Basic HTML Version
Truth Sanctifies, September 14
Sanctifying Power of the Truth
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:17
The truth of God is to sanctify the soul. “A new heart will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you.” The sanctifying power of truth is
to abide in the soul and be carried with us to our business, there to apply
its continual tests to every transaction of life, especially to our dealings
with our fellow men. It is to abide in our households, having a subduing
power upon the life and character of all its inmates.
I must ever urge upon those who profess to believe the truth the
necessity of practicing the truth. This means sanctification, and sanctifi-
cation means the culture and training of every capability for the Lord’s
service.
Teach your children to love the truth because it is the truth and
because they are to be sanctified through the truth and fitted to stand in
the grand review that shall erelong determine whether they are qualified
to enter into higher work, and become members of the royal family,
children of the heavenly King.
The truth, the precious truth of God’s Word, will have a sanctifying
effect upon the heart and character. There is work to be done for ourselves
and for our children. The natural heart is full of hatred to the truth, as it
is to Jesus. Unless parents shall make it the first business of their lives
to guide their children’s feet into the path of righteousness from their
earliest years, the wrong path will be chosen before the right.
The work of sanctification begins in the home. Those who are
Christians in the home will be Christians in the church and in the world.
[262]
273