Sanctification Flashcards
What are key points about Sanctification?
- Positional - set apart to God at point of salvation. 1 Peter 1:15-16
- Progressive - continually transformed into becoming more like Jesus. Romans 8:29, 2 Corinthians 3:18
- Decisive surrender - decisively surrender ourselves as a living sacrifice - Romans 12:1-2
- Whole Person - 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
-Evidence of Sanctified Life
What is a key verse about being set apart?
1 Peter 1:15-16
“but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” “
What is a key verse about becoming more like Jesus
Romans 8:29
“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.”
What is a key verse about Decisive Surrender?
Romans 12:1-2
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
What is a key verse about Progressiveness of Sanctification?
2 Corinthians 3:18
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
1 Peter 1:15
“but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
What are key points and verses about Baptism/Filling of the Spirit
- Positional Sanctification -
believers are positionally sealed in Christ by baptism of Spirit - 1 Corinthians 1:2; 12:13 - Experiential Sanctification -
believers live out being sealed in Christ through the Holy Spirit - Ephesians 5:18
What is a key verse about Positional Sanctification and the Spirit?
Sealed by the Spirit
1 Corinthians 12:13
“For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[d] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”
What is a key verse about Experiential Sanctification and the Spirit
Filled by the Spirit that leads and guides us
Ephesians 5:18
“And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit”
Galatians 5:16
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. “
What are key points and verses about evidence of Spiritual Life?
- Fruit of the Spirit - Galatians 5:22-23
- Transformation - 2 Corinthians 3:18
- Empowered service - Acts 1:8
What is a key verse about sealed by the Holy Spirit?
Ephesians 1:13-14
“In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.”
What are key points about Positional Sanctification
When people come to faith in Christ, they are sanctified - they are no longer slaves to sin and dead in their transgressions but are set apart unto God, deemed righteous, and have eternal life.
One is justified through faith - the penalty of sin is paid for by Christ and we are deemed righteous by God. Christ’s sacrifice and righteousness are imbued unto a person as a result of their faith in Jesus Christ.
This position includes
- No longer deserving God’s wrath but justified, considered righteous (Romans 5:1, Romans 3:22, 2 Corinthians 5:21)
- No longer slaves to sin but now in kingdom of the Son (Colossians 1:13, Romans 6:6-7)
- No longer dead in trespasses, but alive with Christ (Ephesians 2:5)
-No longer spiritually dead but have eternal life (Romans 6:23)
-New creation (2 Corinthians 5:17)
- Part of the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:27)
-God’s special possession, holy people (1 Peter 2:9, Hebrews 10:10)
What are key verses about being freed from slavery of sin?
Romans 6:6-7
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Romans 6:22-23
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What is a key verse about being made holy?
Hebrews 10:10
We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
What is key verse of Christ’s righteousness imputed to believers?
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
What is a key verse that Christ’s payment of sin has been imputed to believers?
Romans 3:25
God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[i] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith.
Colossians 1:13-14
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
