Gods Destination: Our Destiny

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Gods Destination Our Destiny

• The nations will know that I am the LORD, when I
  show myself holy through you before their eyes.
  Ezekiel 3623

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Call to be a Holy Nation, Part I

• Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant,
  then out of all nations you will be my treasured
  possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you
  will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy
  nation. Exodus 195-6

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Call to be a Holy Nation, Part II

• But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
  a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that
  you may declare the praises of him who called you
  out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once
  you were not a people, but now you are the people
  of God once you had not received mercy, but now
  you have received mercy. 1 Peter 29-10

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Holiness What does it look like?

• To come close to the idea of perfection
• Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
  Psalms 292
• To be set apart by definition
• To display his glory
• To have his fullness

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Set apart to fullness

• And He put all things under His feet, and gave
  Him to be head over all things to the church,
  which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills
  all in all. Eph 122-23
• For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead
  bodily and you are complete in Him, who is the
  head of all principality and power. Col. 29-10

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Pathway to Destiny Rules?

• I found that the very commandment that was
  intended to bring life actually brought death So
  then, the law is holy We know that the law is
  spiritual but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave
  to sin. Romans 710-14

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Pathway to Destiny Rules?

• Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic
  principles of the world, why, do you subject
  yourselves to regulations-- Do not touch, do
  not taste, do not handle, --according to the
  doctrines of men? These things indeed have an
  appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion,
  false humility, and neglect of the body, but are
  of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  Col. 220-23

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Pathway to Destiny Suffering

• Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs
  of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we
  share in his sufferings in order that we may also
  share in his glory. I consider that our present
  sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory
  that will be revealed in us. Romans 817-18

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Pathway to Destiny Judgment

• The Lord will wash away the filth from Jerusalem
  by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
  Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion
  and over those who assemble there a cloud of
  smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night
  over all the glory will be a canopy. It will be
  a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and
  a refuge and hiding-place from the storm and
  rain. Isaiah 44-6

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Pathway to Destiny Grace

• And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and
  we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
  begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
  And of His fullness we have all received, and
  grace for grace. For the law was given through
  Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus
  Christ. John 114-17

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Possible to forfeit Grace

• When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you,
  LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy
  temple. Those who cling to worthless idols
  forfeit the grace that could be theirs. Jonah 2
  7-8

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Can respond wrong to Grace

• When your judgments come upon the earth, the
  people of the world learn righteousness. Though
  grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn
  righteousness even in a land of uprightness they
  go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of
  the LORD. Isaiah 269-10

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The Beginning of Grace Unconditional Acceptance

• Because of his great love for us, God, who is
  rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even
  when we were dead in transgressions--it is by
  grace you have been saved. And God raised us up
  with Christ and seated us with him in the
  heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that
  in the coming ages he might show the incomparable
  riches of his grace,

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The Beginning of Grace Unconditional Acceptance

• expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
  it is by grace you have been saved, through
  faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the
  gift of God-- not by works, so that no-one can
  boast. For we are Gods workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared
  in advance for us to do. Eph 24-10

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Fruit of Grace

• Not working for your salvation
• Now when a man works, his wages are not credited
  to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However,
  to the man who does not work but trusts God who
  justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as
  righteousness. Romans 44-5
• Ability to repent easily - nothing to prove
• See your sin and not go into a tail spin

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Fruit of Grace

• Ability to repent easily - nothing to prove
• See your sin and not go into a tail spin
• No condemnation
• Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those
  who are in Christ Jesus Romans 81
• Conviction
• When the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict
  John 168

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Fruit of Grace

• Joy
• What has happened to all your joy? Galatians
  415
• Living godly
• For the grace of God teaches us to say No to
  ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live
  self-controlled, upright and godly lives. Titus
  211-12

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Fruit of Grace

• Releasing control
• Cast your cares on him, for he cares for you.
  1Peter 57
• Your Father in heaven will give good gifts to
  those who ask. So in everything, do unto others
  and you would have them do unto you. Matthew
  711-12

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Fruit of Grace

• Commands become promises
• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
  in you I will remove from you your heart of
  stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will
  put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my
  decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Ezekiel
  3626-27

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Fruit of Grace

• New motivation
• Freely you have received, freely give. Matt 108
• Walking in the Spirit
• So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not
  gratify the desires of the sinful nature if you
  are led by the Spirit, you are not under
  lawSince we live by the Spirit, let us keep in
  step with the Spirit. Galatians 516-25

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Accessing Grace

• Humility
• God opposes the proud but gives grace to the
  humble. James 46
• Faith
• We have gained access into grace through faith
  Romans 52

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Accessing Grace

• Approaching his throne of Grace
• Since we have a great high priest, Jesus, let us
  hold firmly to our faith. For we have a high
  priest who is able to sympathize with our
  weaknesses, for he was tempted in every way, just
  as we are--yet was without sin. Let us then
  approach the throne of grace with confidence, so
  that we may receive mercy and find grace to help
  us in our time of need. Hebrews 414-16

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Accessing Grace

• And of His fullness we have all received, and
  grace for grace. John 116
• Receive to take what is one's own, to take to
  one's self, to make one's own
• 1) to claim, procure, for one's self
• 2) of that which when taken is not let go, to
  seize, to lay hold of, apprehend

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