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:
- 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:
- 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.”
- 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:
- What
is sanctification?
- In
what ways is sanctification considered?
- Why
sanctification?
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