Definitive Sanctification
Positional Holiness
Sanctification · 6 verses
Believers are definitively set apart unto God at the moment of conversion, possessing a holy status before divine justice through union with Christ. This positional sanctification, distinct from progressive growth in grace, establishes the ontological foundation for the Christian's new identity as one who has been transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.
Scripture References
“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.”
“By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
“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.”
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
“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:”
“Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:”