Sanctification

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Apr 16, 2026 · 5m

Sanctification is not the product of human willpower or self-imposed suffering, as illustrated by the frustrated efforts of monks and hermits who tried to conquer sin by fleeing the world or punishing the body, but is instead the continuing work of God’s grace in the believer; regeneration is God’s act alone, and sanctification is God’s ongoing application of the death and resurrection of Christ to our lives, whereby our self-confidence is shattered, our reliance on grace deepened, and our old nature progressively exposed, crucified, and buried, even as we are continually renewed inwardly…