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Hebrews 10:10

‘We are sanctified’

Read Colossians 2:1-10

I hear men talk of progressive sanctification. I am told that God’s people grow in holiness and righteousness. Some men will even dare to assert, ‘I am holier than thou.’ They think that their good works, their piety, their devotion, their prayers, their meditations and their Bible reading since they professed faith in Christ make them more holy, inwardly and outwardly, before God. But it is all a self-righteous delusion. God says of all such pretenders of piety, ‘These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.’ It is true, God’s elect grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. We grow in faith, devotion, submission and even obedience to Christ. But never in all the Word of God do I read of a man who trusted Christ claiming to grow in holiness, purity, or sanctification before God. In fact, the very opposite is true. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he said, ‘Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.’ When Job had grown the most in grace and had seen the most of God’s glory, he cried, ‘Behold, I am vile!’ When David had the greatest assurance of God’s pardoning grace, he had also the greatest awareness of his own sin. He said, ‘I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.’ When Paul had faithfully preached the gospel for many years he said, ‘I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing.’ When Paul was about to lay down his life in martyrdom, when he reached a far higher degree of faithfulness and dedication than anyone I know, he did not call himself the holiest of all saints, he called himself the chief of all sinners.

Where do you find sanctification? I can tell you where all of God’s saints find it - Christ is our sanctification. He is all my righteousness, all my redemption, all my sanctification and all my holiness before God. Sanctification is not by the works of the flesh any more than justification is. Sanctification is the work of God’s sovereign grace whereby he has separated us to be holy in Christ by election, declared us to be holy in Christ by redemption, and made us to be holy in Christ by regeneration.

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