1. Turn with me in your Bibles to Genesis 2.
2. Last week, we discussed the Spirit of prophecy.
3. We saw that the Spirit of prophecy is really given to all of us.
4. And that it is the Spirit of prophecy that gives all we need to proclaim the
Gospel, we saw the in filling and the example in Acts as the proclaimed as they
Were told they would when the power from on High comes.
5. This week I would like to look closer on an aspect of the Holy Spirit’s work in
Our lives that I don’t think we fully comprehend.
6. Let’s read Genesis 2, Pray!
I. A major portion of what the Holy Spirit Does in our lives is to sanctify.
A. The first place this word shows up in in Genesis 2:3 and it has to do with
Sabbath.
1. We talked about this last week, and we are talking words translated:
a. The word in verse 3 is Kaw-dash. (It means to pronounce clean, to
consecrate, to dedicate, to appoint, to keep, to purify, to sanctify and
gives us the understanding that it can only be used for the purpose of
the designer)
b. We can also get this understanding in the creation itself. (If you will notice
that after Yahweh had created specific things, it says that He saw that
they were “good”, look at Genesis 1:4)
c. Now, this idea of “good”. (As translated means “to do good” and even
involves “love” so we would be able to think of this in a way that we
were created to do good works which Yahweh had planned for us to do,
which would help us understand that part of being sanctified is carrying
out the purpose we were designed for, Ephesians 2:9-11)
d. Look at Genesis 1:26. (So Yahweh created man in His own image, and
are to be like Yahweh, and we have a purpose to tend to the fish, the
animals and all that Yahweh had created, so for man to do that, He
has to 1st be created in the image of Yahweh and been given that
purpose. 2nd He has to remain in that image and doing that purpose to
be or to remain sanctified, and as we will see it has to do with remaining
in that relationship with Him)
e. Look at Genesis 3:1-9. (We have all looked at this before, but there is an
essential part of this we need to look at here, in verse 9 Yahweh calls
out to Adam, this word to call by name, so He was calling for Him by
his name, Look at Verse 8 Yahweh walked with them at the time of the
evening breeze, but this time it seems as if Adam and Eve were not at
their normal place of meeting, which indicates a break in relationship
which also fits with what Adam says, I heard you in the garden but I
was afraid because I was naked)
f. So, it would seem. (That this sanctification is also a covering that when
lost would exposes us as naked, maybe because the purpose that we are
created for is marred, and it removes us from the relationship with out
God which not only causes us to lose relationship, but removes life and
Purpose as well)
2. But, by the great mercy of our God that wasn’t the final chapter in our lives.
a. Look at Genesis 3:21. (Yahweh made a coat out of skins, and the word
for coat here is to cover or covering, so that it would cover what had
marred in their relationship with Yahweh, look at Romans 13:13-14
and Galatians 3:26-28)
b. In this idea of sanctification ultimately. (We cannot sanctify ourselves that
is the work of the Holy Spirit, as we have just seen in the passages in
Genesis, and we need to consider the New Testament as well, look at
1 Corinthians 1:26-31, which tells us that it is the Father who sanctifies
Us through Yahshua Messiah who became our righteousness, and our
Sanctification, and redemption)
c. And this is done by the Holy Spirit. (Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:13-16, it is
God who has chosen us and sanctified us by the Holy Spirit through
Belief in the truth in the truth)
d. Look at 1 Peter 1:1-2. (It is through the foreknowledge of the Father,
which is an interesting statement, it is the idea that the Father knew
before the foundation of the world that He would need to sanctify a
people for Himself, that the creation He created would be subjected to
corruption through the creation of man, and that He would need to
bring man back to 1st, salvation and 2nd sanctification which involved
not only the blood of a savior, but also a dynamic force to carry this
purpose out, and through is no other one holy and sanctified than He is
so, it was Him who brought it all into being)
e. Now, here is something else that is interesting. (Even though man fell and
subjected the creation to this fall as well, and marring Yahweh’s
purpose of the creation and man, it wasn’t marred to the point that we
are not able to see the purpose that Yahweh intended and His glory,
Look at Psalms 19:1-6 where the heaven proclaims His glory and
Romans 1:20 His attributes are seen through all that He has created)
f. Now, I want to make this clear. (Look at Hebrews 13:12, it is the blood of
Yahshua that sanctifies us for the people, but look at 2 Corinthians
3:18, it is the Holy Spirit who is at work in us transforming us into the
Very image of our Master Yahshua Messiah, that which had marred us
Being transformed to the very image, and this passage uses the word
Glory, from glory to glory)
g. Now, I would like to go deeper here. (We have discussed here that it was
the relationship or the presence of Yahweh that had been lost, when we
lose that we lose everything even life itself, so we are not able to do or
to live out the purpose or what we were created to do and be without
His presence, which is why we need His presence in our lives, the Holy
Spirit who is the presence of Yahweh in our lives)
h. Yahshua Messiah is the sanctifier if you will. (The Father’s sanctifying
Grace is Yahshua Messiah, look at Hebrews 10:10 once and for all, and
He was able to do that because of Hebrews 2:10-11, Yahshua was made
Perfect through suffering, He was sanctified from the moment of
Conception Matthew 1:18-20 by the Holy Spirit, He was called the
Holy One of God, Mark 1:24, He did all that the Father sent Him to do,
In other words He carried out the purpose He had been given John
5:19, He carried out everything moral and convocationally)
i. The reason I bring this up. (Because this is why it is through Him that the
law was fulfilled, and that is why Paul teaches things that some don’t
understand that it is through Messiah that the law is fulfilled and it is
through Him is the only way that we might receive salvation but also
the Holy Spirit where by we may begin to live the sanctified life as He
gives us direction)
j. It is at this point. (That we through the blood of Yahshua and the
sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit begin to be transformed and can
begin to live out the purpose that we were created for)
k. This is some of the reason. (The Apostles didn’t come down hard on
some of the new converts to the congregation, they knew that they
needed to allow the Holy Spirit to do the thigs in the lives of these
new people, the Apostles recognized that they could not do what only
the Holy Spirit can do)
l. Look at Acts 15:6-14. (The yoke that they could not bear is the law, but
listen carefully, it is the law without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit
and that is what Israel had been trying to do, was to live a life of
Yahweh’s purpose in the flesh, or we could say in the marred
Unregenerate flesh that doesn’t have the power to do these things)