Sanctification is His Work in Us

What is Sanctification

Sanctification is not a negative matter: not “Don’t do this” and “Don’t do that.” It is rather the positive truth that God wants us for Himself as a sacred possession, his very own in a special, sacred way.

Bible sanctification is a twofold truth, affecting both our standing before God and our spiritual state or condition. In one sense every true believer in Christ has already been sanctified, or consecrated to God, by the operation of the Holy Spirit. Thus, we read: