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LIVING SUPERNATURALLY II
East Location
April 14, 2013
The Son of Abraham, the Son of David, and the Son of God V
(What Think Ye of Christ?)
Central Location
April 14, 2013
The Son of Abraham, the Son of David, and the Son of God IV
(The Significance of Names)
REVIEW
- Three stages of sonship [depicted in the life of Jesus]
- Infancy (teknion) – symbolized by Jesus’ manger birth.
- Puberty (teknon) – symbolized by Jesus appearing in the temple at age 12. (St. Luke 2:40, 42, 49)
- Maturity (huios) – meaning son placement lived out at Jesus’ water immersion in St. Matthew 3:16-17.
FOUNDATIONAL TEXT
- Hebrews 12:1-9
- The opposite of true sonship is a bastard mentality.
- After salvation, we are legitimately born of God; however, our actions or thoughts that are contrary to God bastardize the relationship.
- Defining God’s methods of correction
- Chastening is to train, to teach, to instruct, to cause one to learn; to train with words (not accidents, sickness or disasters)
- Scourge is to instruct coupled with pain or pressure
- Rebuke is to convict, to refute, to find fault with
- God corrects us in our spirit.
- I. The significance of names
- Genesis 17:1-7
- God allows all natural possibilities to be exhausted to display His power.
- Abram meant exalted father, not literally but as a term of respect.
- Abram’s name is changed to Abraham meaning respected; exalted father of nations or multitudes.
- Genesis 17:15-19
- Sarai means chief governor or leader in a masculine form which limits her ability to reproduce.
- Sarai’s name is changed to Sarah [the feminine form] meaning princess of many nations.
- A name will either bind us or lose us.
- Genesis 32:24-30
- Jacob’s name means trickster, supplanter, liar, and deceiver.
- Jacob’s name is changed to Israel meaning divine master.
- God refers to Jacob as both Jacob and Israel. In other words, with every name change there is a part of us that must be overcome.
- St. Luke 1:57-64
- The power of God is released in the right name.
- The mother knew God was using this child to do something different from the father, consequently naming the child John.
- Zacharius’ mouth was opened immediately when he agreed with God’s name for the child.
- Genesis 17:1-7
- II. Christianity has been reduced to what we think (our opinion).
- Colossians 1:24-27 [Emphasis verse 27]
- Now that Jesus has been resurrected, the mystery is Christ is now in us. We are more than a Jesus look-a-like; we are extensions of Jesus.
- We are not just Christians; we are the same substance of who God is in heaven in the earth. We have the same DNA as God. (Scripture reference – Psalm 82)
- Believers have settled for the wrong name. If we have the wrong name, we are probably calling the wrong destiny. In our name is our identity.
- Christian means Christ-like. What is Christ-like or what does Christ-like, can only be answered by our opinion or what we think.
- The Bible defines who God is and consequently who we are.
- We will never possess all the Father has for us if we do not know who we are.
- When one is born again, God is concerned with developing us more than Christ-likeness. Initially we were in His image and after His likeness. He never called us Christians.
- I Peter 4:12-16
- The world (Romans) used the term Christian to describe followers of Christ.
- In other words, we have adopted a term the world called us.
- Acts 26:28-32 [Emphasis verse 28]
- Acts 11:22-26 [Emphasis verse 26]
- I Peter 4:12-16
- The power of God is in our representation as followers, not our opinion.
- Opinion – a personal view; an attitude or an appraisal; a belief or judgment that rest in grounds insufficient to produce absolute certainty
- A rose is known by its distinct characteristics. A dog is a dog because of its characteristics.
- Christians should be identifiable by the same common characteristics defined by the Bible.
- The KKK, homosexuals, and the NRA all espouses Christianity. Christianity, as an opinion, does not make you a son or follower of God.
- How can we save the world if our version of Christianity is so varying?
- A revelation of God carries the power of God.
- I Kings 18:21
- St. John 14:6
- St. Matthew 22: 41-46
- Colossians 1:24-27 [Emphasis verse 27]
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