Sanctification

[visionary]

Sanctification is a process that continues during our lives as believers. Until the last generation, where those who are alive and awaiting the Lord's return, it has been that only after death are the saints referred to as perfect.

Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Sanctification involves the believers in the process and a responsibility as commanded in the Bible. We are commanded to be holy; to be perfect and to present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness and purity.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 This is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God

This will take effort on our part, working with the Holy Spirit to put to the death the evil deeds of the body or works of the flesh. We are to separate ourselves and walk in the Spirit that we may display the fruits of the Spirit and be the final harvest that Yeshua is looking for.