The Christians Resolve

The Christian should resolve to set their hope fully on Christ (course of action)

The Christian should resolve to set their hope fully on Christ (course of action)

This is done by preparing their minds

Literal gird up your loins, be ready

For us today, beware of false security

be watchful that your hope is not placed else where.

watch yourself, that you are not backsliding into your former ingnorance

pray for God to continue to uphold you steadfastly.

Prepare: be in scripture seeking the truths that are from God, so that you are not swept away by lust of the flesh

Be Sober minded

Meditate upon Jesus

Think on holy things, Jesus

Surround yourself with Holy images

Do not look to things that muddle your mind to not be looking to Christ always. We can get caught up in Snapchat, insta, tiktock, fortnight, or netflix.

Surround yourself with other Christians, you will fall into peer pressure of conforming back to their way.

The Christian should resolve to be obedient

Children

Child of God

Thinking of God as father

Good

moral

disciplines us Hebrew 12

disciplines us Hebrew 12

English Standard Version Chapter 12

is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

4. Loving

he has provided for us.

Obedience is shown by not going back to the former way of life but rather continuing in the grace that has been shown already.

We should resolve to continue to obey Jesus because our hope is fully on him. That he has justified us, that he is lord over us, and that he hold us up.

Christians should resolve to imitate God’s holiness

God calls his people to be holy

set apart from the world

shown in how they are differnt, going back to not being conformed to the former ignorance.

Israel Leviticus

He calls them to be holy because he is holy

Righteous

without sin

pure

blameless

free of guilt

how do we accomplish this (piper)

God

Everything starts with God

As we see above by preparing our minds and having them on Christ because we have set our hope on Christ we are able to be saintified.

God’s grace

The way that we are able to do this be holy is because of grace.

God’s power

God is the one that begins the good work and he sees it to completion

Faith

We have faith that God has the power to bring us to holiness

Resolve

we act out in our will to accomplish this matter through devotion to God. human act but God’s grace

our work

our mind, will, hands actors of the deed God’s grace flowing through our faith and resolve.

Fulflled

We do this in anticipation of Christ return, so that we are not found lacking

Jesus is glorified

Jesus is the one who has brought this grace to us, so that we have the ability to strive for holiness as a child of God. for once we were cut off and now we have been grafted into the body of Christ.

Conclusion

Always be prepared looking to Christ, imitating him, striving for holiness.