Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
06/08/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 261: Union With Christ in His Death
Sanctification is the process of growing more like Christ in our conduct and desires. God enables us to live more like His child, through our union with Christ.
Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ.” Gal.2:20 In the previous verse, Paul said that he died to the law.
The requirements that God gave in the Old Testament were good, but no one could keep them. That was God’s point: no one can perform well enough to earn salvation.
We can never be united to God by following the Law, it is a dead end.
No one can be justified by works of the Law. Gal.2:16
So Paul gave up all hope that the Old Testament rituals could save him; he died to it. But the Law served its purpose: it was a school master to point us to Christ.
Gal.3:24-25 KJV the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
