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SELF-DISCOVERYgetting your own revelation and taking
responsibility for seeing it come to pass
3 P’s 1. PLAN what when and how you are going to do it
2. PRACTICE start right away to practice and then continue
practicing
3. PRAY and ask God to do in you what the practice represents
faith for.
3 QUESTIONS1. WHAT has God made known?
2. WHAT IF this was fully
happening?
3. TO DO what do I need to do about
it?
READ & READ
TELL’n’CHECK,
TELL’n’CHECK
MARK 2:18-22
Last week’s revelation
18 Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to observe days of fasting. So some people came to Jesus and asked, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast?” 19 Jesus said to them, “Are the wedding guests able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as the bridegroom is with them they are not able to fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast.” 21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does the patch will tear away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear will be made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins because the new wine will burst the skins and the wine will be spilt and the skins destroyed. New wine is to be put into new wine skins.”
Mark 2 What God has said
• Religious activities are really relationship activities not stand alone religious rituals that earn some leverage with God.
• Fasting or not fasting has to do with the experience of the presence of Jesus
• We need to be careful lest we will only experience debased Old Testament practices rather than the life that flows from the gospel.
• New covenant experience needs new covenant structures
• We need to be able to discern between
• DEBASED OLD familiar and comfortable but not new
• REBADGED OLD posing as new but still based on old principles
• GENUINE NEW creating and operating out of relationship with Jesus
3 P’s
1. PLAN when and how you are going to do it
2. PRACTICE doing whatever it is that qualifies as
a response to what God has said.
3. PRAY and ask God to do in you what the
practice represents faith for.
PRACTICE
• There’s no substitute for it.
• It is the initial expression of faith.
• Seems boring and repetitious at first.
• Will enable you to get from no experience of God to experience of God.
• Will enable you to gain confidence in what God can do through you
HOW LONG IS IT SINCE GOD DID SOMETHING NEW
THROUGH YOU?
HEBREWS 5
you need someone to teach you again / the
basic principles of the oracles of God. / You
need milk, / not solid food, / 13 for everyone
who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of
righteousness, / since he is a child. / 14 But
solid food is for the mature, / for those who
have their powers of discernment trained by
constant practice / to distinguish good from
evil. /
11 About this / we have much
to say, / and it is hard to
explain, /since you have
become dull of hearing. / 12
For though by this time you
ought to be teachers, /
A
summary
of what God wants us to know
through Hebrews 5:11-14
1. We want to say much more about the
High Priesthood of Jesus and the
salvation he has accomplished for us
2. We can’t talk to you about it because
you are still students who just listen
rather than implementers who can train
others.
3. The reason for that is because you have
become slack about implementing the
revelation you have already received
though practice.
4. People who hear but don’t practice are like children – they never get beyond the listening stage and need to continually be being instructed in basics.
5. People remain spiritually immature because they never put into practice the revelation they have received they just keep on listening.
6. There is only one thing that separates childish from mature: that is PRACTICE.
7. Mature people experience the difference between what God wants and ANYTHING ELSE simply because they PRACTICE.
MARK 2:18-22
18 Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to observe days of fasting. So some people came to Jesus and asked, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast?” 19 Jesus said to them, “Are the wedding guests able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as the bridegroom is with them they are not able to fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast.” 21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does the patch will tear away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear will be made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins because the new wine will burst the skins and the wine will be spilt and the skins destroyed. New wine is to be put into new wine skins.”
Mark 2 What God has said
• Religious activities are really relationship activities not stand alone religious rituals that earn some leverage with God.
• Fasting or not fasting has to do with the experience of the presence of Jesus
• We need to be careful lest we will only experience debased Old Testament practices rather than the life that flows from the gospel.
• New covenant experience needs new covenant structures
• We need to be able to discern between
• DEBASED OLD familiar and comfortable but not new
• REBADGED OLD posing as new but still based on old principles
• GENUINE NEW creating and operating out of relationship with Jesus
HOW and WHAT SHOULD I PRACTICE?
• Valuing and recognizing his PRESENCE and fasting
when I lose the experience of his presence.
• Building spiritual activities around relationship with
Jesus e.g. Bible study and prayer.
• If I find that my lifestyle does not reflect the gospel I
will make changes and practice what I am not doing
until it becomes a valued part of my lifestyle.
• Seeking transformation where I have been relying
on simply trying to do the right thing.
3 P’s
1. PLAN when and how you are going to do it
2. PRACTICE doing whatever it is that qualifies as
a response to what God has said.
3. PRAY and ask God to do in you what the
practice represents faith for.
PRACTICE
• There’s no substitute for it.
• It is the initial expression of faith.
• Seems boring and repetitious at first.
• Will enable you to get from no experience of God to experience of God.
• Will enable you to gain confidence in what God can do through you
HOW LONG IS IT SINCE GOD DID SOMETHING NEW
THROUGH YOU?
the
GOSPEL COVENANTmust have a
GOSPEL LIFESTYLE
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