Pursuing Holiness: Living Out Christ's Righteousness
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"One of my concerns is that the stress on justification by faith which is a glorious doctrine not to be diminished or compromised at all, has not been accompanied by a biblically proportionate focus on sanctification by faith and one form that this neglect has taken is the hesitancy for some pastors to say to their people, you should seek to please the lord by the way you live." [00:14:32]
"There's no doubt that throughout the gospels and throughout the epistles we are exhorted to walk that is live practically with our minds and our attitudes and members of our body we're exhorted to walk in a way that pleases the lord and you'd you may not please the lord if you don't walk that way now that's not a peripheral teaching and it's not in conflict with justification by faith." [00:27:02]
"The moment we experience authentic faith in christ and are thus united to him at that moment, his death counts as the punishment of all our sin so that all divine wrath is forever removed from us and in that same glorious moment, christ's entire obedience is counted as ours so that he fulfills for us every demand that the law made on us in order to be found in god's everlasting favor." [00:49:57]
"The fact that god reckons us to be perfect in christ and thus acceptable to him in his holiness does not mean that god is willing to leave us in a condition embattled by sin where we can't fully enjoy him forever. The fact that god accepts us fully in christ means he is fully committed to making us fully happy forever which means that he is displeased with anything short of our joyful perfection in attitude and heart and mind and body." [01:01:19]
"God does not only intend to count us righteous because of christ but to make us righteous because of christ. To say that he sees us clothed with the righteousness of christ for the sake of justification does not mean that he has become blind to the attitudes and thoughts and deeds of our life on earth. He has not become blind or indifferent to our lived out holiness." [01:17:44]
"Practical holiness is only possible because of the prior imputed holiness. God means to get glory for jesus not only as the one who deals with the guilt of our sin by justification but also the one who deals with the power of our sin by sanctification. Over and over, paul tells christians to make it their aim to please the lord by the way they walk, that is the way they live." [01:24:40]
"The flip side of this repeated refrain that we can and should please the lord by the way we live is the fact that we can displease the lord by the way we live even as justified, accepted, loved children of god. Paul says do not grieve the holy spirit of god ephesians 4 30. and in first thessalonians 5 19 he says do not quench the spirit and in hebrews 12 god disciplines those he loves, his justified children." [01:35:12]
"There is imputed righteousness and there is imparted righteousness. The imputed righteousness is the foundation of imparted righteousness. The only sin you can get any victory over is a forgiven sin, not the other way around. The imputed righteousness is the way we become the children of god so that he now exerts his omnipotent fatherly favor to impart his own righteousness to us by the spirit." [01:42:42]
"Proverbs 3 12 says the lord reproves him whom he loves as a father the son in whom he get this word delights. So god is seeking to make us delightful to him in our lived out holiness and happiness because we are delightful to him as his justified children." [01:56:59]
"God cannot be indifferent to our everlasting happiness which means being indifferent to our everlasting holiness. Yes and amen thank you pastor john thank you for joining us today you can ask a question of your own search our growing archive or subscribe to the podcast all at desiringgod.org forward slash askpastorjohn." [02:01:12]
"God's delight in us is both in our status as justified children and in our pursuit of holiness. He is not indifferent to our actions but desires us to live in a way that reflects His righteousness and brings Him glory." [01:17:44]
"The pursuit of holiness is not about earning God's favor but about living in the fullness of the righteousness we have received. It is about allowing the Holy Spirit to transform us into the image of Christ, enabling us to live lives that please God." [01:24:40]
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"There's no doubt that throughout the gospels and throughout the epistles we are exhorted to walk that is live practically with our minds and our attitudes and members of our body we're exhorted to walk in a way that pleases the lord and you'd you may not please the lord if you don't walk that way now that's not a peripheral teaching and it's not in conflict with justification by faith." [00:27:02]
"The moment we experience authentic faith in christ and are thus united to him at that moment, his death counts as the punishment of all our sin so that all divine wrath is forever removed from us and in that same glorious moment, christ's entire obedience is counted as ours so that he fulfills for us every demand that the law made on us in order to be found in god's everlasting favor." [00:49:57]
"The fact that god reckons us to be perfect in christ and thus acceptable to him in his holiness does not mean that god is willing to leave us in a condition embattled by sin where we can't fully enjoy him forever. The fact that god accepts us fully in christ means he is fully committed to making us fully happy forever which means that he is displeased with anything short of our joyful perfection in attitude and heart and mind and body." [01:01:19]
"God does not only intend to count us righteous because of christ but to make us righteous because of christ. To say that he sees us clothed with the righteousness of christ for the sake of justification does not mean that he has become blind to the attitudes and thoughts and deeds of our life on earth. He has not become blind or indifferent to our lived out holiness." [01:17:44]
"Practical holiness is only possible because of the prior imputed holiness. God means to get glory for jesus not only as the one who deals with the guilt of our sin by justification but also the one who deals with the power of our sin by sanctification. Over and over, paul tells christians to make it their aim to please the lord by the way they walk, that is the way they live." [01:24:40]
"The flip side of this repeated refrain that we can and should please the lord by the way we live is the fact that we can displease the lord by the way we live even as justified, accepted, loved children of god. Paul says do not grieve the holy spirit of god ephesians 4 30. and in first thessalonians 5 19 he says do not quench the spirit and in hebrews 12 god disciplines those he loves, his justified children." [01:35:12]
"There is imputed righteousness and there is imparted righteousness. The imputed righteousness is the foundation of imparted righteousness. The only sin you can get any victory over is a forgiven sin, not the other way around. The imputed righteousness is the way we become the children of god so that he now exerts his omnipotent fatherly favor to impart his own righteousness to us by the spirit." [01:42:42]
"Proverbs 3 12 says the lord reproves him whom he loves as a father the son in whom he get this word delights. So god is seeking to make us delightful to him in our lived out holiness and happiness because we are delightful to him as his justified children." [01:56:59]
"God cannot be indifferent to our everlasting happiness which means being indifferent to our everlasting holiness. Yes and amen thank you pastor john thank you for joining us today you can ask a question of your own search our growing archive or subscribe to the podcast all at desiringgod.org forward slash askpastorjohn." [02:01:12]
"God's delight in us is both in our status as justified children and in our pursuit of holiness. He is not indifferent to our actions but desires us to live in a way that reflects His righteousness and brings Him glory." [01:17:44]
"The pursuit of holiness is not about earning God's favor but about living in the fullness of the righteousness we have received. It is about allowing the Holy Spirit to transform us into the image of Christ, enabling us to live lives that please God." [01:24:40]
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