SERMON CV21
15/05/2019 | Spiritual Circumcision [1/3] | 00:40:44
KEY SCRIPTURE
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:26-27
For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ.
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:17
For by one Spirit are we all baptised into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Romans 5:1-2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 1:16
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Romans 2:5-11
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
For there is no respect of persons with God.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23
[Christ Jesus] whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Romans 3:25-28
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 8:7
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-4
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8-9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Ephesians 4:7
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Romans 12:3
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:14
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 6:6
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Romans 7:18-20
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:21
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:24-25a
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Colossians 2:11-12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
KEY PHRASES
The gospel of the grace of God
The centre of your person is your spirit
When you believed Christ died for your sin, your spirit was baptised into Christ
You were baptised into Christ
When you believed Christ died for your sin, your spirit got made in union with Christ
You have a spiritual union with Christ
The union between your spirit and Christ, was made on the cross
Your spirit died with Christ
You died with Christ
Your spirit got raised with Christ
You were raised with Christ
Your spirit got born again of God
You got born again of God
You are born again of God
When you believed Christ died for your sin, the Holy Spirit baptised you into Christ
A spiritual union was made between your spirit and Christ
Your spirit is in Christ
You are in Christ
The milk of the gospel
Christ got your sin
You got Christ’s righteousness
You got the righteousness of God
You are righteous before God
You are righteous
God has declared you to be righteous
You got the Holy Spirit to dwell within your flesh, because you are righteous
You got the Holy Spirit to dwell within your flesh
A propitiation is a sacrifice which appeases the wrath of God
Christ Jesus became a propitiation to you, through faith in His blood
Christ purchased the church with His blood
When you got declared righteous by God, you got peace with God
God declared you to be righteous, when you had faith in Christ
You have peace with God
You are no longer separated from God because of your sin
You are no longer at war with God because of the sinfulness of your flesh
You have received the gift of righteousness by faith
You have received the gift of righteousness
You have righteousness of God
Once you become a Christian, you stay righteous
There is a faith that makes you righteous
Once you become a Christian, there is also a faith that you are righteous
When you stand upon the righteousness of God, you glorify God
The meat of the gospel
Those in Christ Jesus walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit
Your default setting is ‘in the Spirit’
The Holy Spirit bears His fruit in you
There is no guilty judgement for those in Christ Jesus
God does not judge those in Christ Jesus to be guilty
God does not judge a Christian to be guilty
A Christian is not guilty of sin before God
A Christian is not guilty of sin
The Law could not make you righteous, because you have sinful flesh
The Law could not give you righteousness, because it was weak through your flesh
God made you righteous through Christ
God made you righteous
God gave you Christ’s righteousness
There is no guilty judgement for you, because God gave you Christ’s righteousness
There is no guilty judgement for you, because God made you righteous
There is no guilty judgement from God to you, irrespective of what you do, because God gave you Christ’s righteousness and you stay righteous
There is no guilty judgement from God to you, irrespective of what you do, because God made you righteous and you stay righteous
Your righteousness is sealed
You can’t spoil your righteousness
Your sin is forgiven
Christ fully kept the Law
You have Christ’s righteousness
When God sent Christ onto the cross, He declared the sin in your flesh to be guilty
When Christ died on the cross, God executed judgement on your flesh
When Christ died on the cross, God executed the judgement of death on your flesh
When Christ died on the cross, God effectively killed your flesh
When Christ died on the cross, your flesh effectively died with Christ
Your flesh effectively died with Christ
When your spirit died with Christ, your spirit died to your sinful flesh
Your spirit got cut off from your sinful flesh
You died to your sinful flesh
Effectively, your sinful flesh died to you
Your sinful flesh effectively died to you
Your body of sin has been destroyed to you
Acts of your sinful flesh are not accredited to your account by God, because you died to your sinful flesh
Acts of your sinful flesh are not accredited to your account, because you died to your sinful flesh
Any acts of breaking the Law by your sinful flesh are not accredited to your account by God, because you died to your sinful flesh
Any acts of breaking the Law by your sinful flesh are not accredited to your account, because you died to your sinful flesh
Your righteousness is sealed because you died to your sinful flesh
You stay righteous before God
There is no guilty judgement for those in Christ Jesus, because God has made you righteous and He has sealed your righteousness by destroying your body of sin
There is no guilty judgement from God to you, because God has made you righteous and He has sealed your righteousness by destroying your body of sin
Effectively, your body of sin has been destroyed
Your body of death has been destroyed to you
Effectively, your body of death has been destroyed
You have died to your sinful flesh
You have had a spiritual circumcision
You have had the circumcision of Christ
You have put off your body of the sins of the flesh
You have put off your sinful flesh
The sin in your sinful flesh is not accredited to your account by God, because you died to your sinful flesh
The sin in your sinful flesh is not accredited to your account, because you died to your sinful flesh
The sin in your flesh is not you any more
God does not accredit the sin in your flesh to your account, because the sin in your flesh is not you any more
God does not accredit the sin in your flesh to your account
You stay righteous before God, irrespective of what you do, because God does not accredit the sin in your flesh to your account
You stay righteous before God irrespective of what you do
When you trust that you stay righteous before God, irrespective of what you do, you glorify God
Trusting that you stay righteous before God, is standing upon the righteousness of God