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I know when I was sanctified!

Friendly Face Posts: 213 **8/8/12 11:00 pm**

Not wanting to steal a tread, one poster said that he had never heard of anyone who said when they were sanctified. I was sanctified on the last Sunday night of July, 1966. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit on December 17, 1966. So, they may not have heard someone say when they were sanctified but they can say that they read when someone was sanctified.
Thanks for allowing me to testify to the grace that makes holy for it is all of grace and not of works.

Re: I know when I was sanctified!

Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **8/9/12 12:29 am**

So do I Otium .. thanks for the testimony

Acts-dicted Posts: 7766 **8/9/12 7:02 am**

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **8/9/12 7:08 am**

What is the initial evidence of sanctification?

Acts-dicted Posts: 7766 **8/9/12 7:25 am**

Golf Cart Mafia Capo Posts: 2857 **8/9/12 7:26 am**

I think Rafael just gave the best description of santification that I have heard. That is the way I was taught that it happens. I believe that night he truly set himself apart to be totally dedicated to God for His purpose. Salvation takes away the sin but I believe that santification is a separate 'work of grace' as we used to call it.

Someone said that salvation cuts down the tree of sin but santification digs up the roots. It certainly does not mean that one will never sin or miss the mark that God sets but it means that one has set himself apart from sin and therefore God has all set him apart for service.

I understand that many people believe that it is a gradual process and that no one really knows when it happens. Maybe that is true for some people but I believe that many people can 'remember the time and can take you to the place' as the old song used to say. I realize that song was about salvation but I think it applies here also.

Biblical evidences of Sanctification

Friendly Face Posts: 213 **8/9/12 7:53 am**

John 17 gives two of the biblical evidences First, joy (v. 13) and unity (v. 21). That night I was prayed for and the power of God filled me with such joy as was truly indescribable. That is the reason for my pen name Otium sanctum is latin for holy joy. In this moment I lifted my hands and could not take them down for over an hour though I tried. There was a fountain of joy turned loose in my soul. As the old Wesleyan spoke of it I was baptized in love for everyone. I was one with the Father, Son and the Spirit and every brother and sister in Christ.
I Thessalonians 4:3 teaches that sanctification brings about a fleeing from sin - sexual immorality.
No, I cannot say that I have never sinned but I can say that sin always grieves my heart and sanctification causes a repentant attitude to rise and me to return to my first love.

Golf Cart Mafia Associate Posts: 2118 **8/9/12 7:59 am**

What a wonderful testimony from these two brothers.... so good to know some still preach and believe in Sanctification... and can testify of that time within their lives. Praise the Lord!
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Acts Mod Posts: 3346 **8/9/12 8:05 am**

I also know when I was sanctified!

Yesterday, the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before. You get the point.

I attempt to live a sanctified life. Well most of the time I do.

Scripture teaches me to "die daily". I will confess there are days I do not die.
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Acts Mod Posts: 3346 **8/9/12 8:08 am**

This thread has given me an idea.

When I fill out my ministers report and the question comes up, How many were sanctified, I will use my church's total attendance and a few more that I minister to that do not attend.
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Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 7307 **8/9/12 8:09 am**

Is your definition of Sanctification necessary before one can receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit?

What is your response to those who testify to being baptized in the Holy Spirit without the definite Sanctification experience?

How do you explain those who "get it all in one sitting"?

Is there an example of someone praying for this experience in the New Testament?

These are common questions I have heard over the years. Very Happy

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Acts Mod Posts: 3346 **8/9/12 8:28 am**

I am about to go to the hood and crawl under a house and work on some plumbing.

Lord help me to stay Sanctified.

Yesterday was our 43rd wedding anniversary. She has put up with me a long time, Lord help her to stay Sanctified.
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Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1323 **8/9/12 8:38 am**

I don't know the exact date, but I definitely know the night that I got sanctified.
I can take you to the place. It was a 5 week revival (yes, we use to have those) at the Campbellton Church of God in North Carolina, the evangelist was Billy Blackmon, and the Pastor was HB Turlington.

You've go to miss the days in the COG when the phrase: Saved, Sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost were all one sentence in a testimony.

Thanks
Patrick

Re: So do I Otium .. thanks for the testimony

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1323 **8/9/12 8:40 am**

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[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 14803 **8/9/12 12:13 pm**

Positionally Sanctified Yes, But...

Acts-celerater Posts: 875 **8/9/12 12:26 pm**

I was positionally sanctified when I got saved, but sanctification did not end there - it just got started! Sanctification is a progressive work of grace. Progressive sanctification is the process in a Christian's life in which he or she is made progressively more holy. The word "sanctify" means to "set apart, make holy." Sanctification has three aspects: (1) Positional sanctification, (2) Progressive sanctification, and (3) Ultimate sanctification.

Positional sanctification is the fact that God declares a Christian to be absolutely holy the moment he or she believes in Jesus Christ. When God looks at a Christian, He sees the righteousness and holiness of Christ. Ultimate sanctification is what occurs at death, when a Christian is absolutely and permanently free from the very presence of sin and is perfected in God's sight. 1 John 3:2 describes ultimate sanctification, "Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." So, progressive sanctification is the process of taking what we are positionally, and what we will be ultimately - and progressively making it reality in our Christian life.

In 1 Corinthians 1:2, the Apostle Paul describes the relationship between positional sanctification and progressive sanctification, "To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy…" Christians are both "sanctified in Christ Jesus" and "called to be holy." The Greek words for "sanctified" and "holy" are from the same root word. A Christian is holy and called to be holy at the same time.

The process of progressive sanctification is described in Galatians 5:19-23. Progressive sanctification is the journey of producing less and less of the acts of the sinful nature (Galatians 5:19-21) and more and more of the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Progressive sanctification is a process empowered by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18) and enabled through prayer and the study of God's Word. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 tells us, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

The Bible declares, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come" (2 Corinthians 5:17)! Progressive sanctification is the calling of every Christian. We are all called to become more and more like Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:15-16 reminds us, "But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." It should be our goal each and every day to become more set apart for God and His purposes.

Golf Cart Mafia Underboss Posts: 3944 **8/9/12 2:10 pm**

I would like to thank the original poster in this thread for not initiating this examination of sanctification in the other thread.

For him, and the other couple or three that do recall a specific event they identify as a 2nd instantaneous work, I would like to ask if that was a one time thing. My own testimony is that I have been saved once. I have received the baptism once. Were you folks sanctified once?

Sanctification evidently leaks out

Acts-celerate Owner Posts: 6957 **8/9/12 5:13 pm**

I know when I prayed to be sanctified as is taught in the COG those years ago and surely I must have been because shortly thereafter I received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

HOWEVER, it seems that both Sanctification and the Holy Ghost either leak out or have a brief shelf life in the believer. If not, why have so many dropped out on God and they were once "on fire" for God.

Back to Sanctification: While I remember "when" I prayed to be "sanctified," and my heart before God was as pure in motive as anytime ever in my life, if I was instantly Sanctified, why all the struggle with living out a sanctified life?

Not long after praying to be sanctified and receiving the Baptism of the Holy Ghost when I was 18, I was in the altar one night doing everything I could to keep my mind on Jesus instead of a couple of girls who were there. I was afraid lightening would would strike me dead but try and cry as I did, I've never gotten over girls - married a great one.

During a class in Bible School, when we were reading about the Ethiopian Eunuch, one of the girls asked the teacher "Brother Preston, what is a Eunuch?" To which teacher Dan Preston whispered under his breath but I was close enough to hear it, "That's when a man is truly sanctified."

No attempt here to be disrespectful to the topic of Sanctification but prior to the Bible lesson that day, several students had been having a debate over Sanctification and had opened the class about it. The Bible School's denomination taught that Sanctification was the "Second definite work of grace."

I'm OK with the word "definite" and have completely thrown myself upon the grace of God in hopes of a future with Him, but after these many years, it seems that much of the "work" part of that has been delegated by God to us.

I suppose it's similar to that Scripture "Work out your own salvation." For those of us who believe in the importance of a sanctified life, we also now realize that even though we may remember a definite time when we prayed to be sanctified, it's a lifetime of spiritual work.

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Re: So do I Otium .. thanks for the testimony

Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **8/9/12 5:39 pm**