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Listen to this sermonGod is able to keep you!
09/07/2005
Andre Pelser

We have learned to have faith and trust in God’s ability to save us from hell, to heal our bodies and to fill us with the Holy Spirit because the Pentecostal Preachers did a good job to inspire us to believe in God’s ability to do these things. Then the charismatic preachers came and taught us faith, prosperity and how to operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. During the apostolic reformation era we learned to accept suffering on Christ’s behalf and to have a finishing mentality.
But there is something that we often left out in all our preaching, something Apostle Paul and Peter continually stressed, something Jesus often mentioned: God’s ability to keep us from falling until Christ returns. If we will preach about this unique ability of God’s grace, people will have more faith in it, because as we know, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:23,24
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
The King James Version

Sanctify is hagios and it means to be physically pure, morally blameless and spiritually consecrated. Hagion is the holiest of holy, the place behind the second veil. When Christ died the veil that separated the holy place from the most holy place was torn in two from the top to the bottom. Through his fleshly body he made a way for us into the holiest of holy where the High Priest in the Old Testament could only enter once per year to offer up the sacrifice to atone for his sins and the people’s in the holy presence of God on the golden altar that contained the stone tablets of the law, the pot of manna and the rod of Aaron that blossomed. Two golden cherubim symbolized the divine protection of this holy place where the blood of bulls and goats were sprinkled. When God accepted the holy sacrifice he forgave the sins of the people. But in the Old Testament their consciences could not be cleansed, nor the High Priests, because the Old Covenant had no power to do that. In the New Testament through the blood of Christ, the spotless lamb of God, every believer can enter the holy presence of God as a royal priest and offer up sacrifices to God through praise and worship and prayer and be accepted and have his or her conscience cleansed, because God promised to forget our sins and to write his law on our hearts and minds in the New Covenant.

But one thing we need to remember is that we need to live consecrated and holy lives in order to practice the service of a High Priest. The blood of Jesus is not cheap and we cannot ignore the price he paid on behalf of our sins. So although Grace abounds in the New Covenant we should not continue in sin, God forbid, but we should overcome the sins in our lives and cleanse our spirit, soul and body from the results of sin through the precious blood of the Lamb of God.

God is able to sanctify us wholly or completely: Greek ‘holoteles’ perfect to the end. tevlo' teáloás, tel´-os; from a primary tevllw teálloµ, (to set out for a def. point or goal); prop. the point aimed at as a limit, i.e. (by impl.) the conclusion of an act or state (termination [lit., fig. or indef.], result [immed., ultimate or prophetic], purpose); spec. an impost or levy (as paid):— + continual, custom, end (-ing), finally, uttermost. comp. .

The God of Peace (Greek: eirene: peace and prosperity because we are set at one with God again through faith in Christ Jesus) has the ability to sanctify us wholly: to purify our bodies, to make us morally perfect and spiritually consecrated. He has set himself this goal and he will conclude his amazing act to make us a holy nation, a royal priesthood and a peculiar people unto himself. He will fulfil this prophetic purpose for His son has paid the levy imposed on our behalf. He will bring the state of our complete sanctification to its final conclusion!

He is able to sanctify your spirit: Greek pneuma: vital principle, breath of life; your soul: Greek psuche: breath of life, immortal soul and body: Greek soma, physical corporeal body (same word used for a slave). God is able to preserve these three dimensions. Preserve in Greek is diatereo: watch thoroughly: threvw teµreáoµ, tay-reh´-o; from terov' teároás, (a watch; perh. akin to ); to guard (from loss or injury, prop. by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from , which is prop. to prevent escaping; and from , which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; fig. to fulfil a command); by impl. to detain (in custody; fig. to maintain); by extens. to withhold (for personal ends; fig. to keep unmarried):— hold fast, keep (-er), (pre-, re-) serve, watch.

God is able to keep his eye on each one of us, watch us thoroughly to keep us from loss or injury. He is able to keep us like keeping someone safe in a fortress that is filled with a military fullness: everything an army requires to fortify the fort is available. He will help us fulfil his prophetic commands over our lives and maintain our cause. He might withhold certain things from us, if necessary in order to preserve us wholly and blamelessly! It even includes the painful thought of going through life unmarried – if God thinks it necessary to keep you safe from evil that will cause you to go to hell! Whatever He allows, He will provide sufficient grace to keep us! He is able to make the right decisions on our behalf, like a guard that watches out for us – all the time!

He is able to keep us blameless: Greek ‘amemptos’ or faultlessly. Imagine that: if you have a faultless tennis match it means you never played one wrong shot throughout the entire match! Incredible! How is this possible? It is only possible because God has the ability to do that for us. We need to begin to believe it. He has the ability to put us beyond reproach. He can make us irreproachable. Nothing the accuser can bring against us can stand, because our God has removed all reproach from us. It sounds too good to be true, but it is the truth.

Colossians 2:13-15
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
The King James Version

Charizomai in Greek means he granted us the favour to forgive us and to pardon, rescue and deliver us freely through an incredible act of divine kindness: if we believe in His Son, Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf. paravptwma paraptoµma, par-ap´-to-mah; from ; a side-slip (lapse or deviation), i.e. (unintentional) error or (willful) transgression:— fall, fault, offence, sin, trespass.

He is able to forgive our lapses of concentration, our slip-ups, our deviation from our chosen pathway of holiness, our unintentional errors or even our wilful or intentional transgres