Perfect Sanctification

U. H. Spurgeon.

Hebrews 10:10

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

I. THE ETERNAL WILL — "By the which wilt we are sanctified."

1. This will must, first of all, be viewed as the will ordained of old by the Father — the eternal decree of the infinite Jehovah, that a people whom He chose should be sanctified and set apart unto Himself.

2. This wilt by which we are sanctified was performed of the ever blessed Son.

3. This work is applied to us by the Holy Spirit.

II. THE EFFECTUAL SACRIFICE by which the will of God with regard to the sanctity of His people has been carried out. "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ."

1. This implies, first, His incarnation, which of course includes His eternal Deity. Jesus Christ, very God of very God, did certainly stoop to become such as we are, and was made in the likeness of sinful flesh.

2. All this is implied in the text, because it speaks of the offering of the body of Christ. But why does it specially speak of the body? I think to show us the reality of that offering; His soul suffered, but to make it palpable to you, to record it as a sure historical fact, He mentions that there was an offering of the body of Christ.

3. I take it, however, that the word means the whole of Christ — that there was an offering made of all Christ, the body of Him, or that of which He was constituted.

III. THE EVERLASTING RESULT.

1. The everlasting result of this effectual carrying out of the will of God is that now God regards His people's sin as expiated, and their persons as sanctified. Offered, and its efficacy abides for ever.

2. They are reconciled.

3. They are purified.

(U. H. Spurgeon.)