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OT Hist Theology
Salvation
Mercy
Grace
Judgment
NT Hist Theology
L O V E
E C A EP
KINGDOM
DevotionTo God
DevotionTo Man
Discipleship
1 Cor. 123 - We preach Christ and him
crucified
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DISCIPLESHIP
Evangelism
Worship
Family Relations
Assemblies
Use of
Church (unity relationships)
Character Holiness
Local Organization
Sins of Flesh
Leadership
Neighbor Love
1 Cor. 123 - We preach Christ and him
crucified
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DISCIPLESHIP
Evangelism
Worship
Family Relations
Assemblies
Use of
Church (unity relationships)
Character Holiness
Local Organization
Sins of Flesh
Leadership
Neighbor Love
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DISCIPLESHIPA legalistic Rulebook or Checklist

• Evangelism
• Family Relations
• Use of
• Character / Holiness
• Sins of Flesh

• Worship
• Assemblies
• Church
• Local Organization
• Leadership
• Neighbor Love

We thank you, Lord, that we are not like those
denominations, for we assemble properly, worship
correctly, organize ourselves as we should, and
do not drink, smoke, swear or engage in sins of
the flesh (i.e., sexual immorality)
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DISCIPLESHIP
Evangelism
Worship
Family Relations
Assemblies
Use of
Church (unity relationships)
God, be merciful to me, the sinner
Character Holiness
Local Organization
Sins of Flesh
Leadership
Neighbor Love
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Cross-Centered Relationships
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The Inner Ring Mentality

• The only certain rule is that the insiders and
  outsiders call it by different names. From inside
  it may be designated, in simple cases, by mere
  enumeration it may be called you and Tony and
  me. When it is very secure and comparatively
  stable in membership, it calls itself, we.
• From outside, if you have despaired of getting
  into it, you call it that gang or they or
  so-and-so and his set or the Caucus or the
  Inner Ring.
• I believe that in all mens lives at certain
  periods, and in many mens lives at all periods
  between infancy and extreme old age, one of the
  most dominant elements is the desire to be inside
  the local Ring and the terror of being left
  outside
• It is a terrible bore, of course, when old Smith
  draws you aside and whispers, Look here, weve
  got to get you in on this examination somehow or
  Charles and I saw at once that youve got to be
  on this committee. A terrible bore ah, but how
  much more terrible if you were left out!

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The Inner Ring Mentality

• This desire is one of the great permanent
  mainsprings of human action. It is one of the
  factors which go to make up the world as we know
  it Unless you take measures to prevent it, this
  desire is going to be one of the chief motives of
  your life, from the first day on which you enter
  your profession until the day when you are too
  old to care. That will be the natural thing - the
  life that will come to you of its own accord. Any
  other kind of life, if you lead it, will be the
  result of conscious and continuous effort. If
  you do nothing about it, if you drift with the
  stream, you will in fact be an inner ringer. I
  dont say youll be a successful one thats as
  may be. But whether by pining and moping outside
  Rings that you can never enter, or by passing
  triumphantly further and further in - one way or
  the other you will be that kind of person.

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Destructiveness of the Flesh to Relationships

• Galatians 513-26

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Lists of Flesh Spirit were not given in a
vacuum

• Works of Flesh things like these (521)
• Fruit of Spirit against such things (523)
  
• and stuff like that!

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Framework for the Flesh/Spirit Contrast

• Gal. 513   For you were called to freedom,
  brethren only do not turn your freedom into an
  opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
  one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled
  in one word, in the statement, YOU SHALL LOVE
  YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 15 But if you bite
  and devour one another, take care that you are
  not consumed by one another.
• Gal. 525   If we live by the Spirit, let us also
  walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become
  boastful, challenging one another, envying one
  another.

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Framework for the Flesh/Spirit Contrast

• Gal. 513   For you were called to freedom,
  brethren only do not turn your freedom into an
  opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
  one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled
  in one word, in the statement, YOU SHALL LOVE
  YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 15 But if you bite
  and devour one another, take care that you are
  not consumed by one another.
• Gal. 525   If we live by the Spirit, let us also
  walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become
  boastful, challenging one another, envying one
  another.

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Framework for the Flesh/Spirit Contrast

• Gal. 513   For you were called to freedom,
  brethren only do not turn your freedom into an
  opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
  one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled
  in one word, in the statement, YOU SHALL LOVE
  YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 15 But if you bite
  and devour one another, take care that you are
  not consumed by one another.
• Gal. 525   If we live by the Spirit, let us also
  walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become
  boastful, challenging one another, envying one
  another.

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Framework for the Flesh/Spirit Contrast

• Gal. 513   For you were called to freedom,
  brethren only do not turn your freedom into an
  opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
  one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled
  in one word, in the statement, YOU SHALL LOVE
  YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 15 But if you bite
  and devour one another, take care that you are
  not consumed by one another.
• Gal. 525   If we live by the Spirit, let us also
  walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become
  boastful, challenging one another, envying one
  another.

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Framework for the Flesh/Spirit Contrast

• Gal. 513   For you were called to freedom,
  brethren only do not turn your freedom into an
  opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
  one another. 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled
  in one word, in the statement, YOU SHALL LOVE
  YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. 15 But if you bite
  and devour one another, take care that you are
  not consumed by one another.
• Gal. 525   If we live by the Spirit, let us also
  walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become
  boastful, challenging one another, envying one
  another.

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Framework for the Flesh/Spirit Contrast

• Gal. 513-15  Relationship Destroyers
• 516-24 - Flesh / Spirit Contrast
• Gal. 526   Relationship Destroyers

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Works of the Flesh

• Gal. 519-21   19 Now the deeds of the flesh are
  evident, which are immorality, impurity,
  sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities,
  strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,
  dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness,
  carousing, and things like these, of which I
  forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that
  those who practice such things will not inherit
  the kingdom of God.

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Works of the Flesh

• Gal. 519-21   19 Now the deeds of the flesh are
  evident, which are immorality, impurity,
  sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities,
  strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,
  dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness,
  carousing, and things like these, of which I
  forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that
  those who practice such things will not inherit
  the kingdom of God.

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Works of the Flesh

• Gal. 519-21   19 Now the deeds of the flesh are
  evident, which are immorality, impurity,
  sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities,
  strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,
  dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness,
  carousing, and things like these, of which I
  forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that
  those who practice such things will not inherit
  the kingdom of God.

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• Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have
  crucified the flesh with its passions and
  desires (Gal. 524)

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• Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have
  crucified the flesh with its passions and
  desires (Gal. 524)
• when Christ calls a man or woman, he bids them
  die (Bonhoeffer).

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Eph. 431-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and
  anger and clamor and slander be put away from
  you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one
  another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other,
  just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Eph. 431-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and
  anger and clamor and slander be put away from
  you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one
  another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other,
  just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Eph. 431-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and
  anger and clamor and slander be put away from
  you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one
  another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other,
  just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
• Col. 313 bearing with one another, and forgiving
  each other, whoever has a complaint against
  anyone just as the Lord forgave you, so also
  should you.

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Through the Cross - We Find the Humility to
  Repent/Confess/Express Sorrow
• Rom. 66 - knowing this, that our old self was
  crucified with him, in order that our body of sin
  might be done away with, so that we would no
  longer be slaves to sin.
• Phil. 23 - Do nothing from selfishness or empty
  conceit, but with humility of mind regard one
  another as more important than yourselves.

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Through the Cross - We Find the Humility to
  Repent/Confess/Express Sorrow
• Through the Cross - We Find the Humility to
  Forgive Those Whove Wronged Us
• Luke 2334 - But Jesus was saying, Father
  forgiven them, for they do not know what they are
  doing
• 1 Pet. 223 - while being reviled, he did not
  revile in return.

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The Cross The Flesh

• Our attitude to the flesh should be one of
  ruthless repudiation. For those who belong to
  Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its
  passions and desires (Gal. 524). That is, we
  have taken this evil slimy, slippery thing
  called the flesh and nailed it to the cross.
  This was our initial repentance. Crucifixion is
  dramatic imagery for our uncompromising rejection
  of all known evil. Crucifixion does not lead to a
  quick or easy death it is an execution of
  lingering pain. Yet it is decisive there is no
  possibility of escaping it.

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The Cross The Flesh

• Our attitude to the Holy Spirit, on the other
  hand, is to be one of unconditional surrender.
  Paul uses several expressions for this. We are to
  live by the Spirit, to be led by the Spirit,
  and to keep in step with the Spirit (Gal. 516,
  18, 25). That is, we are to allow Him His
  rightful sovereignty over us, and follow His
  righteous promptings.

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The Cross The Flesh

• Thus both our repudiation of the flesh and our
  surrender to the Spirit need to be repeated
  daily, however decisive our original repudiation
  and surrender may have been. In Jesus words, we
  are to take up (our) cross daily and follow Him
  (Luke 923). We are also to go on being filled
  with the Spirit (Eph. 518), as we open our
  personality to Him daily. Both our repudiation
  and our surrender are also to be worked out in
  disciplined habits of life. It is those who sow
  to the Spirit (Gal. 68) who reap the fruits of
  the Spirit.

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The Cross The Flesh

• And to sow to the Spirit means to cultivate
  the things of the Spirit, for example, by our
  wise use of the Lords Day, the discipline of our
  daily prayer and Bible reading, our regular
  worship and attendance at the Lords Supper, our
  Christian friendships and involvement in
  Christian service. An inflexible principle of all
  Gods dealings, both in the material and moral
  realm, is that we reap what we sow. The rule is
  invariable. It cannot be changed, for God cannot
  be mocked (Gal. 67). We must not therefore be
  surprised if we do not reap the fruit of the
  Spirit when all the time we are sowing to the
  flesh. Did we think we could cheat or fool God?
  - John R. W. Stott

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Hebrews 122 -
• Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and
  perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set
  before him, endured the cross, despising its
  shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the
  throne of God.

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Repentance Forgiveness

• Hebrews 122 -
• Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and
  perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set
  before him, endured the cross, despising its
  shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the
  throne of God.