02/06/2024
SUNDAY SCHOOL: - WEEK 21, TOPIC: - Meaning of Sanctification
TEXT: - Eph 2:8-10, MEMORY VERSE: - Eph 2:10
Introduction:- If you were to enter a room which was filled with intense lighting every piece of your clothing would be highly visible if you had on a white suit and it had a spot on it, the spot would be seen by other people in the room or outside. But if you are walking in darkness who will see the black spot on your dress?
That’s how it will be if you are closer with God you will be brighter more and more but darker and darker more if you are away from Him so we shall understand this teaching on sanctification, sanctification is the handwork of God by His grace in us since we are born again in the likeness of Him. As the work of grace progresses we have the tendencies of overcoming sins and become perfect. Here we have seen how God is separate from His creatures and sin but not with a sinner. He sent His son to come and reconcile people with Him. In 1Pet 3:15, when peter we should God sanctified in our hearts means we should know how to worship God as God. Paul recognizes that while the Corinthian were set apart by conversion they needed to mature in the faith.
We can understand why lifeless things are sometimes called holy. They are holy because they are set apart for sacred use. We must remember that as it is used here the meaning is that a person or thing is to be holy because it is set apart.
Sanctification implies more than separation from sin and the thing that corrupt, it speaks of dedicating to God. One who is separated from the bo***ge of sin but who is not dedicated to God is like a ship that has broken loose from its moorings but which has no steering mechanism. In sanctification we fully dedicated ourselves to fulfill the holy purpose for which we have been set apart. As we do this, we are progressively made holy. Included in the process of sanctification, there is separation, dedication and purification. 1Thes 5:23, Col 3:9-10