The Biblical Doctrine of Salvation: Sanctification.

Notes from Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible, by Myer Pearlman.

Understanding the Biblical teaching about Sanctification.

The key to understanding the New Testament doctrine of the Atonement is found in the OT Sacrifices. Similarly, we can only understand the Word “Sanctification” by studying the OT usage of the word, “HOLY”.

Note that sanctification; holiness and consecration, are all synonymous terms; so are “sanctified” and “holy”; to sanctify is the same as to make holy or to consecrate.

Important verses.

The tabernacle in the Wilderness was HOLY as was the altar and all the furnishings of the tabernacle.

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Exo 40:9  And you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle, and all in it, and shall sanctify it and all the vessels of it. And it shall be holy.

Exo 40:10  And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar. And it shall be a most holy altar.

Exo 40:11  And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.

No mercy for those who despised the Blood of the Covenant

Heb 10:28  He who despised Moses' Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.

Heb 10:29  Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Heb 10:30  For we know Him who has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord." And again, "The Lord shall judge His people."

Heb 10:31  It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Sanctified by the Word of Truth

John_17:17  Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

Joh_17:19  And I sanctify Myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth.

Eph_5:26  that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

Complete or entire sanctification

1Th_5:23  And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus suffered so that we might be sanctified.

Heb_13:12  Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

The word ‘holy’ contains these ideas: a) Separation from; b)Dedication to; and c) Purification or cleanliness and d) Consecration

1. a).Separation from. “holy” is a word which describes the principle characteristic of the Divine Nature. Its root meaning is “separation”; therefore holiness represents that in God which makes Him separate from all that is earthly and human- namely, His absolute Moral Purity and perfection and Divine majesty.

When the Holy One wills to use a person or object for His service, He separates Him or it from common use, and by virtue of this separation the person or object becomes “holy”.

1. b). Dedication to. Sanctification includes both a separation from and a dedication to; itis “the condition of all true believers as they are separated from their sin and worldly living, and are made partakers of the Divine nature. They are consecrated to the fellowship and service of God through their Mediator.
   

To be continued.