Sanctified By The Truth Of Sound Doctrine

But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.


Verse 17
Finally, Jesus prayed that the disciples would be "sanctified by the truth". Falsehood corrupts us. The fall of the human race began with a lie, with a distortion of the truth. It began with a false doctrine that came through the message of a Serpent from hell, and since that day, every time the truth is negotiated, compromised, denied, and weakened, our corruption gets worse and worse. The only thing that rescues you from yourself or myself is a true understanding of God, a true understanding of Christ, a true understanding of our hope less condition, and a true understanding of grace. The truth redeems. The truth preserves. The truth makes us free.The truth makes us holy. Jesus understood that, and in the agony of His intercession, He prayed that His disciples might be people of the truth.

R. C. Sproul
St. Andrew's Expositional Commentary: John

20 Truth "Bullets" Created and Designed For Gospel Accuracy

Here are some quotes by Tullian Tchividjian that were in an article entitled "I'm Addicted" and can be found here.
 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tullian/2011/03/03/im-addicted/ These bullets points are actually from a series of tweets by Tullian. Oh, how sweet the gospel is!!! The gospel of grace, that is.

• Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak;

• Because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose;

• Because Jesus was Someone, I am free to be no one;

• Because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary;

• Because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.

• The banner under which Christians live reads “It is finished.”

• Our security is in Christ’s achievement for us, so now we’re free to admit our weaknesses without feeling like our flesh is bring ripped off our bones

• Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but Christ’s obedience for you, will you start to obey!

• At no point in time, either before God saves you or after, does your behavior determine God’s love for you.

• Since a Christian’s value and identity is anchored in Christ and is not anchored in being right, the gospel frees us to admit we’re wrong.

• The gospel frees us from trying to impress people, prove ourselves to people, and make people think we’re something that we’re not.

• The gospel transforms us precisely because it’s not itself a message about our transformation but Christ’s substitution.

• The gospel frees us to realize that while we matter, we’re not the point

• “Doing” will become instinctive and spontaneous only when our hearts become deeply gripped by what’s been done!

• Only the gospel can liberate us from the miserable, unquenchable pursuit to make something of ourselves by using others.

• Because everything we long for we already possess in Christ, we’re now free to love people, not use them.

• Our improvement comes from God’s approval; God’s approval does not come from our improvement.

• Christ fulfilled all of God’s conditions on our behalf so that our relationship with God could be unconditional.

• The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to make something out of yourself.

• Christian, the level of passion with which God loves you is not determined by the level of passion with which you love him. The Son’s passion for you secured the Father’s passion for you.