Left On Read, Part 4

LEFT ON READ

In Step With the Spirit

January 23, 2021 | By Paul Crouthamel

SETLIST

MESSAGE NOTES

Exodus 19:3-6
While Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’

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Ezekiel 36:24-28
“I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land [the end of exile]. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”

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Joel 2:28-29
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.”

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Sanctification
The process of being set apart as God’s possession, to be made holy.

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Three Layers of Sanctification
1. Salvation
2. Progressive Sanctification
3. Eternity

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Philippians 2:12-13
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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Galatians 5:16-17
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

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James KA Smith
“You don’t just do the things that you do. The things you do eventually do something to you.”

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Dallas Willard
“The disciplines for the spiritual life, rightly understood, are time-tested activities consciously undertaken by us as new men and women to allow our spirit ever-increasing sway over our embodied selves.”

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Responses to the Work of the Spirit
1. Make Jesus your focus.

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N.T. Wright
“The Christianly virtuous person is not thinking about his or her own moral performance. He or she is thinking of Jesus Christ, and of how best to love the person next door.”

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Responses to the Work of the Spirit
2. Exercise spiritually.

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Responses to the Work of the Spirit
3. Take your sin seriously.

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Responses to the Work of the Spirit
4. Don’t go solo.