Acts 20:32

“And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”

But Paul knows the place of safety and security. It is to be found in God Himself, and in the full teaching concerning His grace (compare Acts 20:24), and of how men are saved through that grace (God's Riches At Christ's Expense). ‘The word' is the message preached (compare 1 Corinthians 1:18), but especially as found in the Scriptures and in the Testimony of Jesus, that (then) partly written partly oral tradition of the life and teaching of Jesus.

‘The word of His grace.' That is, the teaching concerning the unmerited love and compassion of God reaching out in Jesus Christ to all who believe as defined in Romans 3:24; Romans 5:15; Romans 5:17; Romans 5:21; Romans 8:28; 2Co 8:9; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:9.

And that teaching concerning salvation by the grace of God is not only the means through God's working of their salvation, but is also the means by which His people might be built up and established and made strong (1 Corinthians 3:10; Ephesians 2:21; Jude 1:20).

‘And to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.' And its final end is so that all His own might receive their inheritance, both now and in the future. This inheritance, which consists of all that God purposes for His people, is for all who are ‘sanctified'. In this case to be sanctified means that Christ has been made their sanctification (1 Corinthians 1:30 compare John 17:19; Hebrews 10:10), that they are sanctified, acceptable to God in holiness, in Him (Acts 27:18; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Romans 15:16), although it will of course result in practical sanctification (2 Timothy 2:21).

To be sanctified means to be set apart as holy, as totally His as available for His use (2 Timothy 2:21). And the moment the newest believer responds to Christ he is in that moment sanctified for ever. He has become one of God's holy people. He is called a ‘saint', a sanctified one (1 Corinthians 1:2), one ‘set apart'. And this because the very holiness of Christ has covered and enveloped him ‘in Christ'. His life is then hid with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). This sanctification is the work of God (Jude 1:1), of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:2) and of the Holy Spirit (Romans 15:16 ' 1 Corinthians 6:11). And all this because of His ‘grace', His unmerited love and favour revealed to us in Christ by the Holy Spirit.

Thus all who are His will receive their inheritance because they are in Him, and are sanctified in Him.

He Stresses That He Has Never Personally Taken Advantage Of Them In Any Way While Ministering To Them (Acts 20:33).