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Romans 6:4
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
The Living Dead
1. Dead people aren’t enticed by cravings that come from the world.
2. Dead people can’t be moved by what their eyes desire from the world.
3. Dead people aren’t controlled by the desire for worldly prominence and worldly ambition.
4. Dead people are controlled by the Word of God.
When Eve was tempted we see these four components.
Genesis 3:1,6
4. "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was 1. good for food and 2. pleasing to the eye, and also 3. desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
What the Apostle John has to say about these 4 things.
1 John 2:16
For everything in the world—the 1. cravings of sinful man, the 2. lust of his eyes and the 3. boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
From this scripture we can conclude that a person who genuinely receives the fullness of God’s Love won’t be interested in having their heart filled by anything else.
However if a person is lacking in love from God they will pursue worldly fulfillment. They will seek out worldly things to fulfill their hearts.
When Jesus was Tempted
We see these four components again.
1. Cravings
Matthew 4
1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
4. Bringing into question God’s Word
Matthew 4
5Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written:
" 'He will command his angels concerning you,
and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"
2 & 3 Eyes & Worldly Ambition
Matthew 4
8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
Romans 6:11
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Living Sacrifices
Romans 12:1,2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.
2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Paul, a Living Sacrifice
1 Corinthians 15:31
I die every day—I mean that, brothers—just as surely as I glory over you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
New Creations in Christ
2 Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
John 3:3
In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. “
The Kingdom of God being a present tense reality.
65 times in the NIV Kingdom of God appears. 9 Times it’s speaking about a future kingdom. 54 times it’s speaking about a present tense reality, relative to the time it was written.
Born of Water and the Spirit
Born of Water speaks of Natural birth as well as the birth into the kingdom of God via repentance, symbolized by water baptism.
Born of the Spirit speaks of a life controlled by the Spirit of God.
The way to joyfully die to your old life is to take up the life that is truly life.
We must receive spiritual information about the kingdom realities all around us.
These kingdom realities will transform our lives by altering our wills so we desire what God desires.
Our desire coming in line with His causes us to make society altering changes to the region starting with our own hearts and then spreading out into the community and ultimately to the uttermost parts of the Earth.
Let’s be Like Apostle Paul
Galatians 2:20
20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jubilee Family Church