Personal Discipleship 5Five Important Concepts Every New Believer Needs to Understand

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Important - please meditate on all underlined words or phrases.

As your Savior - Jesus wants you to know that all your sins have been forgiven, and you now have eternal life.

John 5:24, Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believe Him who sent Me, Has eternal life, and does not come into judgment (krisis - condemnation, separation), but has passed out of death into life.

Death - thanatos

Our future would have been misery in hell.

Enveloped in the deepest darkness of ignorance and sin.

The misery of the soul resulting from sin.

The loss of a life consecrated to and blessed by God.

Life - Zoe

The absolute fulness of life - now and forever; real and genuine - active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed to the level we put our trust in Christ.

After the resurrection, we will receive an incorruptible body that will last for ever.

Rom. 4:7-8, “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”

Forgiven - Apheimi

1. to send away; to send forth, yield up, to expire

2. to disregard; not to discuss now, (a topic)

3. to omit, neglect; to let go, give up a debt, forgive, to remit

4. to give up, keep no longer

5. to permit, allow, not to hinder, to give up a thing to a person

Your account is cleared

Isa. 43:25, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.”

Heb. 8:12, “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Heb. 10:17, “Then he adds: ‘Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.’”

As your Savior - Jesus wants you to know that all your sins have been forgiven, and you now have eternal life.

Rom 8:1, “Therefore there is now no condemnation (a sentence of damnation) for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

vs 16, “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit (agrees to, partners with, assures us) that we are children of God.”

vs 31, “If God is for us, who (or what) is against (adversity; bring down) us?”

Rom 10:13, “For Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (sozo - complete, lacking no good thing).”

Phil. 2:12, “As you have always obeyed... continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”

1 John 3:24, “Those who obey his commands live in him, and He in them. And this is how we know that He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.”

We are God’s ChildrenRom. 9:8, “It is not the natural children who are God’s children but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.”

Acts 2:39, “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

Rom 8:16, The Spirit Himself gives testimony that we are the children of God.

1 Jn 5:11-13, “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal (without beginning and end) life, and this life is in his Son (the way, the truth, the life - Jn 14:6). He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe (have confidence; to give credit to; to trust) on the name (very nature or character) of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

As your Lord - Jesus wants you to know that you have been bought with a price, and you are no longer your own.

1 Cor. 6:19-20, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.”

1 Cor. 7:23, “He who was called while free, is Christ’s slave. You were bought with a price.”

Master - Servant

Rom 14:7-8, “For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves. If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.” NLT

This could feel threatening if it were not for the absolute truth that God loves us and will ALWAYS do what is in your best interest. Re: Rom 8:28

You are very special and God has a marvelous, unique design for your entire life, and He want to manage His plan for you.Psalm 139:16, “Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

Jer. 29:11, “I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Pro. 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

Acknowledge Him

I admit, I accept, I grant, I allow, I concede, I confess, I own, I recognize... the LORD.

God wants you to know that the Holy Spirit alone is capable of guiding you and revealing God’s plan to you.Jer 10:23, “I know, O LORD, that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.”

Isa 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God knows what we do not. He sees what we cannot.

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”— but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

Ps 32:8, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Jn 14:26, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

John 16:13-15

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’

God wants you to know that the Holy Spirit will train you to recognize, follow and obey His guidance.

Lk 9:23-24, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

Jn 10:27, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”

Crucified with Christ

Jn 12:24-26, “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. Anyone who wants to be my disciple must follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me.”

Handout... Crucify the Flesh

Rom 12:1-2, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Lessons 4 Life2Life

The Character of God

The Personality of the Holy Spirit

The Human Nature and the Divine Nature

The Sovereignty of God

Internal Transformation vs Behavior Modification