3. The third part of the answer to the question, how men are sanctified, is found in 2 Thess. 2:13 and in other passages, +"But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth."+ It appears from this passage, as from other passages in the Bible, that _it is the Holy Spirit who sanctifies the believer_, and that _Sanctification is the Holy Spirit's work_. Here the question arises, In what sense does the Holy Spirit sanctify the believer? In this sense, just as in the Old Testament type, tabernacle, altar and priest were set apart for God by the anointing oil (Lev. 8:10-12), so in the New Testament anti-type, the believer, who is both tabernacle and priest, is set apart for God by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Further than that, it is the Holy Spirit's work in the heart that overcomes the flesh and its defilements, and thus separates the believer from sin and clothes him with divine graces of character, and makes him fit to be God's own. As Paul puts it in Gal. 5:22, 23, +"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control."+ In opposition to this work of the Holy Spirit, we read in the immediately preceding verses what "the works of the flesh" are, an awful catalogue of vileness and sin, and we are told in the 16th verse, +"Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh."+ 4. The fourth part of the answer to the question how we are sanctified is found in Heb. 13:12, +"Wherefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood suffered without the gate."+ It is plain from this passage that _believers are sanctified through the blood of Jesus Christ_. Here the question arises, In what sense does the blood of Jesus sanctify? The answer is plain: _The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all the guilt of sin_, and thus separates us from the mass of men under the curse of the broken law, and sets us apart for God (cf. 1 John 1:7, 9). In the Old Testament dispensation the blood of the sacrifice cleansed the Israelites from the _guilt_ of ceremonial offenses and set them apart for God; in the New Testament anti-type the blood of Christ cleanseth the believer from the _guilt_ of moral offenses and sets him apart for God.