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Our theme this week has been one of the Bible's big words, sanctification.

And sometimes the simplest way of saying things is the best, and we've been reflecting

on this, that at the end of the day, sanctification, being holy, being a saint, is just

a matter of becoming more and more like the Lord Jesus.

And today I want to think about what that might look like.

Here's one way the Apostle Paul comes at this question.

What does it look like to live the life of a saint to become more like Jesus?

Remember the problems he had with the church at Corinth?

One was that some people were emphasizing their spiritual gifts, but doing that in a very

unchrist-like way.

And gifts without real holiness can be very dangerous indeed.

Actually, it's a mystery, isn't it, how this occurs, gifts without grace, but it does.

At one point in his letter to the Corinthians, Paul gives a longish list of spiritual gifts,

and then he says, earnestly desire the higher gifts.

Well, you can imagine some of the Corinthians saying, wow, let's go for

it. We're really into the higher gifts here. Prophecy, speaking in tongues, working miracles. We're all for

the higher gifts in Corinth. But then he lets the Corinthians down with a bump.

He says, and I will show you a still more excellent way.

Higher gifts, but a still more excellent way?

Now here's a quick fire question.

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