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Originally Posted by yvonne2u2 Sanctification is the consequence of justification and is dependent upon a person being in a right relationship with God Could you further elaborate for me the statement above. I have heard a lot of different things in regards to Sanctification, but don't understand it a whole lot.

Basically justification is when we are declared holy by God at our salvation; and sanctification is what happens after we've been justified and is when we work out our salvation like that verse tells us to, putting what we've learned in God's Word into practice in our lives and therefore living righteously.

DEFINITION OF JUSTIFICATION: Being declared righteous by God.
The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology defines justification as “to pronounce, accept, and treat as [righteous], and not . . . liable, and, on the other hand, entitled to all the privileges due to those who have kept the laws.” It declares a “verdict of acquittal, and so excluding all possibility of condemnation. Justification thus settles the legal status of the person justified.” It makes a person, as has been commonly said, “just as if I’d never sinned.”
CENTRAL PASSAGE:
Romans 5:1, Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,


DEFINITION OF SANCTIFICATION: The process of spiritual growth toward the character image of Christ.
CENTRAL PASSAGE:
1 Thessalonians 4:3, It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;
Perhaps the central passage in Scripture that describes this process is
Philippians 2:12–13, Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
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