DATE: – SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER, 2020
TOPIC: – THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION (Part 2)
BIBLE PASSAGE: – Colossians 3:1 – 17
MEMORY VERSE: – “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
“When Christ, who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in going” (Colossians 3:3-4).
INTRODUCTION: – The Power of Christ resurrection is not just a display of God’s power in raising the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. But rather; it is an experience for every believer in Christ and His atoning work at Calvary. The basis for our salvation and our only hope of remaining in a right relationship with Him is the sacrificial death and shed blood of Christ (Rom.3:24; Gal.2:20; 1Jh.4:10) and His resurrection life from the Holy Spirit within our hearts (Rm.4:25; 8:10-11; Col.3:1-3).
LESSON OUTLINES
How to Experience The Power Of His Resurrection
1) Receive According To Your Faith
This is the principle which under has the whole Gospel system that we receive according to the reckoning of our faith. Faith will lay all the ghosts that can rise in the cametry of your soul, and the Spirit of doubt will bring them up from the grave to haunt you as long as you continue to question. The only way you can ever die is by surrendering yourself to Christ and then reckoning yourself dead with Him.
You surrendered yourself unto Christ to be crucified with Him, and to have all your old life pass out, and henceforth to live as one born from heaven and animated by Him alone. Suddenly, some of your old traits of evil reappear old thoughts, evil tendencies assert themselves and say loudly and clamorously, “We are not dead”. Now if you recognize these things, fear them and obey them, you are sure to give them life and they will control you and drag you back into your former state.
But if you refuse to recognize them, and say, “These are Satan’s lies. I am dead indeed unto sin; these do not belong to me, but are children of the devil; I therefore repudiate them and rise above them. “God will detach you from them and make them utterly dead. You will find out that they were no part of you, but simply temptations which Satan tried to throw over you and to weave around you that which seemed part of yourself.
Our reckonings reflect themselves in our realities; therefore, God has made this principle of faith to be the mainspring of personal righteousness and holiness, and the subtle, yet sublime power that can lead men out of themselves into the very life of God.
Let the Master teach us not so much to rise as to remember we are risen; that we have been raised with Christ from the dead, resurrected from the grave of our nothingness, and worse than nothingness, and that we are sitting with Him in heavenly places, recognized by the Father and permitted to reckon ourselves being “even as He”.
2) Living Accordingly
Our attitude will influence our aim. People live according to their standing. The highborn child of nobility comes in his bearing and his mien the consciousness of his noble descent, and so those who have a consciousness of their high and heavenly rank, walk as children of the Kingdom.
The argument against lying is we have put off the old man and put on the new man (Col.3:9-10; Eph.4:22-25). We have ceased to be paupers and have become princes. Therefore, we are to put off the rags of the beggar and wear the robe of the prince. We have put on the new man therefore let us put kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering and above all Charity, which is perfect girdle that binds all the garments together. The best of all robes is Christ Himself, and we are to put on Christ.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
The resurrection life is intensely practical. It must be in touch with the nearest relationship of life, with the family circle, with the position of masters and servants, and with all the secular obligations of life. It is to affect our whole conduct and alms and lead us to walk wherever we are called.
QUESTIONS
- How do we receive the resurrection power by faith?
How do we live the resurrected life?