We are sanctified, precept by precept, by the Holy Spirit. We are called according to God’s purpose not our own and empowered so that we can carry them out in His name. Jesus came to earth armed with His power to overcome death and sin and in Him we find our peace. His peace surpasses our understanding but in our deepest trials it carries us through them.
The Greek word for church used here, ekklēsia, refers to a gathering of people, not a building; here, it references the gathering of Christ followers in Corinth. Faithlife Bible.
A local church of God is a group of people who identify themselves with God and gather together to worship and serve Him. The Corinthians’ holiness came from their position in Christ, not from their own goodness. The tense of the verb sanctified indicates that God had sanctified the Corinthians at a specific time in the past, producing a condition that they still enjoyed in the present. The work of Jesus Christ makes a believer holy forever in God’s eyes. But in everyday living, sanctification involves small, daily changes. This is why Paul could call the Corinthian believers to become saints, even though the problems in their church testified that they were far from the goal of holiness.NKJ Bible.
1 Corinthians 1:2–3 (NKJV)
2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:22 (NKJV)
22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
1 Corinthians 8:6 (NKJV)
6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
Ephesians 4:1 (NKJV)
4 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
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