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Lord willing I will be teaching Sunday school class January 28th. Click one of the following links to download my notes. The first link is in MS Word format and the second is PDF. I’ve also included a link to a post I wrote about a year ago that fits nicely with the lesson.
Justification is the grounds for our Sanctification.doc
“We love to look at glory. We were made to enjoy seeing it. This is why Jesus came into the world. He came to reveal the glory of God more fully than nature ever had(John 1:14) and to die in our place so that we could be saved from God’s wrath in order to enjoy forever the glory of God’s grace(John 3:14-15,36;17-24) and to awaken in us a desire for that glory so that we do not perish in our blind love affair with the glory of sin(John 3:19) - John Piper from “What Jesus Demands from the World” page 352.
I just finished reading “What Jesus Demands from the World” by John Piper. I spent two months pondering the commands of Jesus with Dr. Piper as my guide and it was well worth the time and effort. While the book is somewhat long, some 375 pages. The 50 chapters are short, and can be read in nice bite size chunks. I found that reading 1-2 chapters at a setting worked well for me and gave me an ample amount of things to absorb. Please consider picking a copy up and spending some time soaking in the commands of Jesus.
The challenge before us then is not merely to do what God says because He is God, but to desire what God says because he is good. The challenge is not merely to pursue righteousness, but to prefer righteousness. The challenge is to get up in the morning and prayerfully meditate on the Scriptures until we experience joy and peace in believing “the precious and very great promises” of God (Rom. 15:13; 2 Peter 1:4). With this joy set before us the commandments of God will not be burdensome (1 John 5:3) and the compensation of sin will appear too brief and too shallow to lure us. - John Piper
For the full text this quote was taken from please visit this link. I highly recommend the article.
The message of the gospel should leave us broken and humble. What God has done for his people should leave us joyful, stunned and grateful. We forgiven criminals should be the most merciful people on the planet.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9Do you not know that the unrighteous[b] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[c] 10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
And such where some of us.
