Foundations of Spiritual Growth

The Foundation of Spiritual Growth

It’s in my nature or Its just me being me

Its just me being me

Conversion- Placing ones faith in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of sin and the gift of eternal life

Salvation

New Birth

There can be no spiritual growth with out a spiritual birth

Why is Conversion important

Conversion allows us to reconnect with God

2 Chronicles 7:14 NASB95

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

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Acts 17:27 NASB95

that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

Sin keeps us from reconnecting with God

Romans 5:12 NASB95

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

Sin Keeps us for connecting with God

Romans 1:12 NASB95

that is, that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

We can’t approach Him

We can’t grow in Him

Isaiah 64:6 NASB95

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isaiah 64:

1 Corinthians 2:14 NASB95

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

The Character of Conversion

A new Birth

The Character of Conversion

Now if we are defective in nature we must be fixed

2 Peter 1:4 NASB95

For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

2 Peter 1:4

God gives us His nature

A fundenmental Problem

Salvation

New Birth

The Process of God Depositing a new nature in every Believer and our old nature being crucified

Romans 6:6 NASB95

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

Romans 6:6

The Process of God Depositing a new nature in every Believer and our old nature being crucified

Conversion/Salvation/New birth

The Process of God depositing a new nature in every believer while crucifying the old person

Romans 6:6 NASB95

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

Romans 6:6 NASB95

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

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Growing Completely

1) Nurture your new Nature

1 John 3:9 NASB95

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

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2) Lose yourself

Mark 8:35 NASB95

“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

You are Complete and you have all you need to mature

Colossians 2:10 NASB95

and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

Colosians 2:10

Hebrews 10:14–17 NASB95

For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,” He then says, “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

Hebrews

New Things are coming

A new struggle

A new appetite

The Struggle

Romans 7:15-

Romans 7:15–17 NASB95

For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

This Appetite

Hebrews 10:14-

Hebrews 10:14–16 NASB95

For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,” He then says,