The Bible and Life: sanctified

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

What is Holy Ground?

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

Here is an article that I wanted to share with you.

By calling a place “sanctified” or a “sanctuary”—or claiming that it’s “holy ground”—does not make it true.

Go there. Enjoy! Gather together.

But God is the only one who reserves the right to call a thing holy - not any man. Otherwise, where does it end?

Keep the right perspective.

Christ destroyed the need for a holy physical location!…and every Old Testament location was a type of Christ and/or his church which was to come.

The same goes for the most elegant, old, traditional buildings. It doesn’t matter how beautiful it is - it is not the House of God. I am not saying that to be mean - but when you call the building the House of God - you apply something he reserved and called forth by his own blood to a brick and mortar building.

No place on earth is holy, we are holy.

Nor do we go to places to be more holy, either (John 2:19, Colossians 1:22, 2 Corinthians 5:20).

This can possibly hurt some feelings, and that’s not my intent - it really shouldn’t hurt when someone insists that we call you - the Christian - for who you really are! You are the true holy sanctuary!!

You are God’s holy ground!!

You are sanctified in full!! Yes, our actions and attitudes are being sanctified but we are not.

Our identity in Christ is final from the millisecond we are born again by obeying Acts 2:38. We will spend the rest of our living days on earth renewing our mind to reveal how holy and complete we actually are!

The Spirit of Christ cannot live in non-sanctified, unholy places—and the Scripture is clear, He lives in us!

We are the temple of God!

Be awake to who you are! He is!

Everything you expect when you “go to church”, realize that it all takes place NOT because of where you are, but because of WHO YOU ARE and who HE IS!

BE the House of God on Monday.

Make Him preeminent all week.

You are complete in Him more than Sunday & Wednesday.

You are a light!

You are an altar!

You are his dwelling place.

Don’t limit HIM to any building.

Be the building.

Assemble!

And don’t limit HIM to the assembly!

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Brother Roop teaches the Bible

Thursday, April 20, 2023

The Way Into The Holiest

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

Here is an article that was first published in 1906 in the Azusa Street Newsletter, written by William J. Seymour, published by the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, California.

A sinner comes to the Lord all wrapped up in sin and darkness. He cannot make consecration because he is dead. The life has to be put into us before we can present any life to the Lord. He must get justified by faith.

There is a Lamb, without spot and blemish slain before God, for him, And when he repents toward God for his sins, the Lord has mercy on him for Christ's sake, and puts eternal life in his soul, pardoning him of his sins, washing away his guilty pollutions, and he stands before God justified as if he had never sinned.

Then there remains that old original sin in him, for which he is not responsible, till he has the light. He hears that, "Jesus, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate," and he comes to be sanctified.

There is Jesus, the Lamb without blemish, on the altar. Jesus takes that soul that has eternal life in it and presents it to God for thorough purging and cleansing from all original and Adamic sin. And Jesus, the Son of God, cleanses him from all sin, and he is made every whit whole, sanctified and holy.

Now he is on the altar ready for the fire of God to fall, which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is a free gift upon the sanctified, cleansed heart. The fire remains there continually burning in the holiness of God.

Why? Because he is sanctified and holy and on the altar continually. He stays there and the great Shekina of glory is continually burning and filling with heavenly light.