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Intro
Welcome Live Stream
Wk 2 - A Way in a Manger
We decided use a word play on the a song written in the 19 century to help us get ready for Christmas this year.
We decided use a word play on the a song written in the 19 century to help us get ready for Christmas this year
We separated the “A” form Away and we get an actual historical reference to Christianity in the early church.
We separated the “A” form Away and we get an actual historical reference to Christianity in the early church.
>>> Jesus said I am the way.
The truth and the life.
The way to the Father is through me.
I am the restorer, the reconciliation of mankind.
I am the way.
This year we want you to get ready for Christmas.
We want you ready to celebrate the coming of the Way.
The way to peace with God.
The way in a manger.
We want this Christmas to be your greatest ever.
So get ready… all the stories are true.
Last week, Pastor Tim taught us that the way to begin is through repentance.
>>> This week we are going to discuss a way in.
ILLUS: Middle School — Wanting to fit in.
Want so desperately to live someone else’s life.
If I was as cool as them, pretty as her, as athletic as he is, etc.
>>> As we grow up I think another dimension gets added to this.
We start to get a glimpse of the life we want to lead.
We want to live a life of purpose and significance.
We want to live lives full of joy and peace.
Yet, so many of us feel like we’ve been locked out from this life.
ILLUS: The Door
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Other side of the door represents the life you were created to live.
2. We try all kinds of way to get through the door.
3. Repentance is the key that opens the door to your new life.
4. When we choose to repent, and once we walk through the door, we’re in.
New life and new possibilities are yours in Christ!
5.
The problem, is so many of us stand in the doorway.
We try to live this new life without abandoning the old.
6.
Our immediate response is to try to clean up our old life.
Stop this… Stop that… etc.
7. Walking through this door isn’t about living your old life better.
8. It’s a brand new life—the new possibilities of a new life in Him.
The message of Christmas is that Christ invites you in.
In to new life.
In to new possibilities.
In to Him.
>>> This morning, we want to take a look at what it means to be in Christ.
We have over simplified a complex reality.
Not only is Christ in us—We are IN Him.
What an incredible promise!
In the next chapter of John, Jesus would declare:
>>> The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Christians in Rome would expound on this truth about what it means to be in Christ.
Too many Christians live their as if this is not true.
Pat Selvey - “It’s either true or it’s not.”
Do you believe that if you are in Christ, then you stand uncondemned?
Others continue to live condemned because they feel they are beyond saving.
They’ve done too much bad.
Their life just isn’t worth Christ forgiveness.
If this is you, Christmas is your reminder that Christ came to be condemned on your behalf.
ILLUS: Black paper placed in Bible to represent our life IN HIM—wrapped in His righteousness.
rom8.2-3
Paul brings up an interesting point regarding the law.
What the law does:
The law sets before us a straight path
Shows us or deflections and stains
What the law doesn’t not do:
The law can tell you what you ought to do, but it gives no inclination to do the right.
It does not lend us any aid towards the fulfilment of its commands.
When we have broken the law, it brings no remedy.
You see, the Law cannot:
Produce a new heart in a sinner
Save a lost soul
Justify a guilty person
Draw a wanderer back to God
>>> So God had to do what the law could not do by sending His Son.
This is what we celebrate on Christmas day!
rom8.4
System of sacrifices.
Repeated over and over and over again.
Never satisfied the law.
Simply covered our sin.
God sent Jesus so that once and for all the requirements of the law would be satisfied.
Paul here lays out a vital test that all believers should take.
He implores us to search and see what spirit is in us, so that we can discern whose child we are.
Those who are “led by the Spirit” are the children of God.
Those who are not “led of the Spirit” are not His children.
Paul says, that if we do not have the Spirit of Christ living in us then we do not belong to Him at all.
How sad it will be to think that you are “in” only to find out when standing before Christ that you were never really His!?
This Christmas, let us take time to examine which spirit we follow.
Is your life characterized by following the leading of the Spirit?
Let our lives be characterized by following the leading of the Spirit.
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Paul’s thought here in verse 10 is a further explanation of the previous verses.
Paul knows that his previous statements might cause some to doubts, so he seeks to encourage them by reminding me that Christ does indeed live within.
Not only are we in Christ, but He is in us.
Paul declares that this spirit within us is the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead!
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The tense Paul uses here gives us further assurance that our struggle with the flesh does not bring our status as children of God into question.
Rather, Paul suggest a continuous activity where the believer day after day puts to death the deeds of our sinful nature.
Along with the privilege of being “IN” comes responsibility.
The responsibility of putting our sinful nature to death.
How? Obeying the promptings of the Spirit.
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