JUSTIFICATION

SANCTIFICATION

There is life.

There is life more abundant

There is love.

There is perfect (complete) love which casteth out fear.

The “old man” is repressed.

The “old man” is destroyed/removed.

There is “peace with God.”

There is the “peace of God.”

Gives us a right to heaven.

Gives us the fitness for heaven.

We “put on the new man.”

We “put off the old man with his deeds.”

There is joy—intermittent joy.

These is fullness of joy—abiding joy.

Includes pardon, which is a judicial act.

Includes a cleansing, which is a priestly function.

Obtained by surrender, repentance and faith.

Obtained by obedience, consecration and faith.

Delivers from guilt and condemnation.

Delivers from unholy temperaments and abnormal appetites.

Gives adoption; making us children of God.

Give anointing, making us kings and priest unto God.

Separates us from the world, so we are not of the world.

Takes the world out of us; worldly desires and ambitions.

Illustrated by the rescue of the sinking man from the water.

Getting the water out of the lungs of the drowning man.

Conditioned on confession of sin. (1 John 1:9 )

Walking “in the light as He is in the light.” (1 John 1:7 )

Deals with sin as an act—sins committed.

Deals with sin as a principle—the sin nature we inherited.

The repentant sinner is born again.

The believer has a personal encounter with the Sanctifier.

Restores to us the favor of God which we had lost through our own disobedience.

Restores to us holiness or the moral likeness of God, which we had lost through Adam’s disobedience.

The impartation of a spiritual nature, bringing us into possession of eternal life.

Is the crucifixion and destruction of our persistent carnal nature, making us dead indeed to sin.

Destroys the “shoots” of sin.

Destroys the “roots” of sin.

Makes us free—free from outward sin and condemnation.

Makes free “indeed.” Gives the “deed” to our freedom with all the mortgages paid off. Freedom from fear, and doubt, and pride, etc.

We are united with Christ as the branch to the vine.

We receive the purging promised to the living, fruitful vine, that we may “bring forth more fruit.” (John 15:2)

The experience is a “well of water” (John 4:14). A well is for personal use.

There is a fullness of blessing so that out of our inward parts “shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 6:38–39. A river connate be confined to personal use, but will bless and bring fruit wherever it flows.

“The forensic, judicial or gracious act of God by which the sinner is declared righteous, or justly free from the obligation to penalty and fully restored to divine favor.” Standard Dictionary.

“To make holy; cleanse from sin. Specifically in theology, the gracious work of the Holy Spirit whereby the believer is freed from sin, and exalted to holiness of heart and life.” Standard Dictionary.