How Does the Lord Sanctify Us In Hebrews 2:11?

     Sanctification may sound like a lofty term that makes you mentally screech to a stop.  And I surely would have done that if it weren’t for the Life-Studies that I've read on sanctification.  The chapter I read last week covered Hebrews 2:11 which says:

 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers.

     Witness Lee points out that even though positionally we’re sanctified through our regeneration, there’s also a dispositional side to sanctification.   He said that our Captain of salvation knows how to sanctify each one of us.  

In chapter 14 of the Life-Study of Hebrews and on page 158 brother Lee uses his classic illustration of tea to show how the Lord accomplishes  this:

 As the Sanctifier, Christ is now sanctifying us dispositionally by imparting God’s holy nature into our being.  I have often used the illustration of teaification.  A glass of plain water is teaified by putting tea into it until the water is completely teaified.  The way to teaify the water is to add the element of tea to the water until the water is saturated and permeated.  Then all the water will be teaified and will have the appearance, color, taste, and flavor of tea.  This is teaification.  We are the glass of plain water, and Christ is the very essence of the divine holiness, the divine nature. Christ has put Himself into us, the glass of plain water, to permeate and saturate us until we are fully sanctified with His holy nature. This is sanctification (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Hebrews. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1975, Print).

 I have heard this example of tea  many times, and I like it because it makes this huge, spiritual truth so easy to understand.  And I particularly liked the connection he makes with Hebrews 2:10 and 11--the Captain of our salvation is leading us into glory through this process of sanctification. And you know something else that's hidden in verse 11 is the fact that the reason He's not ashamed to call us brothers is because through regeneration we now have the same life and nature as He does.  

 

Other Posts from the Life-Study of the Bible on Sanctification:

From the Life-Study of Romans:
What is Sanctification in the Book of Romans?

From the Life-Study of Ephesians:
How Does God Get a Glorious Church in Ephesians 5:27?

From the Life-Study of 1 & 2 Thessalonians:
How Does God Preserve Us Complete in 1 Thessalonians 5:23?
What Does Salvation in Sanctification of the Spirit Mean in 2 Thessalonians 2:13?

From the Life-Study of Hebrews:
How Does the Lord Sanctify us in Hebrews 2:11?

From the Life-Study of 1 Peter:What is the Santification of the Spirit in 1 Peter 1:2?



You can  also listen to live excerpts from these messages on Hebrews on The Life-Study of the Bible with Witness Lee.  You will enjoy listening to both  the excerpts  from these spoken messages and the helpful and enlightening commentary of the radio hosts.

 

Other Posts on the Life-Study of Hebrews:

Why is the Background of the Book of Hebrews Important?
What Does God's Speaking Show us In Hebrews 1:1-2?
What Does Hebrews 2:10 Say About Christ?
How Does the Lord Sanctify Us In Hebrews 2:11?
Why the High Priest in Hebrews 2:17 Makes Me Think of the Poem Footprints
Why is the Sabbath Rest Mentioned in Hebrews 4:9?
Why Unbelief in Hebrews 3:12 is the Biggest Offense to God
How Do We Come Forward in Hebrews 4:16?
What Hebrews 6:1 Says About Christian Maturity
What Does Hebrews 8 Tell Us About the Differences Between the Old & New Testaments?
What Does It Mean to Gain our Soul in Hebrews 10:39?
Have You Seen God's Silence in Hebrews 11?
How Do You Run the Christian Race in Hebrews 12?
What is the Birthright About in Hebrews 12:16?
From the Life-Study of Hebrews - What is the Central Concept of the Bible?
What's the Focus of the Book of Hebrews?