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EPISODE 07CURIOSITY
GOD WORKS IN BEFORE YOU WORK OUT
Are You Trying Too Hard to Change Yourself?
THUMBNAIL HOOK WRONG ENGINE
OPENING HOOK
The problem may not be that you are trying too hard. It may be that you are trying with the wrong engine.
CENTRAL DOCTRINE
Sanctification empowered by God, expressed through obedient effort.
NIV SCRIPTURE MAP
Open the text first.
TEACHING SPINE
Three movements.
- Philippians joins our working out with God's prior working in.
- The Holy Spirit supplies a new source of desire and power.
- Effort is biblical; self-powered effort as the engine of transformation is not.
KEEP THE BALANCE
What this teaching must not distort.
Do not teach "let go and do nothing." The biblical pattern is grace-enabled effort.
LAND THE LINE
Work out what God is working in. Transformation is participation in grace, not replacement of grace.Episode completion is saved on this device.