Eusebeia Bible Church - Pastor Ed Collins
The Doctrine of Suffering – Remembering Where We Came From
July 28, 2010
OUTLINE:
Experiential Sanctification is:
#6: Progressive Authority-Orientation in Life
Problems In Marriage
A multitude of problems in marriage stem from one or both of the individuals being ignorant of authority-orientation.
Eph 5:22-23 (Wuest)
The wives be putting yourselves in subjection with implicit obedience to your own husbands as to the Lord, because a husband is head of the wife as the Christ is head of the Church, He Himself being the Saviour of the Body.
Eph 5:25-26a (Wuest)
The husbands, be loving your wives with a love self-sacrificial in its nature, in the manner in which Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself on behalf of it, in order that He might sanctify it…
To whom much is given, much is required.
A Good Husband
A good husband puts his wife before himself, even. Isn’t that what Christ did for His future Bride?
Joh 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
Experiential Sanctification is:
#6: Progressive Authority-Orientation in Life
Experiential Sanctification is:
#7: Being a vessel of mercy, a show of God’s grace
God’s Grace
The beauty of God’s mercy (grace in action) is that He continues to reveal to us beyond the point of salvation the magnitude of His work in us.
Eph 1:11
…[God] works all things after the counsel of His will
“forgetting” (Phi 3:13)
from epilanthanomai - means forgetting a failure as a handicap in life; it’s not a literal forgetting as that’s an involuntary thing; it’s freedom from that baggage
Luk 7:47 (NLT)
“I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.”
“Possessing” Perspective
The Word of God often reminds us of where we came from, not for the sake of establishing guilt, but rather for contrast in order to give magnitude to His sanctifying work in the positive believer.
Experiential Sanctification is:
#7: Being a vessel of mercy, a show of God’s grace
Experiential Sanctification is:
#8: Being transformed experientially into what we already are positionally
“become convinced”
from pistoo - means to receive confidence (by means of BD); resulting in confidence in life, history, your relationship with the Lord, your purpose in life.
“inspired”
from theopneustos - means “God-breathed”, implying both inhale and exhale; something living inhales/exhales, pointing to the fact that the Word of God is “alive” (Heb 4:12)
“adequate”
from artios - mean proficient (not perfect), suitable, or adapted to something; points to the believer at spiritual maturity
Experiential Sanctification is:
#8: Being transformed experientially into what we already are positionally
Experiential Sanctification is:
#9: Being transformed into the image of TLJC
Heb 12:2
…who for the joy set before Him endured the cross
“keep seeking”
from zeteo - means to search for, to pursue, to examine, to desire to possess
Rom 6:4
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
“you laid aside”
from apekduomai - means to disarm; to strip; refers to active decision to disarm the instrument (weapon) of unrighteousness
Gal 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
Gal 4:19
My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—
Experiential Sanctification is:
#9: Being transformed into the image of TLJC
Experiential Sanctification is:
#10: Growing in Love
