Our Striving Would Be Losing, Part 1

Our Striving Would Be Losing, Part 1
Text: Matthew 26:31-46

Summary: This passage reminds us of the insufficiency of our own works and resolve, which in turn points us to Christ, in whom all sufficiency dwells.

I. The Insufficiency of Personal Resolve.
A. The Old Testament: Great Resolve, Great Failures.
B. The New Testament: Good but Imperfect Believers.
C. Church history: the Insufficiency of Human Resolve.
D. The Theological Errors of Perfectionism.
E. A Modern Example.

CONCLUSION: “Christ… our sanctification” (1 Cor. 1:30)