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denote an age, but it denotes an act of dispens ing. The New Testament revelation needs to be come very subjective to us. I do not believe that a person who lives outside the presence of the Lord will suddenly be raptured into His presence. Being brought into the Lord's presence involves a process of sanctification, transformation, con formation, and glorification.
SUBJECTIVE SANCTIFICATION
No believer in Christ is ever sanctified acci dentally. I realize that, in a sense, we were all sanctified when we were saved. But we still need to pass through the process of sanctification in order to be sanctified dispositionally. In the Bible the words sanctification, holy, and holiness refer to separation. Hence, to be sanctified is to be separated, to be made different from that which is common.
When a carnation plant is a tender sprout, it may not appear to be very different from other kinds of sprouts. But the more the carnation plant grows, the more it becomes separated, different, from other plants. When it blossoms, it is wholly separated, absolutely different, from all other flowers. This is an illustration of subjective sanc tification, of dispositional sanctification.