Welcome to the Feminine Podcast with Nancy Wilson.

Welcome to the Feminine Podcast, Mrs. Nancy Wilson.

About today, I talk a little bit about our sanctification,

which I realize is an enormous topic for theologians to write volumes about,

but I'm just going to address a little sliver of it in a practical way for women.

So, definitions first. Our sanctification is the process by which we are growing more like Christ.

Our justification is a one-time event.

We are put right with God when the death burial and resurrection of Jesus is imputed to us by God's grace, when we're born again.

But our sanctification is ongoing all the way until we get to heaven.

The more we love God and obey His commands, the more we progress in becoming more like Christ.

So, here's the subject then. Why, after years of following Christ, do we stumble and fall?

Shouldn't we be holy by now?

I've been a Christian since 1973, so you would think by now, I would just be way past sin, right?

Well, no, the answer is we're not yet in heaven.

And we are applying our faith to all our circumstances one day at a time.

And circumstances and provocations change every day.

Sometimes we may think we're getting this Christian life down, and then there comes a bump of some kind.

And there is that verse somewhere I didn't look up where it is.

But he who thinks he stands, take heed, lest he fall.

We start thinking that we are, we've got this down and be careful because you might just slip and fall.

But there's no standing still in the Christian life.

If we stop pressing on, we're going to start drifting backwards.

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