Trusting In Yeshua As Your Sanctification

Lets start out our study today with a few short verses from the Word! Today I have used the New American Standard Bible (NASB) for most of the verses.
1 Corinthians 1:30-32

"But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, “ Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

We learn in these verses that God's holiness demands His people to be holy The author, Catherine Martin points out to us in this lesson that we as n
New Testament Christians have actually experienced a greater rescue than those people in old Testament times. See the verse below:

Colossians 1:13-14

"For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."

How exciting to know He has rescued us! And because He rescued us, we are to be holy because of the following verse:

1 Peter 1:16

"because it is written, “ You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Something very special happens when you become a Christian. Receiving Christ as your Lord and Savior:

2 Corinthians 5:17

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

 

You become SANCTIFIED. You are set apart. He sets you apart through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit! All this because God sacrificed His one and Only Son as an atoning sacrifice for your sins!

Romans 8:9

"However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him."

Hebrews 10:10-13

"By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet."

 I am sure we all struggle with being holy, I know I do! But guess what? Sanctification is not just a singular work accomplished by Yeshua  on the cross, but also it is an ongoing process accomplished by Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit in you.

2 Corinthians 3:18

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."

Hebrews 1:14

"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?"

What  an exciting thing it is to discover that you now belong to Yahweh Mekaddesh and you are a temple of the Holy Spirit!! 

1 Corinthians 6:19

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?"

 Trust in Yeshua! Trust in Yahweh Mekaddesh! Know He is the one who will make you holy!