when I was a child growing up in my father’s church we used to have Wednesday night prayer meetings and Sunday night church services and quite often both on Wednesday night and Sunday night they would take time out of the early part of the service for what they called a testimony meeting we would have open testimonies we do that now at funerals we used to do it in church open testimony open mic it was always interesting but what I noticed was there was always about three people that every week they would be the first ones up and

I hate to say this but it was three ladies and they always said the same thing they would get up and say I’m just so thankful that I’m saved and Sanctified and then they go sit down I knew what saved was but I wasn’t sure what Sanctified was and I was pretty sure I didn’t want it cuz I didn’t want to turn out like them I didn’t know what Sanctified was until many years later and I found out it’s not a bad word it’s a good word word Sanctified means to be made holy up in heaven Jesus is praying that you and I will be good people holy people he’s

praying for our sanctification the Bible is God’s Chief means of bringing that about and so we aren’t surprised to read that his prayer goes like this sanctify them by your truth your word is truth what he’s praying is that when we open this book we don’t just learn more of the Bible but the Bible gets into our lives and Chang changes who we are he he says sanctify them make them Holy by your truth your word is truth he’s praying for us right now as we meet in this room that the word of God that we’re studying from John 17 will not