Being Fully Persuaded (4)
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Are you ready for the word?
Lets Pray
Many people are in need of a move of God in their lives today.
COVID is still a factor in our lives today.
Families have been divided along social or political lines.
People feel more isolated and secluded than ever before.
I want to encourage you today to look to God - to prepare yourselves for God to do a work in your life.
I’d like to talk about:
Preparing for God’s Wonders
Preparing for God’s Wonders
5 And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” 6 Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.”
So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
The generation that followed God in with wilderness were commanded to sanctify themselves whenever the presence of the Lord would be among them.
10 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.”
The people went through a ceremonial cleansing in preparation to see the presence of God on the mountain.
God is Holy and sinful man cannot stand in the presence of a Holy God.
16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. 19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”
Here in the book of Joshua
God is going to do the miraculous for Joshua and part the Jordan river. The ark of the covenant that represents the presence of God will go before the people.
God wants the people to be ready and tells them to sanctify themselves.
There are times when you and I must put ourselves in a position for God to do the miraculous on our behalf.
We do this by totally relying on Him to fulfill his plan and preparing ourselves to enter into that plan.
How do we prepare ourselves? - By sanctifying ourselves.
Three aspects of Sanctification
Positional Sanctification - based on theology - done by God
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Regeneration - New birth - being born again
When we are born again we are sanctified, set apart, separated from the kingdom of darkness and placed in the kingdom of God.
2. Relational sanctification - as we walk in relationship with God - done by trusting God and doing His word.
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
Jesus gave us an illustration of this type of sanctification.
7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”
8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”
The psalmist confirms this relational sanctification
9 How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11 Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.
3. Practical sanctification - things you and I can do or practice to keep ourselves clean
5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.
8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
There are some things God want you and me to cleans ourselves of. Some things He want you and me to address.
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
What is it that God is telling you to rid yourself of?
Maybe you are harboring un-forgiveness
Maybe you gossip about others
Maybe you have unclean thoughts - or an unhealthy thought life - a vivid imagination of un wholesome images
Maybe you have a wandering eye - looking but not touching
Maybe you want something or someone that belongs to someone else
Maybe you have an improper view of your self and are lifted up in pride - or experience a low self worth
Maybe you have an unhealthy tongue - and say things you shouldn’t say
Maybe you have placed something or someone other than God on the throne of your life.
Maybe God wants to do the miraculous in your life but there is something that is hindering that from happening
5 And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”