The Three Stages of Salvation

Justification and regeneration are acts of salvation that are totally complete. Once-for-all, decisive, unchangeable, God never reverses them. The saving act of God in process is being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. That's not here yet but it's nearer than when we first believed. This life of being sanctified is not one of sinless perfection, but of warfare against sin in the power of the HolySpirit.