BEING WHO YOU ARE #2
A. Last week we ended with ROM 5:5.
(1) As a Christian that is a reality in your life right now.
a. Youre not trying to get the Holy Spirit, not praying
for it. He indwells you right now.
(A) You have the Indwelling Holy Spirit and the love of God fills
your life.
(1) Not a trickle. Given to overflowing. More than enough to spare.
(1) Gods love is like Himself, its overflowing in
goodness. The divine nature.
(2) No part of you life is to be untouched, uncontrolled by that
Holy Spirit.
b. All the epistles are written with the assumption you already
know that and were living it.
(A) Written to those who know they are filled with the Holy Spirit
and the love of God.
(1) Thats why every epistle demands that you live in terms
of who you are.
(a) Be who you are. You are a child of God, holy, wahed, a member
of Gods holy
priesthood. You are the temple of God.
(b) EPH. 4:22. (2) Whats the proof of that? Your new heart,
attitude, life style.
(a) 1 COR. 3:3.
That speaks to Christians who had not made that transition. Still
carnal.
(c) The idea of still carnal is that they never stopped being
what they were
when they became Christians. Or else they started being that way
again.
(d) Either way, after becoming Christians they quenched, Ignored
the Holy Spirit.
(B) COL 3:3, 12-14.
(1) People say, If I had that kind of love in me Id
be abel to do that.
(a) That love is supposed to already be there. Unless the Holy
Spirit has left.
(b) Have you quenched and grieved the Holy Spirit until He just
moved out?
(2) Whats the solution?
(1) Become what you are as a child of God.
(2) Stop walking in the flesh & start walking in the Holy
Spirit.
(a) Crucify the old you and become new. Start being what youre
supposed to be.
(b) ROM 12:1-2.
2. Ever watch a snake shed its skin? It outgrows its
old skin by growing a new skin underneath
the old skin. The old skin dies and is discarded completely.
a. Thats what the New Testament tells us to do. You grown
into being a new you.
(A) The Holy Spirit is inside of you. Gods love is creating
a new you.
(2) You are out growing your old self and your old lifestyle of
selfishness and unlove.
(a The old you must die and is being discarded.
(b) No other option. If not, enjoy this world while you can.
(2) Thats the message the Holy Spirit sets forth in the
entire book of Ephesians.
(a) EPH 4:1-2; 17-18; 21-24.
(b) Walk in a way thats consistent with who you are.
(B) EPH 4:30-5:2a. Thats who you are so just do it.
(1) Do that and people will be knocking down the doors to worship
God with us.
(2) Paul is not telling us to do something thats impossible.
No impossibilities with God.
(a) COL 3:10. Become who you are!!!
(b) How? Vs. 12-17. Thats it, He says its yours. Take
it and live your life to the fullest
in peace and happiness.
(c) ACTS 20:32.
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