CHILDISH WAYS #2

CHILDISH WAYS #2 I. REVIEW LAST WEEK: GROWING SPIRITUALLY REQUIRES THAT WE MAKE A DEVOTED EFFORT TOWARDS BIBLE STUDY: ACTS 2:42 A. MEMORIZING, THINKING ABOUT WHAT THE SCRIPTURES MEAN. B. ARE YOU DEVOTED TO PRAYER, FELLOWSHIP AND BREAKING OF BREAD? II. A SOUND BIBLICAL DOCTRINE: “JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.” A. EPHESIANS 2:8-9 B. CHRISTIANITY IS A “FAITH BASED DOCTRINE.” III. ANOTHER SOUND BIBLICAL DOCTRINE: “THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST.” A. ROMANS 3:22-25 B. THE SUFFERING AND SHEDDING OF JESUS’ BLOOD, “ATONED” THE SIN OF MANKIND. IV. THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINE OF “THE GIFT AND GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.” A. JOHN 16:7 ACTS 1:8 B. THE HOLY SPIRIT GRANTS US SPIRITUAL GIFTS THAT ENABLE US TO BE USED IN THE CHURCH TO BRING GLORY TO JESUS AND GOD OUR FATHER. V. THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE: “THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.” A. JOHN 5:28-29 JOHN 11:23-26 B. THIS DOCTRINE INCLUDES THE PHYSICAL RESURRECTION OF OUR MORTAL BODIES. C. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 VI. EMBRACING THE DOCTRINE OF: “THE FULLNESS AND VICTORIOUS LIFE IN CHRIST.” A. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-19 B. BEING A “NEW CREATION IN CHRIST” MEANS: SIN NO LONGER HAS DOMINION OVER US. VII. THE SOUND DOCTRINE OF: “THE ENDLESS UNION WITH CHRIST.” A. JOHN 3:16 JOHN 6:47 B. THE REWARD OF HEAVEN AND THE PUNISHMENT OF HELL ARE BIBLICAL DOCTRINES THAT MATURING FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST MUST BE ESTABLISHED ON AND VERSED IN. C. ARE YOU STILL ON MILK? MOVE ON TO THE SOLID TRUTHS OF GOD’S WORD!