Sanctified Once For All Through Jesus
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Hebrews 10:10
By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
“By this will,” what will? The will of God that Jesus came to do, namely offer His body as a pleasing sacrifice to His Father for the purpose of making all of those the Father gave to His Son, holy and righteous. That’s what sanctification entails. Once and for all, for all time, we were completely set apart for God’s glory through Jesus Christ.
When Jesus died, with you united with Him, God once and for all sanctified you. The work was done, completed, finished. That’s the verb tense used by the author. God did something through Jesus Christ once for all to everyone the Father put in Him. He set us apart to Himself for His glory. The apostle Paul understood this great reality. 1 Cor. 1:30-31. “By His, [God’s] doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, ‘LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.’”
I want to encourage you today that the way we glorify God through Christ Jesus is by living to love with Him. Jesus said in John 15 that the Father is glorified by our displaying His fruit of love in our lives. It’s how we prove we are His disciples. We have been set apart for this purpose in Jesus as He did God’s will by offering His body once and for all. We receive God’s wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption so we will boast in Jesus.
Let us live to love with Jesus, and as His love flows through us, let us be sure to boast in Jesus. Let’s give Him glory. We couldn’t love without His resurrection life in us, and we couldn’t have His resurrection life in us if He had not died in our stead to make us holy vessels. God cannot dwell where sin abides. So, through His death, it was God’s will to be merciful to our iniquities, forgive our sin, and cleanse us once for all for all time.
“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!” We worship You and offer ourselves to You as holy vessels through whom Your love may flow for Your glory.