Thoughts on holiness/sanctification

When you come to Christ you are sanctified for a use. It is hard to believe some people can teach a progression of sanctification when the instruments of the temple were consecrated for a specific use. You as a believer in Jesus Christ are set apart as an instrument of the temple of God. In the Old Testament the vessels were not progressively being purged of sin. Our job as saints is to comply with our sanctification. God’s side is done. Your job is to yield your members as instruments of righteousness. This is not progressive sanctification but progressive yielding and realization.

When a man is holy his whole body is in alignment with God. What I mean by this is man was created to be filled with God and live sanctified. This is the proper order of man. For a man to be complete He must be a possessor of eternal life. Our sanctification is revealed in the morality that follows. When man is as he was created to be the whole of man is in perfect peace and his thoughts are not combating him. Man when filled with God is full of life and can hear God clearly. Man who is filled with God can move with clarity. He can minister in perfect peace with a perfect flow.

The rest of faith simply receives what has been done and rest in that finished work. In this life of holiness is perfect peace. No war inside.

Do your own investigations

As a believer you can get caught up in what others are saying. The world and the church in these days has been listening and obeying much by hear say. Do your own investigation. Everything someone says take it back to scripture. Seal the deal with two or three other scriptures. What has God’s stamp of approval? If it does not line up with scripture you can disregard it.

Some things we listen to are simply incomplete truths or revelations. If pushed to the extreme it can become error.

For instance ‘confession’. Confession is not the destination. A godly life that walks in love is a heart full of faith that makes a positive confession based on the promises of God. The confession is not the object, it is not the means to an end. Jesus Christ is the object of our confession. Absolute trust in Jesus is a confession in proper context.