JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION

Justification

GOD’s Righteous Servant, the One righteous Man, CHRIST JESUS, through His righteous act, bearing our iniquities has freely justified us by His grace through His blood. It is GOD Who justifies. Those whom GOD predestined, He called, justified and glorified. No one can justify himself by keeping the law of Moses. Whom GOD justifies, no man can condemn.

Isaiah 53:11, Romans 5:16-18, Romans 3:24-30,  Romans 8:30, Acts 13:39, Romans 8:33

On our part, we receive that justification by faith, when we believe in the LORD JESUS. We need to be humble, recognising our inadequacies. We should not attempt to justify ourselves by the works of the law. If we do, we will fall from grace!

Luke 18:14, Luke 16:15,  Galatians 5:4

The proof of GOD’s justification in our life would be: 

Peace with GOD through our LORD JESUS CHRIST, a Life of faith, filled with works of justice and good works and words. 

Romans 5:1,   Micah 6:8,  James 2:24-25,  Matthew 12:37

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 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:11

And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.

Romans 5:16-18

 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Romans 3:24-30

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Romans 8:30

and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Acts 13:39

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

Romans 8:33

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Luke 18:14

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 16:15

You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

Galatians 5:4

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:1

 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

James 2:24-25

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

Matthew 12:37

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And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

The moment we enter into relationship with the LORD JESUS, we are justified in His sight. All the past sins are erased! In that moment that we receive the LORD JESUS, the process of sanctification also begins, although in the eyes of GOD, we are sanctified. Sanctification deals with our future, correcting our sinful nature. Therefore, we can live with peace and joy each moment in CHRIST, knowing that we are justified and sanctified!

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 Sanctification

Jehovah M’kaddesh means the Lord our sanctifier. He forgives our sins and through His Holy Spirit, works in our lives to make us like He is, pure, loving and true. Because our LORD JESUS willingly surrendered Himself to GOD’s will, we are sanctified through the offering of His body. Those who are called have been sanctified even in the mother’s womb by GOD the Father and preserved in JESUS CHRIST. This is like lemon or olives being pickled - plucked from the tree, washed clean and soaked in a solution and preserved! All those who call on the name of JESUS CHRIST are also sanctified. 1 Thess 5:23-24, Hebrews 10:8-10,  Jeremiah 1:5, Jude 1:1,  John 15:5, 1 Corinthians 1:2

GOD has sanctified us by His Spirit and through our belief in the Truth. CHRIST JESUS is the Truth. His word is Truth.  As His Bride, He sanctifies us from every falsehood by the washing of water of His word. It is The Holy Spirit Who is in us, Who gives us revelation of the Truth and guides us into all Truth.
 2 Thessalonians 2:13, John 17:17-19, John 16:13, Ephesians 5:26

Since we have been sanctified, we must learn to enter into His (sabbath) rest, walk in obedience to Him, yield to His correction and live in His presence. Exodus 31:13, Leviticus 20:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, Hebrews 12:5-6, Ezekiel 37:28

This is the blessing of GOD’s grace through the LORD JESUS according to the new covenant, as opposed to the law of the old testament. When the LORD touched the leper, He was not defiled, but the leper was cleansed! The tide turned from defilement to cleansing, with the coming of the Messiah!  The power of justification and sanctification is greater than the power of defilement. Where sin abounds, grace abounds much more! Praise GOD!

Haggai 2:10-14, Rom 5:12-21

Nothing can be sanctified without the LORD. Whatever is offered into His hands is sanctified by Him. The temple and the altar are symbolic of GOD's presence. Even food that is considered unclean, is sanctified by the word of GOD and prayer. Matthew 23:17,  Matt 23:19, 1 Timothy 4:4-5

Even when we are treated unjustly and persecuted by others, we are kept pure without fear, anger or resentment, when the LORD is sanctified in our heart. This is how we will be kept from being defiled by the world and the sin around us. When we release forgiveness, intercede for others, and plead for the LORD's mercy on them, He will do His work of sanctification in them. Therefore an unbelieving husband is sanctified by a believing wife and vice versa. He has given us this privilege and the responsibility to bring blessing to this world through forgiveness of sins and intercession. 

1 Peter 3:13-15, Prov 4:23, 1 Corinthians 7:14, Job 1:5, John 20:21-23 

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Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:8-10

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

Jeremiah 1:5

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

Jude 1:1

 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

John 15:5

To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

1 Corinthians 1:2

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

2 Thessalonians 2:13

 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

John 17:17-19

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

John 16:13

that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 5:26

 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: 'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, 

for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, 

that you may know that  I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Exodus 31:13

'And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them:

 I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

Leviticus 20:8

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

1 Thessalonians 4:3

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives."

Hebrews 12:5-6

The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, 

when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore." ' "

Ezekiel 37:28

 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, "Thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Now, ask the priests concerning the law, saying, If one carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, wine or oil, or any food, will it become holy?" ' " Then the priests answered and said, "No." And Haggai said, "If one who is unclean because of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?" So the priests answered and said, "It shall be unclean." Then Haggai answered and said, " 'So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,' says the Lord, 'and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

Haggai 2:10-14

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous. Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:12-21

 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23:17

 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23:19

 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 4:4-5

 And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled." But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

1 Peter 3:13-15

 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

Proverbs 4:23

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:14

So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did regularly.

Job 1:5

  So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

John 20:21-23