Experiential Sanctification = set apart in time.Positional Sanctification = received at salvation.Sanctification has three different meanings. Some believers are being prepared through progressive sanctification through the word and through the Spirit to have a great impact in history. In fact, the Bible describes the human body of the born-again believer in the Church-age as a vessel in 1Th 4:4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,Īnd so, this verse says there are some believers who are vessels unto honor and there are other believers who are vessels unto dishonor. Now, in spite of the fact that God begins the work and completes it, we do have a part in the work that He began.Īnd that is why some believers will be winners and some will be losers and some will receive rewards, however, the majority will lose their rewards. So, He tells the servants to draw water and fill the jars or put clean water in the waterpots or the empty vessels for the Jewish custom of purification. They were just to fill the vessel to the brim then pour the pure clean water into the waterpots or vessels but now they could be cleansed by believing upon the Lord and enjoy the life that He gave you. No longer were the Jews to be cleansed by the ceremony of pouring clean water in the vessels or waterpots and wash them and then empty out all of the water and pour new water in the vessel. Notice that in this verse, JOH 2:6, the Lord uses the original Greek language of the noun Hudria which is translated waterpots, vessels, according to the Greek Scholar Joseph Thayer.Īnd so, the six waterpots represented six followers of our Lord, some from following John the Baptist along with some our Lord chose before He went to the wedding. And the final description is the King of kings and the Royal Family of God 1Pe 2:5 2:9 Rev 1:6.The Groom and the Bride analogy describes our intimacy with the Lord.The High Priest and the Royal Priesthood describes the privacy we also have with our Lord.The Cornerstone and the building is the fifth description of the Bride (Church) and the Bridegroom, our Lord Jesus Christ.The fourth decision that describes the believer is the Vine and the Branches with emphasis on the importance of the unity Joh 15:1-8.The Body = every believer in the Church-age. The Head and the Body is another description that is used to identify the closeness and the intimacy we can all have with our God if we desire to be close to Him.Therefore, when He was crucified, we were crucified with Him. The first Adam was crucified and nailed to the cross and when our Lord died and was crucified in our place and so did, we die of baptism and identification though our union and baptism with our Lord. Such as the fact that we are known as the Last Adam and the New Creation 2Co 5:17, Gal 6:15.She and I and the kitchen have become extraordinary we are not simply eating we are pausing in the march to perform an act together, we are in love and the meal offered and received is a sacrament which says: I know you will die I am sharing food with you it is all I can do, and it is everything. I take our plates, spoon eggs on them, we sit and eat. I scramble them in a saucepan, as my now-dead friend taught me they stand deeper and cook softer, he said. The woman sets the table She watches me beat the eggs. And I believe I can do this in an ordinary kitchen with an ordinary woman and five eggs. Yet still I believe in love's possibility, in its presence on the earth as I believe I can approach the altar on any morning of any day which may be the last and receive the touch that does not, for me, say: There is no death but does say: In this instant I recognize, with you, that you must die. “So many of us fail: we divorce our wives and husbands, we leave the roofs of our lovers, go once again into the lonely march, mustering our courage with work, friends, half pleasures which are not whole because they are not shared.
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