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ENGAGE
Hypocrisy
When Howard Carter and his associates found the tomb of King Tutankhamen, they opened up his casket and found another within it.
They opened up the second, which was covered with gold leaf, and found a third.
Inside the third casket was a fourth made of pure gold.
The pharaoh’s body was in the fourth, wrapped in gold cloth with a gold face mask.
But when the body was unwrapped, it was leathery and shriveled.
Whether we are trying to cloak a dead spiritual life, or something else, in caskets of gold to impress others, the beauty of the exterior does not change the absence of life on the interior.
Michael P. Green, ed., Illustrations for Biblical Preaching: Over 1500 Sermon Illustrations Arranged by Topic and Indexed Exhaustively, Revised edition of: The expositor’s illustration file.
(Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989).
Are you Spiritually Double Minded?
ENCOUNTER
Main Idea - In a world that is Chaotic, You Can Live a Life of Peace!
How?
Paul gives three important actions you must take in order to have a peace that passes all understanding.
Each action begins with a special word.
Devote!
Set!
Resist!
1. Devote Your Life to The Spirit (vs.
5)
Right away we see Paul make a clear distinction between someone who is fleshly and those who are spiritual.
To be clear - The distinction in this passage indicates someone who is an unbeliever, and one who is a believer.
Paul’s goal for spelling this out is to help the believers NOT function in the old way and instead to walk in the FREEDOM we talked about last week.
Look at verse 5...
Okay, so, do you want to know what qualifies someone to be fleshly verses spiritual?
How they LIVE!
Do you see this?
“For those who LIVE according to the flesh...” - Their life is characterized by living in ways that are contrary to the teaching found in the Holy Scriptures.
They live their lives unpleasing to God.
And according to Paul they live this way because they “set their minds on the things of the flesh...”
The word “set” is interesting and convicting...
To be mindful of, to be devoted to (Matt.
16:23; Mark 8:33; Rom.
8:5; Phil.
3:19; Col. 3:2); with hupér ([5228], on behalf of, for), to mind, regard, care for (Phil.
4:10).
Their minds are “set” or determined.
Jesus had a determined mindset.
In other words, Jesus was determined to go to Jerusalem to die on the cross.
Their lives indicate their mindset.
Their lives prove out what is going on in their thinking.
However, those who live according to the Spirit, their lives are characterized by the Holy Spirit.
In other words their actions and attitudes reflect Christ because of the empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit!
Their minds are “set” on the things of the Spirit.
So, the Born-again, spirit-filled follower of Jesus is determined, with a Jesus like determination, to live according to the
Spirit.
What exactly is it to live according to the Spirit?
Now, to be sure, each on of these “fruits” is worthy of a study of its own, but suffice to say, these individual fruits will manifest themselves in your life if you are a believer in Christ.
And the fruits of the flesh I read earlier will diminish as you walk in the Spirit.
Illustrate - Dr. Chang - my professor of Intercultureal Communication class that I am taking...
“Jesus was my King, the meaning for my life, and this to me was beautiful.
Then one day, after my junior year of college, I was taking a sum-mer course when a white student, who I did not know, turned around and out of nowhere said that one painful word: “chink.”
Of course I was shocked.
I expected that I might return to my old ways: to get up and throw hands and show him what’s right.
But the right thing to do was not what I had done before.
I had a quick thirty-second internal monologue, and then just felt sorry for the guy.
Not that I had suddenly come to believe that racial slurs were okay, but I had God’s strength within me.
I could be gracious because I had the power of the Holy Spirit, and I could feel sorry for others without overlooking the sin and the injustice.
And this gracious response toward him was the fruit of my faith—it changed me.
And for that I was so, so grateful.”
Apply -
How can you devote your life to the Spirit?
Be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit.
Be in tune with the will of the Spirit.
“God's will is that you be saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering,” - John MacArthur
Be sure to worship in SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
What a privilege it is for believers to worship God and we worship Him in the SPIRIT.
(Explain).
4. Pray that the Lord would continue to grow and manifest His fruit in you.
Praise Him each time you see evidences of His fruit!
Review - In a world that is Chaotic, You Can Live a Life of Peace!
Devote Your Life to The Spirit
Transition -
2. Set Your Mind on The Spirit (vs. 6)
Explain - What is the result of a fleshly/worldly mindset?
According to Paul, it is death.
Death is the unfortunate reality for those who are “determined” to reject the God of the Bible.
Any god that is not the biblical God is a determination to reject the one true God.
For example someone who says, “My God is a God of love and not a God of wrath.”
no doubt is sincere in their belief.
But they are sincerely wrong.
Their God doesn’t exist because their God is made up in their mind.
Just because someone doesn’t like the God of the Bible, doesn’t mean they can will away His existence. .
And this mindset leads to death...
However, a mindset on the Holy Spirit results in two significant benefits according to this verse.
That is what it is to “Set your mind on the Spirit.”
What is the promise that Paul gives?
To those who set their minds on the Spirit, they will have two things.
Life - Jesus said...
Peace - Not just a warm fuzzy tranquil feeling...
No, it is so much more.
It is a cessation of war!
When you are born-again, you are not only given new life, but you are no longer at war with the God who created you!
These two amazing promises are ONLY available through repentance from sin (living as one’s own king) and faith in the ONLY King, Jesus.
Do you want true life?
Do you crave true and lasting peace?
Hear me!
True Life and True Peace will only come when you submit your life to Jesus Christ and daily SET your MIND on the SPIRIT!
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