When you come to saving faith, acknowledging Jesus as both Lord and Savior,

you are in that moment fully forgiven, fully saved, and fully justified.

But then there's sanctification, and that's a lifelong process of growing in holiness, becoming more like Jesus.

And today on Truth for Life, Alastur Begg helps us understand how sanctification happens as we continue our study in John Chapter 17.

Welcome to the book. John Chapter 17. When we actually come to faith in Jesus Christ, so somebody has shared the gospel with you,

you knew about the Bible, you knew about God, you knew about Jesus, you knew a ton of stuff,

you maybe went to a religious school, but there came a day when suddenly you heard the voice of Jesus say. And you heard his voice, not audibly. But it was as though he might just as well have tapped you on the shoulder. And suddenly all the panorama of religious background that you had enjoyed was crystallized in a moment when

you actually personally responded to Christ. You admitted that you were sinful. You believed

that Jesus died in order to deal with that. And as a result of that, the Holy Spirit came to

endwell you. You were made new. You were made different.

But as soon as you have entered into that new dimension, you quickly realize that you brought

with you your own fallen nature. That part of you that still loves the idea of sin. And as a result of that, there

is immediately set up an internal conflict. The conflict that Paul references in Romans

7, where he says, the good that I want to do I don't end up doing, and the bad that I don't

want to do, I find myself doing it.

Why is this?

Well, it is because of this very thing, that the conflict is between our new nature implanted

in us by the Holy Spirit and our fallen nature that we haven't yet left behind. So I am sinful and I am rebellious, but I am also God's adopted child.

Now, what I want to point out to you is this, the way in which Paul addresses the Corinthians,

if you know anything about the Corinthian Church, to say it was a sort of,

it was a tough spot, let's put it that way. All kinds of shenanigans going on at the

communion services, it was beyond comprehension, really, what was taking place. Now, it is to those

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