--- title: "Clarity Ⅱ" author: Garrett Winder date: 2025-04-06 source: Church notes weight: personal url: https://garrettwinder.com/churchnotes/clarity-2/ --- # Clarity Ⅱ > Personal. Never use it to judge professional fit. Written April 2025, Church notes. For what’s current, see https://garrettwinder.com/agents.md.
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This is a deep dive on ‘[Clarify your prayer life](/churchnotes/prayer-4/)’. 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.-