Romans 15:14

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Col. 2:13-15;<I> </I>1 John 1:9</div> <div> Present every area of your life to God Rom. 12:1,2  </div> <div> Pursue His will by faith Phil. 3:13-14  </div> <bR> <div> <B>You are full of goodness </B></div> <bR> <div> Romans 7:18; 15:13 </div> <div> Romans15:13 Filled with the Holy Spirit</div> <div> Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 5:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12</div> <bR> <div> <B>You are filled with all knowledge   </B></div> <bR> <div> Jesus Christ is in you John 14:6 </div> <div> God the Spirit is in you John 16:13 </div> <div> God's Word is in you John 17:17 </div> <div> John 4:25-29, 39</div> <div> What matters is sufficiency 2 Tim. 3:16,17  </div> <bR> <div> <B>You are able to admonish one another   </B></div> <bR> <div> To admonish <I>- </I>put in the mind  </div> <div> You believe the Word is God's Word 1 Thessalonians 2:13 </div> <div> Holy Spirit guides you into truth John 16:13<I> </I></div> <div> You teach what you learn  Matthew 28:19-20<B> </B>  </div> <div> You trust God is able Eph. 3:14-21<B> </B>  </div> <div> Ask yourself:</div> <div> What does God say in His Word?</div> <div> How does God want you to apply it to your life now?</div> <div> Will you trust God at work in your life?</div> <div> Isaiah 28:1-11<I> </I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>You have it - use it or lose it!  Hebrews 5:12-14</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Do it or be deluded by it! James 1:21</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Sow it and grow it!  2 Corinthians 9:6</B></I></div> <div> <B>Biblical Teaching on God living in the Believer's Soul </B></div> <div> <B>(part seventeen)</B></div> <bR> <div>      This is the final section on the Biblical teaching of God living in the soul.  The purpose of this series has been to stimulate your thinking on what God wants to do inside of your soul, your body, your life - to make a palace in your soul for the Lord Jesus Christ.</div> <bR> <div>      As the palace structure is built through God's Spirit using God's Word, you'll have great enjoyment looking back on the construction, purification and sanctification in your soul!  That leaves one more topic - the importance of regular cleaning.  You can move into a spotlessly clean home, but within a few weeks, it won't be.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <U>The Importance of Regular Cleaning</U></div> <bR> <div>      We discussed the importance of hygiene when we looked at the bathroom of the soul.  Regular cleaning is crucial to the maintenance of order in a home.  When the tenant who lived below us in an apartment complex near the placePlaceTypeUniversity of PlaceNameMinnesota was evicted because of noise problems, the apartment manager also found out the source of the apartment cockroaches.  He said he took a rake inside the apartment and pulled pizza boxes to one big pile watching the cockroaches scurry for cover.   It took him two days just to remove all the trash from the one bedroom apartment.  Needless to say, regular cleaning was not a part of that tenant's life.</div> <bR> <div>      Spring cleaning is a great time to see all the dirt that has accumulated on the windows and shelves and in the closets.  Unfortunately, even spring cleaning only lasts a few weeks and the dustballs ball plays on, the cobwebs grow and snatch children away, and pop cans become a music palace for ants and roaches.  Consistent cleaning is fundamental.  Have you ever noticed how it is easier to clean weekly rather than monthly?  Weekly cleaning is easier because a touchup is often all that is necessary, however, monthly cleaning will invariably require greater effort.  The same is true in the spiritual life.  If I keep close accounts with the Lord, I'm back in fellowship and enjoying all that He is doing in my life.  But when I wait to get right with the Lord, then hardness of heart often makes confession and repentance more difficult.  Let God cause that cleansing process.  John records, “<I>If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”</I>  God cleans up areas that we aren't even aware need to be cleansed!</div> <bR> <div>      Let me leave you with one last passage that summarizes this process and explains the purpose. </div> <bR> <div> <I>And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,  for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,  till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;  that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,  but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head -- Christ --  from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.  Ephesians 4:11-16</I></div> <bR> <div>      Because God has given teaching gifts, He causes the body to grow for the work of ministry.  That work results in unity of the faith and maturity in the whole body at Grace.  The growth of individuals results in growth for the whole body.  As we all grow together then stability results in the body, the head -Christ-is exalted as the source of all being, and the body shares together growing together in love.  </div> <bR> <div>      God's system is truly amazing!  As you grow at Grace, I encourage you to reflect back often at how far you have grown and how far Grace has grown as a church - often because of what God's doing directly in your life!  What a great reason to “Praise the Lord”!!!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id330.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Romans 15:1521"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B><IMG SRC="0c740400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>