Sanctification and How To Pursue It

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy”. 1 Peter 1:14-16

“Christians cannot afford to be confused about the doctrine of sanctification.  That is because it is where we all live.  All believers in Christ live in between the time of our past justification and our future glorification—in the present pursuit of Christlikeness.  If we desire to please the Lord in all respects, we need to be clear on how we go about growing in holiness.”

So writes pastor Michael Riccardi, author of Sanctification: The Christian Pursuit of God-Given Holiness.

God is described as “holy, holy, and holy” and believers are called to “be holy,” but what does that mean and how do we pursue sanctification?

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Additional reading

1. Not making yourselves abominable
2. Looking for a spiritual new life
3. How do I know what God’s will is
4. Hope by faith and free gift
5. When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
6. Glory of God appearing in our character
7. Be holy
8. Honesty beginning of holiness
9. Holiness and expression of worship coming from inside
10. Heroes and saints
11. To turn the world into a “vessel” receptive of God
12. Myth 12: The Hyper-Grace Gospel Makes People Lazy
13. What Is Sanctification?
14. The Field is the World #2 Church Union #2 Bible quotes
15. A year coming to its end and our Spiritual Senses
16. The longer you wait
17. Old age
18. Thought for those who think it is not necessary to do any works any more

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Further reading

1. Sanctification wrap up
2. Appealing to Maximus the Confessor to Differentiate Evangelical Calvinism from Federal Theology: And Riposting at Michael Allen’s New Book Sanctification
3. How Does Sanctification Work? (Book Review)
4. Right vs. Possession: A Last Bit of Shelter For John Piper?
5. What Wesley Thought of Luther
6. The Brilliance of Walter Marshall
7. Introduction to Bible Study Fellowship’s Study of Romans
8. Threefold Sanctification
9. Marshall, The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification, Direction I
10. Sanctification: Clark, Robbins, and Piper
11. The Just Shall Live by Faith
12. The world does not know genuine Christians because it does not know God
13. Disappointment with Other Christians
14. Argument Against the Trinity? It should have been completely taught from the beginning of the Bible