05.24.2023 | THE LORD YOUR SANCTIFICATION

THE LORD YOUR SANCTIFICATION

Exodus 31:12-17 (NKJV)

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.  Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”

 John 1:14a

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

 What sanctification is not:

  • Justification is legal; sanctification is transformational.

  • Jesus’ work is the grounds for justification; Jesus’ life is the pattern for sanctification.

  • Sanctification is not a path to earn God’s love.

  • Sanctification is not natural.

 The work of sanctification:

  • Sanctification is primarily God’s Gracious work.

Galatians 3:3

Are you so foolish?  Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

“Not a 50-50 where we do the final 50%. This can be the thinking of some, that God starts this work and we finish it.  It is rather, God all the way through man all the way.” – Rodman Williams

John 17:17 (NASB)

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

In sanctification human beings participate in God’s work. 

Leviticus 20:7-8 (NKJV)

Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.  And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them:  I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

 “They were to sanctify themselves.  God did not do all of the sanctifying.  Within the personality of Jehovah M’kaddesh lies the truth that men must choose holiness.” – Marilyn Hickey

At its heart, sanctification is a process of self-denial and gospel renewal.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Joy Church