Lesson 1

Question 1

How is holiness separate from mere cleanliness? Explain from Lev 10:10

Answer 1

Lev 10:10 You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

(see also, 1 Tim 4:1-5)
a. Distinctions
1. Unclean v Clean
2. Common v Holy
b. These are not equivocated but distinguished
c. Common and Holy are subsets of the Clean
d. Leviticus is about the Holy things

Question 2

What is the twofold language used to describe sanctification? How does this help us understand how sanctification proceeds?

Answer 2

Deconstruction and Reconstruction

Sanctification proceeds by setting our minds above (God and heavenly kingdom) which moves us to serve God and our neighbor

Question 3

How is sanctification both a gift and a duty? What does this teach us about the focus of sanctification?

Answer 3

It is a gift because:
-it is from God
-it is His grace by which we live as we are designed.

It is a duty because:
-Christ’s work enables our work
-we are called to live holy lives.

The focus of sanctification is:
-on us as the object
-on God as the subject.

God works on us so that we can work.

Question 4

What is Sanctification?

Answer 4

Sanctification is a work of God’s grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, chosen to be holy, are in time, through the powerful operation of his Spirit applying the death and resurrection of Christ unto them, renewed in their whole man after the image of God; having the seeds of repentance unto life, and all other saving graces, put into their hearts, and those graces so stirred up, increased, and strengthened, as that they more and more die unto sin, and rise unto newness of life.
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