The Five Views Of Sanctification: The Wesleyan View

The five views of sanctification: The Wesleyan View is derived from love. To truly love God is to desire Him, and want Him in your life. Westley said “to renew men’s and women’s hearts in (God’s) image.” This view of sanctification for Wesley begins at conversion, and that God is calling all to Him. He believes that after we are sanctified that we can choose not to sin, but since we live in a world of sin that we are influenced by those around us. There is a second sanctification that occurs in this view that is called entire sanctification, which enables the convert to have the mind of Christ, and fulfill the great commandment, and live a life completely to God. Wesley taught that the sermon on the mount is fulfilling the ten commandments
This occurs when God Himself sanctity’s us and makes us more Christ like, by growing in the word, and finally having the mind set of Christ. This view has a progressive pattern that involves the Trinity and the convert. God the Father elected the convert or predestined him/her, and God puts trial in our lives, like we discipline our children for correction, God the Father discipline’s His children. Christ the Son washes us with water through the word, and has sent us the Holy Spirit. God saved us by sending the Holy Spirit, Titus 5:3 shows the task of the Holy Spirit, that “through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” All three have a part in the sanctification of the convert, but the convert must also play a part by resisting the temptations of sin, to love God and give ourselves to Him fully. There is also two view point to the Reformed: definitive sanctification and progressive sanctification. Definitive is expressed in Romans 6 that “we died to sin” and are free from “the realm in which sin reigns.” In the progressive sanctification, the sin will continue to be in the life of the convert, and Paul tells us that this will be dealt with over time (Rom.
There are two main groups: the Holiness Pentecostals and the Assemblies of God. The Holiness Pentecostals believe that there must first be a crisis experience of entire sanctification, and the Assemblies of God believed that one must put their faith in Christ’s forgiveness to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. These differences came about with a disagreement of the nature of the trinity. Just like the Reformed view there are two different types of sanctification Instantaneous and progressive. Instantaneous is like the Reformed idea of definitive sanctification. The convert is set apart, that it is set on Christ work on the cross and happens at the moment of conversion. Progressive sanctification is also like the Reformed in that over time we grow from infants to adult