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Cindy Heaster: The Principles of Christ |
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The Principles of Christ After your baptism You’re forgiven!
Since you turned your back to sin and were baptized, God has looked at you as
his own dear child. Going under the water of baptism means that your old sinful
way of life has been buried forever. By identifying with Christ through
baptism, you’re now a new person. You came up out of the water freed from sin.
Instead of living with sin as your master, you’re now free to serve the
immortal God, your loving father in
Heaven. Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established
in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Rm 6:1-7
1 Pet What should we say then? Should we continue to sin so that God's
kindness will increase? Rom 6:2 That's unthinkable!
As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin's
influence? Rom 6:3 Don't you know that
all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Rom 6:4 When we were
baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was
brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we,
too, should live a new kind of life. Rom 6:5 If we've become
united with him in a death like his, certainly we will also be united with him
when we come back to life as he did. Rom 6:6 We know that the
person we used to be was crucified with him to put an end to sin in our bodies.
Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin. Rom 6:7 The person who has
died has been freed from sin. 1 Pet 1:22-23 Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified
yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one
another earnestly with all your heart. 1Pe Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, live in union with
him. -baptism=repentance
Acts Peter said to them, "Each one of you must turn away from your
sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be
forgiven; and you will receive God's gift, the Holy Spirit. Acts Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins.
If you do, Act God is judging our hearts,
our belief in Him (it all starts in our heart and mind) Mtt God loves you with all His heart, and so wants you to give Him all of yours.
God isn’t interested in your outward shows of righteousness. It’s what’s in
your heart that matters to God. He wants you to obey His teachings willingly.
If you feel something is wrong, don’t do it, living with a clean conscience is
a liberating experience and pleases our maker. God knows you intimately and
wholly, live to please Him; not the people around you. Be genuine. Turn your
back on your old way of life, repent and take the wonderful new life in Christ
instead. Rm 2: 28-29 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that outwardly
in flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart; in spirit and
not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God. Mtt Mtt 15:8-9 "This people draws near to Me
with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. Mat 15:9 But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men." (don’t even bother to worship me if
its not from your heart) Rm6:17 But thanks be to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. Rm 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness,
and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation. Rm 11:19-24 You will say then, The branches were
broken off so that I might be grafted in. Rom Rom Rom Rom Rom Acts 24:16 And in this I exercise myself, always
to have a blameless conscience toward God and men. 1 Thess 2:4 but as we have been approved by God
to be entrusted with the
gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts. Hypocrisy is bad Rm 2:17-23 Rm 12:9 1Pet2:1-3 Open your eyes to your own sinfulness so that you can
see the enemy you’re up against. Pretending that everything is OK when it isn’t
makes growth in Christ impossible. Don’t parade about in a false righteousness,
but in humility remember how gracious God has been in forgiving you. Be the
wonderful person God is calling you to be. You don’t need to pretend you’re
someone you’re not. Rm 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking
from evil, cleaving to good; Rm 2:17-23 Behold, you are called a Jew, and
rest in the Law, and boast in God; Rom Rom Rom Rom Rom Rom 1Pet2:1 Therefore laying aside all malice and
all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings, 1Pe 2:2 desire the sincere milk of the Word, as
newborn babes, so that you may grow by it; 1Pe 2:3 if truly you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Our actions are expressions of love and thankfulness
to him. We express our thankfulness to God by acts of love,
caring for each other. God has given us everything. Living holy lives is a
basic response to His abundant generosity toward us. Rm 12;1 Rom
12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the
mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to
God, which is your reasonable service. 2Cor 2Co We have no righteousness of our own, God counts us as
righteous because of our faith in Christ Because you are justified by faith you can find peace
in knowing you are placed safely in God’s hands. Because Christ came and
fulfilled the law, you are righteous because of your belief in Him. Your faith
is what matters to God, deeds in themselves mean nothing. True faith will
inevitably become obvious in how you live.
It is by faith, not works that we will stand on the day of judgement.
God has been wonderfully merciful to you in putting faith in your heart. There
is no way you can know why He chose you, but we can be joyful that He has! ABRAHAM: Is held up for us as an example of faith. He
was told by God to leave his prosperous city life and got to become a nomad in
a foreign country. Because he believed in God, he went. He was later told to
sacrifice his son, which he was willing to do. Moments before Abraham killed
his son, God stopped him. It wasn’t the sacrifice God was interested in, but
Abraham’s faith in being willing to do it. Gal 3:8 Rm 5:1 Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Rm 9:16 Rom Rom Rm 10:3-4 Rom 10:3 For they, being ignorant of God's
righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not
submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes. Heb 3:2 Heb 3:2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as
Moses also was faithful in all
his house. 1Cor 1Co 1Co 1Co 1Co 2 Cor 2Co Gal 2:16 Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by works
of the Law, but through faith in Jesus
Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the
faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law. Gal 3:8 Gal 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all nations be blessed." (it
is by grace we are saved-Eph 2:8-9 Eph
2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and
that not of yourselves, it
is the
gift of God, Eph
2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. Tit
2:11-12 Tit
Tit
Heb
2:9). Heb
2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the
angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor,
that He by the grace of God should taste
death for all. Acts 15:9 Act 15:9 And He put no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith. Phil 3:9 Phi 3:8 But no, rather, I also count all things to be
loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ
Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count
them to be dung, so that I may win
Christ Phi 3:9 and be found in Him; not having my own
righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith, 1Ti 1Ti 1Ti Tit 3:5-7 Tit 3:4 But when the
kindness and love of God our Savior toward man
appeared, Tit
3:5 not by works of righteousness which we have
done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Tit
3:6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Savior, Tit
3:7 that being justified by His grace, we should
become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. In God’s presence we must be humbled, Rm 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 5:2 Through Him we also have access by faith into
this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God. Rm 9:16 So then it is not of the one
willing, nor of the one
running, but of God, the One showing
mercy. Rm 10:3-4 For they, being ignorant of God's
righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not
submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes. Heb 3:1-2 Therefore, holy brothers, called to
be partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, Heb 3:2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as
Moses also was faithful in all
his house. 1Cor and God has chosen the base things of
the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to
bring to nothing things that are; 1Co 1Co 1Co 2 Cor Not that we have dominion over your
faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand. Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified
by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified
by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be
justified by works of law. Gal 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that
God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to
Abraham, saying, "In you shall all
nations be blessed." Eph 2:8-9 For by grace you are saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the
gift of God, Eph 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. Tit 2:11-12 For the grace of God that brings
salvation has appeared to all men, Tit Heb 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for all. Acts 15:9 And He put no difference between us
and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Phil 3:8 But no, rather, I also count all
things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them to be dung,
so that I may win Christ Phi 3:9 and be found in Him; not having my own
righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith, 1 Tim 1:4 nor to give heed to fables and
endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the nurture of God in faith). Tit 3:5-7 not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, Tit 3:6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Savior, Tit 3:7 that being justified by His grace, we should
become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. God wants us to be obedient God isn’t interested in what you know intellectually,
he wants you to live out what you have learnt of Him. You must be obedient to
God, and not to your own desires. If you obey God, you follow Jesus into
everlasting life, but if you obey yourself, you follow the path to death. It is
the one who lives in obedience to the word of God in whom God’s love is perfected.
Love is walking according to God’s commands. We show our love for Christ by loving
one another. Rm2:13 Rom Rom Rom 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you yield
yourselves as slaves for obedience, you
are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience
to righteousness. 1Cor
1Co 1 Pet 1:14 1Pe 1Jn 2:5 1Jo 2:5 But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one
the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him. 2Jn6 2Jo 1:6 And this is love, that we walk according to
His commandments. This is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning,
that you should walk in it. Jn 14:21-24 Joh Joh |