The Holy Spirit and sanctification:
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Sanctification means to make holy, to purify from sin.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit does help to promote sanctification, but it is not sanctification itself.
The church at Corinth was overflowing with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but as Paul points out in 1 Corinthians, this was not a church that overflowed with sanctification!
Paul described them as worldly, because there were disputes, believers were taking other believers to court, there was jealousy, quarrelling, some had become arrogant, sexual immorality was going on, whilst others were getting drunk and stuffing themselves with food during the Lord's Supper!
This is an illustration that shows that the baptism of the Spirit and sanctification are two separate things.
Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones said that sanctification is a present tense filling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to the Lord.
"Instead be filled * with the Holy Spirit." Ephesians 5:18
* is continous tense, so it means: "keep being filled".
"Brothers choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom." Acts 6:3
"He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith..." Acts 11:24
It is our responsibility to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to be obedient to God's Word.
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