BIBLE STUDY | ARE CHRISTIANS SAINTS TODAY?

1. Christians Saints 

a) Are Christians presently saints or do they have to die first?  Do they have to be dead for sometime before they can be declared saints or does God call us saints while we are still alive?  What does the Bible say about this?

2. Are Christians Saints Today?

a) If you have put your trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then He has sanctified you (Hebrews 10:14) through His own blood (Hebrews 13:12) and you have been washed and justified in His Name (1 Corinthians 6:11).

b) The use of the word justified…it is “Just if I’d” never sinned, because that is how God the Father now sees you.  He sees you clothed in Jesus’ righteousness.  This is exactly what Paul tells the church in Galatia (Galatians 3:26-27), “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.”

c) Rejoice today you who are Christians, rejoice we say, for you are cleansed and sanctified, and now appear holy before God.

d) If you have repented of your sins, seen the need to have the wrath of God removed from off of you who rightly deserve it, the filth and stench of sin (Romans 6:23, 3:23), and you have confessed your sins to God (1 John 1:9), you already have eternal life (John 3:16-17) and have been made righteous in the sight of God because you have placed your trust in Christ to save you (Romans 10:9-13).

e) If you have, then right at this very moment, you can know that you are a saint of God.  You don’t have to wait until you die and go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

f) If you are His, you are a saint right now!  When God sees you He sees the Son of God’s holiness.  As it is written in Isaiah 61:10, “I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”   

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