Sanctification

We believe that sanctification is a divine work of grace; that it is not a state of sinless perfection attained through a “second blessing” or through a special “baptism of the Holy Ghost”; that it is an act of grace by which the believer is separated unto God and dedicated unto His righteous purpose; that by it we enter into divinely appointed privileges and thus become larger partakers of His holiness; that it is a progressive work, begun in regeneration, and carried on in the life of every believer by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God; and that it is nurtured only by heaven’s appointed means, especially by the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, and the saved through his self-examination, obedience, self-denial, watchfulness, and prayer.

I Thessalonians 4:3, I Thessalonians 5:23, Romans 15:16, Jeremiah 1:5, Proverbs 4:18, John 17:17, II Corinthians 3:18, I John 2:29, Romans 8:5, I Timothy 4:5, Luke 9:23, Matthew 24:42, Matthew 7:7-11