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	Sanctification
		Sanctification involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the new gracious principles implanted in the soul in regeneration.
		In the apostolic church, the essence of sanctification was a Christlike purity; in the patristic church, withdrawal from the contaminations of society.
		Sanctification is the sustaining and developing work of the Holy Spirit, bringing all the faculties of the soul more and more perfectly under the purifying and regulating principle of spiritual life.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/sanctifi.htm (2785 words)

	SANCTIFICATION Pt. 1 -- by Charles G. Finney
		Entire sanctification does not imply any change in the substance of the soul or body, for this the law does not require, and it would not be obligatory if it did, because the requirement would be inconsistent with natural justice.
		And if entire sanctification is to be understood as implying that we love God as much as we should, had we all the knowledge we might have had, then I repeat it, there is not a saint on earth or in heaven, nor ever will be, that is entirely sanctified.
		If entire sanctification therefore, implies the same degree of love or service that might have been rendered, had we always developed our powers by a perfect use of them, then there is not a saint on earth or in heaven that is or ever will be in that state.
	www.gospeltruth.net /1840OE/400101_sanctification_1.htm (8764 words)

	Bible Presbyterian Church WSC Project: Watson's "Body of Divinity"
		Sanctification is the first fruit of the Spirit; it is heaven begun in the soul.
		Sanctification and glory differ only in degree: sanctification is glory in the seed, and glory is sanctification in the flower.
		Sanctification is the ear-mark of Christ's elect sheep.
	www.bpc.org /resources/watson/wsc_wa_035.html (4207 words)

	14. Of Sanctification.
		Sanctification, as a principle, is a holy, living principle, infused; by which a man that was dead in trespasses and sins, is quickened; and from whence flow living acts; such as living by faith on Christ; walking in newness of life; living soberly, righteously, and godly: all which belong to sanctification.
		Sanctification appears in lamenting sin, in deploring the corruption of nature, bewailing indwelling sin, as well as all sinful actions, of thought, word, and deed; sanctified persons are like doves of the valley, everyone mourning for his own iniquities, and for those of others, and the sad effects of them.
		That sanctification is imperfect, is abundantly manifest from indwelling sin in the saints, and the sad effects of it; the apostle Paul speaks of "sin dwelling in him" (Rom.
	www.pbministries.org /books/gill/Doctrinal_Divinity/Book_6/book6_14.htm (2479 words)

	Sanctification
		Though sanctification may at first seem to be a foreign concept, it is one of the greatest things that has and is happening to every believer in Jesus Christ.
		Sanctification does not stop with salvation, but rather it is a progressive process that continues in a Christian's life.
		Sanctification can be described as an inward spiritual process whereby God brings about holiness and change in the life of a Christian by means of the Holy Spirit.
	www.allaboutfollowingjesus.org /sanctification.htm (1049 words)

	Sound of Grace Online
		According to the Reformers, the confusion of the doctrine of sanctification and the doctrine of justification was one of the principal errors of the Church of Rome which teaches that, if we become sufficiently sanctified, we shall in the end thereby be justified.
		But sanctification is doing away with our corruption and this is done not by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ to us, once for all, but by the gradual infusion of the holiness of Christ into us.
		Sanctification is not merely an effort on the part of Christians to live a better Christian life.
	www.soundofgrace.com /v6n2/kennedy.htm (2615 words)

	SANCTIFICATION - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the prophets especially, the ethical responsibility of being holy in conduct came to the forefront (Isaiah 5:1; Jeremiah 5-7; Amos 4-5; Hosea 11:1).
		Sanctification in the New Testament The same range of meanings reflected by the Septuagint usage is preserved in the New Testament but with extension of meaning in certain cases.
		Sanctification is vitally linked to the salvation experience and is concerned with the moral/spiritual obligations assumed in that experience.
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T5474 (883 words)

	Sanctification, by Abraham Kuyper
		And the result was that this so-called sanctification led to a weakening of the faith, to a considering of purity of doctrine as immaterial; until finally it assumed a hostile attitude toward the mysteries of the truth.
		And this applies to the doctrine of sanctification as well as to all other doctrines; for it is not, any more than the other dogmas, the confession of a lifeless matter, but the confession of an awful power, which lives and works effectually in us.
		Hence sanctification must be preached once again as a doctrine; it must be confessed, examined, and studied as a doctrine; to be followed by an appropriate application like the preaching of any other doctrine; and godliness, spiritual life, and good works will be the result.
	homepage.mac.com /shanerosenthal/reformationink/aksanctif.htm (3275 words)

	Reformed Theology Resource Center: Dedicated to the Reformed Faith
		This work of sanctification involves both the gradual destruction of the old body of sin, and the quickening and strengthening of all the graces of the new man, and the inward purification of the heart and mind, as well as all those holy actions which proceed from them.
		Thus, while sanctification is a grace, it is also a duty; and the soul is both bound and encouraged to use with diligence, in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, all the means for its spiritual renovation, and to form those habits of resisting evil and of right action in which sanctification so largely consists.
		This work of sanctification involves the destruction of the old body of sin, as well as the development of the grace implanted in regeneration: it is also first inward and spiritual, and then outward and practical.
	www.rtrc.net /documents/wcf/hodge/wcfaah13.htm (2125 words)

	SANCTIFICATION Pt. 3 -- by Charles G. Finney
		Now, as entire sanctification consists in prefect obedience to the law of God, and as the law requires nothing more than the right use of whatever strength we have, it is of course forever settled that a state of entire and permanent sanctification is attainable in this life on the ground of natural ability.
		As sanctification consists in the right exercise of our own agency, or in obedience to the law of God, a promise of sanctification must necessarily be conditioned upon the exercise of faith in the promise.
		So the promise of the world's conversion, and the sanctification of the church under the reign of Christ, is unconditional in the sense, that it is certain that those events will at some time occur, but when they will occur--what generation of individuals shall receive this blessing, is necessarily conditioned upon their faith.
	www.gospeltruth.net /1840OE/400129_sanctification_3.htm (5027 words)

	bibleteacher.org: Sanctification by Louis Berkoff
		The sanctification of the believer must, it would seem, be completed either at the very moment of death, or immediately after death, as far as the soul is concerned, and at the resurrection in so far as it pertains to the body.
		It consists fundamentally and primarily in a divine operation in the soul, whereby the holy disposition born in regeneration is strengthened and its holy exercises are increased.
		Sanctification is the sanctification of the sinner (sanctificatio impii), by which God declares the sinner holy´.”; However laudable the desire of Barth to destroy every vestige of work-righteousness, he certainly goes to an unwarranted extreme, in which he virtually confuses justification and sanctification, negatives the Christian life, and rules out the possibility of confident assurance.
	www.bibleteacher.org /berkmos.htm (6710 words)

	A brief summary of what is taught at Sovereign Grace Church
		To summarize, I have been teaching the people of Sovereign Grace Church that sanctification, as justification, is entirely due to the grace of God and is, in its every aspect, entirely attributable to the work of the Spirit of God in the life of the believer.
		If sanctification could be said to require even the slightest participation or cooperation from us, then all the glory for sanctification would not belong to God, and we could claim some glory for ourselves.
		It is a self evident fact, and a biblical fact, that sanctification does not turn people into shells or robots who no longer demonstrate the attributes of their individual personalities.
	www.sgc-gettysburg.org /writings/sanctification_1.asp (938 words)

	10 Teachings - Chapter 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There can be no sanctification that does not begin with faith in Jesus Christ and His death on the cross as our own death; for to be baptized into that death (as Paul puts it) is death to sin, freedom from slavery to sin.
		Sanctification, growth in holiness, becomes a matter of being "alive to God in Christ Jesus." We who were "slaves of sin...having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness" (Romans 6:17-18).
		Sanctification, therefore, continues as we yield ourselves to God, even as a slave yields himself to his master, his life and actions being determined by his lord.
	home.regent.edu /rodmwil/10teach-07.htm (2194 words)

	Sanctification
		Sanctification is an ongoing transformation within a maintained consecration, and it engenders real righteousness within the frame of relational holiness.
		In sanctification, the Holy Spirit "works in you to will and to act" according to God's purpose; what he does is prompt you to "work out your salvation" (i.e., express it in action) by fulfilling these new desires (Phil.
		Sanctification, however, is in one sense synergistic -- it is an ongoing cooperative process in which regenerate persons, alive to God and freed from sin's dominion (Rom.
	www.fivesolas.com /ct_sanc.htm (643 words)

	Sanctification
		Some hold that sanctification is in response to what they refer to as the corrupt Adamic nature that they teach has been arbitrarily imputed or passed on to all men.
		As the corrupt nature denotes spiritual defilement and depravity; sanctification is said by them to be an arbitrary act of God effected by the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit to make man holy and sinless.
		The fact of the necessity of sanctification or consecration is seen in such verses as I Thessalonians 4: 3.
	www.bibletruths.net /Archives/BTAR274.htm (1304 words)

	Sanctification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sanctification, as discussed above, begins at the moment the Christian is saved, but the point of completion is sometimes disputed.
		Christians are not justified and then given the work of sanctification, rather he viewed that both are the unmerited work of Christ in the believer.
		Luther mostly agreed with John Calvin's description of sanctification but disagreed with its practice, specifically in regard to the third use of the law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanctification (2753 words)

	Sanctification, Part 4
		Last time we spoke about the method of sanctification, and we said it is not human activism - that is, that I do all that is necessary for a victorious life.
		That is called activism - that everything depends on me. We also said that the method of sanctification is not passivism, which means I just let God do it for me. Now, certainly, in the work of regeneration and justification it is God who does the work and we do nothing.
		This is the key to the doctrine of sanctification, that we died to sin.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gvcc/radio_trans/sanctif4.html (1888 words)

	What is sanctification?
		Sanctification also refers to the practical experience of this separation unto God, being the effect of obedience to the Word of God in one’s life, and is to be pursued by the believer earnestly (1 Peter 1:15; Hebrews 12:14).
		On this account they are called saints, hagioi in the Greek; “sanctified ones.” Whereas before their behavior bore witness to their standing in the world in separation from God, now their behavior should bear witness to their standing before God in separation from the world.
		To summarize, sanctification is the same Greek word as holiness, “hagios,” meaning a separation.
	www.gotquestions.org /sanctification.html (436 words)

	Christianity 101 - Sanctification
		Sanctification is often viewed as the second of three stages in the life of a believer; the first being justification, the second sanctification, and the third glorification.
		Paul explains the Holy Spirit's role in sanctification this way: "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
		It is important to realize that, while we do play a necessary role in sanctification, we are not left to our own devices for fulfilling our obligation.
	www.gospeloutreach.net /sanctification.html (371 words)

	How entire is entire sanctification?
		Entire sanctification is the distinctive teaching of churches in the Holiness Movement.
		Entire sanctification is not a Wesleyan form of eternal security, teaching that, once we're in, we're in for good.
		Entire sanctification builds on a certain measure of spiritual maturity, so in most believers there is a gradual leading up to it.
	home.snu.edu /~hculbert/entire.htm (3667 words)

	Sanctification and Holiness
		Sanctification can also be defined as: “possessing the mind of Christ, and all the mind of Christ.” God wants us to allow our minds to be renewed (Romans 12:2).
		Sanctification is rooted in humilty - the correct view of God and oneself which leads one to hear correction from God and others, to put down selfish desires, and to obey God from the heart.
		Sanctification is an ongoing work in the life of the Christian.
	www.christian-faith.com /bible-studies/holiness.html (8949 words)

	Sanctification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sanctification - involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the new gracious principles implanted in the soul in regeneration.
		In other words, sanctification is the carrying on to perfection the work begun in regeneration, and it extends to the whole man (Romans 6:13; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Colossians 3:10; 1 John 4:7; 1 Corinthians 6:19).
		Perfect sanctification is not attainable in this life (1 Kings 8:46; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; James 3:2; 1 John 1:8).
	www.godandscience.org /doctrine/sanctify.html (1296 words)

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