Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-07-13
PASTOR
GIVES SERMON

Taking for his text John 1913, the
words of our Lord And for their
sakes sanctify myself, that they also
might be sanctified through the truth
Rev. II. c. Goodenough delivered his
Sunday sermon at the Lyons church.
He said in part as follows:
The separation OF believers to q
life of holiness is. much emphasized
in the New Testament. ! Thess. 4:3, z
For this the will of good, even your
sanctificatiOn -. For God has not
called us sunto uncleanness, but unto
holiness" | know that sanctification
is old fashioned, like all the best
things IN life are: old fashioned love.
the old fashioned family circle and
family altar; good old ashioned sal
walton through faith in the atoning
blood OF Christ; the assurance that
goes with it of acceptance before God
and the JOY of sins forgiven. All these
are extremely old fashioned, but after
all are the things that make life hope
full and worth while.
Sanctifcation has two meanings:
first: the state of being separated or
set apart for God. second, holiness of
life which is the indwelling presence
and power of Christ through the Holy
Spirit in the believers heart. The
first part man is responsible for by
coming in ObedieL ce TO Gods word
and consecrating himself to God. Rom.
1871. When this has been conscien-
tiously and thoroughly done, the sec
ond part will always follow, which is
Gods part. Phil 2:13. For it is God
which worketh in You both to will and
to do of His good pleasure" This is
the kind of holiness that the Bible
talks about and the kind that does
not unbalance anybody's mind.
Sanctification does not mean simp-
ly to be separated from everything
that is bad, and be associated with
everything that is good. The merchant
seeking goodly pearls doubtless pos
sessed a great many good pearls, but
when he found the pearl of great
price, he gave up all his other good
pearls Off the one tupremely precious.
Il is altogether possible that there
may be a great many good pearls
Standing between some of us and the
pearl of great price. We find in scrip
ture that marriage is type of santi-
ficatiOn. Rom. IA. Wherefore, my
bretheren, we also are become dead
to the law by the body of Christ; that
ye should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the
dead, that we should bring forth fruit
unto God" When ! took the vows
az matrimony l had to renounce all
other women for the one my heart low
ed, although not all other women were
bad so the believer is called upon TO
renounce all other Affiliations in life
that would in any way hinder him from
bearing clean cut testimony and OBJ
edient service to his Lord, or that
would hinder him in continued and
blessed fellowship with Christ Al
though Moses was a University gradu-
ate in Egypt, yet God saw it necessary
to get him out herding sheep by him
self on the Arabian hills for forty
years that He might get Moses undi-
vided attention and be able to COM
mune with him and give him a revela-
ton of Himself, and ii was out here
that Moses climbed the mountain of
God; then God was able to use him
10 lead a nation from bondage to Ca
naan None of us will ever climb the
mountain of God until God can get
us separated from the entanglements
of this world.