“Sanctify Them” (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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“What is God doing with me?” Alistair Begg helps us consider this question as we examine Jesus’ request that His disciples would be sanctified. What does biblical sanctification mean? Who is sanctified, and how does it happen? Hear the answers on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . What is God doing with me? |
| 0:29.0 | That's the question Alistair Begg helps us think through today on Truth for Life. |
| 0:33.8 | Jesus in his high priestly prayer asked God the Father to sanctify his disciples. |
| 0:40.2 | So what does that word mean? |
| 0:43.0 | And how does it happen? |
| 0:44.8 | Let's find out. |
| 0:50.7 | And let me invite you to turn to John chapter 17. |
| 0:55.0 | And as we prepare to look there, we look to God. |
| 1:00.0 | We say from our hearts individually and corporately, |
| 1:05.0 | make the book live to me, O Lord, |
| 1:09.0 | show me yourself within your word. Show me myself and show me my Savior |
| 1:17.0 | and make the book live to me. Amen. We have for a number of Sundays been able, as it were, to go behind the curtain as we listen |
| 1:31.3 | as Jesus, the Son, prays to God the Father on behalf of his disciples, disciples who clearly |
| 1:39.3 | were in earshot of this prayer so as to be able to record it and to give it to us that we might |
| 1:46.8 | have it for our own benefit. He's praying for his disciples that are immediately present, |
| 1:53.4 | and he's praying, as we find in the prayer, for those who will become his disciples as a result |
| 1:59.3 | of the work that his disciples in turn do. He has most recently |
| 2:04.4 | prayed for them for their preservation. In verse 15, I do not ask that you take them out of the |
| 2:11.4 | world, but that you keep them from the evil one. And so asking for their preservation, he then turns and asks for |
| 2:21.9 | their sanctification. And there in verse 17, we have our text for this morning. Sanctify them in |
| 2:29.0 | the truth. Your word is truth. Now, the word that is used for holy, earlier in the prayer, where on this strange |
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