Discipleship Class 201
A MOVING EXPERIENCE TOWARDS MATURITY
YOUR PRESENT STATUS
When you trusted Yeshua as your personal Savior, God placed His Spirit myou. You were bom agam spiritually and became a new bom member of God's family. You are a new creation.
1Co 5:17 Whoever is a believer in the Messiah is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.
Rom 8:15-16 You haven't received the spirit of slaves that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the spirit of God's adopted children by which we call out, \Abba!Father!\ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
YOUR NEXT STEP IS TO GROW.
1. Grow myour new life, like a new bom baby
1 Pet 2:2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation
2. God is not finished with you yet, you are God's project. So, we mustbe conscious of God's working to mature us daily
Phil1:6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of the Messiah Yeshua May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.
1Thes 5:23-24 May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.
YOUR FUTURE STATE:
1. BECOMING LIKE THE MESSIAH
Rom 8:28-29 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
2. IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE MESSIAH
Jer 13:23 Can an African change skin? Can a leopard get rid of its spots? So what are the odds on you doing good, you who are so long-practiced in evil?
Before your born-again experience, this was impossible because
a. You did not see the need to change
Eph 4:17 \So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.\
b. You did not know how to change
Eph 4:18b-19 \...because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.\
c. You did not have the power to change
Rom 7:15 I don't realize what I'm doing. I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate.
3. NOW, WITH GOD'S SPIRIT IN YOU, IT IS POSSIBLE
a. No lifestyle or life-dominating sin is beyond God's power to forgive and change. It is God's work to change lives.
Luk 18:26-27 And the ones who heard said, And who can be saved? And He said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
b. God does not only forgives us of our sins, but by His Spirit, frees us from the control of sin in the present and enables us to live the the Messiahian life.
Eze 36:27 And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them.
Phi 2:13 1t is God who produces in you the desires and actions that please him.
THE PROCESS OF GROWING TO BE LIKE THE MESSIAH
1. God first gives us a New Nature - this is His Spirit within us.
2. God's Spirit gives us the power to do His will.
3. God's Spirit also creates DESIRE in our hearts. Desire is the beginning of the formation of new habits.
4. We nurture this desire and by submission and DISCIPLINE. This is the process of ''faith in action\
5. God enables us to endure and overcome, until we cross the point of DELIGHT.
6. What seemed to be difficult now becomes second nature -
something which you do so often3and regularly, sometimes without
knowing that you are doing it. You have started training yourself to
be godly.
7. You have formed godly habits that help you to grow to become like the Messiah. A Habit is a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition.
THE HABITS FOR GROWTH:
H Holy Spirit Living - The Walking Habit
A Assembling Together - The Worshipping Habit
B Bible Feeding - The Word Habit
I Intercessory Praying - The Weeping Habit
T Testifying to Others - The Witnessing Habit
S Stewardship Giving - The Wealth Habit
TO DO:
•Proceed to Discipleship Class 301
•Start attending a growth group you will be assigned to. With the rest of the group, you will study, develop and and practice the 6 Habits for growth.
•Attend Yeshua's Life Development programs.