“Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.” - Exodus 31:13
The context here is the establishment of the Sabbath. In that context God reveals another name that tells us something about Him, YHWH Q’desh. Among all the things God does for His people is to sanctify them, to set them apart.
God’s sanctification of His people did not stop in the New Testament. When a person gets saved today the Bible tells us that God sanctifies them from the world. At salvation we are set apart to God. Once God declares us sanctified the sanctification process continues as we are told to sanctify ourselves unto Him.
Without God’s promise of sanctification we would all be hopelessly trapped in the world and its system. It is only by the sanctifying power of God that we have any hope of being set apart from the world and unto Him.
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