Are You "Sanctified in Christ"? That Is; Being Made Pure? Do You Want To Be Pure? If Not? Why Not? A Point To Ponder . . .

Christ washing His disciples' feet.

A Devotional for Tuesday August 12, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan, Author of Pilgrim's Progress

Are You

"Sanctified in Christ"?

“To the church of god that is in Christ, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours”

I Corinthians 1: 2.

[Now] . . . this righteousness by being bestowed upon us, is [not] severed from Jesus Christ; for it is still his and in him. How then, may some say, doth it become ours? I answer by our being put into him. For of God are we in Christ Jesus, who is made unto us, of him, “righteousness.” And again, we are made “the righteousness of God in him.” So then, the righteousness of Christ covers his, as a man’s garments cover the members of his body, for we are “the body of Christ, and members in particular” (1 Corinthians 12: 27). The righteousness therefore is Christ’s; resides still in him, and covers us, as the child is lapped up in its father’s skirt, or as the chicken is covered with the feathers of the hen. I make use of all these similitudes thereby to inform you of my meaning. For by all these things are set forth the way of our being made righteous to justification of life (Matthew 23: 37; Ezekiel 16: 8; Psalm 36: 7).

Now thus a man is made righteous, without any regard to what he has or to what is of him. For as to him, it is utterly another’s. Just as if I should, with the skirts of my garments, take up and clothe some poor and naked infant that I find cast out into the open field. Now if I cover the person, I cover scabs and sores, and ulcers, and all blemishes. Hence God, by putting this righteousness upon us, is said to hide and cover our sins. “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin” (Romans 4: 7-8).