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Sanctification, on the other hand, is a process God wants and expects us to be intimately involved with, as His abiding Spirit in our born again spirit indicates which behaviors our SOUL (our mind will and emotions, so this covers our thought patterns not just the deeds of the body; the 'flesh' is the body and soul as a unit) which behaviors and thoughts thus the things that enter our soul via the eyegate must come under Holy Spirit inspired functioning, to save us from the power of sin and temptation.

In the instant we are Justified BY GOD -Who is the ONLY One Who can do it- GOD separates our soul and spirit, so that His Spirit can abide where there is no sin, in the new born sinless human spirit now in God's family because that spirit has God Life in it. Scripture tells us that the Word of God is able to separate soul and spirit, and the Gospel of God's Grace is the Promise / Word of God. Paul tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind; the mind is part of our soul, so with God's help we may be transformed iun behavior by the renewing of our mind to the behavior pattern of a person possessing the charater of God put into action by the renewing of our mind via His urging and instruction.

Sanctification is the process involved with our soul, not our spirit. Our spirit can ONLY be born again via what God does, never what we presume to do. So after we are born again, anything the soul does is apart from our spirit but can blur our image as a child of God, kind og like putting a votive candle in a large crystalline vase then allowing mud to be applied to the outside of the vase, effecting the illumination potential of the vase.

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There is no action or failurte of action during the sanctification phase that can change what Only God could do for us and is attested to by His abiding in our bron again into His family spirit. Just so also there is nothing we might do int he sanctification phase which can effect the third phase of our salvation, slavation which ONLY God can do. There is coming a day, according to His Promises in the word of God, a day when God will give ALL those in whom His Spirit has been abiding, give us a new body fit for existence physically in a greater coordinate system where Jesus is now, a coordinate reality that will allow us to see Him as He is now in His glorified body, because according to 1 Cor 14:51-59 God will have made us like Him in that greater coordinate syste reality where eternal physical living will match our alive forever more rebon spirit. This transformation will remove us physically from the 4D realm we now use because this coordinate system is about to be ruled by the man of sin without any restraint from the Restrainer of lawlessness, Whom I presume to be The Holy Spirit of God, the very One Who is now abiding in the born again spirits of the Body of Christ Believers. Thus by removing us from this coordinate system God saves us from the Presence of sin, the presence ruling the earth in lawlessness.

ONLY God can do the justifying and the glorifying, but He expects us to harken to His abiding spirit in the sanctification phase of salvation, in prder to overcome the power of sin and temptation.

There is no action physically or behaviorally) which can justify us before a Holy God because ALL our actions before being justified are sourced in our sin-trained inherited nature we got as Adam's descendants. To believe on the One God has provided fro our deliverance from our Adamic nature is an act of the will and the will is the locus of our soul and spirit connection, a connection which Only God can split apart by His Word, His Gospel, His justifying of believers.