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What does sanctify really mean?
JOHN 17:9 "I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. 14 I have given them Your ...read more
Scripture: John 17:9-18
Denomination: Pentecostal
As His children, we too are to be holy and set apart from the world around us. To be holy is to be sanctified, and the Christian life is a life growing in sanctification.
Some of you may have read the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In the story, the caterpillar had a hunger that could never be satisfied. He was always hungry and always eating. But one day everything changed. He no longer crawled on the ground nor did he feel that intense ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:9-20
Denomination: Baptist
God is holy and he leads us to holy life in every day situations. We must practice holiness in our conversations, dialogues and oration. We don’t have casual talk and formal talk concepts. We must behave always same manner as followers of Christ.
TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-12 THEME: BE SANCTIFIED Greetings: The Lord is good and his love endures forever! Introduction: This section runs through chapters 4 and 5. Prior passages were mostly a description of the Thessalonian believers' spiritual growth and their excellent ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Denomination: Methodist
This is a clergy talk I prepared for a Men’s Walk to Emmaus but with slight modification a sermon I preached on Sanctifying Grace from a Wesleyan-Armenian perspective.
Sanctifying Grace --I Thessalonians 5:22-24 Seth Cook Rees tells of sending his little boy to the store for five items. In a little while, he hurried in, his face aglow with expectancy, and carrying four items instead of five! Rees said he gathered him in his arms and hugged him because of his ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:22-24
Sanctification: - The action of making or declaring something holy. - The action or process of being freed from sin or purified.
1. Let God sanctify us. a. It is the Lord who sanctifies us. b. 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2. Live with integrity. a. Casting away pride and conceit. i. Proverbs 29:23 Pride brings a person low, but ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:23
Christ desires to make us holy and more like him. The process is called sanctification.
Christ our Sanctifier Introduction A. Sanctification has caused a lot of problems within our denomination and with other denominations throughout the history of the CMA B. It is a very difficult subject to deal with because no one can really explain what happens during the process of ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:24
Denomination: Christian Missionary Alliance
Jesus was sent to "sanctify" us. What does that mean and what difference can it make in your life?
In Luke we’re told that the Shepherds went to Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus. But back in 1999, someone not only went to see the baby Jesus… they took him home. They took him from the Daly Plaza in Chicago, IL and though authorities found Him and returned Him to the nativity, someone stole him ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Because of Jesus, NT sanctification is believed by faith, because of the blood of Jesus. The word ‘sanctity’ means a state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly. It means to set apart. Set apart for a higher purposes, set apart for God’s perfect will.
Sanctify Yourselves. Joshua 3:1-5AMP. I wanted to begin with something light-hearted. Tom was so excited about his promotion to Vice President of his company he worked for. Tom kept ...read more
Scripture: Joshua 3:1-5, Colossians 3:1-4
Denomination: Church Of God
This sermon encourages believers to pursue holiness, reflecting God's purity in all actions, guided by the teachings and example of Jesus Christ.
Good morning, beloved family of God. It's a joy to gather together with you today, in this sacred space, united by our shared faith and love for our Lord Jesus Christ. We are indeed a blessed people, called to live in the light of God's love, and to reflect that love to a world in desperate need of ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:14-16
Topics: Sanctified Life, Christ
While no one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws him, it’s also clear that Christianity does not require a "leap of faith" to believe.
Sanctified by the Truth TCF Sermon March 5, 2006 In what some commentators call His high priestly prayer, in John chapter 17, Jesus prayed for His disciples, and for us. One of the things he prayed was: John 17:17 (NIV) Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth Jesus asked our Heavenly ...read more
Scripture: John 17:17
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Jesus prays that the Father will protect us. But how does the God do that? How does God guard us and shield us when we live so exposed to the temptations and lusts of this world?
OPEN: Down in Kentucky, our nation has a very special place designed to protect our gold supply. Do you know what it’s called? (Fort Knox). That’s where our nation keeps most of our gold. But more than gold has been stored there over the years. Ft. Knox has also held the Magna Carta, ...read more
Scripture: John 17:11-19, John 17:1-19
Jude warns us from false teachings, but in the final two verses of this little letter, Jude gives a doxology that states our security in Jesus.
Something I seldom do and that is switch to another translation of the Bible. This morning I will be using the English Standard Version rather than the New King James Version for our text of Jude 24-25 because of the differences between the different versions based on different Greek manuscripts. ...read more
Scripture: Jude 1:24-25
The church in Corinth was in a mess. Many of our lives are a mess. Jesus can make a life of eternal usefulness out of a life that is a sinful mess by the "name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God"! Praise His Name forever!
If you would, please stand as we say together our memory Scripture for this quarter: Matthew 6:31-33 “Do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. “But ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:7-11, Ruth 1:16-17, Romans 5:8-9, Matthew 22:37-40
Denomination: Nazarene
While some teach us to avoid the Halloween season, Paul’s visit to Mars Hill may have left us a clue as to sanctifying the secular for God.
Sanctifying the Secular Acts 17:15-34 (ESV) My emails filled up this week from my pastor’s newsletters about Halloween. I get the same emails about the Christmas tree and the Easter bunny. About half of them warned pastors about allowing their churches to do anything around the Halloween ...read more
Scripture: Acts 17:15-35
God calls us to live a life of purpose and peace by being set apart to be used by Him in this life as we progress toward Christ-likeness.
"It is God’s will that you should be sanctified." - 1 Thessalonians 4:3a (NIV) In the Bible, to sanctify something means to set it apart for special use by God. Likewise, to sanctify a person means the same thing - to make them set apart for special use by God. The fact is that God has a plan for ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:28-30
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