Sanctify Yourselves Series

The Israelites were coming up to the Jordan River, they were about to cross over into the Promised Land, and the instruction was given, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

The people weren’t yet ready for what God was going to do. They were not ready for the next level, for the Promise that God had for them. And the way that they were to prepare themselves was to consecrate, and purify and sanctify themselves.

When ever God is going to do something new in your life, he will clean out all of the filth and garbage in your life. Corporately it is the same thing. Before God does something great like a revival, or a new movement, he cleans his house up and sanctifies the people.

I believe that God will use his Church here in Eckville to do something new in this next season. Do you believe it? And so we are being called to sanctify ourselves.

There might have been a day where we allowed for sin to sneak into our minds and into our thoughts. There might have been a day when a blind eye was turned and sin began to be called mistake, and mistake began to take on the name “Character Flaw”, and character flaws became accepted.

But now our eyes are opened to the truth. Sin is sin and it needs to be addressed, confronted and dealt with.

Because the statisticians tell us the God’s people are not Holy. They tell us that there is a large portion of people in the Church today who struggle with pornography. NOT ACCEPTABLE. They tell us that the divorce rate is just as high in the Church as in the world. NOT ACCEPTABLE. They tell us that some work to do if we want to be Holy.

The good news is that each one of us can be cleaned up today. The good news is that the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword, it is powerful, and it is effective, and even as I am speaking the Truth of the Word of God, his holiness is beginning to make a change in your life.

Do you believe it?

For God says “Be Holy as I am Holy. Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow I will do wonders among you.”

Each word of God is a word of life, and it is a word of truth, and each word has power to renew your mind, and reshape your thought patterns. Just by speaking it out loud, the word of God is released to work in your life.

It drives out sin, it cleanses and it purges. We do not have to struggle with addictions that bind us because we have the word of God.

I said, you don’t have to struggle with addictions. Because we have the word of God. We are taking on addictions this morning in the name of Jesus and we will see the victory. AMEN.

And I can imagine the skepticism that is in the mind of some people. You are recalling all the times that you tried to quit and you couldn’t, you are remembering how you had found victory only to slip back into your old habits.

But no matter how strong the temptation that come against you, no matter how powerful the forces that want to bring you back into sin and death, the Holy Spirit is stronger, bigger, mightier, greater, more powerful and well able to fight with you whatever it is that you are up against.