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Sunday Morning, September 30, 2012
scriptures: Romans 5, Romans 6, Revelations 2
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The bible is written for our understanding, that we can know Him and His will.
Romans 5:12-21
Grace is supposed to be in charge. It is to be ruling in your life.
Romans 6:1-3
Reflect on your baptism. It says that you were joining in His death, that you are giving away your old life and want a new one.
Baptism symbolizes an actual burial and coming up new.
What are the things that you do over and over again in Christ?
The word religion comes from practice, things that you repeat and do continuously.
Step through a typical day.
Start the day in prayer.
Dedicate yourself to the Lord
Pray for other people. May be different people on a day, but you need to get a program that you can check and see that it works.
Do you have a plan to read the word this week? When is it going to be in the plans?
You are new creature running a new program.
Revelation 2:1-5
An example of when God calls for a reboot. These people were for Christ, but they began to add things that were not good. There are people who do not realize how they have fallen from God.
Get back to the first works.
It requires repentance. Feeling sorry is not enough. God can’t be second or third. You have to make Him the primary.
After you get baptized you have to get a good program in God.
First works, the things you used to do when you first served God and wanted to please Him.
Do you listen to less Christian music, read scripture less, talk to believers less than when you first got baptized? Have you fallen? God will pull back completely. He’s not willing to be second.
What program are you running? You can’t keep running old, before-Christ programs.
Other people should be able to see Christ from your program. Don’t let the things of Christ be the things you used to do.
What is your plan in Christ?
Romans 6:4-11
walk – pattern of new life
How do I walk in newness of life? Somewhere in your program needs to be encouraging others, praying, singing psalms and hymns to one another. Who are you going to pray for, what are you going to do this week?
What is your gameplan?
Some people don’t want to commit any time in their schedules because they are not committed.
Sin is not in the program. Too many people’s programs are null programs. They don’t do anything.
They don’t follow any instructions.
If I got saved from how I was, how was I? Am I the old me again?
Work on your program. What is this week going to be like for me in Christ?
1. Start everyday with prayer committing our lives to the Lord.
2. put back in the program something that you did because you were excited for God.
3. An act of service for somebody in Christ.
These things stay in the program. They don’t fall off the list for next week.
Clean out viruses before we run new programs. If there is a thought in you that is like the old you or is not like Christ would want it to be, ask God to clean that up, remove it.