WEBVTT 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:17.120 Which is from God's name Yahweh. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:25.679 And also, believe it or not, Yeshua, which is translated the Lord. 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:31.199 And it does come, believe it or not, it does come from the Old Testament. 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:43.840 That's what's amazing, is that Yahweh, Jehovah, Yahweh, Joshua, the Lord, our sanctifier. 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:56.479 It comes from Ecclesiastics 31 13, which says, Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Surely, my Sabbath you will keep. 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:08.079 For it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:10.879 Jehovah Meceshum. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.239 It's a little translated a little different right there. 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:19.120 Mecodeshcom, which is kind of strange. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:20.400 It's kind of hard to say. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.439 I don't know if I'm saying it totally clearly right. 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.159 I'm not able to speak Hebrew very well. 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:35.200 But also Leviticus 28, 28, and you shall keep my statutes and perform them. 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.480 I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.879 Jehovah Meccadeshim. 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:41.840 Again. 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:51.760 So what's amazing is that it translates to Lord, which is translating to Jesus Christ. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:02:03.200 It's not just translating to God, it's translating to the Trinity, to the Son of God, even in the Old Testament, in the Old Covenant. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.959 And that's pretty amazing. 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:13.120 In both contexts, it is linked to God's commandments and distinct identity of his people. 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.240 And of course, originally it's the identity of the Israelites, right? 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:20.639 It's called nation. 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:27.360 So the context the concept of sanctification involves two main ideals. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:34.000 The first one is sitting apart, which is positional holiness. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.479 God separates people from the world and to himself. 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:53.599 Similarly, Christians are set apart in Christ. 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.199 So Christians are set apart just like the nation of Israel is set apart. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:06.879 And it's amazing that the Old Testament is specifying that. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:12.240 If you notice that, this is being specified in the Old Testament. 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:17.520 Number two is called making holy, progressive holiness. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.360 It is an ongoing, lifelong process. 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.520 Just a second, let me, I forgot to start this, Randy. 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:26.719 I'm sorry. 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:41.039 It is a life, it is an ongoing, lifelong process where God, by his spirit, transforms a believer's character and conduct to become more like Christ. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:48.000 It's moving from the impurity of sin toward greater purity and devotion to God. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.840 So it's an amazing thing. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:56.960 I mean, everybody in here, are you aware of sanctification? 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.000 That's the first question on the sheet tonight. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:06.400 I mean, a lot of Christians aren't aware of the process of sanctification in a believer's life. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:12.639 So we look at the journey of sanctification. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:19.920 Sanctification is an ongoing, lifelong process by which a believer is made holy and more like Jesus. 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:30.000 So number one, God's work, the Holy Spirit, continually transforms our hearts and minds, setting us apart from sin, right? 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.120 Number two, our response. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:45.120 We actively cooperate by obeying God's word, relying on his strength, and rejecting and rejecting practices that dishonor him. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:51.199 In short, justification is the beginning, being declared righteous. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:05:02.879 And sanctification is the daily practical journey of becoming righteous, growing in holiness and living a life dedicated to God's purpose. 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:09.920 So again it says sanctification is the process of being set apart and made holy. 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.399 It repeats this over and over. 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:14.560 That's what sanctification is. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:22.319 It's the process of being set apart to God and being made holy to God. 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:27.040 And there's three points here. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:37.759 What is it is an ongoing active work of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life, making them more and more like Jesus Christ. 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.319 It is growth in holiness. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:49.360 Number two, the goal to move away from sin and toward righteous living and obedience to God's will. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.800 Number three, the participation. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:06:03.279 It requires both God's power, his grace, and our effort, choosing to obey and surrender daily. 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:09.120 Now I would turn that around and say surrender and obey. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:20.160 Because truly, sanctification, just like in the name we heard in the beginning, it starts with the Lord. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.399 It doesn't start with us. 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:25.519 Sanctification belongs to God. 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.560 He is our sanctifier. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:34.319 So it's the work of God in us that's doing the work. 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.120 It's not us doing the work, it's God. 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:45.199 So this verse is the most direct statement on the purpose of sanctification. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:51.199 So let's look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 3. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:07:01.360 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:02.959 Let's go on. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:18.319 That each one of you know how to control his or her own body and holiness and honor, not in passion and of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:27.839 So what's amazing here is the topic of sanctification focuses on sexual immorality. 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:39.120 And if you notice, sexual immorality isn't just sin against God, it's sin against your body as well. 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.240 And that's a big thing. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:50.319 So we go to the next one, sanctification as a daily partnership, the process. 00:07:50.319 --> 00:08:01.199 Of course, someone always told me, my brother, my older brother, Tim Atchley, he's the pastor of Harvest Church, he would always tell me the process is the solution. 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:12.240 So the process, the apostle Paul calls for an act of ongoing surrender of your entire life. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.279 So surrender is the process. 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.759 You have to surrender to God. 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:37.840 If we look at Romans 12, 1 through 2, it says, I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:48.799 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, which is amazing. 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.279 I mean, that's an awesome scripture. 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:56.080 Clarification is this shows the process of sanctification. 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:04.720 We present our action, our whole lives to God as a living sacrifice, our dedication. 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:17.200 This is followed by an inward transformation, the Spirit's work that changes our thinking so we can resist the world's influence. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:25.919 So you see, God is doing the work of sanctification within you by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:32.480 So sanctification as Christ's provision, the means. 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:38.639 The verse focuses on the source of our holiness, Jesus Christ. 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.360 Hebrews ten fourteen. 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:51.600 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.360 Amazing. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:54.720 Clarification. 00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:05.120 This verse highlights that believers are already perfected, justified set apart by Christ's finished work. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:13.840 But the process of being sanctified, the ongoing transformation is still taking place. 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:24.399 It assures us that our growth in holiness is continued because it rests on the perfect sacrifice of Jesus. 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:37.679 So sanctification is going to go on and on and on through your whole Christian life and work on you reaching perfection until the coming of Jesus Christ. 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:44.559 And when Jesus Christ comes back, you reach perfection and you're given a glorified body. 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.879 And then you're presented. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.399 It's amazing. 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:59.360 I want to encourage everyone to take time and study and meditate on this topic because it's a major part of your walk with Christ. 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:17.279 You can see sanctification at work in Daniel's life through the whole book. 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:26.000 God's work of sanctification, it is a major part of Christianity and our walk with Jesus Christ. 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.480 It is the daily work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, walk. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:43.039 We need to remember that it is important how we run the race, but it's also important how we end the race, how we finish it. 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:47.360 Because a lot of people run the race, but they don't finish the race. 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:59.200 There are three things. 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:06.960 Every day when you wake up as a Christian that you're going to deal with. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:14.000 You're going to deal with this every day without a giving. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.159 Number one, the worst one. 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.000 Pride. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.879 You're going to deal with pride. 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:25.200 Number two, lust. 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.320 You're going to deal with lust. 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:32.960 Number three, dishonesty. 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:36.799 Dishonesty is a big one too. 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:46.159 Those are going to be the three main things that we as Christians have to deal with every day when we get up out of bed and face the day before us. 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:56.559 And the work of sanctification is what gives us the strength, the power, and the Holy Spirit to overcome those things at work in us. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:07.919 We just like Ephesians 6 says, we have to dress ourselves in the full armor of God and walk worthy of the Lord. 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:10.000 And that's how we do it. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:14.639 We pray and we seek God with an honest heart. 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.440 And we ask God just like Isaiah did. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:21.200 God, touch the coal to my lips. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.480 Renew in me a clean heart. 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:26.399 Search my heart. 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.360 Lord God, sanctify me today. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:30.799 Deal with me. 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:36.000 Help me walk according to your will and according to your righteousness. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:40.879 Help me be worthy of who I am called to be. 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.440 And that's that's important. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.559 That's the whole purpose of sanctification in our lives. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.720 And that's a big topic. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:56.240 But there's also something else in the process of sanctification you need to remember. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.639 Don't beat yourself up. 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:05.120 Don't fall under condemnation. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.679 Don't fall under judging yourself. 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.039 Know that you're justified. 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:17.679 Know your identity in Jesus Christ. 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:26.960 And know that you are a child of God and you are justified to God by the blood of Jesus. 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:34.080 Sanctification is just the process of you becoming better. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:39.200 It's not the process of you being justified. 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:45.600 You are justified by the resurrection and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:51.679 And you are justified by accepting that and believing that and becoming a child of God. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:15:02.879 So in your walk of sanctification, you can't let condemnation come in and you walk feeling unworthy and unholy. 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:07.279 Because you are worthy, because you're justified, right? 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:17.759 So you allow you just allow sanctification to do its natural work in your life and walk it out. 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:19.440 Run the race. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:23.120 Run the way race and finish the race. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:25.440 And you can we all can do it. 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:27.679 We've been given the Holy Spirit. 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:33.440 God is for us, he's not against us, and he blesses us every day. 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:43.600 If we seek him and search after him, and we surrender to him and give our all to him, he's going to fulfill his promises. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:48.240 And that's what I have to share on sanctification. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:55.120 You got the list of questions there to ask yourself, things, and talk about it. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:58.080 There's a whole lot more to cover about sanctification. 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.799 That's just a brim surface scan. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.120 But I hope you learned something. 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.240 Thank you. 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:08.720 My what? 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.879 The what? 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:23.759 Oh, I used the first one was uh well let me find my notes here. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:32.639 The first one was well I've got Romans twelve, one through two. 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:43.519 I've got Thessalonians chapter four, three and that is actually five, six, and seven and eight too. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:50.799 And and I also had another one that I didn't share. 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.960 It was uh John fifteen sixteen. 00:16:54.960 --> 00:17:04.720 And the first two was Exodus thirty-one thirteen or no, that's Exodus. 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.519 Did I say Ecclesiastes? 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:08.880 I'm sorry. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:14.640 Exodus thirty-one thirteen and Leviticus. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:24.240 Speak also to the children of Israel. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:30.799 It should be Exodus thirty-one thirteen. 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:40.079 Uh the next one is Leviticus twenty-eight. 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:52.640 And those two scriptures are out of the old testament concerning Jehovah, Yahweh, Yeshua, the Lord who sanctifies us. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:58.559 Really a great topic to study. 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.200 A real good Bible study. 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:08.160 Twenty-eight twenty twenty verse eight. 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:09.119 I'm sorry. 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:17.920 Can somebody read uh John fifteen sixteen real quick? 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:26.079 That's part of the process of sanctification. 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:39.920 And as you see the questions, it asks you how you how can you familiarize the work of sanctification in your own Christian walk. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.799 And that's a good thing to do. 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:50.079 And I will share with you how how I've done that in the past with my life, and I learned it from Mark Medley. 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.799 Journaling. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:19:13.519 If you journal, like he told me, journal for a year and write down the things that God has done in your life, and and the blessings and everything, the hardships, everything you go through in a year, and then go back and read it. 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.000 And it'll blow your mind. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:27.920 The work of God in your life in that year will flat blow your mind at what all God has done in the process of sanctification and growing you and maturing you. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:35.519 It is amazing what God does in all our lives and helping us mature and grow. 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:40.240 So that's that's a good practice to do, yeah.