A) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

B) THE TRUE MEANING OF SANCTIFICATION.

C) BREAKING IT DOWN.

 

 

A) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 

 

Before we can answer any questions that we may have about “Sanctification,” we must ask:  “What does Sanctification mean?”  The dictionary describes it as:  “To set apart for sacred use, consecrate, to make holy, purify.”  It comes to us from the Latin word “sanctus,” which means “holy.”  However, let’s look at the Bible’s explanation and definition of Sanctification.

 

Question:  How where the firstborn animals to be presented for the sacrificial offerings, with or without blemishes?

 

Answer:  Exodus 13:2:  “Sanctify unto Me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast:  it is Mine.”  Then moving on down to verse 12 we find:  “That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord’s.”  Here is where we get the definition and explanation of “Sanctification” as meaning something that is “set apart,” or especially consecrated (or dedicated) to the Lord.  To bring these before the Lord as defective would be to dishonor our God.

 

Our next meaning is found in Ephesians 5:26:  “That he might Sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.”  Here it means, “to be cleansed.”  And in First Thessalonians 5:23 we find:  “And the very God of peace Sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  So it also means, to “be preserved blameless.”

 

Now we come to Leviticus 11:44-45:  “For I Am the Lord your God:  ye shall therefore Sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I Am holy:  neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (45) For I Am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God:  ye shall therefore be holy, for I Am holy.”  Then, if we go to Leviticus 20:7, we read:  “Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy:  for I Am the Lord your God.”

 

Also, in First Peter 1:15 we find:  “But as He [Who is The He?] which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.”  Finally, if we go to First Thessalonians 4:3 we read:  “For this is the Will of God, even your Sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.”  And continuing on to Verse Seven, we find:  “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.”  Therefore, God will have a people that He can Sanctify (dwell) Himself with (Eze. 20:41; 36:23; 38:16; 39:27).  And we learn in Isaiah 5:16:  “But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be Sanctified in righteousness.”

 

 

B) THE TRUE MEANING OF SANCTIFICATION

 

 

Therefore, Sanctifications true meaning is to be “holy,” as our Latin word suggests.  Let’s read Isaiah 29:23:  “But when he [he being the house of Jacob, verse 22] seeth his children, the work of Mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall Sanctify My Name, and Sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.”  My question is, “What in the Sanctification process of God’s Holy Name is defective?”  I hope that you can answer, “Nothing.”

 

Now let’s go to Genesis 2:3:  “And God blessed the seventh day, and Sanctified it:  because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.”  Then let’s go to John 10:36:  “Say ye of Him, Whom the Father hath Sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I Am the Son of God?”  My question is, “What is it that God has Sanctified that is defective?”  Again, I hope that you can answer, “Nothing.”

 

What about Hebrews 13:12:  “Wherefore Jesus also, that He might Sanctify the people with His Own blood, suffered without the gate.”  My question is, “What in the precious blood of Jesus Christ is defective?”  I’ll answer this one, “Nothing.”

 

 

C) BREAKING IT DOWN

 

 

The Hebrew word “schcom” brings forth the idea of, “the art of living.”  It is the first part in the process of learning the Sanctified life.  Hebrew parents would “schcom” their children, and knew it to be their God given duty.

 

Now I want us to read John 17:19:  “And for their sakes I [Jesus] Sanctify Myself, that they also might be Sanctified through the truth.”  Christ died in order that you might be able to live the life He lived, the Sanctified life.

 

Wherein was Christ defective that He needed to Sanctify Himself?  This is very important to understand, for we have finally reached my point.  Although “Sanctification is the work of a lifetime,” COL:65; AG:283; 4MR:344; 16MR:275; 1SM:317; 3SM:193; RH, June 17, 1890; RH, October 3, 1899, nowhere is it depicted Biblically, or by the pen of inspiration, that in the process of Sanctification you sin and repent, sin and repent, lest you make Christ out to be a sinner also (see John 17:19 again if this is not clear).  Thus, in the Sanctification process we can see that to live the Sanctified life, means to live a Holy life.

 

As a double check to see if the Sanctification process really means to live in constant Holiness, let’s read Ezekiel 38:23:  “Thus will I magnify Myself, and Sanctify Myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I Am the Lord.”  We can see here that God Himself, says of Himself, that He had to Sanctify Himself. Do we believe that He was in the sin and repent, sin and repent process during this operation?  NEVER.  Also, do you believe Enoch was still sinning when God took him (Genesis 5:22-24)?

 

Just so I don’t lose you completely, please take note that it is only through the process of becoming one with Christ that we are Sanctified at all; for He is the one working in us Who really sanctifies us:  “I Am the Lord which Sanctify you.”  Leviticus 20:8.

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