Sermon Tone Analysis

Welcoming:

I welcome everyone to a class on spiritual formation.

As we all know, we are simply following the roadmap of our Lord Jesus Christ, and at this point in his agenda, he wants me to discuss with us the subject of spiritual formation.

Our Bible Text is:

gala

gal 2:15-20

Our anchor scripture the next few weeks from this passage is verse 20

Please copy these two translations and on daily basis meditate on it for at least 5 minutes.

(that is your first assignment.

Read through the book of Ephesians at least 6 times this month.

opening statements:

in the natural realm, nobody is born as an adult we all began our life’s journey as infants.

The same is true for our spiritual life, none of us is born an adult, we all began our journey as infants - meaning that we all have equal opportunities to labour in the word of God until we become fully matured.

in gal 4:19 Paul said:

Paul said: “until Christ be formed in you”

Paul :

paul said: “ i will continue to travail until Christ becomes fully developed in the lives of the believers at galatia…

Just like Paul in the next few weeks, I will travail both in the spirit and in clear uncompromised teaching to set us on a jouney, or to further fuel the journey that some of us had already began....

I will travail until Christ be formed in you.

The style of the teaching:

come to church with some questions that are bordering your heart regarding your relationship with God, and we will manage to answer as many as we can.

do not expect any formal teaching during these sections.

Today: I will a foundation for this study and start building on it.

There are certain things that we can clearly seen from this verse as subtopics for spiritual transformation:

I have been crucified with Christ: the crucified life

in other words, paul was speaking about a life laid down

Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but christ liveth in me: the exchanges life

This is symbolic of the new life in Christ, the transformed life

And the life which i now live in the flesh i live by faith: the trusting live.

I can also recapture this simply as ‘a life of faith’

There are two deaths mentioned in the verse, both has to do with the Cross:

I have been crucified: who was crucified

I am

i live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me: who was crucified again here?

the son of God.

therefore, the a spiritually transformed life, is simply a life that emulates the life of our lord Jesus Christ.

it is a life that seeks to attain unto the whole measure of the fulness of the stature of Christ:

We are going to start from the Crucified life: Why?

Believers must experience the cross before they can find the resurrection life.

Baker’s Encyclopedia.

Jesus said:

john 12 24

death to self is what opened the door to a new kind of life.

- The crucified life is a metaphor to the death of self

The crucified life is a metaphor to the death of self

rom 6:

the crucified life:

The Body of sin is destroyed

you are no longer enslave to sin.

death is the only cure for the Adamic nature that longs for sin in us.

“our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin” ().

“our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin” ().

It is the death of the old way of life that ushered in, the new way of living - , the believer participates in the death and resurrection of Christ, so that the “old has passed away, behold the new has come” (5:17).

Paul interpreted the Christian’s identification with Christ’s death to mean that “our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin” ().

2 cor

As further developed in , the believer participates in the death and resurrection of Christ, so that the “old has passed away, behold the new has come” (5:17).

The death of self, also mean that “the flesh with its passions and desires” is “crucified” ();

“the flesh with its passions and desires” is “crucified” ();

what are the passions and the desires of the flesh?

1 john 2:15-16

A craving for physical pleasure

A craving to have more

a pride in ones achievements and possessions

this was demonstrated in that rich fool:

luke 12:13-21

The crucified life is a life that demonstrated humility in his abundance just like christ - he is the Lord of all, but he lived with us like a beggar; he is the Lord of Glory but laid down his glory to take up the form of a sinful human nature.

Christ died to all that he had in heaven before he became the worthy lamb that was slain for our redemption, and in his death on the cross many sons gained eternal life.

his life no longer matter, what matters to him was the purpose of God for his life, though he was rich, the bible says he became poor so that we can through his poverty become rich, he was a king, but for our sake he became a servant; he was the commander of the hosts, but yet for our sake he became the commanded… in all of these, although it seemed to us all as the most despicable point for any man to be in, yet he was rich towards God.

Paul demonstrated to us all, how to die to self and become crucified with Christ:

now let us see how he practically demonstrated it to us:

and “far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” ().

phil 3:1-

philp 3:7-11