cultivation which prepares the land soil before sowing the seeds. This is when believers are forgiven of their sins, washed clean and reconciled to God. Justification gives life to a once DEAD in sin person (Romans 5:18). In the same way that a farmer do not sow fresh seeds.( hope you know what I mean since I am not a farmer) Man has no part in Justification. Let man give all the glory to God the Father and His only begotten son, our LORD Jesus Christ.
After cultivating the land, the seeds are sown, watered and grown. This is the process of salvation through sanctification. Believers receive the WORD of truth in which the WORD is the Spirit.(john 1:1-3 & 14, 6:63, 14:17, 15:26, 17:17, 2 Corinthians 3:17)). Believers receive the Holy Spirit through FAITH, (Galatians 3:14) giving them the power to obey God.
So in my view, Sanctification is the salvation process wherein believers grow in their FAITH and live by the Spirit. It is when we do the works God had before ordained for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10), to walk in LOVE.(2 john 1:6) and bear fruits of the Spirit (galatians 5:22). It is when obedience leads to righteousness which leads to holiness and the result is eternal life.(Romans 6:16-22)
This is my view and I believe that.. “OUR SALVATION IS NEARER NOW THAN WHEN WE FIRST BELIEVE.”(Romans 13:11)
…. And that is what some of you were. 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 6:9-11)
...“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”(John 4:34-38)
... Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men? What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.(1 Corinthians 3:1-9)
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