In today's Verse of Team Podcast, we're going to explore the concept of sanctification in the Holy Spirit.

Every day, every moment God is working to mold us into His likeness.

We were made in His image, and the Holy Spirit is so insightful, so good at molding us and correcting us.

There's so much peace and store for us, and we'll allow God to take away anything in our life, holding us back from what we originally created for, to live free from sin, free from shame, free from the weight of the world, in holy and righteous in Him.

May you be encouraged as we open our hearts and seek sanctification in the Holy Spirit today.

Our verse for today comes from 1 Peter 1, 1 through 2, where Peter's letter begins.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithenia.

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father and the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with His blood, may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

The word sanctification typically renders images of fire, struggle, pain, and toil in my mind.

It makes me think of my own sin and wonder how I could ever be transformed into a sanctified child of God.

I believe sanctification is one of those words commonly used within the church, but often misunderstood.

We might understand the definition of sanctification, the process of being made or becoming holy, but I don't know if we have fully grasped God's plan for the process.

I don't know if we've been taught on sanctification in light of God's grace.

1 Peter 1 gives us wonderful insight into God's heart for the process of sanctification.

Scripture says, Peter, in a possible of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithenia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and the sanctification of the Spirit.

For obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with His blood, may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Blessed be God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this your rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold that parishes through it is tested by fire, maybe found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. Though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

The first thing we see in 1 Peter 1-2 is that sanctification is of the Spirit.

Sanctification comes from God working in us, not from our own strength.

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