Alex_Light,<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Would you describe your view of the process of sanctification rather than the finished work?<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>Nope. I don't have a view on the process of sanctification except that it's already completed.</font><hr></blockquote><p>Is there no spiritual conflict in your life? No battle within your heart between the old nature and the new? Paul tells us that the flesh wars against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, so that you do not do the things that you wish. (see Gal.3:17) Since you believe that sanctification is already completed you must not have any spriritual conflict in your life. That's rather strange because other Christians do.<br><br>This language in his letter to the Galations is the same language Paul uses in the seventh chapter of Romans. I am quite satisfied that it does not describe the experience of an unconverted man, or of a young and unestablished Christian; but of an old experienced saint in close communion with God. None but such a man could say, “I delight in the law of God after the inward man” (Rom 7:22). This is also proved by the experience of all the most eminent servants of Christ that have ever lived. Just read their journals, their autobiographies, and the testimony of their lives. Inward conflict is no proof that a man is not holy, and that they must not think they are not sanctified because they do not feel entirely free from inward struggle. Such freedom we shall doubtless have in heaven; but we shall never enjoy it completely as you suggest in this world. <br><br>Regeneration is a momentary act, bringing a person from spiritual death to life. It is exclusively God's work. Sanctification is an ongoing process dependent on God's continuing action in the believer, consisting of the believer's continuious struggle against sin.<br><br>The standard to which God's work of sanctifying His saints is directed is His own revealed moral law, expounded and modeled by Christ Himself. Christ's love, humility, and patience are a supreme standard for Christians (Rom. 13:10; Eph. 5:2; Phil. 2:5-11; I Pet. 2:21).<br><br>Wes<br><br><br>

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts