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I originally posted this on the Sanctification thread but deleted it as I felt this post took the original thread off topic and into a different subject.My question on the sanctification issue in relation to the American church of 2017 where we live is the lack of this doctrinal truth being taught and lived out among professing Christians. Whether one claims immediate and complete sanctification at the new birth or a progressive process are we hearing teaching and seeing professing Christians move in this direction?Psalm 119:9-11:How can a young man keep his way pure?By keeping it according to Your word.10 With all my heart I have sought You;Do not let me wander from Your commandments.11 Your word I have treasured in my heart,That I may not sin against You.Are people being taught and learning to seek God with their whole heart? Are we personally growing in the basic concept of hiding God's Word in our heart so that we may not sin against Him? I am glad to be living in a time when I don't have to wear a tie and jacket as a pastor. However, I believe sanctification will be more evident if we challenge ourselves and others to the truth that one needs to be aware of the time spent filling our hearts with media junk (TV, internet, sports, social media) as compared to time meditating in the Word of God. I spent a lot of time.on the road alone as a young single man in corporate America then as a missionary evangelist in the 80s-90s. At that time I would challenge pastors by saying, Nothing personal but neither you or anybody I ever heard preaches good enough to keep.me away from sin with three weekly messages. How do we expect young people to walk a sanctified life with the expectation being Sunday morning attendance? I am not preaching being in church 3 times weekly but instead referring to the necessity of teaching people to live in the Word of God as a way of life. Why would I expect somebody to say a sinner's prayer, join our church and resist sin when I had all I could handle with a lifestyle committed to a minimum of 1 or 1 1/2 hours in the Word every day before facing the world (and yes I was at church for the 3 weekly services).

what about sanctification immediate, instantaneous, entire, subsequent and chronological after the new birth? A born again person seeks for this crisis experience

Charles, could ya help us here?

Rom 5:21; I Cor 1:30; I Thess 4:3; Heb 13:12Extracted from the 2016 COG minutes -COG teaching

when you fill out your monthly report give the numbers saved and numbers sanctified and the number filled with the Holy Ghost

I find perhaps the strongest scripture among the many for the idea of entire sanctification being a definite experience to be sought for and expected in this life is the following:May the God of peace himself

I cannot recommend highly enough that we look to our roots as Pentecostals and seek to understand the doctrinal wellspring from which our own movement sprang; that is, the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. A study of what Mr. Wesley taught concerning initial sanctification by faith, entire sanctification by faith, and the Christian life in general will yield much fruit, and will, at the very least, greatly challenge the reader to pursue holiness, without which no one shall see God. Wesley's A Plain Account of Christian Perfection is freely available for online reading, and explains the doctrine and gives solid answers to its critics as well. Again, I cannot recommend its study highly enough. Would to God that the Church of God would re-dig the wells of Holiness Theology which have been stopped up by so many for too long. wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/a-plain-account-of-christian-perfection/

According to the Bible everyone saved is called (regenerated), justified and glorified. No mention of sanctification is suggested in this reference. Rom 8:30Sanctification is an act of free will of the born again cooperating with the will of God. Sanctification is a willful choice in following Christ in obedience

According to the Bible everyone saved is called (regenerated), justified and glorified. No mention of sanctification is suggested in this reference. Rom 8:30Sanctification is an act of free will of the born again cooperating with the will of God. Sanctification is a willful choice in following Christ in obedience

No mention of the baptism of the Holy Ghost either.