“It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality”
The principles as per which all should walk and act are the edicts given by the Christ. Sanctification is the restoration of souls under the guidance and blessing of the Holy Spirit that constitutes the process of attaining holiness in the light of the will of God. In yearning after this revival of the spirit into holiness, strict limitation must be put upon the longings and sexual inclinations of the body, and on the considerations and desires of the mind, which prompt wrong conduct. The Lord calls none into his family to live unholy lives, yet that they may be taught and empowered to stroll before him in holiness. The statutes of Sanctification are God's commandments and to break them is to earn the detest of God. The text explicitly says that ye ought to abstain from fornication as restraining from it is the essence of holiness; especially, on the grounds that this wrongdoing was basic among the Gentiles, and not regarded a transgression by them. In addition, the scripture states this rule to make Christians see that when even the straightforward sex is not to be permitted, what chances are there for the demonstrations of uncleanness, infidelity, homosexuality, incest and so forth, sins which were common among the Barbarians.
The teaching of Sanctification is still valid for Christian people today as the notion of Sanctification is not time dependent rather it is linked with purification of soul that is independent of time and age. In today’s Church, the conception of Sanctification is taught in a bit ambiguous way. The major reason for this ambiguity is the different notions regarding the doctrine prevalent in the modern Christian world. Some of the common variants of Sanctification doctrines are; The Wesleyan View, The Reformed View, The Pentecostal View, The Keswick View, The Augustinian-Dispensational View. The concept of Entire Sanctification should be considered as a way to enhance spirituality and must not be considered as the free license to sin afterwards. Entire Sanctification does not provide a complete impunity from sin rather it trains a believer to control the inclination of his desires and in this way it should be addressed as a more practical doctrine rather than just an ambiguous conception.
Works Cited
The Holy Bible: New International Version. (1993). HarperTorch.
