Covenant Discipleship
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(from Last week)
(from Last week)
3. The vision is through you and for you.
3. The vision is through you and for you.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
We need the body to support the vision.
We need the body to support the vision.
10 Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
(This week)
(This week)
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me. 17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
1) The heart of Discipleship is spiritual sons and daughter.
1) The heart of Discipleship is spiritual sons and daughter.
This is the heart of the apostolic ministry. The call to holiness brings us closer dependence on the Holy Spirit.
The Lord set the system up to be empowered by the Holy spirit to be more Christ like.
3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2 To Timothy, a true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
10 I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,
2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
2. It is the job of the spiritual parent to correct their children. It is the job of the spiritual son or daughters to be correctable.
2. It is the job of the spiritual parent to correct their children. It is the job of the spiritual son or daughters to be correctable.
6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid.
1 He who is often rebuked, and hardens his neck, Will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
18 Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards a rebuke will be honored.
2 When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.
3. The goal of all of this is spiritual maturity.
3. The goal of all of this is spiritual maturity.
15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
