Sanctification

The Book of Luke

Taking Up the Cross, Part 1

Theme: Self-Esteem or Self-Denial?
 
This week’s lessons teach us that Jesus’ command for Christians to take up their cross is not something that happens later in the Christian life, but at the very beginning.  Indeed it is a critical idea of discipleship itself. 
 
Scripture: Luke 9:23-26
 
At the beginning of these studies I wrote that there is a fatal flaw in the professing church today, a lack of true discipleship. Discipleship is talked about, of course.

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The Book of Psalms

The Two Ways, Day 1

Theme: Christ Our Example
 
In these lessons we see that our growth in holiness is dependent upon our being grounded in the Word of God, which points us to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only source of salvation and sanctification.
 
Scripture: Psalm 1
 
It is appropriate that one of our series on the great chapters of the Bible should be the first psalm, because this psalm sets before us the doctrine of the two ways and encourages us to walk in the way of the godly.

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The Book of Psalms

The Two Ways, Day 2

Theme: The Way of the Wicked
 
In these lessons we see that our growth in holiness is dependent upon our being grounded in the Word of God, which points us to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only source of salvation and sanctification.
 
Scripture: Psalm 1
 
The psalmist says two important things about the man who walks according to his sinful dispositions. 
 
First, the course of the wicked man is always downhill.

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The Book of Psalms

The Two Ways, Day 3

Theme: The Way of the Righteous
 
In these lessons we see that our growth in holiness is dependent upon our being grounded in the Word of God, which points us to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only source of salvation and sanctification.
 
Scripture: Psalm 1
 
Over against the way of the ungodly, the psalmist sets the way of the righteous. And everything that is said to be lacking in the case of the one is present in the other.

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The Book of Psalms

The Two Ways, Day 5

Theme: Becoming Strong
 
In these lessons we see that our growth in holiness is dependent upon our being grounded in the Word of God, which points us to the Lord Jesus Christ as the only source of salvation and sanctification.
 
Scripture: Psalm 1
 
The last point I want to make is that the Word of God makes Christians strong, strong enough to resist the idols of their culture and go God’s way. I do not think we have a very strong church in the United States today.

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