Separated to Serve (AM 3-17-19)

Introduction:

A. Everything was designed for a purpose (Eph. 2:10).

B. We were not created for sin but for service.

C. Sanctification: “Separated to Serve”

I. Sanctification Is Separation.

A. The meaning of sanctification

1. Separation (2 Th. 2:14; 1 Th. 4:7; 1 Pet. 2:9; Eph. 4:1)

2. Holiness (1 Pet. 1:15-16; 1 Cor. 1:2)

B. The means of sanctification

1. God the Father (1 Th. 5:23-23)

2. Jesus His Son (Hb. 10:10, 29; 13:12)

3. The Holy Spirit (Jn. 17:17-19; Eph. 5:26-27, 17; Acts 26:18; Rm. 10:17)

4. Sanctification is a process (1 Cor. 6:11; 1:2).

C. The musts of sanctification

1. We must be washed (Rev. 7:14).

2. We must maintain moral purity (1 Th. 4:1-8; 2 Cor. 6:17-7:1).

3. We must make sanctification our daily pursuit (Hb. 12:14; Col. 3:5).

II. Sanctification Involves Service.

A. We must serve or become isolationists.

B. We are called to serve (Mt. 20:28).

C. Sanctification requires both separation and service (Mt. 25:23).

D. We must serve the Lord. But, how?

1. Sincerely (Rm. 6:17-18)

2. Sacrificially (Rm. 12:1-2; Hb. 13:16)

3. Fervently (Rm. 12:11; Col. 3:23)

E. Why must we serve the Lord? (Hb. 12:14; Jn. 3:3; Rm. 6:22; Lk. 17:10)

Conclusion:

A. We must be sanctified—separated to serve (1 Jn. 1:7, 9; Rm. 6:3-4; Acts 22:16).

B. Having been set apart, we must serve (Gal. 2:20).