Travelers & Exiles
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Christ-ian
Christ-ian
What is the basis for this identity as a CHRISTIAN? {FOR SCREEN}
As you have been finding from your previous sessions, I hope you are discovering that you are not a Christian by affiliation, association, or family background. You are Christian by a Christ-work that transforms who you are completely from sinner to now being called a saint.
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
{VERSE FOR SCREEN}
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
THE HAMSTER WHEEL - When am I good enough? {FOR SCREEN]
The life I live is not my effort to please God with the best possible Christian life. It is one that gets of the hamster wheel of “trying to be a better man/woman” and one that does everything as loved children
{VERSE FOR SCREEN}
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Everything that offered as a sacrifice is not to prove worthiness or usefulness or purpose, but rather to reflect the glory of the what Jesus has called us into. A relationship with God as Father
26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
{VERSE FOR SCREEN}
10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Romans 8 Summary
The Call to being an heir - not just positional but relational. The work of the Spirit is to draw us into relational transformation
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
{VERSE FOR SCREEN}
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
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12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
This is not my home.
This is not my home.
To live in a place and not be affected by it is hard. The need to adjust to surroundings is crucial to survival. It is this natural law that gives rise to a natural way of sin that seeks to drive a uniformity or commonality in everyone’s experience.
We are built with a need for purpose and significance and those things are mostly derived from what people around us will applaud or appreciate. Displeasing or disagreeing with the consensus is not easy. When our lives are modelled on it, fear and insecurity develop a drive to prove one’s self.
As we progress with each day, society continues to move the goal posts on what is good or bad. acceptable or unacceptable. This ever changing measure leads to severe stresses and a feeling of hopelessness.
The work of Jesus sets us free from a need to find our significance from how much we fit in. Our significance and purpose is realized when we KNOW JESUS
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8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
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19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Living like a son /daughter who belongs to this home....this family.
Living like a person who represents my nation well on an international stage
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
{VERSE FOR SCREEN}
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Living as a Foreigner
Living as a Foreigner
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
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2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
13 Therefore, 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.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.
11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—
13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.