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I remember when I got saved.
I wanted to grow closer to the Lord, but didn’t really know how.
I began reading the Bible but didn’t understand it at first… so I would read a chapter a couple of times.
Slowly I began to grow in my walk with the Lord.
I would go to church and hear people say you just have to let God transform you.
Another church I visited was saying if it’s to be, it’s up to me.
My growth was all up to me.
Listen, when I accepted Jesus, I did not all of a sudden become a young Billy Graham.
Now, as a young person I would hear messages that seemed to be giving me a list of do’s and don’ts.
I read a book called the Pursuit of Holiness.
It actually is a good book but it pushed ME towards a legalism where my salvation was based on doing enough good things.
Have you ever struggled with how you grow or mature in your relationship with the Lord.
I find that most of us, if we are honest, struggle with growing in our relationship with the Lord.
The good news is that God through Paul knew we would struggle with this.
Paul knew we would struggle between what God does in ua and what we have to do.
Do we really have to give up doing EVERYTHING that’s fun.
According to Paul - NO.
That’s good news especially if you believe that you have to give up all kinds of things to be a Christian.
I have heard this from so many people… I don’t want to follow Jesus because he will make me quit … and I don’t want to quit.
This verse has good news.
Paul says here that God actually changes my “want to’s” so that I can follow him.
God changes our want too’s
I can do anything I want to do, but I don’t want to do the things I once wanted to do.
As you press into your relationship with the Lord, he will change what you want in life and give you the ability to do it.
Today we want to look at the process of growing from a little baby in Christ to a mature believer in Christ.
This is called Sanctification.
Crying babies are cute… I guess, but a crying 40 year old is definitely not cute.
We all need to change some things in our lives.
Changing and growing is the Christian Walk.
So how do we grow?
When it comes to growth, God has a part and you have a part.
Work Out - when you work out, you work out what you already have … muscle.
talk about working out
Work Out your Own Salvation - You are making your salvation stronger as you work out.
You don’t work out someone else’s salvation, you work out your own.
You take ownership for yourself.
Each of us are unique so we will look somewhat different … that’s why he says work out your own salvation.
You add things to your life that make your salvation stronger - fellowship, Bible reading and study, Prayer, Witnessing, tithing and giving, witnessing to others.
Work Out your Own Salvation with Fear and Trembling - God is our friend, but he is also the Holy God set apart who does not look at sin.
We need to fear disappointing God.
We don’t have to be afraid of him treating us mean or wrongly.
He loves us but I don’t want to dishonor him.
Jim Baker - I never stopped loving God, I stopped fearing God.
Nothing in life is more important than your relationship with Jesus Christ and growing in that relationship.
No job is nor is any other relationship.
It is God who is working in you - God has a part and he is working in you.
Working - is the word we get energizer from.
God energizes you.
He gives you the desire to follow him and he gives you the power to do what he wants you to do.
You may be thinking, I have tried and tried to grow and change but I just can’t.
I have been there too.
You are right.
You can’t change in your own, but God will give you the power to change.
None of us can on our own.
There are three tools that God uses to help us grow.
There are three choices we can make that allow us to grow.
Gods’s Part in Changing Us
1. God uses the Bible to grow your relationship.
This Bible is God’s Word.
It’s inspired and it teaches us what to do and not do.
If we will read the Bible and study it, it will change the way we think which will change us.
If you want to be serious about growth and change, get into this book.
WOG will change your life.
It will change your thoughts, your words and your actions.
Read it… Study it… Memorize it … Meditate on it.
The more of the WOG you put into your mind, the better.
Example…
Some of you feel like your faith is weak… like your relationship with the Lord is weak - Get the WOG in you!
Get Worded up!
2. God uses the Holy Spirit to grow your relationship.
WOG is awesome, but we need more.
God actually puts his Spirit in us and this is where our power comes from.
The same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead comes to live in you and when we invited Jesus to be our Savior and Lord.
The HS changes us into the image of Jesus.
IOW,
God’s purpose for your life is to become more like Jesus.
God’s #1 purpose is not to make me happy, but to make me more like Jesus.
He will do this by putting His Spirit in you.
He also does by filling you with his Spirit.
The Spirit Filled Life should be the norm in the Christian Life.
God wants us all to be filled with the Spirit.
How do you know you are filled?
God wants you & me to grow more and more like Jesus and we need to be indwelt and filled with the HS to do that.
Now, if we still don’t listen,
3. God will use circumstances to grow your relationship.
Sometimes we need a little pain to make changes.
So when we are not doing what God wants us to do… we have stepped out of his will and his protection, his blessing, His provision … so problems, trials and difficulties begin to pile up in our lives.
Years ago, a friend told me that he could always tell when his wife got behind on their tithing… stuff began to break.
Here is how God uses circumstances…
First, let me say…
Nothing comes into the life of a believer without God’s Permission.
The difficulties are not good and God doesn’t cause them, but God will bring good out of them.
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The devil had to give an account of where he had been and what he had been doing in the book of Job.
It doesn’t matter where the trials come from (yourself, the devil or the culture), God will bring good out of them.
God will grow you through your circumstances.
If Jesus had to learn through suffering, why do you think we would be different?
We rarely change until we get desperate.
Trials cleanse us and make us into he people God wants us to be.
That’s what God does.
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