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RichardPyle 79M
667 posts
2/8/2012 1:15 pm
What Is Sanctification?



Maybe you have heard these words: sanctification, reconciliation, propitiation, atonement? These are big words with important meanings. They all refer to our relationship with Love Himself, but the only one we can do much about is sanctification.

The word sanctification actually means divorce in a good way. Divorce means separation, but more than that. It is a recognition that the former relationship is no longer valid. It does not exist like it did before. A new alignment has taken place. Whereas divorce means the legal contract is no longer in force as it was. It says nothing about the future contracts, except that we are legally able to enter into new ones. Sanctification however does say a lot about the past and the future as well regarding our contractual relationships.

Sanctification means we are separated from our past love and now in love with a new person. This is almost impossible in physical and spiritual terms in this life. Why? WE were born, created, made with super strong desire that demands fulfillment of this overpowering desire. WE want wealth, friends, security, health, pleasures, and we desire these things to be fulfilled in our life endlessly, to never stop being fulfilled.

There is nothing at all wrong with these fierce desires. WE were created this way by our Maker. He made us to desire like this. So, it would be impossible to separate from this unless we have something much better to replace it. The truth is that our Creator will give us fulfillment of this desire and endlessly when we find that in a personal relationship with Him that He Himself is more desirable than even these desires which can be fulfilled only by Himself.

The whole world is spinning out of control, crazy, mad, at war, killing and being killed, because according to James the apostle, we desire and have not, ask not, and so go crazy. And when we do ask, it is only to fulfill these overpowering desires that we were given by Him in the first place. Along creeps the devil pounding away on these desires to get us if possible to have a quick temporary fix. When we accept this, we get a quick fix, but soon follows darkness, chaos, and soon enough we are drowning in these quick fixes with no one to help us.

Sanctification is restricting quick fix solutions, and then receiving the Energy which our Creator in response freely gives to abundantly fulfill our desire now and always. Plus we learn that our Creator is much more desirable than these desires He has given us. As it is written, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Sanctification is separation from self desires by restricting them, to relationship desire with Jesus who is more than any self desire. Then we end up having it all rather than losing it all. Before we give up our bone of self desire that we gnaw on daily, we need to see the fillet mignon we are being offered, which is that the Lord is the most lovable, we can love Him more than we love our fierce desires by restriction of them whereby we receive His Energy for fulfillment of it all.

gavinLS 69M
410 posts
2/8/2012 2:32 pm

 Can't find my theological dictionary at the moment, but I believe Sanctification means purity and sinlessness, closely tied to Justification.

But ur post is a good one. I think in order to be santified one must go thru much of what u've described here. Tho I'm not convinced any of us can be completely sanctified in this lifetime, your post here certainly would be something that would help lead us towards that goal.

Good post. TY
GBU


RichardPyle 79M
701 posts
2/8/2012 3:44 pm
    Quoting gavinLS:
    Can't find my theological dictionary at the moment, but I believe Sanctification means purity and sinlessness, closely tied to Justification.

    But ur post is a good one. I think in order to be santified one must go thru much of what u've described here. Tho I'm not convinced any of us can be completely sanctified in this lifetime, your post here certainly would be something that would help lead us towards that goal.

    Good post. TY
    GBU
It has been a long hard road for me to make progress on this as you said it would take a dictionary to start to understand it. It is a deep subject. It goes to the very heart of our Christian walk, or the lack of it. It is a lifetime endeavor. But, I made the most progress and found the most peace in the last year actually. This all had to do with understanding and applying it daily to my life. I believe that it is the most important action we will ever do in this life if we want to make progress and turn drudgery into happiness in this lifetime.


RichardPyle 79M
701 posts
2/9/2012 3:14 am
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The dictionary has defined it as becoming separate, but it does not tell how to do this. For me this is the defining issue for Christians as to our effectiveness and happiness. Learning to deal with out physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual life is very important. Separated from who and what, to Who and Why is learned through experience. No one ever taught me how to do it, or explained the process. Scripture says for us to sanctify the Lord in our heart, and out of the heart are the issues of life. So it is an internal process of restricting the devil's nature for the spiritual energy to share with others and thus be fulfilled.


RichardPyle 79M
701 posts
2/9/2012 6:38 am
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As we think so we are and so it is.