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NOTE: the sermon from November 18 (No Room For Complacency Part 3) is not available due to technical difficulty.
Recap of 11/25/07:
1. Paul, like a runner, is pressing toward the goal of Christlikeness (spiritual maturity) to win the prize. Some believe that the prize he is talking about is the rewards that believers will receive at the Judgment Seat of Christ for faithful life and service since becoming Christians. Only believers will be present at this judgment where salvation is not the issue and is not in doubt, only rewards are in view. Romans 14:10,12; I Cor 3:10-15; 9:24-27; 2 Cor 5:10
2. Paul urges Christians to live up to the truth that they have learned. We must live the truth we know, not just hold it as an intellectual abstraction.
3. Christians must live in obedience to the Word of God, not according to their appetites.
4. Christian’s minds must be focused on heaven from which we await a Savior, not preoccupied with earthly things to the exclusion of spiritual things. Out citizenship is in Heaven, earth is only a temporary dwelling place. Heb 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11
Monday, November 26, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
No Room For Complacency, Part 2
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Recap of 11/11/07:
1. Our salvation is secure because (continuation of list from last week’s recap):
-Jesus is our Advocate (1 John 2:1) and He intercedes for us (Heb 7:25) when Satan accuses us to God the Father. Jesus’ work would be ineffective if we could be lost.
-Jesus loses none that the Father gives Him (John 6:39-40)
2. In verse 11 Paul was not expressing doubt about his salvation. Nor was he expressing doubt about being raised from the dead (see I Cor 15:51-53; 1 Thes 4:13-18).3. Paul’s hope in Phil 3:11 was either an expression of humility; a wish to part of those who would be alive when Christ returned and there for be raptured, or most likely a desire to live in resurrection power (dying to sin, self, selfishness, pride and living in newness of life in resurrection power).
Recap of 11/11/07:
1. Our salvation is secure because (continuation of list from last week’s recap):
-Jesus is our Advocate (1 John 2:1) and He intercedes for us (Heb 7:25) when Satan accuses us to God the Father. Jesus’ work would be ineffective if we could be lost.
-Jesus loses none that the Father gives Him (John 6:39-40)
2. In verse 11 Paul was not expressing doubt about his salvation. Nor was he expressing doubt about being raised from the dead (see I Cor 15:51-53; 1 Thes 4:13-18).3. Paul’s hope in Phil 3:11 was either an expression of humility; a wish to part of those who would be alive when Christ returned and there for be raptured, or most likely a desire to live in resurrection power (dying to sin, self, selfishness, pride and living in newness of life in resurrection power).
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
No Room For Complacency
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Philippians 3:11-21
Recap of November 4, 2007:
1. Paul was not in doubt about the security of his salvation. In Phil. 1:21-23 he wrote that “to die is gain” and “to depart [this life] is to be with Christ.
2. Our salvation is secure because …
-we are secure in the hands of both God the Father and God the Son (John 10:27-30) and no one can snatch us out of their hands. “Now, ‘no one’ means no one, including the individual himself. The promise does not say that no one, except yourself, can seize the believer out of God’s hand. It says no one.” (Dr. Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology, pp. 330-331)
-the Holy Spirit seals the believer at the moment of salvation “until the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 1:13; 4:30). The sealing is a down payment guaranteeing our future inheritance.
-the moment we are saved we are placed by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12:13)
-of the work of God in salvation. The chain remains unbroken from foreknowledge to glorification (the final state of the believer in his/her resurrection body)), none are lost in the process. (Romans 8:29-30)
-of the promise of the Word of God that nothing can separate us from God’s love (Romans 8:31-39)
Philippians 3:11-21
Recap of November 4, 2007:
1. Paul was not in doubt about the security of his salvation. In Phil. 1:21-23 he wrote that “to die is gain” and “to depart [this life] is to be with Christ.
2. Our salvation is secure because …
-we are secure in the hands of both God the Father and God the Son (John 10:27-30) and no one can snatch us out of their hands. “Now, ‘no one’ means no one, including the individual himself. The promise does not say that no one, except yourself, can seize the believer out of God’s hand. It says no one.” (Dr. Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology, pp. 330-331)
-the Holy Spirit seals the believer at the moment of salvation “until the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 1:13; 4:30). The sealing is a down payment guaranteeing our future inheritance.
-the moment we are saved we are placed by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12:13)
-of the work of God in salvation. The chain remains unbroken from foreknowledge to glorification (the final state of the believer in his/her resurrection body)), none are lost in the process. (Romans 8:29-30)
-of the promise of the Word of God that nothing can separate us from God’s love (Romans 8:31-39)
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