Saints

David Hutt and our Session Clerk Liz White

21 October 2010

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In this text it is important to note that Paul addresses the readers of his letter as those who are sanctified in Christ, called to be saints together with those who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  In the first place it is to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, and this implies that these persons are sanctified in Christ, they are holy and separated from the others, not because of who they are but because they call on His name. In the same way the process of being a saint is completed and linked to all others in every place who also call on the name of Jesus Christ. When we call on the name of Christ Jesus, we are immediately associated with all the saints, which includes us.

How we respond to this is dependant on the attitude that we have in the way we live out the sanctification that Jesus Christ brings to bear on us. When we face adversity, when the Christian ethos is challenged, when Woolworths removes Christian magazines from its shelves, how do we respond to these. Do we respond in love, understanding, tolerance, and long suffering, or do we become angry and militant? When we realise that sanctification is the process of holiness and bringing us to have the nature of the indwelling Christ in us, then we respond as He would.

Be encouraged to be the saint that Christ Jesus sees you as.

David

Point to ponder: We are all saints.

Question to consider: Would you consider yourself to be a saint?

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