What’s in a Name? | Jehovah M’Kaddesh
 

Key Point: God Sanctifies Us!

7 Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 8 Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you. (Leviticus 20:7-8, ESV)

27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore. (Ezekiel 37:27-28, ESV)

Key Point: God Sanctifies Us to Save Us!

Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. (1 Corinthians 1:30b, NLT)

…God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time. (Hebrews 10:10, NLT)

Key Point: God Sanctifies Us to Set Us Apart!

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11, NLT)

15 I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to this world any more than I do. 17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. 18 Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. (John 17:15-19, NLT)

19 And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth. (John 17:15-19, NLT)

He has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son… (Colossians 1:13, NLT)

For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! (Ephesians 5:8, NLT)

Key Point: God Sets Us Apart for His Service

Key Point: God’s Desire for Us in Sanctification

12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Philippians 2:12-13, NIV)

For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! (Ephesians 5:8, NLT)

…we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28, NIV)

Reflection Questions:

• Are you leaning toward the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of God?
• How are you being sanctified?
• What are you doing to become like Jesus?
• What spiritual disciplines are you practicing that help you become like Jesus?