Sanctification

Sanctification

We Can Say “No!”

  1. “Sanctify”
  2. Strong’s: hagiazo, hag-ee-ad’-zo; from Greek 40 (hagios); to make holy, i.e. (ceremony) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate :- hallow, be holy, sanctify.
  3. To be “hallowed” is “to be set apart as holy, to be consecrated.”

 

  1. We are “Sanctified.” We are set apart as holy to God:

 

  1. 2 Cor. 6:14-18 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? [15] And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? [16] And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

 

    “I will dwell in them

    And walk among them.

    I will be their God,

    And they shall be My people.”

 

[17] Therefore

 

    “Come out from among them

    And be separate, says the Lord.

    Do not touch what is unclean,

    And I will receive you.”

    [18] “I will be a Father to you,

    And you shall be My sons and daughters,

    Says the Lord Almighty.”

 

  • Our sanctification is effected by:

 

  1. God: 1 Thes. 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

  1. In all three Persons of the Godhead:

 

  1. God the Father: Jude 1:1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,  To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

 

  1. God the Son: Hebrews 13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

 

  1. God the Holy Spirit: 1 Cor. 6:9-11 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. [11] And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

 

  1. Our sanctification is accomplished by:

 

  1. The sacrifice of Christ: Hebrews 10:10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

 

  1. By the Word of God: John 17:16-19 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. [17] Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. [18] As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. [19] And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

 

  1. Our sanctification accomplishes:

 

  1. Being sanctified, we become one of the elect: 1 Peter 1:1-2 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, [2] elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

 

  1. Those who are sanctified are the entire embodiment of the saved: Acts 20:32

So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

 

  1. In other words, “All the sanctified are saints, and all the saints are sanctified.”
  2. But also, “Only the sanctified are saints, and only the saints are sancitified.”

 

  1. Sanctification is what makes us, the Church, presentable to God: Ephes. 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, [26] that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, [27] that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

 

 

  1. Our sanctification leads to:

 

  1. Our self-control: 1 Thes. 4:3-4 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; [4] that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

 

  1. Our holiness: Ephes. 5:7-9 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

    [8] For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light [9] (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

 

  1. Our fitness for service: 2 Tim. 2:20-21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. [21] Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

 

  1. In summation,

 

  1. Sanctification is the process by which we are set apart for God’s service.
  2. We are sanctified through the work of all three persons of the Godhead.
  3. We are sanctified by the blood of Christ and God’s Word.
  4. Only the sanctified are saints and only the saints are sanctified.
  5. Through sanctification we mature in our self-control, holiness, and fitness for God’s service.

 

 

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.