Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Sanctification is not drawing from Jesus the power to be holy- it is drawing from Jesus the very holiness that was exhibited in Him, and that He now exhibits in me. It is the gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity, and godliness that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification means the impartation of the holy qualities of Jesus Christ to me. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in His Word? It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification- imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God’s grace. Sanctification is “Christ in you…” ( Colossians 1:27). The most wonderful secret of living a holy life does not lie in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfect qualities of Jesus exhibit themselves in my human flesh. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfect qualities of Jesus Christ are imparted as a gift to me, not gradually, but instantly once I enter by faith into the realization that He “became for …sanctification….” Sanctification means nothing less than the holiness of Jesus becoming mine and being exhibited in my life.
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