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And if you'd open up your Bibles
now to Paul's first epistle to the church at Corinth, 1 Corinthians
chapter one. Hear now the inspired word of
the Lord. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through
the will of God, and Sothenes, our brother, to the church of
God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ
Jesus, Call to be saints with all who in every place call on
the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. Grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. To the church of God
which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Jesus Christ,
call to be saints. Many pastors shy away from preaching
through 1 and 2 Corinthians. One of the reasons for that is
those two epistles are probably two of the most convicting and
corrective epistles found in the Bible. Paul did not pull
any punches with the church at Corinth. And in fact, spent quite
a great deal of time correcting them over many different things.
And this epistle does even stand out from Paul's other epistles
because when Paul would write a letter to a church, he would
usually first start off with a very strong presentation of
doctrine, theology, Christology. how we are justified and sanctified
by Christ, who we are in Christ, and how Christ is working in
us and through us. Solid doctrine, doctrine, doctrine. And then Paul would usually follow
up with a transitional verse where he would say, now hey brothers,
hey sisters, now hearing all that we've heard about God and
what he's done for us through his son, Jesus Christ, therefore
now, my brethren, This is how you should then live. And then
he would continue on with application of how we apply all these great
doctrines of God and his Son, Jesus Christ, and how we should
live our lives out in accordance to that. But as we study through
1 Corinthians, it's doctrine correction, doctrine correction,
doctrine correction. He intersperses both the doctrine
and the application and the correction throughout this letter. And again,
why? because the church at Corinth had so much to be corrected of.
As we say today, they had issues. And if you were to see a common
thread throughout all their issues, of all the things going on in
their church and their ministry that needed correcting, the common
thread through all that, the common problem, was their pride. They were impressed who they
were, what they were doing. They were impressed with their
intellect. They were impressed with their lifestyle. They were
impressed even how they worshipped God and how they thought God
should be worshipped. Pride, spiritual pride. And this is why we see the Apostle
Paul reminding this church that they are the church of God, which
is of Corinth, and to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. Hey, people at Corinth, stop
taking so much pride in yourself. Stop thinking this is about who
you are and what you're thinking and what you're doing. No, you're God's church. And
you've been saved and sanctified by Jesus Christ and his work. You are here at Corinth worshiping
and serving God because who God is and what he's done for you
through his son Jesus Christ. It's Jesus Christ who's doing
a work in you. It's Jesus Christ who is sanctifying
you. This isn't you and what you're
doing. This isn't about who you are and what you say, think,
and do. No, you're here at Corinth worshiping God because of who
God is and how he has made his power and presence and glory
known to you in the name of his son, Jesus Christ, and the work
that Jesus Christ is doing in your life by his Holy Spirit,
applying his word to your hearts and lives. So let's get that
straight right here from the get-go, Corinth. Life is not about you, so stop
being so prideful. Remember, you're only here because
of Christ and what Christ has done in your life. How Christ
has called you out from this sinful dying world to worship
and serve God. How Christ has been convicting
and cleansing you of sin so that you will be holy and so that
you will be able to worship and serve God. Because of how Christ
is converting you from this world and its desires and its pleasures
and converting you to Him and to glorify Him and to worship
and serve Him. Again, distinguishing this epistle
from Paul's other epistles. Many of his other letters he
was saying, hey listen everyone, I'm an apostle called out by
Jesus Christ and this is what Christ has done in my life. He's
called me into the ministry, I'm his apostle. This is what
Christ is doing in me and through me. And then he would go on saying,
and so dear saints, Let's get into the theology. Let's get
into the application. And the only reference to the
church's sanctification would be, hey, you're saints. No. Church at Corinth, he's much
more pointed. And he makes it very clear, I
am writing to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, who are called
to be saints. In this epistle, he is emphasizing
the doctrine of sanctification to remind them who they are in
Christ and what work Christ is doing in their lives, because
they needed to be reminded more than the churches at Galatia,
or the churches in Ephesus, or the churches in Colossae or Philippi,
or in Thessalonica. Thessaloniki. My Greek-American brethren, did
I get that right? Thessaloniki, right? Yeah. This church needed reminded that
they were saints, and they were saints because of the work of
Christ in their lives, and not because of who they were. Now is the Orthodox Presbyterian
Church a faithful church, worshiping and serving God? Does this church
need as much correction as the church at Corinth did? Well,
I don't think so. I've always said to guys, you
guys always remind me at the Church of Philadelphia, when
Christ was sending out his epistles to the early first century churches,
and he wrote to the Church of Philadelphia, he said, you guys
are small, but you're faithful. You're not like that church at
Ephesus. You're not like that church at Laodicea. No, you guys
are being faithful. What does he say to them? Remain
faithful. So we all need to be reminded
from God's word. When Christ spoke to those other
churches and sent his letters to those other churches in the
first century, telling them to get their acts straight, at the
end of each of those epistles, he said what? Those of you who
have ears to hear, listen. We all need to still listen,
even to what God is saying to unfaithful churches, and especially
faithful churches, so that they remain faithful. So yes, some
pastors may wanna shy away from teaching through 1 and 2 Corinthians,
but all of God's word is profitable. And all of God's word needs to
be heard. We need to know the whole counsel of God. And we
need to learn from Christians who've gone on before us, from
Christians who are around us today, we need to take to heart
the work of God that he's doing in the lives of others. And we
need to examine how faithful they are being to Christ so that
we will remain faithful to Christ. So that we will always be reminded
that it is Christ who's working in us and through us. When we hear of Christian leaders
falling and falling into sin and disqualifying themselves
from leadership, that should humble all of us. We shouldn't
be quick to condemn. Yes, we have to lovingly correct
those who've fallen, but we should lovingly correct
them out of humility, remembering that it's therefore but the grace
of God go I, and that I need Christ to remain faithful. If
this Christian leader can fall from grace, how much more susceptible
am I to fall from grace? Oh, how I need Christ to be doing
a work in me and through me. Oh, how I need Christ and his
grace and his power at work in my life. I need Christ! Because
I'm no better than any other Christian. And I would argue
and contend I'm probably more prone to fall away from Christ
than anyone sitting here today. I need Christ. I need Christ
to sanctify me. I need Christ to do that work
in me. I need Christ to call me out. I need Christ to convict
me and cleanse me of my sin. I need Christ to convert me from
this world and convert me to him. I need Christ. I better
never take any pride in myself. I better be totally dependent
on Christ and who he is and his sanctifying work and that's why
Paul is emphasizing this so much to the church at Corinth and
he's emphasizing it to us today. Oh that we would take it to heart.
Let's look at these aspects of Christ and his sanctifying work. Let's look at him calling us
out. Let's look at him convicting
us and cleansing us of sin. Let's look at him converting
us from this world. The primary step in sanctification
and at the heart of our sanctification is that God calls us out. He
calls us out from the world. I want you to be separate and
apart from the world. I want you to be holy as I am
holy. And I want you to come out of
the world and worship and serve me so that the world will see
me and see me at work in your lives. God calls himself out
a people to worship him and serve him, to glorify his name amongst
the nations. God foreknew you. He predestined
you. He called you. He justified you
in the Lord Jesus Christ to worship and serve him in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ. You're a called out people set
apart from the rest of the world to worship him and serve him. That's what God did with Israel.
He called out Abraham. He called out Abraham from worshiping
idols. amongst the Babylonians or the
Chaldeans, to come out of there and to leave that life behind
and to follow Him, to go out with Him in the wilderness and
to worship Him. God called Moses out of Egypt
and called them out into the wilderness to worship God. God
called His people out from their worldly environment, their worldly
circumstances, to come out and worship Him and to be a testimony to the other
nations. for people to see the holiness of God and to see the
work of God in their lives. That's all the work of God. That's
all His grace. That's all His goodness, His
love. That's all because of who He is and what He's done, not
because of what we've said or thought or done. It's not how
we run the race. Paul tells us in Romans, it's
not how we run the race that Christ saves us. No, it's all
of His mercy. It's all of His good pleasure and will. He called you out into salvation.
Paul also tells us, hey, if it was up to us, no, we would never
be seeking God. We would never go after God.
There are none who is righteous. There's none who seek him. We're
perfectly happy being cursing, murderous, hateful, spiteful
people, indulging our own selfish wants and desires and destroying
our own lives. We are perfectly happy. No, it
took God to call us out. and call us to him and to the
salvation found in his son Jesus Christ to convict us and cleanse
us of our sin and to convert us from this world. It took God
to call us out. And that's how good he is. That's
how gracious he is. That's how loving he is. You
think there's something in you? You think you're special? God made that very clear to Israel.
Hey, Israel, I called you out not because of who you are. You
aren't the strongest of nations. You're the weakest. In fact,
one of the most powerful reminders that God gave to Israel was through
the prophet Ezekiel. And he said, hey, remember, Israel,
you were taking such pride in all your self-worship and idolatry
and thinking so much of yourselves and going around saying, oh,
we're God's people. He reminded them. He said, this
is who you are, Judah and Israel. You're like two abandoned baby
girls left out in the wilderness, who nobody loved, who was left to die. And that was a very telling metaphor
at that time. See, we're all today as a church,
we're all concerned about abortion and ending the life of a child
in a womb. No, they didn't necessarily have that medical technology
back then. If a baby was born and it wasn't
healthy and didn't appear to have any viability of life, they
just put it out in the wilderness, they exposed it to the elements
to die. That's how they killed their babies back then. And particularly,
if you were a female baby. Because women were second class
citizens. Women were there at the will of men and to serve
men. Women were men's property. They were there just to bear
children for the men and take care of the men. So there was really no use for
you. If you were an unhealthy baby and you were a girl, hey,
no questions there. You're being left out to the
wilderness to die. You're of no use to us. That was the pagan
thinking of the day. And that's what God is using
to teach Israel and say, this is who you were. There's no value
in you. You were hated and scorned by
your parents, by this world. But I loved you. And I called you out. And I made
you viable. and I strengthened you and enabled
you to worship me and serve me. I gave you life. Otherwise, you'd be dead. So
Israel, don't get all prideful and arrogant here. You only live, breathe, and exist
because I so loved you, I so called you out, and I called
you out to have life and to worship me and to serve me. and to no
life in me. So when we consider God calling
us out to worship him and serve him, there should be not one
iota of pride in us in any way, shape, or form. It is all of
God's grace, all of God's goodness, and all for God's glory. And it's Christ. It's Christ who convicts us and
cleanses us of sin. That's his work. Again, there
are none who are righteous. There are none who seek him. He called us to his salvation.
By his Holy Spirit applying his word to our lives, he showed
us how sinful we are. He showed us how self-deceived
we are. He showed us how self-destructive
we are. He showed us how we were so dead
in our sin and we had no life in us. and he showed us his love, his
forgiveness, his saving power. He convicted us of our sins and
cleanses us of our sin. There was no greater act of wickedness,
no greater act of evil, no greater act of hatred than when the people of Jerusalem
put the Lord Jesus Christ on a cross. cried out crucify and blasphemed him, telling him
to come off that cross. Oh Jesus if you're really God
why don't you come off the cross and save yourself? They let him die on that cross. They wrongly convicted him of they wrongly crucified him, all
out of their hatred for God and his son Jesus Christ. There's
been no other greater act of atrocity or abomination or wickedness
than what the people of Jerusalem did to the Lord Jesus Christ. But when they heard the gospel, when the Holy Spirit so empowered
Peter, and empowered Peter to cry out, hey, people of Jerusalem,
look what you did. You hated God. You hated his
son, Jesus Christ. You crucified him. The one who
came into this world to love you and forgive you and to give
you salvation and strength, you hated him and you murdered him. And by the grace of God, and
by the power of the Holy Spirit applying the Word of God to those
people in Jerusalem, by the Lord Jesus Christ convicting them
and cleansing them of their sins, they repented! And they said,
God, what do we have to do? Peter, what do we have to do? They knew the shame of their
sin, their wicked horrible sin to kill Christ. And Christ convicted
them of their sins, and cleansed them of their sins, and called
them to repentance, and they cried out in repentance, what
must we do? And Peter said, call upon the
name of Jesus. Repent. Again, that's the work
of God. That's the work of Christ, to
convict you and cleanse you of sin. And thank God he does that. Okay, there should be no pride.
There should be no pride. No, look at me. Look at me. My
stink doesn't stink. Oh, thank God I'm not like that
tax collector. Thank God I'm not a racist. Thank
God I don't abort my children. Thank God I'm not sexually immoral.
Thank God I'm fully confident that I'm a man and I like girls.
Thank God I'm not like those other people. There's no room for pride. There's
no room for saying, I'm proud of the fact that I'm not as proud
as they are. There's no room for that. You're a sinner who hated God
and hated his son, Jesus Christ. If you were in Jerusalem at that
day, you would have been yelling out, crucify him, crucify him,
just like everybody else. The reason why Christ went to
that cross and stayed on that cross is because of all the sins
you've committed in your life and because of all the sins you're
probably gonna commit going forward. You put him on that cross. But the only reason you're ashamed
of that, the only reason why you hate that about yourself
is because Christ so convicted you of your sin and Christ is
so cleansing you of your sin. That's his work. So don't take
any pride in your personal holiness, in your personal righteousness. Yesterday, the Lord God convicted
me and cleansed me of my relationship with my wife. We're trying to
counsel and minister to this young woman. We're going back
and forth saying, what's the best approach here? She started
to tell me her idea and I stopped her. Wait a minute, no, that's
not gonna work. And she said, well, if you would let me finish. Every wife here is smiling, saying,
yeah, you should've been listening, Dave, if you only would listen. And I said, oh, please forgive
me. I actually realized, it was one of those moments where it's
like when you see the car keys in the ignition and you're locking
the door and it's too late to do anything. The same thing,
when I was saying that to Jill, oh, wait a minute, listen, that's
not gonna work. As the words are coming out of my mouth, I'm
saying, this is something incredibly stupid to say. But that's the
Holy Spirit applying God's word to my life and convicting me
and cleansing me of sin, because I'm disobeying God. I'm not loving
my wife the way I should love my wife. I'm supposed to submit
to her out of fear of God. I'm supposed to love her as Christ
so loves the church. God has given her to me to be
my helpmate, and here I'm rejecting her help. That's all wicked sin,
people. That's all hating God. That's
all hating his commandments. God has commanded me to be a
loving husband. God has commanded me to show
Jesus Christ to my wife. God has commanded me to love
her as Christ so loved the church. I didn't do any of those things.
But he convicted me and cleansed me of my sin, brought me to repentance,
where I had to cry out and say, God, please forgive me. Jesus,
please forgive me. Please forgive me for blaspheming
your name. And I eventually got around to ask Jill to forgive
me too. But this is it. This is our sanctification. This
is the work Christ is doing in us to convict us and cleanse
us of sin and to bring us to repentance. That's his work. And thank God he does that because
if he doesn't, I just keep going on and being a terrible husband
to Jill and a terrible minister to you. It's the sanctifying work of
Christ, and thank God for that. And no, there's no pride in me
and my righteousness. And that Christ, in his grace
and his mercy and his love, and in his sanctifying work in our
lives, there is Christ converting us from this world and the desires
of this world. So on one of your brothers this
morning, we were just saying, isn't it amazing how God changes the
desires of our heart? Isn't it amazing how God changes
our wills around to be conformed to his will? And how he does
that through our day-to-day experiences, how his Holy Spirit applies his
word to our life situations, and we see, yeah, this isn't
good, I need to turn away from it. This is what the father did with
the prodigal son. Oh, you think you know better
than me? You want to live life on your own? See how that works
out for you. He lived life. He pursued after
the things of this world and ended up in a pigsty. And he realized it's better to
be a slave in his father's house and where he was at that moment.
He had a real hatred for his worldly pursuits and realized
it was his father who loved him. And in repentance, went back
to his father and asked his father to forgive him and said, Dad,
I'm just coming back. Please, just make me a slave.
I'll feed your pigs. I'll clean your toilets. I'm
your slave. I don't deserve any better, but
I just know it's better for me to be here than to be back in
the world I was in. And that's God's. That's Christ's
sanctifying work in your life. He's converting you and turning
you away from this world. He's having you see this world
has nothing to offer in of itself. That eternal life is to know
God and to know his son, Jesus Christ, and to know their work
in your life, knowing their love in your life. Oh yeah, the world may gratify,
but it never, never, never satisfies. It only shows you how dead you
are inside. how you destroy your life by
your own self-deceived pursuits, thinking you can make yourself
happy, exercising your own will over the will of God, thinking
you know better than God what's best for your life. Oh yeah, I know God's where it
tells me to worship him and worship him alone. But I also need money
in the bank. And it's that money that pays
my mortgage. It's that money that pays my
taxes. It's that money that gives me that car, that house. It's
that money that does this and does that for me. Oh yeah, God,
I know what you say. I know you're in heaven. You're
a lot more powerful than me. But God, I know better than you. I know what I really need and
I know what I have to do for myself better than you do. You don't understand how the
world works, God. I do. So I'm gonna do what I
wanna do in this world. And I'm gonna be who I'm gonna
be in this world. And again, God in his grace and
his mercy and his love, he says, yeah, see how that works out
for you. And he puts you in a pigsty. Again, he convicts you and cleanses
you of your insolence, of your idolatry. and points out that
life is only found in Him and how He works and leads in your
life and how He blesses in your life. Eternal life is to know
God and His Son, Jesus Christ. And how are we to respond to
all this? When we consider that Christ is sanctifying us by convicting
us of sin, by converting us from this world, That out of his love,
he's calling us out of this world. How are we to respond to that? There's only one way. There's only one way to respond
to God and what he's doing in our lives. And that's to be totally humble. Totally humble. Totally humble. Totally, totally, totally humble,
humble, humble before God. To know that He is God and you're
not. To know that you are totally
dependent on His work and His will in your life, not your work
and your will. You have to be totally humble
before God. humble in your attitude, and
humble in your ability. You need to recognize you're
a terrible, wretched sinner. You need to believe the truth
that if it was up to you, no, I would not see God in any way,
shape, or form. The only reason why I can worship
and serve God is because God called me out. Because God is
convicting me and cleansing me of sin. Because God is converting
me. If it was left up to me, I'd
be divorced and paying alimony to jail. If it was up to me,
I'd be either doing 25 to life in jail right now, or I'd be
dead. Because I'm a terrible, wretched sinner, who in and of
myself hates God, hates His word. That's how evil I am. We always want to think that
evil is something malevolent and monstrous. Oh, only Adolf
Hitler and Joseph Stalin, those are evil guys. I have nothing on Dave Korsen. Because I've hated God as much
as they did. I've rejected God and his word as much as they
did. I've hated and wanted to kill people as much as they did.
Again, Paul makes that very clear. There are none who are righteous.
There's nothing but cursing and hatred on your tongue. There's
nothing but a swiftness and a desire to go out and kill people. The
only reason why none of us, or not all of us, are polysexual
serial killers is only because God is restraining the evil in
this world. See, it's not a question that
God is allowing evil. Don't say that in front of me.
You want to see me lose my temper? Don't come up to me and say,
why does God allow evil? No. God is restraining the evil
in this world. And he's restraining the evil
in this world so that he may save some of us. He may sanctify
some of us. I have to admit that about myself.
I have to be totally humble. The attitude of my heart is to
hate God. And it's only because he loved
me that I have life. I have to acknowledge that. Yes,
I have to hate myself. I have to be self-loathing. I
have to hate my sin. I have to hate the fact that
I'm a sinner. No, we live in a world today
where, oh no, love yourself, forgive yourself. I'm here to
tell you, you can't love yourself, you can't forgive yourself until
you first hate yourself and realize it's only God who loves you.
And it's only when you know the love of God that you can love
yourself. And it's only when you know the
love of God that you can forgive yourself. It's only when you
know and understand who God is and all that he's done for you
through his son, Jesus Christ, that you can love yourself. And
until you've done honestly and humbly and looked at yourself
and hated yourself and fully appreciated who God is and all
that he's done for you through your son, Jesus Christ, you will
never love or forgive yourself. Because you're always going to
be reminded, I'm a terrible, wretched sinner, and I've destroyed
my life. You need to have an attitude
of total humility before God, and that you need God to love
you. And you have to be humble in
your ability. You have to know. You are not
capable to pay for your sins. Now I commend you, hey, I gotta
stop doing that, I gotta stop doing, I'm gonna try doing that.
Well, I'm glad you know that, that's a good point. I'm glad
if you're recognizing, hey, this is bad when I do this, it's bad
when I lie, cheat, and steal, so I'm gonna stop lying, cheating,
and stealing. I know it's not worth getting mad and angry at
people, I just gotta move on. I'm glad if you're recognizing
your bad behavior, but don't think for a moment that you can
modify your bad behavior on yourself or that you can ever make up
for it. See people, once you sin, you
sin. Once you destroy your life, you
destroyed your life. Once Adam and Eve rebelled against
God, they brought death upon themselves, and they brought
death on the entire human race. They were totally incapable of
saving themselves. They needed God to stop them. They needed God to intervene
in their lives. They needed the love and work
of God in their lives. You can't pay for your sin. because
you can't pay for your life. Once you're dead, you're dead.
Once you're broke, you're broke. You don't have the means to save
yourself. This is why people go to hell for all eternity.
It's not God being really mean to them. Oh, I hate you guys
so much, I'm sending you to hell forever. No, the reason why you're
in hell forever is because that's who you are. You can never pay back for your
sin. So you're always under God's eternal condemnation. You've
destroyed your life. You can't do anything now with
your life to pay for your sin. You're already dead in your sin.
You've already destroyed your life. And anything you say, think,
or do beyond that is meaningless, in of yourself. You're totally
incapable of paying for your sin. But again, That's why Christ
came into this world. Because what you couldn't do,
he did. He perfectly obeyed the law for
you. He perfectly loved the Lord God
with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength. He perfectly loved
and forgave humanity. He perfectly knew the will of
God and carried out the will of God. He did that in your place. And so that he could then satisfy
the law for you and pay for your sin and endure all of God's wrath
for your sin. As being the living God. He was
able to pay for your sin on that cross and enduring that wrath
of God to satisfy it and to pay the debt, a debt you could never
pay. You gotta be humble about that. Sometimes you have to declare
bankruptcy and ask someone to pay your bills. That's what we
have to do before God. God, I'm totally spiritually
bankrupt. I can never pay this debt. Will your son Jesus please
pay that for me? Because I can't do it. I can't
get out of this hole. I have to declare total bankruptcy. Like we go to a court and say
the court to put off our creditors. We're asking Christ to put off
God's wrath, because he satisfied the debt. Now stop and think about that.
If you don't have the capacity or the ability to pay for your
sin, how much more so don't you have the ability to overcome
your sin? Like I said, we may have good
intentions, We may even have a desire and a will to stop sinning. But don't we fall right back
into it in our own strength? This has been one of the problems
of modern day evangelical preaching. Yeah, we've been real good about
telling people, hey, Jesus saved you from the penalty of sin,
but we haven't done as good a job of teaching people it's Jesus
who saves you from the power of sin in your life, and you're
not able to overcome sin in your own power. You need Christ. There's been way too much moralism
preached from our pulpits, and not enough of the gospel. Oh, Christians, stop doing this.
Oh, world, stop doing this. Don't be having abortions. Don't
be a racist. Don't be sexually immoral. Stop
doing those things. What are you thinking? What are
you doing? Stop doing, just stop it. You can't stop it without Christ.
You need Christ to overcome the sin in your life. You need Christ not only to save
you from the penalty of sin, you need Christ to save you from
the power of sin. You need to cry out to him in
repentance, in humility. Jesus, I'm totally helpless here.
I keep snapping at my wife, Jill. I keep flipping the bird of people
who cut me off on the LIE. I get bitter and angry and frustrated
when things don't go my way because things should go my way. God,
that's who I am. And even though I know you're
God, and even though I know you saved me through your Son, Jesus
Christ, God, those feelings are just there. And life happens,
and I go along with life rather than turning to you. Lord Jesus,
I need you to give me the power to overcome sin in my life. I need you to save me, to continue
to save me. That's what Peter and Paul were
talking about when they said, work out your salvation by the
power of Christ. You need the power of Christ
to give you the power over sin. Christ is continuing to save
you. Your salvation didn't end at the cross. Your salvation
was only beginning. Christ is now saving you from
that power and sin by convicting you and cleansing you of sin,
by converting you from the things of this world. But you need to
be totally humble before him and acknowledge that and say,
I can't do it on my own. I couldn't fix a leaky sink in
my bathroom this past week, I had to call a repairman. I had to be humble. I had to
put my manhood and my pride aside and say, I can't fix this sink.
Well, if you're a real man, you would be able to. I mean, that's
our attitude. No, I had to be totally humble,
say, no, I'm a complete idiot who's gonna flood the house.
Bring in someone who knows what they're doing. In all honesty,
that's how we have to be about our sin. We're totally incompetent
to overcome sin. We need Christ to give us the
power and the ability to overcome sin. We need to be humble in
our attitude, in our ability, our incapacity to not be able
to pay for our sin or overcome our sin. We need Christ. And Christ is doing that ongoing
work in our lives. And this is why we pray, God,
bring that good work to a conclusion. Make me like your son, Jesus.
Give me that victory over sin. Give me that victory over myself.
Give me a love for you so I can truly love others. And yes, even truly love myself
so I can live out of your mercy. Do we understand the significance
of sanctification, that it's just as? if not more so, an important
doctrine than justification. Because the reason why God justified
you in Christ, by Christ obeying the law for you, and Christ satisfying
the law for you, being made just by him and by his atoning work,
is so that you could be called out, so that you could be convicted
and cleansed of sin, so that you could be converted from this
world, so that you could come out of this world and worship
God and know God forever and become more and more like His
Son, Jesus Christ, every day. The reason why you were justified
was so that you could be sanctified. That's why Paul says this to
the church at Corinth, to the church which is at Corinth, to
those who are sanctified in Jesus Christ. Know who you are in Christ. Know the work that Christ is
doing in you and through you to glorify his name and worship
him and worship him alone. Repent of your sin and ask him
to save you from the power and penalty of sin and to make you
holy as he is holy, to sanctify you. This is too important a doctrine
to neglect and to ignore in our pulpits. This is what the Christian faith
is about. Because at the heart of our sin is our pride, our
arrogance, us making ourselves God and living for ourselves
rather than living for Him. And that's what separated us
from God. That's what brought us under condemnation. That's
what destroyed our lives. the only hope for our lives is
for Christ to justify us and sanctify us and to restore us
back to God and to the life he wants us to have in his Son Jesus
Christ with him working in us and through us to glorify his
name. Understand your sanctification and understand it that you need
it. to live your life, because you can only live your life in
Christ and the work that he's doing in you and through you. Amen? Amen, let's pray.
The Significance Of Being Sanctified
Series Guest Speakers
| Sermon ID | 112424214559103 |
| Duration | 46:05 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 |
| Language | English |
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