Above All Else: Take 10 Looks at Christ
About this episode
Pastor Grant Clark concludes the Above All Else series by focusing on the importance of fixing our eyes on Jesus to overcome besetting sins.
In this final message of our Above All Else series on the heart and the seven deadly sins, Pastor Grant Clark brings everything we have excavated over the last two months to a single point of focus. After eight weeks of looking inward at pride, envy, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, and gluttony, Hebrews 12 turns our attention away from ourselves and fixes it on Jesus, the one who has already run and finished the race ahead of us. The argument is simple but freeing: we do not defeat sin by staring at sin, we are transformed by beholding Christ. "Every Christian has something they need to lay aside." Working from Hebrews 12:1-3, Grant unpacks the old term besetting sin and calls us to name what trips us up, then to lay it aside and run with endurance. What a besetting sin is: - "A besetting sin is a persistent, deeply ingrained habit or weakness that continues to plague a person, and is hard for them to overcome. It is the specific temptation that you fall into repeatedly." Characteristics of besetting sins: - Recurring - Entangling - Highly Personalized In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis pictures a senior demon training a younger one to tempt people not with wild, outlandish sins we…
People in this episode
Host: Grant Clark
Topics covered
- heart
- seven deadly sins
- transformation
- Christ
- besetting sin
- endurance
Keywords
- besetting sin
- transformation
- Christ
- endurance
- seven deadly sins
- Hebrews 12
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Restored Church San Diego
Books & works: The Screwtape Letters
Places: Hebrews
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- Above All Else: From Gluttony to Self-Control
- Above All Else: From Anger to Graciousness
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