2. THREE : Changed by the Gospel

3. TO THE UNBELIEVER: The Gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes. Rom 1:16

4. …resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 1 Cor 2:2

5. The Gospel changes the two sources of behaviour: My identity My heart

6. How we think about ourselves largely determines how we behave

7. Righteous One

8. 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…

9. 2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come.

10. Jn 8:11 I do not condemn you. Now go and leave your life of sin.

11. 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.

13. Prov 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

14. Always pursues happiness

15. 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.”

16. Chalmers: It is seldom any of our sins can be made to disappear by mental determination. But, what cannot be destroyed may be displaced.

17. 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

18. that the heart, brought under the mastery of this one great and predominant affection, can be delivered from the tyranny of former desires.

19. 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”.

20. Resists rules but receives the Gospel

21. Stingy heart

22. 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.

23. Stingy heart Unforgiving heart

24. Stingy heart Unforgiving heart Racist heart

25. Stingy heart Unforgiving heart Racist heart Husbands

26. Worships what it believes will satisfy it the most.

27. Rom 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped created things rather than the Creator.

28. Behavioural Sin/Struggle  Idolatry  Disbelief in the Gospel

29. Behavioural Sin/Struggle (Withholding money)  Idolatry  Disbelief in the Gospel

30. 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?

31. Behavioural Sin/Struggle (Fear of Death)  Idolatry  Disbelief in the Gospel

32. 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?

33. Behavioural Sin/Struggle (Always needing a man)  Idolatry  Disbelief in the Gospel

34. Behavioural Sin/Struggle (Over-conscious about beauty)  Idolatry  Disbelief in the Gospel

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