SANCTIFICATION.

Selected Scriptures

September 23, 2001

PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE: To Biblically Show What is the Purpose of Salvation by Studying the Doctrine of Sanctification.

I. WHAT IS SANCTIFICATION?

II. SANCTIFICATION IS THE WORK OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

1. It is though the instruction of the Bible, God's very word, that a believer can know how to be sanctified or live a pure godly life.

2. Further it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to enable us to act upon God's instruction. God tells us, "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:3-4)

C. We are told in Ephesians 1:4, that God has chosen the believer and reconciled him to Himself in Christ for the purpose of sanctification. "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love."

III. THE THREE ASPECTS OF SANCTIFICATION.

5. Some may falsely conclude that because the Bible says we will sin we have no choice. However, when the temptation comes we do not have to sin.

6. Paul quickly dispelled this false assumption that the believer has no choice but to submit to sin.

IV. CONCLUSION.