The phrase “renew a steadfast spirit within me,” refers to a ‘constant spirit.’ The Hebrew word from which the English word ‘ steadfast’ is translated, means that which is ‘erect,’ or that which is ‘made to stand up,’ or that which is ‘firm’ or ‘established.’. Those things would bring him near to God and the thought of it repulses him—but not so with the Christian. And it may be that the whole condition and state of the church today, is largely due to the fact that we fail at both points. ‘Delivered up because of our offenses, and raised because of our justification’!So we are no longer under the wrath of God. Now, of course, we have not yet risen in the first resurrection. Toggle navigation. God demands that we praise Him. This new outlook shows itself in the new man’s mind, it shows itself in his heart, it shows itself in his will. There are certain negatives that are of tremendous importance that are no longer true of us. God’s chosen people were called out of sin. There should be a longing to be intimate with God—a desire to spend time speaking with God. (Part Eleven). We are completely opposite of the world. The New Testament equivalent of this is: "Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, … Once the first slide appears you can follow along with the message and use the arrow keys to advance the slides. The beginning of the process of our conversion is comparable to that. Christ was dead in the grave for three nights and three days. When a person is ‘in Christ’ he has a new nature, and this new nature cries out for God. Paul’s point is that what is true of us spiritually (at baptism and the laying on of hands) is similar to what happened to Jesus Christ physically when He was raised from the grave. Whoever does not have Christ does not have eternal life. God still allows Satan to be around; and he also exerts a pull. Union With Christ Martin G. Collins Given 03-Apr-10; Sermon #985; 63 minutes. The real spiritual test surfaces between what God has already accomplished and the responsibility of His people to obey. God clearly says, it is the overcomers who are saved—it is the overcomers who will reign with Christ. We are raised from the dead with Him, therefore we are justified, and thus we are no longer under the wrath of God. Another contrast between us and those who are dead to God. Because it means that he will eventually have to stand before his Maker. We have been called out and brought out; we are in this new life with God and Christ. Need some help coming up with a prayer to praise God? The punishment has been carried out, and that is Paul’s first deduction here. Romans 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. cf Ps 150:1-6. There was this complete change in the realm in which Jesus Christ was existing—dead in the grave, and then alive. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. The Christian is one who is raised with Christ from the realm of sin and death, to a new life in which he is ‘alive to God.’. But we have died with Christ, and when we died with Christ the old man died also. The soul, therefore, will express worship to God. Amen. He is not interested in eternity. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious … It does mean that our relationship to God is a personal relationship, the relationship of Father and child, which we did not have before our conversion. Our will now conforms to God's will, developing godly character by choosing the right and rejecting the wrong, taking on God's divine nature. We were all in Adam, we are lineal descendants from Adam, and we were all in him. Walking in this “newness of life,” is an exercise in living God’s way of life; it is a practicing of walking in eternal life. His unfailing love continues forever, and His faithfulness continues to each generation.’, ‘O Lord, You are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for Your help.’. Daily Bible Verse: Psalm 86:5 (NLT) That does not mean, of course, that we no longer have to keep God’s law. Praise pleases God, and He in turn blesses those who praise, and this leads those who praise to have all the more praise. The new man also has a desire for prayer. The law executed its full punishment in full measure upon Jesus Christ, and if we are in Him the law has no further demands upon us in that sense. This change is a process, and originates not with man, but with God through the Holy Spirit. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Preaching on Glory of God? But those of us who are ‘in Christ’ have been brought right out of that realm of sin. Our minds are renewed with the spirit of a sound mind. There it is at night, closed and shut; the sun comes out and suddenly it begins to open and to take in its life from the sun. They do not know it; but we know it; and there they are under the wrath of God. That is what Paul is dealing with here, with the Ephesian Christians. The apostle Paul says it again in Ephesians 4. It is quite a tall order that God gives us, but He gives us the help to be able to accomplish it. We are still in the flesh, but we are members of a new spiritual body. We were all dead in trespasses and sins, and we were in a spiritual grave. This is the most amazing thing of all. sermon: Are You Alive to God? It wipes the slate clean of our past sins. We have to go through the process of conversion. New Testament Sermons Old Testament Sermons Sermon Series Audio Sermons Sermon Links ... (Note: God's praise is constant as the sun arcs its way across the heavens. What were we? But we are no longer there. AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME ALL YOU WHO ARE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY IN OUR SUNDAY SERVICE CELEBRATION. Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: An Unknown God Can Neither Be Trusted, Served, Nor Praised. They went through the symbolic burial in the Red Sea, as they passed through on the last day of Unleavened Bread. You are merely repeating the command to praise the Lord. Or, does it glorify God? So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. We have to battle against these three, in order to grow in grace and knowledge. He means that Christ’s death was on account of our offenses. 1. Often people do not realize this because they cannot draw the distinction between a temptation and a sin. We have left behind the grave-clothes. Our praise puts evil to flight. A human in sin is an alien from God. How does a man who is not a Christian think? The emergence of Christ from the realm of death and the grave—His appearing again—is an absolute proof that God is satisfied that the punishment for sin has been truly dealt with. We are no longer the slaves of sin; we have been taken right out of that. Hebrews 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Ephesians 2:4-6 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Consequently, we are under the wrath of God, subject to lusts, and under the control and dominion of sin and of Satan, exactly as Adam was. The old man is the Adamic man, the man who was in Adam. It is an essentially important part of that, but alone it was not enough, He had to be risen from the dead. The subject of my message this evening is praise. Christ felt a great compassion for the people; He saw them ‘as sheep without a shepherd;’ and the Christian of necessity must know something of that feeling. Ephesians 2:1-7 says that we all have been dead spiritually. As to the nature of the change, it consists of the implanting of a new principle or priority in the heart; the impartation of spiritual life to those who are by nature "dead in trespasses and sins.". We are walking in newness of life. He was! Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Description: What would it be like if God looked down on us and viewed us as spiritually dead? And, how does it affect our relationship to eternity? So we now have three influences to resist; to overcome. In order to develop God's character, we must struggle against and defeat Satan, the world, and our own flesh. He is no longer in a spiritual grave. He wants them to know the exceeding greatness of God’s power to us who believe; and so he expounds on that point. Daily Bible Verse:              Psalm 86:5      (NLT)‘O Lord, You are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for Your help.’- In a world where bad news surrounds us, let us remember how good God is.- In His kindness, He is always ready to extend forgiveness to us.- His unfailing love towards us, knows no limits.- In His great love for you, He will help and deliver you!Prayer: Lord, I lift up my eyes above the troubles, and I look to You, my faithful and my loving Heavenly Father. As its course brings light to the world, praise is to be heaped on the Lord! It is an absolute change. God’s relentless command that we see him as glorious and praise him is a command that we settle for nothing less than the completion of our joy in him. The next verse says, "Let the saints rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds." But not only are we alive to God, we are ‘walking in newness of life.’ What a complete contrast to the way that the world walks, the way of sin leading to death. At this point, he is writing to people who are already Christians, and he wants them to realize, and to understand, what is really true of them as Christians. It does not mean that we are all perfect, and that we are without sin, and that we will never sin again. We are being saved by grace, not by anything we have done. This could be produced only by the power of God. But switched on, it becomes alive. The Christian is the person who, because he is raised with Christ, is walking in newness of life. Bears evident traces of … Paul says that there are certain things that we as Christians must hold on to resolutely. Eternal life is a gift no human has until he receives it as God’s gift. If you point out Scripture to them that corrects what they say, they will always default to their tradition rather than to the inspired written Word of God. Ephesians 2:4-7 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Like muscle, character is developed, and grows by exercise. We are dead to the realm of sin, we are no longer there, and we have been taken out of it. It is our union with Christ that makes us true Christians. It is not only time; it is not only material; it is eternity, it is spiritual, it is everlasting. Some will joyfully give those praises because of the salvation they have received, while some will give those praises as conquered enemies headed for eternal punishment for their rejection of God. Daily Bible Verse: Psalm 91:15 ‘When they call on … See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. The overall theme of Ephesians 2:1-10, is that God lavishes His grace on us all, through His plan of salvation. But that does not mean that we are slaves to sin, except in the temporary sense when any time that we sin, we are slaves to it. Hosanna in the highest. Death no longer has dominion over Him. In lost sermon no. We are ‘raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus’ because Christ has gone to the realm of heaven as our High Priest and Savior. So David pleaded with God to renew in him an established righteous spirit. It saves us from the death penalty. Our whole position, our whole status, and standing are absolutely different. Romans 7:2-4 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. And that is the thing that is true of the Christian—our citizenship is in heaven. It is also the nature of humility. We have been put into Christ, we have been joined to Christ; and therefore, as He rose and left that realm, we have also left that realm of sin. ‘Even so we must walk in newness of life’, we must live God’s way of life. We are fundamentally and essentially different, but in what respects? It is only those who do these things that will finally be given eternal life—finally changed from mortal to immortal at the time of the second coming of Christ with the other first fruits. Nevertheless, we are still held accountable for our own actions. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. We have an Adamic nature, our standing before God is that of Adam. Becoming ‘converted’ simply means: being changed. He is telling them, and us, about the deliverance, and about the salvation. We also see the symbolism in the fact that ancient Israel left Egypt. We would love to encourage those who would like to experience more of God. Remember, eternity is not only an infinite period of time; it is a quality of life. He looks at us as being in Christ. But at the end of third day He arose, and He was raised from the dead. Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. He says that a woman, as long as her husband is alive, is bound by that husband, and that she cannot marry another without being an adulteress. Before we ever awoke this morning, God was being exalted in Europe and Africa. The original Greek word ‘palingenesia’ is used by classical Greek writers with reference to the changes produced by the return of spring. First Name (required) Last Name (required) Your Email (required) He showers on us every good and precious gift. Spiritually dead to Him—totally useless—and your remains are an affront to Him, an abomination, and you are an enemy? We know that is not true, and we know that we are not perfect. Or, to use the apostle Paul’s illustration again, we are no longer the servants of sin. He then moves to another point. We are now ‘alive to God.’ Before, we were not. kata; vv. They tell us something about His nature and character. Amen. The characteristic of a Christian is that he is ‘alive to God’! The true test of whether or not we praise God is accepting from God the answers to our prayers that we don't want. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 5: 16-18; James 1: 2-4. ‘For the LORD is good. Our human nature, in effect, becomes an alien entity in our new emergent spiritual body, being transformed into Christ's image, walking in the newness of life, a totally different quality of life. 2. "WORTHY OF PRAISE" First Corinthians 16.15-18. If an electric microphone is not switched on, it is dead. We are united to Christ. We are being raised from the spiritually dead, we have come out of the grave, and we have finished with spiritual death; ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.’. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. We have to learn patience and perseverance as we work to overcome sin, Satan, the world, and our own human nature. 1. That statement alone should be enough to show the fallacy of the “once saved, always saved” false doctrine. Learn to Voice and Praise God using the various names we find attributed to God in Scripture. We share His sufferings, and we share His joys. Everyone appears before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive ‘what is due’ to them for the deeds that they have done in their earthly life. We realize that this is the only Book that brings us to God and to an increasing participation in the life of God. We exercise our will in a new direction. We certainly will not develop it just sitting around doing nothing, or not making any effort to live God’s way of life. Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? But He came out from that state and place of death. God’s character is always in accordance with His law—the way of love. That is the Christian’s greatest desire: to be with God and to be like Him—to be alive to God. Our will is now focused on conforming to the will of our God and Father, and Jesus Christ. Because we are in Christ, not because of anything we have done; we are unified with Him, and we are raised together with Him. That is his breath. We still must overcome our own human nature that is within, but it remains a foreign entity within us. 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