Question 32: What does justification and sanctification mean?
Justification means our righteousness declared before God, made possible by the death and resurrection of Christ for us. Sanctification means our gradual and growing righteousness, made possible by the work of the Spirit in us.
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- In the sanctification of the Spirit.
- By obeying and spraying the blood of Jesus Christ.
- Grace and peace are multiplied to you.
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STAND ABRAHAM
Although justification and sanctification are both blessings of grace, and although inseparable, they are nevertheless separate acts of God; and there is, in many ways, a great difference between them. The distinction can be expressed as follows: justification respects the person in the legal sense of the term, is a unique act of grace and ends with a relative change, that is, with the freedom to be punished and the right to lifetime; sanctification, in turn, takes into account the physical sense, being a continuous work of grace, and ends with a real change, in terms of quality of both habits and actions. The first is for justice outside of us; the last is for the holiness that works in us. This precedes as cause; follows as an effect. Justification is through Christ as priest and deals with the guilt of sin; sanctification is for him as king and concerns his dominion. The first takes away its overwhelming power; the second, his dominant power. The justification is instantaneous and complete in all its aspects; sanctification is progressive and gradually perfected.
JOHN PIPER
Justification is God’s act by which He declares us righteous, righteous, or perfect only by faith; We were united with Jesus Christ, who is perfect, just, and righteous. Therefore, justification is the legal position before God, because of spiritual union with Jesus, which comes only through faith. He declares us perfect by our union with Christ, which only happens through faith.
Is sanctification the act of God by which He, through His Spirit and His Word, models us little by little?Or go further to the image of your Son, so that we may be truly righteous in our behavior, truly overcoming the imperfections of our sanctification.
Now, here’s the key question: how do these two concepts relate to each other?The key verse is Hebrews 10:14: “For with one offering, [Christ] made all the sanctified perfect forever. “Who’s been perfected forever? It’s been perfected, that’s already been done. It was perfected forever, those who are perfecting themselves. To be sanctified, made holy. He made us perfectly holy, what’s the answer?Those who become saints. This means that the proof that we are holy or perfect or righteous before God is that by faith we become saints. He seems a little paradoxical, I know. But this is the key to Christian life.
Another way of saying: the power you fight for every day to overcome life’s imperfections is in confidence that you’re already perfected. If you change these things, if you think, “All right, God demands perfection; In my conduct, I must become perfect, so that God may look at me and say, “He is well; we’re going to let it be perfect or trust it ??. But it is quite the opposite, like the time of Christ, we believe in him and what he did on the cross and in his perfect life. We believe in him, and through this faith, God unies us with Christ. His perfection is told like ours. The proof that we are perfect in Christ is that we hate sin and every day, through faith in his promises, we struggle to overcome the imperfections that exist.
Then my exhortation would be simply this: please do not confuse order, the whole world understands everything inside. Other religions understand everything backwards: our works and efforts to overcome imperfections can even lead us to please God. But we’ll never be able to do it that way. God considers us acceptable, Makes us his children, considers us righteous; and because of this justice, we spend our lives becoming who we already are.
Our Savior and Lord, you have completed the work of our justification; You have begun the work of our sanctification and we hope that you will lead us to its consummation; transform us, day after day, into your image, according to your habits. Amen.
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