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The central theme is the practical application of Christian sanctification, emphasizing that it is a process of being set apart for God's exclusive use, encompassing one's entire being (spirit, soul, and body), and is motivated by the desire to please God and live in anticipation of Christ's return.
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welcome to back to the Bible Radio
featuring bestselling author and
internationally known Bible teacher Warren
Warren
weby and now let's pray together once
again father we open the word and it is
so easy for us to study it and
understand it but not practice it and we
don't want just a head knowledge we want
a heart appropriation of your truth and
so I pray as we study today you will
teach us by your spirit and again I pray
say far more to us than this speaker
says may your spirit Enlighten us all
and enable us all I pray in the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ
amen the word of God is a lamp in a dark
place we're living in a dark world uh
standards are changing attitudes are changing
changing
things that used to be wrong are now not
only considered right but they are
promoted they are applauded all were're
living in a dark difficult dangerous
world and Paul wrote first Thessalonians
to a group of Christians in a big city
uh thessalonica was probably the largest
and the most important city in Macedonia
some 200,000 people there and Paul
arrived with Silas and Timothy
established a church and these people
were being tempted they were being tried
there was persecution there was
Temptation and Paul wrote this letter to
help them know how to live the Christian
Life 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 beginning
at verse 22 abstain from every form of
evil now may the God of Peace himself
sanctify you completely and may your
whole Spirit soul and body be preserved
blank aess at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ he who calls you is
faithful who also will do it there's a
negative admonition abstain from every
form of evil this ties back to chapter
4:3 where he also uses the word abstain
for this is the will of God your
sanctification that you should abstain
from sexual
immorality Peter wrote and said abstain
from flesh lust that war against the
soul we're told today that we should be
tolerant and that the balance life is
important well yes we should have
tolerance and yes we should have balance
but there are some things we should say
no to we should learn to say no to every
form of evil hold off is what he's
saying here just keep at a distance from
every form of evil it's the opposite of
verse 21 hold fast what is good but hold
hold off from what is evil we let these
things into our lives the devil moves in
and before long there is
tragedy he's talking here about
sanctification now may the God of Peace
himself sanctify you completely and may
your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ the God of Peace I get
the impression there had been some
division in the Thessalonian Church
perhaps it had to do with their public
worship Services Paul had to admonish
them do not quench the spirit do not despise
despise
prophecies in other words there were
some in the church who were uh very
careful about the excesses well we
should be we should be careful there are
no excesses we should be balanced in our
worship but we can be so careful and so
rigid and so mechanical that we quench
the Holy Spirit and we resist the work
of the Lord whenever Paul uses this
little phrase the God of Peace it often
is in connection with church
Unity sometimes it's in connection with
with sanctity living a holy life but in Romans
Romans
15:33 and Romans
16:20 and 2 Corinthians
131 he's talking about the unity of the
church I think he uses it again in
second Thessalonians chapter 3 and um
verse 16 now may the Lord of Peace
himself give you peace always in every
way the Lord be with you all well let's
talk about
sanctification this is his prayer that
they might be
Sanctified and this sanctification is
very practical he's telling them how
they can go about obeying all of these
exhortations that he's given to them
he's urged them to love their leaders in
the church verse 12 and to esteem them
highly verse 13 then he adds be at peace
among yourselves you get the impression
there is division perhaps it was because
some people thought they were more
spiritual than others I don't know then
he exhorts those who were unruly the
people who were out of Step they would
not be ruled there are the faint-hearted
and the weak and then there's that
danger of retaliation verse 15 then he
wants them positively to Rejoice always
pray without ceasing and everything give
thanks how do you do that well may the
God of Peace himself sanctify you let's
look at several aspects of this subject of
of
sanctification as Paul presents it here
in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 first of
all what is the meaning of
sanctification well it does not mean a
gradual change of your old nature so
that your old nature becomes more of a
new nature the word sanctify simply
means to be set apart for God's
exclusive use in John 17: 19 Jesus said
he Sanctified himself now the nature of
our Lord Jesus certainly required no
refinement he was the perfect Son of
God when he said I for their sakes I
sanctify myself what was he meaning he
was saying I am setting myself apart I
have set myself apart to accomplish the
work the father s given me to do in the
Bible you'll find that a day can be
Sanctified Genesis 2:3 God Sanctified the
the
Sabbath Israel was Sanctified a whole
nation Exodus
19:10 Aaron the high priest was
Sanctified the temple was
Sanctified the altar is Sanctified
according to Matthew 23:
23:
17-9 in fact in 1 Peter 3:15 Peter tells
us to sanctify Jesus Christ as Lord in
our hearts now how can I make Jesus more
holy I can't but I can give him the
first place in my heart I can have him
set apart in my heart and my heart is
for his exclusive
use I can go to London England and I can
rent the Palladium but I can't rent
Buckingham Palace or Windor Palace out
at Windsor can't do that why they're set
apart for the exclusive use of the
British royalty I can go to Washington
DC and I can rent the um Arena I can
rent the stadium I can't rent the White
House why it has been set apart for the
exclusive use of the president of the
United States when two people are
married they are set apart for the
exclusive enjoyment and living of these
two people and if either party goes out
and violates those vows it is sin now
sanctification it simply means to be set
apart for God's exclusive use we belong
to him you see God's goal is to make us
more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ
conform to the image of his son now in
the Bible we're taught that
sanctification is a position that we
have we are Sanctified we have been Set
Apart chapter 4: 7 of first
Thessalonians for God did not call us to
uncleanness but in Holiness now that
word Holiness is the same as the word
sanctification up in verse three God
called us not to sanctification but in
sanctification we have been set apart we
belong to him that is positional
sanctification now here in chapter 5: 23
he's talking about Progressive
sanctification he's talking about more
and more becoming like like the Lord
Jesus and being set apart for God's exclusive
exclusive
use Ephesians chapter 5 talks about this
uh verse 25 husbands love your wives
just as Christ also loved the church and
gave himself for it that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing
of Water by the word now that's
Progressive sanctification now verse 27
of Ephesians 5 that he might present it
to himself a glorious Church ah there's perfect
perfect
sanctification one day we are going to
be perfect at the Throne of God I think
one reason we've lost our excitement is
we have lost the
motivation of the return of Jesus Christ
in first Thessalonians the Apostle Paul
emphasizes the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ and these people in thessalonica
were excited about Jesus because they
were expectant they were looking for him
to return now he did not return in the
first century he has not returned in the
20th century so far but he's going to
come again and living in the light of
his coming living in the future tense is
what brings excitement to the Christian
Life to wake up in the morning and say
this may be the day oh what a difference it
it [Music]
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makes so sanctification just means that
day by day step by step Moment by moment
I am set apart for God's exclusive use
he is the sanctifier now what is the
measure of
sanctification God is Not content that
you and I be out of balance now may the
God of Peace himself sanctify you
completely oh what does that mean and
may your whole Spirit soul and body be
preserved blameless at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ did you notice that
your body is involved in
sanctification not just your spirit and
your soul but your body now we don't
make an issue of whether man is
dichotomus material and spiritual or
trotus Spirit soul and body I want to
take the word of God right here for what
it says the spirit the soul the body I
think this is a comparison with The
Tabernacle in the Tabernacle you had the
outer court with a fence around it and
then you had a tent with two parts to it
now from the outside you couldn't see
those two parts the only people who knew
that those two parts were there were the
priests who worked in and out of the
tent and people who knew their Bibles
the Bible said there is a holy place and
there's a holy of holies now the holy of
holies in our lives is the spirit this
is where God comes to dwell the holy
place is uh the soul uh this is my mind
my emotions my will now the unsaved
person doesn't have anybody dwelling in
the spirit the spirit is dead when the
unsaved person trusts the Lord Jesus
Christ then the Holy Spirit comes in and
gives life and God's spirit Bears
witness to our spirit that we are the
children of God you recall that when
Moses dedicated the Tabernacle in Exodus
chter 40 the holy spirit of God in glory
god in glory came down and moved into
the holy of holies and then that Glory
moved out throughout the entire
Tabernacle that is entire
sanctification when I was saved God
moved into my spirit now he wants to
move out from the holy of holies and
take hold of my soul so that my emotions
are set apart for God my will my mind
and then out through my body to serve
other people by the way that outer Court
could could be taken down and it did not
affect the tent one of these days my
outer court is going to be taken down if
the Lord Jesus doesn't come back I'm
going to die but it won't affect the
tent it won't affect the spirit and the
soul I will go home to be with the Lord
God wants every part of my whole being
to be so filled with his spirit and His
glory that I am for his exclusive use my
thoughts are God's thoughts and my
emotions are God's emotions and what I
do is what God wants me to do the will
of God serving the lord completely now
it begins within it starts with that
inner person taking time every day for
the word of God In Prayer being
sensitive to sin doing the will of God
rejoicing praying giving thanks not
quenching the holy spirit of God so that
by Body and Soul and Spirit are taken up
and wholly used by God this involves
every area of our lives our eating our
sleeping our playing our spending of
money totally set apart for God it's a
joyful experience to be made one in the
Lord to have this kind of spiritual
Integrity where my body and my spirit
are not fighting each other where my
emotions and my spirit are not at War to
have this beautiful
integrity and this comes as we walk with
the Lord It's a battle sometimes it's a
struggle there is Agony but sometimes we
have to get on our faces before God and
just cry out for his help and you know
he always answers that's why he says in
verse 24 he who calls you is faithful
who also will do it God's Commandments
enablement well we've looked at the
meaning of sanctification and the
measure of sanctification let's spend
some time on the means of
sanctification obviously one of them is
prayer he's praying for their
sanctification God answers prayer we
need to cry out to God for Holiness
David says as the dear pants for the
water Brooks my heart pants for you oh
God the Apostle Paul started his
Christian Life with prayer in Acts
chapter n God said behold he's praying
that's a good evidence that you're born
again behold he's praying he's talking
to God Paul's example of prayer is seen
throughout the Book of Acts and
throughout his Epistles over and over
again in chapter 3: 10 Paul says night
and day praying exceedingly now there's
a statement for you not just praying but
praying in the daytime praying in the
nighttime and praying exceedingly the
word exceedingly means a river
overflowing its banks abounding out of
all bounds praying
exceedingly I wonder if I pray like that
Paul did prayer is important to the
Christian Life do you have a deep desire
in your heart to enjoy and worship God
or are you satisfied to read a few
devotional thoughts in the morning and
say a quick prayer and rush out into
life do you take time to be holy oh we
sing that song but do we obey it now the
means of
sanctification are the word of God and
prayer worship fellowshipping with God's
people and the experiences of Life the
holy spirit of God uses the word
sanctify them through thy truth Thy word
is truth John
17:17 he uses prayer here is Paul
praying for their
sanctification he uses other Christians
forsake not the assembling of yourselves
together because the day is approaching
it means we assemble together it means
that we know each other we greet each
other we encourage each other we show
love to each other Christian love oh how
we need one another
in the polishing up of Our Lives I have
been so encouraged by other people and
been helped in my own Christian walk we
need worship the public worship of God
he just told them don't quench the
spirit don't despise prophecies test all
things hold fast what is good he says to
them get in there and Worship the Lord
with the people of God and you will grow
in your
sanctification finally what are the
marks of sanctification how can a person
know whether or not he or she is truly
living a Sanctified life let me make it
very clear that sanctification is very
practical Paul is not exhorting us to go
up on a Mountaintop someplace and put on
a white robe and wait for the Lord to
come back and while we're there just get
more and more Sanctified if
sanctification doesn't lead us into the
Practical Ministry of life it is a counterfeit
counterfeit
sanctification the Lord Jesus on the
Mount of
transfiguration was revealed in his
glory Peter said let's stay up here it's
a great place to be we can have good
preaching Moses and Elijah and here's
the Lord Jesus but they had to come down
from the Mountaintop and when they came
down into the valley what did they find
a little boy who was demon-possessed you
see Jesus could have stayed on the
mountain and let his face shine but in
instead he came down and he let his
power flow and he delivered that boy we
take time to be holy but then after we
have had this experience with the Lord
in the word of God In Prayer in Worship
in reverence then we go out into a needy
world and we keep ourselves clean
sanctification means contact without
contamination it means we're out there
in the work a day world but we're
spreading the light While others are
sharing Darkness we are sharing love
While others are hating we are bringing
truth when others are lying we are
sacrificing and giving when others are
grabbing and trying to get more that is practical
practical
sanctification Mr Moody used to say that
every Bible should be bound in shoe
leather I like that take your Bible and
turn it into shoe leather and get out
and walk and work and serve the Lord
what are the marks of sanctification
well number one there is a balanced life
the whole Spirit soul and body are
balanced in Holiness our emotions our
thinking our speaking it's all
controlled by the Lord secondly there's
a blameless life that you might be
preserved blameless now this has to do
with our motive it doesn't mean
faultless it doesn't mean sinless it
means at the state of growth Where We
Are we're doing the very best we can
blameless our motive is to honor the
Lord Jesus Christ yes we are going to
make mistakes yes we may say things we
shouldn't say and we regret them but our
motives are right we want to serve the
Lord It's a burdened life we're burdened
to become more like the Lord Jesus we're
burdened to help others to come to know
him and of course it's a blessed life
it's a life of God's blessing upon us
the marks of sanctification ification
primarily our balance and blamelessness
and a burdened heart to help others well
why should we be uh Sanctified what are
the motives to please God who has called
us chapter 4:7 God did not call us to
uncleanness but in Holiness to please
the Holy Spirit who indwells us verse 8
of chapter 4 therefore he who rejects
this does not reject man but God who has
also given us his Holy Spirit and to be
pleasing to the Lord Jesus when he comes
blameless at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ may the Lord help us to be a
a
sanctified people gracious Father in
heaven now may we grow in our faith may
we grow in Our Hope May the second
coming of our Lord Jesus become so
precious to us may we grow in our love
for one another and for you help us now
to apply this word to our hearts and our
lives I ask in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ
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