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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED CHURCH:

Liberty Baptist Church

47 Cindia Lane, Ephrata • 717-733-0396

Our Pastors are dedicated to preaching the Word. Come and join us for service and fellowship!

We sing the old time hymns of faith and read the King James Bible. We would love to have you with us!

Sunday School 9:30 AM

Ephrata United

408 E. Fulton St., Ephrata 717-733-1661 www.EphrataUZ.org

Pastor Melvin Horst that we are sanctified. “For this is the will of God even your sanctification.”

Sunday School: 9:00 a.m. Worship: 10:00 a.m.

(1st Thessalonians 4:3a). Some people are confused about God’s will, its simple (our sanctification). Let’s start with a definition.

Sanctification is the “setting apart” of someone or something. It is a setting apart from one sphere to another. The Bible says don’t be conformed to this world… that’s setting us apart from the world. The verse goes on to say… but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that setting us apart to something (a new and different mind). The term for sanctification was also used in the purchase of land. The land was surveyed, the boundaries are located, the land is now set apart or separated from all other land. In salvation we are set apart from the old Adam to the new Adam (Christ). The Bible says that the whole world lies in the lap of the evil one (Satan). We are taken out of his lap…glad for that! We have a new father, a new eternal destiny, we are now spiritually alive when we were spiritually dead. “For He has delivered us from the kingdom of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.” (Colossians 1:13).

It is essential in regard to sanctification that we

Reamstown

Church of God

Arthur T. Karick, Sr. Pastor 400 Pfautz Hill Rd. P.O. Box 98 Stevens, PA 17578 717-336-2147 www.reamstownchurchofgod.org

Sunday School - 9:00 AM

Sunday Worship - 10:00 AM

Wednesday Connect 4 classes for all ages - 7:00 PM

Pastor Jim Taylor Assoc. Pastor Keith MacDougall

Sunday Worship 10:30 AM & 6:00 PM

Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:00 PM

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Pastor Phil Shober

Sunday Worship 10:30am

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We are justified (declared righteous) (Rom. 3:23­28), we become children of God (1 John 3:1-2), we are baptized or placed into the body of Christ the church (1 Corinthians 12:13), we are forgiven (Ephesians 1:7), we are sealed by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30), we are Indwelt by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:1920), we have an eternal relationship with God (Ephesians 2:13), the power of the sin nature is broken (Romans 6:10­14), we