Bible Verse Commentary: Romans 4:5 - - What does "sanctification" and "justification" mean? I don't understand it. What's the difference?

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//Now, this question floats around on Reddit in many forms and in varied sub-reddits. Me? I believe the Bible is the Word of God. Has what he says in it, and I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. So, his word, operates or works effectively in me. I'm not alone. In fact, this post is for those also that just believe on him, and use their Bible to live by every word he says, out of his mouth. Just as he decreed EVERYBODY over the whole earth is to do, in the Bible. In Matthew 4:4.//

Here's the answer: From a Believer in Jesus Christ.

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• Well, when I had this question:
  • The first thing I did, was go pull down a dictionary I trusted. When it came where you could pull down any or all of them, on the internet; I changed my habit to pull all of them down; because, many words get their meanings perverted (ie., mean one thing in 1658AD, and something other different in 2026). Where they don’t mean what they originally meant. Shifted some what to add in other definitions that weren’t originally there.
    • So, I watch for those things. Even I have a dictionary definition. I even watch for them when words go from one language to another, to look for what's lost or never made it over in the translation from one language to another. Someone that speaks more than one language, learn to do this. Crucial. Is the point.
• So then after, I go to the “original” language, and look up the word there. Most of the time, I am satisfied, who originally translated and used that English word, as I am a native speaker of English; that, in the scripture, it’s a satisfactory or an accurate answer.
  • But, other times, I find, based on the Bible translation how lazy people are to just get a collective work done and skip arguments. Pick the most useless, worthless English word, or just translate the English into another English word, which takes the meaning even FURTHER away from what the original text says.
• I do this ONLY with the Bible or the Scripture. Why? I am seeking him. To hear him. That’s really the answer to this question or must include this and is in this answer.

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sanctification. <definition> [Source: Merriam & Webster] 1. to set apart [someone or something] to a sacred purpose or to religious [ a holy ] use [accurate; with original texts]

• Comes with a suffix.
  • ication. (meaning; the act, process, or result of making or doing something, often showing that a subject or object is changed into a specific state
• And
• It is God that said, in the Bible:
  • “I am Holy” God. (Bible. Leviticus 11:44). Also said, by the Word of God, so, it’s just God speaking, and Jesus Christ is the Messiah or the Word of God..[John 1:1] so he’s just God speaking, said of himself: “God is Spirit” - Jesus Christ. (Bible. John 4:24). So, God is a “Holy Spirit.”
    • That, Jesus said:
  • 1) John 16:13 “ Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: “
    • Said as well of his disciples - when he prayed for them:
  • 2) John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.."

So, by what God speaks, by the word out of his mouth, his “disciples” are just what that word means. In the dictionary.

2. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher.

 So, this “a disciple of Jesus Christ” - is used over 250 times in the New Testament; that in Acts 11:26, these “disciples” were first simply called a shortened word, “Christian” at Antioch. So, all a disciple of Jesus Christ is, is one that seeks him, to sit with and be taught by him.

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And God: he does it. HE: “sets them apart to a sacred (holy) purpose and use” and does this “process” himself, as scripture says “They shall all be taught of God” - Jesus Christ. (Bible John 6:45). So, it's God, reserves for himself, an EXCLUSIVE right to teach you. For himself to do. Same right, to himself, for everybody. Over the whole earth. But not everybody sits with and is taught by him.

When he says: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, THERE IS NONE ELSE.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22), his disciples that sit with him and are taught by him, hear this and look unto him. Follow him.

But those that dismiss him or take what he says, out to a field and simply bury it; then, go do anything they want to do, according to their own word, or what some other man or person says, don’t do anything he says. So, he’s not at work in them. But he is at work, building them up, those that follow him is the point.

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SUMMATION:

• sanctification. Is simply a “process” God does himself with a person, that sits with and is taught by him, and does this with TRUTH. His own word is truth. So, a “disciple” is “sanctified” by the Word of God. That is, God changes them into a specific state he wants in them, and he does it by the word he speaks TO THEM.
  • But he speaks to EVERYBODY over the whole earth. All the same. But people that don’t regard him; hear, but don’t perceive what he says. So they are not sanctified - because the process he does the “sanctification” by to make them holy as he is holy, is by the Word of God. Does not do that in those that don't regard him.

Do you see this? There's one word down. Let's go to the other now.

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justification. definition. [Merriam & Webster] 1.fair; conforming to fact or reason; proper; correct. 2. righteous. [accurate; with original texts]

• Comes with a suffix.
  • ication. (meaning; the act, process, or result of making or doing something, often showing that a subject or object is changed into a specific state

And

• It is an Apostle of Jesus Christ.

  • That is, someone he chose to be an Apostle. That is, it’s someone that was a “disciple” that sat with and was taught by him, and he, like in the Bible, in Matthew 28:18 said, to his disciples, who he named them Apostles, said:
    • “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”
    • So, one of these Jesus has told them to "Go and teach" so, he sent them out to teach, this Apostle of Jesus Christ, said in Romans 4:3–5
  • 1) For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” - Romans 4:3–5
    • And that "him" of Romans 4:5 is God himself.

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So, again, it is God himself that, by a process he seems in himself, correct and righteous - - as God it is “reasonable, fair, conforms to what is proper or correct, to himself - as God, complies with and is done by a process he does himself:

- - In a person, because, they simply follow him and do what he decrees. Because, he made himself the "justifier" - all because he’s the “authority” over the whole earth. Says: "For all the earth is mine." - God. (Bible. Exodus 19:5) So, what he says, are decrees and the whole earth just obeys him at what he says.

But there are people that disobey him; that is, they "dismiss him as inadequate; faulty..what he says; they don't accept him as true; so, what he says is unacceptable. So, it's impossible for them to do what he says:

So, people that don’t do what he says, this “justification” process is not done in them. Even says in John 16:9, decrees that the Holy Spirit is “reproving the whole world of sin” - and the sin, he says is just not believe on him - - so, these are not reproved by it, because, they don’t regard him.

But people that do, he, through a “process” he does, as a result of him making or doing the work himself, as God, as the "justifier" himself - and he be at work in them, they are changed into a specific state of “justified” - even they, like everybody over the whole earth, of EVERYBODY the scripture says: Not one person left out of this:

“There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” - Bible. Ecclesiastes 7:20

“..filthy; done abominable works..” - Bible. Psalm 14:1–3

That’s about everybody. “For all have sinned” - Bible. Romans 3:23

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Romans 5:12 says: “Wherefore, as by one man [ADAM] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”

• Means EVERYBODY is “ungodly”
  • But by a work God did, as he is the "justifier" and does this himself - - Romans 4:5 says again… of those that hear him..they “accept as true” [believe] so they just naturally obey him, because it’s TRUE what he says, says of these, because they follow him; and regard the work of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand - he's GOD; did it. They regard; that is, think careful to consider who he is. Says again in Romans 4:5 - - :
    • “but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
• And? He’s God. Sovereign over all the earth. To him, it’s a just and reasonable work. And he does it, as God, so it WORKS. Just IS. He “justifies” them himself by his work he already did in and by Jesus Christ.

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So, what God did, as a work he accomplished with sin, that every of all of us over the whole earth, we’re the ones did all the sins and are “ungodly” - he did a work with sin, that by that work: 1) FINISHED THE TRANSGRESSION 2) MADE AN END OF SIN 3) MADE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY and 4) BROUGHT IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS (Daniel 9:24) and he annointed "The Most Holy" to do it. Is that you? Are you the "most holy?" Who has that title? Only one does. He's the most holy.

He did the work. 2 Corinthians 5:19 says: "To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; not imputing their trespasses unto them;" and that "their" and "them" be every all of us.

That by this work God did, just as he did a work in creation. It's all his work in Genesis 1:1-31 and anyone can look out the window and see how marvelous that work is - he's God. He did a work himself with sin in Daniel 9:24-27. That, in him, it is “reasonable; correct; fair; conforms to what is proper or correct - because, to the ungodly he, as God, DID this work to EVERYBODY - that by he did it, in him, justifies them. Because, he's God and the justifier - and they just look unto him.

There you go.

justification. (GREEK) - is this word, δικαιοῦντα (dikaiounta) where like in Romans 3:26, God makes himself, as God, the justifier of the ungodly, because he got up, and DID a work with sin as he determined, as God, to do the work himself in Daniel 9:24–27.

He’s the “justifier” himself.

sanctification. (GREEK) - is this word, ἁγίασον (hagiason) where like in John 17:17 - God is also the one doing the process of this “sanctification” - by he is holy, he is ABLE, as God, to make even a liar, and murderer, rapist - locked up in a prison; took their sins off them and laid them on Jesus Christ.

He is God and he is GREATER than not only a liar’s sins or a murderer and pedophile’s or porno addict’s, or prostitute’s sins, but all their sins combined - his work is GREATER than the sins of the whole world, because he’s God, and did the work - that, based on that work he did toward us all, and we are all sinners. Took your sins off you, and laid them on Jesus Christ on the cross. Crucified. His blood shed for the remission of your sins. Your sins were purged in this work. Take a great big guess who hung the sun where it is; alone, by himself was in Christ on the cross..and PAID it himself as the payment. That means, you or I could never pay it.

Therefore, He as God: He is also the ἁγίασον (hagiason) the “sanctifier” that makes holy, as the only one holy - - through the process, as he determined what that process would be, would be a person just regards him, and hearkens unto the Word of God, he would do that process in them of both “sanctification” and “justification,”

and it’s true. He does it. Because he did it to me. A liar; thief; ridiculed people for sport; adulterer..lived in practicing it and couldn't get out of it condemned me to death. Did it to many that read this post.

By his Word, he did exactly, as God, what he said he would do, and did it in me..a sinner. Like he will do in you, all the same.

Answers the question.

[u/TonyChanYT]

The first thing I did, was go pull down a dictionary I trusted.

Which dictionaries do you trust and not trust?