Topic: Daily Christian Living – Sanctification Part I
Text: Rm 12:1-2
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Introduction
We believe that people who have experienced salvation, should daily grow in Christian living. This means they are to deliberately separate themselves from the value system of this world and build their lives based on the value system of God’s kingdom. Come alone as we learn at the feet of the Master.
Question 1 – Is sanctification an event that happens at the point of salvation or is it a continuous process?
Sanctification is a continuous spiritual development process a believer in Christ undergoes in his/her earthly pilgrimage on the road to Perfection.
Question 2 – That sanctification is a process, does that now give room for sinning and repenting at will?
In essence, even though sanctification is a process, it still does not give any believer the license or support any Christian to keep practicing any form of sin deliberately and excepts God to always forgive. Note that to Deliberately keep living in sin is not what God called us into but rather to deliberately live in righteousness.
Take Away Thought
The Bible standard which we all as believers in Christ needs to come to terms with first is that – we have been called in Christ not to sin, but if for any reason you fall into sin, quickly repent of it genuinely and restore the standard of righteousness you have been called into by Christ.
Last modified: June 5, 2017
