That is the purpose of what we are keeping and doing this week. But that is no longer true of us. David asks to have a clean heart created in him, and for his spirit to be renewed. The phrase translated “well pleasing,” in verse 9, not only means to be well pleasing; but it also means to be acceptable, or approved, or worthy. Human beings, as sons and daughters of Adam, enter the world spiritually dead. II Corinthians 5:9-10 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. We are no longer in that realm; our position is an entirely new one. He was no longer dead, but He was alive. We have left behind the grave-clothes. But we have died with Christ, and when we died with Christ the old man died also. We have become residences of a new spiritual realm in Christ, but our human nature is of the old physical realm of sin. Of course, we are the same personality that we were before, and yet we know that we are individually reclassified as a new man, a different man or woman. We are saved, by Christ’s life, not by His death. You remember the comparison. He has a new mind. We must grow in love, faith, and understanding. The whole life is to be a psalm of praise to God, the whole man and woman is to praise God: spirit, soul and body. I John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. We were all in Adam, we are lineal descendants from Adam, and we were all in him. And, through Christ, God gives it to us. Click here after starting sermon audio to bring up PowerPoint slides and visual aides which go along with the sermon. What an amazing status that we have in the church; it is just breathtaking. While you are alive you can praise the Lord. He no longer has the feeling that God is some terrible cruel tyrant set against us, waiting to crush us and destroy us. We have to battle against these three, in order to grow in grace and knowledge. Paul says that there are certain things that we as Christians must hold on to resolutely. 4. This could be produced only by the power of God. Often, we are content to think of our salvation merely in terms of the forgiveness of sins. "Lord, you gave me one talent, … Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Even as we dwell here on earth we have the anticipation of that glory, and are admitted to exalted honors, as if we sit in heavenly places, by virtue of Christ dwelling in us, and we in Him. And that is the thing that is true of the Christian—our citizenship is in heaven. Now this is obviously a very important statement. We no longer have enmity against God. Daniel 11:32 ..the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. We are still in the flesh, but we are members of a new spiritual body. Amen. Our minds are renewed with the spirit of a sound mind. That is how we once were, we were not alive to God; but now we are alive to God. This change is a process, and originates not with man, but with God through the Holy Spirit. We have to go through the process of conversion. We no longer walk in trespasses and sins as we used to do. Our priorities and goals change. So, we have been raised together with Christ. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. He looks at us as being in Christ. Romans 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. God’s character is always in accordance with His law—the way of love. AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME ALL YOU WHO ARE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY IN OUR SUNDAY SERVICE CELEBRATION. Often people do not realize this because they cannot draw the distinction between a temptation and a sin. We are ‘raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus’ because Christ has gone to the realm of heaven as our High Priest and Savior. With my voice. First Name (required) Last Name (required) Your Email (required) The soul, of course, should be affected by our spirits when they are in touch with God, when they're in fellowship with God. That is what Paul is dealing with here, with the Ephesian Christians. What a change! Sermon Title: “THANKING/PRAISING GOD IN THE MIDST OF CRISIS! We must develop righteous character to choose right—to discipline the self in the way that we should go. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?’. We have an Adamic nature, our standing before God is that of Adam. There is within us a nature that exerts a heavy pull against that righteous character—to give us something to strive against for the purpose of strengthening and developing right character. 5: 16-18; James 1: 2-4. Ephesians 2:1-7 says that we all have been dead spiritually. The overall theme of Ephesians 2:1-10, is that God lavishes His grace on us all, through His plan of salvation. ‘Even so we must walk in newness of life’, we must live God’s way of life. This is the old man, the Adamic man. It may take 1-5 minutes to open.] Regeneration is the first thing that our union with Christ leads us to. Of course, they all point to the Jesus and what He has done for us. The beginning of the process of our conversion is comparable to that. He gave His only begotten Son to reconcile us to Him and make the joys of His character and everlasting life possible for us. Among the highest choirs of angels in heaven—the cherubim and the seraphim—their principal duty in heaven is to simply praise the Eternal Triune God for all eternity… Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Before we ever awoke this morning, God was being exalted in Europe and Africa. The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:10-11). Whoever does not have Christ does not have eternal life. The Word of God has the power to build us up, make us into proper servants so that when the King comes back, we can go to meet Him unashamed because we will be proper servants of His. He wants them to know the exceeding greatness of God’s power to us who believe; and so he expounds on that point. Help "Me Church" video download . Psalm 146:1-10. Our praise puts evil to flight. Or, to use the apostle Paul’s illustration again, we are no longer the servants of sin. What is the old man? We are completely opposite of the world. Just as an example, you take the mainstream Christians and they base more of their religion on tradition than they do the Scripture. Hosanna in the highest. He is not interested in eternity. We have died with Christ, we have risen with Him out of our spiritual death, and we no longer belong to that particular realm of sin. What would it be like if God looked down on us and viewed us as spiritually dead? This… He is a living Savior, not a dead one. It is true that we may still, in our foolishness, listen to Satan’s enticements; we may still yield to temptation; we may still respond to a sinful impulse. Paul says that is exactly our relationship as Christians to the law. Like muscle, character is developed, and grows by exercise. God Alone Worthy of Trust: C. Short : Psalm 146:1-10: Hallelujah: David Thomas, D. D. Psalm 146:1-10: Hallelujah : Psalm 146:1-10: His Last Song: Sunday Circle: Psalm 146:1-10: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. That is his breath. Ps 149:5-6 Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds. Every Christian should know the truth, and every Christian should enjoy that assurance. We exercise our character by living God’s way of life. We will be among those who stand before Him and say: "Lord, you gave me five talents and here's five more." He who does not love his brother abides in death. Preaching on Glory of God? Have you seen the daylily flower? The real spiritual test surfaces between what God has already accomplished and the responsibility of His people to obey. Praising the Lord is telling God how good and great He is. He is ‘alive to God.’ We have an entirely new attitude towards God. We still live in this present evil world, and it still exerts a pull as well. We are still tempted by desires to sin and must not let those desires gain control. Our whole position, our whole status, and standing are absolutely different. When shall I come and appear before God? It is an absolute change. And, as the Father has life inherent within Himself, He has given this life to His Son to have immortal life inherent within Him. Introduction: GOOD MORNING TO ALL! He says that because we are no longer dead, but alive, we are also dead to the law. We are reminded of how hard it is to find, get rid of, and avoid sin in our lives as we try to deal with leavening before and during the Days of Unleavened Bread. Browse these sermons to find fresh ideas. What a contrast to those who are dead in trespasses and sins. They had left Egypt, and as a result, they had a change in status. It saves us from the death penalty. This is essentially true of the person who is alive to God. Perfect character is the ability, while made spiritually alive with free moral agency together with Christ, to come to the knowledge of the right from the wrong—the true from the false—and to choose the right. This means that God no longer looks at us as being in Adam. Sometimes we give because of a sense of duty. He wants to get away from God. The ‘rising’ I am talking about is our rising up out of the watery grave of baptism, and our receipt of a new spiritual mind. The punishment has been carried out, and that is Paul’s first deduction here. Paul puts it more strongly: Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. This sermon describes some of the ways God comforts us in our troubles. ‘The Christian’, by definition, is no longer dead spiritually. So we now have three influences to resist; to overcome. That was his hope, that was his anticipation, that was his desire, and this is what he wanted with all of his being. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. How to Praise God. The Sovereign God of the universe, and His Son our Savior, desire fellowship with the saints. We no longer want to know what kind of thrill we will get out of something, at least not in the same way as the world does, or what kind of pleasure it will bring us; but rather, does it impinge on our relationship with God and with Jesus Christ? That was David’s attitude before God. That we are no longer dead, and no longer in the grave, is proof positive that we are no longer under the wrath of God, and we are no longer under condemnation. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. May you be inspired, motivated and encouraged by each Daily … Sermon Text: 1 Thess. He showers on us every good and precious gift. We still must overcome our own human nature that is within, but it remains a foreign entity within us. You are merely repeating the command to praise the Lord. Our new heart craves righteousness, holiness, and an intimate relationship with God (manifested in a desire for prayer). We exercise our will in a new direction. Adam failed, and we all fail just like him. The brethren, the children of God, the Family of God, the people who desire in these things, are the people we love and whose presence we long for. Now our sins have been forgiven. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious … Those things would bring him near to God and the thought of it repulses him—but not so with the Christian. Bears evident traces of … What a contrast this is. 1. Here is the positive aspect. Thankfully, God regenerated us, rescuing us from this spiritually comatose condition, resurrecting us from the … As Christians, we are no longer in Adam, but we are in Christ. He remains dead in sins; that is, he has never been converted if he does not love his brother. cf Ps 150:1-6. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. [A new window will open and remain blank until fully loaded. Romans 6:7-11 For he who has died has been freed from sin. But if we are in Christ, we are no longer under the penalty of the law, we are under grace. Before, we were dead in trespasses and sins, and remember we saw that the definition of the term ‘dead’ was that we were ‘dead to God.’ The terrible tragedy of every natural man who has not become a Christian, is that he is dead to God. Spurgeon cuts straight to the point of praise by answering three questions: why we should praise God, what we should praise God for, and how should we praise God. Alive to God sends out Daily Thoughts of encouragement via e-mail to inspire believers in their walk of faith with God. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. The new man also has a desire for prayer. But Christians are interested in the quality of life that eternal life has to offer. Condemnation leads to death; but we are no longer dead, we are changed in that sense in which I am speaking. And the greatest desire of the true Christian is to draw nearer to God. He says that a woman, as long as her husband is alive, is bound by that husband, and that she cannot marry another without being an adulteress. That is why he spends little or no time on his knees before God; and that is why he does not read the Bible. No! But giving out of love, "freely, willingly" is even better. Paul puts this in a very interesting way, in Romans 4. God becomes our Father. We were controlled by the lusts of the flesh, showing themselves as desires of the flesh and of the mind. We must bear in mind constantly as we deal with this teaching that Paul is working out a comparison here. By being raised with Christ, we are ‘alive to God.’ We are in tune with the Sovereign Father, and have been awakened to something infinite and absolute. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand. A human in sin is an alien from God. We realize now that sin is not merely an offense against law, but an offense against God, who so loved us that He sent His only begotten Son to die for us. But even that is not enough, if we do not have genuine concern and compassion for those who are outside the church. Because it means that he will eventually have to stand before his Maker. David recognizes that it requires divine power that is given by God alone. Another contrast between us and those who are dead to God. The Christian is the person who, because he is raised with Christ, is walking in newness of life. We know that is not true, and we know that we are not perfect. But the Christian does not stop at that. That is the Christian’s greatest desire: to be with God and to be like Him—to be alive to God. What does it mean? … We have to learn patience and perseverance as we work to overcome sin, Satan, the world, and our own human nature. Paul accents this grace in contrast to the pre-conversion hopelessness analyzed in verses 1-3. The person who follows Christ has access to the light of spiritual life. Please pray for those on our Prayer Page. We are raised from the dead with Him, therefore we are justified, and thus we are no longer under the wrath of God. Spirit, that is the part of us that brings us into the Holy of Holies, brings us into the immediate presence of God - that's where real worship happens, in our spirit. We do not belong to that old humanity any longer. Spend your life’s energies and capacities seeing, savoring (in … Praising the Lord … So David pleaded with God to renew in him an established righteous spirit. When we praise and worship the Lord in the midst of our pain and suffering, we will experience freedom from our bondages of fear, doubt, depression, and deliverance from demonic oppression. We are raised from the dead, because sin makes us spiritually dead to God, and so this is what makes us alive to God. What were we? And He appeared, you remember, to chosen people for forty days. But those of us who are ‘in Christ’ have been brought right out of that realm of sin. Thoughts of the ‘unknown’ trouble him. He says it again, in verse 6: Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. What a pitiful state of being! The world (including mainstream Christianity) puts more value on humanly-devised tradition than it does on the inspired written Word of God. By Dr. Carol J Miller Let’s see if anyone can say what the word “Praise” This is absolutely vital, because the first thing that it leads to is regeneration. At various times and in various ways He manifested Himself to those chosen witnesses; and then He ascended into heaven. Our human nature, in effect, becomes an alien entity in our new emergent spiritual body, being transformed into Christ's image, walking in the newness of life, a totally different quality of life. On the other hand, we are moved and motivated by it—we supremely value it. Paul goes on in Romans 8 to say that the natural mind, the natural man, is enmity against God. Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is quite a tall order that God gives us, but He gives us the help to be able to accomplish it. There was this complete change in the realm in which Jesus Christ was existing—dead in the grave, and then alive. Even when we were dead in trespasses and sins, God made us alive together with Christ. Ephesians 2:4-7 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Amen. The New Testament equivalent of this is: "Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, … Love for God and all mankind is manifested in keeping the letter and the spirit of God’s commandments. We must have the will to enforce self-discipline to do the right and resist the wrong. It does mean that our relationship to God is a personal relationship, the relationship of Father and child, which we did not have before our conversion. The characteristic of a Christian is that he is ‘alive to God’! Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but You? The apostle Paul says it again in Ephesians 4. kata; vv. An Old Testament example of this is David’s prayer of repentance when Nathan the prophet went to David after he had gone in to Bathsheba. And, what is its value to our heart and mind? All his desires were towards heaven, and all his treasures were placed in heaven. He lives with his mind and heart according to the will of God. "WORTHY OF PRAISE" First Corinthians 16.15-18. God, because of his nature, blesses us. Paul says to the Ephesians that we were ‘aliens and enemies in our minds through wicked works.’ But it is no longer true of the Christian. That statement alone should be enough to show the fallacy of the “once saved, always saved” false doctrine. "Lord, you gave me two talents, here's two more." We are now ‘alive to God.’ Before, we were not. In this age, the world puts every other book before the Bible, but in this age we put the Bible before every other book. And it may be that the whole condition and state of the church today, is largely due to the fact that we fail at both points. A similar thing happens to the Christian. When we begin the process of conversion—when we have repented, and turned from the world’s false ways and have received God’s Holy Spirit—our human nature does not flee from us. Great Reasons to Praise the Lord Isaiah 12:1-6 Sermon by Rick Crandall Grayson Baptist Church - March 10, 2013 (Revised from sermon preached at McClendon Baptist Church Jan. 22, 2006) BACKGROUND: *This morning please open your Bibles to Isaiah 12, thinking about great reasons to praise the Lord. As to the nature of the change, it consists of the implanting of a new principle or priority in the heart; the impartation of spiritual life to those who are by nature "dead in trespasses and sins.". C. Short . The word rendered "create,” in verse 10, is a word that is used to mean an act of "creation;" that is, of causing something to exist where there was nothing before. Unlike the unconverted person, we find that we increasingly meditate on it. Well, this world and its knowledge and its culture and its art and its business and its pleasures and all such things bind his ‘thought world.’ Put anything you like into it—put everything you have into it, and still it is a life and an outlook that are bound entirely by the body and by human reasoning and nothing beyond. There is something that everyone has if he is alive. There should be a longing to be intimate with God—a desire to spend time speaking with God. 5,7,9,11). How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Our Savior paid, in His own body, the great debt that we owed God because of our breaking of His holy and righteous laws. We are walking in newness of life. We see here that there are thirteen times that we are commanded to praise the Lord, in these six verses. As Christians, we are basically different from what we were before. Each day we must give ourselves anew to God. Well, that is the condition of every human being on earth who has not received God’s Holy Spirit. If you choose to subscribe a new DAILY THOUGHT will be sent directly to your e-mail address every weekday. 3. We have a new mind, and it desires spiritual knowledge. “In his presence is fullness of joy; at his right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11). We do not spend our time in the realm of sin, we do not walk there, and we do not exist there. And because of our union with Him, what happened to Him happens to us—not in the human body changed to spirit body sense (which is to come at the resurrection of the saints), but by the renewing of our minds spiritually during the process of conversion. Whether we like it or not, the fact about every un-regenerated person is that he is a slave of sin, governed by an evil principle. God still allows Satan to be around; and he also exerts a pull. We were not only ‘dead in trespasses and sins’but we were also ‘by nature the children of wrath, even as others.’, All of us born into this world are born under the wrath of God, under condemnation, because of the enmity against God in our nature. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. We are not different from the world in just a few things—we are diametrically opposite the thinking and actions of it. Of course there are still sinful tendencies left in the body, and yet we realize that our whole attitude is entirely different. The law executed its full punishment in full measure upon Jesus Christ, and if we are in Him the law has no further demands upon us in that sense. Before, we belonged to the realm of sin, to the dominion of sin, and we were under the power of sin. Psalm 42:1-2 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. 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