Sanctification

Question 1

What is sanctification?

Answer 1

Sanctification is the action of setting something or someone apart as holy, purifying it, and dedicating it to God’s service.

Question 2

Is sanctification instantaneous?

Answer 2

salvation is instantaneous; sanctification is a process by which God makes us holy inwardly in our hearts and outwardly in our actions.

Question 3

What are the three realms of sanctification of the believer?

Answer 3

positional, progressive, and ultimate, reflecting the past, present, and future aspects of salvation..

Question 4

What is Positional Sanctification?

Answer 4

justification. At salvation, believers are justified, declared righteous in conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.

Question 5

What is Experiential sanctification?

Answer 5

spiritual maturity. The goal is Christlikeness. progressive sanctification is becoming in experience what we already are positionally in Christ. The progress of sanctification, or spiritual maturity, is marked by conflict, spiritual warfare, because our new life in Christ is on a collision course with the world, is opposed by Satan, and fought by the sinful nature within us. Progressive sanctification is accomplished by the Holy Spirit as the believer is filled with the Holy Spirit as a result of having no unconfessed sin in his or her life.

Question 6

What is Ultimate sanctification?

Answer 6

glorification. The final stage in the salvation process is the ultimate sanctification of the believer—the future glorification of the believer

Question 7

Explain in brief justification, sanctification and glorification?

Answer 7

Justification delivers from the penalty of sin
Sanctification delivers from the power of sin
Glorification delivers from the presence of sin

Question 8

Romans 8:9 affirms?

Answer 8

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.