This week, we take a sideline discussion to explore the meaning of God's "foreknowing" us in relation to His choosing us for salvation. We look at 1 Peter 1:1-2 and then trace the idea of "foreknowing" and "knowing" in both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures.

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Tags: election

We continue our discussion of our new relationship with God by exploring "our part" in God's saving work in our lives. We do have certain responsibilities in the process of our salvation. Our primary responsibility is one of responding to God's gracious work in or by faith. God is transforming us in a way that only He can. As we develop a VISION for what He is doing in us, we turn in trust to Him, rejoicing in the "all things" that have freely been given to us in Christ.

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Tags: vision | identity

We continue our discussion of our new identity and position in Christ by considering this topic in the context of spiritual formation and discipleship. In discipleship, we are simply making a decision to submit to God the Father working in Christ through the Holy Spirit to form Christ in us. In this we make a decision to cooperate with God as He forms us spiritually.

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Tags: identity

We continue our study on spiritual formation and discipleship by considering the new identity and position that we have "in Christ." It is important to understand who we are in Chirst so that we can have a vision of the type of person that God is shaping us into, conformed to the likeness of Christ. We do a "fly over" of Ephesians 1 looking that the big picture that we will "unpack" over the next several weeks.

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Tags: identity | position