The 8 Steps of Christian Obedience

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 19 June 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Here are eight steps of sanctification that clarify God’s decisive role and our inspired role in bringing holiness to completion.

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0:00.0	All right, Pastor John, you left us hanging last time because there's a debate happening
0:10.7	in the church recently about how much of the Christian life is grace and how much of
0:16.1	it is obedience or how does gospel centeredness and justification work together in the Christian
0:22.8	life?
0:24.7	Oh, how I would love for the lovers of sovereign grace to be a one-mind about how sovereign
0:34.5	grace works in the process of sanctification.
0:38.8	How grace relates to obedience, the process of our attitudes and actions becoming more
0:47.2	holy by the grace of God.
0:49.9	First Peter 115 says, as he who called you is holy, be holy in all your conduct.
1:00.1	So there are controversies out there about the process of sanctification and the role
1:06.9	of obedience and effort in it, the role of grace and Christ's cross and justification
1:13.2	in it.
1:14.5	And I want to try to come at this in a way that maybe could bring these sides together.
1:22.0	All of us want to exalt grace.
1:24.3	Grace is our only hope.
1:26.4	None of us deserves heaven.
1:27.8	We all deserve hell.
1:29.9	Only grace will keep us out of hell.
1:33.2	And that grace flows to us from God through Jesus Christ, only through Jesus Christ who
1:39.8	absorb the curse and the wrath of God and who provided righteousness for us and enabled
1:45.9	us to be forgiven so that God could be 100% for us.
1:50.8	All of us have in mind those glorious truths when we think about grace and we all agree.
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