SESSION 13 THE POWER OF THE NEW MAN IN CHRIST
THE FULFILLED LIFE:-
2 TIMOTHY 4:5 NLT
But you should:-
- keep a CLEAR MIND in every situation.
- Don’t be afraid of suffering for the Lord.
- Work at telling others the Good News, and
- fully carry out the ministry God has given you.
2 TIMOTHY 4:7 TPT
1. I have FOUGHT an excellent FIGHT.
2. I HAVE FINISHED my FULL COURSE with all my might and
3. I’ve KEPT my HEART FULL of FAITH.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 NKJV
Therefore we do not lose heart.
Even though our outward man is perishing,
yet the INWARD MAN is being renewed day by day.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 EASY
That is why we are not afraid to continue our work.
Yes, our BODIES are getting older and weaker.
But our SPIRITS are becoming stronger every day!
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 TPT
We view our slight, short-lived troubles in the light of eternity.
We see our difficulties as the substance that produces for us an eternal, weighty glory far beyond all comparison,
The natural world and the supernatural world
Believers with new spiritman need to see victory
2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 TPT
because we don’t focus our attention on what is seen but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but the unseen realm is eternal.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:18 EASY
So we DO NOT LOOK at the things that we can see in this world.
Instead, we look at the things that PEOPLE CANNOT SEE.
The things that we can see are only here for a short time.
But the things that we cannot see will continue for ever.
JOHN 15:18-19 MSG
“If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me.
If you lived on the WORLDS TERMS, the world would love you as one of its own.
But since I picked you to LIVE on GOD’S TERMS and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to hate you.
JOHN 15:19 TPT
If you were to give your allegiance to the world, they would love and welcome you as one of their own.
But because YOU WON’T ALIGN yourself with the VALUES of this WORLD, they will hate you.
I have chosen you and taken you OUT of the world to be MINE.
JOHN 17:14-16 MSG
I gave them your word;
The godless world hated them BECAUSE of IT,
Because they DIDN'T JOIN the WORLD'S WAYS,
Just as I didn’t join the world’s ways.
JOHN 17:14-16 MSG
I’m not asking that you take them out of the world
But that you guard them from the Evil One.
They are NO MORE DEFINED by THE WORLD
Than I am defined by the world.
JOHN 17:17-18 TPT
“YOUR WORD is TRUTH!
So make them holy by the truth.
I have COMMISSIONED them to REPRESENT ME just as you commissioned me to represent you.
[In the SAME WAY that you gave me a MISSION in the world,
I give them a MISSION in the WORLD.]
Only God's Word is truth!
Since receiving the LORD, what difference have you
noticed between your life and your unbeliever friend's/colleague's life?
In terms of:-
1. MINDSET / THINKING
2. Character and behaviour
3. Dreams and goals, vision and mission on earth
4. Definition of a "happy fulfilled life".
What do you think is the WORLD MINDSET and way of thinking?
1. WORLD Mindset and way of THINKING
What is JESUS'S MINDSET AND THINKING?
PHILIPPIANS 2:1-4 MSG
If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ,
if his love has made any difference in your life,
if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care—then do me a favor:
PHILIPPIANS 2:4 TPT
Abandon every display of selfishness.
Possess a greater concern for what matters to others instead
of your own interests.
PHILIPPIANS 2:4 EASY
Do not think only about the things that you want to do for yourself.
Each of you should think also about how you can help other people.
Forget yourselves long enough to help others and think of others
Jesus is the real King and Prince and He tasted what is the real riches in heaven yet He can humble Himself
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 EASY
You should think about things in the same way that Christ Jesus
thought:
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 TPT
And consider the example that JESUS, the Anointed One, has set before us.
Let HIS MINDSET become your motivation.
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 NKJV
Let THIS MIND be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 NLT
Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to.
PHILIPPIANS 2:7-8 NLT
Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,
he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
We are so quick to defend ourselves. Jesus did not try to keep His reputation. He is the Son of God
PHILIPPIANS 2:7-8 NLT
Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,
he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
2. WORLD Character and Behaviour
3. WORLD DREAMS AND GOALS, VISION AND MISSION
4. WORLD definition of a "happy fulfilled life"
ROMANS 12:1-2 EASY
My Christian friends, God has been very kind to us.
Because of that, I really want you to SERVE GOD with your WHOLE LIFE.
Offer your BODIES to him like a sacrifice that continues to live.
Serve him with EVERYTHING that you have and that will please him.
That is the true way to worship God.
DO NOT become like the people who belong to this world.
But let GOD completely CHANGE the WAY that you THINK, so that you LIVE DIFFERENTLY.
THEN you will understand what God wants you to do.
You will know what is good.
You will know what pleases God.
You will know what is completely right.
The way we think will change the way we live.
1 JOHN 2:15-17 MSG
Don’t love the world’s ways.
Don’t love the world’s goods.
Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father.
It just isolates you from him.
The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever DOES what God wants is set for eternity.
1 JOHN 2:16-17 TPT
For all that the world can offer us—
- the gratification of our FLESH, - the allurement of the things of the world, and
• the obsession with status and importance —
NONE of these things come from the Father but from the world.
This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever.
1 JOHN 2:5-6 TPT
If we say that we are living in God's true way, then we must LIVE in the WAY that JESUS LIVED.
But the love of God will be perfected within the one who obeys GOD’S WORD.
We can be sure that we’ve truly come to LIVE in intimacy with God, not just by saying, “I am intimate with God,” but by WALKING in the FOOTSTEPS of JESUS.
HOW to walk in the footsteps of Jesus?
WHEN OUR SPIRIT IS IN CHARGE AND NOT OUR FLESH
When our spiritman is developed:-
THEN your new SPIRITMAN :-
1. Can take charge and make decisions and conclusions from God's will and perspective;
2. Can discern what is from the world, devil and what is from God;
3. Is able to VALUE spiritual things, live BY FAITH and not by sight, thus FULFILLING GOD'S DIVINE PURPOSE for your life.
Live by faith, what God says
CHRISTIANS DON'T BELONG to this world!!
GALATIANS 6:14 NLT
As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.
GALATIANS 6:14 EASY
But I do not want to say any great things about myself.
The only thing that makes me great is our Lord Jesus Christ's death on the cross.
Because of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, it is like I have also died.
The things that belong to this world have become dead to me, and I have become dead to them.
GALATIANS 6:14 TPT
May my only boast be found in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In him I have been crucified to this natural realm; and the NATURAL REALM is DEAD to ME and no longer DOMINATES my LIFE.
When our spiritman is in charge, we think and behave just like Christ and the world sees Christ in us.
New spiritman is in charge
The world does not read the bible. The world reads Christians.
We are the light of this world
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