2. Are sanctified people saved people?
Sanctify (hagiazo) means the setting apart of the believer for God, Acts 20:32.
It is also the separation of the believer from the world in his behavior by the Father through the word, John 17:17, 19.
Every believer is sanctified in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1:2.

3. Are sanctified people saved people?
Sanctification is not an achievement but the state into which we become partakers of the heavenly calling, Heb. 3:1. The sanctified are called by God, through His word. Sanctification (hagiasmos) is the course of life for the one who is separated.

4. Are sanctified people saved people?
A tenet of Calvinism is called perseverance of the saints. This simply means that a person cannot do anything to lose their salvation once they have received it. This would mean that once a person is sanctified, set apart to the service of God, he could no longer do anything contrary to God’s will; the saved will be saved. The sanctified will be saved, regardless.

5. Are sanctified people saved people?
Sanctification is not salvation and never will be.
1 John 1:5-10 – we should walk in the light and not in darkness
1 John 3:4-9 – the sanctified should no longer sin because of the understanding they have of God
The sanctified can sin even though they know they should not.

6. Are sanctified people saved people?
The fact that those who are sanctified can still sin is found in the first letter to the Corinthians.
1 Cor. 1:2 – to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, who call on the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord
What did these sanctified people do?

7. Are sanctified people saved people?
1. They were contentious people, 1 Cor. 1:11-13
They set up men.
They were dividing.
2. They were babes and earthly minded, 1 Cor. 3:1-3
There was strife among them.
3. They were arrogant, 1 Cor. 4:18-19
They need discipline as a child, vs. 21.

8. Are sanctified people saved people?
4. They tolerated immorality that even the world wouldn’t tolerate, 1 Cor. 5:1-2, 6.
What immorality does the world now condone?
5. They were cheating and defrauding one another. They were taking each other to civil courts. There was not a wise man among them that they could go to or who would stand up, 1 Cor. 6:1-8.

9. Are sanctified people saved people?
6. Husbands and wives were not showing due affection to one another, 1 Cor. 7:1-5.
7. They did not care about the conscience of others, 1 Cor. 8.
8. They did not want to pay a preacher, 1 Cor. 9:1- 15.
9. They did not learn from the examples of the Israelites, 1 Cor. 10:1-12.

10. Are sanctified people saved people?
10. They had turned the Lord’s Supper into a common meal, 1 Cor. 11:17-34.
11. They were arguing over who had the greatest spiritual gift, 1 Cor. 12.
12. Some among them doubted the resurrection of Christ, 1 Cor. 15.

11. Are sanctified people saved people?
This is what sanctified people were doing in Corinth. They were stumbling in their own actions and they were causing one another to stumble.

12. Are sanctified people saved people?
While they had received the Gospel of salvation, they had been washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of Jesus, 1 Cor. 6:11, they were not living as those who are set apart should live.

13. Are sanctified people saved people?
The first letter is a letter of correction. It is a letter of reminder of what the sanctified life of those who are in Christ should be.
In the second letter we read of their attitude after they received the first letter.

14. Are sanctified people saved people?
2 Cor. 7:2-16 – Paul’s confidence in the saints at Corinth was renewed when he learned from Titus of their great zeal for repentance.
2 Cor. 13:11-14 – Paul closes the letter with gentle but effective reminders

15. Are sanctified people saved people?
Sanctification is…
Objective, in that God is the One who sets apart
and
Subjective, in that we are called to live a life separated to holiness.

16. Are sanctified people saved people?
Sanctified people are not saved, because they are sanctified, but they are the only ones who have the hope of salvation because they have been set apart by God through their obedience to the Gospel. Are you striving for sanctification each day?