What does Justification and Sanctification Mean?
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What does Sanctification and Justification mean?
Question 32
What do justification and sanctification mean?
Question 32
What do justification and sanctification mean?
Justification means our declared righteousness before God, made possible by Christ’s death and resurrection for us. Sanctification means our gradual, growing righteousness, made possible by the Spirit’s work in us
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Hook
This morning we are going to talk about some pretty serious stuff and I need your help here this morning as we jump in. I have a few items that I want to introduce to you before we jump into the lesson.
Does anyone know what this is?
A Dirty T-Shirt
And This?
Laundry Detergent
And This?
Socks
And This?
A Mirror
And This?
Oil
And this?
Water
Ok we are going to use these different items today to try and help us understand some things.
Warning - today is going to stretch our minds a little bit and it might cause you to have to think hard.
Do you think you are up for the challenge to learn some things today?
Introduce Subjects
Today I want to talk about two really big words and I need your help pronouncing them
Just-ifi-cation
Sanct-ifi-cation
Define Subject
Justification means being right with God or having peace with God
Sanctification means God making us like him kind of like a transformation
Fallen Condition Focus
It is so hard for us to understand the Bible and what it means so we really need the Holy Spirit to teach us what these things mean and I need his help to teach you
I tell my girls all the time that you need to be a good person and that’s true. But what will happen as you get older you will discover that you, by yourself, don’t have the power to be a good person. You will discover that you don’t have what it takes to be the kind of person God wants you to be. You will discover that you need Jesus. The problem is I think we often expect people to be good and follow the ten commandments without Jesus. The Bible teaches us that because we all have sin none of us can be right with God by following the ten commandments.
Because none of us can do that we are all deserving of punishment because all of us
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
So none of us our good
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;
Because none of us our good we actually need Jesus to be good.
Reason to Hear
There is good news though. Jesus died on a cross for our sins to make us right with God.
Jesus also died to make us into good people who can actually be good in our hearts because he wants to make our hearts his home.
The blood
Does that sound like good news?
Transition to Text
Can I get some volunteer readers?
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—
Colossians 1:19-
What does Justification mean?
Explain
Kids definition - Peace with God or making it right with God
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed. Justification
Justification. The basic fact of biblical religion is that God pardons and accepts believing sinners
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed. Justification
is to pronounce, accept, and treat as just, i.e., as, on the one hand, not penally liable, and, on the other, entitled to all the privileges due to those who have kept the law.
Explain
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed. Justification
Justification has two sides. On the one hand, it means the pardon, remission, and nonimputation of all sins, reconciliation to God, and the end of his enmity and wrath (Acts 13:39; Rom. 4:6–7; 5:9–21; 2 Cor. 5:19). On the other hand, it means the bestowal of a righteous man’s status and a title to all the blessings promised to the just: a thought which Paul amplifies by linking justification with the adoption of believers as God’s sons and heirs (Rom. 8:14–39; Gal. 4:4–7).
Explain
Because of sin we all deserve to be separated from God forever
But God loved us so much he sent Jesus to die for our sin so we could be forgiven.
Illustrate
Volunteers
Illusrate
Making it right with parents
Dirty T-Shirt - Blood of Jesus
Oil & Water
Sin and God to match but they are different socks
Apply
How do we make things right?
How do you suppose we get right with God?
Faith in Jesus
When you put your faith in Jesus and believe that he died and that he rose again and choose to follow him
2. What does sanctification mean?
Explain
Becoming like Jesus
When we accept Jesus Christ makes our heart his home
He comes inside of us and rolls up his sleeves and gets to work
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
One of the goals of the Christian Life is to become like Jesus
One of the goals of the Christian Life is to become like Jesus
What do you think it means to become like Jesus?
PAUSE AND WAIT FOR ANSWERS
After we accept Jesus into our lives; we all become under construction
God begins to work in our lives
The Bible teaches us that
And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
So what does that mean?
You see we have a relationship with Jesus and as we talk and get to know him this verse teaches us that having this relationship with God is like looking into a mirror.
As we look at Jesus and have this relationship we are being changed to look like him.
What does Jesus look like in his heart?
Illustration
Mirror
Makeover
HGTV - Extreme Home Makeover
10 years Younger
Apply
God loves you just the way you are but too much to keep you that way - Max Lucado
So how do we apply this to our lives?
Well if we have already accepted Jesus how to become like him means that you have to spend time with him and have friendship with Jesus.
Talk with him and let him talk back. Read your Bible. Listen and sing worship songs. Spend time with him.
As you do that God will transform you to become more and more like him.
Sum Up
So what two things did we learn about today?
Justification
Sanctification
And what does Justification mean?
What does Sanctification mean?
Suggestion
Maybe you are hear this morning and you have never accepted Jesus or made it right with God and that is something you would like to do. I would love to give you the opportunity to do that.
Spin Around
Thanks for all your help. You might not understand all of what we talked about today but do you think you learned something today? What did you learn today?
Stop
Let’s Pray