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Sanctification, Holiness, and The term rendered “perfect”
Godliness. in most English translations is
(te’leioi) meaning “brought to its
Pastor Marty Smith.
end, finished, lacking nothing
Thirty or Forty years ago, these necessary to completeness.” But
words were part of your Christian what does Spiritual perfection
walk. They were not just a mean?
lifestyle; they were your Life. They
were how you lived before God, Growing in spiritual perfection
along with Salvation, Justification, simply means uniting our wills to
and by Faith. the will of God. In other words, to
be completely pleasing to God, it is
Today, most people never necessary to know ourselves and
heard of these words, know where in we depart from
nevertheless, knowing what they God’s will.”
mean, pertaining to following Jesus
Christ or even understanding the A Quote from Father Dion,
work of the Holy Spirit in their Life. 2018. So, you could translate
Why don’t you hear of them “perfect” as “complete”. “Be you
spoken of in the Church today? complete as your heavenly Father
is complete.” How do we become
They are not “Preached” in perfect- complete? By knowing
the Church today, because they what “Sanctification, Holiness and
are not pertinent or relevant in the Godliness means in our lives, even
Modern Church’s agenda on how to this day and age.
live a complete Christian Life. Just
because they are not preached I tell you; these three
behind the Pulpit or even taught, attributes are just as important to
does not mean they have stopped our Salvation as breathing air. So
their importance to the believer. In here we go, what do these words
fact, when we submit ourselves to mean to us in our close walk with
the Placement of these things in God?
our lives, then we will have true What does “Sanctification”
victory and joy and happiness to mean? Sanctification literally
the Glory of the Father God. means “to set apart for special use
Jesus said in Matthew 5:48 or purpose”. That is to make holy
“You therefore must be perfect as or sacred. Therefore, Sanctification
your heavenly Father is perfect”. refers to the state or process of
ESV being set apart, i.e. “made holy”,
