Complete In Christ
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False doctrine was threatening the Gospel
It’s still under attack today
There will be people trying to distort and spoil the Gospel
vs 6, 7 teach we must be rooted
There are philosophies
A life without Christ is wasted
A life full of Christ is fulfilling and meaningful
if The Christian life is not fulfilling to you, something has crept in and spoiled the
vs 8 Warning of being taken into captivity
kidnapped spiritually
into another gospel
heart loving the world
We can’t allow people to change us doctrinally
Salvation by grace through faith
Eternal security
This idea that keeping the law keeps you saved
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Abraham was given a command and later it would be established for all hebrews that would be a sign that they were the people of God
This was a picture of a separation to be separated from the flesh and impurity
6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
You must allow your heart to be circumcised in your heart and that happens at salvation.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
This is not water baptism this is a spiritual baptism
When you were saved you were spiritually baptized
As a believer, yes we get baptised in deep water but that is a picture
If you think getting baptized saves you, that will not save you
If you were sprinkled as a baby, that did not save you
Believers shouldn’t be ashamed to be baptized
You died in Christ, were buried with Him, and you rose with Him
Jesus was raised by the operation and power of God
A work that is done by the efficient, and supernatural work of God
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
There was not any spiritual life in you before you accepted Jesus as your saviour
You and I were completely dead spiritually
A lost person has no spiritual life
Go to church
do religious things but still dead spiritually
Jesus was risen from the Dead
You had to be raised from the dead
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
The same quickening that took place in Jesus in the tomb, took place in you when you accepted Jesus as your Saviour
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Ephesians 2:1–5 (KJV 1900)
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
God had to resuscitate you
Your mind, body, and emotions were working but spiritually you were Dead
vs 3 we should have changed lives but it’s not through our own strength, it’s by God’s power
Alchohol
anger
covetousness
Can’t be conquered in your own power
I heard one man say the problem with churches is they keep baptizing unregenerate people
You better make sure youre saved if you are not saved you aren’t going to heaven
No quickening, no salvation
No Spirit of God, No salvation
If you are not born again, you are not going to heaven
Be thorough in the Gospel presentation
Yesterday as we were soul-winning
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
All people know they are guilty before a holy God
All people know they’ve broken God’s laws
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
The great desire and need for every human being is to know that that guilt was paid for on the Cross by Jesus
and that they can be a child of God forever by grace and through faith
We were doing some work here at the church this week a man cussed and apologized to me
lying is wrong
stealing is wrong
rebellion is wrong and lost people know this
The laws of God is on their conscience
How does anyone get past the guilt
Jesus had to do the work
All I had to do was agree with God about my condition - repentance
Put my faith in Christ
God saved me, there was a rebirth
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Past present and future sin all cared for.
Does that give a license, it is the
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Totally destroyed the ordinances against us
bore the accusations
Before anyone gets saved, they are condemned
There was a wanted poster
All your transgressions against the laws of God were written and described on that wanted poster
When one was crucified those handwriting of ordinances was nailed to the cross
The old account was settled long ago
That accuser will come to you and question
In the tribunal of heaven I went the the judge
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Jesus disarmed the demonic authorities
Spoiled = took them into captivity
Made a shew of them = embarrassed them openly
How? the very thing Satan did in order to try to destroy The Lord, was actually the means by which we get saved
The blood that was shed washes away sin and the resurrection power that Jesus demonstrated is the power that believers receive at salvation
Jesus embarrassed Satan and his followers
Jesus didn’t just save us to go to heaven
You don’t have to put up with the foolishness of the devil
We are triumphant over Satan’s forces
Over the control of the flesh
self-centered lifestyle
Over the deception of sin
The believer that is under the power of sin is a believer that has willingly submitted to the power of sin -
The believer that is willingly opening doors to the flesh is opening doors to demonic activity
A believer living selfishly has submitted to the flesh and will be subject to selfish fleshly appetites
Satan and men tried to destroy Jesus
The very tools that satan and men were using to destroy Jesus, was the very things Jesus would use to destroy, and embarrass them.
The Cross was the footstool that raised Jesus to His throne of power at the right hand of the father
There is fulness in Christ
Freedom
Complete Forgiveness in Christ
What more does he have to do for us to give our hearts completely to Him
What more does He have to do for us to be done with the worlds music, ideas, philosophies?
What more could God do for us to dedicate our lives wholly to Him?