If you ever watch professional body builders you know that what they put themselves through can be intense. If they think they don't have enough definition in their legs they will concentrate of doing squats and other leg exercises. If they need more energy to work out harder they gorge on beneficial food. If they notice an untidy midsection they cut even more sugar and introduce consuming more fats. They are like military snipers who are able to pinpoint the problem area and eliminate it for their physique. The adopt this personal to help their performance.
Once God adopts us into His family, we are able to see the problem areas in our life. We see the sin spots and are able to target them using God's Word as our work out weight. We're able to purge areas of our life we stumble with. We keep working at God's call for a believer's life to be marked by holiness.
Today, Pastor Joh n Samuel Barnett goes over this process of sanctification when we are adopted by God.
https://youtu.be/RXE0SOnGQrc (From 2014DEC28 - FTF-13 - Opening & Enjoying the Greatest Christmas Gift Of All - The One God Gave)
Salvation is described as being clothed with Christ's righteousness; and the Christian life is portrayed as putting on Christ each day. So each of us here today are literally, as believers: Clothed with Christ With that in mind, would any of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Often unsaved unbelievers have no idea who is controlling their minds as they head to destruction; they do not realize that sin always pays everyone back with boredom, guilt, shame, loneliness, confusion, emptiness, loss of purpose, and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
At the heart of bitterness is some form of a hurt that is internalized and not forgiven. Christ's Frightening Warning to Believers Perhaps the strongest warning Jesus ever gave to his disciples was in Matthew 18—he warned that the results...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Paul wrote Titus saying that God desires to see all mothers expressing to their children. But this love is not merely found in Titus 2:4, this nurturing love of closeness, friendship, and tender care is the very same love with which God built...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When the believers in Crete listened to God's Word, they heard the voice of God asking them to start making specific, personal choices to obey His Word. Sanctification is when believers respond to God's plan as stated in His Word, and as...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God launched His plan to train the women of Christ'sChurch using the godly older women He was already atwork inside, and allowing their Spirit-led walk asthey grew day-by-day, to flow out into the lives ofyounger women.But the message that the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This is the final quality God desires to see in every older woman of grace, which describes their lifestyle of admonishing, encouraging, or calling others to realize what God has clearly stated they are supposed to do.This quality is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we open God's Word to the end of Titus 2:3, we arrive at the single most powerful quality of the entire Titus 2 men's and women's lists. This single word in the Greek language, sums up the entire reason we live on Earth. This statement of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When we gather as we do today, and open God's Word, we are asking Him to speak to us. Sometimes what we hear touches on a small part of our lives, other times what He says is huge. This morning, the topic we have arrived at to study is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
