Agent of Sanctification
Holy Spirit's Work
Sanctification · 6 verses
The Holy Spirit serves as the principal efficient cause of sanctification, applying Christ's redemptive work to believers and effectually transforming them into the image of the Son. Through His indwelling presence and supernatural operations, the Spirit both initiates and sustains the sanctifying process, working in believers both to will and to do according to God's good pleasure.
Scripture References
“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:”
“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.”
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”
“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”
“And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;”