Changed Into His Image

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Session 9
Walking in Wisdom
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Knowledge Objectives

• Explain the role of the Holy Spirit in your
  obedience to God.
• Understand that biblical obedience is not
  compliance with a rule but a submissive response
  to a Person.
• Understand that biblical endurance is fueled by a
  relationship with God.
• Explain how the hearing and doing are the
  hallmarks of mature Christianity.

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Application Objectives

• Respond by becoming increasingly sensitive to the
  Holy Spirits conviction in your life.
• Respond by turning to God for help to obey and
  endure.
• Respond by reflecting Christ to others around you
  by your servanthood.

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Session 9
Walking in Wisdom
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The Master Discipline of Doing

• Doing versus being
• The Holy Spirit is the key player.
• This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye
  shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the
  flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit
  against the flesh and these are contrary the one
  to the other so that ye cannot do the things
  that ye would (Gal. 516-17).

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The Master Discipline of Doing

• The divine help from God is called grace.

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The Basic Discipline of Obedience

• Biblical obedience is not just compliance to some
  abstract law or rule. It is the submissive
  response to the Person of the Holy Spirit, who
  has revealed the will of God to us through His
  Word.
• A love relationship is at the heart of
  obedience.

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The Basic Discipline of Endurance

• Endurance is continued obedience to God even
  under pressure.

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Philippians 25-11

• Let this mind be in you, which was also in
  Christ Jesus Who, being in the form of God,
  thought it not robbery to be equal with God But
  made himself of no reputation, and took upon him
  the form of a servant, and was made in the
  likeness of men And being found in fashion as a
  man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
  death, . . .

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Philippians 25-11

• even the death of the cross. Wherefore
• God also hath highly exalted him, and
• given him a name which is above every
• name That at the name of Jesus every
• knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
• things in earth, and things under the
• earth And that every tongue should
• confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
• glory of God the Father.

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The Basic Discipline of Endurance

• Christlike endurance is submission to the One who
  loved us most.

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Hebrews 121-2

• Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
  with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
  aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
  easily beset us, and let us run with endurance
  the race that is set before us, Looking unto
  Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.

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James 112

• Blessed is the man that endureth temptation
  for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
  of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
  that love him.

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Grown-up Christianity

• Servanthood is grown-up Christianity.
• Slaves were responsive to the needs of othersan
  attitude of otherness (diakonos).
• Slaves were responsive to the will of another
  (doulos).

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Mark 121-5

• And he began to speak unto them by parables. A
  certain man planted a vine-yard, and set an hedge
  about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and
  built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and
  went into a far country. And at the season he
  sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might
  receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the
  vineyard.

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Mark 121-5

• And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him
  away empty. And again he sent unto them another
  servant
• and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in
  the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
  And again he sent another
• and him they killed, and many others beating
  some, and killing some.

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Conclusion

• Responsiveness to the needs of others and to the
  will of another is the litmus test of
  Christlikeness.
• By hearing and doing we will become living
  advertisements of Christlikeness.

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Take Time to Reflect

• Do you listen to what God says through His Word
  and your elders?
• Do you remember what God and your elders say?
• Do you do what God and your elders say?
• Do you persevere/endure in what God and your
  elders say?