Transforming Sermons: Remaining as we are

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Remaining as we are

I've posted last week's sermon text, on 1 Cor. 7:12-24, at To the Word.

3 Comments:

yes2truth aka Charles Crosby said...: "If we truly remember the cross and how we came to be saved, then every aspect of our lives will be changed:"

How do we forget how we came to be saved when Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit will never let us forget?

"no more looking for reasons to get the upper hand over others; no using doctrine as an excuse to bite and devour one another;"

Correcting error is not getting the upper hand, it's correcting error. Error must be corrected, for error is a stronghold.

"no mining Scripture for excuses to sin."

I don't need excuses for sin because my body of sin, sins and will continue to do so until I die. I on the other hand, the new creature, the new man do not sin and I cannot sin, because His seed remains in me. 1 John 3:6 & 9

"Instead, we will humble ourselves, glorify God in our lives and love one another with pure and faithful hearts. We will spend our lives wisely on the only truths that really matter."

I humbled myself at baptism and He lifted me up. The Christian walk is not a walk of continued false grovelling, but an upright walk as a brother of Jesus Christ and a royal priest. The humility lies in the fact that we now walk enabled by Him and not enabled under our own strength.

The Truth of Salvation (The Godhead's love for us), Grace and Faith are the only Truths that matter, all the others are insignificant by comparison.

n2sp; 3:08 AM, September 25, 2006
Milton Stanley said...: Thank you for reading and responding to my sermon. I'm wondering: do you regularly worship with a faithful congregation of the church?; 3:35 AM, September 25, 2006
yes2truth aka Charles Crosby said...: Thank you for your courtesy.

No, because I cannot find one.

All I find are groups steeped in religion or legalism or intellectualism or a miry mix of all three, but, unfortunately, they are not steeped in Jesus Christ. The reason they are not steeped in Jesus Christ is because all the other stuff gets in the way and blinds them.

We, that is my wife and I, gave up attending nearly ten years ago and have not looked back.

n2sbp; 10:19 AM, September 25, 2006