The name of the conference is from Desiring God.org.

The name of the conference is Act the miracle, God's work and hours in the mystery of sanctification.

And I will address that particular phrase,

Act the miracle more on Sunday morning.

My task in this message is twofold. One, I want to spend the first

half talking about what sanctification is and the second half talking about where it fits in the whole process of

salvation from eternity to eternity.

So that's the order and let's start.

What is sanctification?

The English word sanctified, as you know, is built on the Latin sanctith, which means holy.

We don't have a way in English. which means holy.

We don't have a way in English to take the adjective holy and turn it into a verb. Holify does not exist in English. I wish it did, but it doesn't. But in the language

of the New Testament, they can. They take the word holy, hagios, and make it a verb, hagiadzo. And they take the adjective holy Hagios and make it into nouns.

Hagiosmas, Hagiosune, and Hagi Tase, sometimes referring to the condition of being holy and sometimes referring

to the process of becoming holy, which we would call if we had a word,

holification. But we don't have that word, and therefore we borrow from Latin and make it sanctification.

Now I don't expect you to remember any of that except this.

Whenever you are reading in the New Testament and you see the words or Old Testament for that matter

you see the words sanctified or sanctifying or sanctification, know you are reading about holiness. There are not two sets of

words like holy is one set and sanctity is another set.

In the Greek, there aren't two sets of words.

There's just one set of words and therefore, if you don't like the word holiness but you do like

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