17 Knowing, Doing and Becoming

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KNOWING

DOING

AND

BECOMING


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KNOWING, DOING & BECOMING

Col 1:9-11For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we havestopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with th

of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthLord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in evework, growing in the knowledge of God,

being strengthened with all power according to his glor

so that you may have great endurance and patience, and jogiving thanks to the Father


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Paul prayed for their Spiritual

Being

WE GENERALLY PRAY FOR PHYSICAL WELL BEITHATS GOOD! BUT NOTICE HOW PAUL PRAYE

1. Be filled with knowledge & understanding (

2. Walk worthily before the Lord (1:10).

3. Bear fruit in every good work (1:10).

4. Be strengthened with all power (1:11).

5. Be patient and longsuffering with joy (1:11


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He made 3 requests that relat

aspects of Christian Living

KNOWING, DOING, AND

BECOMING

[all verbs action words]


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KNOWING

PAUL PRAYED THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW MORE (V. 9)

The Greek [GNOSIS] translated "knowledge" carries the i

"fuller knowledge".

There is always something more for us to learn about GoWill for our lives. No Christian would ever dare to say tha

"arrived"!That would be like the university student wrote 10 pages on "Th

the Universe".

A Christian who claims he knows it all would only be showing h

Dia


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God wants us to know His W He wants us to understand it... befilled w

knowledge of his will.>>>

To be "filled" means to be "controlled by

When we are filled with anger, we are co

by anger.

To be "filled with the Spirit"means to be

"controlled by the Spirit"= Controlled by

Will! Gods Word!!


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But how does this take plac

We come to understand the Will of Godthrough the Word of God = 2Tim 2:15

The specific will of God for any given situa

must always agree with what he has alrea

revealed in his Word. Add to you Faith

So the better we know Gods general will,

easier it is to determine his specific guidan

our daily lives.


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Paul does not encourage us to seek visions

for voices in the night Galatians 1

He prayed that we might grow in knowledgesaid, That I might KNOW Him..

God wants us to have "all wisdom"-- not tha

could know everything but that we could hav

wisdom necessary for making decisions and pleasing to God. (People of the Book)


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ATTENTION PLEASE!! This cannot be accomplished just listenin

sermons. YOU need daily Bible study. Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers

spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Th

in that they received the word with all readiness of searched the scriptures daily, whether those things

(Hebrews 5:12)

WE NEED TO FEED OURSELVES ON THE WORD


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PAUL PRAYED THAT THEY MIGHT DO MORE...PUT KNOW

ACTION! (V. 10)

There were false teachers (later called GNOSTICS) at C

They liked to talk about "spiritual knowledge", but therelate that knowledge to daily living.

In the Christian life, knowledge and obedience go han

no separation between learning and living.

The knowledgePaul prayed for wasnt just a hea

knowledge... knowing = doing!!!

DOINGTrue spiritual wisd

affect the way we


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Two words summarize this point: LEARN & LIV

WE CANT JUST TALK THE TALK, WE MUST ALSO

THE WALK!

The Christian who spends time daily in the Wordwill know God, and will thus be able to walk with

work for him.

Our PURPOSE is not to please ourselves, but to p

Lord. Eph 4:1walk worthy of calling [Some brethren were talking about which transla

Bible they preferred...one spoke up, "I prefer my

version. She lived it!]


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James 1:22-25

James is talking about reading the Biblefailing to put it into practice!!

Christianity is something you do.

In practice its a series of verbs, action wo

visit, feed, clothe, go, teach, encourage, gi

ITS NOT WHAT YOU DONT DO... ITS WHA

DO THAT REALLY COUNTS!


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The Sin of Omission (James 4 You hear people say, Well, Im a good

person, I dont swear, steal, gossip or lie

According to some people's idea of

Christianity, the mannequin would make a

great Christian.

He doesn't do anything wrong!

But he doesn't do anything at all!


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BECOMING

FINALLY, PAUL PRAYED THAT THEY MIGHT BECOME MOR

CHRIST, ITS BECOMING THAT COUNTS (VS. 11-12)

There must be a connection between:

Knowing Spiritual KnowledgeDoing Christian Service

Becoming Personal Character

A MORMATURCHRISTI


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CONCLUSION WE MUST TRULY TRY TO BE WHAT WE PROFESS TO B

ITS POSSIBLE TO HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE WHILE LAOTHER IMPORTANT THINGS...LOVE, KINDNESS, ETC.

KNOWLEDGE, CONDUCT, AND CHARACTER MUST AL

TOGETHER.

WE LEARN GODS WILL SO THAT WE MIGHT OBEY ITOBEYING IT, WE SERVE HIM AND THUS GROW IN C

CHARACTER.


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PERHAPS WE CAN SERVE YOU IN S

WAY THIS MORNING


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