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Biblical sanctification requisite for partaking in the imminent rapture.

1 Thessalonians  5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Because of the all importance need for biblical sanctification.

It is interesting to note that the Triune God can sanctify us.

God the Father

Leviticus   20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.

Leviticus  21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.

Exodus  31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Deuteronomy  30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

1 Thessalonians  5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour and Master.

John  17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Acts  26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Ephesians  5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Hebrews  2:11 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,

Hebrews  10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Hebrews  13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.  

The blessed Holy Spirit.

Romans  15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

What then is the meaning of Biblical sanctification?

It means so many things.

1. Biblical purity.

Psalms  24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?  24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Matthew  5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

1 John  3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

It means walking with God.

Genesis  5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:  5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis  6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Genesis  17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

It means perfection.

Deuteronomy  18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Matthew  5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

It means circumcision of heart.

Deuteronomy  30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

It means removal of the heart of stone.

Ezekiel  36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

It means cleansing.

2 Corinthians  7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 John  1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

It means purging.

2 Timothy  2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

It means sanctification.

Ephesians  5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Hebrews  13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

It means holiness.

Hebrews  12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

1 Peter  1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;  1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

How can it be attained.

Sanctification is the second work of grace attained after Biblical salvation.

Psalms  24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?  24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Ezekiel  36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.  36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Psalms  51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

1 John  1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness

What must you do to attain it?

1. Set yourself apart for God.

Leviticus  20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.  

2. Cleanse your self.

2 Corinthians  7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

3. Be looking for the coming of the Lord and prepare as wise virgin.

Hebrews  9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

4.  Pray to God to sanctify you.

Hebrews  13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.  13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

5. Purge yourself of all things God abhors.

2 Timothy  2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

6. Purify yourself from all defiling things in the heart 

1 John  3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Mark  7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.  7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,  7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:  7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

7. Walking on the way of holiness.

Isaiah  35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.  35:9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

Beloved brethren when you are biblically sanctified and sustain the experience till the coming of our Lord, them you shall partake in the imminent rapture in Jesus name.

1 Thessalonians  5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Beloved have been Biblically saved?

Are you sanctified?

Are you daily walking in biblical holiness?

Luke  1:74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,  1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

1 Thessalonians  2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Others in Bible days and even in our contemporary times attained this experience and it can be attained by you too as you pray and sustain it by grace.

2 Corinthians  9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Remember it takes Biblical sanctification to be part of the imminent rapture. Reach out for it and when our Lord comes, you shall not be ashamed.

1 Thessalonians  5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us pray.

Prayer for breakthroughs.

Ezekiel  36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

God is set to do two things for us.

1.  Whatever we have lost in the time past shall be restored back to us.

2. God will do better to us than our beginnings.

Pray that God will do this better things for you in your:

Life

Family

Work of your hands.