Traits of Wholeness
Authenticity
Honesty
Kindness
Not seeking external approval / validation
Living by values and principles
Setting Boundaries
Taking ownership of your responsibilities
Living with purpose and passion
Optimism
Confidence
Healthy relationships with others
Not losing control of your emotions
Free from addictions
Addressing Conflict with truth and love
Vulnerability
Not critical or Judgemental
Not jealous of others
Forgive those who have wronged you in the past
Know that you’re worthy of receiving love
Not afraid to fail
Able to manage irrational fear, worry, and anxiety
Selfless encounters with others
Not manipulating others trying to control their actions/reactions
You care about how others feel
Patient
Don’t give into peer/social pressure
Can communicate directly
Don’t take responsibility for other people's emotions
Take responsibility for your own emotions
Slow to anger
Ability to maturely express your wants, needs and desires
Being led by the Spirit
- Either: 1) you didn’t have enough faith, or 2) faith doesn’t always heal
- There are no other options.
This is the underlying problem with doctrines that teach you that faith always gives you what you want. They leave you with the conclusion that there's either something wrong with you or something wrong with God. When the problem lies in the doctrine itself.
- God can do anything.
- But that doesn’t mean that God will choose to do it
- God has a choice
- God has free will
- He’s not forced to do what we want just because we have faith
- We can't manipulate God with faith
Reasons We Go Through Trials
- Caused by Satan (or demons)
- You are tempted with an ungodly option
- Not initiated by God
- The goal is to make you sin or separate you from God
- Example: the Garden of Eden
- To bring you back to God
- For your protection
- God doesn't give you something you want because he sees that it won't be beneficial or will keep you from your destiny
- God gave you a blessing, but it took you away from God instead of bringing you closer to him
- You worshiped the blessing
- You were not mature enough to handle the blessing
- So it was taken from you for your own good
- You were abusing (abnormal use) it
- You interpret it as a trial
- Example: Job promotion that draws you away from God
- Sowing and Reaping
- The natural consequence of some action we commit
- You brought it on yourself
- There was no divine intervention
- Example. Leave $1,000 in the car seat with window down at the mall
- God is testing you
- “Revealing your heart”
- You're going through something to take you somewhere else
- It's part of the process of taking you from where you are to where you need to be
- It's meant to change you (e.g. faith, character)
- It's initiated by God
- Another person exercises their free will
Walk By Faith Not By Sight
Judging The Law
The phrase, "Jude the law" is a modern legal term that is used in association with Jury Nullification. jurybox.org defines it as "Jury Nullification is the term given to the process where the jury of a criminal case acquits the defendant regardless if he has broken the law in question. The jury would do this in a case where they judge the law to be unjust, therefore the jury can vote to find the defendant innocent since the jury found the law itself to be immoral, unfair, unjustly applied, or unconstitutional. By voting to acquit, the jury therefore nullifies the law." When we become judges of the law, we judge the law to be wrong, immoral, and unfair. We set ourselves above the law and not subject to the law. We grant ourselves power to nullify the law while at the same time feel no obligation to keep the law ourselves.
- Deciding a law is not applicable in a certain situation is judging the law.
- Deciding one law is more important than another is judging the law - ML
- If we decide we can slander someone because they sinned then we have judged the law saying you can’t slander is not valid in this case
- You can’t break the law to enforce the law.
- they used to read scroll and say “in the name of King Arthur I proclaim…”
- police would yell: “stop in the name of the law”
- I’m not just speaking as myself an individual, but with the authority of a higher power
The person reading the scroll was stating that they whatever they said had the full authority of the king because they were speaking as his representative.
The police officer is saying that he's not just commanding you to stop as a man in a suit but with the full authority of the legal system behind him.
- as a representative of Jesus
- with the approval of Jesus
- with full authority from Jesus
- with the power of Jesus
- according to the commands of Jesus
- consistent with the desires of Jesus
The policeman is saying that because he is standing in the place of the law and speaking on behalf of it. To the degree that he speaks for the law, then he can enforce the law and he has authority. When he steps outside of the law, he has lost his authority even though he still says, "Stop in the name of the law."
John 4:23-24
"But the hour is coming, and now is, when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth
In Spirit
- “by means of the Spirit”
- “with the help of the Spirit”
- “in the sphere of the Spirit”
- “in connection to the Spirit”
John 14:6
John 16:12-15
In Truth = In Jesus = not an idol or false god
T.H.I.N.K. Before You Speak
Dangers to the Church:
- Grace without conviction
- Legalism without love
- Religion without a relationship with Christ
Levels of our Relationship With God
1. Mail / Email
- you send your request to God
- you sometimes get response
- if you don’t get a letter back you wonder if your letter was received
- similar to sending your Christmas list to Santa Claus
- don't know what His voice sounds like
- two way conversation - you speak He responds regularly
- know His voice
- in His presence
- spiritual encounter with God
Death Row
Legalism
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