What does it mean to be sanctified? . . . https://www.gotquestions.org/sanctified.html
What is the definition of Christian sanctification? . . . https://www.gotquestions.org/sanctification.html
SANCTIFICATION . . . http://www.millpark.org/bible/doctrine-essential/sanctification.html
What is glorification? . . . https://www.gotquestions.org/glorification.html
What is righteousness? . . . https://www.gotquestions.org/righteousness.html
Pleasing God: Discovering the Meaning and Importance of Sanctification, R.C. Sproul . . . https://www.christianbook.com/pleasing-discovering-meaning-importance-sanctification-repackaged/r-c-sproul/9780781407281/pd/407281?event=AFF&p=1011693&
Sanctification - Antonyms | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus . . . What is the opposite of God's process of Sanctification? Satan's process of debasement, defilement, desecration, impiety, irreverence, profanation, sacrilege . . . http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanctification
What is Impiety? | Definition of Impiety by Merriam-Webster . . . lack of respect for God : the quality or state of being impious . . . the antonym of this is piety, or the state of being pious . . . http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impiety
Perverting | Definition of Perverting by Merriam-Webster . . . http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perverting
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Elementary Greek - Free Podcast by Concordia Seminary on iTunes . . . Free Greek Lessons, a course in Greek Grammar, check out the other courses . . . https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/elementary-greek/id426804037?mt=10
Greek Saves - Greek Verb Tense . . . http://www.millpark.org/bible/doctrine-essential/greek_saves.html
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (10 Volume Set): Gerhard Kittel, Gerhard Friedrich . . . [From the comments] . . . Kittle's Theological Dictionary of the New Testament accomplishes much of what I was seeking. It starts out with the meaning of the word, and its roots. How did Archaic Greeks use their form of the words and/or its forms, What documents exist to support this understanding? How did the Septuagint (225 BC) use the word? What contemporary documents use the word and how is it used? How was the word used in the New Testament? What meanings did it have in those contexts? Were there contemporary documents that use the word, and how was it used? By the time you read through the etymology of the word you are studying, you have a much greater appreciation for how historically - and culturally - loaded the Greek word was when it was used in the first century. This gives me a greater spiritual understanding of what is being communicated in the Gospels and Epistles . . . http://amzn.com/0802823246
The Complete Word Study New Testament (Word Study Series): Spiros Zodhiates . . . grammar guide - plastic coded paper, get the one with parallel greek, then put in katabiblon.com . . . https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Word-Study-New-Testament/dp/0899576516
Kata Biblon Lexicon of the Greek New Testament . . . to see the gender of a word . . . formal, or grammatical, greek gender . . . the gender of the nouns indicates something . . . it helps to deepen understanding . . . Feminine = diverse, broad, corporate, inclusive, intangible, dissonant, a member under authority, complete set, a “nourisher”, interdependent, unlimited . . . Masculine = focused, central, individual, exclusive, tangible, consonant, the authority, subset of a whole, a “seeder”, independent, limited . . . http://lexicon.katabiblon.com/
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sanctification
1 thes 5:23 verb is in the opative mood
sanctification is a state, a done deal
sanctified tense = perfect participle passive . . . it's a state brought about by the finished results of the action
there are two definitions
perfect tense - describes an action that took place in the past, the results of which continue to the present - there is no equivalent English, auxiliary verbs are used
participle - a verbal adjective
it's a final state, because it's brought about by an action that has already taken
if passive, I can't do it, or undo it
acts 26:18 ... 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
there is nothing more that can be done to put you in that state, you are preserved
we "are" sanctified - not "becoming" sanctified
other similar verbs - not a process . . . perfect participle passive . . . I do nothing, it's done unto me
saved
redeemed
justified
washed
one verse makes it sound like a process . . . [what was it] . . . why?
passive - I'm known by God . . . I didn't do anything
ro 7:25 . . . 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
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How do I know if I'm "born again?" Look up all occurrences of the word "quickeneth" in the KJV:
quicken . . . make alive
eth . . . plural, again and again and again . . . to multiple people, not physical life again and again
present active participle - continuously runs