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Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Why Your Own Willpower Won’t Result In True Sanctification

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9710 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

You can be disciplined, successful, and still enslaved to sin without true biblical self-control. Scripture reveals why willpower, routines, and external discipline cannot produce real sanctification apart from the Holy Spirit. Discover how Spirit-empowered self-control transforms your fight against sin and fuels lasting spiritual growth.  Transformed Podcast Episode 166 | March 12, 2026 ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0

What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

0:03.8

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

0:07.6

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

0:10.3

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

0:14.5

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

0:19.1

Welcome back to the most amazing thing.

0:21.8

This is sufficient. Today we are talking about.

0:23.6

Self-control.

0:25.1

And now your host, Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling at the Master's University

0:30.0

and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Gray Gifford.

0:34.0

And the reason why is because some of us hear self-control that's like, oh, no, here we go.

0:37.4

Dr. Gifford, you're going to spam us with all these dietary requirements, tell us how we need to wake up early, and blah, blah, blah.

0:45.9

And I do think there can be a place for dieting, and I do think there can be a place for waking up early.

0:52.1

But that is not the conversation in today's episode. The conversation

0:56.8

in today's episode is going to be understanding how the Bible talks about self-control and the way

1:03.2

that it complements your sanctification, but we are going to draw a clear line between self-control

1:10.0

and salvation,

1:11.7

meaning you actually, if you study the scripture, as I hope to show you,

1:16.1

you are unable of denying yourself apart from the work of the Holy Spirit in your life.

1:21.6

So there is no salvation and self-control.

1:25.3

There is no asceticism that leads you to Jesus that doesn't exist.

1:31.0

Rather, what you're going to see is that sanctification and self-control, there is a symbiosis,

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