✙Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13)Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13)–PresentPresent–““walk”walk”–““mindset”mindset”• CrucifyCrucify• CultivateCultivate• ImitateImitate

Sounds like “legalism”!Sounds like “legalism”!“work out your salvation”

Philippians 2:12

“I discipline my body and make it my slave” 1 Corinthians 9:27

“discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness...for it is for this purpose we labor and

strive” 1 Timothy 4:7

Pursuing justification through my own effortPursuing justification through my own effortBelieving “disciplines” (my activities) are the Believing “disciplines” (my activities) are the

goal of sanctificationgoal of sanctificationBelieving “disciplines” alone can change my Believing “disciplines” alone can change my

charactercharacterEvaluating others’ sanctification by their Evaluating others’ sanctification by their

practicepractice

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, Romans 4:5

God alone can change characterGod alone can change characterGod won’t coerce character changeGod won’t coerce character change

God alone can change characterGod alone can change characterGod won’t coerce character changeGod won’t coerce character change

Negative: “make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts”

Romans 13:14

God alone can change characterGod alone can change characterGod won’t coerce character changeGod won’t coerce character change

Positive: “solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained do discern good and evil.”

Hebrews 5:14

God alone can change characterGod alone can change characterGod won’t coerce character changeGod won’t coerce character change

Personal: “be imitators of me just as I also am of Christ”

1 Corinthians 11:1

✙Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13)Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13)✙Spirit-secured status (8:14-15a)Spirit-secured status (8:14-15a)✙Spirit-encouraged intimacy (8:15b-16)Spirit-encouraged intimacy (8:15b-16)

✙Spirit-guaranteed hope (8:17-25)Spirit-guaranteed hope (8:17-25)• Renewed worldRenewed world• Redeemed bodyRedeemed body

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20–21

✙Spirit-guaranteed hope (8:17-25)Spirit-guaranteed hope (8:17-25)•While we wait, we sufferWhile we wait, we suffer

1.1. inevitable and universalinevitable and universal2.2. temporary and minortemporary and minor3.3. validationvalidation

•While we suffer, we hopeWhile we suffer, we hope