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A man was coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands.
He grabbed this man by the hand and pulled him aside.
The Pastor said to him, “You need to join the Army of the Lord!”
My friend replied, “I’m already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor.”
The pastor questioned, “How come I don’t see you except at Christmas and Easter?”
The man whispered back, “I’m in the secret service.”
Historical/Cultural Context -
Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
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Life Principle - True Inner Change Only Comes Through The Power Of God
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Paul is continuing his greetings.
He starts by telling them the good things about their church, their gathering together of believers.
He thanks God for them, for the gracious gifts God has given this church.
Which come by belonging to Jesus.
What gifts is he referring to here?
We established it is the gift of salvation.
To be saved by God to a newness of life.
To have our spirit renewed in Christ and not only that but to have the peace of God.
We discussed this peace a little bit last week.
This is peace is not from the world, but is spiritually given by God to the saved.
Not peace between God and the unsaved.
As we are regenerated by the Holy Spirit we are given newness of life.
We stop doing the things we don’t want to do, and start doing the new things we do want to do.
Will we do this perfectly?
No. Sin, like a stain of ink on the skin can stay on your hands for a long time to come.
There will be certain sin you will struggle with for a while.
The cleaning up of your life is something that will take all of your life.
The more God takes away, the more you submit the more the little things begin to matter.
The so-called little sins will bother you more and more.
Romans 7:15-24
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do.
For what I want to do, I do not do.
But what I hate, I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
17 In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For I do not do the good I want to do.
Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
20 And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.2
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
We know from the world that those who are not saved will not begin to keep His words.
Salvation is not about just saying a prayer, but a complete change of an individual from the inside out.
They are given new hearts, new natures.
Spiritual fruit begins to grow.
Not because your works will get you to heaven, but out of a true love for Jesus Christ and others.
What is this spiritual fruit?
Did you notice the scripture says fruit, not fruits?
When we look at fruit we see that each kind of fruit has a characteristic.
What is a characteristic of an orange?
Its’ color is orange.
It is round.
It has pulp.
It is sweet.
With these characteristics we look at it and say, yes that is an orange.
What we have done in the church, wrongly I might add, is taken the spiritual characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit and called each characteristic its’ own fruit.
This is not the case.
The spiritual fruit has the following characteristics:
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
With these characteristics being what makes up the fruit of the Spirit, then I can look at someone and say, yes that is saved person.
Someone may say, “but pastor, we see an orange and when we say orange everyone knows what Characteristics it has so we don’t have to list the characteristics.”
Yes this is true, but unfortunately not everyone can see the Spirit with their own physical eyes, because He is spiritual and must be recognized by His characteristics in the life of the believer.
The natural man cannot even recognize these characteristics clearly in anyone, because they are spiritually discerned.
As we will see later in:
Remember that the grace of God is His unmerited favor toward us.
He chose us, not because of anything in us.
This favor bestowed upon us gifts (meaning salvation, regeneration, and the infilling of Himself The Holy Spirit).
Who gives you this?
It can be given to you only by Jesus Christ.
Through His shed blood on the cross.
If everyone because of Adam and Eve’s sin is born in sin and deserving of death.
God in His mercy took upon Himself flesh and dwelt amongst us, so that we might be justified.
I remember the basic meaning of this word by saying “Just if I had never sinned.”
1 Corinthians 1:5
5 For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge, 6 because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.
When a person is unsaved they cannot see the work and the power of Christ.
Why?
Because they are not in Him, that is regenerated by God to newness of life.
Scripture says that these folks’ lives have been enriched.
Meaning a better life on the inside of the person.
Throughout history we know that the Christian is persecuted, whether that is physical or social.
Or both.
Did you know that in most Muslim countries, if you are an outsider and they let you live amongst them and you claim the name of Christ you must pay a tax to the state?
Did you know that while you live, because in all honesty a lot of Christians get murdered in these countries everyday, you are a second class citizen.
Police may not respond to your needs.
If they do, not much is done for the person who is a Christian.
Did you know that Christians in countries all over the world, especially in Africa are murdered just because they are Christians?
It’s not that bad here, yet.
Notice I said, “yet.”
Do you know why I say yet?
Because there are more and more folks in America who hate Christian churches and Christians in general.
Ever since this Roe v. Wade leak the radical left have targeted churches and broken windows, spray painted graffiti, and have thrown Molotov cocktails inside churches to cause as much damage as they can.
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