Sanctification

Front matter
Connections List
 * Justification
 * Chief end of man
 * Salvation
 * Death to Sin
 * Spiritual Disciplines
 * 1 John 5
 * Sets of Two
 * 1 Thessalonians 5
 * Repent
 * HS
 * All Commands
 * Death
 * Dictionary
 * Perfect
 * Head to heart, guard
 * Discipleship
 * Mans role on earth
 * Slavery
 * Just Sanct Glory
 * Rebuke
 * Christian Liberty
 * Art, exploratory
 * Eternal Life
 * Purgatory
 * Man and Husband Role
 * Baptism
 * Hero

Scope
 * The word, concept header, and pure form mech. For tactics or other concepts see connections.

Definition
 * The process in which we have 1) removing imperfection 2) gainin skills/weight
 * Includes all time
 * 3) Sometimes the word in the bible is used for something that is already complete. Set apart. Made holy.

Etymology
 * Greek "agaismos" process of being made holy "agaizo"

Topics
 * Theo mech
 * Power to drive it
 * Progress
 * Promise completed
 * Examples
 * Biblical imagery
 * More verses
 * Secular examples

Theo mech
Power
 * Regeneration power within you Eph 1:20
 * Driven by hope? 1 John 3:3 all who have this hope [to see jc and be like him] purify themselves as he is pure

General mech
 * Natural because we are not God but we are infinite potential containers. "If your God never challenges you then you are your own God."
 * Process works as community too. Eph 5 JC sanctifies church (as a whole). Matt 18, Rom 14, 1 Cor 8, do not cause brother to stumble, do not lead little ones to sin, liberty
 * Our identities are not static (justification also says this). We are masterpieces.

Progress
 * I wonder, during this life to physical death, is it:
 * x% -> 100% perfect?
 * 100 - 1/x% -> greater (never fully completed)?
 * e^2% build up (slower than heaven)
 * Then at death to heaven
 * 100% perfect (so that not sin)
 * e% build up (much faster than earth, but still happens forever)
 * Sanct may be exponential because the better we know him, the better we experience, the more we know...
 * A closely related concept, using the same greek word, has already happened?
 * 1 Cor 1:2 greetings to the church which "having been sanctified", perfect participle dative.
 * There is some sense in which we have already been set apart, made holy... hm.

Progress, consequences of being saved


 * No one particular sin should last a long time? 1 John 3:6 no one who lives in him keeps on sinning, 1 John 5:18 anyone born of God does not continue to sin
 * Abortion guy outside of Mercy Hill says you can go days, maybe even weeks without sinning. I guess I agree?
 * 1 John 1:8-10. "If we claim to be without sin" seems present tense, but v10 is "have not sinned". v1-7 are pretty core - maybe not direct salvation but pretty close - which would favor the "have not sinned" and that you can go without sinning side.

Promise completed Sanct has value in heaven?
 * 1 thess 5:23-24 promise to be made blameless at his coming
 * Php 1:6 confident began a good work will complete until the day of JC
 * Rom 8:28 all things work together for the good. Context v12 of sanct, v29 promises/predest


 * Eternal Life


 * 1 Pet 5:10 at end, God will restore you, make strong, firm, steadfast
 * 1 Tim 4:8 "...godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come." - so yes? At least Christian Rewards I guess.

Imagery, examples
Imagery
 * Man and Husband role is to sanctify (eph 5)
 * Foot washing (like JC) could be like sanct. Servanthood in sanct. OR foot wash could be baptism, which we think is more like Justification.

More Verses
 * Jeremiah 3:22 "Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.."
 * Eph 2:10 we are gods handiwork / workmanship, created to do good works
 * Ps 138:8 "do not abandon the works of your hands." (meaning the psalmist)
 * 2 Cor 3:18 we w/unveiled, transformed into image, ever increasing glory

Examples in secular


 * Hero archetype. Training montage.
 * Video games power curve.