Walking the GOSPEL
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Intro - This will actually be the send part to what we talked about 3 weeks ago which was the Gospel Message
If you will recalled we clearly explained the Gospel Message and I hope you would understand by know that as a church that is our purpose to share the Gospel and as an individual it is your purpose to share the Gospel
This morning we are going to finish the Gospel Message with the Gospel walk.
We go and share the Gospel Message with someone and they make a profession of faith, they ask Jesus into their heart, they accept Gods free gift of salvation through Jesus
Now what
When we went through the Gospel we parked in we will continue on through 4 because Paul explains the Gospel then goes on to explain what that looks like in your life
17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
You are no longer like the world
and if you are no longer like or of the world then you shouldn't look like the world
You are to affirm with the Lord, which is to testify with the Lord about the Lord.
Because when you begin to walk with the Lord you should not be walking in the same way as you used to do
The world are the people who have been turned over to scripture says the desires of their heart because they think they know better
the world is the people who think they know better than the creator
The world looks different than God
right now Paul is sharing with us what the world looks like
Those who have accepted the freed gift of God should look different than the world
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
This is saying the same thing that when you and I begin to walk with Jesus and have come into new life with Jesus we
You and I should not walk the same, we should not take the same, you should not eat the same way, we should not do anything the same way as we used to do
I do want to caveat this and not to excuse our lack of change but I want you to understand that when you and I begin to walk with Jesus it is not always so simple because if you haven't caught on yet, you still live in the same fallen world fellow believers as we have said earlier this is not excuse to live like the world
Paul is telling the church as Ephesus they no longer need to walk or be like the world because they are with Jesus now
So Paul explains what they world looks like and if we left it there most of us would be wandering then what is it to walk with Jesus
20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Paul begins his explanation of what it means to walk with Jesus
that because you and I walk with the creator of the universe and the creator of everything, that you and I walk with Truth Himself then you and I are to lay aside our old self
remember that if you and I are in christ we are a new creation and for us to be new their must be old, but in walking with Christ we must lay aside the old self
It is because we have a personal relationship with Truth Himself that we no longer live in the darkness that the world is living in
It is because we know the absolute Truth Jesus Christ that we know the difference between right and wrong, and we know that sin causes death
This is the freedom of the Gospel to know the truth and walk in the truth
1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Because we are now walking with Jesus we are accountable to other believers and they also help us in this thing called life
the church was established to carry out Gods mission of spreading the Gosepl and with that we are also to help each other walk with Christ
You and I though have a responsibility for our own walks,
you are responsibility to throw off everything that you know entangles you, get ride of so that you can walk and run the path God has for you
You cannot stay where you are either in sin or simply not growing and expect to grow with God
So far Paul has shared with us what the world looks like and what it means to walk with Jesus
Paul now goes on to explain what this looks like in life
25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need. 29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
vs 25, because you and I are members of one body you and I should be speaking truth to each other, we should stop gossiping, and stop tearing each other down, we should be encouraging each other
church if you don't have anything nice and encouraging to say to each other or about each other then don't say anything at all
we are also accountable to each other because we belong to one body, so we need to speak truth into each others lives
vs 26-27, you are allowed to be angry as long as you don't sin, and I am not sure I have met someone other than Jesus who can do that
when we go to bed angry at someone it does nothing to help the matter other than most of us will dwell on it and sulk in it
so that we don't give Satan an opportunity to divide us lets just not do it
vs28-stop stealing and earn what you get
this is I believe also in reference to everything of your former life, stop the former bad stuff and start walking with Jesus
vs 29- watch your language, you cannot claim to be a Jesus follower and talk like a sailor
remember what comes out of your mouth comes from your heart so if you say your heart
vs 30-32 - pretty much summed everything else up
If you and I are going to walk with Jesus then you and I will be different than the world
But I hope you understand that simply changing the way you act will not save you
The last section of verses is what you should begin to look like after you have come to Christ
What people think though is that if I look like that I must be saved and then we start to act like that with no change of heart
This is simply the application of what it looks like to have a heart after God, understand its not the application that saves you and I
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
You and I are saved by grace through our faith in Jesus Christ, and it is placing our faith and trust in Jesus Christ nothing else that will save you
Closing
I want to ask the musicians up
if you are here today and do not have a personal relationship with Christ, there will be people down front to talk with you
if you are here and you need to become a member of this local body of believers
maybe you are here and you need to spend sometime at the altar praying the altar is open