JUNE SOED CAMPAIGN
Week 1 Foundation Scriptures:
2 Cor. 13:5[1-6,9] (GOD'S WORD® Translation)...EXAMINE YOURSELVES to see whether you are still in the Christian faith. TEST YOURSELVES! Don't you recognize that you are people in whom Jesus Christ lives? Could it be that you're failing the TEST?...
13:9...Your RESTORATION is what we pray for.
4 TAKEAWAYS:
1. As BELIEVERS, we must EXAMINE OURSELVES to see if our lives REFLECT Jesus Christ LIVING in us; CHRISTIANS.
Just because we are members of a church does not mean that Jesus Christ is LIVING in us.
Just because we identify ourselves as being Christian does not mean that Jesus Christ is LIVING in us.
Remember that it is the Corinthian Church that the Apostle Paul is addressing.
2. The apostle Paul knows that if they; those in the Corinthian Church do not EXAMINE THEMSELVES “to see” whether they are STILL “in the Christian faith” or relax in doing so, they could easily stray away from “the Christian faith” by not adhering to or following to the doctrines (teachings) of the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who is to be LIVING in them.
3. JESUS CHRIST LIVING IN YOU:
In Romans 8:9&10 Paul tells us what it looks like when "CHRIST IS LIVING IN YOU"...body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness...the body or flesh whose works are opposed to the Spirit is no longer active or in operation.
Romans 8:9&10...You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if CHRIST IS IN YOU, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
4. RESTORATION:
The reason why Paul is addressing this with the Corinthian Church because of the presence of SIN(S) in the lives of the people who makeup the church and more importantly their UNREPENTED SIN(S).
Paul is warning them in this way because he knows that UNREPENTANT SINS cause people to abandon the CHRISTIAN FAITH unknowingly.
*UNREPENTANT = showing no regret for one’s wrongdoings
The only way that these people could be RESTORED back to “The Christian Faith” is if they REPENTED.
THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS; the foundation of “The Christian Faith” comes through REPENTANCE.
Watch our EXAMINE Bible Study Pt. 1 to hear more: https://youtu.be/b7uY5X5Zx2E
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