Living Through Christ – Part 2 – Sermon Notes

by | Jul 27, 2024 | Sermon Notes

Living Through Christ Part 2

Living THROUGH Christ means living FOR Christ.

  • Don’t become legalistic or religious. Religion is you doing to affirm being. Christianity is being that produces doing.
  1. The Gospel: Deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow Jesus. Never let sin against you produce sin in you.
  2. “And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” Luke 9:23 KJV
  3. Never allow sin against you to produce sin in you.
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Don’t allow where someone isn’t determine where you are. Don’t let something matter more than what matters most. That’s idolatry. The only person that deserves that place is Jesus (and He is love so that’s what we are to follow).

  • “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.” I Corinthians 13:4-8 NKJV
  • Christ in you is the hope of glory.
  • “To them (His saints) God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 NKJV
  • Glory: any seen, manifested, made known character or attribute of God. So any expression of who God is the glory of God revealed. The Christ in you is the hope of God being seen and known.
  • Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.
  • “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:19-20 NKJV
  • Not to be mistaken with being ticked off, not wanting to hear it and having a whole lot to say.
  • Be more focused on being formed in love than on being right remembering that it is God’s goodness that leads men to repentance not His rightness.
  • “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” Romans 2:4 NKJV
  • Guarding your heart means guarding your motive.
  • “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23 NKJV
  • Believe God.
  • “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:17-18 NKJV
  • We create theologies and doctrines based more off our experiences more than on what the Word of Christ says.
  • Trust in God. Not in man and not in your own capacity to make sense of something.
  • “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;” Proverbs 3:5 NKJV
  • “Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.” Psalms 37:3 NKJV
  • Above all, walk in love and don’t be moved from love.
  • “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.” Colossians 3:8-14 NKJV
  • “And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”” I Peter 4:8 NKJV
  1. Forget what is behind and press forward to what is ahead.
  2. “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:12-14 NKJV