WE ARE SANCTIFIED
Monday – February 19, 2018
Those in Christ Jesus are the sanctified! Are you one of the sanctified? If not just say” Yes, Lord Jesus, sanctify me for your service, what would you have me to do”. When He answers, do whatever He says to you. Welcome back to this wonderful Bible Study from the Book of Hebrews. God is so very good to us all. Let us read and meditate our primary text for this study and then we will jump right into this most precious Word of God. When I say “most precious” I mean of greater value by far than anything any of us can imagine with our natural minds.
Hebrews 10:9-13 (KJV)
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
God through the writer of Hebrews has been laying out in detail for the Hebrews of that day, this day, and for us all the weakness of the Levitical Priesthood and the Old Covenant. The Holy Spirit has been teaching us of the superiority of the New High Priest, Christ Jesus, and the New Covenant sealed or ratified by His Blood and not that of animals. As you will recall this Second Blood (Jesus) Covenant incorporates all of the benefits and obligations of the First blood (animal) Covenant excepting the Sacrificial Laws. The Sacrificial Laws of the First Covenant which really started in the Garden of Eden on the Day of Sin have been done away with by the once for all sacrifice of Christ. Looking back at our text we find in the tenth verse that we are sanctified by “the offering of the body of Jesus Christ”.
Hebrews 10:9-10 (KJV)
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
For a moment let’s be sure all of us are on the same page with regard to the word ‘sanctified’. The word translated from the Greek to English as sanctified is defined as: to make holy, i.e. (ceremony) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate: – hallow, or be holy according to Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. The root word is defined as: sacred (physical pure, moral blameless or religious, ceremony consecrated): – (most) holy (one, thing), or saint according to Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Consulting a Thesaurus, we find that sanctified means to be holy, consecrated, blessed, sacred, dedicated, or purified. Perhaps all of that is more than you needed or wanted to know, however, we use a lot of “Church” words and at times it appears they all mean different things but many times they are all the same thing. For example, the use of the words sanctified, consecrated, and holy are all the same thing.
Always remember that all statements that refer to who we are at and following salvation is predicated (based, established, founded, and built) on the fact that we are at that moment and for eternity ‘in Him’. When God, the Father, looks at us He sees us as He sees Jesus. I tell you sweet brother and sister this is a deal that can’t be beat. Before Jesus came, shed His blood and died on Calvary’s Tree perhaps millions of innocent unblemished animals had died to cover the sins of man. Scripture tells us that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), death first of the spirit and next the body. Sin is conceived in the mind (part of the soul or our spirit man) and consummated in the flesh (body). Animals have no intellectual concept or consciousness of sin and therefore no sin is manifest in the actions of an animal. This made the sacrifice of animals acceptable to God to Passover mans sin for a season. On the other hand, man conceives sin in his mind and expresses it through the physical body and we see this front and center on the Day of Sin by Adam (Adam and Eve) in the Garden of Eden. As I finish for today let’s read and meditate on the following Scripture that speaks along these lines (of thought/Truth).
Romans 8:1-5 (HCSB)
1 Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,
2 because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
3 What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,
4 in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.
I don’t know about you but I think this passage lays it out pretty well. As a very brief review let us remember that when Adam and Eve sinned and brought sin and death upon all to follow. Their spirit died immediately. This was a result of a corruption of thought which were the lies, the deceptions of the Serpent (thoughts) which they believed and acted upon. They were subject to the law of sin and immediate death. God had told them that in the day they partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would die. Admixture was terrible for them then and for us now. Fortunately, when we are deceived and chose sin we do not die immediately in our spirit man but have a space of time and mercy in Him for repentance. The flesh is our physical body and the unrenewed to the Word of God portions of our mind, our thoughts.
Looking back to Hebrews 10:10 and focusing on the phrase “the body of Jesus Christ” we can understand that His sinless life had led to an uncorrupted body without the deleterious effects of a coming death or disease. His mind was completely filled with the Word of God with no corruption of the world, no admixture of good and evil. There was no conceiving of sin in His mind nor consummation in His flesh. On Calvary He was made sin in our stead meaning that He suffered all the consequences of sin and the curse in His body. He was subject to the law of sin and immediate spiritual death and therefore the spirit man died but not his soul or mind which was complete with the Word of God with no corruption or evil thought. He descended into Hell so that we do not have to go. The Father saw the innocent Blood of His Lamb and heard the testimony of the Word of God from Jesus in Hell and was therefore obligated to raise Him from the dead both physically and spiritually thereby restoring all things. This was a Blood Covenant obligation. He was sanctified and in Him we also are sanctified (1 Corinthians 1:30).
Until our next publication, I speak blessing into your life right now, receive it in the name of Jesus, confess it, and walk it out with thanksgiving.
Numbers 6:24-26 (KJV)
24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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