Sister Dorothy Sunday School 12/21/14

Sister Dorothy Sunday School 12/21/14

The enemy would love to steal from us what we have through salvation, sanctification and all of God’s plan for us.  He is always working, even when we are sleeping.

Temptation is the test of an alien personality of the possessions held by an individual.  When we are saved and sanctified, we have treasure that is more precious than gold which perishes.  The things we possess by serving God is a treasure that will never perish.  The enemy wants to take it from us.

Sanctification means perfection.  In sanctification we possess treasures.

2Pe 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

Beware means: through the idea of isolation, watch, be on guard, preserve, obey, and keep.

We need to really beware lest we also being led away with the error of the wicked, (this is temptation), we fall from our own steadfastness.  We desire to be and are steadfast in the things of God; but it says here, “Fall from your own steadfastness.” 

There is a real importance that we beware.  Our treasures are precious to us; the treasure that we cannot lose is ours by salvation, sanctification, justification.  We need to really be aware of how important that treasure is lest we be led away.

Heb 6:1  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

1.      Perfection:  He wants us to go onto perfection, not repenting every night, or thinking, “I failed again.”  No He wants us to go onto perfection.

2Co 7:1  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The promises of God are wonderful.  Let us cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of flesh and spirit.  Perfecting means to fulfill further, or completely, accomplishing, doing, performing. 

These words represent action.  If we are going to be perfect, we must do something about it.  Sometimes we expect someone else to do something to make our life perfect.  When we become perfect before God in His fear, it settles the whole question, because we have taken care of our self.

Christian perfection is a perfection of a Christian toward God that shows itself.  We need to show that perfection so that others can see.  We need to live so that it causes a longing after God in others and not admiration for ourselves.  God gets the glory He is due.

2.      Holiness:

1Pe 1:14  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

1Pe 1:15  But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

1Pe 1:16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

There are holiness movements out there; there is not much holy in it.  I am so thankful to be delivered in true holiness.  That we can live a righteous life and be perfected in the sight of God.  We have beautiful treasures that we can have in life that He has given us.

3.      Sinless

1Jn 2:1  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Sinless: not just when we get down to pray at night and go to bed without doing anything wrong.  He wants us to be sinless all day long and when we pray at night thank Him because He has kept us.

Rom 6:11  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:12  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Rom 6:13  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Be dead indeed unto sin; a dead person can’t sin.  We can be dead to sin and alive to Christ.  The opposite was that we were dead to Christ and alive to sin. 

Those are precious scriptures.  To think that we can live a sinless life!  How many people are saying, “Don’t tell me that you don’t sin.”  It is a privilege that we can live without sin.  Sometimes it is almost more than we can take in; the provisions that He has provided for us.

1Jn 5:18  We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

Isn’t this scripture wonderful?  The wicked one tries to come in and steal and destroy; he tries to steal everything from us.  We have to work to be kept, and the wicked one touches us not.

4.      Blameless

Php 2:15  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

We can live so that others can’t say anything amidst a crooked and perverse nation.  The bible is true that it will get worse and worse.  We think, “How much worse can it get?”  We can still live godly.

5.      Beareth fruit

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

We can have and enjoy these things.  There is no law against them.  That is bearing fruit.  We have to bear fruit in justification.  In sanctification there is a deeper work.  We get purged.  There are things that we become aware of when we are justified: “I shouldn’t be doing that, forgive me.”  But when we get sanctified, that purging cuts those things off.

We are around people that talk and as soon as they realize that we are there say, “I’m sorry.”  Those words and thoughts don’t enter my mind so they never come out. 

We have been purged of those things that we become aware of in justification.  When we get rid of self and get wholly sanctified, He does that work that only the Spirit of God can do in us. 

We cannot do it ourselves.  There have been many try to clean up their life.  They can’t do it until they come to the end of themselves and give up the right, “I have a right to say that.”  No they don’t but they cannot change on their own.  God takes care of it.

We bear the fruit every month according to the Revelation.  In other words there is no time when we do not bear fruit.

6.      Comforter:

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

It is a beautiful promise; that we can have the comforter.  It is so comforting to have Him abiding not only with us but in us.

Joh 15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

There is a witness there; He will testify of Himself.

2Ti 2:21  If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

7.      We can be used of God; this is a wonderful treasure that we can have that the enemy wants to take away from us.  He wants us to feel useless. And feel that we cannot be used.  He will condemn us if we are wrong and condemn us anyway.  Let’s get rid of the enemy and do what is right.

Eph 6:6  Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Eph 6:7  With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Do what we do to God.  Forget men’s applause or anything else that men have to say.  Doing the will unto God and not to men.