Bible Questions Answered: Sanctification

Bible Questions Answered:
How do you get sanctified, when does this happen?
Alejandro /Bogota, Colombia

Bible Answers:

Sanctification:

Old Testament Hebrew: Qadash (Kaw-dash): To make, pronounce or observe as clean (ceremonially or morally); consecrate, dedicate, hallow, purify.

New Testament Greek: Hagiasmos (Hag-ee-as-mos): Purification, purity, holiness. (Abingdon/Strong)

Sanctification is both, static as being already complete, and yet dynamic as it is yet an on going process.

Romans 8:29 AMP
For those whom He foreknew of whom He was aware and loved beforehand, He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son (Sanctification) [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.

Romans 15:16 KJV
That I should be the minister (The Apostle Paul) of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

I Thessalonians 4:3-8 KJV
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

I Thessaolnians 4:3-8 NLT
3 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—
5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and His ways.
6 Never harm or cheat a Christian brother in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before.
7 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.
8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

I Thessalonians 5:21-24 KJV
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.

Hebrews 13:12 KJV
Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate.

I Peter 1:2 KJV
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

I Peter 3:15 KJV
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:


Sanctification is both, static as being already complete, and yet dynamic as it is yet an on going process.

Job 17:9 KJV
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 17:9 NLT
The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger.

Psalm 84:5,7 NLT
5 What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord...
7 They will continue to grow stronger..."

Psalm 92:12 KJV
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Proverbs 4:18 KJV
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

II Corinthians 3:18 KJV
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

I Timothy 4:15 KJV
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

II Timothy 2:19-21 KJV
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.


Our Lord's prayer for His church.

John 17:17 KJV (Read the whole chapter verses 1-26.)
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

The call to sanctification:

Genesis 17:1 (Abraham)
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and be thou perfect.

Acts 20:32 KJV (Apostle Paul)
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

I Corinthians 1:2,3,30 KJV (Apostle Paul)
2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:
3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
30 But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

I Corinthians 6:9,11 KJV
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?...
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:25-27 KJV
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it;
26 That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Hebrews 2:11 KJV
For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Hebrews 12:14 KJV
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

I Peter 1:15,16 KJV
15 But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.


Sanctification in the life of the believer is evidenced by:

1) Hatred of sin. The church has a problem today, it is to cozy to the things of this world! God give Christian people a “hatred,” for sin, no gray areas, no shadows of the truth, black and white, light versus darkness.

2) A love for the things of God. Bible study, prayer meeting, church work, witnessing for the Lord, testimonies, giving the tithe, and offerings of love, liberal acts of brotherly love, etc. etc..etc.

3) A life that adheres to holiness. A life controlled by the Spirit of God, not just hatred of sin, but love of God, heart, mind, soul, and body, and His service.

Dear friend, are there signs of sanctification in your life?
Make the Lord, the Master of your life.
And He will change you into His glorious image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.