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SEVEN KEY ELEMENTS OF SANCTIFICATION Part 2 2 Corinthians 12:20-21. SANCTIFICATION The act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God .
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SEVEN KEY ELEMENTS OF SANCTIFICATION Part 22 Corinthians 12:20-21
SANCTIFICATIONThe act of making holy. In an evangelical sense, the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a supreme love to God.
John 17:17-19 (NKJV) 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Envyings: Zelos – can have a connotation of godly zeal, but here is used in a negative way. Basically it is jealousy, self-centeredness that causes people to be suspicious of others as potential rivals.
Selfish ambitions: ambitious rivalries, factious attitudes, divisiveness, and partisanship.
Fornication: where we get our English word pornography – refers to a sexual act outside of marriage.
Acts 26:19-20 (NKJV) 19 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.
Proverbs 28:13 (NKJV) 13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.