Set Apart for God by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9781603742887
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2011-09-01T23:43:32+00:00

Jesus Christ

The Cross (the place of Jesus’ sacrifice)

The Holy Spirit

The Blood of Jesus

The Word of God

Our Faith

Our Works (the actions whereby we express our faith)

We will cover these seven provisions of God in relation to holiness in more detail in the next chapter.

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Seven Aspects of God’s Provision for Holiness

We will now work through the seven aspects of God’s provision needed for us to partake of our inheritance of holiness in God, as listed at the end of the previous chapter.

1. Jesus Christ

The first aspect is Jesus Christ. We have already seen that it is through acknowledging Jesus Christ that we enter into total provision: “[God’s] divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge [acknowledging] of him [Jesus Christ] that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:3 kjv). In respect to holiness, or sanctification, this truth was also stated clearly by the apostle Paul:

To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints [holy ones].(1 Corinthians 1:2)

It is plain from this passage that our sanctification is in Christ Jesus. Outside of Christ Jesus, there is no provision for sanctification. It all begins with Him. At the end of that chapter, Paul said even more clearly,

But of Him [God the Father] you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God; and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.(verse 30)

To every believer, God the Father has made Jesus wisdom, righteousness, sanctification (holiness), and redemption—these four essentials. They are all in Christ. Every blessing God has for us comes to us through Jesus Christ.

Let’s look at two additional Scriptures that line up with this thought:

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(John 1:17)

He who did not spare not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?(Romans 8:32)

With Christ, it is “all things.” Without Christ, it is “no thing.” Our entire inheritance is in Jesus Christ alone.

2. The Cross

The second provision for holiness is in the cross. The author of Hebrews summed up this idea in one tremendous verse:

For by one offering [sacrifice] He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.(Hebrews 10:14)

The offering, or the sacrifice, is the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. In the above Scripture, the tenses in the original Greek are extremely important, because there is a clear distinction between them. The first part of the verse says, “For by one offering He has perfected….” This is stated in the perfect tense, which denotes something that is finished, complete; something that cannot be touched, added to, or changed. But the second part of the verse says this: “…forever those who are being sanctified.” Sanctification is a continuing, progressive process.

Many people have misunderstood the relationship between the perfect sacrifice and the continuing appropriation of the sacrifice. As a result, some false ideas about instant holiness have sprung up.

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