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Genesis 3:4-5 You will not certainly die, the serpent said to the woman. 5 For
God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil.
Romans 2:14-15 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature
things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not
have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their
hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes
accusing them and at other times even defending them.
Questions:
1) Can you recall a time where you recognized right vs wrong without having to
be taught?
Tom: First BB gun
2) Give some examples of basic rules of fairness?
Matthew 7:12 Golden Rule
3) Example of a totally different mentality/moral code?
Tom: Survivor TV show
a time
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Social Convention
Convention (left side of the road) vs real truths (mathematics)
Is one morality better than another? - comparison means there is a standard
Differences of morality vs differences in beliefs about facts (witches example)
Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do
not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are
corrupted.
1 Corinthians 13 : 4-8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does
not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.
Job 38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me if you
have understanding.
Romans 9:20 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is
formed say to the one who formed it, Why did you make me like this? [a]
Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways,
declares the LORD. 9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Colossians 2:2-3 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in
love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that
they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
John 10:25 See multiple translations: Jesus answered, I did tell you, but you
do not believe. The works I do in my Fathers name testify about me,
Chapter 5: We have cause to be uneasy
The universe he has made (external): artistry and a very dangerous and terrifying
place
The being behind the universe (internal) is intensely interested in right conduct; do
the right thing; not soft (indulgent, sympathetic) hard as nails
We have not yet gotten to a Person who forgives as being good.
If it is a pure, impersonal mind then we do not like Him and do not want to be on His
side. Yet part of us is on his side we want to do right
At the bottom unless He detests the bad, he cannot be truly good. So then He must
hate most of what we do. Our only comfort and the supreme terror
We are getting to the need for repentance
1 John 1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is
light; in him there is no darkness at all.
James 1: 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Romans 7:22-23 For in my inner being I delight in Gods law; 23 but I see another
law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a
prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Hebrews 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
1. In what ways do you struggle with the concept that God is good?
2. What was the area of your life that you were first convicted of that made you
realize you were a sinner and in need of the grace of God?
Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and
served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.
Collosians 1:16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things
have been created through him and for him.
Acts 17:22-31 So Paul stood in the midst of the [a]Areopagus and said, Men of
Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. 23 For while I was
passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar
with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship in
ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and all things in it,
since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;
25
nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He
Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one
man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek
God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from
each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and [b]exist, as even some of your
own poets have said, For we also are His children. 29 Being then the children of
God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an
image formed by the art and thought of man. 30 Therefore having overlooked the
times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should
repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge [c]the world in
righteousness [d]through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to
all men [e]by raising Him from the dead.
a) What do we mean by good and bad -> standard -> made by the real God ->
one is in right relation and one is not
b) Bad for badness sake in reality we have no experience, cruelty being closest
a. Sadists sexual perversion /cruelty causing sensual pleasure
b. Opportunist money, power, safety
c. Badness is spoiled goodness
d. The bad power gets his good things to desire or his impulses to pervert
from the good power; part of the good powers world; created by Him
or some power above both
e. Bad power must exist, have intelligence and will. Must be getting
them from the good power.
Christianity: compared to dualism
a) a civil war, a rebellion and we are in the part occupied by the rebel
b) The rightful king has landed, in disguise and is calling us to sabotage
John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your
father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth
because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks [a]a lie, he speaks from his
own nature, for he is a liar and the father of [b]lies.
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the
spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may
have life, and [a]have it abundantly.
Conscience
Good Dreams
Selecting a people and communicating with them
Then the real shock: becoming a man
Jesus Claims
1) Forgives sins
Luke 5:20 paralyzed man through the roof
Luke 7:48 woman who washed jesus feet with perfume and her hair
Matt 9:2 paralytic on bed
Mark 2:10-11 same as Luke 5:20
God alone forgives sins - Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your
transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
2) Always existed
John 8:58 58 Very truly I tell you, Jesus answered, before Abraham was
born, I am!
3) Other claims
John 14:6 6 Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.
John 6:46-58 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;
only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has
eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the
wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from
heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that
came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This
bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Jesus said to them, Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last
day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats
my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the
living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds
on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from
heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread
will live forever.
4) Humble and Meek
Matt 11:28-30 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I
will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am
gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my
yoke is easy and my burden is light.
5) His enemies opinion of Him:
John 10:31-33 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32
but Jesus said to them, I have shown you many good works from the Father.
For which of these do you stone me? 33 We are not stoning you for any
good work, they replied, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man,
claim to be God.
Jesus cannot be considered just a good teacher
Matt 12:24-28 24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, It is only by
Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.25 Jesus knew
their thoughts and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself will be
ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan
drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? 27
And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So
then, they will be your judges. 28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out
demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 11:20 20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of
God has come upon you.
What about those outside? If you want to help them, join the body. Cutting off a
mans finger is an odd way to get him to do more work
Why the secrecy? Why not invade in force? He is giving us a chance to join His side
freely (Frenchman)
2 Peter 3:8-9 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is
like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in
keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you,
not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
God is going to invade, all right. The chilling conclusion on pg 65.
No passengers or parasites
No luxuries or adds to buy them
No swank
Obedience to authority
Cheerful, full of singing and rejoicing, courteous, no busy bodies
May not like all of it; each of us wants to make our own version; ie. Fighting against
each other for Christianity
Interest/usury; private money lending vs economic system
Charity (giving to the poor) is essential part:
Ephesians 4:28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must
work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have
something to share with those in need.
To give I must love my neighbor, I must love God, I must learn to obey Him. Driven
on to something more inward from social to religious matters. Longest way
around is the shortest way home.
Chapter 4 Morality and Psychoanalysis
what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the
fire will test the quality of each persons work. 14 If what has been built survives,
the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but
yet will be savedeven though only as one escaping through the flames.
With all of the choices of your life you are turning the central thing into a heavenly
creature or hellish creature pg 92
Right direction leads not only to peace but knowledge/understanding. When a man
is getting better he understand more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a
man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
Children
Protect the woman
Feeling is not a basis for life; who could live in that for even five years
Quiet love; deep unity maintained by the will; strengthened by habit;
reinforced by grace; the engine of love: where being in love was the
explosion that started it
Two distinct kinds of marriage: govt versus Christian so one knows which one
Why man as head?
1) In the final state, someone must be
2) Protect others from the intense family patriotism of the wife
Genesis 2:23 English Standard Version (ESV)23 Then the man said,This at last is
bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man.[a]
Matthew 19:2-9 English Standard Version (ESV) 2 And large crowds followed him,
and he healed them there.3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by
asking, Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause? 4 He answered, Have you
not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and
female, 5 and said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold
fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6 So they are no longer two
but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. 7
They said to him, Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of
divorce and to send her away? 8 He said to them, Because of your hardness of
heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not
so. 9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
marries another, commits adultery.
Ephesians 5:25-33 English Standard Version (ESV) 25 Husbands, love your wives, as
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her,
having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might
present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.[a] 28 In the same way husbands
should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ
does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 Therefore a man
shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh. 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to
Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and
let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Chapter 7 Forgiveness
Something to forgive as in the war
Matthew 6:7-15 Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your
name.10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.11 Give
us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts,
as we also have
forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive
you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 18:21-22English Standard Version (ESV)21 Then Peter came up and said to
him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as
seven times? 22 Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but seventyseven times.
Matthew 5:43-48New International Version (NIV)43 You have heard that it was said,
Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you, love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father
in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will
you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your
own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as
God in Christ forgave you.
1) Start easier (simple addition not calculus)
2) Love our neighbor as yourself what does that mean?
a. No fondness or affection for myself
b. Self love makes me think myself nice, not the other way around; so
apparently I do not have to think my enemy is nice
c. In my clear-sighted moments I know that I am a nasty one and can look
at my actions with loathing. So apparently I am allowed to loathe and
hate some of the things my enemies do. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
d. Silly? one person to whom I had been doing this all my life myself
e. Story of atrocity then not quite true. Reaction:
i. Relief
ii. Disappointment
iii. Determination to cling to the first story; wishing enemies as bad
as possible
iv. Leads to hatred/dark side God, friends, ourselves
f. I subject myself to punishment; honorable thing to do
i. Enemies can be punished
ii. We may have to punish, but not enjoy it
iii. We must feel about our enemy how we feel about ourselves;
hope they can be cured; in fact, wish for their good
iv. We love ourselves simply because it is yourself.
4) Humility is not a greasy, smarmy person who tells you they are nobody.
Cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him
Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the
humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:5 ESV Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the
Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 29:23 One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will
obtain honor.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Galatians 6:3 ESV For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he
deceives himself.
Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and
not your own lips.
Proverbs 26:12 ESV Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is
more hope for a fool than for him.
James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God opposes the
proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Jeremiah 9:23 ESV Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his
wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in
his riches,
Philippians 2:3 ESV Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count
others more significant than yourselves.
Romans 12:16 ESV Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but
associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
1 John 2:16 ESV For all that is in the worldthe desires of the flesh and the
desires of the eyes and pride in possessionsis not from the Father but is from
the world.
Proverbs 8:13 ESV The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and
the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
2 Timothy 3:2 ESV For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,
arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESVLove is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is
not arrogant
Proverbs 11:12 ESV Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of
understanding remains silent.
Proverbs 30:12 ESV There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not
washed of their filth.
Proverbs 25:27 ESV It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek
one's own glory.
Proverbs 12:15 ESV The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man
listens to advice.
1 Timothy 6:4 ESV He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has
an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which
produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
1 Peter 5:5 ESV Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe
yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the
proud but gives grace to the humble.
Romans 12:3 ESV For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not
to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober
judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Proverbs 25:14 ESV Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a
gift he does not give.
Obadiah 1:3 ESV The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the
clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, Who will bring
me down to the ground?
1 Corinthians 10:12 ESV Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take
heed lest he fall.
Proverbs 15:12 ESV A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the
wise.
Matthew 23:10-12 ESV Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor,
the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts
himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Revelation 3:17 ESVFor you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing,
not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
2 Corinthians 10:18 ESV For it is not the one who commends himself who is
approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Chapter 9 Charity
John 13:34-35 ESV A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:
just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will
know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Mark 12:28-31English Standard Version (ESV) 28 And one of the scribes came up
and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them
well, asked him, Which commandment is the most important of all? 29 Jesus
answered, The most important is, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is
one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: You
shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than
these.
John 15:9-13 ESV As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my
love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept
my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to
you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my
commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no
one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 14:23 ESV Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word,
and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to
remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I
deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.Love is patient
and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on
its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but
rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never ends.
1 John 4:7-8 (ESV)7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and
whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love
does not know God, because God is love.
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and
a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Chapter 10 Hope
Hope is not escapism thing Christians are meant to do
Great Christian heroes who have done the most for the world thought most of the
next their minds were occupied with heaven
Luke 11:2English Standard Version (ESV)And he said to them, When you pray,
say:Father, hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come.
Matthew 6:19-21English Standard Version (ESV)19 Do not lay up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] destroy and where thieves break in
and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Colossians 3:1-3New American Standard Bible (NASB)3 Therefore if you have
been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God. 2 [a]Set your mind on the things above, not on
the things that are on earth. 3 For you have died and your life is hidden with
Christ in God.
Aim at heaven and you get the earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither
Health is a good example you get health when you want other things more food,
games, fun, open air
Find it difficult to want heaven; we are not taught in school to recognize it
Acute want for something that cannot be had in this world
Question: How do you recognize the want for heaven?
2 wrong ways and 1 right way to deal with this:
1) Fools way blame the things themselves and keep trying
2) Way of the disillusioned Sensible Man give up and repress cry for the
moon; tends to create sense of superiority
3) Christian way creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for
them exists; earthly pleasures were meant not to satisfy it, but to arouse it, to
suggest the real thing. Do not despise them or be unthankful for them on
other hand, never mistake them for the real thing
Ephesians 5:28-32New American Standard Bible (NASB) 28 So husbands ought
also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves
himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,
just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his
wife, and the two shall become one flesh. 32 This mystery is great; but I am
speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Do not worry about facetious people who try to make it ridiculous (harps, streets
of gold) if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups they shouldnt
talk about them
Music most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity
1 Corinthians 2:9English Standard Version (ESV)9 But, as it is written,What no
eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has
prepared for those who love him
Romans 15:13English Standard Version (ESV)13 May the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you
may abound in hope.
Romans 5:1-5New American Standard Bible (NASB) 5 Therefore, having been
justified by faith, [a]we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2
through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in
which we stand; and [b]we exult in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this,
but [c]we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about
perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character,
hope; 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured
out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Chapter 11 Faith
Faith as a virtue
Hebrews 11:6
Belief in the face of emotion/mood/imagination could add circumstance
Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23
Examples:
1) Anesthetic
2) Shell be different this time
3) Learning to swim
Teaching your moods where they get off
Prayers, study, attending church; renewing your mind
Romans 12:1-2New American Standard Bible (NASB) 12 Therefore I urge you,
brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice,
[a]
acceptable to God, which is your [b]spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be
conformed to this [c]world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that
you may [d]prove what the will of God is, that which is good and [e]acceptable and
perfect.
Higher sense:
Practicing virtues; fighting against temptation
Those who resist temptation know how strong it is
Those who are serious realize they fail
1) We are not taking a test blow this idea to bits
2) Even if we did we would only be passing by the good things God has placed
in us
Like a child asking his father to give him money to buy him a present
Once a man has made these two discoveries God can really get to work
Matthew 3:16-17
2 Corinthians 13:14
John 14:16-17
1 Peter 1:2
http://www.gotquestions.org/Trinity-Bible.html
God Exists
No Reality Exists Behind God
God Does Not Change
God Is an Inexhaustible Source of Energy
Objectivity Is Crucial
We Must Conform to God, Not He to Us
This God Has Drawn Near to Us in Jesus Christ
John 8:56-58New International Version (NIV)56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the
thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.57 You are not yet fifty years
old, they said to him, and you have seen Abraham!58 Very truly I tell you,
Jesus answered, before Abraham was born, I am!
1 Corinthians 12:12-31English Standard Version (ESV)12 For just as the body is one
and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one
body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body
Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or freeand all were made to drink of one Spirit.14 For
the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say,
Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any
less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye, I do
not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the
whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body
were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the
members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single
member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts,[b] yet one
body.21 The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the
head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body
that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that
we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts
are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not
require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that
lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may
have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if
one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Listening to the other voice; letting that larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing
in. Standing back from natural fussing and fretting; coming in out of the wind.
Church exists to draw men to Christ; to make them little christs.
The universe exists for this.
Colossians 1:15-18New International Version (NIV)15 The Son is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or
rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is
before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the
body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so
that in everything he might have the supremacy.
Romans 11:33-36New International Version (NIV)33 Oh, the depth of the riches of
the wisdom and[a] knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his
paths beyond tracing out!34 Who has known the mind of the Lord?Or who has
been his counselor?[b]35 Who has ever given to God, that God should repay
them?[c]36 For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the
glory forever! Amen.
disciple unless he first sits down and counts his blessingsand then renounces
them all for me.
We may not have asked for it, to be made in the creatures He wants. But He is the
creator.
Just as a human starts out as an only a few cells, if we were conscious we may not
have wanted to be made into babies.
Other side is we should not imagine our own unaided efforts to carry us through
even the next 24 hours as decent people. If He does not support us, not one of us
is safe from some gross sin. No act of heroism is going to make us as perfect as His
final intent.
We should not be surprised that we are going to have a tough time.
James 1:2-4New International Version (NIV)2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and
sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the
testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so
that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Romans 5:3-5 New International Version (NIV) 3 Not only so, but we[a] also glory in
our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4
perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to
shame, because Gods love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit, who has been given to us.
1 Peter 1:6-9New International Version (NIV)6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though
now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These
have come so that the proven genuineness of your faithof greater worth than
gold, which perishes even though refined by firemay result in praise, glory and
honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love
him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled
with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your
faith, the salvation of your souls.
a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature , pulsating all through with such energy and
joy and wisdom and love we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror reflecting
back to God perfectly His own boundless power and delight and goodness.
Romans 5:6-8 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ
died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for
a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own
love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 7:9 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,
Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. 8 Again
he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 At this, those who heard began to go
away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman
still standing there.
1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and
a good conscience and a sincere faith.