Can you be sanctified at a late age?

[stanshall]

Hello and greetings to all
Here is a question that’s kind of a gray zone for me. I am 65 years old and only recently repented of certain sins. Over two weeks ago, I was in a real dark, ugly frame of mind and something inside of me caused me to stop. Someone gave me a message from the Holy Ghost that I had hardened my heart against God. I am not born again.
I know that probably nobody has the real answer to this, but at this last stage of my life is it too late to be saved? I hear that you have to be sanctified and
It takes a lifetime for this. Can someone my age who is willingly sinned while under the influence of drugs be sanctified? I fear God very very much and I know I’ve sinned against him most of my life. I’ve never felt his love and peace in my heart and my soul before so I’m wondering is it too late?

 

[Gerbolski]

It is never too late, to be born again, you have to completely surrender your life to him, it is coming to him in full repentance, in fully giving your life to him, and to confess that he died for us on the cross, and rose from the dead.

Through what he did at the cross, and ressurection, we have spiritual life.

And sanctification happens right away, a change happens right away, sanctification sets you apart to the Lord, but also, yes it is continuous, or life long.

You have to go from faith to faith, which shows that you have to grow.

Can there be struggles, yes, but do you have to stay in your struggle, no.

I will pray for you, love ya.

And I pray that a mature Christian can cross your path.

 

[B-A-C]

Mat 20:1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Mat 20:2 "When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Mat 20:3 "And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;
Mat 20:4 and to those he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went.
Mat 20:5 "Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.
Mat 20:6 "And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?'
Mat 20:7 "They *said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He *said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'
Mat 20:8 "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.'
Mat 20:9 "When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.
Mat 20:10 "When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
Mat 20:11 "When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,
Mat 20:12 saying, 'These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.'
Mat 20:13 "But he answered and said to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
Mat 20:14 'Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.
Mat 20:15 'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?'
Mat 20:16 "So the last shall be first, and the first last."

This parable is about entering the kingdom of God at different ages in life. Some get saved when they are young.
Others get saved when they are older... but everyone is equally saved.

 

[stanshall]

It is never too late, to be born again, you have to completely surrender your life to him, it is coming to him in full repentance, in fully giving your life to him, and to confess that he died for us on the cross, and rose from the dead.

Through what he did at the cross, and ressurection, we have spiritual life.

And sanctification happens right away, a change happens right away, sanctification sets you apart to the Lord, but also, yes it is continuous, or life long.

You have to go from faith to faith, which shows that you have to grow.

Can there be struggles, yes, but do you have to stay in your struggle, no.

I will pray for you, love ya.

And I pray that a mature Christian can cross your path.

Thank you so much for giving me hope!

 

[Gerbolski]

1Co 6:11
(11) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

1Th 4:3-4
(3) For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
(4) That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Rom 12:2
(2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

When we get saved, it is a done deal, we are born again, we are as saved as we gonna be, or as B-A-C said equally saved, and we are sanctified, and justified and washed.

And when we get saved, he gives us a new heart and spirit, but now we must learn how to walk this walk, and in that sense sanctification is a progress, we must continuously renew our minds with God's word.

So sanctification is both a done deal, yet also a process.

It says to go from faith to faith, and to continue in the faith, and the word salvation is worth studying.

 

[Gerbolski]

Eph 5:25-26
(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
(26) That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

1Th 5:23
(23) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1Pe 3:15
(15) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

 

[Curtis]

Sanctification is already a completed fact, yet it is an ongoing process in this life.

All born-again believers are growing into the perfect man they are in Christ.