"... I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." (John 10: 10)
Emerging from The Death Side of Sanctification... The Life Side.
Our guilt, our shame, our sin, and everything else that keeps us from the God the Father was put to death on the cross, but are WE willing to die to them that we may receive His life?
"He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption." (1 Corinthians 1:30)
The mystery of sanctification is that the perfect qualities of Jesus Christ are imparted as a gift to me, not gradually but instantly once I enter by faith into the realization that He was "made [my].. sanctification..." Sanctification means nothing less than the holiness of Jesus becoming mine and being exhibited in my life.
The most wonderful secret of living a holy life does not lie in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfect qualities of Jesus exhibit themselves in my human flesh. Sanctification is "Christ in you..." (Colossians 1:27). It is his wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification - imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God's grace. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real to me as it is in His word?
Sanctification means the impartation of the holy qualities of Jesus Christ to me. It is the gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity, and godliness that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy - it is drawing from Jesus the very holiness that was exhibited in Him, and that He now exhibits in me. Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different. The perfection of everything is in Jesus Christ, and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect qualities of Jesus are at my disposal. Consequently, I slowly but surely begin to live a life of inexpressible order, soundness and holiness - "... kept by the power of God..." (1Peter 1:5) - Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest"
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