Foundations of Spiritual Growth
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The Foundation of Spiritual Growth
The Foundation of Spiritual Growth
It’s in my nature or Its just me being me
It’s in my nature or Its just me being me
Its just me being me
Its just me being me
Conversion- Placing ones faith in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of sin and the gift of eternal life
Conversion- Placing ones faith in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of sin and the gift of eternal life
Salvation
New Birth
There can be no spiritual growth with out a spiritual birth
There can be no spiritual growth with out a spiritual birth
Why is Conversion important
Why is Conversion important
Conversion allows us to reconnect with God
Conversion allows us to reconnect with God
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
Sin keeps us from reconnecting with God
Sin keeps us from reconnecting with God
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—
Sin Keeps us for connecting with God
Sin Keeps us for connecting with God
that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
We can’t approach Him
We can’t grow in Him
For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 64:
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
The Character of Conversion
The Character of Conversion
A new Birth
The Character of Conversion
The Character of Conversion
Now if we are defective in nature we must be fixed
Now if we are defective in nature we must be fixed
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
2 Peter 1:4
God gives us His nature
God gives us His nature
A fundenmental Problem
Salvation
New Birth
The Process of God Depositing a new nature in every Believer and our old nature being crucified
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
Romans 6:6
The Process of God Depositing a new nature in every Believer and our old nature being crucified
Conversion/Salvation/New birth
The Process of God depositing a new nature in every believer while crucifying the old person
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
Roman ^:
Growing Completely
Growing Completely
1) Nurture your new Nature
1) Nurture your new Nature
No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
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2) Lose yourself
2) Lose yourself
“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
You are Complete and you have all you need to mature
You are Complete and you have all you need to mature
and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;
Colosians 2:10
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,
“And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”
Hebrews
New Things are coming
New Things are coming
A new struggle
A new appetite
The Struggle
The Struggle
Romans 7:15-
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.
This Appetite
This Appetite
Hebrews 10:14-
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws upon their heart,
And on their mind I will write them,”
He then says,