Quenching and Grieving [46:55m]:
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1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 [+/-]1 Thessalonians 5:16-24
[16]Rejoice always, [17]pray without ceasing, [18]give
thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus for you. [19]Do not quench the Spirit. [20]Do
not despise prophecies, [21]but test everything; hold fast
what is good. [22]Abstain from every form of evil.
[23]Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you
completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be
kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[24]He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.
(ESV)
and Ephesians 4:25-31 [+/-]Ephesians 4:25-31
[25]Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one
of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are
members one of another. [26]Be angry and do not sin; do not
let the sun go down on your anger, [27]and give no
opportunity to the devil. [28]Let the thief no longer
steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his
own hands, so that he may have something to share with
anyone in need. [29]Let no corrupting talk come out of your
mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits
the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
[30]And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you
were sealed for the day of redemption. [31]Let all
bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be
put away from you, along with all malice. (ESV)
The Christian life from start to finish is all about grace. And it is all about grace, it is all about God. Paul puts it this way in
Romans 11:36 [+/-]Romans 11:36
[36]For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be glory forever. Amen. (ESV)
, “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.” “Him” is God as He makes Himself known to us through His Spirit on the basis of the work of His Son for our justification, sanctification and ultimately for our glorification. All of it is grace. All of it is God. The Christian life begins through the awakening that comes to us as a gift of the grace of God. The Holy Spirit comes to us through the proclamation of the Word of God and awakens us to how holy and righteous God is and how sinful and ugly we are as He calls us to trust the only one who can save us from God’s wrath and our sin. The Holy Spirit convicts us and gives us all that is needed to trust Jesus. And we do. That is grace. That is God. And as we trust in Jesus alone for salvation God declares us to be fully and absolutely right with Him not on the basis of anything in us or about us but on the basis of the sacrifice of His Son through the shedding of His blood on Calvary. We are declared forever right with God. This is Grace. All grace. This is God. All God. “It was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved.” And the Holy Spirit who changes us also seals us up as a person and a people who belong to God and He begins to work in us to shape us toward the image of Jesus to make us as we live our lives among the people of God all that He wants us to be. He is making us holy. He is sanctifying us. He is changing us as He grows us. This is grace. This is God. And at last either by way of the coming of Jesus or the coming of death we are transported home on the wings of grace. The Christian life begins and ends in grace. AND THE SUPREME GOAL OF THE ENEMY IS TO WORK TO FRUSTRATE THE WORK OF THE GRACE OF GOD IN US AND AMONG US. The Bible has two apparently different images for what this looks like and we are going to look at them today.
The Christian life from start to finish is all about grace. And it is all about grace, it is all about God. Paul puts it this way in Romans 11:36 [+/-]Romans 11:36
[36]For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be glory forever. Amen. (ESV)
, “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen.” “Him” is God as He makes Himself known to us through His Spirit on the basis of the work of His Son for our justification, sanctification and ultimately for our glorification. All of it is grace. All of it is God. The Christian life begins through the awakening that comes to us as a gift of the grace of God. The Holy Spirit comes to us through the proclamation of the Word of God and awakens us to how holy and righteous God is and how sinful and ugly we are as He calls us to trust the only one who can save us from God’s wrath and our sin. The Holy Spirit convicts us and gives us all that is needed to trust Jesus. And we do. That is grace. That is God. And as we trust in Jesus alone for salvation God declares us to be fully and absolutely right with Him not on the basis of anything in us or about us but on the basis of the sacrifice of His Son through the shedding of His blood on Calvary. We are declared forever right with God. This is Grace. All grace. This is God. All God. “It was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved.” And the Holy Spirit who changes us also seals us up as a person and a people who belong to God and He begins to work in us to shape us toward the image of Jesus to make us as we live our lives among the people of God all that He wants us to be. He is making us holy. He is sanctifying us. He is changing us as He grows us. This is grace. This is God. And at last either by way of the coming of Jesus or the coming of death we are transported home on the wings of grace. The Christian life begins and ends in grace. AND THE SUPREME GOAL OF THE ENEMY IS TO WORK TO FRUSTRATE THE WORK OF THE GRACE OF GOD IN US AND AMONG US. The Bible has two apparently different images for what this looks like and we are going to look at them today.
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