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THREE:Changed by the Gospel
TO THE UNBELIEVER:
The Gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes.
Rom 1:16
…resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. 1 Cor 2:2
The Gospel changes the two sources of behaviour:
My identity
My heart
How we think about ourselves largely determines
how we behave
Righteous
One
Rom 6:11-12
Count yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ
Jesus. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your body…
2 Cor 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has
come.
Jn 8:11
I do not condemn you.
Now go and leave your
life of sin.
1 Cor 6
Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? Therefore, do not be sexually
immoral. You were bought at a price.
Prov 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do
flows from it.
Always pursues happiness
Augustine: “How sweet it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys I had once feared to lose. You drove them from me and took their place,
You, the true, Sovereign Joy.”
Chalmers: It is seldom any of our sins can be made to disappear by mental determination. But, what
cannot be destroyed may be displaced.
The heart is so constituted that only way to dispose of an old affection is
by the expulsive power of a new affection. It is only by receiving over
and over the glory of the gospel
that the heart, brought under the mastery of this one great and predominant affection, can be delivered from the tyranny of
former desires.
Thus, the more received is the doctrine of grace, the more it shall
lead to godliness. So then, try every legitimate method of opening your hearts to His extravagant grace”.
Resists rules but
receives the Gospel
Stingy heart
2 Cor 8:7-9 Excel in giving. I am not commanding you…but you know the grace of our Jesus, that though rich, for your sakes became poor, so that
you through His poverty might become rich.
Stingy heart
Unforgiving heart
Stingy heart
Unforgiving heart
Racist heart
Stingy heart
Unforgiving heart
Racist heart
Husbands
Worships what it believes
will satisfy it the most.
Rom 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped created things rather than the
Creator.
Behavioural Sin/Struggle
Idolatry
Disbelief in the Gospel
Behavioural Sin/Struggle(Withholding money)
Idolatry
Disbelief in the Gospel
Rom 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not also graciously give
us all things?
Behavioural Sin/Struggle(Fear of Death)
Idolatry
Disbelief in the Gospel
Rom 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not also graciously give
us all things?
Behavioural Sin/Struggle(Always needing a man)
Idolatry
Disbelief in the Gospel
Behavioural Sin/Struggle(Over-conscious about beauty)
Idolatry
Disbelief in the Gospel
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