Colossians Chapter
2:6; “Just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him”.
Rob Rufus
explains that we walk and live our Christian life by and through grace.
How did you
receive Him?
Grace
through faith – so how do you continue to live in Him? Grace through faith!
People say “Well you got saved by grace through faith but now you need to be sanctified by coming back under the law!”.
People say “Well you got saved by grace through faith but now you need to be sanctified by coming back under the law!”.
No – it says just
as you received Christ so continue to walk in Him. Right believing – not trying
to be right living! The sanctification is a fruit of a changed life that
believes this message and gets into the Presence and glory of God and God
begins to change him. He changes our heart first.
Some Christian behavior
embarrasses some people but the Father isn’t trying to say “Stop that! Stop
that!”. He wants them to believe this message so He can change their hearts and
as they believe this message then the weird behavior will get less and less
until it falls away.
I know you know
this – but God wants it really in our hearts and He says “Don’t let anyone
deceive you with empty philosophy”. “For in Christ all the fullness of the
deity live”. Then let’s read from verse 13. “When you were dead … He forgave us
all our sins”.
He circumcised our
old nature – where did we get that old nature from?
First Adam! What
was Adam’s sin? Was it pornography or adultery? No – it was unbelief in the
goodness of God because God said “I have made you in My image and likeness” and
Satan said if you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil then you
can become “like God”.
He was already in the image and likeness of God – so he had unbelief in the truth of God’s goodness and tried to develop self-righteousness apart from God!
He was already in the image and likeness of God – so he had unbelief in the truth of God’s goodness and tried to develop self-righteousness apart from God!
When you were born
again it was because the Holy Spirit convicted you of that unbelief in grace
and He circumcised your heart. We don’t have a sinful nature and a
righteousness nature! That old nature has been cut away! Under the Old Covenant
you had physical circumcision. I am not trying to be crude – but it was a snip
on the tip and then they threw the tip away. They didn’t try to stick it back
on again with Bos-Stick or glue! So when your old nature is cut away it is
thrown away!
So you do not have a sinning nature on the inside of you! You have a new creation nature that wants to believe in the goodness of God! It doesn’t want to run out and do terrible things! Yes you still have appetites in your physical body and memories in your mind. Some of our appetites want to do wrong things and it is not coming from the old nature but memories of the flesh.
So you do not have a sinning nature on the inside of you! You have a new creation nature that wants to believe in the goodness of God! It doesn’t want to run out and do terrible things! Yes you still have appetites in your physical body and memories in your mind. Some of our appetites want to do wrong things and it is not coming from the old nature but memories of the flesh.
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