What is your Profession? The Position of Sanctification

Profession

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Profession)

noun1 a paid occupation, especially one involving training and a formal qualification.▶ [treated as singular or plural] a body of people engaged in a profession.2 an open but typically false claim: a profession of allegiance.3 a declaration of belief in a religion.▶ the vows made on entering a religious order.▶ the fact of being professed in a religious order.

Hebrews 10:1-18

Hebrews 10:1–18 HCSB

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said: You did not want sacrifice and offering, but You prepared a body for Me. You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings. Then I said, “See— it is written about Me in the volume of the scroll— I have come to do Your will, God!” After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law ), He then says, See, I have come to do Your will. He takes away the first to establish the second. By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins. But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. He is now waiting until His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says: This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws on their hearts and write them on their minds, He adds: I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts. Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

The Role Christ

Sacrifice

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Sacrifice)

■ noun1 the practice or an act of killing an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity.▶ an animal, person, or object offered in this way.2 an act of giving up something of value for the sake of something that is of greater value or importance.3 (also sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly) Baseball a bunted or fly ball which puts the batter out but allows a base-runner to advance.■ verb offer or give up as a sacrifice.

Offering

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Offering)

offering■ noun a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.▶ something offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.

Worship

Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Worship)

worship■ noun1 the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.▶ religious rites and ceremonies.2 great admiration or devotion.3 (His/Your Worship) chiefly Brit. a title of respect used chiefly to or of a magistrate or mayor.4 archaic honour given in recognition of merit.■ verb (worships, worshipping, worshipped; US also worships, worshiping, worshiped)1 show reverence and adoration for (a deity).2 feel great admiration or devotion for.

Recognition of Sin

Sin - to miss the mark

Mis: Understand, Interpret, Construe, Intention, Inform

Renouncing of Sin and Life

Declaration of abandoning was right, possession, or claim

Refusing to recognize

Abandoning a cause, bad habit, way of life)

Process

Understanding the Preparation of God

Creation (Genesis, John, Romans)

Provision (Exodus Joshua, Acts, Romans)

Sustaining (Leviticus, Romans, James, 1,2,3, John )

Supreme Judge (Judges, Romans,Jude, Revelation)

Understanding the Will of God

Being Thankful (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, I Thess.)

Example: The only returning Leper (

Understanding the Plan of God

Making the world His footstool (I and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ester, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Romans, Revelation)

Example: Gideon

Understanding your Position in God

Understanding worship, and performing this task on a daily basis by submitting our talents, gifts, and blessings back and investing into God. (Song of Solomon)

Example: Nehemiah

Application/Communion