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Out Side The City

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For Our last Sunday dealing with Sex In The City, we wanted to take another turn and look at how to get out the city and how to get the city out of us.

So wanted to share Hebrews 13

If we had time to totally unpack this chapter we would discover The common element is, “Keep on loving each other as brothers” (v. 1).

Love is holiness lived out in the body of Christ.

Value people (Heb.

13:4–6).

Placing value on people rather than on things, and being willing to use things but not people, is also a reflection of Old Testament and New Testament teaching.

We will never find contentment in possessing things.

Our contentment will be found in God, and in the good news that He has promised never to leave us.

We are His.

The common element is, “Keep on loving each other as brothers” (v. 1).

Love is holiness lived out in the body of Christ.

Authorities (Heb.

13:7–8, 17–18).

The theme of respecting authorities is also a common one.

This time the emphasis is on relationships with leaders in the church.

We are to remain responsive to them, and to imitate their faith.

In We discover that Jesus is superior than the high priest.

What is the reference to going “outside the camp”?

(v.

13) In the Old Testament system, the offerings for sin were made on an altar, but the animal carcasses were eventually burned outside the camp, away from populated areas.

Similarly, the writer notes, Christ died on Golgotha, outside the city walls.

Nothing in Hebrews suggest that the old way was wrong.

As a system instituted by God, it was good.

But the old was temporary.

It for shadowed only.

When the new that it mirrored came, reality replaced shadows.

The old priesthood faded away as a single High priest replaced the endless repetition.

And the promise of perfection became a present possibility.

Hebrews

Sanctify: Hallow, separation, dedicate, belongs to God, consecration

Its broad meaning is the process by which an entity is brought into relationship with or attains the likeness of the holy.

SANCTIFICATION Process of being made holy resulting in a changed lifestyle for the believer.

The English word “sanctification” comes from the Latin sanctificatio, meaning the act or process of making holy, consecrated.

In the Greek NT the root hag- is the basis of hagiasmos, “holiness,” “consecration,” “sanctification”; hagiosune, “holiness”; hagiotes, “holiness”; hagiazo, “to sanctify,” “consecrate,” “treat as holy,” “purify”; and hagios, “holy,” “saint.”

The root idea of the Greek stem is to stand in awe of something or someone.

The NT usage is greatly dependent upon the Greek translation of the OT, the Septuagint, for meaning.

The hag words in the Septuagint mostly translated the Hebrew qadosh, “separate, contrasting with the profane.”

Thus, God is separate; things and people dedicated to Him and to His use are separate.

The moral implications of this word came into focus with the prophets and became a major emphasis in the NT

The Blood & the word of Jesus Christ Sanctifies

John 17:

One of the greatest distractions in the body of Christ for Christians is not receiving the Word Of God.

It keeps you inside the city.

The need for religion and not relationship has hindered many of us from getting the city of of us.

Its not that Jesus can’t do it its because we won’t allow him...

Tell your neighbor arise.

You can take a person out the city, but Jesus is the only one that can take the City out the person.

This place ain’t even our home, but we have more invested time in it than Heaven.

I’m looking forward to my home yet to come.

Tell Your Neighbor get your family rapture ready...

3.

These Last 3 nuggets will determine if you still got

the City in You, and if your sanctified.

3.

These Last 3 nuggets will

Tell somebody better looking than you and you need all 3..

Let Us always offer to God OUR sacrifice of Praise

15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

its a continual

Spiritual Do gooders

Sharing your wealth & resources & time with those in need.

These are the sacrifices that Please God....

Wait it one more for the sanctified folk..

Jeremiah 3:15

: 32-34

Matthew 25:31-46

Which One am I ?? A Sheep or a Goat?

God wants to know can we be led to be like Christ?

Isaiah 53

The bible speaks of 2 kinds of people: Sheep and Goat

Shepherds protect sheep from their environment, whereas Goat-herders protect the environment from their goats.

So for Sheep, must depend on Christ.

If we push, take, destroy and bully, we are goats.

The difference between sheep and goats—is really simple.

A sheep is led by its shepherd.

A goatherd is led by his goat.

Sheep follow the voice of their shepherd and trust him to lead them to food, water and safety.

If they wander, which some do, the shepherd will go out and rescue them and bring them back to the safety of the flock.

Sheep separated from their shepherd and flock are nervous and vulnerable because they have no defensive or offensive survival abilities.

A goat, however, doesn’t follow anyone.

A herd of goats goes where it wants, and the goatherd follows behind.

Instead of grazing, goats “browse”—foraging for whatever strikes their attention.

So if we allow ourselves to be led, being sensitive to the pull of God’s Spirit, and following the path of our Shepherd, we are sheep.

If we are headstrong, going our own way, and pulling back against God’s Spirit, we are goats.

So the thing that God sees in His sheep is a gentle and yielded spirit.

They trust their Shepherd.

They follow His voice.

On the other hand (pun intended), the goats have a spirit of defiance, self-will, or independence from God’s involvement in their lives.

Sheep are gentle, quiet and easily led animals.

Goats on the other hand are pushy, self-sufficient, and headstrong.

- Most goats are naturally horned, but many sheep breeds are polled or naturally hornless.

Those goat horns can be used to bring harm to another goat or another animal or even a person.

- Goats are naturally quarrelsome and have short tempers.

- They rear and butt in order to establish dominance.

Rather than being a passive

animal like the sheep, they have more aggressive tendencies.

- Goats do not require as much supervision or care as sheep.

Perhaps this is

because they are a more independent animal.

- Unlike sheep, goats will easily revert back to their wild conditions if given the

chance.

- Goats do not graze like sheep do, but instead browse.

They nibble here and there,