Sanctification is the action of being made holy. As sinful humans, we aren’t holy, and we can’t sanctify ourselves. By ourselves, we are evil and unholy, but when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, and follow him, we can be sanctified. When we are saved, we are a made a child of God, and anyone who is a child of God is made holy. Why would God want anything to do with someone who is not holy? God is the most holy person who has ever existed. He wouldn’t want to associate with unholy people, but when we are made His children, we are brought close to Him, and then sanctified. If the ground that God steps on is made holy, then surely we, His children made in His own image, will be made holy when we accept Him into our heart. We may sin, and that is what dishonors God’s holiness. Even though Jesus is within those who trust in Him, people still can make mistakes that hurt their relationship with God. When we repent, we wash away mistakes, come closer to God, and honor the sanctification and salvation that he has given us.
Sanctification verses:
John 17:17 KJV: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
Acts 20:32 KJV: “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”
Romans 15:16 KJV: “That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.”
1 Corinthians 6:11 KJV: “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
1 Corinthians 7:14 KJV: “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.”
1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Hebrews 10:29 KJV: “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
1 Peter 1:2 KJV: “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.”
