Message Summary
"Walking in Oneness With God" emphasizes the transformative power of living a life aligned with God's spirit, contrasting true biblical Christianity with humanistic teachings and stressing the necessity of living by God’s promised provision rather than human strength.
Key points include the divine power that enables believers to partake in God's nature and the impact of encountering God's holiness. The message encourages believers to adopt their new identity in Christ, shedding worldly lusts through the love of the Father and maturing by aligning their thoughts with God's perspective.
The sermon concludes with a profound exploration of God's intimate love and acceptance, urging believers to rest in His love and to interact with one another as holy creations, fostering a community grounded in divine identity.
Discipleship Goals
- To understand that God has provided His divine nature to those who have become His sons and daughters. Those who have been born again. (See 2 Peter 1:3-4)
- To live according to the provision of God rather than trying to “attain” godliness with through our own effort.
- To become delivered from the mindset that we are sinners trying to get holy.
- To grow in the truth that being in God’s presence and beholding Him causes us to live in His holiness.
- To overcome sinful habits and live according to God’s divine nature.
Key Scriptures
- Galatians 2:20 - "For I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
- 2 Peter 1:1-4 - "Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises."
- 1 John 2:1-2 - "My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world."
- Isaiah 6:1-7 - "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings... Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said: 'Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.'"
- Psalm 139:1-6, 13-17 - "O Lord, You have searched me and known me... For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!"
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