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I in my mind think that sanctification is 100 meter dash, when really it's more like a 10k but forever foreign. What's up, you guys? Welcome back to another episode of In Totality. I'm your host, Megan Ashley, and I'm so excited you're back joining me for another episode. Listen, I don't know what date you're watching this. If it's not, I know it ain't the 23rd because that was yesterday and today is the 24th. So how, if you are watching this, either you were left behind or people lied to you, I don't know. Or we was lied to, I don't know. Apparently the rapture was supposed to happen yesterday, it was supposed to happen today, I don't know. But, and, and I'm trying to make light of it, but. Because it, it can feel ridiculous. But I do know that for a lot of people who may not, you know, who may not know the word, who may be prone to, you know, profit, TikTok profits. And listening to TikTok prophets and all the things, I just, I just have never seen so much confusion and chaos in the last few days regarding the Rapture and when Jesus is coming back. Listen, I just want to assure you that no one knows the day nor the hour that he is returning. Scripture says not even the sun knows. Okay. And so I just want you, I want to encourage you to not be fearful. I want you to, I don't know, I think it's interesting that whatever came up in you when you were hearing these things, I would just challenge you to take all of that before the Lord. And so if there was some anxiousness and fear that came up in you when. When I don't even know who started this, this whole foolishness. I don't know who started it. But whoever it was, whatever it provoked in you, if it provoked fear or anxiousness or whatever, I just pray that you take that to the Lord. And, and I pray, and I encourage you to get into your scriptures and to get into your word so that you are assured by what God says and that you're not anxious about what man says, right? And so I would just encourage you to get into your word, okay? Because if you're watching this again, they lied to you or you were left behind. And so I just. Yeah, I. I don't know what to say about that. It was. It's been crazy for the last couple of days. But that is the encouragement. Go read your word. Go know the word for yourself, okay? And don't be. Don't be tossed by every word of every man, right? I want you to be anchored in the word of the Lord, okay? For he is not a man that he should lie. His word is true. And so you can assure and rest assured that he. That he's not a man, that he should lie, that his Word is true, and that you can stand firm on that. Okay? And so I just want to say that because today and yesterday, just all the. The chaos and noise on social media was kind of crazy, but today I kind of wanted to talk to you guys about something that, for me, I usually don't have the intention on talking to you guys about things that I'm currently wrestling through, because I think that. That, you know, sometimes that can be a lack of wisdom, right? Discussing something that you haven't fully processed. But I also, at the same time, want to be very transparent and vulnerable about where I am and vulnerable about maybe even some of the things that the Lord is placed on my heart. Recently, just for the last few. Maybe probably about a month now, I've just been wrestling with the idea of sanctification. And so I kind of just. I've been studying and reading, and I just kind of want to let you guys in on some of the. The things that the Lord has kind of shown me through His Word, walked me through and what I am currently wrestling through. Because, listen, I think that when it comes to our Christian walk, and I'm going to walk through, I wrote a lot of notes down and. Because I wanted to make sure that I give you guys just the tools and scripture references and resources so that you can go and wrestle this out yourself. I don't want to be the end all, be all to any knowledge, especially when it comes to Scripture. Like I want you, I want to encourage you to go search the scriptures for yourself. Wrestle with the Scriptures, wrestle with the Lord in the Scriptures. I want you to do this, this work with him, right? I just want to be able to be a voice that gives language to some of the things maybe that your heart has been feeling. I want to be, be able to provide language to that. And then I also want to just point you back to scripture, point you back to the Lord and point you back to intimacy with Him. But I think that what I have realized is that, and you guys know that we've talked about the consolation, the desolation of our walks with Christ, right? Consolation being those moments where we're, we're on these highs and we're feeling the manifest presence of the Lord and we're getting revelation and we're, and we're, and the Lord is speaking to us and we're feeling all the things, right? And then as you mature, you, you go through seasons of desolation where you don't feel the manifest presence of the Lord as strongly as you did when you first came to him, or as in, or as you did maybe in certain seasons. And so what am sure about is that that is part of the es and flows of a walk, of your walk with Christ. You're going to have these mountaintops and you're going to have these valleys. That is just the reality of our Christian walk. But I want to, but what I am realizing is, is that a lot of it is the tension with sanctification. Because in justification, and I'm going to, I'm going to talk through some scripture and, and kind of define these things for us so that we can walk away with enough, enough context that we can go back and wrestle with the Lord. Okay, so justification. This is our once for all legal declaration by God that we are righteous in Christ, forgiven of sin and no longer under condemnation. Right? So scriptures, Romans 8, okay? So we know, therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because of the law of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ has set us free from the law of sin and death. So we know that we are saved by grace through faith. We know that we are not saved by our works, that we are saved by grace through faith, okay? We know that that seals our, our salvation. And because of that we are made righteous with God. We are made right, we are in right relationship with the Lord, right? We are justified. So that means that we stand before God and, and we are justified because of Christ. So, yes, we are sinful, but because we, we. We confess that Jesus is our Lord and Savior. We believe in our heart and confess with our mouths that he is Lord. We are saved by grace, through faith. So we are justified, right? And so we know that. I, I believe that when you, when you, when you know that you are justified and you experience justification, you realize, like, oh, I am free from, from the chains and, and the enslavement of sin. I am now clothed in the righteousness because of Christ and because of God sending his Son to die on the cross for our sins and being the perpetuation of our sins, we know that we are saved by that. So knowing that, I think it puts you on this high. It's like, wow, I am free from, from sin doesn't mean that you become sinless, but that you're free from the bondage of sin. Sin no longer is, is enthroned in your life. It has become dethroned because you are in Christ, right? So it has no power over you. And so I think that knowledge and, and that that experience with the Lord puts you on a high. And I believe that, that we want to go from justification to glorification, but we know that glorification is the final step of believers are perfected, receiving resurrection bodies and eternal life of God, right? So we know through scriptures in Romans 8, in Philippians and 1st Corinthians, like, it talks about us getting resurrected bodies. That is when we're perfected. So on the day of the Lord, when the Lord comes back, which is not September 23rd or September 24th, because here we are recording. And I, I, I, I heard from my mama today, y'. All. I'm telling you, it's like, I, if my mom is here. I just don't believe the rapture happened, okay? I just don't believe it happened. If, if, if, if. Paul Washer, huh? John Piper, huh? Tony Evans. Like, if these people are still here, I don't think, you know, there's just certain people where you're just like, yeah, they're here, bro. You know, if Philip Anthony Mitchell. If I call Philip Anthony Mitchell right now, he's still here on this earth. I just don't believe. I just don't believe that rapture happened, okay? But we do know that on the day of the Lord, whenever he comes, which no man knows, the hour or the day, whenever he comes, we will get resurrected bodies, right? We will be Perfected, we will be sinless. There will be no more sin that we struggle with. There will be no more temptation. There will be no more crying. There will be no more mourning. All the things, right? That is glorification. And I believe that when we become. Become justified, we want to immediately be glorified, but we are forgetting that sanctification is the thing in the middle. The sanctification is what we have, the, the ongoing process that we live in on this earth, right? So we're going to walk through sanctification. And here's the thing. The reason why I'm walking through this is because I realized that, that a part of my frustration is that I don't want to go through the process of sanctification. I don't want to go through the pace at which I am being sanctified by the Spirit, and I don't want to go through the pain of sanctification. I am irritated with sanctification and it's really because I know that when the Lord comes back, he is going to immediately give us these glorified bodies. Like he can do it right now. And I think sometimes with that tension, it's like, I know you can do it right now, but you're not doing it right now. You can give us glorified bodies, like you can just make us sinless. He has the power to do that, but he's not going to do that until the day of the Lord. And so now we have to live with his sanctification. And I think we have to remind ourselves why sanctification is important. We have to remind ourselves what, what happens in the life of a believer through sanctification. Right? Sanctification, the ongoing process of being made holy, being made holy, transformed in the likeness of Christ by the work of the Holy Spirit. Now we're going to talk through all the things of sanctification. And, and I'm not saying that I'm going to. I am the. A theologian and I'm going to give you every thing that the Scriptures say sanctification is, every commentary. I'm not going to do that, but I want to give us enough context that we can wrestle with this maybe and again, maybe even give you language to some of the things that you've been feeling. Right? Okay. For me, personally, I have been struggling with, with the, the process, the pace and the pain of sanctification. For me, I just want to get to the finish line, right? I just want. I just want to be done with, with growing, right? I just, I want to be perfected And I, and I believe that there are scriptures that talk about how, how all of creation groans, right? As we're waiting for the day of the Lord, as we're waiting to be united with Him. Com. Like final in totality, all the things. And so we know that this process, there are frustrations that come along with this process, right? Okay. So sanctification is a cooperative process, right? So we have to participate in sanctification, yet we are not the ones that sanctify us. It is the work of the Holy Spirit. Okay, we participate. But even our participation is powered by the Spirit. So let's walk through some scripture. Let's go to Second Corinthians. I'm going to treat this episode like we're on Patreon, right? And if you guys know my Patreon community, we just like, I, I tell them all the time, I'm like, get your passports ready. We're traveling, right? We're going through Scripture. We're going through Scripture. We're not going to be traveling to, to Old Testament. We're going to stick into the letters of Paul, but we are going to be going through Scripture. So 2nd Corinthians 3:18. I want to read this. We, we all with unveiled faces are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory. This is from the Lord, who is the Spirit. Now, two things that I want to point out is that we with unveiled faces are looking as in a mirror. What is the mirror? The Word of God. Right? So as we look into this Word, we're looking into a mirror. So this, so this word reveals things about ourselves. It shows us. Us. Right? And then the other thing I want you to be, be mindful of, of hearing is and are being transformed. Not and are transformed, but and are being transformed. So we are in a constant state of being transformed. And because we are being transformed, we are not the ones doing the transformation. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that is transforming us. So yes, you are saved by grace through faith. However, that it, it, it doesn't stop there. You are consistently being saved. You are constantly being saved. I was reading this book. I'm reading this book. It's called Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray. And in something that he said in one of these chapters on sanctification, he said the sanctif, the sanctifying process is not only dependent upon the death and resurrection of Christ in its initiation, it is also dependent upon the death and resurrection of Christ and its Continuance. So it's not just. Doesn't just stop at the initiation, but it is a continuous thing. The death and resurrection of Christ is con. Is continuously working in our lives. It's continuously saving us day by day. I want to read to you in 2 Corinthians 4, starting at 16, so we do not lose heart. Though our outer selves is wasting away, our inner being is being renewed day by day. For this light, momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond comparison as we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are internal. So we. The thing that. That. That sticks out to me is that we are being renewed day by day. Day by day. We are being renewed day by day. That means that this is not weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly. And for me, a lot of that tension is that it's like, I want. I'm. I'm the person that wants to store up the manna. I want to store it up. God sends manna. And I am like, whoop. I want to store all of it up and collect as much as I can and save it. But we know by Scripture that that when the Israelites tried to do that, that when. When the Lord provided manna and they tried to store it up against his command to not store it up, that it spoiled the command was to get the manna daily. And so again, Second Corinthians, saying that we are being renewed day by day means it draws my attention to just how. How God provided manna and told them to collect the manna for the day. Why? Because it produces. It produces dependency. Why, Lord, are you sanctifying me every day? Because he is after his glory. Again in 2 Corinthians 4, this is starting at. This is 7 before you get to 14 or before you get to 16. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show the surpassing power belongs to God and not us. And so I was listening to John Piper talk about this, and he was basically like, it's like getting gas for your car. Running out of gas means that we have to go to the gas station and fill up. And that's the thing. Because the Lord is sanctifying us, and because we are at jars of clay, and because they're suffering, and because there are trials, it pushes us back to the Lord. So why. So that the surpassing glory, his glory is revealed. So the surpassing power of God is revealed in our lives for him to get the glory. If we were just glorified, then we would be in, in this flesh, right? Then we would think that the power belongs to us, that we are capable of saving ourselves, that we are capable of keeping ourselves, that we are capable of providing for ourselves. And here's the thing, at the end of the day, the glory doesn't belong to you. It belongs to God. And so God set up our lives in such a way where we being transformed and being sanctified and being renewed so that he gets the glory. So we, so we, we, we have, we go through weakness and we go through trials and we go through all of those things so that the, the power of God is shown in our lives, not that we are saving ourselves, but that he is saving us. So that he is creating dependency, so that we are constantly going to him to receive power, to be kept, to be provided for, for comfort, for the power to love, the power to be patient, the power to endure. All of that is by the Spirit, not by us. And so sanctification, I, trust me, I get the tension with, I just want to be fixed. And especially when you've, when you have gone through such brokenness in your life, when you've experienced such pain that has caused your heart to be broken in so many ways, you, you just want to be fixed. But perfection is not what he's after. He's after dependency and he's after his glory to be shown and revealed in our lives. Okay, I want to be mindful at how we talk about sanctification because we know that in Philippians 2, right? Where the scripture says, work out your salvation with fear and trembling, right? Know that, that, that there is a participation that we do. But I don't want us to get caught up in, in we do all the work because then I can put us in self righteousness right where it's now it's all on us. But we know that we don't work for salvation, but we work out our salvation. So we don't work for salvation because we know that salvation is a gift. We are saved by grace through faith that is powered by the Spirit. Even your yes to the Lord was, was powered by the Spirit. So I don't want us to get up, get caught up in, oh, you know, faith without works is dead. Yes, but it is the evidence that salvation and, and regeneration has taken place in your heart. So you do the work because the work is evident of what has been done in your heart. You don't do the work to gain anything. We know that there, there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. We know that, that nothing can change his love for us. So it's not anything that we can earn. And so I just, I don't want us to get caught up in, oh, I gotta. I gotta do the work. I gotta do the work. No, the work is in. Power is evident that the, the power of the Holy Spirit is working in your life. We work out our salvation, but we don't work for our salvation. Salvation is a gift. We also have to be mindful of moralism, which promotes pride. And. And the reason why I want to talk about moralism is because you. If you're not yielding to the spirit and you're just doing the right things, you're just like, I'm just going to do all the right things, then you're doing it. Absent of a. Of a heart that has been turned towards the Father. Paul talks about, when I am weak, then I am strong. When he talks about the thorn being in his flesh, he says, when I am weak, then I am strong. Right? And so his strength comes from the confession and the realization that he is weak, that he needs God, that he needs the power of the Holy Spirit. And so I don't want us to get caught up in moralism because this is how we end up having a church full of older brothers where it's just like, I, I did all the things. I did all. I did all the things right. Where Jesus says, many will say, lord, Lord, didn't we do this in your name? Didn't we do that in your name? And he would say, depart from me, for I never knew you. Why? Because we never had an intimate relationship. You thought that you could earn your salvation and you can't. And here is the scary thing about that. I was listening to Tim Keller talk about this, and it was so crazy. He was talking about a lady who, who at the time, when she was talking to him, hadn't professed the faith yet. But basically what she was saying, she was like, if the gospel is true, then that should scare a lot of people because it means that because you cannot earn your salvation means that God actually can ask anything of you. But if you think you can earn it right, then it's like, I paid my debt. But because you can't earn salvation, that means that he can ask anything of you. And that's the, that's the proper way to look at the lens of the gospel, is that you cannot earn it, which means that he can require anything of you, which means that we should be able to give anything to him. That we should be willing to give anything to him, because what he did for us, we cannot earn right. And so when I think about moralism, I just. I know for me in my life, it has produced and shown such pride. Feeling like I can earn it, feeling like, okay, I'll. I'll do all the things that comes from a place of pride. Moralism is believe in the lie that salvation is achieved through good moral behavior and not by the grace of God and faith in Jesus Christ. That's what moralism is, is that your salvation is achievable. Like you can achieve it through good behavior and not by grace, through faith. Right. It's doing all the things absent by this. Of the Spirit, working its power in our hearts. So I'm doing the right things, but I'm not doing it in partnership with the Spirit. I'm doing it from a place of, oh, I just know to do the thing, but I am not. But my heart is in cha. So an example I was, when I was reading, when I was reading through scripture, Tony Evans was given an example of like, you know, a parent can tell a child, you know, go take out the trash, but if they do it with an attitude and they do it with. With complaining and murmuring and all the things, then it. They're doing the thing, but their heart isn't in the right place. I can be nice to somebody, but it's different when I'm kind of. Kindness comes from a place of. Of. Of a heart posture where nice is just. I'm just being nice to you, but if I'm kind, it's. It's a difference. Listen, the, The. The issues of life flow from the heart. It flows from the posture of your heart. Yeah. I just want us to be very mindful of getting caught up in the works of it all, but instead being mindful to be. To yield to the Spirit through your spiritual disciplines, by intimacy with the Lord, by reading the Word, by staying in healthy community, by staying in a healthy church, by doing all of those things. I want you. I want from that the fruit to be produced in your life by the work of the Spirit, not by your actions, not by your might, not by your power, but by the Spirit. Spirit working in your life. That is. That is what sanctification is, not moralism. Okay. The other thing that I battle with, and this is the biggest tension that I have with sanctification, is God's pace at sanctifying me. If, if sanctification was like running a race I in my mind think that sanctification is a hundred meter dash when really it's more like a 10k but forever. So however long it would take you to run for the rest of your life, it's that. But, but I want sanctification to be a hundred, one hundred yard dash. I, I just want a hundred or the 200. You know, when, when I was in school I didn't run track, but you know, you had to run like that was part of gym class. Give me the hundred yard dash. Okay. All that long distance stuff, I don't want to do that. Just, it feels really unnecessary to me to just be running for no reason. But the Christian walk is often like a race. And I think that we think that once, once we're justified, we just want to 100 yard dash and just a quick race or we want to have the same power that we have in 100 yard dash through a 10K. And that's just not realistic. And so we have to hold tension with the pace at which we are being sanctified. And that can be hard. It's not like you get saved and the Lord is like, okay, so you know, for the first few seasons we're going to go at this pace and then, you know, right around February we're going to change the pace up a little bit and then you know, in November we're going to. So like he doesn't lay it out for us. We have to just trust him daily. Right. And so the pace of sanctification, I, I, the, the wrestle with that or the frustration with that. I want to draw our attention to Romans 7. And we know like, I'm so thankful that we have the scriptures to give us, you know, encouragement, hope, examples that some of the frustrating frustrations that we live in our lives are words also live through other people's lives. So when we look at Romans 7, I'm going to draw your attention to Romans 7, verse 18. For I know that nothing good lives in me that is in my flesh. For the desires to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it. For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do. Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it. But it is the sin that lives in me. Going on to 21. So I discovered this law. When I want to do what is good, evil is present with me. For in my inner self I delight in God's law. But I see a different law in the parts of my body raging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin and the parts of my body. And then he goes on in 24 to say, what a wretched man I am. For who will rescue me from this body of death, thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind, I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin. This is the frustration that we have with sanctification. Even Paul wrestled with his flesh, wrestled with the pace of the sanctification, wrestled with the tension that we have to hold in the process of sanctification. Even Paul says, listen there, there's when I want to do right, evil is present. I do what I don't want to do, I don't want to do what I do. It's all this, it's, it's the tension. And that should give you like a okay. It's not just me. I'm going to wrestle with things. I'm going to, I'm going to struggle. Doesn't mean that I'm not saved, doesn't mean that God has left me, doesn't mean that God isn't with me, doesn't mean that God doesn't love me. I'm going to wrestle because I am in this sinful body and God is sanctifying me day by day, he is renewing me day by day that our bodies are, are sinful and we're going to wrestle with sin, but it doesn't mean that sin has authority in our lives. It's the, it's a difference between being sinful and being in sin. We are fleshly, so we're sinful, but that, but because we are justified, we are not slaves to sin. Sin doesn't have authority in our lives. And so I want to encourage you that if you are wrestling, that's okay. Continue to yield, continue to confess, continue to repent, continue to turn back to God and be renewed day by day. Don't get frustrated with the pace at which he is sanctifying you. Don't try to run this race with full on sprints and don't allow the enemy to discourage you because of the pace at which God is sanctifying you. Because I do believe that the temptation is, is to be frustrated with the pace. And then we either quit or we, or we, or we become self righteous and we try to run faster than the pace. That what God is, is, is, is taking us or we just quit and we don't run at all. Take your time and run the race that God has for you. Run the race at the pace that he is taking you. Don't try to speed things up, but also don't try to. Don't, don't stop the pace at which he is sanctifying you. Don't try to go slower than, than. Than what he's pacing you at. What is that? Hebrews? Hebrews 12. I just want to draw our attention to Hebrews 12 really quickly. What is this? Hebrews 12:1. Therefore, since we have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and sin that is so that so easily snares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the founder and the perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before Him. He endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God because we are running a race. I love this scripture because it says, listen, lay aside everything that hinders it. You are going to be running this race for the rest of your life on this earth. We're going to be running the race and we're going to have to endure. So whatever is slowing your pace down, take it off. Whatever hinders you from running, lay it down. Maybe social media is, is a hindrance for you. Lay it down. Maybe the relationship is a hindrance for you. Lay it down. Self righteousness, lay it down. Moralism, lay it down. People pleasing, lay it down. Fear, lay it down. Lay those things down. Take those things off so that you can run at the pace that God has for you for this race. And be mindful to fix your eyes on Christ, knowing that he is the goal, a life with him, intimacy with him, and ultimately eternity with Him. But fix your eyes on Him. The second you start to look to your left and look to your right, or even look inward, you start to lose focus and it hinder, hinders the pace at which God has you on, on this race. So fix your eyes on Him. Learn how to get some tunnel vision. I'm not looking at what this person is doing. I'm. Because here's the thing, we're like, if you're a believer, we're all running this race, right? But you can be looking at me, run my race at the pace that God has for me, and then start to get insecure about how he's pacing you. Don't look to the left, don't look to the right. Keep your eyes fixed on Him. And here's the thing. I want to be realistic. If you happen to look to your left or right, because I'm. We're tempted. We're sinful. We fall short. All of us have fallen short of the glory of God. We know that you can't control the pace at which God has for the process of sanctification in your life, but you can control the pace at which you can confess. You can control the pace at which you repent. You can control the pace at which you have intimacy with Him. Like, those are the things that are in your power to do. And so if I. If I find myself being distracted, I'm looking to the left or the right. I have control at the pace in which I confess. Lord, you know what I confess that I was looking over there and I was looking over here, and I was looking too much in inwardly looking too much on myself, looking too much on other people. And I need to be looking at you. I need to be looking in this word. I need to be focused on what you have for me, the pace at which you are sanctifying me. That is what we have to be mindful of. So fix your eyes on Jesus and, and be at the pace that he has for you. Okay? It's going to take time. I. I want. I want to use the analogy that I'm sure all of us have heard when it comes to, like, a quick meal or when it comes to something being, like, simmered in a crock pot, that is the pace of our sanctification. It's a slow cook. And we know that when something is cooked right, and, and, and, and it over time, like, you get a good pot roast and you put it in that, that crock pot and it's been cooked.