External Challenges to Sanctification

Challenges - When living out our lives of faith (Sanctification), we face challenges both from the inside and the outside. Thankfully, God prepares us to face this challenges and even uses them for His purpose! 1) Challenges come at us from the outside because the truth of God’s Word is opposite of the ways of the world. 2) Because these challenges are going to come, Jesus tells us to be smart and pure in our thinking. 3) A cross is something we suffer because we believe the Gospel. There are various crosses we will have to bear. 4) When you face these challenges, don’t worry. God will speak in you! 5) Sometimes the crosses make us stop and listen to what God has to say to us! 6) If Jesus is leading you then all this will work out according to God’s will and plan. It’s worth the fight! 8.1.21 Message from Cottage Grove Pastor Nathan Krause