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Entire Sanctification
by Neisy Castillo
Doctrine 9:
We believe that continuance in a state of salvation depends
upon continual obedient faith in Christ.
Doctrine 10:
We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be
wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and
body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
I believed God has called us to be holy, I was raised in this
belief and it has always been in the back of my mind. But also
in the back of my mind was some disbelief and lack of faith. I
think faith mainly in the fact that I never really thought I
could be holy. I don’t think that I would ever think God could
not make me holy, because I know and believe in a God that is
holy and is able to do anything He wants.
Since the beginning, His plan for us as His creation was to be
holy and to have a relationship with Him. But since we’ve
always had free will, we’ve been trying to run away from that,
from the blessings that God has for us. It is that shame that
Adam felt after sinning that follows us, and we are ashamed
and we feel as if we have no right of asking anything,
especially to be righteous.
“God’s will for man is Christian holiness — a perfection not
of the intellect, personality, or service, but of a character,
motive, and love of God and man” (Entire Sanctification, Pg.
21). God wants and calls us to be holy, which for some people
it would translate to be perfect. Our entire lives have to
give that example of holiness that our lives would show the
love we have for God and man.
I think Biblical holiness is just this, it is the calling God
has made for us, since the beginning He has tried to make us
holy. This is the only way we can have a perfect relationship
with our Creator. First of all He did make us holy, since He
made us in His own image. Then we decided to sin against Him,
and the sin was not the act of eating the forbidden fruit, it
was the disobedience against God.
Biblical holiness is God showing us throughout time how much
He wants us to be holy. After trying to tell people how He
wanted us to act and to live, He decided to give us laws. And
after us still not following his laws, He sent His last
resource, His son. To die for us, to pay for what we could
never pay for, and the Bible is the one thing that has kept us
close enough to knowing what God wants from us. It is the
proof that God wants to make us holy, and wants the best for
us. It is the testimony of God’s love for us yesterday, today
and tomorrow. And how He shows us he will never change.
I think that if we are living a holy life then it would
influence not only our lives but the lives around us, and it
would make a revival in our families, churches, communities,
cities and if we are aiming to that goal, to be holy then we
will get the world, which is the ultimate goal God has had in
mind since the beginning.
I believe faith has a lot to do with our relationship with
God, we have to have faith that God is faithful and just and
He does what He promises us. He wants us to be holy He wants
His people to be happy; He doesn’t want any injustices in the
world. And we are part of His plan, if we have the faith in
Him, that He can make us holy then He can use us to reach
others and do something for the injustices that are happening
in the world. To make a change, make a difference. If we are
living holy lives, or trying to reach an extreme holiness,
then we will have the urge, the desire to do something.
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