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Vicki and I celebrated our first Christmas as a family way back in 1969. We didn’t have much, but that did not seem to matter as we had each other. Going to the woods and cutting just a small limb from a pine tree, we brought it home and decorated it with red berries, popcorn on a string, lots and lots of stringy icicles, a few bulbs and hand-picked pinecones. Of course, there were no phones with cameras, and oh, how I regret not having taken a picture of our masterpiece.
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“And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you” (Joshua 3:5).
The command was to sanctify yourselves — make holy or purify. Sanctification is distinguished from justification and regeneration. Being sanctified denotes the carrying forward of that work of grace in the soul to completeness. Justification signifies the...