Sanctification

Once we have been adopted into God’s family by His redemptive grace. We have a new way of life, and although will fail and sin, the Holy Spirit if we are listening will say “No, no, that’s not how we act in God’s family.” We make those changes in our lives through God’s grace because we are His sons and daughters, not because we can become a son or daughter but because we already belong to Him.

The process of learning how to act in God’s family is known as sanctification. Sanctification is the process of God’s grace by which the believer is separated from sin and becomes dedicated to God’s righteousness.

It’s growing in holiness because God has declared us holy in Jesus; it is a holy cleansing; it is daily overcoming the power and presence of sin in our daily lives through the power of the Holy Spirit and the work of God’s Word.

My pastor always says “I’m glad you’re not robbing banks and killing people, but there are some sin you need to work on getting rid of.”

It doesn’t happen overnight and the reason it doesn’t is that we haven’t always been part of God’s family. In today’s world we are alienated from God’s family. So, we have been children of disobedience.

“In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience” – Ephesians 2:2

But God saves us and we become part of God’s family and learn how to live as God’s children in God’s family we will become tough, but it will take time. Overcoming our sinful behaviors and living obediently as His children is what the Bible calls sanctification.

Sanctification is sanctifying ourselves from ungodliness and associating ourselves with God and His Word, like the blessed person in Psalm 1:1

“Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand on the path of sinners, not sit in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the Lord’s law. And on His law, he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season. Whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.”

In John 17:17 Jesus prayed,

“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth.”

Specification is living as those who have been brought from death to life.

“Don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness God” Romans 6:12-13

Sanctification is possible only through God through His grace,

“Now may the God is peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua Messiah” – 1 Thessalonians 5:2

We need to live a life that is pleasing to the Lord.