Justification, Sanctification, & Glorification

Justification is what you become instantaneously when you accept Jesus Christ as your savior and repent for your sins.  (Bible:  Romans 10:9 (KJV) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.)  Justification is a God thing (you did nothing , God did it).  Sanctification is the process whereby you become more holy as a result of your faith in and devotion to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; the new Christian who truly loves Jesus, and therefore wants to follow his teachings, becomes sanctified as they become more holy, and less inclined to sin.  Glorification is the final stage of Christian soteriology and Christian eschatology.  It refers to the nature of believers after death and judgment, and it is the final step in the application of redemption.

Paul discusses the process of sanctification in the following:  Romans 7:17-25 (KJV)   Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?  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.