“By the which
will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all.” –Hebrews 10:10
“The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from
all sin.” (1 John 1:7) This is the blood that will do the job; this is
the sacrifice that sanctifies. He was the complete and perfect sacrifice
to provide atonement for carnality. He settled the sin question once and
for all, furthermore, in the same action; he ushered in a new dispensation and
solidified a new covenant. So, what does that mean for us here today?
Simply put,
it means that we can be sanctified. Jesus himself said: “I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” (John 17:19) The
blood of Christ has provided provision to atone for all sin that exist in a
man’s heart. We could not approach God with anything that could rid us of
the inclination to sin. You cannot buy your way out of sin, or learn your
way out of it. There is an inclination to disobedience in every man’s
heart that is born into this world; and the only atonement for this inbred
wrongness is the perfect, precious, blood of the Son of God. It was the
love of God that formed man in the beginning and the love of God that redeemed
man in the end of the world. The world has reached an end; not in a
physical sense, but in a spiritual sense. The lust of the flesh, of the
eyes, and the pride of life that exists in a man’s heart can be purged through
and by the offering of Jesus Christ. It was love in the beginning and
love in the end. It has always been love, and will always be love.
We can “love God will all our heart, soul, mind, and strength
and love our neighbor as ourselves.” We can have the pure and perfect
love of God abiding in our soul day, after day, after day. He settled the
score, he paid the debt. The blood is the access to the fire that
sanctifies the soul. Sanctifies: sets a soul apart from sin by purging it
from all sin, and simultaneously giving that soul an inherent desire to do the
will of God; it is God with us! The blood is the arc of the covenant that
the priest had to bare up in order to stop the Jordan waters, so they could
cross into Canaan (Joshua 3) His blood was shed on the cross, so we could
have a New Testament victory testimony, not an Old Testament defeatist testimony.
There is provision made for you to live a life free from the
bondage of sin. He put away sin, and
rose again a conquering savior to appear in heaven for us, and send the Holy
Ghost as a witness to us. The plan of
salvation is a perfect plan. The grace
of God forgives us of all sins we committed, those in our past. Sanctification
gives us the power to live a life pleasing to God, going forward. This made possible by our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. This glorious experience
can be obtained by any person, through faith.
