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The church at Corinth was all messed up, both theologically and morally. They were proud and fractious; they tolerated gross immorality, sued each other in court, flaunted their freedom in Christ, abused the observance of the Lord\u2019s Supper, misunderstood the purpose of spiritual gifts, and were confused about the future resurrection of believers. Yet when writing to them, Paul addressed them as \u201csaints\u201d (2\u00a0Corinthians 1:1) or as those \u201ccalled to be saints\u201d (1\u00a0Corinthians 1:2).
\nThe popular meaning of words often changes over time, based on their common usage. So today we wouldn\u2019t think of those messed-up Corinthians as saints.<\/strong> We might call them worldly, carnal, or immature, but certainly not saints. In the Roman Catholic tradition, sainthood is conferred posthumously on Christians of exceptionally outstanding character and achievement. I write these words a few months after the death of the greatly admired Pope John Paul\u00a0II, and already there is a widespread popular sentiment to canonize him as a saint.
\nApparently, over the course of church history, most of the original apostles, including Paul, came to be called saints. My grandfather was a member of St.\u00a0Paul\u2019s Methodist Church. In our city we have St.\u00a0John\u2019s Baptist Church. A Presbyterian friend of mine pastors St.\u00a0Andrew\u2019s Chapel. I have preached in St.\u00a0Thomas\u2019s Anglican Church. Even Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace Judas, gets into the act with St.\u00a0Matthias\u2019s Church in Sydney, Australia. And, of course, standing above them all in eminence is St.\u00a0Peter\u2019s Basilica in the Vatican.
\nToday, outside the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions, the word saint is seldom used. But when it is, it is most often used to describe a person (usually elderly) of unusually godly character. Someone might say, \u201cIf there ever was a saint, it is my grandmother.\u201d Upon hearing such a statement, we immediately picture a kind, gracious woman who regularly reads her Bible and prays and who is known for her good deeds toward others.
\nHow then could the apostle Paul address the messed-up believers at Corinth as saints?<\/strong> In fact, this form of address seems to be a favorite of Paul\u2019s. He uses it in several of his letters and frequently refers to believers as saints (see, for example, Romans 1:7; 16:15; 1\u00a0Corinthians 1:2; 2\u00a0Corinthians 1:1; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; 4:21-22; and Colossians 1:2). How could Paul refer to ordinary believers, even the problem-plagued ones at Corinth, as saints?
\nThe answer lies in the meaning of the word as it is used in the Bible. The Greek word for saint is hagios, and it refers not to one\u2019s character but to a state of being. Its literal meaning is \u201cone who is separated unto God.\u201d In this sense, every believer\u2014even the most ordinary and the most immature\u2014is a saint. The actual wording of Paul\u2019s address in 1\u00a0Corinthians is to \u201cthose sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints\u201d (1:2). Here again, we may be surprised with Paul\u2019s use of the word sanctified, a word we usually associate with holy living. But the words sanctified and saint both come from the same Greek word family. A saint is simply someone who is sanctified. Although it sounds awkward in English, we could literally rewrite Paul\u2019s words as \u201cto those separated in Christ Jesus, called to be separated ones.\u201d<\/strong>
\nSeparated for what? A better question is, Separated for whom? And the answer is, \u201cfor God.\u201d Every true believer has been separated or set apart by God for God. Paul, in one place, described our Lord Jesus Christ as the One who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works (see Titus 2:14). And in 1\u00a0Corinthians 6:19-20, Paul says to us, \u201cYou are not your own, for you were bought with a price.\u201d Together, these two passages help us understand the biblical meaning of saint. It is someone whom Christ bought with His own blood on the cross and has separated unto Himself to be His own possession.
\nWhat does it mean to be separated, or set apart?<\/strong> A good analogy is to be found at the U.S. Air Force Academy near our home. Entering first-year cadets are treated vastly different from the way freshman entering public or private universities are treated. From the time they get off the bus at the Academy grounds and throughout their first year, they are subjected to extremely rigorous discipline designed to transform them from easygoing American teenagers into well-disciplined cadets preparing to become military officers. Although this discipline is progressively relaxed as the cadets pass through their four years, it is never completely removed. Even as seniors, they are still subjected to demanding academic and behavioral requirements.
\nWhy is there this difference between the Academy and a typical university? These young men and women have been in a real sense \u201cset apart\u201d by the U.S. government to become Air Force officers. It costs our government over $300,000 to educate and train each cadet over a four-year period. So the Academy doesn\u2019t exist to prepare young people to be schoolteachers or Wall Street bankers. It exists for one purpose: to prepare officers for the U.S. Air Force. And the cadets are \u201cset apart\u201d for that purpose.
\nIn a way similar to a young person entering the Air Force Academy, every new believer has been set apart by God, separated unto God to be transformed into the likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ. In this sense, every believer is a saint\u2014a person separated from his old sinful way of life and set apart by God to increasingly glorify God as his life is transformed.
\nIn the biblical sense of the term, sainthood is not a status of achievement and character but a state of being\u2014an entirely new condition of life brought about by the Spirit of God. Paul describes it as \u201c[turning] from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God\u201d (Acts 26:18) and again as having been \u201cdelivered .\u00a0.\u00a0. from the domain of darkness and transferred .\u00a0.\u00a0. to the kingdom of His beloved Son\u201d (Colossians 1:13).
\nWe don\u2019t become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2\u00a0Corinthians 5:17). This change of state is described prophetically in Ezekiel 36:26: \u201cI will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone [a dead, unresponsive heart] from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh [a living, responsive heart].\u201d
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\nIt would be nice if we could end the story here, because the last two paragraphs might suggest a saint is someone who no longer sins. Alas, we all know that is not true. Rather, if we are honest with ourselves, we know that nearly every waking hour, we sin in thought, word, or deed. Even our best deeds are stained with impure (mixed) motives and imperfect performance. And who of us can ever begin to say, \u201cI have loved my neighbor as myself\u201d? And of course, the messed-up Corinthian church stands as Exhibit A that we saints can be quite sinful in our attitudes and actions.
\nWhy is this true? Why is there a disconnect between what God has seemingly promised and what we experience in our daily lives?<\/strong> The answer is found in such Scriptures as Galatians 5:17, which says, \u201cThe desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.\u201d
\nThe guerrilla warfare between the flesh and the Spirit described in Galatians 5:17 is fought daily in the heart of every Christian. That is why, for instance, Peter urges us \u201cto abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul\u201d (1 Peter 2:11). So although 2\u00a0Corinthians 5:17 and Ezekiel 36:26 speak of a decisive change that always occurs in the heart of every new believer, the outworking of that change is not instantaneous and absolute. Instead it is progressive over time and never complete in this life. However, the awareness of this internal struggle with sin should never be used as an excuse for sinful behavior. Rather, we should always keep in mind that we are saints called to live a life that is set apart for God.<\/strong>
\nSo Paul begins his first letter to the Corinthian church by addressing them as \u201cthose sanctified [set apart by God] in Christ Jesus, called to be saints [set-apart ones].\u201d Then he spends the remainder of his letter vigorously exhorting them to act like saints. In one sense, Paul\u2019s letter could be summarized in this statement: \u201cYou are saints. Now act like saints!\u201d Sometimes that idea is expressed more succinctly as, \u201cBe what you are.\u201d That is, be in your behavior what you are in your state of being. So although the word saint basically describes our new state of being as people separated unto God, it carries with it the idea of responsibility to live as saints in our daily lives.
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\nWhen I was serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy some fifty years ago, there was an expression: \u201cconduct unbecoming an officer.\u201d That expression covered anything from minor offenses resulting in a reprimand to major ones requiring a court martial. But the expression was more than a description of aberrant behavior; it was a statement that the conduct was inconsistent with that expected of a military officer. The officer so described had failed to live up to his responsibility to act as an officer should act.
\nPerhaps we might do well to adopt a similar expression for believers: \u201cconduct unbecoming a saint.\u201d Such an expression would pull us up short, wouldn\u2019t it? When we gossip or become impatient or get angry, we could remind ourselves that our conduct is unbecoming a saint. We are, in principle, if not in degree, acting like the Corinthians. We are living inconsistently with our calling.
\nThe Bible has a word for conduct unbecoming a saint. It is sin. And just as \u201cconduct unbecoming an officer\u201d covers a wide range of misconduct, so the word sin covers a wide range of misbehavior. It covers everything from gossip to adultery, from impatience to murder. Obviously, there are degrees of seriousness of sin. But in the final analysis, sin is sin. It is conduct unbecoming a saint.<\/strong>
\nOne of our problems, however, is that we neither think of ourselves as saints\u2014with our new state\u2019s concurrent responsibility to live as saints\u2014nor do we think of such actions as our gossip and impatience as sin. Sin is what people outside our Christian communities do. We can readily identify sin in the immoral or unethical conduct of people in society at large. But we often fail to see it in what I call the \u201cacceptable sins of the saints.\u201d In effect, we, like society at large, live in denial of our sin. So now let\u2019s move on to talk about sin and our frequent denial of it in our lives.<\/p>\n
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