Sanctifying Power Of God

Sanctifying Power of God

Romans 8:1-17

Intro- Good Morning everyone-

Last week in the Book of Romans we were looking at the difference between condemnation the enemy puts on us and the conviction the Lord uses to draw us closer to Him. We are staying in chapter 8 as our text to see the sanctifying power of God that works in our life.

Prayer- Father today help us to see the difference between our power to correct things in our life and the power of God working in our lives to change things. Help us to be seeking your Spirit to lead us and guide us into living a victorious life. In Jesus Name! Amen.

Turn to Romans 8- We will start at verse 9-17. If it looks familiar it is because it was some of our text from last week.

We have the flesh/ We have the Spirit of God (They are opposites)

We have life/ We have death

We have a spiritual life/ we have spiritual death

We say we understand the differences, but I think we get them mixed up quite often.

We desire more of God, but if the truth be told, we do not know how to do that.

They say that 43% percent of church goers want more of a spiritual life. Most do not know how.

Question- Anybody feel like that today? You want more, not satisfied with where your at...but you don’t know what to do to get to that next level.

Hungry, but you don’t know what your hungry for?

Illustration-

AT&T fired president John Walters after nine months .They paid him a severance package worth 26 million dollars. They said he lacked “leadership”. I not sure who lacked leadership there. They spent 26 million and they have nothing to show for it.

In 2002 – A man walked into a convenience store in Topeka Kansas, took all the money from the register and tied the clerk up. There was not enough money so he worked the counter for three hours until the police caught him...thinking he could get more. I don’t understand that! People do some really dumb things!

If we are going to seek God...then to find answers for what’s going on in our lives...it will be God who will have to give us the answers.

There must be an understanding that there is a difference between flesh and spirit.

God is spirit and all who want to find God must worship God in Spirit and Truth.

Flesh we are in charge

Spirit The lord is in charge

There is a difference between the law (The to do list) and what Jesus Christ did to set us free from the law.

We live in a world that wants to put “Christian” on many things that I see the word of God does not put His approval on.

Steve camp has a song out “Could I be a Christian”

We as Christians ....born again, regenerated, Holy Spirit filled believers do not have to live like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

We can live a victorious life on a daily basis- Does that mean we have no troubles...no! But we can by the Holy Spirit live victorious.

We as believers are different, positively different, not I think I see a difference, but radically different!

We don’t act like, we don’t talk like, we don’t think like unbelievers, our minds are steadfast on Christ.

The mission of the church is to bear witness to the life, death, resurrection of Jesus Christ

We are made in the image of Christ as believers

That can only be done by the power of the Holy Spirit working in our lives.

Acts 1:8– “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.”

(Greek) Dynamus power... the dynamite power, unending, un-measurable power of the Spirit of God.

What the law could not do, Jesus Christ did on the cross.

When he accented up to heaven, he said I will send you a comforter, I will send you a guide, I will send you the power to live victorious.

I will send my Spirit and He will dwell with you forever! Not just once in a while but every moment of every day because he will dwell inside you.

How did Billy Graham reach all those people for Christ and keep his life pure…The power of the Holy Spirit.

There is a power struggle between life in sin and life through the Spirit.

God is not a respecter of persons- He is not concerned with our claims to fame, our claims to spirituality or just our outward sign of holiness and righteousness.

He is concerned with our hearts and being totally surrendered to him.

We all need help in life, this is not something we can do on our own, we always want to fix us!