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4.The Content of Spiritual Wisdom
Christ is the Content of Spiritual Wisdom He’s the textbook for gaining Spiritual Wisdom and the Holy Spirit is the teacher.
“His Calling, His Glorious inheritance, His immeasurable power”
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in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
These things are revealed by the Spirit.
We are dependent on the Holy Spirit to reveal it to us.
ApplicationHow do you expect to live in a culture that despises God and his truth?
How do you expect to fight and wage war against the lusts and desires of your flesh.
How can you live with joy and yet face the reality that one day you will die.
Your life is going to be snuffed out.
You need a living apprehension of the truths of Christ.
When you know Christ, you can do all these things.
These things are revealed by the Spirit.
We are dependent on the Holy Spirit to reveal it to us.
ApplicationHow do you expect to live in a culture that despises God and his truth?
How do you expect to fight and wage war against the lusts and desires of your flesh.
How can you live with joy and yet face the reality that one day you will die.
Your life is going to be snuffed out.
You need a living apprehension of the truths of Christ.
When you know Christ, you can do all these things.
1)The Hope of His Calling
1)The Hope of His Calling
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament ἐλπίς
expectation of good, hope; and in the Christian sense, joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation:
Calling
ESVAnd we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Christians are the Called, Called out ones
Illustration
Lazarus
Hope is
Confidence and Assurance for the Future
Personal Assurance Necessary In order to live a life pleasing to God, you need the Personal Assurance that you have been called.
It’s given by the Holy Spirit.
ESVTherefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
The Immutability of God is the Ground for a Christians Hope
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2) The Riches of His Glorious Inheritance
In other words that we will begin to value and treasure Christ’s Kingdom.
The Value of His Kingdom
ESVFor this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
This is How we begin as Christians
ESV“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
ESVSo therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
If you are not a Christian today, if you know the Gospel and have not come to Jesus Christ, it is because you do not value Christ’s kingdom above this world.
This is how we begin as Christians.
Illustration
Remember what it was like when you first believed!
There was nothing more valuable than Christ to you.
If we are to grow as Christians, we must cultivate this by looking to the future.
We must look to the reward.
Begin to value and treasure Christ’s kingdom.
ESVTherefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Colossians
Example
Moses did this when he left Egypt
ESVBy faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
3) The Immeasurable Greatness of His Power
God is exercising his power in and to believers.
Your salvation was an exercise of God’s power.
He, he, in him.
When you begin to realize that salvation is God’s doing, that encourages you to live right.
You didn’t get to be a Christian because of something you did.
We often fail to realize the greatness of our salvation.
Paul’s Illustration
Christ’s resurrection demonstrates God’s power that is working and active in the believer.
The power over death is comparable to Christ’s working in you to bring you to spiritual life.
You are undervaluing it.
It’s greater than you think.
This is detailed in the next Chapter.
Communion Service
This is the special priviledge of believers to partake of the Lord’s Supper.
It’s a means to aid us in our Christian Life.
It reminds us where the source of all Spiritual Life comes from, and that is the most valuable lesson we can be reminded of.
Pass the Elements
The Bread
Jesus became a human being with flesh and bones so that he could die willingly to pay the price for our sins.
Pray
Eat
The Cup
Jesus ratified the New Covenant opening up free access to God by the shedding of his blood.
We can grow in Spiritual Wisdom because that priveldge was purchased for us by Christ.
Pray
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