Welcome to the InDutch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, August 8th.

Sanctification is fundamental to God's plans for everyone.

Today's podcast simplifies this concept to help you gain a practical understanding of sanctification as God's grand plan.

Do you feel special or do you feel rather insignificant?

Do you feel like God takes a personal interest in you?

Do you just feel like you're one of those whole creation of souls out there somewhere that doesn't really make a lot of difference?

Well, God has a very grand plan.

I mean an awesome grand plan.

He has a grand plan for every single person.

Most people are going to miss it, but he still has a grand plan.

In fact, that whole entire grand plan could be summed up in one word.

Probably in a word that most people have never even heard a sermon on.

They've read it in the Bible once in a while and they think,

well, what does that mean? Well, not quite sure.

They skip over and keep going.

But there is one word that sums up God's great plan because of the different facets of that word.

And what it means, that word is sanctification.

And the title of this message is sanctification, God's grand plan.

I want us to read only one verse, but we'll see lots of verses here.

I want you to turn if you will to 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5.

And Paul, who had been answering some questions about Jesus' second coming and so forth,

lots of questions he was answering.

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