What Does God's Word Provide for the Christian--Part Four
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Introduction:
1. Christians are to be recognizably different from the world.
A. How are Christians to be different from the world?
1. The world sees no problem with sinful life styles.
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
A. Fornication/Adultery.
4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
B. Abortion/Women’s rights to choose.
24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
C. Homosexual life style.
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
2. The world sees no problem with false doctrine.
1 Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.
A. If one searches the word doctrine in 1 &2 Timothy and Titus in the New King James Bible He get 16 hits in 13 chapters.
1. This is because Paul wrote these books to young gospel preachers to instruct them how to conduct themselves in the house of God.
14 These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; 15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
A. Doctrine obviously matters or Paul would not have spent that much time talking about it to Timothy and Titus.
B. Instrumental music.
15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
C. Taking the Lord’s supper at different intervals than what the Scriptures teach.
7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
D. Women church leaders.
34 Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. 35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
E. Divorce and remarriage
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
F. I don’t have to go to worship to be a christian.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Body:
1. God’s Word provides everything the Christian needs to be sanctified.
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
A. To be sanctified means to be set apart for God.
1. Or to be married to God set apart for only one husband.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
A. The word holy is from the same Greek word which means to be sanctified or set apart.
B. When two people marry they set themselves apart for each other and forsaking all others.
2. In our spiritual marriage to God it is the same way.
A. One must forsake all.
1. Other God’s
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. Material things
33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
3. Family and even your own life.
26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
B. We are to come out form the world and be separate.
17 Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.”
A. To come out suggest action or a willingness to separate from something.
1. You have to be willing to walk away from your sin.
19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
B. To be separate suggest action or willingness to remain in this condition.
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
1. Sometimes we struggle and fall short but yet we struggle.
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
A. The struggle is import even when we fail because it shows that we delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
1. It is this type of man that will be strengthened in faith.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2. It is this type of man that Christ can help.
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Conclusion:
1. We are to be sanctified for God and He has provided us everything we need to be so even when we fall short as long as we struggle to come back.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.