Ny fanamasinana dia ny sitrapon'Andriamanitra, as is written in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ao amin’ny Baiboly. Every born again Christian is sanctified in Christ and has become a new creation. As a result of this sanctification in Christ, Christians enter the process of sanctification. Nandritra ny dingan'ny fanamasinana, Christians renew their mind, esory ny antitra ary apetrakao ilay lehilahy vaovao. Let’s look at what the Bible says about the process of sanctification.
Ny fanamasinana dia ny sitrapon'Andriamanitra
Sanctification is the will of God and is part of the daily walk of born again Christians. You have been sanctified and made holy and righteous through the Lord Jesus Christ, amin'ny rany. Fa izao, it’s up to you to practice what you have become in the spirit realm and walk in holiness and live righteous. Ary noho izany, it’s time for the process of sanctification and to cleanse yourself from every sin and dead work of the flesh.
Ny fanamasinana dia ny sitrapon'Andriamanitra. Ary noho izany, if you love God and want to serve God, then sanctification is part of your new life as a child of God.
Rehefa mamaky sy mianatra Baiboly ianao (Ny Tenin'Andriamanitra), Ho hitanao ny marina, because God is the Father of truth.
When you renew your mind with the truth of God and apply His words of Spirit and life amin'ny fiainanao, you shall sanctify yourself with His words and walk by faith in the truth of life.
Fa izao no sitrapon'Andriamanitra, Na ny fanamasinana aza, mba tsy hifady ny fijangajangana ianao: Ny tsirairay aminareo dia tokony hahalala ny fomba hananana ny fanaka nataony amin'ny fahamasinana sy ny voninahitra; Tsy amin'ny filan'ny concupiscence, Tahaka ny Jentilisa izay tsy mahalala an'Andriamanitra
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
Christians should detox from the world
Angamba efa henonao ny teny hoe 'detoxing'. Ny detoxing dia tena fahita ary amin'ny fironana amin'izao andro izao. Natao hanadio ny vatanao amin'ny akora misy poizina (detoxing), izay manorina ao anatinao. Amin'ny maha-zaza azy voalohany kokoa, you should detox your life from the world.
Rehefa manolotra ny fiainanao ho an'i Jesoa Kristy ianao, SY lasa nateraka indray Ao amin'ny Fanahy, your mind and your way of thinking, are still conformed the world.
Ny fisainanao manerantany, MANDEHANA, FAHENDRENA, sy ny fahalalana, that you built up over the years, will conflict with the words and will of God.
Ankehitriny,, miankina aminao, to show how much you really love Jesus Christ.
Rehefa tia an’i Jesosy ianao, dia fantatrao izay tokony hatao, Izany hoe, saying goodbye to your old life as a sinner and apetraho amin'ny lehilahy and become Christlike.
Fotoana izao, to remove all the toxic habits of the old man and all the build up toxic in your carnal mind that leads to bondage and death.
Ary noho izany, it’s time to renew your mind with the Bible, Tenin'Andriamanitra, and start walking in His Word.
Amin'ny maha-zaza azy voalohany kokoa, you should live a consecrated life and abstain from fornication. Tokony ho fantatrao ny fomba hananana ny silanao amin'ny fanamasinana sy ny voninahitra, ary tsy amin'ny filan'ny concupiscence, like the Gentiles that don’t know God. Ahoana no anaovanao an'izany?
Havaozo ny tenin 'Andriamanitra (Ny Baiboly)
The first and most important step is to Havaozy ny sainao Miaraka amin'ny Tenin'Andriamanitra (Ny Baiboly). Without the Word of God, you will not find out God’s will. You may think you know God’s will, but as long as your mind is carnal and not renewed with the Word of God, you don’t know God’s will.
Many times people project their will as the will of God. What they think or feel is the way God thinks or feel. But that’s not true.
Fandrafiana an’Andriamanitra ny sain’ny nofo, because it opposes the words of God and isn’t subject to the law of God that represents His will. As long as a mind is carnal, a person shall not submit to God and not do His will (Romana 8:6-8).
Ary noho izany, you should read and study the Bible and meditate on His words.
Make the words of God your own, so that your way of thinking lines up with God’s way of thinking.
Stay faithful to God and stay in HIs Word. Amin'izay ihany, will you be able to work together with the Holy Spirit.
Don’t listen to the will, lust and desires of your flesh, and don’t obey your flesh!
Don’t give into your carnal will, Ny hevitrao, ny fihetseham-ponao, ny fihetseham-ponao, ny filanao, ny fanirianao, ny cravings sns., fa kosa, do what the Bible tells you to do.
Stand up against these carnal feelings of lust and desire. Sahy ny tompo eo amboniny, Amin'ny fandraisana ny Tenin'Andriamanitra, and speak the Word and stand upon the Word.
The junkfood of the world defiles your mind
As long as your mind is carnal and you keep feeding your mind with the junkfood of the world, your thinking will never line up with the Word. Your way of thinking will not be the same as God’s way of thinking. fa tsy, your mind shall be defiled and you shall think like the world, ary mitondra tena, ary mandeha toy izao tontolo izao.
You shall not walk by faith after the Spirit as Ny Famoronana Vaovao ao amin'i Jesosy Kristy. fa tsy, you will remain a carnal Christian, who walk by sight after the flesh.
As long as you are carnal your thoughts and ways are not God’s thoughts and ways
Raha mbola araka ny nofo ihany ianareo, your thoughts shall not be God’s thoughts and you shall be ignorant concerning His way. You shall always cite Isaiah 55 9, ary lazao, that God’s thoughts and ways are higher than your thoughts and your ways.
But that’s only because you don’t spend time in the Word to get to know God and His will. You don’t open the Bible to become familiar with His words, Ny heviny, sy fomba. Ary noho izany you don’t know God’s thoughts and don’t know His ways.
You live the same carnal live in darkness in the bondage of sin and death as before your conversion. And because you are still carnal, your thoughts are not God’s thoughts and your ways are not His ways.
As long as your mind is carnal, you shall always see yourselves as a sinner. Because of this wrong mindset, you shall keep sinning and use the ‘once a sinner always a sinner‘ phrase as an excuse to keep sinning and to justify sin.
Mandeha amin'ny fahamasinana, ary ny fanamasinana, means to walk in the will of God. Fa raha mbola, as you keep doing your will, instead of His will, you shall never walk in holiness and righteousness.
The new creation is one Spirit with Him
When you stop feeding your mind and flesh with the junkfood of the world, and feed your spirit with the Word of God, then your thinking shall be renewed, ary hiaritra ny teny. You shall think God’s thoughts, and become one in Him and one with Him.
Ny hany zavatra, that stops His Holy Spirit from working in you, ny fomba fisainanao an'izao tontolo izao. But when you renew your mind and think like the Word, dia hiteny ianao, that God’s thoughts are your thoughts.
When you believe His words and become a mpitrandraka ny teny, you will walk in His ways.
Of course God is God! But we are His children, and God gave us in Christ the heritage of becoming His children.
God gave us not only His Son Jesus Christ but also His Holy Spirit, Who dwells in His children (a.o. John 3:16-21; 14:16-26; 15:26; 16:7-15).
God gave everyone the power to become a child of God and by faith and through regeneration in Christ and the abiding of the Holy Spirit to walk as a child of God on earth. Just like Jesus the Son of God (a.o. John 1:12-13; 3:3-8; Asan'ny Apostoly 2:38).
This new life in Christ is revealed in His Word. Therefore it’s important to know what this new life in Christ means and what it doesn’t mean.
Inona no atao hoe fanamasinana??
The process of sanctification starts with the submission to God and yielding to His will, then the renewing of your mind, mino ny teniny, mankatò ny teniny, doing His words, Ary ny fitandremana ny didiny.
Ianao dia put off the works of the flesh SY put on Christ and walk by faith and do what Jesus and the Father said and commanded to do.
Raha mbola mitoetra ao Aminy ianao, you shall walk as the new creation, Toy ny manifested children of God, and live a sanctified life in Christ
'Aoka ho fanasin'ny tany'
