WORD: SANCTIFICATION
DEFINED: Setting
apart. It means the taking of something which was common before, which
might legitimately have been put to ordinary uses, and setting it apart
for God’s service, alone.
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 2:3 “And
God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He
had rested from all His work which God created and made.”
If Christians would know this…You are Christ’s - God’s
servants of God through Jesus Christ. You are not to do your own works.
You are not to live for your own objectives. You are to say at all
times, “God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord
Jesus.” You are practical to take this for your motto, “For me to live
is Christ and to die is gain.” Jesus Christ did not purchase a part of
us. Brothers and Sisters, Jesus Christ bought all of you, body, soul and
spirit, and He must have you, the whole person. We cannot be partly
saved by Him, and partly by ourselves, then live to ourselves. But if
God has wholly set you apart to be vessels of mercy fitted for His use,
do not rob the Lord; treat not as common cups those things which are as
the bowls of the altar!
The
word “sanctify” is used, not only to signify that the thing is set
apart for holy uses, but that it is to be regarded, treated, and
declared as a holy thing. Sanctification is a work IN us, not a work FOR
us, and there are two agents – one is the Worker who works this
Sanctification effectually – that is the Spirit, and the other Agent,
the efficacious means by which the Spirit works this Sanctification is
Jesus Christ and His precious blood. Let me make this plain…..
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