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Sanctification · First15 Devotional

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we have learned this week, our God is fully trustworthy.
• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Placing our trust in His hands is the wisest thing we could ever do.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we finish up our week on trust today, we'll explore how trust plays a role in our sanctification and maturing as believers.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we commit to walk with and trust the Lord, may He bring forth a harvest of righteousness in our lives.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the first 15 podcast.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Scripture for today comes from Psalm 37, verses 5 and 6.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He will act.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the new day.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: sanctification and holiness are words that used to strike terror in my heart.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: As a believer, I've always tried to pursue holiness and I always seem to fail.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like no matter what I do, I can't escape sin and can't get past my own brokenness and mess.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even in seasons where I am experiencing freedom from some sins, there always seems to be something else I need to fix or get better at.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I was on this endless tightrope of spiritual development that I kept falling off of and of which I couldn't seem to find the end.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: While God's heart is most definitely for our sanctification and holiness, his perspective is far different than what I just described.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, God knows that sanctification doesn't come about through our efforts.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't in no way sanctify myself because in and of myself I have no holiness.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: The truth God has for us today is simply this, sanctification comes about by true relationship with our Heavenly Father alone.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: holiness is the direct result of openly and continually encountering the nature of a perfect loving and available God.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: If we are going to experience the fruit of righteousness, we must learn to trust God in His plan for our sanctification.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: We must learn to trust that in countering Him, we will experience freedom from our sin and healing for the wounds that drive us to the things of the world.
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 37 verses 5 and 6 says, commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He will act.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the new day.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: When we trust God, to bring about our righteousness, by simply committing our way to Him and trusting in Him, we engage in a process of sanctification founded on encounters with His loving grace.
• 4:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: S sanctification is not meant to be this heavy process of turmoil and striving that we so often experience.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: While it may be difficult, it is designed to be filled with the continually forgiving and loving heart of our good Father.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is designed to be based on experiencing Jesus that we might become more like Him.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Spend time today seeking the heart of your Heavenly Father in guided prayer.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ask him to reveal his heart for your righteousness.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ask him to guide you into a process of sanctification marked by his grace, love, and nearness.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stop seeing the process of sanctification as a never-ending timeline.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And instead, center it wholly around relationship with your heavenly Father.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: May you experience righteousness and holiness today, as you encounter the perfect nature of Jesus.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: May your day be marked by peace, as you commit your spiritual development to the hands of the Potter.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And may you be transformed into the image of Jesus as you engage in the process of sanctification, based on a relationship with a good, near God.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: as we begin, meditate on the process of sanctification, allow God's heart as described in Scripture, to stir up your desire to engage in relationship-based sanctification.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians 5, 17 says, therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: The old has passed away, behold, the new has come.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: and next.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: In what ways have you been striving for your own righteousness and holiness, rather than receiving it from God?
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: In what ways have you been looking at sanctification as a timeline or tightrope, rather than as a relationship with a good God?
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 221 says, I do not nullify the grace of God.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: For if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: in last, take time to encounter the holiness of your loving father.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Open your heart and receive His presence, and in His presence commit to him the process of your sanctification.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Allow peace and rest to fill your heart as the burden of striving for sanctification falls off in light of God's glorious grace.
• 9:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that second Peter 1 verses 2 through 4 will fill you with the courage to have grace and rest in the process of sanctification.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: May your life be marked by God's forgiveness and grace.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Scripture says, make grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: His divine power has granted to us all things that pertains to life and godliness.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Through the knowledge of Him, who called us to His own glory and excellence, by which He has granted to us His precious and very great promises.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that through them, you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening to today's podcast, the last and our week-long series on Trust.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you sense a deeper level of connection with God as the result of engaging in greater levels of Trust.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And come back tomorrow as we kick off next week series.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful rest of your day today and may God bless you as you see Kim.