Who am I? Part II

Good morning and welcome to CCC. I must admit I am loving the cool mornings and this wonderful fall weather

Yesterday I was blessed with the opportunity to speak at the faith and feathers youth peasant hunt and tower shoot.

God blessed us with wonderful weather....good turnout and He moved mightily in the hearts of about 40 young men yesterday. Praise the Lord!

This Saturday is Men’s breakfast in Sheldon

I am planning on going and will leave from CCC parking lot at 5:30 am if you would like to ride with me

Cooking and fellowship starts at 5:30 am and they eat about 7 am with a devotion to follow

Sheldon Baptist Church

Last week we started Who Am I? our mini series within the IT sermon series

IT again is the only thing that matters: Salvation and Discipleship

However, God is showing us those must be built upon a firm foundation

The first part of that foundation is the answer to the question Who am I?

I felt God leading me to Romans 8 to find that answer

Last week we looked at vs 1-4 and found part of the answer to Who am I? is FREE in Christ!

Free from condemnation

Free from the law of sin and death

Free from sin itself

Complete Freedom in Christ Jesus!

This morning we will continue in Romans 8.

If you missed last week the sermon and sermon notes are up on our website and app

Lets Pray

This morning we will be in Romans 8:5-17. go ahead and start turning there in your Bible if you would

If you use your phone for your Bible feel free to do so....also there is a Bible on our app cccnevadamo at both the apple store and the play store

Romans 8:5–17

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King James Version Chapter 8

5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies xby his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Who am I?

II. In the Spirit

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Now part of the IT series will be preaching through what we believe here at CCC and why we believe it

The Holy Spirit will be part of that…however to grasp this part of Romans 8 and Who am I we must discuss the Holy Spirit briefly this morning

Holy Spirit is God…part of the trinity…He is given to us by God at salvation

Ephesians 1:13–14

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“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

As you can see from scripture Holy Spirit is given to us at salvation

I fully believe this based upon scripture

At salvation one is given the Holy Spirit

John 14:15–17

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“If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

The Father gives you the Holy Spirit

You can’t earn the Holy Spirit

You will never deserve the Holy Spirit

You can’t earn or gain more Holy Spirit

At salvation God gives you the Holy Spirit

You are not able to gain more Holy Spirit as He is a Him.......a person.....you can’t gain more of a person

Through obedience you grow closer to the Holy Spirit and you also become more in tune with Him....hearing Him louder and clear because you are closer to Him but you will never be able to gain more of Him

Jesus speaks of this maturing process at in vs 15

If ye love me keep my commandments

Many may say Pastor Josh keep my commandments....action on our part so therefore you earn the Holy Spirit

You are missing Jesus’ point and the point of the entire Bible

Until you are saved you can’t keep Jesus commandments.....when you are saved you receive the Holy Spirit and He enables you to keep Jesus commandments

If you could do it on your own no one would need Jesus or Holy Spirit

Also notice the world can’t have the Holy Spirit

why

because they are not saved

only Christians who receive the Holy Spirit at salvation

once saved you are in the Spirit

What does that mean

to be in the Spirit?

What impact does it have on us

Lets go back to Romans 8. to find out

1. Battlefield of the mind vs 5-6

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Romans 8:5–6

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“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Who or what do we mind

to mind is from a Greek verb means to entertain or have a sentiment or opinion, disposed, interest oneself in, set the affection on

remember affection according to websters 1828 means bent mind towards something, passion and excitement, desire

What you think about

what you are passionate about

what you desire

That is your affection and that should be set upon the Spirit but you can choose to set it upon the flesh

You either mind after the flesh and the things of the flesh or the Spirit and the things of the Spirit

notice you cant do both

you cant have a little flesh and the rest Spirit

What excites you

what do you get passionate about

what do you desire

If those things are fleshly you mind the flesh

you are after the flesh

therefore against the Spirit

Even within ministry you must be careful

Yesterday was a great event but unfortunately for some Christians who were there they minded the flesh and not the Spirit

They were so focused on the hunting and the physical they missed the real reason God created Faith and Feathers....to bring Him to kids

We can get so caught up in the physical…fleshly side of ministry we miss the Holy Spirit

As we grow together

As we grow closer to God

As God reveals through the Holy Spirit your ministries we must keep the main thing the main thing

God Himself

The Holy Spirit

Jesus Christ and the Gospel

That is all that matters

God throughout the entire old testament is point to Jesus

Point to the Gospel

Pointing to the change that would happen on the cross

In the old testament we were separated from God because of our sin

before salvation you and I are separated by God by our sin

We can do nothing on our own about our sin problem

the wages of sin is death.....your spiritual death and my spiritual death

To pay that penalty....to face Gods full wrath means eternal separation from God for us

Jesus is the only answer

not the law

not a church

not a ministry

not a sinners prayer

nothing other that JESUS HIMSELF!

Because of that we must mind the things of the Spirit and put to death the things of the flesh

This is why what you put into your mind matters

reading

listening

watching

all of those matter are those things fleshly or Spiritual

Galatians 5:16–18

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”

Galatians 5:25

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

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Your walk matters church

your words matter church

your thoughts matter church

This is a great teaching on the civil war happening inside each and every Christian alive today

Your flesh

your lusts

your desires

your passions

all actively go against the Spirit

the things of the Spirit

Love

Joy

Peace

Longsuffering

Gentleness

Goodness

Faith

Meekness

Temperance

Those actively go against the flesh

You must choose a side daily......many times multiple times a day

Not only do you receive the Holy Spirit at salvation but Romans also teaches

2. Spirit proves you are saved vs 9-11

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Romans 8:9–11

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“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”

Once saved you receive the Holy Spirit

He then begins to transform you by the renewing of your mind

Jesus says in order to be saved you must count the cost

Part of that cost you must count is taking up your cross daily and dying to self daily....that is only done through the power of the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 6:18–20

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“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

You are not your own

The Holy Spirit lives inside of you

Jesus bought you with His life

His blood

As you realize this

as you believe this

as you apply this to your life through the Holy Spirit

you change

You must change

You are not your own

you were bought with a price

you see scriptures like this and you do what they say

you flee fornication because you understand what you are doing and how much that hurts God and separates you from God

As the Holy Spirit resides in you He works

He produces fruit

He is God and nothing can or will stop Him from producing fruit

Galatians 5:22–23

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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

You see all of these things being produced in you by the Holy Spirit

your thoughts begin to change

your words begin to change

your reactions begin to change

your behavior begins to change

your relationships begin to change

you know you are saved because you have the Holy Spirit and can feel and see Him working in you

Not only do you receive the Holy Spirit at salvation, not only does the Spirit prove that salvation but you realize

3. You are debtors vs 12-13

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Romans 8:12–13

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“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”

Because you are bought with such a high price you owe everything to Jesus!

How do you express that debt or gratitude to Jesus

Colossians 3:5–11

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“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.”

You die to you

You die to the world

You die to sin

You die to the passions and lusts and desires of the flesh

That is what is being taught here in Colossians

Mortify comes from a Greek verb that means to deaden, to subdue, be dead

You cant continue to entertain

you cant continue to justify

you cant continue to willingly do the things mentioned in Colossians and claim to mortify them

You must be dead to them

I dont care how much you love them

I dont care how much you enjoy them

I dont care how much money you have spent on them

KILL THEM

MORTIFY THEM

Get rid of them

Quit making excuses to keep them and mortify them

That is done through the Holy Spirit

When you are reading scripture and you get that tug at your heart

that conviction to change

that need to do something

that is the Holy Spirit leading you and growing you

what do you do with it?

you only have two choices....

ignore and continue with life and quench the Holy Spirit

or

Mortify the things called to mortify

respond to that conviction in an obedient and loving manner realizing that is God loving you as His child which brings us to our last point this morning

4. You Are a Child of God vs 14-17

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Romans 8:14–17

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“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”

Here is the beauty of this all

Through salvation

Through Jesus’ blood shed on the cross for your sins and my sins

Through the Holy Spirit we become sons and daughters of God

You can’t miss this

The Old Testament saints didnt have this opportunity

This is only through Jesus

God’s plan began through the physical

Jews

Physical bloodline proving they were one of God’s chosen people but we see in II Kings 17 Israel completely rejecting God

God knew this was going to happen long before He created us

Long before He entered into covenant with His people

He knew they would reject Him

He still honored His part of the covenant as Jesus is from the physical bloodline however the Jews rejected God not only in II Kings but also by rejecting Jesus Himself

You must accept Jesus to be a son or daughter of God

Anyone or anything that teaches something different is blasphemy and you must reject it

stand against it

mortify it

Galatians 1:8

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“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”

Jesus is it folks

Who am I?

Christian

blood bought son or daughter of God through Jesus Himself

Nothing else

That is who you are

that is who I am

We live under the new covenant with is sealed with the blood of Jesus

We are the temples of God because the Holy Spirit lives inside of us

Because of that we die to us, the flesh, passions, lusts, desires, sin

Who am I?

That is the question you must ask yourself this morning

are you in the Spirit

do you know beyond shadow of a doubt you are saved

are you truly a debtor

do you realize and live as a child of God

If not come

Get with God

Bring it to Him here at the altar

I will pray over you, with you whatever you need

If you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior come

This is the time!

Invitation

STOP STREAMING