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VII. Sanctification
All believers are set apart unto God () at the time of their regeneration (). They should grow in grace () by allowing the Holy Spirit to apply God’s Word to their lives (), conforming them to the principles of divine righteousness (, ; ) and making them partakers of the holiness of God (; , )
1. Set Apart
1. Set Apart
This aspect of the statement defines what we are
God declares and views us as set apart and holy.
This is His action and His viewpoint
All believers are set apart unto God () at the time of their regeneration ().
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
to keep or save (something) for a particular purpose and to be a quality that makes (someone or something) better than or different from other people or things
“by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified”
Christ made us holy and set us apart by His sacrifice
At salvation, His blood and sacrifice pays off our sin debt
Therefore, we are righteous before God
“you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified”
Washed- made clean
Sanctified- set apart as or declare holy; consecrate.
Justified- declared righteous in the sight of God
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
2. Growth
They should grow in grace () by allowing the Holy Spirit to:
5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
a. apply God’s Word to their lives ()
2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
“you may grow up into salvation”
Like a child, we are babes in Christ and then grow to maturity
The Word is our primary nourishment and source of Growth
Read it, study it, meditate upon it, memorize it, and live it!
b. conforming them to the principles of divine righteousness (, ; )
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
“be transformed by the renewal of your mind”
He renews our mind
He adjusts our thinking, priorities, and attitudes
While lost- we were selfish and focused on our own lusts (appetites)
Philosophy: if it feels good do it!
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
By our nature, we live contrary to God’s law
After Salvation:
He changes our focus!
We live for Him
To bring Him glory
To please Him
To experience the best life possible
A life of purpose lived as the Creator designed us
Our desires change as He sanctifies us
Sin’s hold on us isn’t as strong
We still have the flesh to fight, but it isn’t our Master.
21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
He creates in us a desire to please and glorify Him
Abstain from immorality
He aids us in overcoming our lusts
Early, we saw He declares us to be holy. In sanctification, He adjusts our behavior and mindset so that we start living as what He has made us to be.
c. making them partakers of the holiness of God (; , )
1 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.
15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Cleanse ourselves
Be holy
the state of being holy.
God is holy and makes us holy.
Application:
Application:
This statement has defined 2 things:
Who we are
Sanctified, justified, glorified
How we live
Like we are what we are!
Holy, set apart, cleansed.
Our lives do matter
God desires us to live by His standard.