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First15 Devotional

The Truth of Sanctification

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today we continue our week on Jesus’s High Priestly prayer by exploring the topic of sanctification. What does it mean to be in the world but not of the world? What does sanctification look like played out in our lives practically? Often the concept of being sanctified is daunting and a bit intimidating. But today God wants to clear up our common misconceptions and help us enter this process with joy. Open your heart to the kindness of Jesus and allow him to give you rest.

Our Scripture for today comes from John 17:14-19, and today's worship is New by Craig and Rachel Denison. 

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Today we continue our week on Jesus' high priestly prayer by exploring the topic of sanctification.

0:11.0

What does it mean to be in the world but not of the world?

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What does sanctification look like played out in our lives practically?

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Often the concept of being sanctified is daunting and a bit

0:23.8

intimidating. But today, God wants to clear up our common misconceptions and help us enter this

0:30.0

process with joy. Open your heart to the kindness of Jesus and allow him to give you rest

0:35.8

today. Welcome to the first of team podcast.

0:39.0

Our passage today comes from 2 Corinthians 517 and reads,

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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

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The old is passed away, behold, the new has come.

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There is a level of freedom from sin in Christ that most of us in the body have yet to reach.

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Jesus prayed in John 17, 14 through 19.

1:19.3

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world,

1:24.4

just as I am not of the world.

1:26.8

I do not ask that you take them out of the world,

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but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth. As he sent me into the world, so I have sent them

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into the world. And for their sake, I consecrate myself, that they also might be sanctified in truth.

1:51.0

Jesus declares a truth about you and me, that we have yet to walk in fully, that our sanctification is linked to his consecration. He declares that we're not of the

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world just as he is not, that he has sent us into the world as he was sent, and prays that we

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be sanctified in the truth. For too long we have sat idle with the incredible gift of freedom,

2:20.3

brought at the highest price by the blood of Christ, and left it unwrapped and thereby not experienced.

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