20. The blood of Jesus Christ is our sanctification as of the eternal covenant. As, it is written, " Wherefore Jesus also, that he might, sanctify the people with his own blood" (Heb. 13:12),.... the blood of the everlasting covenant.,, I shall not say much about sanctification now, save that it does not mean exactly the same thing as purification. This is plain, because first, Christ said, " I sanctify myself " (John 17; 19), He could NOT have said, " I purify myself," for He was always pure, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners; in whom Satan had nothing. And secondly, in 1 Cor. 1:30, Christ is said to be our sanctification; but we are told we are to purify ourselves. (.1 John 3:3.) To sanctify means to set apart to God. In John 17:19, Jesus meant, " I set, myself apart as a victim." God sanctified or set apart the Nazarite, as Samson, and was his sanctification; so that when Samson did not keep himself pure he came into judgment. Every Christian is spiritually a Nazarite, and Christ is his sanctification; if the Christian, therefore does not purify himself, he is judged of the Lord that he be not condemned with the world.