Sanctified and Sent
Weekly Reading
Monday: Numbers 19
Tuesday: Numbers 20, Acts 10
Wednesday: Numbers 21, Acts 11
Thursday: Numbers 22, Acts 12
Friday: Acts 13
Saturday: Psalm 77, Proverbs 17
Sunday: Psalm 50-77
Tuesday: Numbers 20, Acts 10
Wednesday: Numbers 21, Acts 11
Thursday: Numbers 22, Acts 12
Friday: Acts 13
Saturday: Psalm 77, Proverbs 17
Sunday: Psalm 50-77
Discussion Questions
1. Which ditch (see follow-up summary below) do you feel that you are most prone to fall in and why? In what way is the Holy Spirit convicting you of sin?
2. If the Enemy is a deceiver and we know that he is actively at work bringing deception, rather than asking the question “Am I deceived?” ask the question “Where am I deceived?”
3. Take time to really define the sin -- define the lie that you are believing.
4. Now take time to define the truth that you are replacing it with. That process of exchanging the lie for the truth and then committing it to action is repentance. This is a process that happens first before God but it plays out within relationships. So, communicate out loud this entire process with someone else.
5. The process above was about sanctification, now take a moment to consider where and to whom you are sent. Who are the specific people for which God has given you the ability to influence. What is one way you can love and point someone to Jesus this week among this specific group of people?
2. If the Enemy is a deceiver and we know that he is actively at work bringing deception, rather than asking the question “Am I deceived?” ask the question “Where am I deceived?”
3. Take time to really define the sin -- define the lie that you are believing.
4. Now take time to define the truth that you are replacing it with. That process of exchanging the lie for the truth and then committing it to action is repentance. This is a process that happens first before God but it plays out within relationships. So, communicate out loud this entire process with someone else.
5. The process above was about sanctification, now take a moment to consider where and to whom you are sent. Who are the specific people for which God has given you the ability to influence. What is one way you can love and point someone to Jesus this week among this specific group of people?
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: John 17:14-18
Other Scriptures:
Matthew 9:35-38
Romans 6:22-23
Proverbs 14:12 (16:25)
John 15:9-10
1 John 5:3
Psalm 40:1-2
Isaiah 61:1-3
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason...
The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping: not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.” ―G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Other Scriptures:
Matthew 9:35-38
Romans 6:22-23
Proverbs 14:12 (16:25)
John 15:9-10
1 John 5:3
Psalm 40:1-2
Isaiah 61:1-3
“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason...
The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping: not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.” ―G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Follow-Up Summary
On Sunday, we discussed the ditches that we can fall into:
Ditch #1 is isolationism. This is when we fail to live as people who are sent. The idolatries revealed in these areas are often things like national idolatry, family idolatry, comfort idolatry.
Ditch #2 is engaging the culture from a place of deception. Jesus prayed that we would be protected from the Evil One. This means that we do not live in a world where truth and lies passively exist and by which we may or may not be affected; we live in a world where we have an Enemy who deceives people and brings death. In this, he is always offering death as a solution.
Our call as the people of God is to be sanctified and sent.
Sanctified (to be made holy, to be made more like Jesus) through the only truth -- which is the Word of God.
Sent into the world (who will hate us) to bear much fruit and so prove to be disciples of Jesus.
Ditch #1 is isolationism. This is when we fail to live as people who are sent. The idolatries revealed in these areas are often things like national idolatry, family idolatry, comfort idolatry.
Ditch #2 is engaging the culture from a place of deception. Jesus prayed that we would be protected from the Evil One. This means that we do not live in a world where truth and lies passively exist and by which we may or may not be affected; we live in a world where we have an Enemy who deceives people and brings death. In this, he is always offering death as a solution.
Our call as the people of God is to be sanctified and sent.
Sanctified (to be made holy, to be made more like Jesus) through the only truth -- which is the Word of God.
Sent into the world (who will hate us) to bear much fruit and so prove to be disciples of Jesus.
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