SANCTIFICATION 2: WHAT IS SANCTIFICATION?
Sanctification is becoming more like Jesus every day through the working of God in us and the working out of our salvation; it's through prayer for sanctification and watchfulness. Sanctification is a mutual working. Sanctification is a continuous working. Let's take them one by one:

Mutual Working
From Genesis to Revelation of the Bible, you will read God commanding His people to sanctify themselves; you will also read God doing the work of sanctification in the lives of His people. Sanctification is not something God does alone and it is not something you do by yourself. Just like salvation, God saves but you must accept His salvation by faith in repentance. After you are saved, you separate yourself totally unto God, and God continues the surgical work in you, sanctifying, purifying you. Every genuine child of God is a work in process in God's hand; you must separate yourself to God before He can continue the work of grace in you, because many Christians are abandoned works in God's kingdom. There are many un-separated Christians, thought they are saved but they still mingle with the pollution of this world; though they are saved, but they are not broken. After we are saved, we need to totally separate ourselves from the world and God continues to separate the sinful nature from us.

We sanctify ourselves - 1 Peter 3:15, "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." And God sanctifies us - John 17:17, "Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth." We sanctify ourselves by separating ourselves from sinful things, people, friendship, works, dress, talk, music, movies, magazines, activities, etc. When we fail separate ourselves, we will block God to do His own part in our lives, and then makes such a Christian an abandoned work in God’s kingdom. This process is a continuous one:

Continuous Working
Since sanctification is becoming more like Jesus every day, then it is a continuous process. We don't stop sanctifying ourselves and God is not tired sanctifying us. Some Bible preachers and churches believe that sanctification is an instantaneous and one time experience, but there is no such backing from the Bible. We are sanctified but we keep being sanctified. The reality is that sanctification deals with more of subtle and inward sins and we need to keep praying for sanctification and keep separating ourselves unto God. Sanctification does not totally happen at once, it is continuous. If sanctification is instantaneous and once, it means the tendency of sin is completely removed from you, and you will never have any thought to resist or reject within you, it means you will never make mistake at all again. But that is never true. Paul said, " But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection." 2 Corinthians 9:27, It means the temptation and tendency will still come, the tendency to get angry, to say something wrong, but you will subject the tendencies under the Spirit of God; you will resist the temptation. Apostle Paul also said in 2 Corinthians 10:5, "..and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" We daily pray unto God to sanctify our hearts and thoughts, and we also receive grace and strength to bring every thought into God's submission.

Most of those Churches who believe sanctification is once-done experience usually fall into hypocrisy and subtle sins; they may have problem with bitterness, backbiting and hypocrisy, because they are not being sanctified on a continuous base, and because they don't want to pray for sanctification every day or they don't want to be sanctified every day, and that leads to pretense. One of the biggest sources of hypocrisy in the church is to believe you are sanctified once and you don't need to be sanctified anymore. While salvation is an instantaneous experience, sanctification is a continuous experience, becoming more like Jesus every day.

Sanctification is not a once time experience, it is a continuous experience; it is not a 20 years ago experience, but a daily experience; it is not just an experience but a lifestyle. Years back, I believed sanctification was something a Christian experienced once, maybe 10 years or 20 years back, and we could go anywhere and testify, "I was sanctified 20 years ago." But when I realized that it has to be on daily basis, my Christian life changed, I have more expectation of sanctification from God every day and I have more responsibility to become more like Jesus every day; I got to know that it is not about 10 years back experience, but something I must live daily. There will be different between a Christian who claims to have been sanctified 10 years ago and another Christian who is being sanctified every day.

When you are being sanctified every day through prayer of sanctification and purification, and through your watchfulness and separating yourself from the world, you will be like Jesus and grow in Jesus every day. The life you lived yesterday doesn’t really matter, but the life you live today.

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yes it's a continuous process to which you must yield yourself on a daily basis as the Holy Spirit is a Gentle personality that won't force Himself on any one. Oh Lord sanctify ME with your truth , Your word us truth