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Spiritual Growth-My Job or God's?
by John Ortberg
Text: Philippians 2:12-13
Topic: What is the nature of sanctification
Big idea: Sanctification involves a mysterious partnership with God.
Keywords: Sanctification, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Growth
Introduction:
- Whose job is sanctification and spiritual growth?
Sanctification is a joint project between us and God.
- Illustration: Ortberg likens the cooperative nature of sanctification to the cooperative nature between man and wind in directing a sailboat, as opposed to the man-driven motorboat.
Sanctification is normative, not optional.
- Our spirit is always being transformed, either by God or by the Evil One.
- Scripture states sanctification as being God's will for our lives.
- The gospel necessarily implies a present process of sanctification.
Sanctification is a painstaking process.
- There is no instant gratification in sanctification.
- Forgetting past failures is indispensable to sanctification.
Sanctification is empowered by God, not by man.
Sanctification should be pursued for the sake of others.
- The Pharisees exemplified the narcissism of self-centered sanctification
- Paul defines sanctification within the context of community
- The goal of sanctification is love
- Illustration: Ortberg tells the true story of a man from a troubled past who takes on the lonely, burdensome task of caring for his ailing mother, thereby demonstrating true sanctification is not a measure of external purity, but a measure of applied love.
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