For many, the Church should organise seminars to help show believers how to live faithfully in an ungodly world. Whilst seminars, sermons and books on Christian living have their place, they really ignore the real key to spiritual strength, holiness and victory over sin, which is explained in this sermon.
I. Sanctification involves being transformed into the Image of Christ
II. Sanctification involves being transformed as we behold the Glory of Christ
III. Sanctification Involves Being Transformed by the Spirit of Christ
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“ Great Sermon! ” This is the clearest and most helpful sermon on sanctification I have heard. While we Reformed folk rightly look to Christ alone for our pardon and justification, we too often fall back on our own methods and natural willpower to help us overcome sin and make us holy. Yet it is "Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord" (1 Cor. 1:30-31). Rev. Craig points us to God's way - not man's - for attaining humility and holiness: we are transformed into Christ's image as we fix our eyes on Him and behold His glory and rely on His Holy Spirit, who indwells every regenerate believer, to do in us what we can never do for ourselves.
Not that we don't need to be watchful and to mortify sin, but it is through the Spirit of Christ that we mortify the deeds of the body (Rom. 8:13). He alone is able to write God's Law in our hearts and make Christ's victory over sin manifest in our own hearts and lives, all to the praise of the glory of His grace.
This is a message I've listened to over and over and want to share with many friends.
Graeme Craig was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1964, and was educated at Dundee University and the Free Church of Scotland College. He was ordained and inducted to Ardnamurchan Free Church in October 1989, where he ministered for eight years to the small scattered congregations...
