Dr. olson shares the following comments about the sanctification process:
“it is a journey of the [human] spirit from its bodily home to its union with god. god wants us to empty ourselves of ourselves that is controlled by our sinful human nature, and replace it with the likeness of christ, shaped by the holy spirit. this can take a lifetime. . . . [it is] the purpose of the journey god wants his children to take. . . . it is to take our [human] spirit out of a self-centered destructive world of sin and bring it to a god-centered state of holiness. . . . it is a joint venture with the holy spirit as our helper.”