CHAPTER THREE

DISPOSITIONAL SANCTIFICATION AND RENEWING

Scripture Reading: Rom. 15:16; 8:2; 6:19, 22; Eph. 1:4; Rev. 21:2, 10; 22:19; Rom. 12:2a

OUTLINE

1. In the dispositional sanctification in the divine nature and in the Spirit’s renewing of the believers’ mind.
2. Dispositional sanctification:
   1. Dispositional sanctification being for the believers to be sanctified in their disposition that they may partake of the holy nature of God and be one with Him in this attribute of His-Rom. 15:16.
      1. Through the sanctifying work in the believers by the Spirit of life-Rom. 8:2.
      2. With the element of the life of God as the material.
   2. This aspect of sanctification implying transformation-Rom. 6:19, 22.
   3. This being the fulfillment of God’s purpose in choosing the believers-Eph. 1:4.
   4. Both the positional sanctification in the judicial aspect and the dispositional sanctification in the organic aspect of God’s salvation being ultimately manifested in the New Jerusalem for it to become the holy city-Rev. 21:2, 10; 22:19.
3. Renewing:
   1. The believers are spontaneously renewed in their spiritual life when they are sanctified dispositionally by the Holy Spirit.
   2. Requiring the believers not to be fashioned according to this age, but to be transformed by the renewing of their mind-Rom. 12:2a.
   3. To be renewed in the mind is to get rid of all the old concepts concerning the things of the human life and be made new again by the teaching of the holy Scriptures and the enlightening of the Holy Spirit.
   4. Such a renewing of the mind issuing in the transformation of the believers in their spiritual life.