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About ID

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by Simon Elliott – Everyday Church, London The foundation of Identity The first foundation we must examine is the one of Identity. Our identity matters. Identity works on a number of levels. At times we have to prove our identity in order to allow us to borrow money, pass through customs, get on a plane. In these cases, we are simply persuading someone that we have certain rights of passage or trustworthiness. It’s the identity that can be stolen from us by scam artists, etc. Obviously, serious though identity theft might be, what we are talking about here is something deeper. Andrew Bunt in his excellent book “Finding Your Best Identity” defines identity like this: “Identity is our controlling self-understanding. All of us live with a concept of who we really are and what we believe to be most fundamental and important about us. This is a self-understanding. It’s how we understand our self…. Something that is true of us only becomes our identity when it becomes core...
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Identitásról

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Simon Elliott – Everyday Church, London Az identitás alapja Az első alap, amit meg kell vizsgálnunk, az az identitás alapja. Az identitásunk számít. Az identitás több szinten is működik. Időnként igazolnunk kell a személyazonosságunkat, hogy pénzt vehessünk fel, átmehessünk a vámon, felszállhassunk egy repülőre. Ezekben az esetekben egyszerűen csak meggyőzünk valakit arról, hogy bizonyos jogokkal rendelkezünk, vagy hogy megbízhatóak vagyunk. Ez az a személyazonosság, amelyet csalók stb. ellophatnak tőlünk. Nyilvánvaló, hogy bármennyire is komoly dolog a személyazonosság-lopás, itt valami mélyebb dologról van szó. Andrew Bunt a "Finding Your Best Identity" című kiváló könyvében így definiálja az identitást: "Az identitás az irányító önértelmezésünk. Mindannyian egy olyan elképzeléssel élünk, hogy kik vagyunk valójában, és mit tartunk a legalapvetőbbnek és legfontosabbnak magunkkal kapcsolatban. Ez egy önértelmezés. Így értjük meg önmagunkat..... Valami, a...
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Where Does Our Righteousness Come From?

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short notice Who are the Judaizers? The Apostle Paul warns his readers about the Judaizers who oppose the gospel (Phil 3:2–3). Paul’s conflicts with the Judaizers can be seen in greater detail in Acts and Galatians (e.g., Acts 15:1–19; Gal. 2:15–21; 3:6–4:31), as well as in the rest of his letters. Paul rejected their teaching that Gentiles must first become Jews and obey all the OT laws in order to be saved. In contrast, Paul has given up his spiritual and ethnic privileges for the sake of knowing Christ (Phil. 3:4–11). His righteousness comes through Christ, not the law (Phil 3:12–16). The justified /righteous person in the New Testament “Justified” means “counted righteous” or “declared righteous” by God (acc. to ESV footnote). If people obeyed all of God’s perfect moral standards, they could be justified by their own merits. But Paul says that this is impossible for anyone to do (see Romans 1–2). "Works of the law" means any human effort to be justified by ...
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The Spirit will do His work - 1

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The Holy Spirit and the words of the Lord Jesus The Holy Spirit is closely identified with the words of the Lord Jesus. “It is the Spirit who gives life; (quickens); the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” John 6:63 The Gospel proclamation can not be divorced from the Holy Spirit. Unless He attend the word in power, vain will be the attempt in preaching it. Human eloquence or persua­siveness of speech are the mere trappings of the dead, if the living Spirit be absent; the prophet may preach to the bones in the valley, (Ezekiel 37:1-6) but it must be the Breath from Heaven which will cause the slain to live. In the third chapter of the First Epistle of Peter, it reads, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive (quickened) in/by the spirit.” 1Peter 3:18 Here we see that Christ was raised up from the grave by ...
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The Spirit will do His work - 2

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Secret of Efficiency I can not help but believe there are many Christians who want to be more efficient in the Lord’s service, and the object of this book is to take up this subject of the Holy Spirit, that they may see from whom to expect this power. In the teaching of Christ, we find the last words recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the 28th chapter and 19th verse, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19 Here we find that the Holy Spirit and the Son are equal with the Father—are one with Him, “teaching them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Christ was now handing His commission over to His Apostles. He was going to leave them. His work on earth was finished, and He was now just about ready to take His seat at the right hand of God, and He spoke unto them and said: “All authority/power in heaven and on earth has been given to me” Mat...
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