04-Use 2: Progressive Sanctification

Having looked at the major role which Christ‟s resurrection and
kingship played in the way the first believers confronted the
surrounding cultures by their rejection of, and separation from,
paganism, and in their preaching of the gospel, I now turn to the
part played by the resurrection and the kingdom in the
progressive sanctification1 of the first believers; as for the
resurrection, I mean, of course, that of Christ himself, and of his
people spiritually in him now and physically at his return.
So, how did the resurrection and the kingdom affect the early
believer‟s progressive sanctification?