Talent, I thank God for the talent
that these ladies possess. You don't get the credit. You don't get the credit. God
does, but I thank you for using it. P.M.S. number one, P.M.S. number two. I'm thankful for
both of them. John 17. John 17. What is it that sets apart a
true believer from a false one? What is it that sets apart that
distinguishes a true Christian, a true disciple a true follower,
lover of Jesus Christ from the world who merely claims to be
one. What is it? Well, Christ said here, back
in, look at verse 6 of John 17. He says, I have manifested thy
name unto the men which thou gavest me. Thine they were, and
thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. They have taken it to heart.
They have believed thy word. They have acted upon it. They
have believed, actually believed, the word of God, all of it. And
verse 8, I've given unto them the words which you gave me,
and they have received them. They received Isaiah wrote in chapter 54, verse
13, one of my favorite verses of Scripture, All thy children
shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace
thereof. And Christ quoted that. Do you remember back in John
chapter 6, verse 45? He said, All thy children shall
be taught of God. And he added to it. He's the
only man that could add to the already written Word of God,
because he wrote it. See, I'm going to make an addition here.
All thy children shall be taught of God. He's quoting Isaiah 54.
And he says, And every man that hath heard and learned of the
Father comes to me. Comes to me. So what it is that
distinguishes, sets apart a true believer from a false one, a
true disciple from a mere professing disciple, is that every single
child of God has been personally instructed by God himself concerning
the things we looked at this morning, who God is, who we are,
and who Christ is. Every one of them without exception
have at least been instructed in those three things. And you've
said a mouthful, haven't you? Those three things. And God teaches
them all with the same textbook, right? The Word of God. They
don't get it here, get it there, they all get it from the same
place, the Word of God. Providential, we've been talking
about this all day, or all evening. We've been talking about this
very thing. That which distinguishes, or God's people receive His Word,
they believe it. They believe it. He said in verse
14, he says, I've given them by word. He said this. I counted nearly seven with seven
direct references to the word of God in this one prayer, seven
direct references Christ gave to to his word saying, I've given
me a word, your word, your word, your word. Your word. And I'm sitting here thinking
about that passage where he said he's magnified his word above
his name even. His word is so important because
it reveals all that God is, all that God does, who God is, who
Christ is. And Christ said, I've given them,
look at verse 14, he said, I've given them thy word and the world
hates them. They've kept this word, they've
believed it, they've simply like a child bowed to it, submitted
to it, just taken me at my word. That's what it is to be saved,
except you be converted and become as little children. What are
little children like? With their parents, they believe
every word they say, don't they? And that's what God's children
do. They believe every word he says. Might not understand it
all, but they believe it all. I said this before, that God's
people really are kind of like his yes-men. Yes-men. Whatever he says, yes, Lord.
Don't understand it? But they believe it. True, Lord,
it might be hard, it might be tough, it might be convicting,
it might be hurtful. Yes, Lord, right. You're right,
whatever you say. I don't understand. That's right,
because you're God. That's what you say. But God's
people, that which distinguishes them from others, is that they
believe it. They submit to it, all of it. And it says, the world, verse
14, the world hates him. This is hard to understand, isn't
it? It really is. The only way you can understand
it is because he said it happened, right? You go to a man, try to
witness to him and say, look here what it says. Isn't this
great? It says that he's chosen us in Christ. I don't like that.
Why? You don't like that? It's God's Word. Yeah, but, but,
but. Wait a minute now, you're a Christian, you're a child of
God, and you don't like what His Word says? Yeah, but I just
don't believe that. Oh, I do. I love it. The world hates them, Christ
said. Why? They don't believe the Word.
They don't believe it. They believe what they want to
believe. Take what they can get, what they want. And the world
hates seeing them, and it. And the debate rages on. Now,
I'm getting so sick of this. We went out to just take some
folks, people just invited us to dinner, and we went. And they paid, they flipped the
bills, and we went. And they weren't believers, just
some neighbors. Conversation arose, and the man
started asking me about an article. He said, there's an article in
the Newsweek magazine. He said, it's about, he said,
it's really interesting, you ought to read it. It's about
who wrote the Bible. He said, it's all by different
experts and theologians and historians and all that, about who wrote
the Bible. He said, it's interesting theories there. And I said, I'm
not interested in the least what they have to say. I said, the
Bible is not to be debated, it's to be believed. I said, God is
not to be proved, he's to be believed. And the debate rages
on, though. It always has and always will.
Who is God? Who wrote the Bible? Who is saved? What is truth? What is the gospel?
It rages on. But the Word of God is very clear.
I'm just going to stick to the Word, aren't you? I'm not going
to give—the believer, let me say this, The believer, the true
child of God, doesn't get into that fray. He doesn't get into that. He just
believes. He just believes. Like I say,
we're not called upon to prove God and prove the Bible. Faith
is the proof. That's what Hebrews 11 says.
It's the evidence of things not seen. Faith is the proof. God
says, what God calls upon men first to do is believe. But,
Lord, I don't understand it. All right. OK. I believe. Then he opens up things, right? Then he shows you. It's not that
there's no proof of God's Word. There's no proof in it. Yet God
is not to be proved. God doesn't have to prove himself.
And he doesn't do that to anybody when he saves them. He does not
prove himself to anybody when he saves them. No. No, he doesn't. Faith believes first and then
receives proof. And all who do believe, do so
because God constrained them to do so. Not because they just
decided and reasoned and rationalized things out, did they? I mean,
face it. You. One day, I was agnostic
of agnostics. Mystic. All this stuff. I thought this was foolishness.
And one day, A complete about-face and change
of mind. That's the only way you can explain
this. Somebody believe in something that's so humanly impossible.
That's the only way you can explain it. God should believe, son. Whereas one day you didn't, the
next day you did. You heard the same gospel. I
heard the same message over and over and over and over and over
and over and over again. The truth, the true gospel. And
I didn't believe. And there was times when I called
it this hogwash. That's old-fashioned. I know better than that. I'm
wiser than that, smarter than that. But one day, all of a sudden,
I believed. How do you explain that, Henry?
God. Right? God, that one day, just
said, He's going to believe today. He's going to believe today.
How else can you explain it? Someone making a drastic change
from ridiculing to believing. Like the thief on the cross.
He was casting the same in Christ's teeth, wasn't he? Just like the
other thief. Yeah, you say, you say. And then all of a sudden,
Lord, didn't he? That's how drastic it was. It
doesn't come by reason or rationale. It comes by revelation. Exactly. So that's the reason he said,
the wise man, the mighty man, the noble man, the wisdom of
this world, the world by wisdom knew not God and won't and never
will. Never will. It's a revelation. It's whom
God chooses to reveal it to. And that's how you differentiate.
And the ones he reveals it to are the low, the nothings, the
nobodies. Why? Because he'll get all the
glory that way. If a smart man, Not many, if
all the smart men just figured it out on their own, then they'd
be taking the glory, wouldn't they? Well, God's children, in
a nutshell, God's children believe God's word. They believe his
word. They agree with God about everything. Why? How? What? How could a God of love do all
these things to you, John? What joke's that? It's the Lord,
isn't it? The Lord gave, the Lord take
it away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Eli, your sons are going to die.
How could a God of love? It's the Lord. How? It's the Lord. David, God is going to take your
son, an apple of your eye, O Absalom. I esteem all his precepts concerning
all things to be right. Shall not the judge of the earth
do right? Palm, palm, salt, salt, let God be true, and every man
a liar." That's the language of God's people. That's the language.
And the Word of God sets apart what I'm saying. That's how I
started this out. The Word of God sets apart His
people from other people in that they receive it. Like the things
we were saying this morning, they're hard. That is hard to
the world. They're easy to us, easy to understand,
lovely, sweet, fresh. Our comfort, who God is and what
we are, but yet what we are made in Christ, that's our comfort.
But if they're dogmatic things, we say, no, it can't be any other
way. There's no gray area here. No, you can't straddle a fence
here. You either believe it or you don't, right? God's either
sovereign or he's not. God either elected the people
or he didn't, right? Man's either depraved, totally
dead, or he's not, isn't he? Right? Christ either saved people
by his death or he didn't, didn't he? The Holy Spirit either irresistibly
calls or he doesn't. Something else happened. Now
God's people either saved eternally or they're not. Can't be halfway. Can't be straddling the fence
here. One or the other. Well, it's one. Number one. Now, look at John 17. This is
where we left off, verse 17. Christ says to the Father, and
praying to the Father, he says, Father, sanctify them through
thy truth. Thy word is truth. Father, sanctify them through
thy truth. Thy Word is truth. And like I said, there's so many
people who claim to be believers, who claim to believe the Bible
to be God's Word, yet it's really pressed. Henry, if you really
press them on every issue, right, on every single word in the Bible,
really press them there, they'll prove it, won't they? Their own
mouths will condemn them, won't they? But. Goats, but, like someone
said. Yet a sanctified son, a set-apart
child of God, is one who not only says he believes the Word,
but he actually does believe the Word, and even further, he
loves it. Look over 2 Thessalonians 2,
10. No, you turn over to Ephesians
1. I'll quote that for you. Ephesians 1, you turn there.
But Paul said over in 2 Thessalonians 2.10, he said, there's some people
that perish because they receive not the love of the truth. Now, it's even another thing
to say, well, there it is. I don't like it, but that's it.
As God said, no, that's not salvation either. Reluctantly saying, well,
I guess the election's something to it, but I don't know about
that. It must be something to it. It's
in there all the time. No, it's the love of the truth. love of
the truth. But what is the truth? What is
the truth? Look at Ephesians 1 verse 13.
He said, In Christ you have trusted after you heard the word of truth.
Christ said it back there, sanctify them through thy truth, thy word
is truth. The word of truth, what is that? The gospel of your
It's the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the testimony of God
concerning his son, what God has said about his son. And it's
all of what Ephesians 1 said. It's all of what Paul said before
that, before he said that, in whom you've also trusted after
you heard this word, the word of truth, the gospel. What's
the gospel? Well, verse 1, it's all of the will of God. This
whole thing has to do with the will of God. Verse 2, that all
grace and peace has to come from God. Verse 3, that all spiritual
blessings are in Christ. Right? Verse 4, and it's all
upon them God's chosen. Right? Verse 5, and it's according
to his predestinating will, according to whom God wills, not the man
that wills, according to his will, predestinated, his good
pleasure. And it's all according to who
he accepts, accepted in him. Verse 7, it's a sure redemption. They're actually redeemed by
the blood of Christ. Verse 8, and they have wisdom,
gospel-wise. They've been made wise, wisdom
in Christ. Verse 9, they've had these things
revealed to them, this mystery, how God can be just and justifier.
Verse 10, they see all things in Christ. Verse 11, they see
it's all according to God's infinite eternal purpose. Verse 12, they
see how it's all for God's glory. It's all in Christ. Verse 13,
and it's all through the preaching of the gospel, the word of truth. That's the gospel. Do you believe that gospel? Not only do you believe it and
acknowledge it to be true, but do you love it? Well, I say on the authority
of God's Word, and you, my friend, have been sanctified by the truth
and set apart by God Almighty to be his child. And further
still, I like that song we sung, the truth of the Word incarnate. Thy Word is truth. Christ said
every word. He said, I'm the truth. and the life. The Word speaks
about Christ, and like I've said so many times, if you see God
the Word and the Word of God, then you've been set apart to
see him. But not everybody sees that. They just see historical
accounts and notes to the Jews and this and that and the other,
right? And they argue and debate and this and that and the other.
The Southern Baptists are the Word. They continue to have this
continuing argument about the inerrancy and infallibility of
scriptures and so forth. the literal interpretation of
the scripture. I ain't going to get in that
head. I'm just going to believe God's Word, right? I don't have
to prove it. You don't have to prove God's
Word. He's borne witness with my spirit
to say His Word. I'm not going to get in that fight. Let the
pot church of the earth strive with the pot church of the earth,
right? Let them strive. But he that hath my Word, let
him proclaim it faithfully. Not prove it, but proclaim it.
But you've been set apart if you hear it, if you believe it,
if you see Christ in it, And you love it, you've been set
apart. And he says, look at verse 18
of our text, John 17, verse 18. We've been set apart like that
cow being taken out of the herd, you know. We've been set apart.
The Holy Spirit, God Almighty says, there He is. And the Holy
Spirit comes and lassoes us with the Word of God. and brings us
in and brands us with faith, with conviction, repentance,
and faith, and so forth, and then he sends us back in the
herd. You know, the cowboy, he doesn't say, OK, you know, you're
just going to ride alongside me. I'm going to take you home
with me. No, he sends him back in the
herd. He brands him, and then he sends
him back. That's exactly what Christ says in verse 18. He says, Now as thou hast sent
me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
I've set them apart. I've called them, I've branded
them, I've sealed them, and I'm sending them back out into the
world. Is it merely coincidental that
we've talked about this thing of our testimony this morning,
the profession of faith? Is it merely coincidental that
this has come up all at the same time? I didn't plan this. Uh-uh. And I desperately need
this. We've been talking about, some
of you haven't been sitting in on a Bible study. In 1 Peter
chapter 3, we've been talking about testifying before others,
our confession of faith, of profession, confession of faith before others,
not being afraid of people, but being bold with the truth and
so forth. I need this. I need to learn something about
this. And that's what he's talking about here. He says, as thou
hast sent me, look at it, verse 18, as you have sent me. Now, think about this. I mean, we can't. I can't even
describe this. We can't enter into this. We haven't been where
Christ has been. We didn't see where He came from.
The only man that got close to that was the Apostle Paul. He
went up there and said, I can't describe it. How much more of
me, how much less am I going to try to describe this? But
here's my feeble little words written down on my toony little
paper. The awful condescension of the Lord Jesus Christ into
this world. You think about it. He who was
holy, spotless, pure, lovely, engrossed in holiness and righteousness,
lovingness and purity, who loathed and hated evil, was immersed in it. Just like
taking you and me and just taking us down to a Just opening up
your septic tank and just sticking your head down in there. And staying in there. Closing
the lid. Putting us down in there and closing the lid. That's what it was like for His
holy, spotless character to be immersed into this world. That's
what it was everywhere. It hurt Him. I can't describe it. In a sense,
that's what it was like. He went to the lowest and the
vilest and hung out there, stayed there willingly, willingly. Then, the Scripture says, finally
that he was made sin, made it. This is where I'm really at a
loss. But he was filled, covered, engulfed by wickedness. He made
it, actually made to be the worst sinner who ever lived. He who
hated sin made it. Maybe that's the reason he
said there in Psalm 22, I'm a worm. I'm not a man. I'm a worm. And ultimately abandoned by God. Well, we saw it in 1 Peter this
morning, to bring us to God. Because He had to come down in
the cesspool. John, that's where we were. We
were hanging out there and liking it. We were in the cessing tank
and liking every minute of it. Right? Down in the muck, in the
mire, in the pits, in the sea, and watering in it. Yeah, we
are, were, are. And He had to come get us. And
we didn't even want to go. until finally he popped our heads
up out of the light, up into the light and said, hey, look
where I was. We didn't even realize where
we were, right? He had to come get us and wipe the filth and
the muck and the sin out of our eyes and out of our ears and
pop our head up into the light and say, now look! Live! Hey! Yeah, I don't want out of here!"
And everybody else is saying, well, I don't see anything. They're
grumbling around, still liking it. But he went and had to dive
down in and grab them, pull them out of there, clean them off,
wash them up, make them fit. Consider him, I keep quoting
that, consider him who endured such things. Oh, boy, look at verse 19. He
says, now, for their sakes, look at it. Now, this is where we're
going to dwell. Like I said, I'm dragging my feet. Well, you
can drag a long time right here. You can stay right here. Barney
used to say, let's camp right here. You can camp right here for eternity.
Christ said, for their sake. God help me. For their sakes,
I sanctify myself. that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. For their sakes, Christ left
eternal happiness to become a man of sorrows. Think about it. He left bliss
and happiness. We've never experienced that.
We don't know what unbridled, untold bliss is—constant bliss
and happiness. He left it to become a man of
sorrow, to be totally—to all the time be sorrowful. He left
that to come here to do that. He left joy unspeakable to be
acquainted with grief. He had never been acquainted
with grief. He didn't know what grief was.
But we do. So therefore he came to be acquainted
with it. Think about that. He left joy
unspeakable and said, I'm going to go down and I'm going to be
acquainted with their grief. I'm going to enter into where
they are. I'm going to be touched with the feeling of their infirmity.
I'm going to be tempted in all points like as they are, yet
without sin. He tore himself from the bosom
of the Father like a baby from his mother's He tore himself,
you know, this perfect comfort and peace and contentment, a
mother and child, on both parts, right? This is the father, and
this is the closest we'll come to entering into this. This is
the father and the son, the two of them in eternity past, dwelling
together in perfect love, no pain, no sorrow, constant, unbridled
joy and peace and contentment, gazing into one another's eyes.
if you'll have that. And Christ willingly tore himself
from the bosom of the Father, left the bosom of the Father,
to come down here and lie in an old, dark, damp tomb, to lie
in the grave. I'm going to go find them. I'll be back. But son, you're going through
an awful lot. You're going to have to go through eternity to
find them. Down through the eons of time
and misery and sin and depravity. You're going to have to go. You're
going to have to travel that road. I know. But I'll do it. I'll go. And he went. He went. He said,
I'll be back. I'll be back, and I'm going to
bring them with me. Bring them with me. But he separated himself
from God to bring us to God, and he set himself apart. Distinguished
himself. He says he sanctified himself.
That is, he distinguished himself above all others, above all of
the men. Set himself apart as a man. Like Pilate said, behold,
man. Right? Never been a man like
this man. Behold the man. He set himself
apart as that man to fulfill all righteousness. And went through
that, and listen to this, for thirty-three and a third years,
he went through mind-wrenching, soul-threshing, body-agonizing
work, and then freely gave it all away.
I'd be like you or me, somebody in here living a lifetime of
hard labor from sunup to sundown. Hard labor and accumulating all
of that wealth and so forth. A lifetime of hard labor and
then finally in the end say, here, I'm going to give this
to you and then die. That's just what he did. Exactly. It's been hard, it's been tough,
but it's finished, and now it's for you." Oh boy, he sanctified himself. He set himself apart on that
cruel Roman tree as the greatest single object of the wrath of
God that this world has ever known. as the greatest sinner who ever
lived, the greatest object of brutality and torture ever, ever
known in this world. Every flaw, every device, every
cruel thing that can be done to a man was done to him, and
he willingly took it. He set himself apart as if all
shame, suffering, guilt, and sin from the beginning of time
was laid on him. And it was. That's the reason we're sitting
here and we can't even enter into this. But that's what happened. He said, I do this. I sanctify
myself. I do it willingly. Why? Why? That we might be sanctified. That we might be sanctified.
That they also might be set apart. Now listen. Stay with me now.
Come on. Come on. Christ said, I do it willingly,
that these worthless worms might be sanctified and set apart,
that God might accept them, that they might be made holy. And
this is the truth. Turn over to Hebrews chapter
10 with me. Hebrews chapter 10. This is the
truth of how we are sanctified, first and foremost. the principle
truth of how we are sanctified, how Christ sanctified us, right
here in Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10, look at verse
10. It says, By God's will, by the which will, God's will, we
are sanctified, set apart, made holy through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Verse 14, For by one
offering he hath perfected forever. been sanctified forever. It's not what we have made ourselves.
It's not what we become. It's what he did for us. It's
how he made himself. It's who he was. It's what he
has made unto us. That is sanctification. That's how he has made unto us
sanctification. That's how we are principally
Now listen, and bear with me for a few more minutes. We haven't
been here long. We haven't been here thirty minutes
yet. There's basically a three-fold sanctification. Now here's a
little learning session here for all of you. There's basically
a three-fold sanctification. It's very easy to remember because
you've got God the Father, you've got God the Son, you've got the
Holy Spirit, and they're all three involved in this sanctification
process. Now turn over with me to Jude
chapter one. Jude chapter one. There's sanctification
by the Father in election. As I said, the word sanctify
principally means to set apart. That's how we know it best, the
word, to set apart. We were sanctified by God the
Father. That is, we were chosen by Him before the foundation
of the world. Set apart. I don't know when it was, but
one day he said, now I choose this one, that one, this one,
that one. Elected unto salvation. Election
isn't salvation, but it's unto salvation. Okay? Jude chapter one, verse one.
By the Father. Or, Jude one one. Jude one. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ
and the brother of James, to them that are set apart by God
the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. Actually,
you have all three there, don't you? Called by the Holy Spirit.
But we're set apart. We're sanctified. That means
to be set apart for God's use. God says, I'm going to use that
boy. Oh, but you don't need him. No, you're right. I don't need
him, but I'm going to use him. I'm going to choose him. That's what
he did, Terry. He said, I'm just going to choose
that fellow, and I'm going to set him apart. I'm going to make him holy for
my youth. It's to take something common. I always ask Old Joe,
how you doing? He said, common. Says it every
time. You're right. But in God's eyes,
though, you've been made holy. You're a holy priest to him. chosen generation, a holy priesthood. He took something common, something
old common, there's a million just like him, and made something
uncommon. Behold what manner of, behold
what we now are, sons of God. He took something ordinary and
made it extraordinary. And he set it apart for his holy
use. God chooses, God elects, God sanctifies. Now, back in
the text, John 17 verse 19, It's sanctification by the Son. He
said, I sanctify myself that they might be sanctified. Christ
actually had to come down here to really purchase our redemption,
to actually make us holy—well, to make us, in God's eyes, considered
to be holy. He is made unto us sanctification. In other words, by what he did,
God declares us to be holy, right? By what Christ did, are you with
me? Got blank lips on you. By what Christ did, we were declared
to be holy. Okay, God chose us, God sanctified
us in the beginning. He said, I'm going to use that
one. Now Christ, he says to his son, you go down there and you're
going to have to work out this redemption for them so that I
can declare them holy, so that I can justify them. so that I can consider them sanctified,
for I can just consider them holy." And Christ did. He came
down here, and by virtue of his work and his blood, we're declared
holy by virtue of Christ. Not what we did, not even what
we are, but what he did and who he is. We're sanctified. All right? Now, there's a third
sense of sanctification. 2 Thessalonians, turn here with
me, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, 2 Thessalonians 2, sanctification
by the Holy Spirit, that's regeneration. You've got election by the Father,
redemption by the Son, and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, threefold
sanctification. This is the work of the triune
God. 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 13, he says, we're bound to give
thanks to God, why? Because God chose you. Because
God had, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation. And
how does he apply this salvation? The Holy Spirit, through sanctification
of the Spirit, belief of the truth. The Holy Spirit comes
down in time and actually changes us. Now, there is truly a sanctification,
a real work of sanctification. Not only are we declared sanctified
in Christ, but we're made holy. We are. I don't feel anything. He said, you're a new creature.
He said, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature, a new creation,
a regenerated new person. And you've got to admit now,
old things have passed away, haven't they? Huh? You're not what you once were.
You're not what you'd like to be. Some people call it progressive. I don't Edit the tape. I don't have any
trouble with that. Really. Edit this tape, Terry. I'm serious. I'll tell you this. He said, we're also being saved
and sanctified and set apart from, number one, the power of
sin. The power. Sin hath no more dominion over
you. You're not under sin anymore. You're under grace. You're under
grace. Secondly, we're saved from the penalty of sin. There's
therefore now no condemnation. No penalty. No guilt. The condemning,
damning power of sin can't get you. Can't reach you. No, you're
in Christ. You're in His grasp. Can't get
you. And thirdly, you're saved, being
sanctified and set apart from the pleasures of sin. The pleasures
of sin. Now listen. Though it is in your
members, though sin is in your members still, Do you like it? Do you not really? I know the
scripture says there's pleasure in sin for a season. But it comes a season, it comes
a time, in due season, in His season, the Holy Spirit's season,
when God works upon a man, where the pleasures get less pleasurable.
You know what I'm saying? There's these laws, these workings
of sin in our members, but they war. Right? Who has fun in war? Nobody enjoys war. There's death
and killing and pain and sorrow and destruction. Paul said, there's
another law in my members, but it's a war. Now, if it's a pleasure,
you've got profit. But if it's a war, if you hate
it, that's a good sign. That's a good sign. that you're
being sanctified or set apart from the pleasure of sin. Now,
all these things take place in this thing of sanctification.
To us, for us, and in us. Threefold sanctification. But
Christ, principally, in the context there, He said, Now, I sanctify
myself. Our whole sanctification is wrapped
up in Him. In Him. I sanctify myself. It
all culminates in Him. That they also might be sanctified,
set apart. truly be made children of God. And I don't, I don't, I don't
think you do either. I don't, I don't, I want to believe
all of God's Word, whatever it says. Don't you? I want to be
obedient to it. I want to bow to it. I want,
that's the way I want it. God says, be ye holy. All right,
I'll try. Now really, be ye holy, for I
am holy. He doesn't say, now you can't,
now don't try. No. You better trust in Christ for your holiness.
But you better strive to be like Christ, too. Hadn't you? Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah. Because He's holy. Because He's holy. But remember
where your holiness comes from. And any part of sanctification
or holiness or whatever, it doesn't come from yourself. It doesn't
come from you doing or striving or anything. It all comes from
God. It's all a part. This sanctification in us is
the work of the Holy Spirit. Remember that. It's all, this
whole sanctification process is of God, of God, from start
to finish, start to finish. I hope it didn't muddle your
minds. Ah well, stand with me now this