Transformative Power of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "When we fully know that our identity is in Christ, then we know that we are children of God and we are secure in the love and acceptance we find in God. We know that we get the fullness of the Sonship, of the Spirit of Sonship in our lives and that's what Paul's talking about here in chapter 8. Now the opposite of this is what some people call an orphan spirit. It's much more what Paul describes in chapter 7. That wrestling, the internal turmoil that's coming out in all sorts of directions, the lack of peace, and ultimately not knowing the love and acceptance of God the Father." [53:16]
2. "We look at our sin in the light of the cross. We look at our brokenness in the light of all that Christ has done. We look at chapter 7 and the Paul who wants to do what he wants to do but he can't do it and he hates what he does and all that. We look at that, the Paul who does what he hates and we look at it in the context of chapter 8 with freedom and living in the Spirit and a new identity as a child of God. An option to build new habits and patterns in life. A choice to live into all that God has called us to be. A chance to know the victory of Jesus in all of our lives." [55:17]
3. "Paul says this war within you, this wrestling is a sign of your need for something beyond yourself. Our need of God. And he has this question in verse 24. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Because that's all we can end up with when it's just about us. This body that is subject to death that cannot achieve anything on its own. He cannot do it on his own. He needs a savior. And he answers his own question in the very next line, verse 25. He says, thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. He tells us the answer. He tells us we don't need to live with some sort of hopeless wrestling. That is really good news for us this morning." [45:53]
4. "The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. It says, you, however, are not in the realm of the flesh, but you are in the realm of the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. So Paul is saying here that if the spirit of God lives in you, you are able to gather here and to worship you like this." [47:30]
5. "And she got great advice from experienced runners about how she could run better, how she could increase her distance, how she could increase her pace. She began to commit to more regular running and she got a training schedule that would fit into her life or rather she began to build her life around it to be fair. And she began to see some progress as she ran stronger, faster and for longer periods of time. Now Eugene Peterson wrote a book about discipleship. I've never read it, right? I'll have to say, but I like the title, right? I think he stole it from somewhere else. But he talks about discipleship as a long obedience in the same direction. That's the title of the book. A long obedience in the same direction. This is what we're talking about. Committing to fix your mind on Christ and allowing our decisions and our lives to follow where our minds are already focused." [50:30]
### Quotes for Members
1. "When we become so familiar with the ways of living that are associated with the spirit of sonship then it becomes easier to spot when we are out of line with that and suddenly we will see it and we will know we are out of line and so what the spirit does is changes us over time and then one day we will look back and we will realise how far we have come. Now what I want to say about this is that I am not just talking about looking back how far you have come from when you were a Christian not a Christian to a Christian I am talking about looking back year after year because we should always be seeing God at work in our lives if your only testimony is the testimony of when you came to faith then there is a problem you need to be growing always with Christ because there is always more with Jesus he has got so much more for us and he wants us to walk day by day year after year and see where he has been at work." [01:00:06]
2. "Paul says this war within you, this wrestling is a sign of your need for something beyond yourself. Our need of God. And he has this question in verse 24. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Because that's all we can end up with when it's just about us. This body that is subject to death that cannot achieve anything on its own. He cannot do it on his own. He needs a savior. And he answers his own question in the very next line, verse 25. He says, thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. He tells us the answer. He tells us we don't need to live with some sort of hopeless wrestling. That is really good news for us this morning." [45:53]
3. "The Bible calls it the Spirit of Sonship. When we fully know that our identity is in Christ, then we know that we are children of God and we are secure in the love and acceptance we find in God. We know that we get the fullness of the Sonship, of the Spirit of Sonship in our lives and that's what Paul's talking about here in chapter 8. Now the opposite of this is what some people call an orphan spirit. It's much more what Paul describes in chapter 7. That wrestling, the internal turmoil that's coming out in all sorts of directions, the lack of peace, and ultimately not knowing the love and acceptance of God the Father." [53:16]
4. "We look at our sin in the light of the cross. We look at our brokenness in the light of all that Christ has done. We look at chapter 7 and the Paul who wants to do what he wants to do but he can't do it and he hates what he does and all that. We look at that, the Paul who does what he hates and we look at it in the context of chapter 8 with freedom and living in the Spirit and a new identity as a child of God. An option to build new habits and patterns in life. A choice to live into all that God has called us to be. A chance to know the victory of Jesus in all of our lives." [55:17]
5. "And she got great advice from experienced runners about how she could run better, how she could increase her distance, how she could increase her pace. She began to commit to more regular running and she got a training schedule that would fit into her life or rather she began to build her life around it to be fair. And she began to see some progress as she ran stronger, faster and for longer periods of time. Now Eugene Peterson wrote a book about discipleship. I've never read it, right? I'll have to say, but I like the title, right? I think he stole it from somewhere else. But he talks about discipleship as a long obedience in the same direction. That's the title of the book. A long obedience in the same direction. This is what we're talking about. Committing to fix your mind on Christ and allowing our decisions and our lives to follow where our minds are already focused." [50:30]
6. "Paul says this war within you, this wrestling is a sign of your need for something beyond yourself. Our need of God. And he has this question in verse 24. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Because that's all we can end up with when it's just about us. This body that is subject to death that cannot achieve anything on its own. He cannot do it on his own. He needs a savior. And he answers his own question in the very next line, verse 25. He says, thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. He tells us the answer. He tells us we don't need to live with some sort of hopeless wrestling. That is really good news for us this morning." [45:53]
7. "When we become so familiar with the ways of living that are associated with the spirit of sonship then it becomes easier to spot when we are out of line with that and suddenly we will see it and we will know we are out of line and so what the spirit does is changes us over time and then one day we will look back and we will realise how far we have come. Now what I want to say about this is that I am not just talking about looking back how far you have come from when you were a Christian not a Christian to a Christian I am talking about looking back year after year because we should always be seeing God at work in our lives if your only testimony is the testimony of when you came to faith then there is a problem you need to be growing always with Christ because there is always more with Jesus he has got so much more for us and he wants us to walk day by day year after year and see where he has been at work." [01:00:06]
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1. "When we fully know that our identity is in Christ, then we know that we are children of God and we are secure in the love and acceptance we find in God. We know that we get the fullness of the Sonship, of the Spirit of Sonship in our lives and that's what Paul's talking about here in chapter 8. Now the opposite of this is what some people call an orphan spirit. It's much more what Paul describes in chapter 7. That wrestling, the internal turmoil that's coming out in all sorts of directions, the lack of peace, and ultimately not knowing the love and acceptance of God the Father." [53:16]
2. "We look at our sin in the light of the cross. We look at our brokenness in the light of all that Christ has done. We look at chapter 7 and the Paul who wants to do what he wants to do but he can't do it and he hates what he does and all that. We look at that, the Paul who does what he hates and we look at it in the context of chapter 8 with freedom and living in the Spirit and a new identity as a child of God. An option to build new habits and patterns in life. A choice to live into all that God has called us to be. A chance to know the victory of Jesus in all of our lives." [55:17]
3. "Paul says this war within you, this wrestling is a sign of your need for something beyond yourself. Our need of God. And he has this question in verse 24. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Because that's all we can end up with when it's just about us. This body that is subject to death that cannot achieve anything on its own. He cannot do it on his own. He needs a savior. And he answers his own question in the very next line, verse 25. He says, thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. He tells us the answer. He tells us we don't need to live with some sort of hopeless wrestling. That is really good news for us this morning." [45:53]
4. "The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. It says, you, however, are not in the realm of the flesh, but you are in the realm of the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. So Paul is saying here that if the spirit of God lives in you, you are able to gather here and to worship you like this." [47:30]
5. "And she got great advice from experienced runners about how she could run better, how she could increase her distance, how she could increase her pace. She began to commit to more regular running and she got a training schedule that would fit into her life or rather she began to build her life around it to be fair. And she began to see some progress as she ran stronger, faster and for longer periods of time. Now Eugene Peterson wrote a book about discipleship. I've never read it, right? I'll have to say, but I like the title, right? I think he stole it from somewhere else. But he talks about discipleship as a long obedience in the same direction. That's the title of the book. A long obedience in the same direction. This is what we're talking about. Committing to fix your mind on Christ and allowing our decisions and our lives to follow where our minds are already focused." [50:30]
### Quotes for Members
1. "When we become so familiar with the ways of living that are associated with the spirit of sonship then it becomes easier to spot when we are out of line with that and suddenly we will see it and we will know we are out of line and so what the spirit does is changes us over time and then one day we will look back and we will realise how far we have come. Now what I want to say about this is that I am not just talking about looking back how far you have come from when you were a Christian not a Christian to a Christian I am talking about looking back year after year because we should always be seeing God at work in our lives if your only testimony is the testimony of when you came to faith then there is a problem you need to be growing always with Christ because there is always more with Jesus he has got so much more for us and he wants us to walk day by day year after year and see where he has been at work." [01:00:06]
2. "Paul says this war within you, this wrestling is a sign of your need for something beyond yourself. Our need of God. And he has this question in verse 24. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Because that's all we can end up with when it's just about us. This body that is subject to death that cannot achieve anything on its own. He cannot do it on his own. He needs a savior. And he answers his own question in the very next line, verse 25. He says, thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. He tells us the answer. He tells us we don't need to live with some sort of hopeless wrestling. That is really good news for us this morning." [45:53]
3. "The Bible calls it the Spirit of Sonship. When we fully know that our identity is in Christ, then we know that we are children of God and we are secure in the love and acceptance we find in God. We know that we get the fullness of the Sonship, of the Spirit of Sonship in our lives and that's what Paul's talking about here in chapter 8. Now the opposite of this is what some people call an orphan spirit. It's much more what Paul describes in chapter 7. That wrestling, the internal turmoil that's coming out in all sorts of directions, the lack of peace, and ultimately not knowing the love and acceptance of God the Father." [53:16]
4. "We look at our sin in the light of the cross. We look at our brokenness in the light of all that Christ has done. We look at chapter 7 and the Paul who wants to do what he wants to do but he can't do it and he hates what he does and all that. We look at that, the Paul who does what he hates and we look at it in the context of chapter 8 with freedom and living in the Spirit and a new identity as a child of God. An option to build new habits and patterns in life. A choice to live into all that God has called us to be. A chance to know the victory of Jesus in all of our lives." [55:17]
5. "And she got great advice from experienced runners about how she could run better, how she could increase her distance, how she could increase her pace. She began to commit to more regular running and she got a training schedule that would fit into her life or rather she began to build her life around it to be fair. And she began to see some progress as she ran stronger, faster and for longer periods of time. Now Eugene Peterson wrote a book about discipleship. I've never read it, right? I'll have to say, but I like the title, right? I think he stole it from somewhere else. But he talks about discipleship as a long obedience in the same direction. That's the title of the book. A long obedience in the same direction. This is what we're talking about. Committing to fix your mind on Christ and allowing our decisions and our lives to follow where our minds are already focused." [50:30]
6. "Paul says this war within you, this wrestling is a sign of your need for something beyond yourself. Our need of God. And he has this question in verse 24. Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Because that's all we can end up with when it's just about us. This body that is subject to death that cannot achieve anything on its own. He cannot do it on his own. He needs a savior. And he answers his own question in the very next line, verse 25. He says, thanks be to God who delivers me through Jesus Christ. Our Lord. He tells us the answer. He tells us we don't need to live with some sort of hopeless wrestling. That is really good news for us this morning." [45:53]
7. "When we become so familiar with the ways of living that are associated with the spirit of sonship then it becomes easier to spot when we are out of line with that and suddenly we will see it and we will know we are out of line and so what the spirit does is changes us over time and then one day we will look back and we will realise how far we have come. Now what I want to say about this is that I am not just talking about looking back how far you have come from when you were a Christian not a Christian to a Christian I am talking about looking back year after year because we should always be seeing God at work in our lives if your only testimony is the testimony of when you came to faith then there is a problem you need to be growing always with Christ because there is always more with Jesus he has got so much more for us and he wants us to walk day by day year after year and see where he has been at work." [01:00:06]
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