Sanctification of the Believer (Isaiah 6:1-7)

 

Message: Isaiah 6:1-7

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!”

4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King,

The Lord of hosts.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin purged.”                              

 

  Sunday October 29, 2017

 

“Sanctification of the Believer”

Pastor Enoch Hanokh

“Sanctification is God’s gracious act of setting a thing, person or people apart for Himself?”

Enoch Hanokh

Aspects of sanctification:

1. Positional sanctification

·       Unchanging position of the believer in Christ

1 Cor. 1:2 2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

2. Practical/Progressive sanctification

2 Cor. 7:1 1Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

In practical/progressive sanctification, we deal with the manifestations of sin our lives as believers. 

·       Date to date steps of the believer

Ø  Dealing with filthiness (sin) of the flesh

Jn. 6:63 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Ph. 3:3 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit,[a] rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh,

Ø  Dealing with filthiness (sin) of the spirit

The pride of being in good standing and failing to reaching out to those who have falling out of the way. The brother of the prodigal son?

·       Being washed by the Word of God (Scripture)

Jn. 17:17 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

 

Ø  Washing aspect of holiness

2 Cor. 6:14-18 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you[a] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”[b] 7 Therefore “Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”[c] 18 “I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”[d]

Ø  Living in His presence aspect of holiness

Ps. 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.

·       Help us see the power of God in our live on daily basis

Ø  Living in obedience is an act of love

Ø  Living in obedience is an act of fear of God

Jos. 3:5 5 And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

3. Perfect sanctification

·       We shall be like Him

1 Jn. 3:-3 3 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God![a] Therefore the world does not know us,[b] because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

 

 

 

Questions:

1. What is sanctification?
2. In what ways is sanctification considered?
3. Why sanctification?