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We are New Creatures in Christ.
The Old has passed away and the New has come.
This means that we do not work to earn our salvation.
Does this mean, however that we coast by on autopilot the rest of our days?
Just because our standing with God has been earned for us, can we then conclude that we’re not responsible to obey Christ?
Are we free to disobey now?
This is a contradiction!
Jesus did not die on a bloody cross to purchase me a couch of ease to pass my days in luxury and wastefull living, rather when Christ died he purchased my freedom so I can join with him in the fight.
He made my fighting possible.
Before we were Christian when it came to sin, we could be no more than legalists.
Striving to earn a right standing with God and hopelessly beating the air.
The more we put standards and rules on ourselves the more we found ourselves sinning.
But Jesus has changed that!
Through his death, we have died to sin
In our death to sin, God gave us new capacities, new desires.
We now have the capability to fight sin.
So when we see that Jesus has made us New, it’s not cause to settle down and take your ease, it means you’ve been given the ability to fight now, so go fight harder.
Joshua 14:11-14
You need to look at your sin like Caleb did Hebron, “Give me this hill!”
You are New, you are not what you used to be, you have the Holy Spirit, you have the Word of God, you have comrades in arms, You can win!
You will win!
The Call To Change
It’s not an option
Ephesians
Real Repentance not:
just feeling bad about your sins, but to actually change.
A Radically Different Lifestyle (What do we Put Off)
vs. 17 “walk
A Radically Different Lifestyle
vs. 20 “the way” or lifestyle
vs. 22 “former manner of life”
He’s talking about a lifestyle, or the whole person.
God doesn’t just want you to stop doing bad things, he wants your whole person to change.
Not just feeling bad about your sins, but to actually change.
It takes a real sincerity (The whole me must change)
This is the reason why some people never progress in Christianity.
God, you can have this area, but not the whole.
True, lasting change is when the whole me is on the table.
Change is Hard
Why?
1.
The Old Man Is Dead, but still resisting.
It’s just residual effects of sin (rebels in the land)
Illustration:
The foreign king has been deposed, but there are still rebels hidden throughout the land.
2. It’s hard because of your ingrained habits of sin.
“manner of life”= habits.
-You were born with a nature that was bent on sinning.
-You were desire oriented: whatever you wanted, you did it.
-Learning to practice sin
You learned easily, and consistently!
Some are delivered immediately, but not all.
Some are delivered immediately, but not all.
God leaves them there on purpose.
(Don’t help you kids do this)
Some are delivered immediately, but not all.
God leaves them there on purpose.
Application:
Don’t help you kids do this.
Don’t help them learn ingrained habits of sinning.
Hold standards of righteousness in you household.
Keep you kids accountable You would be better to throw a noose around your child’s neck rather than give him everything he desires.
You make it easy for that child to harden his heart against God.
Unlearning your practices.
Some are delivered immediately, but not all.
God leaves them there on purpose.
Change Thru Godly Discipline
Change Thru Godly Discipline
We are called to orient ourselves to obedience, we set ourselves to obeying God! Regularly!
“It is by willing, prayerful, and persistent obedience to the requirements of the scriptures that godly patterns are developed and come to be a part of us.”
We put off the old man
resist our sinful tendencies, we oppose them, we say no.
(It’s hard, remember because you taught yourself to be this way)
We Put on the New Man
choosing righteous ways of living.
Discipline for Godly alternatives
Examples in Ephesians
Liars, thieves, drunkards.
Problems
-When we try to put on without putting off, we fail.
Trying to trust God without putting off worry!
-When we only put off and not put on we fail.
Stop sinning for a season only to fall back into it.
-It takes time “6 weeks” according to Jay Adams
Excuses:
It’s too Hard!
(You want success without work)
Illustration: Ice Skating
I’m too far gone (You don’t believe God can)
I can’t control myself (In some cases its true, but it’s only because you’ve given yourself over)
I’ve sinned too much (It’s not your past sins that are the issue, it’s your present disobedience)
I’m worried about the future (That’s disobedience)
This is who I am! (False, it’s who you were!)
Conclusion:
The example of Caleb, succeed?
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