Clarity Ⅱ

• Pastor: Zach Gryder
• Location: Highridge Parker County

This is a deep dive on ‘Clarify your prayer life’. I’ll come back and clean these notes up like I’m slowly doing for the others, but wanted to get this online.

• Philippians 2:12-13 (Sanctification)
• Ephesians 2:8 (Justification)
• By grace through faith so that no one can boast
• Supposed to look like the damage: nice neighbor got next to same spot with tornado.
• Wherever sin has touched your soul there’s damage.
• We overlook the damage in our soul and never deal with it.
• Sweep under rug etc.
• Our goal on earth is to spend our time on earth KNOWING God.
• And we need to know self!
• Deal with our damage left behind by sin.
• Justification: you are saved. Instant, permanent, saved. “Just as if I’ve never sinned.”
• Sanctification: the process of becoming more like Christ.
  • If you’re the same in three years as today then you’re missing something.
• Glorification: when your soul and spirit receive your new glorified bodies.
• Sanctification is not so we can have a better life, it’s so we can glorify Him
• Sanct: us working with the Holy Spirit with His power
• We need more humility and dependence on God
• mistake we make in sanct: let go and let God is a great saying for lots of things in your life except sanctification.
• Sanctification is ACTIVE
• Mistake two: I’m saved, I’ll go be good enough without the Holy Spirit.
• We need to put a magnifying glass on our soul and find the damage that’s holding us back.

How do we clean up the damage left by sin

1. We need to accept that there’s been damage done.

• who’s sinned?
• who’s been sinned against?
• Being tempted by old ways is damage
• We’ve got to deal with the damage.
• Luke 9:23
• Define the damage to deal with
• Brain learns how to cope with the damage that’s been left in your life.
• But we need to heal from the damage
• Coping leads to more coping, but healing leads to freedom.

2. How has this damage impacted your relationships with people?

• Look for patterns
• Ephesians 4:31-32
• Written for saved people.
• If you give in to anger that’s damage
• If you get jealous when your wife talks to the opposite sex that’s damage
• If you say nothing bothers you that’s damage
• If you like to gossip that’s damage
• Looking for affirmation on social media is damage
• When you get stressed and go do certain sins, that’s damage
• Justification is not the finish line. It’s the starting line.

3. How has this damage impacted your relationship with God?

• the lens that we interact with our Father has been damaged, so we have an unhealthy incomplete view of our father
• Magnifies so much about our Gods character that is good
• Pray, evaluate relationships, write down patterns, process with loved ones, pastors, counselors etc.-