Seeing the Invisible: Sanctification and Hope

It is necessary for a person's thinking to be changed if he is to live a godly life. The guilt of sin is removed in justification, but sin as a habit is changed progressively by a renewal of the mind, so that we see ourselves a children of God, heirs of God, resurrected to glory and exaltation and not slaves of wickedness and filth. This change comes by the promises of God heard in the Scriptures, the ministry of the word, the sacraments and the fellowship of the saints.