Sanctification

good morning and welcome to Midweek

Insights with Pastor John i'm Pastor

John Moore and today we're going to take

a look at sanctification

i think it's really important that we as

Christians should have a firm grasp of

what sanctification actually is and why

it's so important to us and the fact

that

um a lot of times we we really don't

understand

exactly

what God has planned for us and that

things have to change for us to be able

to receive what he's changed for us so

we're in uh 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and

we're going to be in verses 9 10 and 11

he says "Know ye not that the

unrighteous shall not inherit the

kingdom of God be not deceived neither

fornicators nor idoltors nor adulterers

nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves

with mankind nor thieves nor covetous

nor drunkards nor revilers nor

extortioners shall inherit the kingdom

of God and such were some of you but

you're washed but you are sanctified but

you are justified in the name of the

Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God

you know when we're looking through

this one of the things that happens when

we get saved and as God begins to deal

with this about things in our lives that

need to be taken care of and that we

need to work through because it says

every man must work out his own

salvation with fear and trembling um

when we get in this we we fail to

remember

that before we accepted Jesus as Lord

and Savior that we were not able we were

unrighteous and therefore we couldn't

inherit the kingdom of God but we also

need to keep in mind that because we are

sanctified and justified and washed in

the name of the Lord Jesus by the spirit

of God we're then able to enter into his

rest and a lot of times when we're going

through these things we

forget

that the world that we're supposed to be

reaching with the message of Jesus

Christ is just as broken as we were and

that we're not

to approach people that aren't saved in

judgment because Jesus came for the

lost he hates the sin but he doesn't

hate the sinner he loves the sinner he

died for them and when you look through

these three verses and we look at

um what he said he said "Be not

deceived." This is in verse 9 neither

fornicators nor idolattors nor

adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of

themselves with

mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor

drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners

shall inherit the kingdom of God and if

we stopped right there we would be we

would be looking at people in the world

that are living a sinful life and we

would never look at them with compassion

as that they are lost and they need

Jesus just like we did and they need to

be loved just like Jesus loved us and we

need to approach them from the point of

view of not condemnation or condemning

them for what they're doing the Bible

already does that but we need to

approach them as these

are people that God loves that he

doesn't want them to live in that uh

type of lifestyle anymore and that we

need to be able to share with them the

gospel of Jesus Christ and let them know

that Jesus loves them just as much as he

loved loves us and listen to what he

says in vers seven because he points it

out he points this out very clearly he

says "And such were some of you none of

us were righteous." The only thing that

makes us righteous is Jesus Christ he

says "But you are washed." In other

words we're

cleansed but you're sanctified in other

words we're made um and but you're

justified in the name of the Lord Jesus

and by the spirit of our God so we don't

have a right to judge these people who

are living the way they do but we don't

have to accept their

lifestyle

and put a stamp of approval on it

because then we would be going against

God's word but he said we're supposed to

reach them we're supposed to teach them

we're supposed to show them there's a

better way to live

and when you look through these

things and he's talking about

fornicators idolattors

adulterers um

epheminite and abusers themselves with

mankind we need to take a look at that

and understand that fornicators are

people that participate in

um sexual acts outside of marriage um

idolattors are people that build uh

idols in the place of Christ uh people

that are adulterers that break their

covenants uh with their marriages uh

epheminite is talking about homosexuals

and lesbians uh abusers themselves with

mankind that's prostitution whether it's

male prostitutes or female prostitutes

thieves people that covet what other

people have people that uh

are drunks

uh revilers people that go against

people you see a lot of that today

extortioners people that try to hold

things from people's past against them

and blackmail them uh shall inherit the

kingdom of God and so we need to be very

careful how we approach people we need

to be very careful not to fall into the

place of judgment where we saying "Well

I'm better than you are because I don't

do those things." Well at one time you

did and the only difference between you

and them is the fact that you have been

saved by grace and uh Paul said that

we're all saved by grace lest any man

should boast it was not by our own power

that we got saved but by the power of

God and through the name of the Lord

Jesus Christ and and by the spirit of

God and so we become washed and

sanctified and justified by Jesus's

actions by nothing of our own the the

thing that gets us into that place is

when we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior

and there's so many

times that people get saved and and they

spend time saved where they move into

this place where they look at people

without compassion and you'll read

through unless Jesus was literally

dealing with

hypocrisy he always treated people with

love and compassion stop and think about

the woman that was caught in adultery

um they they dragged her out in the

street they caught her in the act of

adultery so just basic by reading

between the lines they dragged her out

into the street

naked and then they tempted Jesus by

saying which what should we do with her

she was caught in the act of adultery

jesus first he just knelt down and he

wrote in the dirt and then he looked up

and says,"Well what does the law

say?" And they

said "The law says that we should stone

her." And Jesus's reply to that was "He

who is without sin shall cast the first

stone." And then it says he he knelt

back down and began to write in the dirt

again and when he looked up the crowd

had dispersed and the only person

standing in front of him was the woman

caught in adultery and his response his

question to

her is a clue to us of how to deal with

people who are dealing with sin in their

lives he

said,"Woman where are thine

accusers?" And she said "I have there be

none." And he said "Then neither do I

accuse you." Now we're talking about

Jesus we're talking about the King of

Kings the Lord of Lords the Savior of

mankind he looks at the woman he asks

her "Where are your accusers?" And she

says "There be none." And he is response

to

her is a great a great show of his love

he says "Then neither do I condemn uh

accuse you." And then he tells her how

to correct her life he says "Go and sin

no more."

And that's what he tells us when we come

to him in honesty and in truth and in a

repented heart he tells us the same

thing he told the woman go and sin no

more uh he also tells us 1 John 1:9 that

as Christians we're going to make

mistakes but if we confess our sin he's

faithful and just to forgive us our sin

and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness there's no mistakes

we've made that can't be forgiven and

there's no mistakes the world has made

that can't be forgiven what they need is

somebody to show them the reality of

Jesus in such a way that they can't deny

Christ

and if they do deny Christ at least you

you have sewn the seed of salvation

somebody else may come along and water

it and they may that person's life will

turn around so we need to move away from

being judgmental and we need to move in

to the trueness of sanctification and

justification which is we realize that

we only have that because of what Christ

did and it's nothing that we did and if

we're going to be true soul winners if

we're going to reach out to lead the

lost into a place of

uh salvation redemption justification

holiness that we're going to have to

show them exactly what Christ showed us

so I'm going to leave that with you to

think about we're as we go forward in

our week and I want you to have a

blessed week i want to pray for you in

Jesus' name god we just pray right now

that everyone that hears this message

that this will minister to them minister

to their hearts not only to those that

are saved but also to those that are not

saved Lord and that you provide hope to

them in such a way that they're able to

receive you as Lord and Savior and begin

to walk according to your ways and to

find themselves a good solid Bible-based

Bible teaching church where they can be

discipled and to become effective soul

winners for you in Jesus name we pray

amen i'll see you guys next week