A New Beginning Sanctification

“It indicates classification in matters of position and relationship. The basis of the classification is usually that the sanctified person or thing has been set apart, or separated from others in position and relationship before God from that which is unholy.” Lewis Sperry Chafer

Romans 12:1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”

John 17:16-19 "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. "Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 "As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”

Called to be saints (Rom. 1:7) 1 Corin. 1:2, “To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,” to all the saints (2 Cor. 1:1; Col. 1:2)

the mystery revealed to the saints (Col. 1:26) exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.(Jude 3) “For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” 1 Cor. 14:33

as is fitting among saints (Eph. 5:3) pray for all the saints (Eph. 6:18) the Spirit intercedes for the saints (Rom. 8:27).

“Every born-again person is as much a saint the moment he is saved as he ever will be in time or eternity.” Chafer

Romans 6:19–23 “I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness,”

“so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed?”

“For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life”

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”

1Theselonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”