Sanctification Sermon Prep

I have always tended to "protect" my sermon prep from other people's view...didn't want anyone to see anything but the finished product.

This is an experiment in moving the total opposite direction. Hardly anyone reads this blog anyway, but maybe some day it could develop that sermon preparation becomes a community effort, as we all seek to hear God together.

Or maybe it's just late, and I'm not thinking clearly. Anyway, here goes.

I've been looking at several passages about sanctification, but I have yet to check into the original language behind them...

1 Kings 9:7 I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. [sanctify=consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate]

2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicle among all the peoples. [sanctify=consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate]

Eze 37:28 When My sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel." [sanctify=consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate]

Joel 2:16 Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his bedroom, and the bride her honeymoon chamber. [sanctify=consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate]

All four of these OT passages use the same Hebrew word for sanctify, a word which is also translated (in King James) hallow, dedicate, holy, prepare, consecrate, appointed, bid, and purified, for over 170 uses in the OT.

Let's look at the NT...I expect a similar pattern.

Matthew 23:17 Blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold? [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Matthew 23:19 Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? [sanctify=most holy thing, a saint]

John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

John 17:19 I sanctify Myself for them, so they also may be sanctified by the truth. [sanctify(both times)=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Acts 20:32 "And now, I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified. [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]

Acts 26:18 to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.' [sanctify=to render or acknowledge, or to be venerable or hallow, to separate from profane things and dedicate to God, to purify~~from most holy thing, a saint]