John 17
17 Sanctify them through the truth, [and then immediately added,] Thy word is truth.
This shows a) that sanctification is through the word of God, b) but it can only be through the word of God by the aid of the Spirit. The text quoted just above from Peter, tells of sanctification of the Spirit “unto obedience.” Here we have another text from Peter on the same subject:
1 Peter 1
22 Seeing ye have purified [sanctified] your souls in a) obeying the truth b) through the Spirit.
Men are elect through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, but they are not sanctified until they have obeyed the truth, the word of God, through the Spirit. The truth of God cannot be obeyed except through the Holy Spirit.
The law of God is spiritual (Romans 7:14), the word of Christ is spirit (John 6:36), but man is carnal. Therefore
Romans 8
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
7 …the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
The Holy Spirit is given to take away the carnal mind, and make us
spiritually minded, that so we may discern the things of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-16), and thus he takes the things of God and shows them unto us." A.T. Jones