So we learn that none are sanctified, none are made holy, except those who truly believe in God through Jesus Christ for eternal salvation. This faith is the faith that 'justifies'. Now holiness, wherever it is, pleases God. If there were any other way or means by which men might be sanctified or made holy, he would not have confined it to 'faith in Christ'. To believe that we can be holy without faith in Jesus is to hold him in contempt.
Faith is the means which brings about our sanctification.
All grace is first entrusted to Jesus Christ. To have a real, thriving, everlasting holiness, we must begin with faith in Christ. True holiness renews True holiness is the complete renewal of our whole person, body, soul and spirit. Man was created in the image of God. If sin had not entered, man would have propagated children in the same image of God by virtue of the covenant of creation.