Sanctification by Grace

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In this book Ryan shows that sanctification is both an event and a process. That it has already happened to you, and is busy happening to you. He shows us that the starting point of sanctification is to first understand the event, and that if you don’t, then sanctification will always tend to move towards legalism. The event of sanctification says that our heavenly position in Christ is perfect in every way. The process of sanctification says that our current earthly condition is being transformed to look more and more like our heavenly position. The way this happens is not through external restraint, laws, disciplines, behavior modification or manipulation, but through simply being established in grace.

The concept of sanctification by grace is that the grace that saves us is the same grace that sanctifies us. That the supernatural transformation in the spirit of a person, at the point of salvation, is more powerful than any external law or discipline you could apply to a Christian to get them to be holy or live for God. Grace awakens the nature of God in the believer. Grace removes every barrier to God and empowers us to live close to Him. And it’s through that life of encounter we are continually transformed, here on earth, into who we truly are in the heavenly realms, in Christ.