2. ✙ Spirit-guided practice (8:12-13) – Present – “walk” – “mindset” Crucify Crucify Cultivate Cultivate Imitate Imitate

3. 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

4. Pursuing justification through my own effort Pursuing justification through my own effort Believing “disciplines” (my activities) are the goal of sanctification Believing “disciplines” (my activities) are the goal of sanctification Believing “disciplines” alone can change my character Believing “disciplines” alone can change my character Evaluating others’ sanctification by their practice Evaluating others’ sanctification by their practice 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

5. God alone can change character God alone can change character God won’t coerce character change God won’t coerce character change

6. God alone can change character God alone can change character God won’t coerce character change God won’t coerce character change Negative: “make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts” Romans 13:14

7. God alone can change character God alone can change character God won’t coerce character change God 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

8. God alone can change character God alone can change character God won’t coerce character change God won’t coerce character change Personal: “be imitators of me just as I also am of Christ” 1 Corinthians 11:1

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

10. ✙ Spirit-guaranteed hope (8:17-25) Renewed world Renewed world Redeemed body Redeemed 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

11. ✙ Spirit-guaranteed hope (8:17-25) While we wait, we suffer While we wait, we suffer 1.inevitable and universal 2.temporary and minor 3.validation While we suffer, we hope While we suffer, we hope