1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: I have been meditating on this scripture it may be proper, in order to dwell a moment on it: I. What is meant by our sanctifying the Lord God? It cannot mean to make Him holy, for He is perfectly holy, whatever may be our estimate of Him; and our views of Him evidently can make no change in His character. The meaning therefore must be, that we should regard Him as holy in our estimate of Him, or in the feelings which we have toward Him. This may include the following things: (1) To esteem or regard Him as a Holy Being, (2) to desire that He may be regarded by others as holy, (3) to act toward Him as holy: that is, to obey his laws 4) that we are to speak of Him as holy, in opposition to the language of disrespect and irreverence so common among mankind IMPLICATIONS Such a sanctifying of the Lord in our hearts will save us from fear. We dread danger, we dread sickness, we dread death, we dread the eternal world. We are alarmed when our affairs are tending to bankruptcy; we are alarmed when a friend is sick and ready to die; we are alarmed if our country is invaded by a foe, and the enemy already approaches our dwelling. The sentiment in the passage before us is, that if we sanctify the Lord God with proper affections, we shall be delivered from these alarms, and the mind will be calm
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