Sanctify Yourselves for Tomorrow...

“Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you. (Joshua3.5)

And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 2And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host; 3And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore. (V1-4)

Looks like God's prescription for lock-down here. The solution, "Sanctify yourselves" for you have not passed this way before (v4). Sanctify yourselves, Purify (NLT) Consecrate (ESV) Make yourself acceptable (CEV). God's way to cross Over. God's route OUT. God's way through, God's way to Conquer.

Consecrated To Conquer:

Nothing is achieved without a 100 fold consecration. A consecration of body soul and spirit. Our purpose in life and our life in Christ is to stand out and possess the life of the Divine Christ. His spirit makes us like him, Christ like. An ability to stand before  men and mountain with divine confidence knowing we have the victory and our promised inheritance.

Joshua commanded the folks to sanctify themselves. Jesus before his work consecrated himself in the desert. Today's generation like the "mixture" seeing no wrong with a little drink, a cuss word here and there, smoking dope or cigarettes and going to church on Sunday. Mixture makes a man weak, compromise is deadly. When the conscience is purged with a seared iron its' hard if not impossible to admit, its a sinful habit. Stepping into God's new and now is going to cost you something you cant enter into God's new world with old habits. Total sanctification is necessary.

VERSE 5. Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you (v5) then Joshua spoke to the priests saying take up the ark and cross over.

We cannot put out hands to the ark without first accepting God's working hand on us. God's hand has to mod us before our hand works the works of him who first worked on us. We cant give to others what God has not first give to us. If my portion is holiness then  I shall see holiness. without holiness no man shall see God. Without holiness no man shall see a mighty move of God. Holiness must be wrought or else we touch God's ark and die and become an Ichabod generation. the generation without the glory of god, the generation in which God departed with his presence, why we could not help but touch the ark of God with our hands so unclean out minds so contaminated out soul so departed and detached form the things of God.

‘The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured’” (1 Samuel 4:21–22). The word Ichabod means literally “there is no glory,” and in her pain and despair, the woman (who is unnamed in Scripture) lamented over the loss of the glory of God from Israel. Yes the church today laments of the lack of Gods presence, holiness, righteousness, and truthfulness in the pulpit, why we have mixed church with world and no longer can tell the difference in our worship of the such.

CONSECRATION PRAYER: Jesus I consecrate my self anew today from my heat to my toe, bathe me in your anointing oil, sanctify me in your fire, make me holy in my body, give me power to do right and wash me in the blood. I renounce and repent of all that separates me form you my holy god and Christ, in your name Jesus, amen.