We welcome you once again to our broadcast and we are talking about some of the riches we have in Christ. The last couple broadcasts have been kind of overlapping. We looked at the Lord calling us to holiness and making us holy. Not that we live holy in the sense that we are beyond sin, but we are set apart by God for holiness. Then we looked at the word sanctification which is a compatible word with holiness. It is a type of synonym meaning to be set apart for a holy purpose in the New Testament. We are going to follow up on that today and look at that same word one more time. It is such an important word and one that is easily misunderstood. That word sanctification or sanctify is who we are.
Hebrews 2:10 says, “For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.” This is speaking here about Christ and His own perfection while on earth. Not that there was ever any sin in Christ, but it is speaking of a preparation for Him dying for us. Hebrews 2:11, “For both He who sanctifies and who are sanctified are all from on Father, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” What a beautiful phrase it is at the end of Hebrews 2:11, “He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” The fact that we are His family is because of what He has done, not what we have done. Because of Hebrews 2:10, He has died for us, and He can now sanctify us by Himself so that we are united with Him in His family, and we are brothers with the Lord Jesus Christ in that special way. What a remarkable thought to be sanctified so that we are in the family of God!
Looking at Hebrews 10:11, it says, “Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.” He is going back to the Old Testament. Under the Old Testament system God had set up this sacrificial system to cover the sins of the people, but those sacrifices could never truly take away sin. It was a covering until Christ would come and die for us. Hebrews 10:12 says, “but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God.” What the sacrifices of animals could not do Jesus Christ did at one sacrifice at the cross. When He died for us, He did what the sacrificial system could never do and that was to remove our sins from us. Then it says after His sacrifice for us and His resurrection He now sits down at the right hand of God and there He intercedes for us. Hebrews 10:13 says, “waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.” . . .
