Sanctification

[jonathanbchristian]

1 Thesalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Sancification is defined as "abstaining" from fornication. We can be sure we are sanctified because we abstain from sin. I believe this is a good Scriptural definition of Sanctification: abstaining from sin.

 

[SantoSubito]

1 Thesalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Sancification is defined as "abstaining" from fornication. We can be sure we are sanctified because we abstain from sin. I believe this is a good Scriptural definition of Sanctification: abstaining from sin.

Your never really finished with the process of sanctification until you die.

 

[CRUCIFIEDWITHCHRIST]

Your never really finished with the process of sanctification until you die.

sanctification is a process but the scriptures show that the completion is for the now, not when we die.


Listen to this verse and notice that the word body is there which indicates the present world we are in and the degree of which he wants which is completely.

1 thessalonians 5:23

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[NiceneChristian]

Your never really finished with the process of sanctification until you die.

This is true, but that sanctification is a never ending process. We can be sanctified here to a certain extent, but in the age to come, sanctification never ends. All in all sanctification is a never ending process whether we are in the body or in eternity.

Now, the definition of sanctification is for a person to put on the "New Man" of Jesus Christ and to be "renewed" in his "image". This is a never ending process. It is done when the body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that is why St Paul said that "this is your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality", because bodily sins are what defiles a person in the most powerful way. It is through both body and soul that sanctification takes place, you can't have one without the other.

 

[CRUCIFIEDWITHCHRIST]

This is true, but that sanctification is a never ending process. We can be sanctified here to a certain extent, but in the age to come, sanctification never ends. All in all sanctification is a never ending process whether we are in the body or in eternity.

hey brother can you please give me some verses ??

james 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

The lord is not going to instruct something for us to have something

and it not be possible.

 

[SantoSubito]

This is true, but that sanctification is a never ending process. We can be sanctified here to a certain extent, but in the age to come, sanctification never ends. All in all sanctification is a never ending process whether we are in the body or in eternity.

Now, the definition of sanctification is for a person to put on the "New Man" of Jesus Christ and to be "renewed" in his "image". This is a never ending process. It is done when the body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that is why St Paul said that "this is your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality", because bodily sins are what defiles a person in the most powerful way. It is through both body and soul that sanctification takes place, you can't have one without the other.

I'm not sure if the EO have a concept similar to Purgatory or not. Since nothing unholy can enter the presence of God he must become sufficiently sanctified in this life or in some state in the next (which is what we call Purgatory). But for the most part we agree since the EO concept of theosis is almost exactly the same as the Catholic concept of the infusion of grace

 

[NiceneChristian]

This is true, but that sanctification is a never ending process. We can be sanctified here to a certain extent, but in the age to come, sanctification never ends. All in all sanctification is a never ending process whether we are in the body or in eternity.

hey brother can you please give me some verses ??

james 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

The lord is not going to instruct something for us to have something

and it not be possible.

Bodily sanctification:

2Co_4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.



Perfection as being something attainable here:


Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:



Real perfection in the coming age:


1Co_13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.



Never ending perfection:


2Co_3:18 ] But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.