OUTLINE:

Transcendence
A transcendent viewpoint can still see all that is below it. With our minds fixed on the “things that are above”, we are not blind to “the things that are on earth” (Col 3:2) - we can/should still observe the things around us, on earth. Deliverance is a mindset, not blindness or willful ignorance.

80 Messages Is a Lot More Than 80 Hours
If it takes a shepherd hours to compress a message into a single hour, it’ll take hours for his sheep to decompress it.

By Grace Through Faith We Are Saved
In this we must be supremely confident. This is both our assurance of positional sanctification (aka salvation, proper - Eph 2:8-9) AND experiential/progressive sanctification (aka being saved daily - Jn 17:12; 2Pe 2:9), as well as our ultimate sanctification (aka perfection in Heaven - Tit 3:7).

Jn 17:12
While I was with them, I kept [tereo - means to guard from loss or injury - active voice means Jesus was personally “keeping” them saved] them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

By Grace Through Faith We Are Saved
In this we must be supremely confident. This is both our assurance of positional sanctification (aka salvation, proper - Eph 2:8-9) AND experiential/progressive sanctification (aka being saved daily - Jn 17:12; 2Pe 2:9), as well as our ultimate sanctification (aka perfection in Heaven - Tit 3:7).

Self-Confidence vs. Christ-Confidence
When we believe we’re righteous, our confidence relies on self (aka self-confidence). When we believe Christ’s righteous, our confidence relies on Him (aka “Christ-confidence). The prior is the source of insecurity (rejecting grace), the latter true confidence (receiving grace).

Jas 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Grace Is Never Forced Upon Us
God presents us with grace (quite a merciful gesture, don’t you think?), commands we receive it, but never forces us to take it.

God Owns Our Success
God never asks His children to do something without first equipping them for success, by grace. Our job is to humbly submit to Him (“submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ” - Eph. 5:21).

Equipped For Success
With the Word of God, we are equipped for success, by grace through faith. Our confidence rests on the power of the Word and the Spirit in us, not in earthly things. This is what it means to abide in God’s economy of grace.

God Owns Our Success
God’s word never comes up shy of its purpose (Is 55:11). This means that when the Word is implanted into our soul, it is guaranteed to be effective. Because of this fact, we are held personally responsible to the Truth (Lk 12:48).

Sound Investment Strategy
If God owns our success, we ought to hand our ENTIRE lives over to Him!

Sanctification is a function of obedience.

“let us be sober”
In other words, let us NOT be intoxicated with the world and its trappings. Let us rid ourselves, voluntarily and proactively, of the ties that bind us to evil things (e.g., people, habits, stuff).

80 Messages Is a Lot More Than 80 Hours
If it takes a shepherd hours to compress a message into a single hour, it’ll take hours for his sheep to decompress it.

By Grace Through Faith We Are Saved
In this we must be supremely confident. This is both our assurance of positional sanctification (aka salvation, proper - Eph 2:8-9) AND experiential/progressive sanctification (aka being saved daily - Jn 17:12; 2Pe 2:9), as well as our ultimate sanctification (aka perfection in Heaven - Tit 3:7).

Self-Confidence vs. Christ-Confidence
When we believe we’re righteous, our confidence relies on self (aka self-confidence). When we believe Christ’s righteous, our confidence relies on Him (aka “Christ-confidence). The prior is the source of insecurity (rejecting grace), the latter true confidence (receiving grace).

Grace Is Never Forced Upon Us
God presents us with grace (quite a merciful gesture, don’t you think?), commands we receive it, but never forces us to take it.

1Jn 4:16
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

The Goal of Sanctification
The divine context for the life of a believer is love.