GRACE DRIVEN GROWTH

#5 in the Unbreakable Joy series
Dave Tate

Key Passage: Philippians 2:12-18, 2 Peter 1:3-9, Hebrews 12:2

Past	Present	Future
Justification	Sanctification	Glorification
Saved from…
Sin’s Penalty	Sin’s Power	Sin’s Presence

“With fear and trembling” is not about a true Christian living in fear they’ll lose their salvation. This is not the fear of a lost sinner before the Holy One, but the fear of a true child before the most loving of all fathers; not a fear of what he might do to us, but of the hurt we might do to him. —J.A. Motyer

We are saved by grace, and we grow by grace, but we don’t grow by accident.

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. —D.A. Carson

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