Dave Rich continues exploring the believer's work in sanctification through five essential spiritual practices. Understanding God's fatherly discipline transforms trials from sorrowful experiences into opportunities for sanctification, yielding the peaceful fruit of righteousness. The believer's work in sanctification requires embracing various trials as necessary means God uses to refine faith and shape character. Believers participate in their sanctification through fasting, stewardship, and acting virtuously, training themselves in godliness as athletes train their bodies. This believer's work in sanctification is spirit-empowered yet demands intentional effort, as doing good leads to being good through trained behavioral dispositions that result in habitual moral goodness.

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