Sanctification: Jesus and the Believer

Since I have already published extensively on sanctification,1
I
will only say that in this article when I speak of ‘sanctification’
in connection with Christ, I mean separation or consecration, but
when speaking of believers, I go on to include holiness.
Christ is the believer’s positional sanctification; the believer is
positionally sanctified because he is united to Christ. Take
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, which he addressed to ‘the
church of God that is in Corinth... those sanctified in Christ
Jesus’. The apostle went on to explain: