This morning I talked about the fact that God doesn’t just save us to that we can be saved.  He saves us so that we can live a new life and be like Christ.  And I think that for anyone who’s a real Christian, that is our desire.  The problem is that because we continue to struggle with sin, we often give up on that goal.  We may not be living in gross sin, but we give up on ever really living a holy life, and so we settle into a sort of moral mediocrity.  But we’re not pleased with it and neither is God.  We read the promise of Romans 6:6-7 that we are no longer slaves to sin, but it seems impossible and we just get frustrated with the commands of Scripture to lead a consistently holy life...

(This series of sermons has been adapted from the book The Pursuit of Holiness, by Jerry Bridges.)