Sanctification

Hebrews 10:

1  For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

2  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

3  But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

4  For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5  Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;

6  in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

7  Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'"

8  When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),

9  then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

10  And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11  And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

12  But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

13  waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.

14  For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Sanctification is tied to forgiveness of sins. All of which has been accomplished once for all and

for all time through Christ’s obedient act of righteousness, and the imputation of that righteousness  to the saints, i.e. the sanctified ones. It is not a progressively getting better and better.

When the saints sin ( and they do

sin)  all  of their sins past, present, and they ones they will commit tomorrow,  are forgiven.

Therefore the walk we walk is not one of “becoming perfect”. It is the walk of growing in grace, through faith, knowing that He has perfected all who are His, no matter what we do. The teaching that sanctification is progressive, and is accomplished through our “good works” lead the way into such false doctrines as sinless perfectionism, the idea that you can lose your salvation, and the extreme heresy of purgatory.

  

1John 1:

5  This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

8  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10  If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Eph 4:

1  I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

2  with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

3  eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Romans 8:

33  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

34  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

36  As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

37  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

38  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

39  nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord