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Living What We Believe is not just a study of church doctrine. It is an engagement with Scripture and the Holy Spirit to allow ourselves to be formed into the people of God in our beliefs, our behaviors, and our relationships with others. To help us accomplish this, we will be using the Church of God Declaration of Faith as our entry point for reading and reflecting on the Scripture. Volume Three of this series is called “A Sanctified People.” In this study the focus will be on the fifth and sixth articles of the Declaration of Faith. Those articles include the doctrine of sanctification subsequent to the new birth and holiness as the standard of living for God’s people. Sanctification and holiness are crucial doctrines for the Church of God, as well as the rest of the Pentecostal world. A lack of clarity on these issues can result in the extreme of legalism or the opposite extreme of license to sin. Neither of these extremes are a true reflection of biblical sanctification and holiness. In this study we will seek scriptural answers to such questions as:•What is sanctification and how is it related to holiness?•When are we sanctified?•Is sanctification instantaneous or is it progressive?•How are we sanctified? •What does it mean for holiness to be our standard of living as God’s people?