What is sanctification?
La santificación es el proceso continuo por el cual Dios hace a los creyentes más santos y más semejantes a Jesús. Comienza en la salvación y continúa toda la vida cristiana por la obra del Espíritu.
Respuesta rápida traducida con ayuda de IA y en revisión. La explicación completa se muestra en inglés.
To sanctify means to set apart as holy. When a person trusts Christ, they are set apart for God; from then on, God works to transform their character to match their new identity.
This growth is the Holy Spirit’s work, but believers participate by obedience, prayer, and feeding on God’s word. Paul prays, ‘May God himself… sanctify you through and through’ (1 Thessalonians 5:23), and says we are ‘transformed into his image’ (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Sanctification is gradual and lifelong, often through both joys and trials. It will be completed when we see Christ, but for now it is the steady, Spirit-empowered journey of becoming who we already are in him.