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Striving for Holiness | Francis Chan

Crazy Love Podcast

Crazy Love Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Francis Chan invites us to linger at the foot of the cross and fix our eyes on Jesus. Drawing from the story of Gethsemane and 2 Peter 1, Francis reminds us that we’ve been given “everything we need for life and godliness,” called to become partakers of the divine nature, and urged to “make every effort” toward virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love. He calls us to worship without distraction, to pursue holiness with grit, and to live for what is unseen and eternal (2 Corinthians 4). Scripture references: Matthew 26:36–46; Isaiah 53:10; 2 Peter 1:1–9; Ezekiel 36–37; 2 Corinthians 4:17–18. This message was originally delivered at the Passion Conference (2014).

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. Do you believe that you have divine power to put sin to death in your life?

0:13.0

Today, Francis Unpacked 2 Peter Chapter 1, where it says that we've been given all things that pertain to life and godliness.

0:21.6

He challenges us to not have a passive attitude towards our sanctification,

0:26.6

but rather make every effort to lay hold of that power in faith.

0:34.6

You guys can have a seat. I don't know about you, but last night I went to bed just

0:41.0

thanking God for the cross. Like I just laid in bed. Last thing I did was I just, after

0:46.6

Louis talk, I just kept thinking about the cross and enjoying the cross and thanking God

0:53.2

over and over.

0:59.0

This is not what I do every night, I'm sad to say, but last night that's what I did.

1:01.7

I went to bed, praising God for the cross.

1:06.7

When I woke up, the first thing on my mind was, God, thank you for the cross.

1:16.6

I want this to be every night and every day, but it isn't. But I thank God for the message that was spoken last night, because it got me thinking that way. And I thought, gosh, what an amazing message because that's what a sermon should do, is not

1:22.6

get you thinking about Louis or the speaker or anyone else.

1:25.6

It gets you praising Jesus. And I go, wow,

1:29.0

that was amazing. That's all I thought about last night. That's all I thought about this morning

1:33.4

was going, God, you're so amazing. How did you do that? How could you love us that much? And I just,

1:41.7

I even ask God, God, help me to thank you deeply, because I don't want to casually

1:47.1

say thank you for what you did for me.

1:50.1

You know, like, Louis was talking about how John the Baptist, you know, his whole point of his

1:54.6

existence was, look, behold, there he is, there he is, there's the Lamb of God.

2:00.3

Look, I just brought you to him. Now I'm dropping you off. Go.

2:03.6

And you read later in chapter 3, some people are saying to John the Baptist, they go, hey, some of your followers, they're leaving you and they're going to Jesus.

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