Sermons About Self
Galatians 2.20: Identity
We live in a selfish age absorbed with self-esteem, self-improvement, self-fulfillment, and self-indulgence. It is all about what you want. Paul denounces such a mindset and life in one verse found in the book of Galatians. In this message we continue our study in the book of Galatians as we look into the issue of self and identity.
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Clean Out Your Closet!
Everything kept in our old-self closet is a fascination with the very thing that tried to destroy us. Charles Spurgeon reasoned, "Can you imagine the sanity of someone mauled by playing with lions continuing to go back to their den? Or someone playing with matches after they themselves were severly burnt?" Even though it is hard to imagine, the reality is people have. Just like them, we have refused to clean out our closets and continue to wear the very attitudes and ill character traits that are foreign and disfiguring to what Christ has planned for us.
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Ideas Have Consequences #1: Don't Be Taken Captive or It's All About Me
Paul's exhortation is not to be taken captive by anyone, by philosophy, empty deception. The warning is real because we can become captive to ideas. Today, the idea of "self-esteem" takes us captive. We ought to be taken captive by Jesus
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Do No Harm: Hands
Though we have freedom in Christ, Paul admonishes us to "reign in" that freedom, not for our conscience's sake, but for the sake of others' conscience. Do no harm.
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Leaving the Thin Life
Becoming a thick Christian is our pursuit as we continue in Romans 6. If we will make progress that glorifies God; if we will make progress where our own soul is healed and thickened with the character of Christ, it will be because we take sin with utmost seriousness. Sunday we will consider vv. 1-4, where we learn that sin is no short list like sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Sin is not just those few things that would really embarass us if we were caught. No, unfortunately it is much more. But there is also good news, life-changing news: we owe sin nothing. Its wages have been paid. We are free to leave it behind and move on, to live where Christ is, in newness of life. Sunday we begin to learn how. Try to read Romans 6 before Sunday, if you haven't already. Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
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