Jesus is Savior and Sanctifier

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”  Romans 7:18

The Lord would have us to realize just how wicked and depraved our hearts are and fall afresh at the foot of the cross on the mercy of God poured out through the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ amen Lord (Genesis 6:5, 12; Jeremiah 17:9; Titus 3:5-7, etc.).

—- DO WE not attempt to do/accomplish God’s will in and out of the bankrupted flesh? Are we, in and of ourselves, sufficient for such? If so, we then must ask why Jesus even bothered to come to the earth? Jesus not only came to do something we couldn’t possibly do by dying in our place on that cross, He’s the Head of His body (your life) and He alone can accomplish His will in us as we participate with Him in the daily Gospel of the cross where we lay down our own lives (will) and allow Him to reign. We cry with John the Baptist – “He must increase but I must decrease,” (John 3:30) and with Paul – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me,” (Galatians 2:20) and with Jesus, “Not my will but thine be done.” (Luke 22:42)

Through His apostle Paul, the LORD confronts and rebukes us straight up this hour with, “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” (Galatians 3:3)

It is Jesus alone who both saves and sanctifies. We abide, remain and grow increasingly intimate with Him and the fruit of His will and Spirit is produced in our daily lives.

“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.  …  But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” Philippians 3:3, 7-10

The crux (centrality) of the New Testament message is the cross of Christ and all else in the divine economy being produced out of that daily cross experience – the resurrection and the life Himself raising our lives upward as we agree to be dead and buried. This is the down and up of the Gospel of Jesus in our daily life. That’s you saint! You are a child of the King who came to die for you so that you could experience His resurrection life today and He raises your life upward from that prostrate disposition of humility, even the mind of Christ which manifests in you serving God and others first and foremost (Philippians 2:3-5). Jesus always has been, is today, and forever will be, “the resurrection and the life.” (John 11:25) And this means He is raising you up as you lay down your will and according to His example, cry “Not my will but thine be done.” (Luke 22:42)

Jesus says:

“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” John 11:25

To “live” means to have the divine life of Christ abiding and working in you and that’s not just in eternity but now. ….. More here on the daily cross and resurrection life.

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