You Are Rescued Right Now From Wickedness

Who gave (yielded) Himself up [to atone] for our sins [and to save and sanctify us], in order to rescue and deliver us from this present wicked age and world order, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father-- Galatians 1:4

Man, there are several great things that we can study with this one verse. The first is that Jesus not only saves us, but He sanctifies us. I believe that this is one of the greatest Truth’s that is not preached or taught nearly enough: we do not sanctify ourselves, we are sanctified by Jesus. 

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 1 Thessalonians 5:23

For both He Who sanctifies [making men holy] and those who are sanctified all have one [Father]. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren; Hebrews 2:11

Jesus alone separates us from all profane things. The peace for us in this Truth is this: it is Jesus’ responsibility alone to stop us from doing wrong things! It is the vine’s responsibility to cause the branches to produce fruit. It is the head’s responsibility to cause the body to move. It is the gardeners responsibility to keep insects and disease from the plants. It is the potters responsibility to form the clay and it is the shepherds responsibility to heard the sheep. Our peace and freedom is Jesus is our Head, our Shepherd, our Vine, and our Father is our Potter and He is our Gardener. This is why there is absolutely no condemnation for us who are now in Christ Jesus.

THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. Romans 8:1

If we were responsible for even the littlest aspect of our own sanctification, then there would always be room for condemnation, but we aren’t responsible to sanctify ourselves, and we never will be. We have a part to play, but our part is never played by being separate from Christ. We are His body and we are always perfectly united with Him. Our part is played as a branches part is played, the branch is the part of the plant that the fruit appears on, but the branch is not the force that caused the fruit to come to be. You can take a branch from a merlot vine and graft it into a cabernet vine and the branch will produce cabernet grapes. We were of the devil, now we are of Jesus and now we produce righteous fruit because of Him, not because of us.

This Truth will give you so much peace! And not only will it give you peace it will set you free from actually doing the things that you don’t want to do. As long as we believe that we have to keep ourselves, we will do what we do not want to.