Sanctification in Two Aspects
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Sanctification in Two Aspects
Sanctified by the Offering of the Body of Jesus Christ
Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, everyone who believes, is for time, and eternity, set apart to God. Sanctification here is a position that changes not. Have you laid hold of this, dear fellow believer? Read again Heb. 10:10. In this aspect, the most careless believer and the most Godly are alike. God gives no liberty to sin, and sad indeed is the Christian who yields to it: but if he should go into sin until God lays His chastening hand upon him, and he is made weak and sickly, and even is made to sleep in death (1 Cor. 11:30,31,32), it in no way effects this aspect of his sanctification. In this aspect every saved one is sanctified; the weak in faith, the strong in faith, the careless saved and the Godly are all alike; actions and worthiness are not in this aspect in question in the least.
Sanctification by the Truth.
In this we get quite a different thought; it is the power or influence of the written Word of God, to cleanse and purify the Christian's walk and ways, and to occupy the mind and heart with the Lord Jesus Christ. The purifying influence of the written Word is almost beyond our comprehension. Jesus says, "Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you." (John 15:3.) And He prays to the Father, that His own might be sanctified by the truth. (John 17:17.) "Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it, by the washing of water by the Word." (Eph. 5:26.) "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to Thy Word." (Psa. 119:9.)
The Word of God has a wonderfully cleansing and separating power over the soul, and what a difference is seen in the life and home of the Christian
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