Sermon Tone Analysis

What does Sanctification and Justification 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

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

So none of us our good

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?

Colossians 1:19-

What does Justification mean?

Explain

Kids definition - Peace with God or making it right with God

Justification.

The basic fact of biblical religion is that God pardons and accepts believing sinners

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

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

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

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