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There are three stages for a Christian. Justication, sanctication and

glorication. These are theological terms describing the believers
position, activity and changes we go through as believers in Jesus
Christ. We are justied by believing in Christ (in the gospel) but we are
still being sanctied we reach the third and last stage- which is
glorication, where we become transformed to be permanently sinless
and immortal. These are promises that accompany the new covenant
that begin and end our walk on earth. Rom 8:30 Moreover whom He
predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also
justied; and whom He justied, these He also gloried.

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Justication begins our sanctication. We are both Justied (a one time

event) and sanctication begins with our justication, it is a process
that conforms us to Christs likeness (moral likeness). Justication is a
legal declaration of a sinner being righteous, it does not make us
righteous. Someone who is a Christian for 10 years is no more justied
than when the rst became a believer. It is through the process of our
dying to self and being obedient to the word and the Spirit (Jn.17:19;
Rom. 15:16) we are daily changed, in Gods eyes we are completed and
accepted because of our faith in Jesus work on the cross.
Justication is a pronouncement to clear the guilty. When one is
justied, he is declared right before the Lord; he is pardoned and
cleared of any violation. there is therefore now no condemnation to
them that are in Christ Jesus (Rom.8)
Rom 3:24-25 being justied freely by His grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation
by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because
in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously
committed.
Rom 5:1: Therefore, having been justied by faith, we have peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ
Rom 5:9: Much more then, having now been justied by His blood, we
shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Our justication is by faith in the work of the Son of God on the cross,

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his shed blood and death for forgiveness of our sins.

Sanctication-is a continual process that conforms us into the image
of the Son of God (1 Cor. 6:11 it rst begins, with our justication
Romans 8:29). Col. 3:10: put on the new man who is renewed in
knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
1 Cor. 1:2: To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are
sanctied in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every
place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours
Heb. 10:10: we have been sanctied through the oering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all.
II Thess. 2:13: because God from the beginning chose you for
salvation through sanctication by the Spirit and belief in the truth.1
Peter 1:2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in
sanctication of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ
Glorication- The completion of our Christian life on earth, at the end
of the sanctication process and occurs when we get to Heaven, either
by means of death, rapture, or resurrection. We are in an eternal state,
permanently righteous in our nature. 1 Cor. 15:49: And as we have
borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly Man.

Phil. 3:21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed
to His glorious body
Phil. 1:6 being condent of this very thing, that He who has begun a
good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
The completion is to be gloried, which is the end result of our
salvation- it is future glory of the believer.
We still have to be united with our body to be gloried.
Rom 8:17-19 and if children, then heirs-- heirs of God and joint heirs
with Christ, if indeed we suer with Him, that we may also be gloried
together. For I consider that the suerings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For
the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing
of the sons of God.
A person is saved and justied, forgiven, sanctied and puried and
regenerated, sealed with and indwelt by the Holy Spirit the moment he
believes on Christ. Jesus Himself said, He that believeth on Me HAS
everlasting life (John 6:47). When a person confesses that Jesus is
Lord (YHWH) and believes in his heart that God hath raised Him from
the dead, that person is SAVED (Romans 10:9).
Justication is connected to Gods grace that comes through the
gospel by an unconditional covenant. In contrast, the law is connected
to man's works, which is a conditional covenant. The law said what I
must do to be righteous. The problem is that no one can keep the law
perfectly (which is the law's requirement); therefore whether one does
not try to keep it or does try to keep it, they are both guilty because
they both fall short. Rom. 3:19-20: Now we know that whatever the

law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may
be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore
by the deeds of the law no esh will be justied in His sight, for by the
law is the knowledge of sin.
If we still need anything from the law to complete salvation, then Christ
is not the Savior: His work is not sucient. Paul writes in Galatians
2:21b: for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in
vain. Gal. 3:19-25 states that the law points out our guilt and was a
teacher to bring us to the Savior: once faith came we are no longer
under the law; faith replaces it. All the commandments are kept by the
power of the Spirit, and it is by our faith that the law is established.
As far as the relationship to the law, there is none. Justication is by
faith alone. Gal 2:16"knowing that a man is not justied by the works of
the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ
Jesus, that we might be justied by faith in Christ and not by the works
of the law; for by the works of the law no esh shall be justied.
Paul makes it clear how he received cleansing Acts 26:18: that they
may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are
sanctied by faith that is in me. He makes it clear it is not from
keeping any law or commands but through faith in Jesus Christ. And
faith is not a one time event but a continual action of believing.
The law had a purpose:
Gal 3:24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we
might be justied by faith.
Acts 13:38-39: "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that
through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; "and by
Him everyone who believes is justied from all things from which you
could not be justied by the law of Moses.
Acts 13:39 "and by Him everyone who believes is justied from all
things from which you could not be justied by the law of Moses. Rom.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justied by faith apart from
the deeds of the law.
Cults will either combine sanctication with justication or say that we
have neither now, that both are future tense, like glorication. The Bible
does not teach us to work for our salvation but do works because you
have received salvation. Confusing sanctication with justication
aects how one lives one's Christian life. When sanctication and
justication are confused, it keeps someone from building on the sure
foundation correctly. Christ is the sure foundation and there is no other,
we must build on His nished work, or else our works are not found in
Christ. If one combines the sanctication process of being conformed
to Christ with the once-for-all declaration of justication, it means that
one always has to show works to prove that God approves of him.
Eventually the standard gets tougher, and one is forced to do more.
There is no rest in Christ when these are combined.

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