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Mending broken people
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome to
another 3ABN Today program.
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I'm Jill Morikone,
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and we're so glad
that you have taken time
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from your day to join us.
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On the Today program many times
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we feature stories of missions,
stories of testimonies,
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what God is doing in
and through people's lives,
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stories of ministries
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and how God is
impacting the world
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through various ministries.
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But today is one
of my favorite times
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for 3ABN Today.
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That is when we
just get to sit down
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and have a study
of the Word of God.
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I almost feel like we're
having Sabbath School panel,
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but it'll be a
little bit different
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because we're discussing.
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Our topic today
is Sanctification.
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This is a topic
that used to scare me
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if I'm being
very honest with you,
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but we don't have to be afraid,
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it is a biblical topic
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and sanctification
is a gift from God.
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So we're going
to be talking today
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about the biblical
definition of sanctification,
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how sanctification
connects with other doctrines
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like the second
coming and the Sabbath,
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and salvation and sanctuary?
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How does sanctification
connect with justification?
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And if you're just
new in the Word of God,
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you might be saying,
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"I don't even know
what those words mean,"
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and we will unpack them today.
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We'll talk about
how we are sanctified.
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What is the
purpose of sanctification?
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And what's our part?
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What is our role to
play and what is God's role?
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So I want to introduce
our family at this time,
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to my right, Brother Ryan Day.
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So good to have you here.
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You work in our
3ABN pastoral department,
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and you're Assistant
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to the General Manager
for 3ABN Praise Him, so.
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Amen.
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It's blessing to be here,
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and I'm definitely excited
about this topic, much needed.
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Absolutely.
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And to your right,
Pastor John Lomacang,
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pastor of the Thompsonville
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and 3ABN Director
of World Evangelism,
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and delighted to have you here.
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I could already tell,
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we need three hours on
this subject, you know.
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As I said you earlier,
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are you ready
for what you have on,
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for what you have activated.
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This is a powerful topic.
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One I believe that's...
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I could use the term
grossly misunderstood.
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And sometimes it's
become almost cliché
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in the sense of the
phrase of work of a lifetime.
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So today, we're
going to really unpack it,
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and do whatever we can
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with the time we have remaining.
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So let's read a scripture
verse and then we'll pray
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and we'll jump
right into our study.
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So let's start
with 1 Corinthians 6:11.
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Hope you have
your Bibles at home
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and get ready to open them up
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and study with
us and your notepad,
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so you can take notes.
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1 Corinthians 6:11,
"And such were some of you."
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Now, if you read
the previous verses,
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there's an entire list of sins
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of those
fornicators and idolaters,
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adulterers, thieves,
covetous, homosexuals,
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drunkards, all of these,
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those people,
that's all of us really.
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All have sinned and fallen short
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of the glory of God,
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that we will not
inherit the kingdom of God.
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And then verse 11 gives us hope,
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"And such were some of you.
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But you were
washed, you were sanctified,
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you were justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus
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and by the Spirit of our God."
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That verse gives
me incredible hope
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'cause no matter our past,
no matter what we have done,
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God says He can wash us,
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and justify us, and sanctify us,
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and prepare us for
an eternity with Him.
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So let's pray and we'll jump in.
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Ryan, you want to pray
for us? Sure. Absolutely.
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Our Father in heaven, Lord,
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we take this time to
dedicate it to you, Lord,
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in the study of Your Word.
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And it would be
irresponsible of us, Lord,
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to not first come to You humbly
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and ask for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit
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into our hearts
and minds at this hour.
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Lord, as we take
on this very precious
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and as pastor said,
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somewhat misunderstood
topic in the Christian world.
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Lord, I pray that You
give us understanding.
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Help us to understand
what Your Word is saying.
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Give us the
spiritual mind of Jesus.
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That is we discuss and we talk
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about these
important things in Scripture.
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Lord, I pray that the
people that are watching,
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those at home,
those around the world,
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wherever they're
listening to this,
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may they be blessed,
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may the church be edified, Lord,
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and may we come to
a better understanding
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of who Jesus Christ is
and His will for our life.
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We praise You, Lord,
and we thank You as always.
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And we ask this in
Jesus' holy name, amen.
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Amen.
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So let's just start off
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with a biblical
definition of sanctification.
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Someone's watching and says,
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"I don't even know
what sanctification is,
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or maybe the way
my church teaches it."
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It might not be in line
with what the Word of God says.
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So what does the Bible say?
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What's the
definition of sanctification?
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Well, it's
beautiful when you look at it
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because sanctification
is not only a process,
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but it's an immediate act.
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It's seen in both ways,
and I'll give you an example.
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But to summarize it,
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I looked at various dictionaries
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one that I really settled with
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was one from the
Entenmann's dictionary.
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It's a common dictionary,
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common in the
sense that it's used
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across the levels
of the Christian world.
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But it says, "The
act or end process
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of making something or
someone clean and holy."
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That's right.
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The act and process of making
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someone or
something clean and holy.
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That's the simple processes.
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It says, "In Christian theology,
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sanctification is
usually understood as an act
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or process
subsequent to salvation,
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which renders the
believer holy in fact.
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I like that. So holy in fact.
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Right. You are holy.
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So when the Bible says,
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"Be therefore holy
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as your Father
in heaven as holy."
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He declared you holy,
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and then but now
he's, he declared you holy,
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but now he's gonna make
you give you a holy life.
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Okay, there's one thing
to be separated for holiness.
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Now, it's like you
buy a brand new tool.
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So you just bought
a brand new shovel.
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And you've
never used one before.
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Well, the shovel is brand new,
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but now you got to
learn how to use it.
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So the purchasing of
the shovel is justification,
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the learning how
to use the shovel
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and become good at it,
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almost to the point
where it's second nature
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is sanctification.
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Amen. It's a continual thing.
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Could I give a
couple of examples?
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Please.
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You know sanctification.
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I would, as you pointed out,
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all have sinned and fallen short
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of the glory of God.
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But when we go to 1 John
1:9, let's go there first.
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I'm going to show the...
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I'm going to show this
verse is a verse that is,
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is often the one we cite.
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It's like if the
person got caught
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and they're guilty of a crime,
they just run to this verse.
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If we confess our sins,
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He is faithful
and just to forgive us
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of our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness,
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but they missed the process,
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because this
verse is the immediate
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and the
continual contained in one.
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Oh, good. How do you say that?
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It's the immediate,
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He is faithful
and just to forgive us
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our sins that are justification.
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Immediate. Good.
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And to cleanse us
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is sanctification
from all unrighteousness.
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I like that. That's beautiful.
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So it's both together.
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See, so
forgiveness or justification
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is the immediate act of pardon.
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But it has to be followed
by the sanctifying process
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of reversing the
effect of the sin.
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An alcoholic, how
long have they been in out,
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what makes an alcoholic
somebody who had incessantly,
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repetitively drank alcohol.
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It leaves an impact.
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So now they're
forgiven of the act.
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But they're now
cleansed and you know the body.
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My mom was a smoker
for many, many years
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and an alcoholic
before she knew the Lord.
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I wasn't raised
with her, but she smoked
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two to three packs
of cigarettes a day.
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And that was her out
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because of
abandoning her children.
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But when she gave her life
to the Lord and stop smoking,
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I even could tell her voice
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when I met her
for the first time,
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her voice had lightened.
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And she lost the desire
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for the appeal to
smoking and alcohol altogether.
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And the body which is
naturally made by God,
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to begin to restore itself,
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the body began
to sanctify itself,
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getting rid of
all the ill affect,
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all the impact.
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So here it is.
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So we don't, we just
don't confess our sin.
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But notice, He says
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He is faithful
and just to forgive.
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Now let me add
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the sanctifying
process to confess.
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Go to Proverbs 28:13,
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because we confess
that says, "Okay, I did it.
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Lord, please
forgive me, you confess.
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But if you just
want to be declared just,
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then that's not all
the Lord wants to do.
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Proverbs 28:13, and
you see the word again.
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There's something
else we have to do
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for the process
of sanctification
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to be important.
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"He who covers his
sin will not prosper.
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But whoever
confesses and" what else?
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"Forsakes them will have mercy."
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Somebody asked me,
"What does forsake mean?
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To abandon.
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That sin needs to
die for lack of oxygen.
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That sin needs to be
rendered ineffective.
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That's where we
come to the point
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of laying aside every weight
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and the sin that
so easily besets us
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because here's the
process and I throw to you next.
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If we don't lay that aside,
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then we are only laying it
aside for a convenient time.
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Some people become
great Christians on Friday.
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You know, I'm
talking about an Adventist.
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Some Christians that keep Sunday
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become great
Christians on Saturday night,
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they go to church on Sunday.
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Yes, I've been smoking
a week, drinking a week.
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That's why it's
ridiculous to belong to a church
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that supports the
intoxication of the body
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while saying you're a Christian,
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because the Lord
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doesn't want to
just sanctify us,
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He wants to sanctify our body,
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as well as our mind
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to make us a living
sacrifice holy and acceptable
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is what
sanctification talks about.
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Ryan? Yeah, absolutely.
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I just, you know,
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pastor did a beautiful job here.
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I want to give a couple of texts
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when we clearly
see in Scripture,
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a clear biblical definition
within the text of Scripture
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that spells out or
defines what sanctification is.
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Leviticus 20:7-8.
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I'll just read it here, it says,
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"Consecrate
yourselves therefore..."
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Leviticus 20:7-8.
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Okay, this is, you don't
think of Leviticus as you know
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giving you a text
that might clearly define
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or tell us what
sanctification is.
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But if you read
the context clues,
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and I was always
taught that in school,
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and I tend to do
that now when I study,
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I look for little words
in a passage or in a text,
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a series of texts
that clearly spell out
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or show within that text
what it is I'm looking for,
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and this is a good example.
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So Leviticus 20:7-8.
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It says, "Consecrate
yourselves therefore..."
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So notice will automatically
consecrate yourselves.
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There's a certain
amount of consecration
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that must occur in the
process of sanctification
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and we'll talk about
that more in a little bit.
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It says, "And be holy," okay?
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"I am the Lord your God,
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and you shall keep my
statutes and perform them."
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And then notice
this closing part.
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"I am the Lord
who sanctifies you."
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And we're going
to probably come back
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to this question
in just a moment,
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which is, who
does the sanctifying?
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We clearly,
obviously the Bible says
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that the Lord
does the sanctifying.
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And the word for sanctify here
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and the general word
for sanctify in the Hebrew
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is the word qodesh,
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which means to be made clean
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as pastor
beautifully brought out
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a few minutes
ago, to be purified,
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to be set apart for a holy use.
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Okay?
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Another text that comes to
mind is 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8,
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okay, and we're
probably going to revisit
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some of these
texts through this.
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This is 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8.
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And I'll probably
just read verses 3 and 4,
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and then 7 and 8.
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But notice what it says here
beginning of verse 3, it says,
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"For this is the will of God."
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And so, I just want to
pause there for a moment
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because we're going to talk
about this in a few moments.
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But the
importance of sanctification,
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not only does the Bible
define what sanctification is,
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but it clearly spells out
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the importance
of sanctification.
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I grew up in a church
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in a series of
churches actually,
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because I visited and studied
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with many different
Christian denominations.
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And in the gospel
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that was taught
to me growing up,
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there was no room
for sanctification.
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Sanctification was kind of
a, you know, back seat type of,
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you know, reality or a back seat
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secondhand concept.
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You know, if you are
sanctified by the Lord,
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that's a great thing,
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but justification was made
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more important
than sanctification.
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But notice here,
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Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 4
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beginning with verse 3,
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" For this is the will of God,
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your sanctification:
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that you should
abstain from sexual immorality,
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that each of you should know
how to possess his own vessel
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in sanctification and honor."
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Now notice verse 7 and 8.
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It says, "For God did
not call us to uncleanness,
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but in holiness.
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So notice the
context closing in,
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"Uncleanness, but in holiness.
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Therefore he who rejects this
does not reject man, but God,
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who has also given
us His Holy Spirit."
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Now that word holiness,
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he's not called
us to uncleanness,
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but in contrast
to that holiness.
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Holiness in the
original Greek here
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is the word hagiasmos,
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hagiasmos which
basically means to purify
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or to sanctify, to be made holy.
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And then the last text
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that kind of pulls
this together, again,
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speaking of
defining what the Bible says
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about sanctification,
Romans 6:19 and 22.
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And again, like I said earlier,
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we'll probably read
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some of these
again in the study,
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because there's so
many great concepts.
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Romans 6:19-22.
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The Bible says,
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"I speak in human terms
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because of the
weakness of your flesh."
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So notice the terms
that he's bringing up,
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the weakness of the flesh.
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"For just as you present
your members as slaves of, "
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there it is again,
"uncleanness and of, "
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and I throws in another one,
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"lawlessness,
leading to more lawlessness."
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So now,
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here's the contrasting thoughts.
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So now present your members
as slaves of righteousness for
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and there it is, hagiasmos,
holiness, sanctification.
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And then verse 22, you
got to read that one too.
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"But now having
been set free from sin."
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What is sanctification?
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What's the
process of sanctification?
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And we're going to
define that a little bit more.
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It means to be
set free from sin.
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So right here, he says,
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but now having
been set free from sin,
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and having become slaves of God,
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you have your fruit of
and there it is, again,
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hagiasmos, holiness,
sanctification and the end,
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notice this, everlasting life.
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So it's clearly
defined in Scripture
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that not only is
sanctification important,
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but God makes it very clear
as to what sanctification is.
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It's the process of purification
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of making one holy,
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setting one
apart from the world,
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the lust of the world,
the pride of life to be holy,
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and to replicate
the character of God.
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Amen, that's beautiful.
Thank you, both of you.
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You know, it's incredible to me
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that sanctification
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is the will of God for our life,
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he desires that and
with that justification
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in 1 John 1:9 as
you talked about,
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Pastor John,
connected with the forgiveness
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with the cleansing,
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with being set free
as it were from sin.
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So we already talked, you
touched on it, Pastor John,
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the connection
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between justification
and sanctification.
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But what if someone's saying,
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is sanctification
really necessary for salvation?
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Is sanctification
connected with salvation?
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What would you say to that?
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I would say definitely,
and here's the reason why,
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because there's a process.
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Now purification is one thing
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but alienation is
something altogether different
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'cause alienation separates you.
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Because remember
now, sin separates,
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your sin has separated you.
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Righteousness separates.
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Sin separates from God,
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righteousness
separates from sin.
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So the power of sin
is so affected humanity
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that in their natural
state, they are servants of sin.
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So how do you become
servants of righteousness?
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Anybody that takes
the job of a servant
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has to learn the process.
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Okay, carry this way.
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Make sure you ask.
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A servant is the
life that you learn.
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That's why Jesus said,
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"I've come to
serve not to be served."
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But look at the four things
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that makes
sanctification necessary.
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Sanctification
purifies and alienates us
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from the domination of sin.
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Oh, that's good. I like that.
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Also sanctification destroys
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the corrupt propensities
of our fallen nature.
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You got to do
something over and over,
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somebody says, like,
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I've read the story
where in the days gone by
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maybe in the
1600s, 1500s, 1400s,
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there was a thought
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that people
that were left handed
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were wicked.
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Okay.
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I'm crawling
under the table now.
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I'm left handed.
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And so what happened,
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people would tie
their children's hands
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if they left handed
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and forced them to
learn right handed.
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Within a matter of time,
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they would learn
how to be right handed.
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Some basketball coaches
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to develop the left handed game,
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they say no, tie, put
your right hand behind,
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learn how to dribble, shoot,
layup with your left hand,
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in and out, of course,
well, you know, in the NBA.
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I did it all the time.
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A dangerous player is the guy
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that could shoot
left and right, okay?
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You know, Kyrie
Irving, okay, dexterous.
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So it has to destroy the corrupt
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or the natural propensities
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and alienate us
from the fallen things
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that we do naturally.
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Thirdly,
sanctification rectifies
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or corrects our
affections and inclinations.
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That's powerful to me
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because correcting
meaning is recalibrating.
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We are naturally
out of line with God.
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But sanctification
says, wait a minute,
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I'm going to bring
you in line with God.
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So I'm going to rectify
the factors in your life
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and watch this, it
doesn't do it instantly,
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we are instantly accepted
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into the process, justification.
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But then the Lord is
saying, you're out of line,
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you're out of line,
I gotta line you up.
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So purification
rectifies or corrects
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the affections and inclinations.
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And then fourthly,
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sanctification
brings the entire nature
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into subjection
to the will of God
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so that we may
be properly called
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servants of righteousness.
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So all those
processes purifies and alienates
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from the domination of sin.
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So after a while
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when you
continue in the process,
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after a while you say,
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I don't even remember
what it was like to smoke.
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Matter of fact, the very
smell of that just irritates me.
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The very thought of
having done that just sickens me
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because you have been lined up
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with what is right all the time.
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And I'll give you one example.
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Look at 1 John 3:1-3,
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one of my favorite
passages in the Bible.
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1 John 3:1-3, this is,
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this brings into
beautiful clarification,
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what this process is all about.
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Now we love the verse 1 and 2,
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but verse 3 as
there cannot be ignored.
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"Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us,
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that we should be
called the children of God.
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Therefore the
world does not know us
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because it did not know Him."
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So here's the
question I'll throw out there
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and I'll answer
in just a moment.
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How does a
person who is a sinner
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get to the point
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where the world
can't even recognize you?
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Hmm.
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There's a change. Watch this.
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Verse 2, "Beloved, now
we are children of God,
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and it has not
yet been revealed,
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" because you're in the process,
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"what we shall be but
we know in the assurance
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that when He is
revealed, we shall be like Him,
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for we shall see Him as He is."
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We love to stop there,
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but it calls on an
action on our part.
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That's right.
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"However, everyone
who has this hope in Him
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that is in Christ
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purifies himself
just as he is pure."
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Why do I have to
purify myself if I'm pure?
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The Lord told Peter
that not just my feet
00:21:00.49\00:21:02.32
but my head only he said,
Peter, you're already clean.
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I just need to wash your feet.
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Relax.
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And here's my explanation.
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Now, I've given the
John Lomacang translation,
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here it is, to
those three verses.
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Because I love you, I
justified and forgave you.
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So you can now be
called My child, from now on,
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make choices to
maintain your holy connection
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to your Holy Father.
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When you do that,
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the world won't be
able to identify you
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because you will
look less like the world
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and more like me.
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If you keep making
pure choices, eventually,
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you won't
recognize who you were.
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Don't be
discouraged, it takes time.
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But since I am the
one doing the cleaning,
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I am so complete in what
I do that when you see Me,
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you will look just like Me.
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That is John
Lomacang translation.
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That's beautiful. Wonderful.
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I can't even speak right now.
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That is beautiful,
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the love of our
Father to take us,
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and to clean us,
and to change us,
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and to make us look like Him.
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Now that brings a question
00:22:06.05\00:22:07.79
to my mind when
you were talking.
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We're kind of
jumping forward here.
00:22:09.49\00:22:12.36
How much is our part
00:22:12.39\00:22:13.90
because it says
00:22:13.93\00:22:15.26
everyone who
has this hope in Him
00:22:15.30\00:22:16.63
purifies himself as he is pure.
00:22:16.67\00:22:18.70
So what is my role to play
in this sanctification process
00:22:18.73\00:22:23.17
and what is God's part?
00:22:23.20\00:22:24.54
Because clearly,
00:22:24.57\00:22:25.91
my righteousness is filthy rags.
00:22:25.94\00:22:27.28
That's right.
00:22:27.31\00:22:28.64
And I'm just being honest,
I tried for years to be good,
00:22:28.68\00:22:30.85
and it certainly didn't work.
00:22:30.88\00:22:32.48
So I know that me
just gritting my teeth
00:22:32.51\00:22:35.38
or trying harder, it's
not going to purify me.
00:22:35.42\00:22:37.89
Right.
00:22:37.92\00:22:39.25
since I spoke, I'll
give Ryan a shot at this one.
00:22:39.29\00:22:40.66
No, absolutely,
00:22:40.69\00:22:42.02
and you can chime
in on this as well.
00:22:42.06\00:22:43.39
You know, this
has been something
00:22:43.43\00:22:44.76
I've struggled with for years.
00:22:44.79\00:22:46.56
Just as you just
mentioned, you know,
00:22:46.59\00:22:48.63
growing up in a Christian,
00:22:48.66\00:22:50.00
very
conservative Christian home,
00:22:50.07\00:22:51.57
one can easily adopt a,
00:22:51.60\00:22:54.30
almost a legalistic
mentality to the gospel,
00:22:54.34\00:22:57.34
especially when
we read certain texts
00:22:57.41\00:22:59.27
where God very clearly demands
righteousness from His people,
00:22:59.31\00:23:04.15
not as a sinister, you know,
dictatorship but more or less,
00:23:04.18\00:23:07.65
God's saying, look,
00:23:07.68\00:23:09.02
if you're going to
inherit my kingdom,
00:23:09.05\00:23:10.79
these are My ways.
00:23:10.82\00:23:12.49
And so, it's very easy for one
00:23:12.52\00:23:14.36
to adopt a works
approach to salvation
00:23:14.39\00:23:17.79
to where it very much becomes.
00:23:17.83\00:23:20.70
And this is where
00:23:20.73\00:23:22.06
the sanctification
comes in what is my part?
00:23:22.10\00:23:23.97
What is God's part?
00:23:24.00\00:23:25.80
Back in the day
00:23:25.83\00:23:27.17
I used to have
this mentality of,
00:23:27.24\00:23:28.57
well, it was 50% my
work and 50% God's work,
00:23:28.60\00:23:31.94
you know, I've got
to meet Him halfway,
00:23:31.97\00:23:33.41
you know, He's done,
00:23:33.48\00:23:34.81
He's already done all
the work on the cross, right?
00:23:34.84\00:23:36.75
The least I can do
is try to do something
00:23:36.78\00:23:38.78
to help Him clean me up, right?
00:23:38.81\00:23:40.75
But the truth of the
matter is, the clear answer is,
00:23:40.82\00:23:43.59
it's 100% God's work.
00:23:43.62\00:23:46.02
Now, that doesn't
mean we don't do something
00:23:46.05\00:23:48.12
or that there's not a
response that we give.
00:23:48.16\00:23:50.86
But as far as the cleansing act
of sanctification in our life,
00:23:50.93\00:23:54.56
the clear answer is,
it's 100% God's work in us.
00:23:54.60\00:23:58.33
Let me give you
00:23:58.37\00:23:59.70
a couple of
scriptural examples for this.
00:23:59.73\00:24:01.07
Again, I read this earlier,
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I started with
this, Leviticus 20:7-8.
00:24:02.47\00:24:05.31
And the ending part of
that is what I want to,
00:24:05.34\00:24:07.68
I want to emphasize, but
I'll just read it through.
00:24:07.71\00:24:10.48
Leviticus 20:7-8,
00:24:10.55\00:24:12.38
again says
consecrate yourselves,
00:24:12.41\00:24:14.02
therefore, okay, so right there
00:24:14.05\00:24:15.62
automatically somebody says,
00:24:15.65\00:24:16.99
"Well, I can't
consecrate myself.
00:24:17.02\00:24:18.59
So obviously, that must
mean something else." Right?
00:24:18.62\00:24:20.79
Well, consecration is different.
00:24:20.86\00:24:22.69
They're a little bit different
00:24:22.72\00:24:24.16
than you doing the
work yourself in you
00:24:24.23\00:24:26.56
to clean you up, right?
00:24:26.59\00:24:28.06
Consecration is
bringing your will
00:24:28.10\00:24:31.37
in submission to God, okay?
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.07
And we're gonna isolate that
00:24:33.10\00:24:34.44
and talk about
that in just a moment.
00:24:34.47\00:24:35.80
But consecrate
yourself therefore and be holy.
00:24:35.84\00:24:38.44
Well, Ryan, I can't be holy.
00:24:38.47\00:24:40.48
Only God can be
holy, that is true.
00:24:40.51\00:24:42.71
But God wants to be
holy in you and through you.
00:24:42.74\00:24:45.61
And so it goes on to
say, I am the Lord your God,
00:24:45.65\00:24:48.98
and you shall keep My statutes.
00:24:49.02\00:24:51.12
Wait, Pastor, I've
been told many times,
00:24:51.15\00:24:53.79
I can't keep the
statutes of the Lord,
00:24:53.86\00:24:55.56
I can't keep the
commandments of God.
00:24:55.59\00:24:57.53
You're right, in and
of ourselves, we cannot,
00:24:57.56\00:25:00.00
but God can will and
do His good work in us,
00:25:00.03\00:25:03.87
so that it's Him
doing the work through us,
00:25:03.90\00:25:06.43
not ourselves.
00:25:06.47\00:25:07.80
But then notice this
last part and perform them,
00:25:07.84\00:25:10.31
well, I can't perform them.
00:25:10.34\00:25:11.71
That's correct.
God performs them.
00:25:11.74\00:25:13.81
In fact, He confirms it in
the last part of this verse.
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I am the Lord
who sanctifies you.
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Now I want to tie a
couple of more texts
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.35
to this first,
00:25:22.38\00:25:23.72
this is Philippians
1:6, my favorite verse.
00:25:23.79\00:25:25.25
Oh, yes.
00:25:25.29\00:25:26.62
This is my favorite
verse in all Scripture.
00:25:26.65\00:25:27.99
This is the verse I hang
on to, Lord, Ryan's a sinner,
00:25:28.02\00:25:31.16
and sometimes I
can be rebellious.
00:25:31.19\00:25:32.99
And I hang on to this
verse because I read this
00:25:33.03\00:25:35.30
and the Lord reminds me, son,
00:25:35.33\00:25:36.67
I've begun a good work in you
00:25:36.70\00:25:38.03
and I will complete it
as long as you remain humble
00:25:38.07\00:25:40.47
and submit your will
to me on a daily basis.
00:25:40.54\00:25:42.37
I love this scripture.
00:25:42.40\00:25:43.74
Philippians 1:6,
00:25:43.81\00:25:45.14
"Being confident of
this very thing that He,
00:25:45.17\00:25:47.21
not me,
00:25:47.28\00:25:48.61
but He who has
begun a good work in you
00:25:48.64\00:25:51.65
will complete."
00:25:51.68\00:25:53.01
So who's doing
the completing? God.
00:25:53.05\00:25:54.68
Okay, He will complete it
unto the day of Jesus Christ.
00:25:54.72\00:25:58.75
Now, I know that
this is a Bible study.
00:25:58.79\00:26:00.99
But I want to read a quote
00:26:01.02\00:26:02.99
that I think summarizes
00:26:03.02\00:26:04.53
what I've just
said very clearly.
00:26:04.56\00:26:06.26
While God does,
00:26:06.29\00:26:07.63
and I want to be
very clear on this,
00:26:07.66\00:26:09.00
while God does 100% of
the sanctifying work in us,
00:26:09.03\00:26:12.63
there is a part that we
must do and that is surrender.
00:26:12.67\00:26:15.47
It's good.
00:26:15.50\00:26:16.84
You say, Ryan,
but I can't surrender.
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.24
That's not true.
00:26:18.27\00:26:19.61
If we couldn't surrender,
then we can't be saved,
00:26:19.64\00:26:22.94
that we must do something,
00:26:22.98\00:26:24.68
and the doing that
we must do is submit.
00:26:24.71\00:26:27.98
Now, what do I mean by that?
00:26:28.02\00:26:29.35
I love this text
that I'm about to read,
00:26:29.38\00:26:31.12
comes from
Testimonies, volume 5, page 514,
00:26:31.15\00:26:34.19
that I believe summarizes
00:26:34.26\00:26:35.76
what we've just
studied and read in Scripture.
00:26:35.79\00:26:37.83
Notice this, beautiful.
00:26:37.86\00:26:39.29
Again,
Testimonies, volume 5, page 514.
00:26:39.33\00:26:43.03
"It is for you to yield up
00:26:43.06\00:26:45.20
your will to the will of Christ.
00:26:45.23\00:26:48.90
And as you do this,
00:26:48.94\00:26:51.27
God will
immediately take possession."
00:26:51.31\00:26:53.91
I love what pastor said earlier.
00:26:53.98\00:26:55.41
There's an immediateness
to this and, of course,
00:26:55.44\00:26:57.05
then there's a process.
00:26:57.08\00:26:58.41
So notice this,
00:26:58.45\00:26:59.78
"As you yield up your
will to Christ and you do this,
00:26:59.81\00:27:02.75
God will
immediately take possession
00:27:02.78\00:27:04.99
and work in you to will
and do his good pleasure.
00:27:05.02\00:27:09.49
Your whole nature
will then be brought
00:27:09.52\00:27:12.06
under the control of
the Spirit of Christ."
00:27:12.09\00:27:15.66
I love that.
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.07
"And even your
thoughts will be subject to Him.
00:27:17.10\00:27:20.47
You cannot control your
impulses, your emotions,
00:27:20.54\00:27:24.54
as you may desire, but
you can control the will."
00:27:24.57\00:27:28.41
Notice that.
00:27:28.44\00:27:29.78
We may not be able
to control our emotions,
00:27:29.81\00:27:33.08
our impulses and our desires,
but we can control the will.
00:27:33.11\00:27:36.79
In other words, our free
will and our free choice.
00:27:36.82\00:27:38.62
We have a choice,
right? That's right.
00:27:38.65\00:27:40.39
I love this next part,
00:27:40.46\00:27:41.79
"And you can make an
entire change in your life
00:27:41.82\00:27:46.46
by yielding up
your will to Christ,
00:27:46.49\00:27:48.60
your life will be
hid with Christ in God
00:27:48.63\00:27:53.13
and allied to the power
00:27:53.17\00:27:54.84
which is above
all principalities
00:27:54.87\00:27:57.41
and powers."
00:27:57.44\00:27:59.14
So that is our part.
00:27:59.17\00:28:00.58
What is the link
00:28:00.61\00:28:01.94
between our part and God's part?
00:28:01.98\00:28:03.35
We surrender our will to Him.
00:28:03.38\00:28:04.88
Lord, I give you
myself today. That's right.
00:28:04.91\00:28:07.95
You know what does
that beautiful prayer
00:28:07.98\00:28:09.32
that Christ
taught us that you know,
00:28:09.35\00:28:10.69
our Father which art in heaven,
00:28:10.72\00:28:12.05
hallowed be thy
name, thy kingdom come,
00:28:12.09\00:28:13.59
thy will be done on
earth that is it is in heaven.
00:28:13.66\00:28:15.76
Give us this
day our daily bread,
00:28:15.79\00:28:17.46
and lead us not, what is it?
00:28:17.53\00:28:19.16
Into temptation.
00:28:19.19\00:28:20.53
Notice how were
you automatically work,
00:28:20.60\00:28:22.23
that the emphasis is
on what God is doing,
00:28:22.26\00:28:24.27
not what I'm doing.
00:28:24.30\00:28:25.63
So we simply
approach God and say,
00:28:25.67\00:28:27.00
"Lord, You have justified me."
00:28:27.04\00:28:29.34
And I'm going to probably
come to this in a few minutes.
00:28:29.37\00:28:31.61
But the results of justification
00:28:31.64\00:28:34.41
is sanctification,
because He has justified me,
00:28:34.44\00:28:37.58
now I yield up my will to
Him, my free will to choose,
00:28:37.65\00:28:41.38
Lord, not my
will as Christ prayed,
00:28:41.42\00:28:43.32
"Not My will, but
Your will be done."
00:28:43.39\00:28:45.62
Amen.
00:28:45.65\00:28:46.99
Pastor John, I can
see you anxious here
00:28:47.06\00:28:48.39
and I'm going to toss
it back to you right now.
00:28:48.42\00:28:50.73
I want to focus
specifically on and, Ryan,
00:28:50.76\00:28:53.16
we already did a
wonderful foundation
00:28:53.19\00:28:55.73
with God's part and our part,
00:28:55.76\00:28:57.27
but let's focus on
how we are sanctified
00:28:57.30\00:28:59.17
and you already talked
about that, me surrendering.
00:28:59.20\00:29:01.50
And if I could be so bold
that just jumping forward,
00:29:01.54\00:29:04.61
Pastor, in your response,
however you want to share,
00:29:04.64\00:29:07.91
but if you could
share Romans 7:17 sin in me,
00:29:07.94\00:29:14.22
it's not me but sin,
00:29:14.25\00:29:15.58
and then
Galatians 2:20 Christ in me
00:29:15.62\00:29:17.42
somehow in your, I
love or whatever you did.
00:29:17.49\00:29:19.42
I'm actually
going there right now.
00:29:19.45\00:29:20.79
I love when you share that,
00:29:20.86\00:29:22.19
that just really minister to me.
00:29:22.22\00:29:23.56
I'm actually
going there right now
00:29:23.59\00:29:24.93
actually because,
hey, that's providential
00:29:24.96\00:29:27.13
because that's exactly
where I'm headed right now.
00:29:27.20\00:29:29.33
It's a three stage process.
00:29:29.36\00:29:30.70
It starts with Romans 6:16.
00:29:30.77\00:29:36.00
Let's look at that together.
00:29:36.04\00:29:37.44
And this is the part and
I know what you're saying.
00:29:37.51\00:29:40.21
The beautiful part about this
00:29:40.28\00:29:41.91
is I've said and I'll preface it
00:29:41.94\00:29:43.28
with the statement.
00:29:43.35\00:29:44.88
We don't choose what to do.
00:29:44.91\00:29:47.52
We choose who to serve.
00:29:47.55\00:29:49.48
Okay, that's very important,
00:29:49.52\00:29:51.35
because the
servant in the Bible term
00:29:51.39\00:29:53.29
that is used is slave.
00:29:53.36\00:29:55.62
I've never seen a
slave make a choice.
00:29:55.66\00:29:59.23
I have never seen a
slave make a choice.
00:29:59.26\00:30:02.03
Now they may in their mind
say, I don't want to do that,
00:30:02.06\00:30:04.80
but do it to master.
00:30:04.83\00:30:07.54
Okay, I'll do it.
00:30:07.57\00:30:08.90
Now that's the
indentured servant
00:30:08.94\00:30:10.64
has, okay, I don't know.
00:30:10.71\00:30:12.24
But let's look at Romans 6:16.
00:30:12.27\00:30:14.51
And in here the two categories
00:30:14.54\00:30:15.98
that we are
each confronted with.
00:30:16.01\00:30:18.75
Do you not know
00:30:18.78\00:30:20.12
that to whom you
present yourselves
00:30:20.15\00:30:21.72
slaves to obey?
00:30:21.75\00:30:23.39
You are that one's
slave whom you obey,
00:30:23.42\00:30:26.79
whether of sin leading to death,
00:30:26.86\00:30:29.72
or of obedience
leading to righteousness.
00:30:29.76\00:30:33.09
In both cases,
somebody is leading,
00:30:33.13\00:30:35.76
there's a leading to death
or leading to righteousness.
00:30:35.80\00:30:38.53
What do you do?
00:30:38.57\00:30:39.90
You present
yourself. That's right.
00:30:39.93\00:30:41.27
You present yourself, you say,
00:30:41.30\00:30:42.64
"Okay, this is
who I want to serve."
00:30:42.67\00:30:45.11
And that's why the die
daily is a sanctifying process.
00:30:45.14\00:30:47.78
You have to choose each day
who you want, you have to die.
00:30:47.81\00:30:50.85
But now, this process of dying
00:30:50.88\00:30:55.12
comes out of the
presenting aspect.
00:30:55.15\00:30:57.59
Not just say, I die
daily, but how do you die daily?
00:30:57.62\00:31:00.19
A lot of people
say, "Okay, I die daily.
00:31:00.26\00:31:01.59
How do I do that?"
00:31:01.62\00:31:02.96
You have to present
yourself to one or the other.
00:31:02.99\00:31:04.79
Okay. Okay.
00:31:04.83\00:31:06.16
I'm going to serve you
Lord today and Lord says,
00:31:06.19\00:31:08.23
"Okay, you want to serve me?"
00:31:08.26\00:31:09.60
Well, what did He tell
Peter in John Chapter 21.
00:31:09.63\00:31:12.43
When you were young, you
went where you want to go,
00:31:12.47\00:31:14.47
you did what you wanted to
do, somebody else dress you,
00:31:14.50\00:31:16.47
but now, I mean,
you dress yourself.
00:31:16.50\00:31:18.44
But now I'm in charge.
00:31:18.47\00:31:20.28
I'm going to send you
where you don't want to go,
00:31:20.31\00:31:21.64
sanctification.
00:31:21.68\00:31:23.01
I'm going to dress you
00:31:23.04\00:31:24.38
maybe the way you
don't want to be dressed.
00:31:24.41\00:31:25.75
And you're going to do
what I've asked you to do.
00:31:25.78\00:31:27.12
That whole process of
surrendering completely.
00:31:27.15\00:31:29.65
So the first step
in sanctification is,
00:31:29.68\00:31:32.92
you've got to
choose who to serve.
00:31:32.95\00:31:35.42
When you choose who to serve,
00:31:35.46\00:31:36.96
that person decides what you do.
00:31:37.03\00:31:40.23
For it's God who
works in you both to will.
00:31:40.30\00:31:42.96
Now Romans 7:17,
00:31:43.00\00:31:45.40
and that's the
second part of it.
00:31:45.43\00:31:47.44
Romans 7:17, and
this is very significant.
00:31:47.47\00:31:49.94
Now, when you
choose who to serve,
00:31:50.01\00:31:52.67
what happens,
00:31:52.71\00:31:54.08
you are right now immobilized
because something happens.
00:31:54.11\00:31:58.41
For it is now for,
00:31:58.45\00:32:00.02
but now it is no
longer I who do it,
00:32:00.05\00:32:03.15
but sin that dwells in me.
00:32:03.18\00:32:04.65
When you choose
the wrong master,
00:32:04.69\00:32:08.86
sin is now taken over.
00:32:08.89\00:32:11.86
Sin is doing it or you
are now a slave to sin.
00:32:11.89\00:32:15.60
It has dominion
over you. That's right.
00:32:15.63\00:32:17.40
And right now
because you are a slave,
00:32:17.47\00:32:20.24
you are saying to yourself,
I can't believe I did that.
00:32:20.27\00:32:23.51
Well, actually, you didn't.
00:32:23.54\00:32:24.87
You just submitted to
a power greater than you,
00:32:24.91\00:32:27.28
which you, like, as Paul says,
00:32:27.31\00:32:28.64
"This power is so
much greater than me
00:32:28.68\00:32:30.08
that that power is taken over."
00:32:30.15\00:32:31.48
But now let's look
00:32:31.51\00:32:32.85
at what happens when you
submit to the other power,
00:32:32.88\00:32:34.22
Galatians 2:20.
00:32:34.25\00:32:37.49
This is a passage also, Ryan,
00:32:37.52\00:32:39.42
that fits so beautifully
00:32:39.45\00:32:42.49
into another aspect
of our walk with Christ,
00:32:42.52\00:32:44.86
but Galatians 2:20,
00:32:44.89\00:32:46.80
"I have been
crucified with Christ."
00:32:46.83\00:32:49.10
Now Romans 7:17.
00:32:49.13\00:32:52.57
Go there, Jill,
because I want to play
00:32:52.60\00:32:53.94
ping pong here.
00:32:53.97\00:32:55.30
Sure. Sure. Okay.
00:32:55.34\00:32:56.71
Romans 7:17.
00:32:56.74\00:32:58.14
Look at that.
00:32:58.17\00:33:00.38
So I'm going to
read Galatians 2:20,
00:33:00.41\00:33:01.81
then I'm gonna throw Romans 7:17
00:33:01.84\00:33:03.21
and tell you what it says.
00:33:03.24\00:33:04.58
It says, "It is no
longer I who live but Christ."
00:33:04.61\00:33:07.78
Romans 7:17, Jill.
00:33:07.82\00:33:09.15
"It is no longer I
who do it, but sin."
00:33:09.18\00:33:10.82
Okay.
00:33:10.89\00:33:12.22
It is no longer I
who live, but Christ.
00:33:12.25\00:33:14.06
It is no longer I who
live, who do it but sin.
00:33:14.09\00:33:16.59
In both cases,
00:33:16.62\00:33:17.96
it is no longer
either one in both cases.
00:33:17.99\00:33:21.13
Right. That's right.
00:33:21.16\00:33:22.50
You all, you did
was decide who to serve.
00:33:22.53\00:33:24.60
Right. Yay!
00:33:24.63\00:33:25.97
In both cases,
00:33:26.00\00:33:27.34
you became his
slave or his slave.
00:33:27.37\00:33:31.31
And I love to be God slave,
00:33:31.34\00:33:33.78
because I'm in a house
that's filled with love.
00:33:33.81\00:33:36.58
That's that servanthood, I
no longer call you servant,
00:33:36.61\00:33:40.52
but friend, or
master but friend.
00:33:40.55\00:33:43.05
So we don't have a
master slave relationship.
00:33:43.08\00:33:47.36
We have a father
and son relationship
00:33:47.39\00:33:50.13
from which we
cry out Abba Father.
00:33:50.16\00:33:52.99
So when you know
that in, that case,
00:33:53.03\00:33:55.33
that's why now look
at the sanctification.
00:33:55.36\00:33:58.30
Once you now yield to Christ,
00:33:58.33\00:34:01.24
He's in charge and
look what's going to happen.
00:34:01.27\00:34:04.24
And the life which I
now live in the flesh,
00:34:04.31\00:34:07.81
I live by faith
in the Son of God,
00:34:07.84\00:34:10.15
who did what?
00:34:10.18\00:34:11.55
Loved me and
gave Himself for me.
00:34:11.58\00:34:14.82
And then you can add,
you can't miss verse 21.
00:34:14.85\00:34:17.39
"I do not set
aside the grace of God,
00:34:17.42\00:34:19.22
for if righteousness
comes through the law,
00:34:19.25\00:34:22.66
then Christ died in vain.
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.23
In that inference there,
00:34:24.26\00:34:25.83
whether it's
referring to the commandments
00:34:25.86\00:34:27.20
or the ceremonial law,
00:34:27.23\00:34:28.56
righteousness doesn't
come through either one.
00:34:28.60\00:34:30.87
Righteousness is
the character of God.
00:34:30.90\00:34:32.80
The Ten Commandments
reveal His character,
00:34:32.83\00:34:34.37
but the Ten
Commandments can't fix you.
00:34:34.40\00:34:37.24
It's the Lord who works
in you both to will and to do
00:34:37.31\00:34:39.67
of His good pleasure.
00:34:39.71\00:34:41.11
And here's the quotation
00:34:41.14\00:34:42.48
I want to read
to you very quickly.
00:34:42.51\00:34:43.98
You know, Jill, we
need two more hours.
00:34:44.05\00:34:45.91
That's good.
00:34:45.95\00:34:47.32
Right now I
feel like I'm at a...
00:34:47.35\00:34:50.29
I feel like I'm at a smorgasbord
00:34:50.32\00:34:52.89
and I only have one little fork.
00:34:52.92\00:34:57.26
Don't you feel it,
Ryan? That's the truth.
00:34:57.33\00:34:58.99
Okay. Here's a quotation, okay.
00:34:59.03\00:35:02.23
The book Temperance, the
book, Temperance, is a page 112.
00:35:02.26\00:35:06.84
We must to,
00:35:06.87\00:35:08.20
God has given us
the power of choice,
00:35:08.24\00:35:09.74
it is ours to exercise.
00:35:09.77\00:35:11.17
We cannot change our hearts,
we cannot control our thoughts,
00:35:11.21\00:35:14.84
our impulses, our affections.
00:35:14.88\00:35:16.64
We cannot make ourselves
pure, fit for God's service,
00:35:16.68\00:35:20.05
but we can choose to serve God.
00:35:20.12\00:35:22.98
We can give Him our will,
00:35:23.02\00:35:24.72
then He will work in us
00:35:24.75\00:35:26.09
to will and to do
according to His good pleasure.
00:35:26.12\00:35:28.66
Thus, our whole
nature will be brought
00:35:28.69\00:35:30.46
under the control of Christ.
00:35:30.53\00:35:32.76
And I leave the next
quotation for later on.
00:35:32.79\00:35:35.33
But so, once we
choose who to serve,
00:35:35.36\00:35:37.73
they decide, okay,
you ready for the process?
00:35:37.77\00:35:40.64
And then we
become holy or corrupt.
00:35:40.67\00:35:42.00
You know, it's amazing,
00:35:42.04\00:35:43.41
because
everything you just described
00:35:43.44\00:35:44.77
is put on display
00:35:44.81\00:35:46.14
in the Garden of
Gethsemane by Christ.
00:35:46.17\00:35:47.51
Oh, yes, it is. It's powerful.
00:35:47.54\00:35:48.88
As you were
walking through that,
00:35:48.91\00:35:50.25
I'm seeing vividly in my mind,
00:35:50.28\00:35:51.61
because Christ
had already chosen.
00:35:51.65\00:35:53.31
I think this is at
the end of His ministry.
00:35:53.35\00:35:55.35
So you have to
consider, He's three years,
00:35:55.38\00:35:58.39
three and a
half years into this,
00:35:58.42\00:36:00.16
He's been serving His Father.
00:36:00.19\00:36:01.76
He had already
chosen to serve His Father.
00:36:01.79\00:36:04.03
But did the test stop
00:36:04.06\00:36:06.23
just because He
chose in the beginning
00:36:06.26\00:36:07.70
to serve His Father,
the test continued on.
00:36:07.73\00:36:09.73
And we see interestingly there,
00:36:09.76\00:36:11.37
that in the
Garden of Gethsemane,
00:36:11.40\00:36:13.00
the nature, the
nature of the first Adam,
00:36:13.03\00:36:15.37
the fallen Adam comes
out in Christ when He says,
00:36:15.40\00:36:18.34
"Man, I don't want to do this.
00:36:18.37\00:36:20.68
I do not want to have
to drink of this cup."
00:36:20.71\00:36:22.41
However...
00:36:22.44\00:36:23.78
Lord, if there's any
way that I can, you know,
00:36:23.85\00:36:27.15
do and complete
what You want me to do
00:36:27.22\00:36:30.29
without having
to drink this cup.
00:36:30.32\00:36:32.62
But if not, Lord,
as you said, however...
00:36:32.65\00:36:35.42
Nevertheless...
00:36:35.46\00:36:36.83
Nevertheless, not my will.
00:36:36.86\00:36:39.26
So He placed Himself
00:36:39.29\00:36:41.53
not only as a slave to
His Father, by serving Him.
00:36:41.56\00:36:46.00
But once you do
that, once you say,
00:36:46.03\00:36:47.64
Father, I'm serving You,
00:36:47.67\00:36:49.47
then as the slave
master relationship
00:36:49.50\00:36:52.11
to the slave,
00:36:52.14\00:36:53.48
the slave now
must place his will
00:36:53.51\00:36:56.04
at the feet of the
slave master and say,
00:36:56.08\00:36:58.55
not my way, but yours.
00:36:58.58\00:36:59.91
That's right.
00:36:59.95\00:37:01.28
And then I love what
you described earlier
00:37:01.32\00:37:02.65
because there, you
know, there are stories
00:37:02.68\00:37:04.02
and I'm a history
major, I love reading history.
00:37:04.09\00:37:05.95
There are many, many
slaves who lost their life
00:37:05.99\00:37:07.99
that even though
00:37:08.02\00:37:09.36
by identification
they were a slave.
00:37:09.39\00:37:13.23
They refused in their
own mind to be a slave
00:37:13.26\00:37:15.43
and they lost their life for it,
00:37:15.46\00:37:16.80
because they refused
that even though by legally
00:37:16.87\00:37:20.24
they were bought
and sold into slavery,
00:37:20.27\00:37:23.24
they in their mind said,
00:37:23.27\00:37:24.61
I'm not going to serve this man.
00:37:24.64\00:37:25.97
And so we see
00:37:26.01\00:37:27.38
that Christ placed
Himself humbly at the Father,
00:37:27.41\00:37:29.54
you know, speaking in
righteousness terms here,
00:37:29.58\00:37:31.55
He placed Himself at the
feet of the Father and so Lord,
00:37:31.58\00:37:33.82
not my will, but yours.
00:37:33.85\00:37:35.45
That's
powerful. That's powerful.
00:37:35.48\00:37:37.19
Amazing. Amen.
00:37:37.22\00:37:38.59
So we've talked in
the sanctification process
00:37:38.62\00:37:40.86
we need to make a choice
who we will serve, right?
00:37:40.89\00:37:44.23
Then I know there's the choice,
00:37:44.26\00:37:46.59
but is there any other
aspect within sanctification?
00:37:46.63\00:37:49.93
I'm thinking of a
biblical principle
00:37:49.96\00:37:51.47
that talks about
what you feed grows.
00:37:51.50\00:37:54.97
That's right. And
what you starve die.
00:37:55.00\00:37:57.34
So how does that relate to
our experience as Christians
00:37:57.41\00:38:01.71
through the
sanctification process?
00:38:01.74\00:38:03.08
Romans 12:1-2.
00:38:03.11\00:38:04.68
Right. Yeah.
00:38:04.71\00:38:07.12
Even Isaiah 1
says, "Cease to do evil,
00:38:07.15\00:38:09.92
learn to do good."
00:38:09.95\00:38:11.69
There's somewhere,
there's a training process.
00:38:11.72\00:38:14.32
What did I say? Romans 12:1-2.
00:38:14.36\00:38:15.99
Okay, great.
00:38:16.02\00:38:17.53
I knew what I said, but
for some reason in my mind,
00:38:17.56\00:38:20.63
my brain was...
00:38:20.70\00:38:22.03
You were on
Isaiah. I was so far ahead.
00:38:22.06\00:38:24.33
The one thing I have,
00:38:24.37\00:38:25.80
you know, I praise God, my mind,
00:38:25.83\00:38:27.57
I'm so far ahead in my
mind where I'm headed next.
00:38:27.64\00:38:30.41
Sometimes I say, why
am I at this intersection?
00:38:30.44\00:38:32.37
Which way do I go?
00:38:32.41\00:38:33.78
Romans 12:1, it says,
"I beseech you therefore,
00:38:33.81\00:38:36.31
brethren, by
the mercies of God,"
00:38:36.34\00:38:38.18
and here it is,
00:38:38.21\00:38:39.55
"remember, do you not know
00:38:39.58\00:38:40.92
that whom you
present yourselves,"
00:38:40.95\00:38:42.28
here it is again,
00:38:42.32\00:38:43.69
"that you present your
body a living sacrifice,
00:38:43.72\00:38:47.69
holy, acceptable to God,
00:38:47.72\00:38:49.32
which is your
reasonable service."
00:38:49.36\00:38:51.23
Living sacrifice,
you know, that means?
00:38:51.26\00:38:53.29
It is no longer I
who live. That's right.
00:38:53.33\00:38:55.16
Good. See?
00:38:55.20\00:38:56.67
Living sacrifice, you
got to put something down,
00:38:56.70\00:38:58.57
but how does it happen?
00:38:58.60\00:38:59.93
This is our part
00:38:59.97\00:39:01.30
which we oftentimes
try to sidestep this.
00:39:01.34\00:39:04.44
And do not be
conformed to this world.
00:39:04.47\00:39:06.71
You literally, you've literally,
00:39:06.78\00:39:08.58
my wife and I,
00:39:08.61\00:39:09.94
we rejoice in
this particular passage
00:39:09.98\00:39:11.75
because we literally,
00:39:11.78\00:39:13.28
if something comes on television
00:39:13.31\00:39:14.65
that we know is not good.
00:39:14.68\00:39:16.02
We say, "I'm not watching that.
00:39:16.05\00:39:17.39
I am just not watching that.
00:39:17.42\00:39:18.75
I'm not watching that."
00:39:18.79\00:39:20.16
You got to say,
I'm not watching that.
00:39:20.19\00:39:21.52
I'm not listening to
that. I'm not going to do that.
00:39:21.56\00:39:23.09
I'm not going there.
I refuse to participate.
00:39:23.12\00:39:25.99
You literally have
to be not be conformed
00:39:26.03\00:39:29.00
because the world is
continually pressing you
00:39:29.03\00:39:31.70
like a crowded train
to go through that door.
00:39:31.73\00:39:35.00
And you say, I'm
not, hold your ground.
00:39:35.04\00:39:37.54
Why?
00:39:37.61\00:39:38.94
Transformed by the
renewing of your mind.
00:39:38.97\00:39:41.41
This is where Bibles,
00:39:41.44\00:39:42.78
that you may prove only then
00:39:42.81\00:39:44.68
what is that good and acceptable
00:39:44.71\00:39:46.11
and perfect will of God.
00:39:46.15\00:39:47.52
Now let me add
one more component.
00:39:47.55\00:39:48.88
This is huge.
00:39:48.92\00:39:50.25
So when you
refuse to go one route,
00:39:50.29\00:39:51.79
and determined to go the other,
00:39:51.82\00:39:53.36
only then can you prove
what is God's perfect will.
00:39:53.39\00:39:56.16
But here's one
thing I'm gonna throw
00:39:56.19\00:39:57.53
just completely
different left turn.
00:39:57.56\00:39:58.89
Are you ready for
it? Hold on, left.
00:39:58.93\00:40:00.90
This is one of the reasons
00:40:00.93\00:40:02.26
why so many
Christians reject the Sabbath
00:40:02.30\00:40:04.33
'cause they
think it's about a day.
00:40:04.37\00:40:06.13
Yes. Right.
00:40:06.17\00:40:07.54
Let's go to
Genesis 2 very quickly.
00:40:07.57\00:40:08.90
They think it's about a
day but it's not about a day.
00:40:08.94\00:40:11.67
The day is the proving...
00:40:11.71\00:40:13.04
The day is the proving
00:40:13.07\00:40:14.98
what is the good and acceptable,
00:40:15.01\00:40:16.34
and perfect will of God.
00:40:16.38\00:40:17.71
The day is proving
00:40:17.75\00:40:19.08
what is the good and acceptable,
00:40:19.11\00:40:20.45
and perfect will of God.
00:40:20.52\00:40:21.85
But Genesis 2:1,
what does it say?
00:40:21.88\00:40:23.52
Let's do verse 3. Verse 3?
00:40:23.59\00:40:25.59
"Then God
blessed the seventh day
00:40:25.62\00:40:27.06
and sanctified it,
00:40:27.09\00:40:28.42
because in it He
rested from all His work
00:40:28.46\00:40:31.13
which God created and made.
00:40:31.16\00:40:32.99
So He blessed it and
then He sanctified it.
00:40:33.03\00:40:34.90
So what does it
have to do with us?
00:40:34.93\00:40:36.53
Now, Ezekiel
20:12. That's right.
00:40:36.56\00:40:40.44
It's a process. It's a process.
00:40:40.47\00:40:42.47
This is connection
between sanctification
00:40:42.50\00:40:45.07
and the Sabbath.
00:40:45.11\00:40:46.44
Yes! It's a process.
00:40:46.47\00:40:48.48
A lot of people
say, "I prefer Sunday."
00:40:48.51\00:40:50.75
Well, you know, Ryan,
you just made the point.
00:40:50.78\00:40:52.45
If it's what you prefer,
00:40:52.48\00:40:54.02
the nevertheless
never comes into play.
00:40:54.05\00:40:56.05
Right. I prefer Sunday.
00:40:56.08\00:40:57.42
Nevertheless, I'm
going to keep Sabbath
00:40:57.49\00:40:58.95
because the Lord
said, remember to keep it...
00:40:58.99\00:41:01.89
Right. Keep it holy.
00:41:01.92\00:41:03.83
Okay, that's right. Sorry.
00:41:03.86\00:41:05.19
I just thought, oh,
you were waiting for that.
00:41:05.23\00:41:07.10
Keep it holy.
00:41:07.13\00:41:08.86
Holy is another
word for sanctified.
00:41:08.90\00:41:10.27
Absolutely.
00:41:10.30\00:41:11.63
Notice what it says,
now, Ezekiel 20:12 and 20.
00:41:11.67\00:41:13.97
This is the reason.
00:41:14.04\00:41:15.37
Now if you're Christian
00:41:15.40\00:41:16.74
that's not a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:41:16.77\00:41:18.11
this is the
reason for the Sabbath.
00:41:18.14\00:41:19.61
Why does the Bible ask?
Why does the Lord ask us?
00:41:19.64\00:41:22.71
Jill, read verse 12 for us?
00:41:22.74\00:41:24.45
"Moreover, I also
gave them my Sabbath,
00:41:24.48\00:41:27.12
to be assigned
between them and Me,
00:41:27.15\00:41:29.15
that they might know
00:41:29.18\00:41:30.52
that I'm the Lord
who sanctifies them."
00:41:30.59\00:41:32.69
It's a sign of
sanctification. That's right.
00:41:32.72\00:41:34.89
When you honor the Sabbath,
you're saying, okay, Lord.
00:41:34.92\00:41:37.13
Look at verse 20 now.
00:41:37.16\00:41:39.06
"Hallow My Sabbaths,
00:41:39.09\00:41:40.43
and they will be a
sign between Me and you,
00:41:40.50\00:41:42.13
that you may know that
I am the Lord your God."
00:41:42.16\00:41:44.10
Right.
00:41:44.17\00:41:45.50
So watch this, is
the Sabbath truth?
00:41:45.53\00:41:47.04
Absolutely. Is Jesus truth?
00:41:47.07\00:41:48.40
Absolutely.
00:41:48.44\00:41:49.77
Sanctify them, by that
truth I, word is truth.
00:41:49.80\00:41:53.41
Jesus is truth,
the Sabbath is truth,
00:41:53.48\00:41:55.41
the commandments are truth.
00:41:55.44\00:41:56.78
You cannot be sanctified.
00:41:56.85\00:41:58.41
You cannot be in the
process of sanctification
00:41:58.45\00:42:02.05
and refuse the
very identifying mark
00:42:02.08\00:42:04.85
of sanctification,
it's not possible.
00:42:04.89\00:42:06.52
That's right. Amen.
00:42:06.55\00:42:07.89
Yeah, absolutely.
00:42:07.92\00:42:09.26
No I, you know,
you would ask earlier,
00:42:09.29\00:42:12.13
in reference to, you know,
00:42:12.16\00:42:13.90
basically the
purpose of sanctification.
00:42:13.93\00:42:16.43
I wanted to just talk
about that for a moment
00:42:16.46\00:42:18.27
and add a couple of texts.
00:42:18.30\00:42:19.63
Acts 26:18, let's
start there. Oh, yeah.
00:42:19.67\00:42:22.17
Acts 26:18, how am I sanctified?
00:42:22.20\00:42:26.68
What does it look like?
00:42:26.71\00:42:28.04
What should I do
in order to make sure
00:42:28.08\00:42:30.65
that I'm in this
process of sanctification?
00:42:30.68\00:42:33.28
Acts 26:18,
00:42:33.31\00:42:35.58
Paul was called
to open their eyes.
00:42:35.62\00:42:38.12
Of course, this is the
work of the Holy Spirit
00:42:38.15\00:42:39.49
through Paul,
00:42:39.52\00:42:40.86
and ultimately the
work of the Holy Spirit
00:42:40.89\00:42:42.36
in order to turn them
from darkness to light.
00:42:42.39\00:42:44.89
That's the
purpose of sanctification.
00:42:44.93\00:42:46.39
God wants to transform us,
00:42:46.43\00:42:48.00
take us out of that darkness
00:42:48.03\00:42:49.36
and bring us into
His marvelous light.
00:42:49.40\00:42:50.90
It says and from the
power of Satan to God,
00:42:50.97\00:42:53.84
that they may
receive forgiveness of sins,
00:42:53.87\00:42:55.74
but does it stop there?
00:42:55.77\00:42:57.11
Many people's
gospel stops right there.
00:42:57.14\00:42:59.64
That Jesus died on the cross
that I might have forgiveness.
00:42:59.67\00:43:02.78
Jesus, my
friends, died on the cross
00:43:02.81\00:43:04.61
for a whole lot more
than just forgiveness.
00:43:04.65\00:43:06.85
Yes, forgiveness was the avenue,
00:43:06.92\00:43:09.55
but over the paved path,
00:43:09.58\00:43:12.12
but Christ died on the cross
00:43:12.15\00:43:13.96
for much more
than just forgiveness.
00:43:13.99\00:43:15.42
Christ died on the cross
00:43:15.46\00:43:16.83
that we might have
complete victory over sin.
00:43:16.86\00:43:19.66
And that's what
this is saying here.
00:43:19.69\00:43:21.03
Notice, that you might
receive forgiveness of sin
00:43:21.06\00:43:23.16
and inheritance among those
00:43:23.20\00:43:24.67
who are
sanctified by faith in Me.
00:43:24.70\00:43:27.14
That
sanctification process comes,
00:43:27.17\00:43:29.20
but notice 2 Corinthians 3:18.
00:43:29.24\00:43:31.27
Yes. Okay.
00:43:31.31\00:43:32.64
Now we're dialing this
in, 2 Corinthians 3:18.
00:43:32.67\00:43:35.81
How can I make sure
00:43:35.84\00:43:37.71
that I am experiencing
true biblical sanctification?
00:43:37.75\00:43:42.15
2 Corinthians 3:18,
00:43:42.18\00:43:44.29
"But we all with unveiled face
00:43:44.32\00:43:47.46
beholding as in a mirror
of the glory of the Lord."
00:43:47.49\00:43:50.43
So what are we beholding?
00:43:50.46\00:43:51.89
We're looking at Him. Jesus.
00:43:51.93\00:43:53.26
Okay, there's not an actual text
00:43:53.29\00:43:54.63
that says for word for word,
00:43:54.66\00:43:56.53
by beholding we become changed,
00:43:56.56\00:43:57.90
but this is where we
get that concept from,
00:43:57.93\00:43:59.77
because you
notice this text says,
00:43:59.80\00:44:01.77
that by beholding in a
mirror, the glory of the Lord,
00:44:01.80\00:44:04.31
we are, notice,
00:44:04.34\00:44:05.67
being transformed
into the same image how?
00:44:05.71\00:44:08.31
From glory to glory.
00:44:08.34\00:44:09.68
Paul would say
through step by step,
00:44:09.71\00:44:11.38
faith to faith,
and in this case,
00:44:11.41\00:44:12.98
glory to glory,
00:44:13.01\00:44:14.48
just as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
00:44:14.52\00:44:16.89
This reminds me
of the conversation
00:44:16.92\00:44:19.35
that Jesus had with Nicodemus.
00:44:19.39\00:44:21.19
And actually Miss Ellen
White makes this very clear.
00:44:21.22\00:44:23.73
She says that in no other
part of scripture is salvation
00:44:23.76\00:44:27.00
made more clear,
00:44:27.03\00:44:28.36
the plan of
salvation made more clear
00:44:28.40\00:44:29.73
than in John Chapter 3
00:44:29.76\00:44:31.10
in the conversation that
Jesus had with Nicodemus.
00:44:31.13\00:44:33.23
This is powerful.
00:44:33.27\00:44:34.60
By beholding, we become changed.
00:44:34.64\00:44:36.24
When we behold Christ,
00:44:36.27\00:44:38.24
and we place our
will at His feet,
00:44:38.27\00:44:41.81
and we put self on the cross.
00:44:41.84\00:44:44.95
Remember, Jesus said,
00:44:44.98\00:44:46.31
"If you desire to come
after Me and follow Me,
00:44:46.35\00:44:47.98
take up your
cross, deny yourself,
00:44:48.02\00:44:50.52
take up your cross,
00:44:50.59\00:44:51.92
that is take up
your instrument of death,
00:44:51.95\00:44:53.29
sacrifice self, put
self upon the altar,
00:44:53.32\00:44:55.52
we have to do that.
00:44:55.56\00:44:56.93
But notice this, John Chapter 3,
00:44:56.96\00:44:58.93
the key verse in John Chapter
3 in my opinion is verse 14.
00:44:58.96\00:45:02.56
Many people are
gonna say, verse 16,
00:45:02.60\00:45:04.37
because that's the
most popular verse,
00:45:04.40\00:45:06.30
but you don't have a verse 16
00:45:06.33\00:45:08.24
unless you first
experienced verse 14.
00:45:08.27\00:45:10.31
Okay.
00:45:10.34\00:45:11.67
He says here,
00:45:11.71\00:45:13.04
"And as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness,
00:45:13.07\00:45:15.11
even so must the Son
of man be lifted up."
00:45:15.14\00:45:16.85
That's right.
00:45:16.88\00:45:18.21
And many people
will read that and go,
00:45:18.25\00:45:19.58
"What? What does that mean?"
00:45:19.61\00:45:20.95
Well, when you go
back to Numbers 21
00:45:20.98\00:45:22.65
and you read that story.
00:45:22.68\00:45:24.49
How were the
children of Israel saved
00:45:24.52\00:45:27.86
when those serpents
00:45:27.89\00:45:29.22
started going
throughout the camp
00:45:29.26\00:45:30.63
and biting and killing them?
00:45:30.66\00:45:31.99
That's right. Looking at Jesus.
00:45:32.03\00:45:33.36
Jesus is
referencing that story here.
00:45:33.40\00:45:34.73
He's saying, if you really,
00:45:34.76\00:45:36.10
He's explaining
this to Nicodemus
00:45:36.13\00:45:37.47
who was a Pharisee, who was the,
00:45:37.50\00:45:39.20
a theological
scholar of his day.
00:45:39.23\00:45:41.87
And He's telling this man,
00:45:41.90\00:45:43.24
"Look, if you
really want to understand
00:45:43.27\00:45:44.61
all that I've told
you how to be born again.
00:45:44.64\00:45:46.57
How sanctification
00:45:46.61\00:45:48.24
is vitally
important to salvation."
00:45:48.28\00:45:50.95
He says, "If you
want to be born again,
00:45:50.98\00:45:52.68
and you want to see
the kingdom of God."
00:45:52.71\00:45:54.55
Notice this, just as Moses
00:45:54.58\00:45:55.92
lifted up the
serpent in the wood
00:45:55.95\00:45:57.29
and so shall the
Son of man be lifted up.
00:45:57.32\00:45:58.89
So how can I make sure
that I'm not just saying,
00:45:58.92\00:46:01.02
I'm justified and that's it,
00:46:01.06\00:46:02.49
because most people's
gospel stops right there.
00:46:02.52\00:46:04.83
Justification
only, no sanctification,
00:46:04.86\00:46:07.13
and that's where you
just brought up clearly
00:46:07.20\00:46:08.96
the Sabbath issue.
00:46:09.00\00:46:10.37
Most people don't
find Sabbath important,
00:46:10.40\00:46:12.43
because their gospel only
consists of justification.
00:46:12.47\00:46:15.20
If I'm already justified,
00:46:15.24\00:46:16.57
why do I have to
keep a Sabbath? Right?
00:46:16.60\00:46:18.54
Well, the Sabbath is a part
of that sanctifying process,
00:46:18.57\00:46:21.08
also the
sanctuary truth as well.
00:46:21.11\00:46:23.18
If you study
the sanctuary model,
00:46:23.21\00:46:24.81
what's the purpose of the model?
00:46:24.85\00:46:26.18
Most people stop at
the altar of sacrifice
00:46:26.21\00:46:28.92
and there's,
the courtyard there,
00:46:28.95\00:46:30.29
they go to that
altar of sacrifice.
00:46:30.32\00:46:31.65
Jesus is dying as that
lamb that's being slain,
00:46:31.69\00:46:34.39
but they don't go any further.
00:46:34.42\00:46:35.76
They might go to the
laver and be baptized,
00:46:35.79\00:46:37.89
but they're not going
to enter the Holy Place,
00:46:37.93\00:46:39.59
and they're
certainly not going to enter
00:46:39.63\00:46:40.96
the Most Holy Place.
00:46:41.00\00:46:42.33
And if they do,
most people believe
00:46:42.36\00:46:43.70
that they can go
right from the courtyard,
00:46:43.77\00:46:45.33
skip the Holy Place
00:46:45.37\00:46:46.74
and go right into
the Most Holy Place.
00:46:46.77\00:46:48.47
It's very vitally
important that we understand
00:46:48.50\00:46:51.21
that right back to
the story here, John 3,
00:46:51.24\00:46:54.01
just as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness.
00:46:54.08\00:46:57.91
They had to look, in fact,
00:46:57.95\00:46:59.58
by faith they have to
behold the serpent on a stick,
00:46:59.61\00:47:02.95
on that stick that was raised.
00:47:02.98\00:47:05.19
And if they behold,
beheld that in faith,
00:47:05.22\00:47:07.96
they were saved.
00:47:07.99\00:47:09.32
Now, what is the point of this?
00:47:09.36\00:47:10.73
By beholding, there is a
life and a look at the Savior.
00:47:10.76\00:47:13.63
If we are focusing our
attention more on self,
00:47:13.70\00:47:16.87
the desires of the
flesh and the pride of life,
00:47:16.90\00:47:19.10
then we're not beholding Christ,
00:47:19.13\00:47:21.14
we are beholding self.
00:47:21.17\00:47:23.10
And just as Christ
there in that wilderness,
00:47:23.14\00:47:25.44
in the Garden of
Gethsemane, it's very clear.
00:47:25.47\00:47:27.48
Christ had a choice
there, He could have said,
00:47:27.51\00:47:29.71
you know what?
00:47:29.74\00:47:31.08
"I really don't want
to go through with this."
00:47:31.11\00:47:32.45
He would have
actually sent their pastor
00:47:32.48\00:47:34.45
because He would have been
submitting Himself to His self.
00:47:34.48\00:47:39.15
Okay.
00:47:39.19\00:47:40.56
But rather He
submitted Himself to His Father.
00:47:40.59\00:47:42.29
So how can we make sure
00:47:42.32\00:47:44.06
that we're walking in
that sanctifying process,
00:47:44.13\00:47:46.29
that we're experiencing
true biblical sanctification.
00:47:46.33\00:47:48.63
We have to behold
Jesus and obviously,
00:47:48.66\00:47:51.57
not literally in the sense of,
00:47:51.60\00:47:53.03
you know, a
picture in your house or,
00:47:53.07\00:47:55.27
you know, but with
focusing on Christ,
00:47:55.30\00:47:57.51
spending time with Christ,
00:47:57.54\00:47:59.41
making your
everyday life, every choice,
00:47:59.44\00:48:01.61
everything you
do, every thought,
00:48:01.64\00:48:03.28
everything that you possibly do,
00:48:03.35\00:48:04.88
you shroud it,
00:48:04.91\00:48:06.25
you cover it in Christ
Jesus and His righteousness.
00:48:06.28\00:48:09.78
By beholding His righteousness,
you shall become changed.
00:48:09.82\00:48:12.52
Amen. That's right.
00:48:12.55\00:48:13.89
That's right. Pastor John?
00:48:13.96\00:48:15.82
One of my favorite quotations
00:48:15.86\00:48:17.23
and I'll end with this
particular Bible verse,
00:48:17.26\00:48:19.53
Education, page 29.
00:48:19.56\00:48:21.46
The will is the governing
power in the nature of Christ,
00:48:21.50\00:48:25.20
not my will, but yours be done.
00:48:25.23\00:48:27.54
The power of decision or choice,
00:48:27.57\00:48:29.74
every human being
possessed of reason has power
00:48:29.77\00:48:32.44
to choose the right.
00:48:32.47\00:48:34.44
In every experience
of life, God's Word to us
00:48:34.48\00:48:36.51
is choose you this
day whom you will serve.
00:48:36.54\00:48:39.58
Everyone may place his will
on the side of the will of God,
00:48:39.61\00:48:42.75
and they may choose to obey Him,
00:48:42.78\00:48:44.52
and thus by linking
himself with divine agencies,
00:48:44.55\00:48:48.89
he may stand
00:48:48.92\00:48:50.36
where nothing can
force him to do evil.
00:48:50.43\00:48:54.30
Nothing can. How
does that happen?
00:48:54.33\00:48:56.53
Here's the last
text I'm going to give.
00:48:56.56\00:48:58.37
Ezekiel 36:25-27.
00:48:58.40\00:49:00.94
By the way, sanctification
is Old and New Testament,
00:49:00.97\00:49:03.17
it's not just New Testament.
00:49:03.20\00:49:04.77
It always has been the process
by which God cleanses us.
00:49:04.81\00:49:08.51
Ezekiel 36:25-27.
00:49:08.54\00:49:11.01
The Lord says,
00:49:11.05\00:49:12.45
"Then I will
sprinkle clean water on you,
00:49:12.48\00:49:15.55
baptism, and you shall be clean.
00:49:15.58\00:49:18.32
I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness
00:49:18.35\00:49:21.22
and from all your idols."
00:49:21.26\00:49:23.12
He's continued,
that's the sanctification.
00:49:23.16\00:49:25.33
"I will give you a new heart
00:49:25.36\00:49:26.70
and put a new spirit within you.
00:49:26.73\00:49:28.66
Create in me a clean heart.
00:49:28.70\00:49:30.50
I will take the heart
of stone out of your flesh
00:49:30.57\00:49:33.94
and give you a heart of flesh.
00:49:33.97\00:49:35.30
I will put my spirit within you
00:49:35.34\00:49:37.31
and cause you to
walk in my statutes,
00:49:37.34\00:49:39.41
and you will keep my
judgments and do them."
00:49:39.44\00:49:41.64
What a difference
between what the devil said
00:49:41.68\00:49:43.55
I will, and it was for me.
00:49:43.58\00:49:46.58
And the Lord said, I
will do this for you.
00:49:46.61\00:49:49.82
I will do this for me.
00:49:49.85\00:49:51.79
And the Lord looked
at me and said, John,
00:49:51.82\00:49:53.15
I will do this for you.
00:49:53.19\00:49:54.69
That gives me
hope. Praise the Lord.
00:49:54.72\00:49:56.42
He's gonna do that for me, Jill.
00:49:56.46\00:49:57.79
Amen. That's powerful.
00:49:57.83\00:50:00.23
Amen.
00:50:00.30\00:50:02.33
Get rid of all my
idols, all my filthiness.
00:50:02.36\00:50:04.07
That's right.
00:50:04.10\00:50:05.43
Give me a new
heart, a new spirit.
00:50:05.47\00:50:07.14
Take out the stone,
give me the heart of flesh,
00:50:07.17\00:50:09.47
put a spirit with me
00:50:09.50\00:50:10.84
and enable me to walk
the way that I should.
00:50:10.91\00:50:14.34
It's beautiful.
That always gets to me.
00:50:14.38\00:50:15.88
Me too.
00:50:15.91\00:50:17.25
He said, "I'm
gonna do that for you."
00:50:17.28\00:50:19.35
Who else would I want to serve?
00:50:19.38\00:50:21.65
Sanctification, that's it.
00:50:21.68\00:50:23.25
That's the beautiful thing
00:50:23.28\00:50:24.62
because our God
is a God of love.
00:50:24.65\00:50:26.76
That's right.
00:50:26.79\00:50:28.12
Our God is, I love
that analogy, Pastor,
00:50:28.16\00:50:30.53
I have never thought of that.
00:50:30.56\00:50:32.06
You think about
Isaiah 14, in Ezekiel,
00:50:32.09\00:50:34.30
and you read about Satan
00:50:34.33\00:50:35.66
and how he wanted to
lift himself up above God
00:50:35.70\00:50:39.20
and he wanted to be on the mount
00:50:39.23\00:50:40.74
of the size of the north
and he wanted to be like God.
00:50:40.77\00:50:44.01
If we serve that master,
00:50:44.04\00:50:46.17
if we make a choice to
be a slave to that master,
00:50:46.21\00:50:49.68
it will end in
destruction and death.
00:50:49.71\00:50:53.01
But if you make a choice
to serve the God who says,
00:50:53.05\00:50:57.29
I will clean you,
00:50:57.32\00:50:59.65
I will cover you,
I will cleanse you,
00:50:59.69\00:51:03.43
I will sanctify you,
00:51:03.46\00:51:05.29
I will give you a new
heart and a new spirit.
00:51:05.33\00:51:10.07
I will change you.
00:51:10.10\00:51:11.77
I want to serve that God.
00:51:11.80\00:51:13.84
We have just a moment left,
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.20
we're going to
go to a news break
00:51:15.24\00:51:16.57
but, Pastor John,
would you pray for those
00:51:16.60\00:51:17.94
right now who are struggling?
00:51:17.97\00:51:19.44
Loving Father in heaven,
00:51:19.47\00:51:20.81
there's so many who
are watching this program
00:51:20.88\00:51:22.34
and even listening possibly.
00:51:22.38\00:51:24.18
They are saying,
"Lord, that's what I need,
00:51:24.25\00:51:25.58
but I don't know how to do it.
00:51:25.61\00:51:27.22
Lord Jesus, right now I pray
that they'll just simply say,
00:51:27.25\00:51:29.58
Father come and do in me
00:51:29.62\00:51:31.45
what I could
never do for myself.
00:51:31.49\00:51:33.66
Rescue me, Lord, forgive me,
00:51:33.69\00:51:35.99
and then begin the process
00:51:36.02\00:51:38.33
of everything
You promised to do.
00:51:38.36\00:51:40.00
Lord, give me that willing heart
00:51:40.03\00:51:41.96
to submit to Your will.
00:51:42.00\00:51:43.57
Lord, I know right
now somebody's saying,
00:51:43.60\00:51:46.33
I want that.
00:51:46.37\00:51:47.90
And, Lord, where
that willing heart is
00:51:47.94\00:51:50.21
you can begin
to take that person
00:51:50.24\00:51:52.21
who has been alienated,
00:51:52.24\00:51:53.78
make him or her Your
son or your daughter.
00:51:53.81\00:51:56.38
And Father, right now,
00:51:56.41\00:51:57.75
we thank You for
Your willingness.
00:51:57.78\00:52:00.02
We thank You for
what You will make us.
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And may all the glory be
given to you in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much.
Thank you both so much.
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We'll come back in a
moment with a closing thought.
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The scripture came to mind,
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I'm trying to
see if I can find it
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real fast here in closing.
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Ephesians Chapter
2, "He is our peace.
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He has broken down
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that middle wall of separation."
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So the Lord Jesus
wants to reconcile us
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back to the Father,
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restore in us the image of Jesus
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and set us free from sin.
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That is sanctification.
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