SANCTIFICATION

SATURDAY, 12TH AUGUST, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  SANCTIFICATION 

MEMORIZE: “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.”  2 Timothy 2:21

SCRIPTURE READING: Philippians 2:12–13.

“¹² Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; ¹³ for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”  

EXPOSITION:

Closely connected with holiness is sanctification. In many New Testament uses, the word means “salvation” (Acts 20:32; 1 Corinthians 1:2). Sanctification, or being set apart in salvation, should result in believers being set apart for Christian living. Sanctification not only includes the immediate act and fact of salvation but also involves a progressive or growing experience of greater holiness and less sinfulness. It expresses God’s will and fulfills the purpose of God’s salvation call (1 Thessalonians 4:3–7). 

Sanctification includes one’s responsibility to participate in continuing what God’s Spirit began in salvation (2 Timothy 2:21; Revelation 22:11). Christians are constantly exhorted to pursue in their Christian experience what God has declared to be true of them in salvation. Believers are also promised that what is not now complete, God will ultimately finish in glory (Philippians 2:12–13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). These passages express one of the great paradoxes of Scripture: Christians are to become what they already are and one day will be. Such certainty of the Christian’s future is captured in texts like these: For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. (Romans 10:13) For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18) Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. (Romans 13:11) Sanctification involves the spiritual process that is pictured by a body growing into adulthood (Hebrews 5:11–14) or a tree bearing fruit (Psalm 1:3). 

Growth is not always easy or uniform; however, it should be the direction of a true Christian’s life. Several obstacles face the believer in this lifelong pursuit. Christians need to know about them and stay on guard to avoid them or to correct them if they become a part of one’s thinking.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for our sanctification in Jesus name. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Jeremiah 5 – 8.

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