He That Sanctifieth by E. M. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 27, 1906

“He That Sanctifieth”

By E. M. H.

E. M. H.

In order that man may be led to recognize, confess, and forsake sin, he must believe that there is one who is able to free him from its power.

“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” was the question of the trembling keeper of the prison. The answer came, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” Acts 16:30, 31. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever,” was set apart from the foundation of the world as man’s Saviour from sin. Rev. 5:6; 13:8. “When he came to this world, he said, “Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.” Ps. 40:7, 8.

Again in John 17:19 he says, “I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” Christ, then, is he that sanctifieth. “For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.”

Does the sanctified include every man in the world? For answer let us take the Lord’s own words: “I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” John 17:9. How does Christ in his prayer show that man is sanctified? “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” John 17:17.

Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ with all the heart, and walking as “dear children,” obedient to his holy law, man has his natural heart, which receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, changed, the enmity against God is set aside, and the love of God takes its place.

The first psalm draws a sharp contrast between the sanctified one of God and the man of the world: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”

Christ will not be ashamed of those of whom we read in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, “of whom the world was not worthy,” nor will he be ashamed of any child of his sanctified through his truth.

“And O, may this my glory be, That Christ is not ashamed of me!”

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