JESUS, OUR SANCTIFICATION
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What Jesus Did
a) There are three words that we can easily commit to memory: perfection, punishment, price; which outline the wonderful things that Jesus did by dying on the cross. These are necessary things which we could not possibly have done for ourselves.
2. Jesus, Our Sanctification
a) When we compare ourselves to Jesus, how imperfect we are! We cannot bring to God a perfect life. So we face rejection. Perhaps we could offer some substitute? Find another creature that is perfect, a lovely bird, an unblemished lamb? God did accept such offerings for a while, but he was never satisfied (Leviticus 22:21; Hebrews 10:6).
b) We can find but one substitute: the perfect life of Christ. When he "offered himself without blemish to God" (Hebrews 9:14) then God accepted him as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:19). He was manifested to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin (1 John 3:5). We can claim the perfection of Christ Jesus to be accounted to us, as if it were our own, and God will accept that claim.
c) This covering of our own imperfection by the perfection of Christ, is called "sanctification". Christ is our "justification, sanctification, and redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30). Sanctification (or holiness) is ours by virtue of the perfect life which Jesus Christ offered to God on the cross.
The End ...
1. What Jesus Dida) There are three words that we can easily commit to memory: perfection, punishment, price; which outline the wonderful things that Jesus did by dying on the cross. These are necessary things which we could not possibly have done for ourselves.
2. Jesus, Our Sanctification
a) When we compare ourselves to Jesus, how imperfect we are! We cannot bring to God a perfect life. So we face rejection. Perhaps we could offer some substitute? Find another creature that is perfect, a lovely bird, an unblemished lamb? God did accept such offerings for a while, but he was never satisfied (Leviticus 22:21; Hebrews 10:6).
b) We can find but one substitute: the perfect life of Christ. When he "offered himself without blemish to God" (Hebrews 9:14) then God accepted him as "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:19). He was manifested to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin (1 John 3:5). We can claim the perfection of Christ Jesus to be accounted to us, as if it were our own, and God will accept that claim.
c) This covering of our own imperfection by the perfection of Christ, is called "sanctification". Christ is our "justification, sanctification, and redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30). Sanctification (or holiness) is ours by virtue of the perfect life which Jesus Christ offered to God on the cross.
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