We conclude our discussion of the power of sin that dwells in our flesh by exploring the means that we have to overcome it’s power. The first step is realizing that our old way of life (dominated by sin) has been killed with Christ on the Cross. The second step involves putting on our new life, created in Christ’s image, characterized by love.
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We explore Paul’s concept of the “sin that dwells in our flesh.” This Internal Enemy is the most difficult of our enemies. We need to understand how it operates and what it feeds on so that we do not get enslaved again to its treachery.
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We finish our discussion of the Spiritual Armor of Ephesians 6 and begin a discussion of our Internal Enemy: The Sin that Lives in our Flesh. Whereas we faced the “external” attacks of the powers of Darkness in the World, our most intense battles often take place with the Sin that dwells within us. We need to know how to put this enemy to death by the work of the Spirit.
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A review of Christ’s victorious work and the beginning of the discussion and explanation of the spiritual armor that we have available to us by God’s empowerment in Christ through His Spirit.
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This week we consider the victory that Christ has won by His Cross. In His death and resurrection, Jesus has defeated, stripped and shamed the dark powers that are “behind the scenes” of our world. Knowing this allows us to put all things in perspective.
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This week we turn to look at the resources we have available to us to fight our external battles. The first thing that we are to realize is that we are to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of HIs power. The power that we have access to is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead. This is important to realize because the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly realms are scheming against us.
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In this final session of our historical overview, we take a brief look at the reality to come in the New Heavens and New Earth. Our present universe will be dissolved with fire in the end, but we are waiting for the New Creation where righteousness truly dwells.
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This week we look into the dark subject of the judgment of the unrighteous. As we see the terrible eternal destiny for those who reject Christ and His truth, goodness and beauty, we are motivated to persuade all people to be reconciled to Christ.
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This week we see what the Scriptures tell us about the judgment of those who are in Christ. There is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. Yet He will still evaluate our lives in order to find reason to praise us for what He has done in and through us.
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We conclude our discussion of the Resurrection by exploring what the Bible reveals about our glorified bodies. Now our bodies are corrupted and mortal; resurrected they will be glorious and immortal - patterned on the resurrected body of our Lord Jesus.
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This week we continue our study of the Last Things by exploring the reality of Resurrection. Every human will exist forever. Some will be resurrected to eternal life, others to eternal shame and contempt. When and how will these things take place?
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This week we consider the reality of the Rapture and the four prominent views of the timing of the Rapture within Premillennialism.
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This week we consider what is commonly referred to as the Millennium - the 1000 year reign of Christ described in Revelation 20. Is this historical and yet future or is it spiritual and now present? We consider the three major views on this important topic.
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This week we continue our exploration of the Last Days be considering the events that are yet to take place that signal the End. After the Rebellion comes the Rise of the Man of Lawlessness, The Son of Destruction who will off the World “salvation” but bring only destruction and chaos.
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This week we begin an exploration of the End Times by surveying Daniel’s Seventieth Seven and 2 Thessalonians 2.
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This seek we consider the major shifts in thinking that occurred as history moved from the pre-modern to post-modern times. Why is there so much hopelessness and despair in our world? When God is removed from the center of life and the Devil convinces everyone that he doesn’t exist, things fall apart quickly.
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This week we fly over the main changes in history after the Reformation moving toward the Modern Age. With the rise of all the “isms” of the two centuries preceding the 20th Century, the world is reshaped by the spirit of the times which clearly seeks to remove the knowledge of the One True God from the center of human existence.
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As we move from the Middle Ages and growth of the institutional and imperial church, we move toward the time of the Great Reformation. On of the Enemy’s greatest weapons is deceit and distraction. As we consider the history of this era we see that the institutional church of this age become “enslaved to an empty and deceitful philosophy based in human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world...” (Colossians 2). As the Reformers come on the scene, they seek to guide the church back to a Bible based, Christ focused way.
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This week, we move into the era of the church and take a “fly over” view of the years at the beginning of the Imperial Church. When we loose site of who Christ is and the mission He has left for us, everything else falls apart.
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This week we continue to consider how the Enemy raises questions that seek to divert us from following the truth and goodness of the One True God. We also consider how Jesus, our Victorious King, has stripped and shamed the “powers” and has destroyed the Devil’s tyrannical use of death to keep people enslaved through fear.
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This week we begin to consider the schemes of our Enemy by thinking about the questions that are raised in the stories of the early books of the Hebrew Scriptures. Will we listen to God’s voice or to some other competing voice? Will we submit to God’s gracious rule or will we seek to rule ourselves? These are just a couple of the key questions that we consider.
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In our first class of Phase 1 we consider our two relentless and untamable enemies in the Great War: The Devil and the Sin that lives within us. We also consider the spheres or the contexts of their operations: The World and our Flesh. We need to know that we have enemies so that we can learn how to defend against their attacks.Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:00:00 CST
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