Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
03/05/2014, by John Kincaid
Lesson 166: Discipline, Part 2
Discipline toward holiness begins with God’s Word.
2 Tim.3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God & profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction & for training in righteousness.
Eph.4:22-24 put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
How can we put off our old self and put on our new self?
Where can we learn what this means, and how to succeed? Only in the Bible.
Notice how the process of cooperation with the Holy Spirit works:
The Holy Spirit wrote Scripture > We learn Scripture > The Holy Spirit brings to our mind the Scripture we have learned > We apply what the Spirit brings to our mind as we face temptation.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
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