TOPIC: SANCTIFICATION PRECEDES
DIVINE COMMISSIONING
Memorise:
If a man therefore purge
himself from these, he shall be a
vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet
for the master’s use, and
prepared unto every good work.
2nd Timothy 2:21
Read: John 17:13-19,
17:13 And now come I to thee; and
these things I speak in the world, that
they might have my joy fulfilled in
themselves.
17:14 I have given them thy word; and
the world hath hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world.
17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
17:16 They are not of the world, even as
I am not of the world.
17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy word is truth.
17:18 As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent them
into the world.
17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.
Bible in one year:
Daniel 11:12,
Matthew
5:21-42
MESSAGE:
The most important thing a person
needs is to be born-again (John
3:3). From personal experience and from
the experience of others,
certain things give you the assurance
that you are born-again. If you
are born-again, you stop thinking about
yourself alone. You stop
thinking only about what Jesus can do
for you but also of what you
can do for Jesus. This was the case
with Paul after he met the Lord
in Act 9:6:
“And he trembling and astonished said,
Lord, what wilt thou have me
to do? And the Lord said unto him,
Arise, and go into the city, and it
shall be told thee what thou must do.”
You also begin to think about restitution
(Luke 19:8), and you begin
to serve God with the same vigour with
which you served the devil
(Acts 9:20-22).
After you are saved, you need to be
sanctified before you can be
divinely commissioned for service. An
unsanctified believer is
susceptible to backsliding, hence the
need for sanctification. The
state of the human heart before
salvation is one of the reason why
sanctification is necessary. Jeremiah
17:9 reveals that:
“The heat is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who
can know it?”
Every person is born with a heart that is
desperately wicked, and
every of our actions originate from the
heart (Matthew 15:19-20).
Sanctification changes the nature of a
person’s heart (Ezekiel
36:26-27). Many people who were one
born-again backslid because
of their failure to get sanctified. A
backslider is worse than a sinner
who has never been saved. Backsliding
is horrible. It can be likened
to a dog going back to it vomit.
Worldliness can cause a Christian
worker who backslid. Demas was an
example of a Christians worker
who backslid because of his attachment
to the things of this world
(Philemon 24, 2 nd Timothy 4:10)
The ability to live holy is given by God.
Jesus died for our
sanctification. When a person is
sanctified, he or she begins to think
like Jesus. You forgive like Jesus and
like Him, you become humble.
You develop a servant-spirit and you
become obedient and meek
(Matthew 11:29). To become sanctified,
you must believe that it is
possible to live holy (1 st Peter
1:15-16). You must then admit that
you cannot do it without the assistance
of the Holy Spirit (John 15:5).
Finally, ask God to remove the heart of
stone from you and replace it
with a heart of flesh.
Prayer point
Father, sanctify me wholly; give me a
heart of flesh that is in line
with your nature.
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