THREE:
Changed by the Gospel
TO THE UNBELIEVER:
The Gospel is the power of
God for salvation for
everyone who believes.
Rom 1:16
…resolved to know nothing
except Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. 1 Cor 2:2
The Gospel changes the two
sources of behaviour:
My identity
My heart
How we think about
ourselves largely determines
how we behave
Righteous
One
Rom 6:11-12
Count yourselves dead to
sin and alive to God in
Christ Jesus. Therefore, do
not let sin reign in your
body…
2 Cor 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone and the new
has come.
Jn 8:11
I do not condemn you.
Now go and leave your
life of sin.
1 Cor 6
Do you not know that your
body is the temple of the
Holy Spirit? Therefore, do
not be sexually immoral.
You were bought at a price.
Prov 4:23
Above all else, guard your
heart, for everything you do
flows from it.
Always pursues happiness
Augustine: “How sweet it was
for me to be rid of those
fruitless joys I had once
feared to lose. You drove them
from me and took their place,
You, the true, Sovereign Joy.”
Chalmers: It is seldom any of
our sins can be made to
disappear by mental
determination. But, what
cannot be destroyed may be
displaced.
The heart is so constituted that
only way to dispose of an old
affection is by the expulsive
power of a new affection. It is
only by receiving over and
over the glory of the gospel
that the heart, brought under
the mastery of this one great
and predominant affection,
can be delivered from the
tyranny of former desires.
Thus, the more received is the
doctrine of grace, the more it
shall lead to godliness. So
then, try every legitimate
method of opening your hearts
to His extravagant grace”.
Resists rules
but
receives the Gospel
Stingy heart
2 Cor 8:7-9 Excel in giving. I am
not commanding you…but you
know the grace of our Jesus,
that though rich, for your
sakes became poor, so that
you through His poverty might
become rich.
Stingy heart
Unforgiving heart
Stingy heart
Unforgiving heart
Racist heart
Stingy heart
Unforgiving heart
Racist heart
Husbands
Worships what it believes
will satisfy it the most.
Rom 1:25
They exchanged the truth of
God for a lie and
worshipped created things
rather than the Creator.
Behavioural Sin/Struggle
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Idolatry
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Disbelief in the Gospel
Behavioural Sin/Struggle
(Withholding money)
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Idolatry
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Disbelief in the Gospel
Rom 8:32
He who did not spare his own
Son, but gave him up for us
all, will he not also graciously
give us all things?
Behavioural Sin/Struggle
(Fear of Death)
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Idolatry

Disbelief in the Gospel
Rom 8:32
He who did not spare his own
Son, but gave him up for us
all, will he not also graciously
give us all things?
Behavioural Sin/Struggle
(Always needing a man)
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Idolatry

Disbelief in the Gospel
Behavioural Sin/Struggle
(Over-conscious about beauty)
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Idolatry

Disbelief in the Gospel
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