Let’s review a bit from the last three sessions:
- We can live like Jesus Did if we know the Father like Jesus Did
- Knowing Who You are Determines What You Do
- We have received tremendous spiritual blessings in Christ(and that is where we must live)
- Living Like Jesus Did can only happen through the power of the Holy Spirit
- We choose whether to walk in the “old nature” or the “new nature”
- Living Like Jesus Did means hearing the Father’s voice
- Living Like Jesus Did means bearing one another’s burdens
- Living like Jesus Did means loving like Jesus loved
Theme Verse: “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.” (I John 2:6)
Living Like Jesus Did means confronting Sin with Grace and Truth
John 1:17 tells us that grace and truth come from Christ. Confronting disobedience means dealing with sin in our own lives and in the lives of others with both grace and truth.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.(Matthew 7:1-6)
“I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.” (I Corinthians 5:9-13)
“Spiritual Hernia”(from Dennis Peacocke)…when we try to fix someone that God hasn’t called or equipped us to fix. Doing heavy lifting when we shouldn’t.
Living Like Jesus Did means living within your assignment
“Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.(John 5:19-23)
“We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches even to you. We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ. Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand, so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in another man’s territory. But, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.” (II Corinthians 10:13-18)
Two Closing Thoughts:
“If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. (John 14:16-20)
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” (I Peter 2:9-10)
Summary Teaching of LLJD: Live Like Jesus Did
Theme Verse: “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.” (I John 2:6)
Foundations:
1. We can live like Jesus Did if we know the Father like Jesus Did
2. Knowing Who’s You are Determines What You Do
3. We have received tremendous spiritual blessings in Christ(and that is where we must live if we are to LLJD)
4. We choose whether to walk in the “old nature” or the “new nature”
Applications:
5. Living Like Jesus Did can only happen through the power of the Holy Spirit
6. Living Like Jesus Did means hearing the Father’s voice
7. Living Like Jesus Did means bearing one another’s burdens
8. Living like Jesus Did means loving like Jesus loved
9. Living Like Jesus Did means confronting Sin with Grace and Truth
10. Living Like Jesus Did means living within your assignment
