. . . Christ Jesus, who has become for
us . . . our righteousness, holiness and redemption. —1 Corinthians 1:30
The
mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted
to me instantly—not gradually, but at the very instant when, by faith, Jesus
Christ realizes sanctification in me. Sanctification is nothing less than the
holiness of Jesus made manifestly mine.
Sanctification
is an impartation, not an imitation. The one secret of a holy life lies not in
imitating Jesus but in letting his perfections manifest themselves in my
physical body. Sanctification is “Christ in me.” It is Christ’s own wonderful
life that is imparted to me by faith as a sovereign gift of God’s grace. Am I
willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in his word?
Sanctification
means that Jesus gives me his patience, his love, his holiness, his faith, his
purity, and his godliness. All these are manifested in and through every
sanctified soul. Sanctification isn’t drawing the power to be holy from Jesus;
it’s drawing his own holiness from him. It’s having the very same holiness that
was manifested in him manifested in me.
The
perfection of everything is in Jesus Christ. The mystery of sanctification is
that all the perfections of Jesus are made available to me and, slowly but
surely, I begin to live a life of indescribable order and sanity and holiness,
a life “shielded by God’s power” (1 Peter 1:5).
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