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Sanctification, Sanctify

Isaiah 29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

To be sanctify means to be set apart. That is the origin of word it was taken from:

Origin of sanctify
1350–1400; < Late Latin sānctificāre (see Sanctus, -ify); replacing Middle English seintefien < Old French saintifier < Latin, as above

The origin of the word sanctify was taken from the word “saint” so what is a saint? Clearly, the bible defines itself in all matters of truth, a saint is part of the temple of God set apart for God's holy service. There is no mystery here not in the least, unless there is a concerted endeavor to make those in Christ something produced by man's laws and rules of a religion, hence, sanctifying them by religious doctrine.

John.1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

That is the cruxes of this subject a point that was reached thousand's years ago when the apostles die off the earth that Christ warned us that yeast teachings from the sinful flesh would engulf the kingdom of God's representatives on earth. (teaching from sinful flesh instead of by Holy Spirit without sin.)

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Matthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures{literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel} of meal, until it was all leavened."

Regarding this important subject we stand at a cross roads, one road teaches that mankind can sanctify themselves by self-control of their flesh, while the other road teaches that man cannot in any manner sanctify themselves by human will, simply because God's children cannot be born again by mans will, but God's, we stand by the latter.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Setting Apart

One cannot anointed themselves, nor can they make themselves into a wheat instead of a weed, none of that is humanly possible, no person can make such changes it requires the power of God outside of the death from sin found in our flesh. sin that has infected the entire human race. It takes the power of God to set a person apart from being a sinner, corruption cannot produce incorruptibly.
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

Moreover, it takes a High Priest, not in the flesh, for flesh cannot remove sin from the flesh, and neither did the Old Law remove sin from the flesh it perfected nothing, so it could not perfect anything when it came to mankind in sin.. No man can redeem themselves, and no man can cover his sins, or that of his brothers by doing good works for God.

Psalms 49:7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Psalms 130:8 He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Thus, being set apart, can happen to an object, as one can have a particular object that is set aside for one purpose only, it can be a tool for a certain job, a pen to sign only important documents. So those redeemed from sin are justified, but not all those set apart for God's works were sinless, like Cyrus whom God used to bring down Babylon he was not justify by faith or by blood of the covenant, but God set in apart for his purposes.

Isaiah 44:28 Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"

Isaiah 45:1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

However, justification is different than sanctification. None of us can by any action justify ourselves as not sinning. We all sin, we all fall short of God's glory, so we have to be justified by God's efforts. Not one person can redeem a brother, and/or justify a brother, by purchasing their sins by some action or money they have to pay for a person life from sin. There is not merit on earth in our sinful flesh that will take away our sins.

Isaiah 43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, "That is true."

Isaiah 43:26 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set forth your case, that you may be justified.

Acts 13:39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Romans 3:4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."{Psalm 51:4}

Because a person can see the original word sanctification was taken from a derivative of Saint we than are talking about a specific group of people who are the temple of the living God, that is, used by God's Spirit as a royal priesthood, which is of necessity, must be set apart, for no other purpose, but for God's stated purpose that he has purchased them and created them for, hence, justifying them as sinless in the life of his Son Christ Jesus.
1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Can The Flesh be Sanctified?

That is the ultimately the question, can the flesh be sanctified? It is a wide spread teaching found within religion, that is, the flesh can gradually be sanctify various works by commandments and rules that if applies prevent sin and sanctifies a person, but is that truth?

Well, if that were true under the Old Law where everything was dealing with the flesh, from what it eats, to what it wears, and what is clean and unclean in our bodies then yes. The body would have to be prepared by the rules of the law to be clean within Israel, but did it remove sins from the flesh?

Levitius 6:11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

Levitius 7:19 "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;

Levitius 10:10 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

Levitius 11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.'"

Levitius 13:6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

But no matter if a person was scrupulously clean with their flesh, without the forgiveness of sin a person could never be sanctified in their flesh (set apart). To confuse that point as if cleanness under the law had anything to do with men and woman of faith before the law who were set apart for God's service, as not being importance, and/or clean enough that is exactly what God reproved the nation of Israel time and again for, that is, not having the faith of their father of Israel whom didn't have the law, but had great faith, Abraham.

There is a physical ceremonial cleaning of the flesh, but does cereamonial cleanness remove sin, should we confuse the two?

Numbers 9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 19:9 A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.

Could the flesh be made righteous under the law? In other words, if a person was to keep the law, but failed to have a sacrifice for the their sins was the person righteous? No! The flesh was never righteous, but the person in heart, mind, and soul, could temporarily be set right, that is, justified before God by blood, innocent blood, it being pouring out for redemption and forgiveness of their debt of sin against YHWH from atonement to atonement.

Luke.18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

That is in and of itself why the Jewish Christian's found it so offensive for Christ to open up the Gentiles to the congregation of God. To them a Gentile not under the law could never be clean enough to work as a member of God's physical temple doing priestly work. But do we understand what it means to be righteous in our flesh that which ones strive for in most religions confusing it with sancification?

Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

Galatians 3:7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

Galatians 3:8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."{Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18}

Hebrews 11:8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

Righteous in the flesh mean being sinless? None our righteous, no not one, based upon any work of man. Subsequently, sanctification of washing oneself minute to minute (to set themselves apart {sanctified}), will not make a person sinless. We know without doubt who were called sinless in the bible based upon their own merit? Who?

Adam was before sinning, Christ and no other were sinless, which means both them need no law of the Law of Moses created for sinners. The law of Moses was only for a sinner. Eve was one flesh with Adam so her righteousness was Adam's sinless life, not her own.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

1 Peter 2:22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."{Isaiah 53:9}

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

If one is sinless they are found to be in God's glory and created in his image. Adam need not sanctify himself, and neither did Christ. But the bible tells us the law did not create, that is, produce one sinless person. It did nothing more then shut the mouth of every human being into sin and death.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Romans 5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

It stop any justification of oneself, there was no work a person could do to make themselves sinless, it was, and always has been God's work and his mercy that he has provided for us that we may come to know him by atonement of our sin.

1 Timothy 1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.

Numbers 6:11 The priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.

Jeremiah 31:34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

Thus, sanctification did not make a person right before God, it set apart a person, place, and/or thing; a part for God uses because of God provision of taking away our sins, temporarily under the law, and later permanently in Christ, not the other way around which today is practice as a doctrine of false religion.

Hebrews 13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

The filth of the flesh, what is it? Lets be clear here? It is sin, not dirt, no matter if we are Jew or Gentile, the filth of our flesh cannot be taken out of us. The judgment for the sinful flesh must be fulfilled, and what is that judgment? It is death that is the judgment of sin passed on to us from the Garden of Eden God pronounced against Adam and Eve.

Romans 5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This is why its imperative that we honestly understand the worship of Spirit and truth, how it ended the flesh. So just how did it end the flesh?

Romans 6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
Ending The Flesh

Before we start with how the flesh ended, let stop and recall what sanctification is again at this point in this discussion, is it cleanness, or being set aside? Sanctification means to be set apart for God's holy service, but in most Christian's minds it is a process of making themselves clean, holy in their flesh by their own actions in gaining merit by performing certain works, that is, by stopping some unrighteous actions.

Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Romans 6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

But we know when Peter was made by the Lord to eat unclean things in a vision did he lose his Sanctification, his being set aside for God's service? Furthermore, Ezekiel cooked his food on unclean dung of animals but did not lose his Sanctification either. Elijah ate food from unclean ravens but did not lose his being setting apart for God's service.

Acts 11:9 But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

Romans 14:14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Ezekiel 4:12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

Ezekiel 4:15 Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.

1Kings.17:5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
17:6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
17:7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
17:8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying.

These thought are important for us to completely comprehend this subject, when Christ tells us that the flesh profits us nothing, and later the apostle Paul states that nothing good dwelt in his flesh. Then Peter was to tell us under Holy Spirit that we cannot put away the filth of our flesh. So being set apart sanctified for God's service is more than fleshly cleanness wouldn't we say?

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Thus, we find Adam being created outside the Garden of Eden and then God place him in the Garden to do God's holy work. Once Adam sinned he was removed from the Garden not allowed to do God's works, any longer, that is, being set out from God's works.

We are informed after that we all sin and fall short of God's glory of not sinning, until Christ. Subsequently, all those God used in past time that he set aside did not sanctify themselves, because if we make the statement we do not have sin, we are a liar!

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Sin is the filth of the flesh Peter spoke to, and that is the reason Christ stated the flesh had no benefit at all when it came to the things of the Spirit. The demarcation is light and darkness, between what is of God's and what is of man was set forth from the beginning.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1 John 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

To be in the light one must be sinless, and that is what a saint is, and the reason the word sanctification came from the root word of saint.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

So the flesh must end, because it cannot stop sinning, thus, none could do God's work (Spirit and Truth) because they were a sinner. Moreover, this is the reason we find in the Greek scriptures that so often our flesh is accounted dead in Christ, it no longer exist to God's judgment. However, we must not forget this is true of God's people before Christ on a temporarily bases through animal blood in atoning for sins.

The vast difference is that Christ put our flesh to death, by his blood once for all times, where as the blood of lesser animals could not do that it was only a temporary fix, for a short period, until Christ came to permanently set the temple right by the everlasting covenant with God and man.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

The flesh ended, it stop the flesh form of worship by sight at the physical temple, and created a new living way by truth and Spirit. Christ was put to death in his flesh, and made alive in the Spirit, so to are all those set aside for God's service (sanctified), they must die in their flesh, in Christ, and be made alive to God in Spirit and truth.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Romans 6:10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

The Spirit is God, and the truth is Christ coupled together you have God's works for us, which we are set apart for God's works, in Christ our temple, which is the body of Christ. Now the flesh profits us nothing in the spirit body of Christ, it is of no value in our worship in Christ, it is dead, and it cannot please God.

Romans 5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Romans 5:17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

We must remember false religion is built from the flesh, but also remember the high hierarchy of needs for all flesh, flesh must be making progress over its entire life time, climbing the ladder to success when that is coupled with Spirit and truth, it creates a great mystery of false religion, and/or Babylon the Great, which Christendom is a part of.

James. 3:10 Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

James.3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Spirit truth worship is God, and his Son Christ Jesus, nothing that mankind can do or say, or work to build can effect incorruptible life of both God and Christ. Our being set aside for God's work, that is, holy work for God's children the saint, is what then?

John 17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Christ made the subject clear, he held nothing back, to be part of Christ and God Spirit and truth, one must be no part of what? This world. Now that is what it mean to be saintfied, set aside, not being a part of this world, used for God's works, where are God's works today?

John.17:6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

John.17:11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

John.17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.{Psalm 119:142}

John 17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Christ Jesus, one cannot be in Christ Jesus and not be set apart from this world or they are a liar! Our being in Christ means our flesh, the filth of our flesh is dead, not being clean up, and/or sanctified by some holy works we are doing daily.

John. 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 17:17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.{Psalm 119:142} 17:18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

The work is God's work that is why we are told being born anew is from God's will, and not man's. Man is the flesh that profits us nothing in Christ (the World). Those in Christ have no sin, making them part of the last sinless Adam (Christ), they are a royal priesthood, and the temple of God because Christ is God's temple, Christ is the last working place of God for mankind, the Great Spirit temple of God that takes faith in God to be apart of.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul."{Genesis 2:7} The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

The work of the temple is not making a better flesh upon earth for sinner, Christ is not of this world its flesh, its works, and/or desires

Christ is to bring the works of darkness, Satan works to and end setting all creation free of the corruption from sin. That means in both heaven and upon earth. Furthermore, that is why we are told our battle is not with flesh and blood, but with the source of darkness, Christ in breaking up and bring into captivity by his power mind of truth and Spirit (Christ) wicked spirit force in heavenly place to a complete end!

John 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.} it.

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

The word, that is, Christ Jesus, he is the Word of God, our being in him by a new birth into his life sets us a part for God's work (from the world). It is those works in Christ and through Christ in us that are greater than the works Christ did upon earth in his flesh. Those works in Christ who is now in heaven are our works because we belong to him, and not ourselves, we have been called out of darkness into the the light to do for God's works in Christ. It is not wrestling with flesh, conquering the flesh, comparing ourselves with other flesh as false religion practices.

Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

John 14:12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

The works we do are not of the flesh in Christ, a flesh dead in Christ. We are raised in Christ for battle with wicked spirit force of darkness controlling this world.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh; 10:4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

The work of the flesh was completed in Christ, it was defeated and stripped of all its power and authority when Christ was raised in the Spirit. Those in Christ cannot be judged by the laws of the flesh, they are not of the flesh, they are dead to God in the flesh, and they are raised in Christ and accounted as a spirit person before God found in Christ righteousness.

Ephesians 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Colossians 2:13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

Nothing of this flesh sanctifies them before God, that is, sets them apart from this world by human effort. They are indeed set apart by
the power of Christ indestructible life, right now. They are doing a work unseen by flesh, nor understood by false religion born of the flesh. Why?

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

John 17:25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Because they are no part of this world, they are apart of a spirit world a new heavens, and soon to be new earth where Christ righteousness dwells. They are not building this world up. No! They are bring it down by warring with wicked spirit force in heavenly place in the power of Christ life at work in them. They are not trying to clean up the flesh of mankind by rules and laws from their bibles that is the work of false religion in the hands of the wicked spirit force to build up their system of things.

They are not warring with weed Christian's; wheat against the weeds, because they are not of the flesh, as the weed Christian's are, they are in the Spirit and our born again in the Spirit, being put to death in the flesh (the lie). That is why Christ could say he didn't judge the flesh, his battle was not with kingdoms of flesh, it was against Satan and his wicked spirit hordes in heaven places.

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

Summation

Sanctification, being set apart, is not a process of cleaning up the flesh to be more righteous. Being righteous is being sinless something beyond the power of those sold into sin. Being justified is not our finding something within the bible a verse, a work, or even a worshipful spirit that justifies us our action in the flesh!

It is the blood of a righteous person whom never sinned that justifies a person, by giving us his merit of not sinning (Christ Jesus). Justification mean something God must allow for, by giving us something beyond the power of any person, place or thing on this earth.

A non-human, an object, a place, a rock, a worldly government can be set apart to do be used by God's will on in this world. Specifically, to be saintfied a word not used before Christ, to become a child of God one must be sinless, taken out of this world,
sanctified, that is set apart from all that is in the world.

That is not a process over a period of time, it is immediate upon being born again into Christ who is a spirit person not part of this world. Nothing in Christ is of this world, nothing of Christ was created from man's will or of this world.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Works of this world (flesh) are from our will from a person power something that is not in Christ Jesus. There is one will that in Christ the will of the Father whom Christ has been made into the exact representation of. Thus, all those in Christ are under his will, his headship and do not have a will of their flesh. Hence, their own works, they are purchased out of this world (the flesh and its old personality), set apart by the Holy Spirit for the will of God.

They are made new, into God's new creation Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 4:10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

Ephesians 1:11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

We mustn't veer from the road of Spirit and truth, although, it is narrow and cramped it is our complete freedom from man's judgment and approval (in Christ). Let get the full import of the apostle Paul's words that complete this discussion proving all thing in God's children is in God's hands.

1Cor.4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.