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Charles Page | PentecostalTheology.com
Do you need to be born again before you can be sanctified?
Charles Page
Trying to post on cell phone
Wahyu
of course
T Murray Funston
Yes
Varnel Watson
yEs you need to be born again before the RAPTURE
Douglas Roberts
YES, Sanctification is before Justification. The new Birth comes first.; Then we are alive to Repent ,Trust and obey for eternal Life. Faith alone is wrong and will take one to Hell/
Varnel Watson
Sanctification is before Justification? PROVE it with some BIBLE pls Douglas Roberts
Greg Thumm
Why does everything theological have to revolve around the “rapture” for some people ? ? ?
Varnel Watson
when else would you wanna be saved? Greg Thumm
Greg Thumm
I am being saved whether or not there is a pre-trib “rapture”. The question is, what am I being saved for? To put on the full armor of God and wade into the enemy sword in hand, or to sit on a cloud and play the harp as the battle rages … The big picture question is, what is God’s purpose in tribulation.
Michael N Dineen
Yes.
RichardAnna Boyce
1. Positional Sanctification
First Corinthians 1:30 is a good verse to summarize our sanctified, or set-apart, position in Christ: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.”
This is an absolute, perfect, and objective thing. Positional sanctification takes place instantaneously at salvation, irrespective of how little it may or may not immediately show up in our lives. The Corinthians, who had a long way to go before they would be considered “saintly” by outside observers (and who did, after all, often have rather rough backgrounds), are addressed by Paul in these words: “And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor 6:11, emphasis supplied).
Many evangelicals hesitate to use the word saint for all Christians, letting the Mormons, the so-called “Latter-day Saints,” have a corner on the word.6 The NT has no such reticence, because of the doctrine of positional sanctification. Whereas the word Christian occurs only three times in the NT, the word saints (plural, not “Saint John’ or “Saint Paul”) as a term for all believers is widespread (e.g., Acts 9:13; Rom 1:7; 1 Cor 1:2; Eph 4:12; Phil 4:22; Col 1:4; Phlm 7; Heb 6:10; Rev 13:7).
William Evans writes bluntly, but truthfully, on this question of being a “saint”: “If a man is not a saint he is not a Christian; if he is a Christian he is a saint.”7
2. Progressive Sanctification
John 17:17, in our Lord’s high-priestly prayer for his saints, is a good introduction8 to the practical or experiential side of sanctification: “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”
Although the Lord Jesus had been ministering to His disciples for three years, and eleven of them had indeed been already sanctified (positionally) by grace through faith in Him,9 He still prays for their sanctification through the application of the Word of God.
3. Perfected Sanctification
Final, ultimate, or perfect sanctification does not take place till we leave this planet through death or the Rapture. It is an event yet to come. First John 3:2 is a central passage for this:
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Jan Lang
Yes Sanctification is a process from the moment of Salvation
Jan Lang
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Craig O'Dell
Being born again means to be born of the Spirit; because life is in the Spirit. And, being sanctified is a believer being sealed with the Holy Spirit. I believe you have to be sealed with the Holy Spirit to be considered born of the Spirit. Once you are sealed with the Holy Spirit your life is sustained is in the Spirit not flesh and blood. The Spirit marks you as a candidate for the first resurrection. So the two ideas seem to go hand-in-hand where sanctification could be regarded as the born-again step in your salvation process.