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SESSION ELEVEN

DIVINE RELATIONSHIP, 1-8

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, 9-21

Point 14.

• Our sins are taken away at a crisis (getting saved) that results in a process (sanctification, but in the future the Jews sins will be taken away in a process (the Tribulation) that results in a crisis (their salvation).

Point 15.

• When you live a disobedient life, you delay the blessing but you do not cancel the promise.

Corollary:

• It is obedience that makes blessings happen when they are supposed to happen so you don't lose precious time waiting for them to happen.

Point 16.

• Your best chance for what you want is to stay in the way of obedience.

Point 17.

• Bible doctrine isn't designed just for categories in your brain, or divisions in your systematic theology; it is designed to ignite a new seriousness for God!

Thesis:

• Based on the mystery of the mercy (of God going from the Jew to the Gentile), Paul has a basis for begging the Christian Gentiles to do something.

ROMANS 12-14 MINISTRY RELATIONSHIP REFERENCE 1. Divine 12:1-8

A. Reasonable Relationship—Ministry to God 12:1-2 B. Church Relationship—Ministry to Brethren 12:3-8

2. Social I: Ministry to Men & Women (Inside) 12:9-21 3. Civil: Ministry to State 13:1-7 4. Legal: Ministry to Individuals 13:8-10

2. Social II: Ministry to Men & Women (Outside) 13:11-14 5. Self 14:1-23

A. Relationship to Weaker Brethren 14:1-12 B. Relationship to Conscience 14:13-23

FOUNDATIONS FOR THE CHALLENGE

1. Paul had to establish the fact your body was already crucified, Rom 6:11

2. Paul had to establish the fact of Israel's rejection and God's mercy flowing to you, Rom 11:30-31

DEFINITION:

• A living sacrifice means dead to me but alive to God's purposes, Gal 2:20

DEFINITION:

• Presenting your body holy means with a determination to live in line with God’s mission.

POINT 1.

• The power of the Holy Spirit is imperative, because holy living is impossible living without holy power, and you only get holy power from the Holy Ghost.

POINT 2.

• Worship does not start in your music, worship starts in your consecration, because praise does not cause worship, worship causes praise.

Counseling Tip #1.

• The only way out of the way you are is through Rom 12:2 and 1 Pet 1:14.

POINT 3.

• God makes your spirit new by the Spirit of God, but it is your responsibility to make your mind new through the word of God.

Counseling Tip #2.

• If you control your body through right decisions, then you have a chance to clean up your mind.

Definition:

• The word prove means to test, to try, to ascertain by experiment, to know by experience, to learn by encountering.

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF THE WILL OF

GOD1. GOOD WILL (permissive

will)=things God allows, but doesn't necessarily approve of

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF THE WILL OF

GOD1. GOOD WILL (permissive

will)=things God allows, but doesn't necessarily approve of

2. ACCEPTABLE WILL (directive)=you know the word of God but not yet mastered the ways of God, Eph 5:10

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF THE WILL OF

GOD2. ACCEPTABLE WILL

(directive)=you know the word of God but not yet mastered the ways of God, Eph 5:10

3. PERFECT WILL=doing exactly the things God wants, when he wants, and in the way he wants, Eph 5:17

HOW YOU PROVE (FIND) THE WILL OF

GODA. By giving willing

obedience (will)

B. By biblically informing your mind (mind)

C. By being progressively transformed (emotions)

Point 4.

• God's will comes as a result of a life consecrated on God's altar—it starts with an obedience that manifests consecration; it progresses to a transformation that manifests renewal, and it consummates in a proof that performs God's will.

DEFINITION:

• All spiritual gifts are latent gifts; that’s why they cannot be discovered only with an inventory—they are also uncovered through ministry.

Point 5.

• Make sure your evaluations of yourself are always based on the truth of God's word, not on the experience of being in God's will.

TWO WAYS TO AVOID BEING A “PUFF DADDY”

1. Think soberly, 1 Cor 4:6

2. Don't compare yourself against other people, compare yourself against the Bible, 1 Cor 7:17

POINT 6.

• Credit always goes to Christ.

POINT 7.

• Whenever transitional, miracle-working sign gifts appear outside the book of Acts, they always show up as a problem to be corrected, not as a method to be employed.

POINT 8.

• Any health body needs every healthy part.

POINT 9.

• We are a corporate body, but we have individual relationships.

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

1. Prophecy proclaims God's word (which is written) and God's plan and direction (which is not written) to God's people

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

1. Prophecy proclaims God's word (which is written) and God's plan and direction (which is not written) to God's people

2. Ministry means to look watchfully, to attend to something, to perform as a servant or aid as an official

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

3. Teaching means to perform instruction in such a way that people learn

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

3. Teaching means to perform instruction in such a way that people learn

4. Exhortation is stirring up other believers to fulfill their ministry function

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

5. Giving is imparting your extra coat to him who has none as a means of earning his respect, and later being able to get him the gospel

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

6. Ruling in diligence means to stand in front and preside, enduring in all the gifts until the job is done

SERVING GRACE GIFTS

6. Ruling in diligence means to stand in front and preside, enduring in all the gifts until the job is done

7. Mercy defines the cheerful compassion of the diligent ruler, liberal giver, motivational exhorter, apt teacher, ministering servant and visionary preacher

DEFINITION:

• Dissimulation is pretending to have care for other members of the body when that is not your real intent.

Rule #1.

• Love in the body of Christ has to be genuine and not hypocritical.

Point 10.

• The love is already in you; your job is to simply let it flow without diverting its course, Rom 5:5.

Point 11.

• The determination of love is acting in someone else's best interest to get them into the will of God.

Rule #2

• If I don't love you the right way I let you drag me into your sin drama.

Point 12.

• God may be longsuffering with us, but do not misread that as tolerance of evil.

Rule #3.

• Be devoted to each other as you would be to a natural family member.

Rule #4.

• Defer to the other person and lead the way for others.

HOW DO YOU INCREASE YOUR LOVE QUOTIENT?

• When you respond and react to your brother or sister in Christ the same way you would respond or react to God.

Rule #5.

• Don't be tardy, be diligent.

Rule #5.

• Don't be tardy, be diligent.

Rule #6.

• Be on fire inside.

Point 13.

• The development of your walk in the Spirit will produce fire inside.

Rule #7.

• Use prayer to buttress your perspective and bestow endurance.

DEFINITION:

• The word instant means pressing, urgent, in earnest.

Rule #8.

• Generosity is part of practicing righteousness.

Rule #8.

• Generosity is part of practicing righteousness.

Rule #9.

• The tool you use to get to know people better is hospitality.

Rule #10.

• Speak well of those who push you.

Rule #11.

• Make your emotions match what God is doing in your brother's life when you are with your brother.

Rule #11.

• Make your emotions match what God is doing in your brother's life when you are with your brother.

Point 14.

• Rejoicing will keep you from jealousy.

Rule #12.

• View others like you want them to view you.

Rule #12.

• View others like you want them to view you.

Rule #13.

• Don't pay attention to lofty people, but get carried away with the humble, Ps 131:1.

Rule #14.

• Don't spend too much time thinking about your strong points.

Rule #15.

• Don't get even.

Rule #15.

• Don't get even.

Rule #16.

• Consider in advance what others will see as fair, not just the technicality.

Rule #17.

• Be a peacemaker in as far as it depends on you.

Point 15.

• This is one of those commandments where your obedience is sometimes determined by your circumstances, because sometimes the things necessary to obey this command are out of your control.

Point 16.

• You are not held hostage by somebody else's disobedience.

RULE #18.• Move out of the way so wrath can

pass you by and so you won't take-out your own revenge.

RULE #18.• Move out of the way so wrath can

pass you by and so you won't take-out your own revenge.

Point 17.• The only person who ever has a

right to be angry is God, so whenever you get angry apart from his command you have usurped the authority of God.

Point 18.

• If you take out your own wrath, then you have "taken out" God's wrath.

RULE #19.

• Conquer wickedness with the tool of right actions.

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