Title: Understanding Biblical Change
1Session 1
- Understanding Biblical Change
2Our Family Mission
To passionately know our God, and to love and
please Him by
living together in harmony, serving each other in
humility, growing together in godliness, helping
others with cheerfulness,
and thereby, as a family, to provide a living
advertisement of Christlikeness for others in
this generation and for our children in the
generations to come.
3Knowledge Objectives
- Explain Gods primary goal for wanting you to
make biblical change. - Summarize the Holy Spirits role in making
biblical change. - Explain the three parts of biblical change.
- Define the term discipleship and explain the
important part it plays in lifes relationships.
4Application Objectives
- Respond by identifying specific areas of your
life that need biblical change. - Respond by noticing times during your day when
you can cooperate with Gods plan to sanctify
you. - Respond by asking God to burden you for the needs
of others around you who also need to make
biblical change.
5Session 1
- Understanding Biblical Change
6Christopher Columbus Award
- This award goes to those who, like good old
Chris, when they set out to do something, dont
know where they are going neither do they know
how to get there. When they arrive, they dont
know where they are, and when they return, they
dont know where theyve been. - (Source Unknown)
7Biblical Change
- This study is about sanctification.
- Sanctification, in the sense we are discussing in
this study, is progressive.
8Not Just Any Change Will Do!
- A spoiled teen stops his sulking.
- A depressed wife becomes her old cheerful self.
- A college student gets better grades.
- An embittered dockworker stops his complaining.
9Mark 721-23
- For from within, out of the heart of men,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, lasciviousness shameless sensuality, an
evil eye envy, blasphemy slander, pride,
foolishness All these evil things come from
within, and defile the man.
10James 41
- From whence come wars and fightings among you
the outward visible problems? come they not
hence, even of your lusts the inward desires of
the heart that war in your members?
11Lessons from a Tea Bag
Hot water didnt create the taste it revealed
what was in the bag.
12The Goal of Change
- The result of sanctification is a believer who
looks increasingly like Christthe grown-up
Christian. - Spiritually mature humanity is in essence
Christlike humilitythe humility of a servant.
13The Power of a Cat
14The Person of Change
- The Holy Spirit is one of the three Persons of
the Godhead. - We are changed by Him as we cooperate with His
leading (Rom. 814 Ps. 233). - He leads through His convicting voice.
- Be filled with controlled by the Spirit.
15The Process of Change
- The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and
changes us to become like the Son of God.
16The Process of Change
- Mortification of the flesh
- The flesh is restrained through the Spirits
enablement. - Meditation on the Word
- The mind is renewed through the Spirits
illumination. - Manifestation of Christlikeness
- Christ is revealed through the Spirits fruit.
17Table of Contents
- Part One Restraining Your Flesh
- Part Two Renewing Your Mind
- Part Three Reflecting Your Lord
18Spiritual Parenting
- This study is about sanctification and
discipleship. - Biblical discipleship is a certain kind of
relationship between two believers. - Discipleship is helping another believer make
biblical change toward Christlikeness.
19The Centrality of Discipleship
- Parenting is discipleship.
- Edification in the local church is discipleship.
- Christian education is discipleship.
- Counseling is discipleship.
- Management in Christian work is discipleship.
20Your Role in Discipleship
- You must have a working knowledge of
sanctification. - You must be practicing it in your own life.