Substance of Sanctification
John 17:17, Ephesians 5:26, Hebrews 13:12
In the days of old, the blood of goats provides temporal sanctification for the people, Leviticus 16:10-17. This do not totally sanctifies the sinners but provides a temporal access to the things of God.
The coming and dying of Jesus placed us under a better covenant and gave us a limitless access to the things of God, Hebrews 8:6; 12:24.
Today, believers in Christ Jesus are sanctified through His Word and His Blood. This sanctification is not a physical process by a spiritual once which is carries out by believing. Sanctification provided by Jesus is available to all but only accessible to those that believes in His.
His word sanctifies us from the wisdom and vain philosophies of this earth and by His word our lives take a new physical shape which began from the spiritual.
His blood sanctifies our spiritual state, mark and quantifies us as righteous and holy before His father.
May we never lack Grace.
Shalom!
"Rend your heart, and not your garments." --Joel 2:13 Apart from vital godliness all religion is utterly vain; offered without a sincere heart, every form of worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven. HEART-RENDING is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt in every living child of the living God. It is powerfully humiliating, and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud un-humbled spirits are unable to receive; and it is distinctly discriminating, for it belongs to the elect of God, and to them alone.
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