THE HEART AND SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION

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THE HEART AND SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION

• HOW ACTUAL OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST IN REAL LIFE
  BECOMES POSSIBLE AND REAL

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Things Great Teachers Must Teach

• The nature of reality
• Who is well-off
• Blessedness
• The Good Life
• Who is a really good person?
• How to become a really good person
• Jesus answers each of these in a manner far
• superior to anyone else Plato, Buddha, Freud.
• Jesus is the smartest One ever!

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Jesus Answers The Question Of Moral Knowledge

• The "great commandments" of Mark 1229-31
• Refined by John 1334 and I John 27-11 and I
  Cor. 13, II Peter 12-11, Col. 3, etc. etc.

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Infinite Environment
THE WHOLE PERSON
Renovation of the Heart, pg 38
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Infinite Environment
THE WHOLE PERSON
Word and Spirit of Christ Enters
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• WhereAction Comes From
• Renovation of the Heart, pg 40

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Cleaning The Inside Of The Cup. (Matt. 2325)

• If you would keep Jesus teaching, dont aim at
  that, but at becoming the kind of person who
  naturally (supernaturally of course) does that
  Routinely, easily!!!
• The source of good and evil in human life is the
  human heart. (Mark 721-23, Luke 643-45, Prov.
  423)
• And then spread to all of the parts of the human
  self.

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The Life of the Flesh

• The Burger King life is the life of the flesh
  Have it YOURRRRRRRRR Way!
• Flesh consists of our natural human abilities
  what we can do without special divine
  interaction.
• Not evil in itself, but death when made our
  ultimate point of reference. (Rom. 84-8)

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Our Two Wills

• Vital Will Patterns of willing oriented to
  attractive objects without reference to other
  possible willings or life as a whole practically
  identical with desire.
• Reflective Will Here will is oriented toward
  what is good for the person as a whole, not
  toward the merely desired. SEEKS ALTERNATIVES,
  WHAT IS BEST.
• Good is not the same thing as the desired.

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WAR OF FLESH AND SPIRIT

• THE PICTURE OF GAL.514-26
• THE SPIRIT OF VS. 17 IS NOT JUST THE HOLY
  SPIRIT, BUT ALSO THE HUMAN SPIRIT, THE WILL.
• THE UNIVERSAL TASK OF MORALITY IS TO PROVIDE
  RESOURCES TO DO WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO AND
  NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.

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DESIRE UNGOVERNED BY GOOD DESTROYS

• II PETER 14
• I PETER 211 42
• JAMES 41-3
• GALATIANS 519-21
• MARK 720-23

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The Cross Sets Aside the Flesh

• The cross as Gods act (Col. 211-15)
• The cross as your choice (Luke 1427)
• We enter through the wounds of His humanity into
  the depths of His divinity.
• The cross sets aside the flesh as our life.
• Taking up the cross we follow Christwe are his
  students.

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The Reliable Pattern of Kingdom Growth

• Vision
• Intention
• Means

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Illustrations

• Relief from anger and contempt.
• Matt. 520-26.
• Relief from cultivated lusting.
• Matt. 527-30
• Shifting our burdens through prayer.
• Matt. 77-12.
• Etc.

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V.I.M IN PORNOGRAPHY

• PORNOGRAPHY SUPPORTS ITSELF IN THE INDIVIDUAL
  THROUGH A V.I.M. THAT IS IN PLACE A VISION OF
  GOD, ONESELF, AND WOMEN AND MEN AN INTENTION TO
  USE PORNOGRAPHY AS A RESOURCES FOR LIVING, AND
  THE PROVISION OF MEANS.
• REPLACING WITH A GODLY V.I.M

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Addiction and the Flesh

• The addicted person has conceded to feeling the
  right to rule over the will.
• How fleshly lusts war against the soul
• They are servants who have usurped the place of
  the proper master of the human self.
• Feeling takes the place of will.
• Life as a whole falls apart, corrupts.

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The Golden Triangle of Spiritual Growth

The Action of the Holy SpiritJohn 35 ? Rom.
810-13 ? Gal. 522-26
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Centered in the Mind of Christ
Phil 212-15Rom. 1314
Ordinary Events of Life Temptations James
12-4Rom. 51-5
Planned Discipline to Put on a New Heart Col.
312-172 Pet. 15-10
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The Recovery of Moral Knowledge Can Lie Only
Through Obedience to Jesus Christ.

• He is in fact the source of the highest moral
  teachings the world has known.
• No one has replaced him. Any suggestions?
• Only a community of obedience can make this
  clear.

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How Do We Regard Jesus?

• "What think you of Christ?"
• The perennial question central to human life.
• Savior, or savior and teacher?
• Liberalism destroyed the credibility of Jesus the
  teacher.
• And set us up for discipleshipless Christianity.
• The Conservative reaction didnt help.

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He Is the Most Intelligent Person Who Ever Lived
on Earth.

• Whatever your field, He Is
• the best person in that field. Colossians 117
  and 23
• Focused upon the most important needs of
  humanity, of course, which are religious and
  moral.

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Three Dimensions of Discipleship

• Learning to do what Jesus said in scripture
• Learning to obey Him in the non-commanded details
  of actual life and business
• Learning to exercise His powertraining for
  reigning
• Prayer
• Speaking and acting under authority

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SCHOOLS OF OBEDIENCE

• THE ASSEMBLIES AND ASSOCIATIONS OF DISCIPLES
  EXIST ONLY TO TRAIN PEOPLE IN OBEDIENCE TO
  CHRISTTEACH THEM TO DO ALL THINGS I HAVE
  COMMANDED.
• THEY CAN DO THIS IF THEY CORPORATELY TAKE UP THE
  V.I.M. PATTERN

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V I M AgainNow At The Corporate Level

• Vision of what your community of faith in Jesus
  Christ could be.
• Intention to actually do what Jesus laid down in
  his charge to his people, The Great Commission.
• Means to accomplish the task.

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THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

• THE PEOPLE OF CHRIST STANDING IN THE WORLD AS
  THEY OUGHT RESTORE UNDERSTANDING OF THE GOOD AND
  THE RIGHT TO A WORLD THAT HAS LOST MORAL
  KNOWLEDGE.
• IT ALONE DOES THIS, NOT ANY OTHER SOCIAL
  INSTITUTION OR THE GOVERNMENT.