Sanctification Problem?

[Van]

Routinely, the Left-wing press dutifully report on some church or Pastor having some scandal involving sex or money.

Clearly born anew believers fail to live as they should, many times privately but sometimes publicly. One wing of Christianity advocates "Easy Believeism" which accepts lack of adherence to the commands of Christ. Main stream Christians say if you are born anew, your life will be radically changed, you will walk with Christ, not perfectly but usually. However, our own conscious condemns us with knowledge of our many failures to avoid sin.

So where does the truth reside? We do sin so grace can abound? Nope. But we do not adhere to Christ's commands as we should? Nope. Can we say, "The devil made me do it?" Or we did not know we were sinning? Or we lack the power to overrule our fleshly desires? I think not.

Deep down do we think we have it "made in the shade?"

Deep down do we lack full commitment to Christ?

 

[JonC]

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I believe that we, if saved, are being transformed into the image of Christ. We overcome a sin in our life, but God reveals another, and we die to that sin, and the process continues.

 

[Van]

Yes, Salvation has three facets, Positional Sanctification ( God transfers a lost individual into Christ), Progressive Sanctification (God guides us as we grow in Christian maturity) and Ultimate Sanctification (We are bodily redeemed, changed in the twinkling of an eye and meet Christ in the air.)

But scripture tells us of Christians who have stalled out, and are not progressing as they should, still needing spiritual milk and still unable to use spiritual solid food. These then are those with a "Sanctification Problem!"