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I ARE EDUCATED
By Pastor Dennis Peery
1 Peter 1:14-16,1 Peter 1:1
Summary: Third sermon in the I ARE EDUCATED series focusing on Holiness and Sanctification.
INTRODUCTION: SLIDE 01
You know when you buy toys for your kids or grandkids often times on the package in fine print are these words: “Batteries not included.”
Do you know what that means?
It means that you get the toy, but the power to make it work is not included.
That is not the kind of gift that God gives.
God’s gift of salvation includes the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit – the power to make it work.
What good would it be for our lives to be unchanged?
Why even try to live for God if all you can do is fail?
God has empowered us by His Spirit to live a new kind of life.
We have gone back to SCHOOL;
together we are taking look at the basic or essential doctrines/teachings of the Bible.
We started off looking at Salvation;
then last week we looked at Conversation with God.
Today we are going to dig deeper into our salvation as we look at Holiness and Sanctification.
Now think back with me for a moment; we said there were three things we needed to do with God’s gift of salvation.
Does anyone remember what they are?
GRAB IT;
GO FOR IT,
GIVE IT!
We need to grab hold of salvation and receive God’s gift personally.
Second we need to go for it; that is we need to live the new life God has given to us.
And finally we need to give it away or share God’s gift of salvation with others who still need rescued from sin and death.
Today we’re going to take a closer look at the second step: GO FOR IT! Live the new life.
God wants us to live like we are saved, to live our lives differently.
That’s where Holiness and Sanctification come in.
Everyone who accepts God’s gift of salvation through Jesus Christ is to live out their new life in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 SLIDE 02
When we grab hold of God’s gift of salvation, He makes us new!
Nothing remains the same; the old way of life is gone and there is a new way of living.
That new way of living is a HOLY LIFE, a SANCTIFIED LIFE.
Again no one who calls themselves a Christian, who has been saved, should continue to live a life of sin!
Don’t just go through the motions!
Live for Christ.
Romans 6:6-7 SLIDE 03
Let me put it simply; if you have no desire to live a new kind of life, if you don’t want to live like Jesus, then maybe you need to ask yourself if you are really saved!
Salvation is not head knowledge or the affirmation of one’s heart.
Salvation is head transformation,
a heart transplant
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WHEN YOU ARE SAVED YOU ARE NO LONGER THE SAME.
ILLUSTRATION: Chuck Colson says it well, "Holiness is the everyday business of every Christian.
It evidences itself in the decisions we make and the things we do, hour by hour, day by day." [Loving God p. 131]
1 Peter 1:14-16 SLIDE 04
Now I’m going to share a lot with you today about holiness, but if you only hear one thing then listen up right now.
This is what I want you to take away with you from today’s message: SLIDE 05
AS GOD’S CHILDREN WE LIVE HOLY LIVES BECAUSE HE IS HOLY.
As children of God we share the family resemblance of holiness;
we no longer live according to our evil desires.
As God’s children we live holy lives just like our Heavenly Father.
What is holiness and sanctification?
This morning we are going to discover what it means to be sanctified as we look at the seven “C’s” of holiness:
Consecration,
Complete reality,
Continual process,
Choice,
Control over sin,
Connection and Condition of heaven.
SLIDE 06
HOLINESS IS CONSECRATION
Literally to be holy means to be set apart to God and sanctification is simply the process of being made holy.
Sanctification is to be separated from the world and consecrated unto God;
it is to declare and set apart something or someone as belonging to God.
To be made holy is to be sanctified.
Holiness and sanctification are inseparable;
you cannot have one without the other.
Putting it simply sanctification is how God makes you holy and holiness is the result of God’s work of sanctification in your life.
1 Peter 1:2 SLIDE 07
The Holy Spirit sanctifies or makes us holy.
Only through the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives are we consecrated and set apart unto God.
You cannot consecrate yourself; you cannot make yourself holy.
Neither your parents, your pastor nor any other person can consecrate you.
Consecration and holiness is a work of the Holy Spirit.
SLIDE 08
HOLINESS IS A COMPLETE REALITY
God has made you holy.
SLIDE 09
Through faith in Christ and His blood shed for you on the cross, YOU HAVE BEEN SACTIFIED, SET APART UNTO GOD and MADE HOLY.
At the moment you were saved it was a done deal, a complete reality.
As Jesus said “It is finished” from the cross, God’s work to make you holy is finished and complete in you when you put your faith in Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:30 SLIDE 10
Jesus does not leave his work incomplete and unfinished.
He has completed the work to make us holy before God at the cross.
Regardless of how good or bad a sinner you may have been before you came to Christ and put your faith in Him, SLIDE 11
HIS DEATH MAKES YOU HOLY.
Jesus does not have to die a second or a third time to pay a greater price for those who are really bad sinners (or should we say good sinners?
SLIDE 12
All sin is equally evil to God; SIN IS SIN!
He does not weigh out our sin and say, “That will take more of Jesus blood to cleanse,”
or “Wow you were really bad; Jesus death is not enough for you.”
SLIDE 13
JESUS’ DEATH PAID THE PRICE FOR ALL SINNERS TO BE MADE HOLY.
1 Cor 6:11 SLIDE 14
Who is Paul talking about?
When you look back at verses 9-10 we see he means sinners.
Now he lists those we might consider really bad people, but he could have listed things we don’t think are as bad like a liars or cheaters.
THE POINT IS WE HAVE ALL BEEN A SINNER OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER.
Through Jesus we are made holy; it is a complete reality!
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