We were challenged last Sunday to grow towards a faith that puts us to work. Here are a few highlights.
What is the standard against which our spiritual vital signs are measured. How are we doing in the area of spiritual maturity or growth?
Determine "what has gotten into us". When we become Christians, the Holy Spirit comes to live within us. He teaches us in the ways of the Lord to become more like Jesus. He fills us and equips us as new creations made in Christ's righteousness.
Closely look at what is coming out of us. As the Holy Spirit dwells within us, His goal is to transform us to speak, act and think like Jesus. What has gotten into us, has to come out of us. We need an outward manifestaion of the inward work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
The way we live should look more and more like Jesus and less like the world as we mature.
There is a gap between what God wants us to do and who we really are. We are a work in progress. God knows and desires our best, following Him is for our best.
God expects us to live like a Christian. He has given us His righteousness. The evidemce is made clear by:
- what we do and what we don't do
- what is in us that comes out
- when we're 'bumped', what comes out
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