Friday March 13th, 2026
« Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God »
2 You know all that we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 God wants you to be holy. He wants you to stay away from sexual sins.
4 God wants each one of you to learn to control your own body. Use your body in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God.
5 Don’t let your sexual desires control you like the people who don’t know God. 6 Never wrong any of your fellow believers or cheat them in this way. The Lord will punish those who do that. We have already told you this and warned you about it.
7 God chose us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.
We looked at the first two works of grace over the past two days and would be discussing the third work of grace today.
The third work of grace happens after we have become children of God through the blood of Jesus cleansing us of all sins.
The Lord at this stage, brings closer to Himself a select group. Matthew 22:14 says
« For many are called, but few are chosen »
This chosen few become what I would like to call the favorites of the Almighty God.
In the olden days, a king could have as many wives as he wanted, but there would still be one who would be his favourite.
After salvation, there is always a select group of people who are just closer to God than everyone else.
They are not like everyone else – they love God more; they serve Him more committedly.
These are the ones who don’t come for what they can get; they serve Him whatever the cost.
- We call these people the Sanctified – people who are set apart for God.
Now, these people who are sanctified are given a new heart. Ezekiel 36:26 says
« A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh »
Many Christians never get to this level before they die and that is a pity.
This is why we have so many Christians, yet, only a few are actually living holy.
The one that the Almighty God is going to set apart for Himself must be completely dead to the world.
He must be put to sleep so soundly that there is nothing anybody can do that will distract his attention from God.
These are the ones who will say like Paul in Galatians 2:20CJB
« When the Messiah was executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too; so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that the Son of God had, who loved me and gave himself up for me »
In the past, one of the ways by which we identified these sanctified people is that they are difficult to annoy.
They are so occupied with their Groom – the Lord Jesus Christ, that there is very little you can do to offend them.
Sanctified people are those who will suffer any wrong and take it calmly, rather than allow an unbeliever to say, ‘And you call yourself a child of God’.
Prayer focus – Pray to God to sanctify you, your household and every member of your local assembly.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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