8. The eighth part of the answer to the question of how we are
sanctified is found in Rom. 6:19, 22, +"As ye presented your
members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity,
even so present your members as servants to righteousness unto
sanctification. . . . But now being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification."+ The
meaning of these words is plain, and the teaching important and
practical. We are here taught that _we attain unto sanctification
through presenting our members as servants (bondservants, or slaves)
to righteousness and becoming ourselves bondservants unto God_. In
other words, if we wish to attain unto sanctification we should present
our whole body and every member of it to God, to be His servants,
belonging wholly unto Him, and we should present ourselves to God as
His servants, to be His absolute property. This is the practical method
of attaining unto sanctification, a method that is open to each one of
us here to-day, no matter how weak we are in ourselves.
9. The ninth and final part of the answer to the question of how we are
sanctified, is found in Acts 26:18, +"To open their eyes, that they
may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God,
that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them
that are sanctified by faith in Me."+ Here we are told that we are
_sanctified by faith in Christ_. Sanctification, just as justification,
regeneration, and adoption, is conditioned upon faith. Faith is the
hand that appropriates to ourselves the blessing of sanctification that
God has provided for us through His Son Jesus Christ by His death on
the cross, and through the power of the Holy Spirit working in us. And
we claim sanctification by simple faith in Him who shed His blood and
by surrendering ourselves to the control of the Holy Spirit, Whom Jesus
Christ gives.
III. WHEN DOES SANCTIFICATION TAKE PLACE
We now come to the question about which there has been the most
discussion, the most differences of opinion, the most controversy. When
does sanctification take place? If we will go to our Bibles to get the
answer to the question there need be no difference of opinion. There
are three parts to the answer.
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