Sanctification

doctrine · 21 episodes

237Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 2 11 May 2026 43:25¶ 143 “One is justification by faith. We have the righteousness of Christ and we never come under condemnation, so that we can be God’s friends,…” 43:49¶ 144 “The apostles regularly talk about both of these things. It is not forgiveness apart from service, obedience, and love for God, but neither is…” 42:11¶ 139 “I commend to you Galatians 3, where Paul argues pretty much the same thing, that the blessing of Abraham is justification by faith and…”

223The Upper Room Discourse 18 Aug 2025 3:25¶ 10 “Jesus is telling Peter, “What I am playing out for you here is a dimension of what will be the Christian life of service…” 26:41¶ 90 “Jesus is sanctifying himself, setting himself apart for a mission for those that are there, but also for us so that everything in history…”

153A New Law (Part 2) 16 Jan 2023 21:42¶ 84 “The thing is the special grace does produce character consistent with God’s law eventually, but sanctification is a process. There are Christians – and…” 22:08¶ 85 “Afterwards, if we’re truly believers, we are embarrassed and ashamed. We recognize our guilt and we run to God for forgiveness. We come to…” 22:22¶ 86 “As Christians we’re not claiming we are perfect citizens or perfect neighbors, and yet in general we work at it. We’re supposed to work…”

152A New Law (Part 1) 9 Jan 2023 24:39¶ 99 “Paul is arguing, no, Jesus died for us and that opens up both justification and sanctification, forgiveness of sins and the gift of the…” 31:45¶ 124 “The fear that we’re going to go to hell because the law keeps telling us that that’s what happens to people who break it…” 33:45¶ 129 “People who butt up against the idea of law in the Christian life say, “It’s just going to be so internalized.” It’s still there.…”

151A New Heart 2 Jan 2023 53:15¶ 205 “And this of course is not a bunny trail because anytime you want to talk about sanctification there’s always the possibility of going over…” 53:30¶ 206 “Yes, here are many things where the psalmist does say, “I love thy law out of my heart,” and Paul says much the same…” 54:02¶ 208 “Yes, he sang these things for me and I can sing them in him, and it is becoming true. It will not do to…”

150Doing the Right Thing 26 Dec 2022 37:01¶ 119 “Yes, there is power to deal with any sin, any addiction, to break the bondage of any kind of iniquity, but that doesn’t mean…” 37:27¶ 120 “That’s not to say that Jesus is powerless and that he leaves us to wallow in sin, but sin gets really creative and sneaky.…” 38:07¶ 122 “That used to puzzle me because I thought, “blood of Christ, that’s justification. Why doesn’t that go first?” because he’s not actually talking about…”

93Jephthah 22 Nov 2021 35:04¶ 143 “That reminds me, Greg, of a quote, and I want to say it’s from Sinclair Ferguson, who I absolutely also respect as a biblical…” 42:33¶ 167 “Then on the other side of that and along with that we can then say, “And now how would you like to be more…” 36:29¶ 146 “It’s easy to go through life that way, and one day God will reckon with us with complete accuracy and purity. In the meantime,…”

79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 6:08¶ 18 “The other is “That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the…” 6:22¶ 19 “That’s what Abraham was most concerned with, that blessing, because compared with that, inheriting some real estate really doesn’t amount to a whole lot.…” 8:06¶ 23 “The blessing wasn’t having political power. It wasn’t having mineral resources, oil or gold or any such thing. It wasn’t even peace on earth.…”

72The Just Shall Live By Faith 20 Jun 2021 2:47¶ 11 “We’ll stop there. We’ve talked a great deal about justification by faith, sort of in the abstract – justification of the individual when he…” 5:06¶ 18 “We often think of sanctification as the renewing the Spirit works in us whereby we are more and more conformed to the image of…” 7:21¶ 24 “I don’t know how I got on this tangent, except to say that yes, we continue in the blessing of justification always, and we…”

71What Is Faith? 6 Jun 2021 53:28¶ 196 “Sanctification is monergistic, but it’s the Holy Spirit leading us into things that are going to grow us.” 53:37¶ 197 “Things that he has promised to use. Again Bryan, I really appreciate the word ‘monergistic’ there. For those of you who may not know…” 54:06¶ 199 “And unfortunately there are points where really good, honorable, well-meaning Reformed theologians haven’t been clear about that. You ask them, “Is sanctification God’s work…”

70Science and Wonder 23 May 2021 1:26:27¶ 265 “But more to the point I think – and I was so happy to see both of you go there – is the area…” 1:27:04¶ 267 “In an unfallen world that would all be a joy and a bliss. In a fallen world, not so much. God makes it harder…” 1:27:31¶ 268 “These are things that are eternal. We grow now in a way we can’t grow later, because now we fight against sin. When Jesus…”

61Liberty and Responsibility 28 Feb 2021 31:13¶ 97 “That brings us to the cross. That brings us to the fourth point. Where does freedom come from? Freedom comes from Jesus Christ. If…” 31:50¶ 98 “We’re not perfectionists. We’re not “get the second blessing and you’ll never sin again,” but neither are we Antinomians who say, “Well, your sins…” 32:03¶ 99 “It’s not freedom to tell somebody, “Your sins are forgiven, but this thing that’s been driving you crazy? You’re just going to have that…”

59Happy New Year... Again 14 Feb 2021 31:23¶ 98 “The point of all this is people talk about New Year’s resolutions, and I always hear a little bit more murmuring about Jonathan Edwards’s…” 31:52¶ 99 “It’s not about making ourselves more perfect. God does that. It’s not about winning more favor day-by-day with God, making progress and gaining momentum…”

56The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 2) 24 Jan 2021 33:09¶ 119 “So back to the sacrificial system…the sacrificial ritual, fifth, speaks of sanctification. The sacrificial system existed in terms of the tabernacle and its veil.…” 35:25¶ 124 “But as we come to God by the blood, we ourselves are sanctified. God continues to dwell in our midst and he continues to…” 35:45¶ 125 “The tabernacle with its veils and altars were all splashed or sprinkled with blood. The tabernacle represented God’s presence with his people. To cleanse…”

51Prophecy and the Ten Commandments 20 Dec 2020 47:05¶ 158 “There’s some blessings God does not hand to us right now because we’re not spiritually ready. We have to grow up to the point…” 47:33¶ 160 “Both in the natural sense and in the covenantal sense it is the organic work of the Holy Spirit. The child grows because the…” 46:35¶ 156 “This is an illustration I’ve used in school, and you can tell me what you think. When my girls were really little, I wanted…”

35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1) 30 Aug 2020 28:28¶ 88 “Here we need to look at sanctification I think a little bit differently. We tend to look at sanctification, and rightly so on this…” 39:50¶ 134 “It’s not just justification by faith. It’s also sanctification by faith. It’s the transformation of us and, in transforming us, the transforming of all…” 40:03¶ 135 “So the dominion mandate and cultural mandate are not things aside in one corner somehow separate from the gospel, but that process of working…”

22The Sociology of Dominion 31 May 2020 42:44¶ 164 “In all of this, this religion of covenant faith, the Christian religion is one of growing sanctification, but sanctification comes as we hit hard…” 42:08¶ 162 “We should all be looking. Whether you’re younger like you folk or you’re a little bit older like me, we still look to the…” 42:27¶ 163 “We shouldn’t assume we will always be as immature as we are now. We may never be able to boast great amounts of maturity,…”

20A Bond in Blood 17 May 2020 41:02¶ 154 “We want to encourage people to read the Bible. We want them to pray, probably more than less. But this is something between God…” 46:37¶ 169 “Our growth and sanctification is a wonderful thing. It’s enabled by the Spirit, but I get the feeling that most of us, when we…” 47:19¶ 170 “There’s a reason Paul says that the law brings condemnation, because we cannot measure up to it. The only reason our ship is sailing…”

18Faith, Community, and Justification 3 May 2020 38:53¶ 136 “But the second thing is – and it is the second thing – the promise of the Spirit. God who justifies us freely communicates…” 39:13¶ 137 “We’re united to Jesus, and his death, his burial, and his resurrection, and that new life begins flowing through us and in us and…” 39:40¶ 138 “He’s already befriended us. He gave us his son. Now we get to enjoy that friendship as the Holy Spirit continues to work transformation…”

12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress 22 Mar 2020 33:55¶ 119 “The sanctification of any human soul takes place in the context of a real world, working with real stuff – this history test I…” 34:20¶ 120 “As we come against a problem we confess our sins, we call upon God for grace, he empowers us to get through them and…” 34:53¶ 121 “Just to point out, the Christian walk and sanctification isn’t an Eastern idea where you go to a mountaintop somewhere to get as far…”

9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 43:15¶ 115 “But the point, to nail it down, is this. We’ve seen the cultural mandate or the dominion mandate. We’ve seen what is, and we…” 43:55¶ 116 “The grace comes to us through the Word and sacraments. We know that. We go to church not only to learn about Christ intellectually,…” 44:22¶ 117 “Where do you learn to control your temper? Where do you learn to not respond with the first thing that comes to your mind?…”