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Lesson 4: April 8, 2015
Thank you for being
here tonight!
Jesus
Becoming like Him
The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened.
21 days in/49 days to go
Ephesians 1:17 – 18 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.
The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
21 days in/49 days to go
Romans 8:27
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
21 days in/49 days to go
Matt. 15:18-19…But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the source of impurity in our lives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to eliminate these sources.
14 days in/56 days to go
of the heart…
The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
21 days in/ 49 days to go
Remember…
We are in a war!
How much do we want
this?
Matt. 5:6 -Blessed are those who hunger and
thirst for righteousness
for they be filled.
To appreciate
this blessing, we must
understand:What
“hunger” meant to
the multitude.
What “thirst”
meant to the
multitude.
To appreciate
this blessing, we must
understand:
The blessing of this atitude is a three-fold process:
1. We must recognize our need for true righteousness.
Our own righteousness is worthless.
Luke 18:9—14
Luke 18:9-14 -To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:
“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a
sinner.’ “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
The blessing of this attitude is a three-fold process:
1. We must recognize our need for true righteousness.
Our own righteousness is worthless. Luke 18:9—14
No one is righteous before God.
Rom. 3:9—12
Romans 3:9-12- What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
The blessing of this atitude is a three-fold process:
1. We must recognize our need for true righteousness.
Our own righteousness is worthless.
Luke 18:9—14
No one is righteous before God.
Rom. 3:9—12 Only in Christ can we find true
righteousness. 2 Cor. 5:21
2 Cor. 5:21…God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2. We must desire it with all our heart.
The blessing of this atitude is a three-fold process:
It must be our first desire.
Matthew 6:33
Mat. 6:33…But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
2. We must desire it with all our heart.
The blessing of this atitude is a
three-fold process:
It must be our first desire.
Matthew 6:33
We must be willing to give up all we have for it.
Phil. 3:7 – 9
Phil . 3: 7-9…But whatever was gain to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
2. We must desire it with all our heart.
The blessing of this atitude is a three-fold process:
It must be our first desire.
Matthew 6:33
We must be willing to give up all we have for it.
Phil. 3:7 – 9
3. We must pursue righteousness as a starving man pursues food.
The blessing of this atitude is a three-fold process:
The blessing is to fully pursue righteousness, not fully attain it.
We are constantly filled with God’s righteousness as a man is constantly filled with food and water.
1. We must recognize our need for true righteousness.
2. We must desire it with all our heart.
3. We must pursue righteousness as a starving man pursues food.
Matt. 5:6 - Blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for righteousness
for they will be filled.
of the heart…
The Ten Week Challenge
Pray daily for the eyes of our hearts to be enlightened.
Monitor our hearts daily by monitoring what is coming out of our mouths.
Pray daily for God to search our hearts and transform them into the heart of
Christ.
21 days in/49 days to go
The Ten Week Challenge
Identify the source of impurity in our lives.
Expose them to God.
Prayerfully develop a plan to eliminate these sources.
21 days in/ 49 days to go
The Ten Week Challenge
Monitor the attitude of our hearts.
How merciful are we?
21 days in/ 49 days to go
How much do we truly desire God’s righteousness?
Next week…
What’s inside our hearts that may be holding us captive?
