KINGDOM DISCIPLES - TONY EVANS Whenever religious activity, however sincere, trumps relationship, the victory of Christ is no longer experienced in the believer s life. One of the greatest dangers in our churches today is for religion to replace an intimate relationship with the Savior.
KINGDOM DISCIPLES - TONY EVANS By religion, I am referencing the external adherence to exercises, codes, or practices in the name of God yet apart from God. Religion is anything you do for God that does not stem out of a heart connected to God.
COVENANT RELATIONSHIP Timothy Keller We were made for relationship with God. We were created for covenant relationships, relationships made more intimate because they are more binding. We were made to be his people, he our God. If we keep the covenant, there is the blessing of love and unity and peace.
COVENANT RELATIONSHIP Timothy Keller If we break the covenant, there is the curse of separation, aloneness. How can God be holy and still remain faithful to his people? Only through the death of Jesus on the cross where both love and law are fulfilled, where the Lord became the perfect servant and fulfilled the covenant perfectly and fully on our behalf.
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EQUALITY IN ESSENCE Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptiing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
EQUALITY IN ESSENCE Matthew 28:18-20 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
UNITY John 6:60-64 60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can understand it? 61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, Does this offend you?
UNITY John 6:60-64 62 What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
UNITY John 6:60-64 64 But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.
JOHN 14:8-10 UNITY 8 Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. 9 Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, Show us the Father?
UNITY JOHN 14:8-10 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
DIVERSITY OF FUNCTION JOHN 16:5-11 But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, Where are You going? 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you
JOHN 16:5-11 DIVERSITY OF FUNCTION 8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
Diversity of Function Romans 8:26-30 26 Likewise Romans the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Diversity of Function Romans 8:26-30 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Diversity of Function Romans 8:26-30 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.