- How God Saves Sinners Completely and Perfectly
- Human Responses
- Explain Responses
- Man's not God's
- "The ball is not in our court"
- All God's not man's
- "The ball is always in God's court"
- God Produces the Response in the Justified Ones
- We are in process
- We keep drawing from Him
- This is not the human works system
- It is all God
- It is all grace
- Now the response to our neighbor — Rom 13:8-10
- Neighbor — all we are in contact with
- Love
- Not financial
- But a good principle
- Love fulfills all requirements
- Love fulfills all the law
- Love will not hurt the neighbor
- Murder, lie, steal, covet, poison dog, keep lawn mower
- Every conceivable law is fulfilled by love
- Love the neighbor as you love yourself
- Not a command to love self
- We already do
- Everyone
- Too much
- Not to dwell on self-image — me, mine
- Now share that love
- What if love prevailed?
- No bad relationships
- No war, no crime, no jails, no police
- The response to all is love
- The Response to Our Position in Christ — Rom 13:11-14
- Why position?
- Because we are "Children of the day"
- We are in the Kingdom of Light
- It is time to wake up to the daylight
- It is now — opportunities to love
- What it means
- Out of the sleep of sin
- Carnal security
- Laziness and negligence
- We need to be stirred, revived, quickened
- Concern
- For spiritual growth
- Righteousness, holiness, purity, moral, ethical
- For sin
- Expectation — insight into time
- Now it is dark
- The is absent "
- The is Light — night and day
- Of Christ —coming
- It is preaching time
- It is worshipping time
- It is working time
- Of our own time
- Temporary opportunity
- Death
- Wake up now!
- Prayer for awakening
- It is time to get dressed for the daylight
- Take off the night clothes
- "Put aside the deeds of darkness"
- The kingdom of darkness — Col 1:12-14
- Hate or despise
- Stop
- Put on the day clothes
- Put on the armor of light — the armor of righteousness
- Do not be undressed
- Defense — offense
- Spiritual warfare
- Put on the Lord Jesus Christ
- The best clothing
- "What well dressed Christians wear this spring"
- Christ is all
- Without Him we are naked and indecent
- All other wardrobes are as filthy rags — Isaiah
- Unacceptable
- Put on the Lord Jesus Christ
- Savior
- Master
- Ruler
- Owner
- Live your life in Him — with Him
- Occupied with Him
- Looking unto Him — Heb 12
- Author — Perfector
- Look away — fixed attention
- The capacity to love comes from Him
- Draw from Him — count on Him
- Augustine — this text
- Wake up now
- Put on the day clothes
- Christ — by faith
- It is time to live in the daylight
- Up!
- Dressed!
- Live! — Eph 5:8
- How to live in the light — day
- Three pairs of misconduct
- Orgies rioting and drunkenness
- Excess of sensual appetite — Luk 21:34
- Harmful, endless pursuits
- Escape from loving
- Sexual immorality and debauchery
- Adultery — fornication, pornography, lewdness, homosexuality
- Harboring thoughts — dwelling on lust
- Indulgence is not love
- It is destructive
- When married sex is right — pure — holy
- Strife and envying
- Dissension — divisive or discord
- Ill will — malice, bitterness, gossip, criticism, anger
- Do we bring people together
- Do we harmonize
- Seek unity
- Love brings unity
- One summary warning
- Do not dwell on how to satisfy the desires of the sinful nature
- Indulging our self — Gal 5:16
- Live in the daylight
- Conclusion — wake up, get dressed, live!