Crossfit • Week 2
- CrossFit is a lifestyle characterized by safe, effective exercise and sound nutrition.
- CrossFit can be used to accomplish any goal, from improved health to weight loss to better performance.
- CrossFit works for everyone — people who are just starting out and people who have trained for years.
Today’s WOD:
Sanctification: the action of making or declaring something
Phillippians 2:12-13 ESV
12Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Sanctification is a cooperative venture between you and God.
Becoming set apart (Sanctification) is an
God does His part.
We do our part.
But we get this confused… and we try to do God’s part, then neglect our part.
Satan’s goal is to get you so discouraged that you give up.
God’s part:
Psalm 51:6-12 ESV
6Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
- Truth in the inward being
- Teach wisdom in the secret heart
- Purge me
- Wash me
- Create in me a clean heart
- Renew a right spirit
- Cast me not away
- Restore me
- Uphold me
Colossians 3:5, 9-10, 12, 14 ESV
1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
God says to take
1. Put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
2. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, forgiveness
3. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
How do we do this?
When you feel phony remember you are just looking at the forms.
1. The forms are temporary.
2. The forms are ugly.
3. The forms aren’t the point.
Using the forms you “put on,” God pours spiritual concrete (lasting change) into your character.
You keep at the process and God does life change.
Sanctification is a process..
How does this happen?
Regular Time with
Romans 12:1-2<<
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Regular Time with
Prov. 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (ESV)
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it.