The Power of God
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1 This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”
2 I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare—
3 since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.
4 For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.
5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
6 But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.
7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Introduction
Introduction
Hear the Word of the Lord
Hear the Word of the Lord
5 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
Hear the word of the Lord
++35 times in the Old Testament
++3 of the 35 times it adds GOD
3 and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: “Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
3 Say to the Ammonites, ‘Hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God: “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,
4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around—
Each of these ended in a declared relationship
“And you shall know I am the Lord”
“And you shall know I am the Lord”
Lordship is an expression of natural authority
Lordship is an expression of natural authority
42 But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
It denotes power
++To instruct
++To inform
++To command
When that authority is God
When that authority is God
The power is
++Not limited to natural restraint
++Transformation
His power not only changes
++What we know
++What we have
It changes who we are
It changes who we are
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
The words of scripture declares
++A moral preference
++A standard
++What is good and evil
++What is right and wrong
Everything in nature reflects
++Order
++Design
++A master plan
It is easy to notice the unexpected
It is easy to notice the unexpected
When things are done right there is
++No complaint
++No reward
Why is it important to do the right thing?
Why is it important to do the right thing?
Doing the wrong thing
++Will get you noticed
++Will make you visible
We live in a world that cries out for justice.
We live in a world that cries out for justice.
If God is good why does injustice prevail?
Does God care about injustice?
God Takes Notice
God Takes Notice
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
God said to Moses
++I have seen the oppression
++I have heard their cry
++I know their sorrow
++I am come down to deliver them
How did God bring his deliverance?
How did God bring his deliverance?
30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
God is still looking for someone
++With us today
++Committed to work
++Powerful in prayer
++Delay the decay
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
He found no one
He found no one
3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully.
Paul is being challenged
++Sin is present among the believers
++This report has come to Paul
++Paul has taken know immediate action
Paul’s delay in confronting sin
++Is seen as weakness
++Was in reality a pursuit of clarity
1 This will be the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”
Paul did not rush to Judgement
Paul did not rush to Judgement
29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
2 Do not be rash with your mouth, And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven, and you on earth; Therefore let your words be few.
Divine revelation
++Does not change natural realities
++Provides clarity connected to purpose
Earthly judgement
++Is connected to natural evidence
++Is exploration to find what is right
24 Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
If you are a man of God
++Wouldn’t you know?
++Wouldn’t you put the sinner out?
3 since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.
The Real Proof
The Real Proof
The proof of Christ speaking
++Is not the strength of the leader
++Is the strength of the word
++Is it’s impact on the hearer
5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
No one can declare your testimony
No one can declare your testimony
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Knowing our relationship with God
Knowing our relationship with God
Take the examination
++Am I growing in the faith?
++Do I know that I am in Christ?
++Is Christ in me?
22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Knowing our relationship with God
Knowing our relationship with God
7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified.
Obedience directed to God
Obedience directed to God
Paul tells the to check their motives
Paul tells the to check their motives
Though they were the proof of the effectiveness of his ministry, his ministry was not effective because of them.
Don’t live right
++For the good of the ministry
++To account for weakness
Obedience directed to God
Obedience directed to God
How we live our life
How we live our life
Paul’s Prayer was
++That you do no evil
++That you do what is right
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
How we live our life
How we live our life
2 Corinthians 13:9 (NKJV)
9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.
The Fullness of God is made known in you
The Fullness of God is made known in you
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
The Fullness of God is made known in you
The Fullness of God is made known in you
2 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJV)
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Walk in the Power of God
Walk in the Power of God
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
It is time to be
++Complete
++Satisfied
++Unified
++in peace
God will be with you
++His Love
++His Peace
Walk in the Power of God
Walk in the Power of God