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Next we come to Sanctification. Though many people understand that the payment for their sins was
all by Grace and not of our own works, when they think of Sanctification, they assume that they must go
to work and work out their own Sanctification. This is false thinking and not biblical. Just as Salvation
was a work of Grace so Sanctification is a work of Grace. God does it all. I have one thing I must do and
one thing only: I must yield to God totally and completely. Once I am yielded, God begins to work in my
life. He has given me a completely new birth. I have a brand new spirit - a re-born spirit that is holy and
righteous and complete in Him. So my spirit is completely sanctified, made holy, set aside to God.
What does God do now? If I am yielded to Him, He begins to work out in my Soul Man what is
already true in my spirit man or inner man. As I walk in the Spirit, people begin to see a new me, a
sanctified me. I will begin to do the things of God. People cannot tell if it is me or if it is Jesus in me
because in my spirit we are in Union just as the scripture says. (1 Cor 6:17 RSV) "But he who is united
to the Lord becomes one spirit with him."
That which is now in my heart begins to be outworked so that those around me can see it. Without
any striving I am doing what God has put in my heart. I have come to complete rest and peace in Him.
(Heb 4:10-11 RSV) "for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his. 11Let
us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience."
I no longer have any list of “have to’s”. I am under no pressure to perform for God. I am at rest just as
God rested on the seventh day of Creation. Does this mean I do nothing? Not at all. In my own life I am
busier than ever but without any sense of pressure and no sense that I have to accomplish anything. I just
rest in Him, and I know I am doing His will. (When I am not, the Holy Spirit immediately shows me this,
and I can change the way I am going or what I am doing.) Even as I do ordinary things in life like paying
my bills or purchasing a loaf of bread, I do it all with Him involved. As I am involved in something, He
frequently interrupts my thoughts with something else I need to do and I do it. It might be telephone a
friend and encourage him.
Or it might be as simple as to remind me to call my wife and see if she needs me to pick something
on the way home from the office. I no longer have a life separate from the Lord. He is an integral part of
everything I am and everything I do. May the Lord be praised and magnified and blessed.
Rene Brown
*****End of Letter*****
all by Grace and not of our own works, when they think of Sanctification, they assume that they must go
to work and work out their own Sanctification. This is false thinking and not biblical. Just as Salvation
was a work of Grace so Sanctification is a work of Grace. God does it all. I have one thing I must do and
one thing only: I must yield to God totally and completely. Once I am yielded, God begins to work in my
life. He has given me a completely new birth. I have a brand new spirit - a re-born spirit that is holy and
righteous and complete in Him. So my spirit is completely sanctified, made holy, set aside to God.
What does God do now? If I am yielded to Him, He begins to work out in my Soul Man what is
already true in my spirit man or inner man. As I walk in the Spirit, people begin to see a new me, a
sanctified me. I will begin to do the things of God. People cannot tell if it is me or if it is Jesus in me
because in my spirit we are in Union just as the scripture says. (1 Cor 6:17 RSV) "But he who is united
to the Lord becomes one spirit with him."
That which is now in my heart begins to be outworked so that those around me can see it. Without
any striving I am doing what God has put in my heart. I have come to complete rest and peace in Him.
(Heb 4:10-11 RSV) "for whoever enters God's rest also ceases from his labors as God did from his. 11Let
us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience."
I no longer have any list of “have to’s”. I am under no pressure to perform for God. I am at rest just as
God rested on the seventh day of Creation. Does this mean I do nothing? Not at all. In my own life I am
busier than ever but without any sense of pressure and no sense that I have to accomplish anything. I just
rest in Him, and I know I am doing His will. (When I am not, the Holy Spirit immediately shows me this,
and I can change the way I am going or what I am doing.) Even as I do ordinary things in life like paying
my bills or purchasing a loaf of bread, I do it all with Him involved. As I am involved in something, He
frequently interrupts my thoughts with something else I need to do and I do it. It might be telephone a
friend and encourage him.
Or it might be as simple as to remind me to call my wife and see if she needs me to pick something
on the way home from the office. I no longer have a life separate from the Lord. He is an integral part of
everything I am and everything I do. May the Lord be praised and magnified and blessed.
Rene Brown
*****End of Letter*****
