The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted to me instantly\u2014not gradually, but at the very instant when, by faith, Jesus Christ realizes sanctification in me. Sanctification is nothing less than the holiness of Jesus made manifestly mine.<\/p>\n
Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. The one secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus but in letting his perfections manifest themselves in my physical body. Sanctification is \u201cChrist in me.\u201d It is Christ\u2019s own wonderful life that is imparted to me by faith as a sovereign gift of God\u2019s grace. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in his word?<\/p>\n
Sanctification means that Jesus gives me his patience, his love, his holiness, his faith, his purity, and his godliness. All these are manifested in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification isn\u2019t drawing the power to be holy from Jesus; it\u2019s drawing his own holiness from him. It\u2019s having the very same holiness that was manifested in him manifested in me.<\/p>\n
The perfection of everything is in Jesus Christ. The mystery of sanctification is that all the perfections of Jesus are made available to me and, slowly but surely, I begin to live a life of indescribable order and sanity and holiness, a life \u201cshielded by God\u2019s power\u201d (1 Peter 1:5).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted to me instantly\u2014not gradually, but at the very instant when, by faith, Jesus Christ realizes sanctification in me. Sanctification …<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2146,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2636","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}