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as a vessel full of the Holy Spirit of Even though you may not
God. know about “Sanctification”. The
fact is, this is what happens when
So, at the very moment we
receive Jesus Christ as our Lord you accept Christ as your Lord and
and Savior, the Holy Spirit applies Savior. Just as “Justification”
the blood of Jesus in our hearts happens at Salvation as it says in 1
and sets us apart (Sanctify) that Corinthians 6:11, “But you were
now, we belong to God, to Jesus. washed, you were sanctified, you
were justified in the name of the
Growing up in the Assembly Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit
of God as a kid, they called the of our God.” All this happens when
process of Salvation, “Saved, you get saved.
Sanctified, filled with the Holy
Ghost”. 2. Sanctified by the Holy
Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:11again,
According to the scriptures states how we are washed,
there are three ways we are sanctified and justified by the Spirit
Sanctified unto the Lord, or by (Holy Spirit) of God.
what means of Sanctification.
Romans 15:16b tells us, “that
1. We are sanctified by the the offering up of the Gentiles
blood, Hebrews 13:12 says, “So might be acceptable being
Jesus suffered outside the gate in Sanctified by the Holy Spirit”. ESV
order to Sanctify other people
though His own blood.” ESV In other Here, the Holy Spirit through Paul
words, presents the price that was pictures the Apostle offering up the
paid so that man might be Gentiles as a pure Sacrifice
“Sanctified”, i.e. “set free from acceptable to God, because they
sin”. were washed in the Blood and
Sanctified by the Holy Spirit. They,
That is, by His blood shed on the Gentiles, us were washed in
the Cross was the only satisfied the Blood and Sanctified (made
price paid for our Salvation. And pure, holy) by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus set us apart unto Himself by
His blood to be holy, pure, and Then we go to 2
without blemish. Never dismiss the Thessalonians 2:13 which states,
doctrine of the Blood of Jesus, nor “Brothers beloved of the Lord,
when the blood is applied to our because God chose you as the first
hearts, “Sanctification”. They are fruits (or from the beginning) to be
inseparable, you can’t have one saved through Sanctification (made
without the other.
