Sister Sunny Sunday School 11/30/14
We
have seen in previous lessons who God is and how He created man to be like
Him. God desires to dwell with us but
cannot tolerate the presence of sin.
Adam and Eve sinned because they went beyond the bounds that God had set
for them. God made a sacrifice for their
sin and clothing and made a way for them to worship Him and fellowship
Him. This set the stage for Jesus coming
to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins.
Everyone, including us which were born to Adam and Eve, were
born not in the image of God but in the image of Adam, with a carnal, selfish,
nature. Jesus came to remove the curse
that we received through Adam. He is the
giver of spiritual life, eternal life.
Jesus was born in the image of God: Holy, blameless,
undefiled, and did not sin in life. He
became the perfect sacrifice for our sins by dying for us and rising again the
third day. He made a way to give victory
over the power of death, which is sin, to all that would believe on Him.
God has prepared a dwelling place for His servants that sin
can never enter. God does not hear the
prayer of a sinner, and since we all have sinned, we all need to be saved. God has commanded that we be holy as He is
holy. He made a way for us to become new
creatures, able again to be in His image through the sacrifice of His dear Son.
God has a plan where by all who come to Him confessing,
repenting, and turning from their sins can be saved. In His plan, we are forgiven of our sin and
walk in newness of life, a new creation, born again into His image of
righteousness and true holiness. Renewed
in knowledge after His image with His law written upon our heart.
We can lose our salvation. We must hold the beginning of our confidence
steadfast unto the end to be partakers with Christ.
Heb 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Heb 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you
be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Heb 3:14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence stedfast unto the end;
We must hold fast the profession of our faith, consider and
exhort one another, and not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the
day approaching.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment
and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompence of reward.
Heb 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall
come will come, and will not tarry.
Heb
10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure
in him.
Heb 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
The reason there is a warning to not draw back to perdition
is because it is possible to do so. So
let us not be weary in well doing.
Perdition means loss, ruin, and destruction.
Gal 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not.
God’s plan is that we do right; it is healthy to do right. He made us creatures of choice in the beginning
and does not take that from us when we get saved. This is the reason that we not only need to
be cleansed from our sin but also from our carnal nature that we received from
Adam.
The carnal nature is the opposite of love. This is why it is enmity with God, who is
love. (Love suffers long and is kind,
vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, is not
easily provoked, rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in truth, believes all
things, bears all things, endures all things.)
The acts of carnality are sin. The carnal nature can be resisted to a point,
but is always drawing you back to sin.
The carnal nature shows itself in quick anger, concern for
our self, and lack of concern for others.
It pulls back from doing the will of God, desires to be number one, and
desires to be honored and recognized as above others.
It is full of pride, implacable, unmoldable, and
deceitful. It always construes a story so
that it puts number one in the best light possible by leaving out some
information and emphasizing other information.
God’s plan for sanctification
1Th 4:3
For this is the will of God, even
your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1Th 4:4
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in
sanctification and honour;
Sanctification – cleansed, set apart for service, consecrated,
and dedicated: made holy, ready for worship and service to God. (Sanctify God –
lift up high for to worship, and esteem as holy, hallow, fear)
Exo 28:40 And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats,
and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for
glory and for beauty.
Exo 28:41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and
sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Today we are to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and fire;
Consecrated: our open hand filled for useful service, yield
ourselves;
Sanctified: to be made clean, dedicated, and prepared.
In order to be used in the service of a priest, they had to
be sanctified. We must be sanctified to
be of use or to be put to work for God.
2Ch 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they
could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites
did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the
Levites were more upright in heart to
sanctify themselves than the priests.
This is the will of God, even your sanctification. To be out of His will is to not be saved
(disobedience to truth is sin.)
We present our body a living sacrifice. We can do this without fear because we know
Him. We can trust Him. We know that He it is that gives the more
abundant life. We know that every good
and perfect gift comes down from Him and with the things that He gives, He adds
no sorrow.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service.
Rom 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Adam Clarke - All these phrases are sacrificial, and show that
there must be a complete surrender of the person - the body, the whole man,
mind and flesh, to be given to God; and that he is to consider himself no more
his own, but the entire property of his Maker.
Your reasonable service - Nothing can be more consistent with reason than
that the work of God should glorify its Author. We are not our own, we are the
property of the Lord, by the right of creation and redemption; and it would be
as unreasonable as it would be wicked not to live to his glory, in strict
obedience to his will.
Matthew Henry - We receive from the Lord every
day the fruits of his mercy. Let us render ourselves; all we are, all we have,
all we can do: and after all, what return is it for such very rich receivings?
It is acceptable to God: a reasonable service, which we are able and ready to
give a reason for, and which we understand. Conversion and sanctification are
the renewing of the mind; a change, not of the substance, but of the qualities
of the soul.
The work of the Holy Ghost first begins in the understanding, and is
carried on to the will, affections, and conversation, till there is a change of
the whole man into the likeness of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true
holiness. Thus, to be godly, is to give up ourselves to God.
The nature to sin that we received from Adam is cleansed
from us, our carnal nature is cleansed from us, and we receive the same beautiful
Divine nature that filled Jesus.
2Pe 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.
Our double-mindedness is removed from us.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to
you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double
minded.
Jas 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Adam Clarke - Purify your hearts - Separate
yourselves from the world, and consecrate yourselves to God: this is the true
notion of sanctification. We have often seen that to sanctify signifies to
separate a thing or person from profane or common use, and consecrate it or him
to God. The person or thing thus consecrated or separated
is considered to be holy, and to be God’s property; and then God hallows it to
himself. There are, therefore, two things implied in a man’s sanctification:
1. That
he separates himself from evil ways and evil companions, and devotes himself to
God.
2. That
God separates guilt from his conscience, and sin from his soul, and thus makes
him internally and externally holy.
To be double minded or unsanctified is to be unstable in all
our ways:
Jas 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
We are washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus and by the Holy Spirit.
1Co 6:11
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but
ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
We are sanctified and cleansed with the washing of the water
by the Word.
Eph 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word,
Eph 5:27
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot,
or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
It works to preserve us, to keep us unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
1Th 5:23
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.
1Th 5:24
Faithful is he that calleth you,
who also will do it.
We are baptized with His Spirit and receive the indwelling
of the comforter. While we are saved He dwells with us and when we are
sanctified, He dwells in us.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep
my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for
ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with
you, and shall be in you.
Baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire:
Act 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place.
Act 2:2
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,
and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat
upon each of them.
Act 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
They had been hiding and fearful. After the Holy Spirit came upon them, they
spoke as the Spirit gave them utterance. It is the Spirit that gives us our job
in the church. It is only after we are
sanctified that we can be used of God.
1Co 12:7
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit
withal.
1Co 12:8
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the
word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1Co 12:9
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by
the same Spirit;
1Co 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to
another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the
interpretation of tongues:
1Co 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so
also is Christ.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free;
and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
The Spirit makes us one in the body and allows us to have
fellowship with one another. It is what
brings unity.
Gal 3:26
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Jesus sanctified Himself so that we could be
sanctified. He was set apart to the
service of God and made a way for us to be the same.
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As thou hast sent me
into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Joh 17:19 And for their sakes I
sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
In sanctification we receive our inheritance by faith.
Act 26:17 Delivering thee from
the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
Act 26:18 To open their eyes,
and to turn
them from
darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive
forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith
that is in me.
It is
through sanctification that we receive our inheritance: full victory through
Jesus Christ. We enter the land
of Canaan – the battles for territory begin.
The enemy is not quick to let go of the ground that he once held.
We have habits of mind that we can now overcome. (There are highways of ruts in our minds that
our thoughts seemed to always fall into that we can now through the sacrifice
and blood of Christ get the victory over.)
The wilderness was a land of wandering, going through the
same territory again and again. Canaan is
a land of victory. Sanctification brings
us to a land of victory.
1Co 1:2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified
in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
theirs and ours:
1Co 1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord.
2Th 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved
of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation
through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
2Ti 2:20
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver,
but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
2Ti 2:21
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto
honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and
prepared unto every good work.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify
the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
1Pe 1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Jud 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and
brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved
in Jesus Christ, and called:
Isa 8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Isa 8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
Eze 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
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