Jesus Christ prayed 2,000 years ago, on the day before His crucifixion for us, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth" (John 17:17). Christ's prayer on that historic night, as well as His ongoing intercession for His church Jesus Christ suffered the cross for our sanctification: "And for their sakes I sanctify myself [by the death of the cross], that they also may be sanctified through the truth" (John 17:19). Throughout His prayer in John 17, Jesus was concerned with the holiness of those whom the Father had given Him and for whom He was about to give His life: "keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me" (v. 11); "keep them from evil" (v. 15); "sanctify them" (v. 17); and then verse 19, which I previously quoted. Clearly, the main purpose of Jesus' death, and thus of God's death, was our sanctification, that is, that we might be holy.
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