Are You The Real Deal?
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25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. 26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,
27 nor give place to the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Sermon Series: The Resurrected Life: Living as New People in Christ
Title: Are You the Real Deal?
Take off our graveclothes - we are new creatures in Christ
You are alive in Christ!
Tell the person to your left - You are alive. To your right - You are alive in Christ!
We should not be walking like Zombies anymore!
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
I like another version “He has made us to be born again into a living hope” through the resurrection (we just sang that song)
4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
People ask: Can I lose my salvation? Christians have been theologizing on eternal security that there is a camp the Calvinists that believe that you cannot lose your salvation and there is a camp the Armenians that believe you can.
One who is resurrected in Christ will not die again. In fact in Ephesians 1 - the apostle Paul said that we should know what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead - we should be walking in the power of Jesus’ resurrection.
Those who ask the question can I lose my salvation should ask, will God take back my salvation?
Jesus said in John 10:
28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
The key word is eternal
Salvation is from God through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit but the assurance of salvation is on us.
Security of Salvation is different from the Assurance of Salvation.
Security is an objective reality. Assurance is a subjective reality.
I praise God because I am saved through the finished work of Jesus on the cross (talk..) It is all by the grace of God..
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
The word is “WALK”
How are we to walk as true Christians.
In verse 1 of Ephesians 4… Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called..
In verse 17 — Do not walk as the rest of the gentiles walked
In Chapter 5 verse 2 - walk in love
Walking the “Walk”
Walk Worthy of God’s calling (Eph. 4:1)
Do not Walk as the Rest of the Gentiles Walk (Eph. 4:17)
Walk in Love (Ephesians 5:2)
Walk Circumspectly (Wisely) (Ephesians 5:15)
The question is asked maybe because the person is not saved in the first place, or maybe because he does not have the assurance because he still walks like the old man - who is supposed to be dead.
We now have the Resurrected Man’s:
Mindset
Behavior
Last week: The graveclothes covering on our heads, We have to have the Resurrected Man’s mindset.
16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
What does it mean to have the mind of Christ - it doesn’t mean that we have perfect intelligence like the Lord Jesus and claim to be like God.
Warren Wiersbe
To “have the mind of Christ” means to look at life from the Savior’s point of view, having His values and desires in mind. It means to think God’s thoughts and not think as the world thinks
Our pattern of thinking should be different from the world’s thinking patterns.
The world does not understand you, but you understand the world. How the unsaved person thinks and how the unsaved person behaves.
Today, we will deal with the Resurrected Man’s Behavior Patterns.
Illustration: About Authenticity. The unsaved don’t want to go to church because they find no difference..
Jesus is attractive but Christians shroud this attractiveness by their behavior.
The Old Man was described in Ephesians 4:25-32 in his:
Words.
Emotions.
Actions.
The way of the Unresurrected man:
In his words or tongue:
Lying
Corrupt words
evil-speaking
The way of the Unresurrected man:
In His emotions:
Bitterness
Anger
Wrath
Clamor
The way of the Unresurrected man:
In His Actions:
Stealing
Deceitful Plotting
Let’s go through these patterns of behavior again, must be painful to the Christian.. we should not relish this:
25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. 26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,
Lying - be truthful to each other
Righteous indignation
Keep a short account
27 nor give place to the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
The devil is an instigator — from reasoning to yelling
Solomon has the answer:
1 A soft answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger.
Stealing one of the 10 commandments, also talks about laziness, here Paul even raises the bar on the principle of work — it is not only to help one’s self, but it is to help others (how attractive that will be!)
29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
The appetites of the old man
Corrupt means rotten. Like the rottenness of a dead man.. remember Lazarus with the stench?
31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
Bitterness - Settled hostility that poisons a man
Wrath - Rage (Road rage)
Anger
Clamor - Quarreling
Evil Speaking - Slander
Malice - ill intent
Who is the Person most affected by these things.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
This is what the Spirit reminds us today:
32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
An unforgiving person may not have really experienced the forgiveness of God.
Are you the real deal?
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.