{"id":13058,"date":"2015-07-23T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2015-07-23T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T14:09:28","slug":"sanctification-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=13058","title":{"rendered":"Sanctification (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_5VHFZbvAc\" width=\"555\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us\u2026sanctification\u2026 \u20141 Corinthians 1:30<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfect qualities of Jesus Christ are imparted as a gift to me, not gradually, but instantly once I enter by faith into the realization that He \u201cbecame for [me]\u2026sanctification\u2026.\u201d Sanctification means nothing less than the holiness of Jesus becoming mine and being exhibited in my life.<\/p>\n<p>The most wonderful secret of living a holy life does not lie in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfect qualities of Jesus exhibit themselves in my human flesh. Sanctification is \u201cChrist in you\u2026\u201d (Colossians 1:27). It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification\u2014 imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God\u2019s grace. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in His Word?<\/p>\n<p>Sanctification means the impartation of the holy qualities of Jesus Christ to me. It is the gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity, and godliness that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy\u2014 it is drawing from Jesus the very holiness that was exhibited in Him, and that He now exhibits in me. Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different. The perfection of everything is in Jesus Christ, and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect qualities of Jesus are at my disposal. Consequently, I slowly but surely begin to live a life of inexpressible order, soundness, and holiness\u2014 \u201c\u2026kept by the power of God\u2026\u201d (1 Peter 1:5).<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Journal DJR<br \/>\nGood Morning Lord,<br \/>\nThe first sentence mentions immediately &#8230; the last sentence says, slowly but surely. Is it that the the perfect holiness of Jesus becomes available to me immediately &#8230; but I slowly but surely work it out and work it in to my life? To be honest, this is a little discouraging, to see so much available and so little actualized.<\/p>\n<p><em>You are on a journey toward Christlikeness. Just like you see different levels of maturity in children, teenagers, and young adults&#8230; your growth in spiritual things and holiness is the same. It doesn&#8217;t come in an instant. But in slow growth with spurts and plateaus and sometimes quantum leaps forward. I dont have &#8220;expectations&#8221; of you that you will (always) fail to meet. I have curiosity about how you will receive the gifts I have given you and how you will develop them. You should too. Curiosity in this, will serve you (and me) better than self condemnation and judgement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us\u2026sanctification\u2026 \u20141 Corinthians 1:30 The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfect qualities of Jesus Christ are imparted as a gift to me, not gradually, but instantly once I enter by faith into the realization that He \u201cbecame for [me]\u2026sanctification\u2026.\u201d Sanctification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13063,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}