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Faith Walking part 5

12/11/2016 15:16

Faith walking is the opposite of sleepwalking. When--before the cross--we were asleep at the wheel, we were dead in our trespasses and sins. We were trapped in the lie of unbelief. The lie that says we have to do in order to be. The lie that says we have to earn our bread by the sweat of our brow....

Faith Walking part 4

12/10/2016 16:58

Sleepwalking is abiding in death. Before the cross we were dead in our trespasses and sins. It's not believing that we are loved, and looking for love in all the wrong places. The opposite of that is faith walking. Walking by faith and not by (natural) sight. Seeing the things that are unseen. The...

Faith Walking part 3

12/09/2016 15:23

Seeing is believing, right? What you see in the mirror is what you be. What's inside is what comes out. So why does our key verse, 2 Corinthians 5:7, "For we walk by faith, not by sight," seem to make that distinction? Well, the short answer is found one chapter earlier. 2 Corinthians 4:18, "While...

Faith Walking part 2

12/08/2016 14:23

Walking by faith is living by believing. It's like this, "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him" (Hebrews 2:8). All things ARE under our feet....

Faith Walking part 1

12/07/2016 15:35

If before the cross we were sleepwalking--dead in our trespasses and sins, and trying to be someone we're not because we didn't know who we were, because we didn't know who God was--then on THIS side of the cross we are faith walking. Which is exactly what 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, "For we walk by...

Sleepwalking part 5

12/06/2016 15:30

Before the cross--dead in our trespasses and sins. Asleep at the wheel, if I can say it that way. The walking dead. Not, "If I sin, I will die." But, in a sense, born into sin. Now, remember, I said BEFORE THE CROSS. Because something happened at the cross that changed EVERYTHING. Jesus came to...

Sleepwalking part 4

12/05/2016 15:30

The wages of sin is death, right? But that doesn't mean "if we sin, then we die." That means that when Adam sinned we ALL died. Romans 5:18-19 in the Message Bible puts it like this, "Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death,...

Sleepwalking part 3

12/04/2016 12:18

Let's track this: We see a verse like Romans 6:23 (NLT), "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord," and we think it's an if-then statement. "If I sin then I'm doomed to die." But the truth of the matter is, on the day ADAM sinned HE...

Sleepwalking part 2

12/03/2016 17:41

A lot of interesting stuff happened in the Bible when people were sleeping. Most critical to our discussion is found in Genesis chapter 15. God is making a covenant with Abraham. But in Genesis 15:12 (NLT) we see that, "As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying...

Sleepwalking part 1

12/02/2016 15:26

I very rarely preach, or teach, or Rant, or talk about, or acknowledge sin. Which, as a pastor, I know raises a few eyebrows. Because most of the church world seems obsessed with it. "Cleansing the camp" and all this other stuff. Big time sin hunts all over the place. Well, for the next couple of...

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