Bedrock #9 – Sanctification

March 19, 2025 / Pastor Tom Van Kempen

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NKJV)  Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

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I. Sanctification is a gift

Ephesians 2:8 (NKJV) For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Hebrews 10:10 (NKJV) By (God’s)will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1. At salvation you are instantaneously sanctified

1 Corinthians 1:2 (NKJV) 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. At salvation you are found in

Philippians 3:9 (NKJV) and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

3. At salvation you are separated

1) Separated from

1 Peter 1:18-19 (NKJV)  knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

 

2) Separated for God’s

II. Sanctification is a

1. Called before you were

Jeremiah 1:5 (NKJV) “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

2. Called out of this

1 Corinthians 1:2 (NKJV) 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:

3. Called to righteous

1 Peter 1:15 (NKJV) but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct

 

1) Avoid legalism

2) Avoid Antinomianism

3) Avoid perfectionism

4. Called for a purpose

John 10:36-38 (NKJV)  do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,

III. Sanctification is a

Romans 12:1 (NKJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

1. your life

1 Peter 1:15-16 (NKJV) but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

2. His life

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV) Pursue. . . holiness without which no one will see the LORD

3. daily in His life

1) Be cleansed by the Word

Ephesians 5:26 (NKJV) that He might [a]sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

John 17:17 (NKJV) Sanctify them by your truth. Your Word is truth.

 

2) Be cleansed by your obedience

2 Timothy 2:20-22 (NKJV) But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. 21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work. 22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

 

3) Be cleansed by the Spirit

1 Corinthians 6:11 (NKJV) And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Peter 1:22-23 (NKJV) Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever

4. for the reward

1) Growth in this lifetime

2) Glorification in the next

Romans 8:18 (NKJV) For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

 

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