TPW 102 Immovable on the Gospel Against Abortion and LGBTism

Welcome to the Protestant Witness. This is Pastor Patrick Hines here at Gridwell Heights Presbyterian Church in Kingsport, Tennessee and Today, I'd like to post the first talk that I did at the conference on marriage family and sexuality and This particular talk really was the one that I would have I was hoping would would get the most Downloads and that people would listen to it and basically, it's it's an appeal from My heart as a pastor as a Christian to Be fixed and immovable Upon the Word of God in the midst of the terrible and horrible culture change that we're seeing with the LGBT revolution I have been.

Appalled.

Disgusted Broken and deeply hurt at the indifference That I'm seeing to this in the PCA. I Was shocked and horrified when Greg Johnson stood up and Made some of the most inane arguments I have ever heard in favor of being gay likening it to women who are infertile or people who are paraplegics, I think that infertile women and Paraplegics would would be highly offended by such things, but that's what was said.

I Was naive enough even then to think that he would be shut down and silenced. He wasn't. Instead he received rousing applause. We have to be immovable. Immovable upon the truth. We are to be anchored to the Word of God.

It is the rock. No matter how hard the winds are blowing no matter how High the waters rise and the rains come we are to be immovable upon our convictions of what the Word of God says and We are to do that no matter what the cost up to and including our own lives our ministries our livelihoods Friends family Reputations whatever it costs to be firmly planted upon the truth and.

The Gospel Must Not Be Compromised in Pro-Life Work

And there's a lot of things there's a lot of other things that are on my mind and heart lately that are really bothering me. Right now I'm watching.

The world.

Premiere done by Apologia Studios of this pro-life documentary about you know abolish or.

Abolish.

Abortion. Or end abortion now that whole thing. And um watching all this and seeing.

The.

Partnership that's gone on now with Apologia and Doug Wilson and cross-politic the federal vision stuff and George Grant is interviewed a lot in this video. And I'm reminded of the years I spent involved in the pro-life movement when I was in Ohio and We have to be just as immovable in our convictions about the gospel and it seems that the whole premise of this documentary is That the pro-life movement has failed because of all of its ecumenical activities.

They haven't made this a gospel issue. I agree completely that has been the problem. That's why they can't stop abortion. It hasn't worked because they're not. They've not focused on Jesus Christ and the biblical gospel and Yet in this documentary and I don't understand How they can be partnering with Doug Wilson and his whole Federal vision gang.

Doug Wilson has not changed anything. He believes About the federal vision and it's false gospel. Nothing. Nothing now our Scott Clark did a good blog entry and pointed out Yeah, Doug Wilson has say he doesn't like the label federal vision, but nothing he believes has changed.

Absolutely nothing. That he believes has changed and then George Grant. George Grant has always been Running around with those groups with the federal vision guys. George Grant wrote a glowing review of Mt. Wright's book what st. Paul really said back in 1997 for world magazine and that was you know, granted that was 20 years ago.

But why would you endorse a book and speak so highly of it when it denies the gospel?

So.

Ferociously and clearly the the winds of apostasy and doctrinal shift and change and worldview are all around us and You know, I have a dear brother there's one of the seminary students here has started a wonderful website and ministry I'm gonna promote it here called full armor ministries.

And it's amazing because that passage in Ephesians chapter 6 about putting on the full armor of God that was hugely important to me in my I'll just call it what it was hellhole of a nightmare that I spent trying to do pro-life work when I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio.

And It was a hellhole of a nightmare not primarily because of the proponents of abortion but primarily because of the people who are supposedly pro-life who didn't understand the gospel and Heaped their utter contempt and utter hatred on me.

Because I wanted to take a principal stand for the one true gospel that were justified by faith alone apart from works, etc. It was hell Primarily because of the pro-life people not the pro-abortion people.

Ironically, I Could not do pro-life work with Roman Catholics because they wanted to make it into saving souls and bring in their rosary beads and obviously We're not going to do that. Unfortunately in that area of Cincinnati, there was also a very large federal vision contingent as well.

And as I came to understand more and more of that I didn't want anything to do anything to do with them either and then the Protestants so-called from the vineyard and other places in Cincinnati Nobody understood the gospel.

I was.

Literally.

Completely and utterly by myself and Eventually, I had to write a letter and copy like 50 people on it Including people that were you know called themselves reformed and would have said that they were Calvinist and their federal vision types Roman Catholics.

That were involved with doing some of the stuff that we were working on there because Martin Haskell the inventor of partial birth abortion set up an abortion clinic less than two miles from the church there where I was an assistant pastor so I immediately got involved in doing pro-life work and Eventually, I had to tell everybody.

Everybody.

Everybody every single person that I was involved with that. I didn't want anything to do with any of them. Because not a one of them understood not a one understood. That you cannot do this without the true and biblical gospel.

That means you cannot partner with people that deny it like federal vision people like Rome like liberal Protestants like people from the vineyard who. At least the ones there in Cincinnati didn't know anything about the Bible and knew absolutely nothing nothing about the gospel nothing and.

You know when I sent that email out. This has been my goodness. This is this is in like 2000 2005 or 6. So this has been a long time ago. I Got so much hate mail from that I had to block so many email addresses.

That letter that I wrote explaining what the gospel is and why I can't work with anyone that denies it. It was actually photocopied and distributed to Catholic churches all over the area. The church where I pastor got hate mail.

Attacking me accusing me of being a racist. I was like a racist and then I was like, why are they? Why are they saying I'm a racist? Oh, yeah, cuz the guy that was was helping us to. He opened up a room in his pediatric Practice, which was right adjacent to the abortion clinic.

He was Jewish. So what they were. So my not wanting to work with with people that deny the gospel became I'm a racist. I'm anti-semitic.

It's like wow.

Yeah, people will just you know, just a lot of their faces off about you but I'll tell you I'm As much as my heart is stirred by you know, some of these individuals that are that are talking that they're interviewing in this.

In this documentary, I just. They're criticizing the pro-life movement and rightly so. For being ecumenical. It's it's always been ecumenical and that's always been as biggest problem. It's ecumenical doesn't have the gospel.

And it doesn't think the gospel is the key to all this. It is it always has been but they're they're partnering with people that deny it that deny the gospel and In tolerate the presence of others that deny it as well.

The federal vision. I'm sorry. Nothing's changed with that. That's the same old Heresy, it's just neo-legalism. It's just a different form of the Judaizing heresy. Repackaged under under new terms, but nothing's changed in that regard.

And so by by attacking everyone around. Forgetting the gospel wrong I've noticed I am an hour and 20 minutes into this one hour and 42 minute long documentary and I've heard the word gospel a lot and I've been listening very carefully to this not a single time.

Not once have they defined what the gospel is. They criticized the pro-life movement for being ecumenical for being incremental. I agree with those criticisms. We should not want to regulate murder. That is we want to see it abolished altogether.

They're right to criticize that and they're right to say the gospel is the key to all this.

But why are you interviewing, you know, George Grant and. You know, why are you partnering with?

Doug Wilson and his whole gang in Moscow. When nothing about the federal vision has changed they haven't repudiated any of their heresies or errors about justification the gospel their denial of the covenant of works their Belief that faith means faithfulness and all the rest of it.

So once again every time I think maybe there's like Something gonna come up that that's gonna really be principled. It just breaks my heart and it's just always does and.

I'm.

Thankful for my friend John O 'Rourke. He has a very principled stand on this. He is not going to be partnering with federal vision people praise the blessed. Holy name of Jesus Christ. Thank you God.

He made a presentation at our church. I'm promoting his ministry the full armor ministries. He has a great YouTube channel. He goes out and does street evangelism and it's going to the abortion clinic up in Bristol.

It's about it's about 25 minute drive from the church here up in Bristol. There's an abortion clinic up there and When John was done making his presentation, you know, since he's a member of our church and he's also a seminary student under my pastoral Care here along with two other guys.

When he was done with his presentation, I was almost teary-eyed um because he specifically said that he's not going to partner with People that deny the gospel including the federal vision and all the rest of them.

And I I stood up and told the church Because I am the pastor. I closed that that meeting. We did a special Sunday night supper so he could make his presentation to try to raise support for his ministry work.

And I made the comment. I want everyone here to know that as of today, I am aware of.

One and only one.

Pro-life ministry that has this kind of principled stand one.

Only one and.

Just you know for the record and I didn't say this but just telling my listeners here when I was in Cincinnati. When I was doing pro-life work there I was very involved in it and I made a lot of contact with a lot of people.

And I always thought well, you know, they're they're pro-life, but you know, I'm a Christian and I'm going at this with the gospel. But you know that I guess we can have sort of a general benevolence and sort of work alongside each other.

No you can't because they all think that we're doing ministry and saving souls and I'm like We're not because you guys don't have the gospel, right? And then that made me an absolute pariah. I mean people just Detested me just hated me with a passion and so I was completely totally in an every way alone In that work, but God blessed us and we had about 40 people at the church there and I Tried to help them learn how to do sidewalk counseling and we saved a lot of babies.

I got the I got the whole one of them in my own arms. Her name was Soleanna and that's a wonderful story. We got that woman an ultrasound she was 20 weeks pregnant she was there for her abortion. Got her an ultrasound.

She saw that baby in that room and the pediatric office right across us right across the way from the abortion clinic. She started to cry can't do it. She needed to have a c-section. I stood up in front of the church and we raised three thousand one hundred dollars like that and we paid for it.

I was there when the baby came and we loaded up a van with Absolutely everything they would ever need to take care of that child. It was beautiful. It was wonderful is one of the most wonderful things that ever been involved with and you know why I think that worked.

You know why I think we saw that. Because the gospel was not compromised by myself. I Absolutely refused to work with federal vision people with liberal Protestants and with Rome would not do it because I knew you can't bring an empty squirt gun to a gunfight and The gospel is the only thing that can stop abortion and oh how I have prayed oh how I have prayed that God would raise up people who will not be muddy on the gospel and not get in bed with federal vision people from Moscow and not not get involved with the federal vision and and other forms of heretical So-called Calvinistic Christianity, but actually love the one true biblical gospel justification by faith alone in Christ alone apart from works no, such thing as final salvation by works and all the rest of it and God raised up one here, and I'm excited for his ministry work and He's already been contacted by a local federal vision guy from one of those CREC churches I've been encouraging him you got to stand your ground my friend stand your ground.

This is a gospel issue don't ever compromise on it. The winds of culture change and apostasy and Lack of doctrinal discernment and lack of faithfulness to the gospel. They are swirling all around us. And yet where are the few who will take their stand for the biblical gospel?

And it only takes a few who are willing to do it for God to do great things. So anyway, I hope that this sermon from the Word of God will encourage you to stand your ground against the winds of culture change and against the winds of groups that Claim we're gonna take a principled stand for the gospel by denying the gospel we're gonna take a principle stand against the ecumenism of the of the pro-life movement and its incremental approach and instead we're gonna we're gonna Partner with others that denied the gospel in different and subtle ways instead.

That's not the answer. We need people to take a principled stand on the one true gospel and not Compromise it at all ever for anyone for any reason.

So.

I hope you'll find this to be edifying encouraging and helpful. We have to be as the Word of God uses a very interesting word. Ah metta kinetos, which means immovable. We have to be immovable on the gospel.

We have to be immovable on what is right and what is wrong on the LGBT issues. Please take your Bibles and turn to John 17. John 17 verses 14 through 17. Will be our scripture reading John 17 verses 14 through 17.

John 17 14 to 17. This is God's Word. I Have given them your word. And the world has hated them because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one.

They are not of the world just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. May God bless the reading of his word. Let's pray, please Our Father in heaven. Our hearts are burdened by the Revolution that we see in our culture around us.

Not so much that it's surprising that it's happening and but because it is trying to destroy what's left of Bible believing Gospel loving Christianity in this country and it's doing it with incredible success.

We pray Lord you would help us to see what your will is for your church in terms of being leaders not followers those that set trends. Instead of following them. We pray Lord that you would help us to be exactly what our Lord prayed.

We would be and that is set apart by the truth sanctified by the truth. We pray all this in Jesus name. Amen. When the internet first became available to the masses I had just gotten married in 1997. Thankfully, there were a lot of good Christian theologians apologists and thinkers who leveraged that technology to disseminate sound doctrine and sound theology.

Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio. I had been exposed to Roman Catholicism almost constantly. Some of the first internet searches that I did and this is long before there was Google back then. It was savvy search and Alta Vista digital anyone remember those used to dig around the internet on for stuff with those search engines and I was interested in understanding the Protestant and Catholic debates and one of the first people I came across online.

Back then and this is long before I was reformed in my theology was a reformed Baptist guy named From Phoenix, Arizona named James White and he had written on this topic and regularly debated not just Roman Catholics.

But debated everybody else do on everything you could imagine and I quickly found a website called Straightgate .com. I don't know if it even exists anymore. But it was a repository of White's old dividing line programs his debates.

Lectures that they had done and taped and uploaded to the internet and there were lectures on Justification reform theology the atonement textual criticism and all kinds of stuff and back then I had this little device called a Nomad 2c which had 64 megabytes of space on it and I bought a chip an expansion chip that was this big with 64 more megabytes and I I thought I was styling pretty cool with that thing.

And I would load it up with stuff that and I would just listen and I would hear the book Recommendations and get more books. I'd buy books go to the library get books around the year 2000. So that would be 19 years ago James White started talking frequently on his program about homosexuality and the Bible and of course He would point out the obvious that the Bible condemns homosexuality and eventually he wrote a book on the subject called the same-sex Controversy which is an excellent scholarly defense of what frankly back then I thought would never need to be defended.

Back then I thought what a waste of time. This guy's still brilliant. Why doesn't he write on things that actually need defense? This is this is not even an issue. Well, he was way ahead of his time. He saw this coming the arguments that white brought up that were being used by the proponents of the gay agenda were very shallow.

Very facile and could so I thought only work upon the profoundly gullible or exceptionally ignorant. In fact, I recall getting frustrated every time white did another dividing line program and the topic was homosexuality.

I got to the point where I'm not listening to that same. I'm so sick of this topic. I thought how could anyone be taken in by the kinds of foolish arguments that are being used to justify what cannot be justified.

Nature itself tells us that the greatest refugee nature itself is the greatest reputation that such could ever be normal or right, right? No one could ever actually believe that Homosexuality is a genetic trait, right?

I mean what genetic trait could possibly be more Disadvantageous to the survival of a species than this one. Surely no one will ever believe the lie that some people are just born this way, right? Surely no one in the church would ever buy the argument that some people are biologically intrinsically inherently homosexual, right?

Wrong.

We live in odd times to be sure there has been a cultural mega shift. That's been stewing in this nation really since the 1960s and that's not surprising. That ideas and worldviews shift is not surprising that perverted and wicked people have tried in every possible way to Normalize what is in fact disgusting and vile in every sense of both of those words.

That's not surprising that people are trying to normalize this is not surprising. What is surprising is that even professed conservative Christians are right now being taken in by the arguments? That the revolution is happening does not surprise me.

What does surprise me is the speed with which that revolution is swallowing everything left of conservative Christianity in America? Very fast changes in cultural ideas and worldviews. However is not new.

The Church of Jesus Christ has thrived during times of peace and during times of revolution that also involve persecution. In fact, the church tends to do better during times of revolution and persecution for one simple reason.

Please hear me. Unpopular Christianity unpopular Christianity reveals the traitors. Turncoats cowards and goats clearly for all to see the incompatibility of the LGBT revolution. With God's Word is going to continue to clear out more and more driftwood from the church.

Joshua Harris and Marty Samson are just a couple of high-profile examples of such driftwood and frankly I appreciate that they have the honesty to simply renounce and abandon their faith and to do it publicly.

Samson however, I've been praying for that guy. He is supposedly doing more research and looking for answers to some of his questions. But his initial statements about leaving the faith were that I'm losing my faith and it doesn't bother me.

Joshua Harris left the faith the guy that wrote the book. I kissed dating. Goodbye long ago. He's renounced the gospel. And of course I was looking for in his post Of course issued an apology to the LGBT community.

Now my second talk today. We're going to talk directly about the fact that Harris has apologized to a group of people which in point of fact does not exist. There is no LGBTQ community in the same way that there is no murderers community covetous community thief community or adulterers community.

People are not biologically covetous inherently thieves intrinsically adulterers. People can be covetous thieves or adulterers, but all of those are labels which describe the sinfulness of actions desires and behaviors.

They do not and cannot describe a person's ontology or their being. More on that later in this talk I want to emphasize the way in which the Word of God instructs the people of God to be distinctly God's people in the face of Cultural mega shifts and how a full understanding of the biblical concept of antithesis is absolutely foundational to God's people remaining distinctly God's people as the winds hurricanes Cyclones and tornadoes of culture change blow all around us destroying everything in sight.

The exhortations and God's Word on this topic are many before we look at some of them in detail. I'd like to give you first a couple of sentences from an excellent book I read years ago by RB Kuiper called the glorious body of Christ in his introduction to that little book.

He has three things that are facing the church in all ages of time. And one of those things is worldliness. And he wrote this quote. How true is the oft repeated indictment of church members that they can hardly be distinguished from the men and women of the world.

The most outstanding sin of ancient Israel was that instead of upholding its Distinctiveness as Jehovah's Chosen People it was ever and anon imitating its pagan neighbors. That sin is rampant in the church today and quotes that Kuiper those words were published in 1967 52 years ago.

The great JC Ryle in his wonderful book on holiness wrote this about the duty of Christians to resist worldliness to resist Cultural mega shifts to resist the winds of change that take us away from the Word of God.

He said this he must fight the world. The subtle influence of that mighty enemy must be daily resisted and without a daily battle can never be overcome. The love of the world's good things. The fear of the world's laughter or blame.

The secret desire to keep in to be in with the world. The secret wish to do as Others in the world do and not to run into extremes. All these are spiritual foes which beset the Christian Continually on its way to heaven and they must be conquered.

The Word of God teaches us. Friendship with the world is enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is an enemy of God. If any man loves the world the love of the father Is not in him.

The world is crucified to me said Paul and I unto the world and whatsoever is born of God Overcomes the world. And the scripture also says do not be conformed to this world. The LGBT revolution is probably one of the most extreme forms that worldliness has taken in our time.

One of the grand revelations that God has made to his people for all time is Malachi 3 6. I am Yahweh. I do not change. I Am Yahweh. I do not change therefore you are not consumed of sons of Jacob and as apostasy in the church is coming from every direction as shown in the acceptance of the Mythological category of personhood known as sexual orientation.

That is a myth. It doesn't exist. You and I do not have sexual orientation. You and I do not have sexual orientation. If you're a man, you were designed by God for a woman. If you're a woman you're designed by God for a man.

You do not have sexual orientation. What every single God-fearing gospel-loving Word of God obeying Christian must remember is simply this. I hope you're listening carefully. God's attitude on the issue of homosexuality and gender is still exactly the same as it was before he created the universe and God's attitude on the issue of homosexuality and gender will be exactly the same on the day Christ Returns as it was before the foundation of the world and the same as it is right now.

Moral mega shifts like the one America is experiencing today on the LGBT issues have Absolutely positively no effect on truth or morality whatsoever. What is true and moral remains true and moral even if every single teaching and ruling elder in the PCA Believes something to the contrary.

God is unchanging in his essence and moral character as a necessary corollary to this God's breathed forth revelation in Scripture is also unchanging. Genesis the Revelation still says exactly what it's always said on these matters.

Now the biblical exhortations are numerous forceful and clear. And our Lord's high priestly prayer in John 17 is contained that whole prayer is a gold mine of precious truth for God's people. To to walk phrase by phrase through and just soak it all in the wonderful things that he prayed for but for our purposes.

I want to focus here on the passage that I read. I want to walk through it together. Look at John 17 verse 14 there in your Bible just verse 14. Remember, this is Jesus praying for all future generations in his high priestly prayer right before he's crucified verse 14.

I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world. Just as I am NOT of the world. He stopped there. Jesus gave his disciples his father's word his father's message.

What Jesus spoke was the words of the father. He says I say nothing of myself, but only what the father teaches me. That is what I say that message of the gospel. Which would be fully inscripturated in the New Testament also includes the Old Testament.

At the completion of the New Testament the people of God would then have in their possession the entirety of Everything they need to know from God. The people of God are the possessors of God's Word God's message and the world.

Hated Christ's disciples just as they will hate us. Because we are not of the world just as Christ is not of the world. That phrase there of the world means seeing the world of sin as Described by the Apostle John in 1st John 2 16 for all that is in the world.

The lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father. But it's of the world. This is the world that we are not of Jesus prayed that we would not be of the world. The lust of the flesh.

What is that? Those wicked evil desires of our sinful nature that are Contrary to the unchanging character of God contrary to his revealed law. Contrary to his word that's at war with us in the depths of our souls those evil things We often want but know that we have to fight against and resist.

The lust of the eyes. What is that? Those wicked and evil desires that people see and want which are contrary to the law of God. What is the pride of life. The pride of life is the arrogant and boastful pride of men and their pursuit of?

Prestige and a name for themselves and fame and glory for themselves. Because the Christian has the Word of God given to them by Christ. The world hates them because they are not of the world. We are not governed by the desires of the eyes the lust of the eyes the pride of life.

That's not what we are of any longer if we really belong to Christ look at verses 15 and 16. I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world just as I am NOT of the world.

They stop there.

It is not the will of God that Christian people withdraw from the world and live in monasteries or deserts by themselves but rather that they would bring their Sanctified salt and light and the Word of God and their biblical worldview into the rot and the darkness in which they live.

Jesus prayed to his father that he would keep the precious sheep. He was about to lay his life down for from the evil one. I don't want you to withdraw from the world. I want you to be in the world, but be kept from the evil one.

Jesus prayed that his father would protect and keep us from Satan. Jesus also asserts a plain fact about his true people which will always be true about them. You see verse 16. They are not of the world.

This is a truism. Christians are not of the world. Christians are never of the world. They are against the world in that sense. Against the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life. Because those things are not of the father.

But of the world. The children of the Living God see God as their loving father in heaven. They hallow his holy name. They live for him and all that is opposed to God they oppose to We who prior to our effectual calling and new birth.

Well, the were the willing slaves of sin. We cease that allegiance and give ourselves to another namely to Christ. We once served and loved sin and hated God now. We love and serve Christ and righteousness and we detest our remaining sin and we detest the sin of the world.

We hate the sin in ourselves and in the world because that is precisely What our dear Lord Jesus came to die and rise again to deliver us from. Paul asked the rhetorical questions at the end of Romans 6.

Romans 6 20. When you were slaves of sin. You were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now? Ashamed.

Hear what he's asking there.

What fruit did you have when you lived in debauchery and sexual immorality and drinking parties and everything you used to do? The pride of life the lust of the flesh what profit did you have then in those things of which you are now?

Ashamed you see when a person comes to Christ they become ashamed of what they once were. He says for the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God you have your fruit to holiness on the end everlasting life.

Those terrible vices and sins which used to rule over our lives and command us. We are now ashamed of them. What fruit did you have back then if you remember your pre-christian life? What fruit was there what good came from living in sin nothing?

We were only accumulating more wrath to be unleashed upon us on the Day of Judgment. But blessed be God that now Having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God you have your fruit to holiness in the end everlasting life.

We who were once of the world we who were once the slaves of the world the willing servants of the world the Defenders of the world have been set free from that allegiance to become the children of God and now by Definition and by divine indicative statement of fact we are not of the world.

Just as Christ is not of the world. Our Lord continues with the key statement. I want to emphasize look at verse 17 in John 17 and his prayer. Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. This is the key to everything else.

I'm gonna say to you this morning. The Word of God written the Bible is that by which every single redeemed person is set apart by God. To be set apart means to be no longer common. Just like the Holy Day We learned about those set apart by the Word of God have the word in their hearts and in their minds.

When God grants salvation life to a person he grants them repentance unto life and faith in Jesus. The principal acts of saving faith are accepting receiving and resting upon Christ alone for justification Sanctification and eternal life, but another essential component of saving faith in Christ is also this from our confession by this faith.

A Christian believeth to be true. Whatsoever is revealed in the word for the authority of God himself speaking therein and he acteth Differently upon that which each particular passage thereof containeth yielding obedience to the commands.

Trembling at the threatenings and embracing the promises of God for this life and that which is to come. This is what it is to be as Jesus prayed. We would be sanctified by the truth. It is God's Word.

That is truth. And that Word is what sets us apart. And here is one of the keys. I want to hammer home as hard as I can. That truth by which God's people are sanctified is fixed and it's as unchanging as the very character of God himself.