The Spirit Filled Life

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The Spirit Filled Life

• Part 2 of 3
• Shaped to Serve God

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community
Church Nov 19, 2006
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• Psalms 13913-14 13 For you created my inmost
  being you knit me together in my mother's womb.
  14 I praise you because I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I
  know that full well.
• Job 108a "Your hands shaped me and made me

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Three Truths from God

• I am Unique!
• I am Amazingly Complex!
• I am Shaped for a Purpose!

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My God-Given S.H.A.P.E.

• 1. Spiritual Gifts
• 1Co 127 Now to each one the manifestation of the
  Spirit is given for the common good.
• 1Co 1211b he gives them (gifts) to each one,
  just as he determines.

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Spiritual Gifts

• Romans 124-9 4 Just as each of us has one body
  with many members, and these members do not all
  have the same function, 5 so in Christ we who are
  many form one body, and each member belongs to
  all the others. 6 We have different gifts,
  according to the grace given us. If a man's gift
  is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to
  his faith. 7 If it is serving, let him serve if
  it is teaching, let him teach 8 if it is
  encouraging, let him encourage if it is
  contributing to the needs of others, let him give
  generously if it is leadership, let him govern
  diligently if it is showing mercy, let him do it
  cheerfully. 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is
  evil cling to what is good.

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My God-Given S.H.A.P.E.

• Heart
• Proverbs 423 Above all else, guard your heart,
  for it is the wellspring of life.
• Matthew 1518-19 But the things that come out of
  the mouth come from the heart, and these make a
  man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil
  thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality,
  theft, false testimony, slander.

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My Heart Determines

• Why I say the things I do.
• For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth
  speaks." Mt 1224
• Why I feel the way I do.
• "God's word examines the thoughts and motives
  (attitudes) of the heart." Heb 412
• Why I act the way I do.
• "Guard your heart -- for out of it flow the
  actions of life." Prov 423

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My God-Given S.H.A.P.E.

• Abilities
• Exodus 313 and I have filled him with the Spirit
  of God, with skill, ability and knowledge in all
  kinds of crafts--

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My Abilities

• Estimate them! Rom 123
• Dedicate them! Rom 121
• Cultivate them! Prov 198 Eccl 1010
• Liberate them! 1Pet 410

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My God-Given S.H.A.P.E.

• Personality
• Genesis 2527 The boys grew up, and Esau became a
  skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while
  Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents.

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Four main Behavioral types

• Paul, Choleric Guardians
• Peter, Sanguine Idealists
• Abraham, Phlegmatic Rationales
• Moses, Melancholy Artisans

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My God-Given S.H.A.P.E.

• Experiences
• Romans 828 And we know that in all things God
  works for the good of those who love him, who
  have been called according to his purpose.

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God Shapes us through

• Family Experiences
• Educational Experiences
• Vocational Experiences
• Spiritual Experiences
• Ministry Experiences
• Painful Experiences

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Be sure youre Shaped F.A.T.

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Ask Yourself

• Am I Faithful, Available, Teachable?
• Of all people why has God brought me to Cross
  Creek?
• How could offering what I have make a difference?

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