God's Will: Be Sanctified!
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God’s will: It’s for you!
God’s will: It’s for you!
God’s will wants to be worked out in you and through you. Don’t worry you don’t have to do it under your own power, but His (Php2:13). And because He does these things in us, there are things we can do to assure we are walking in God’s will (1The5:16-18). God’s will for you, Be sanctified (1The4:3).
13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Previously we have looked at a few things, and best I give the passage we have worked from to set us up for tonight
16 Rejoice always; 17 pray without ceasing; 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Rejoice regardless of situation or circumstance
Pray always in all things and for all things and through all things
Give thanks in and for all things, including the hard, difficult things
God’s will for us includes our sanctification, and in our passage tonight it specific, and we will bring the lens back to look at the bigger picture of sanctification.
1the5:
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
In the bigger picture regarding sanctification tonight want to look at
Our need for sanctification
because of who God is
because of who we are in Christ
Our state of sanctification
it is positional
It is practical
Our practice of sanctification
It is applicable
Our need for sanctification
Our need for sanctification
To know we have a need I think we better understand what it is that we need, then why we need it.
verb (used with object), sanc·ti·fied, sanc·ti·fy·ing.
verb (used with object), sanc·ti·fied, sanc·ti·fy·ing.
Sanctification (verb) to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.to purify or free from sin:Sanctify your hearts.to impart religious sanction to; render legitimate or binding:to sanctify a vow.to entitle to reverence or respect.to make productive of or conducive to spiritual blessing.
Some biblical looks at sanctification
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Jesus prays for sanctification, through the word of Truth (Jn17:17)
Sanctify them in truth for His Word is true.
So, if that holds true in prayer for the apostles, what does that mean to us?
Paul says to sanctify by the washing of the water of word (Eph5:26)
Peter says it is by power of the Spirit (1Pt1:2)
it is by the sanctifying work of the Spirit that we are saved!
It is God who sanctified (1The5:23; Heb13:12)
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who does the work here? What does He do? is it all inclusive, body, soul and spirit? What is the purpose for it?
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Look at the slide, go over the slide
Now, who would not want that? So allow God to sanctify your heart
It is a sanctification of the heart (1Pt3:15)
15 but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
All this leading up to our need for sanctification:
God is holy and calls for us to be holy (Lev11:44)
44 For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Peter brought that commandment, to be set apart, to be consecrated, to be holy over into the New Testament
14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
Because we love God and we want to keep His commands and they are not burdensome (1Jn5:3)
We are not conformed to this world (Rom12:1)
For we know the love of God is in us and God is in us in His Spirit which means we are equipped with holiness, not of our own, but of His.
So be sanctified, be set apart for it is God’s will for you.
Sanctification was a concept in the O.T. starting in Genesis, but specifically you see it as God’s chosen person and God’s chosen people (1Chr23:13; Exo19:5-6)
13 The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to sanctify him as most holy, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister to Him and to bless in His name forever.
3 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.
Aaron was set apart for a purpose, holy purpose, to be a servant to Him, to God and to bless His name through His service.
Sanctification as God’s special people today (1Pet2:9-10)
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
What we are - chosen, priesthood, holy, God’s own posession
Why we are - so that we may proclaim Him! who called us out of darkness
(expand on this 1-2 minutes; we are a living example be it good or bad- be sanctified)
Because God is holy, Because we are to be holy, lets look now at our sanctification.
Our state of sanctification
Our state of sanctification
We are sanctified but we are being sanctified. May we look at the state of our state of our sanctification through the scripture.
We are sanctified (Positional)
Church is made of the sanctified (1Cor1:2; 1Cor6:11)
Look how Paul addresses the church at Corinth
2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, with all who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
Sanctified when we were washed, when we were justified, look what Paul says in:
11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Sanctified does not mean perfect (1Cor3:1-3)
1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,
3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
Even though we are sanctified, called saints, called to holy, we can still struggle, in the flesh, in our maturity. We are to be set apart, though it takes power (Holy Spirit) and decision to allow God to will and work in you in your sanctification process.
Sanctified is saints, even in imperfection (Rom1:7; Php1:1; Col1:2)
Saints that is what we are!
7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
and to the church at Philippi
1 Paul and Timothy, bond-servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons:
Because we are called, because we are set apart, set apart with a purpose it is right to be called saints! - no miracles needed except accepting Christ’s work in your life and the sanctification that comes from the work of the Holy Spirit.
This is our positional sanctification. So we are sanctified and are being sanctified.
We are being sanctified
Those in Christ in process of sanctification (Heb2:11)
heb2:11
11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
This on going process! But hey, even in the process, God who does the work is not ashamed to call us His own.
In process by power of God (1The5:23)
I think I used this one before, but it is a good scripture worthy of us remembering
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are encouraged to pursue sanctification (Heb12:14; 2Cor7:1)
14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.
May we be a people that pursue peace with all, and sanctification for it is vital, look at what it says at the end of that verse “without . . . no one will see the Lord”
1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Our sanctification is needed, and we are sanctified and we are being sanctified, it is promised, it is positional and it is practical. And now that leads us to the practice of that which is promised, positional and practical.
Our practice of sanctification
Our practice of sanctification
You have heard the term “practice makes perfect.” Well practiced sanctification will result in holiness. It takes effort, but remember it is God’s will for us to be sanctified.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
Practiced sanctification is needed (2Cor6:14-7:1; 1Pt4:1-4)
14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?
16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 17 “Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you.
18 “And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,” Says the Lord Almighty.
and I cannot stop there, must give you one more verse
1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Our practiced sanctification is need fr we are to live differently than the world
1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
3 For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. 4 In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;
1pt4:3-4
That may be who we were, but not who we are to be today, Holy, sanctified with a purpose. Now having said that we get to a longer application section, instructions we application is always good.
Practiced sanctification in sexual issues and being able to possess our own vessel in purpose (1The4:3-4)
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
Practiced sanctification in sexual issues and being able to possess our own vessel in purpose.
We need practiced sanctification in controlling our own vessel, our own body (1The4:5-7)
5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.
7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
Practiced sanctification is not like the Gentiles who gave their bodies over to their own desires, to passion of lust, not knowing God.
Practiced sanctification is being faithful (1Pt3:7; Rom13:13-14)
7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
Practiced sanctification will not hinder your prayers
13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
Practiced sanctification makes no provision for the flesh! God has called us to holiness not uncleanness remember we are God’s chosen people today (1The4:1; 1The2:12)
4 knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you;
HE CHOSE YOU! HE SANCTIFIED YOU! HE JUSTIFIED YOU! AND HE EMPOWERED YOU WITH A PURPOSE; BE SANCTIFIED, BE HOLY!
12 so that you would walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
Be sure to not reject God’s gift, God’s power (1The4:8)
8 So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
His Spirit that is given to all who obey the gospel (Act2:38-39; Gal4:6)
His Spirit that indwells in the believer (1Cor6:18-20)
Remember our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, so flee from the things of this world that would defile the temple
His Spirit that empowers us to control the flesh (Rom8:12-13)
12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
By the Spirits power by the Spirit inspired Word we put to death the things of the flesh because we are sanctified and are being sanctified and are practicing our sanctification.
Maybe better go back and give a great reminder to us about practiced sanctification that is practical, that is positional and that is needed and provided.
18 Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Flee, don’t defiled yourself
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
1cor6:1
Flee for your body is not your own!
20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
Flee for you have been bought at a price! So how did this verse end?
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give encouragement (encouragement slide -2) prayer (exit slides)