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Set Apart By HIs Power 1 Thessalonians 5:23 · Life For Toledo

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  And you're receiving this message because you
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  opted in to be encouraged. I'm thinking today
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  of 1 Thessalonians 5, 23. It says, Now may the
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  God of peace himself sanctify you entirely. That
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  is to say, to set you apart as holy. That's what
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  sanctify means. And may he sanctify you entirely.
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  And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved
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  complete without blame at the coming of our Lord
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  Jesus Christ. This is Paul writing in the book
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  of... 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 23. The truth
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  is that when you got saved, God made you holy.
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  He wants to cleanse us and restructure us by
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  making us born again and then progressively throughout
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  our life to make us more and more holy, more
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  and more like Jesus, more and more like God,
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  more and more his people. As we get closer, the
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  hope is that people will have their whole selves
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  made holy and that we'll make it in. We make
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  it in not by our goodness or our greatness, but
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  by Jesus' holiness and his righteousness and
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  his imputed righteousness. That means that his
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  righteousness put on us. When Jesus comes, it's
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  finished, and the process must be complete by
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  then. So that's day in, day out, repenting, turning
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  to God, loving the Lord for who he is, and being
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  willing to follow his ways the best we know how.
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  And he'll keep making us a little better, a little
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  more able to understand, a little more... knowing
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  of when we need to repent and turn to him again.
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  And we're so grateful that this is the God of
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  heaven making us over into the image of one who
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  will live for eternity with him. Be encouraged
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  today. Whatever mistakes you've made, God is
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  still working in you. He can use you. Repent,
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  turn to him, and let him take care of the next
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  thing that's upcoming.