God the Holy Spirit, Mentor's Guide, MG14

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prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing” (1 Cor. 13.1-2).

These questions are designed to highlight the main points associated with the first video segment. Remember the good advice given before, and concentrate on the ways the various questions help us understand the ministry of the Holy Spirit in both gifting the Church for mission and in filling it (and each believer) with the presence of God.

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Definitions of Sanctification:

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A holiness [brought about] in us by a gracious work of God.

~ John Miley. Systematic Theology , Vol. II.

Through sanctifying grace the moral disposition is being gradually transformed so that one spontaneously loves good and resists evil.

~ Thomas C. Oden. Life in the Spirit .

Sanctification is the process by which the regenerate gradually attain to moral and spiritual perfection through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in their hearts. It continues throughout the earthly life, and is accomplished by the use of all ordinary means of grace, and particularly by the Word of God.

~ Southern Baptist Convention, 1925. Creeds of the Church. John Leith, ed.

We can speak about Christlikeness as both an inward and an outward reality in the life of the Christian. Outwardly Christlikeness is seen in following Christ by adhering to his teaching and example. Inwardly, Christlikeness is seen in the fact that our inner attitudes and values conform to his own. [ These are not two separate ways of following Christ but are rather two sides of the same coin. No person can claim to have the attitudes of Christ who does not adhere to his teachings and example (John 14.23; Luke 9.23-24). Likewise, the person who outwardly conforms to the teaching but is not

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