identity and doctrine

·         The need to preach: live Holy for He is Holy remains to challenge people to turn from the flesh to even war against it and cut if off and hate what God hates remains and must be preached strongly. But the solution to how this is carried out if the preaching along this line is carried on for too long, without the ‘how’, believers will become discouraged at little success at being able to change themselves.

·         Grace must be emphasized, and emphasized heavily. that just as with justification, that is only by faith, sanctification is also only by faith in Jesus alone by the cross alone. We never outgrow the need for the cross as Christians but need to daily preach the gospel to ourselves.

·         The challenge to give all for Christ to lose our lives to gain an abundant life in Christ remains as the only entry point into all the holiness and kingdom that God has promised us. The only way into the promises is through death and resurrection of Christ. This is an essential component to the message will include this need for the believer to surrender all to Christ to enter into the fullness of His Kingdom and promises.

·         The convicting power of the Holy Spirit, and God the Father’s hatred of Sin and chastisement for sin must also be emphasized.

·         As posted earlier, Self righteousness must be resisted, through the strong preaching of the Gospel that says that our hearts are evil, we cannot do any good on our own strength or in our own flesh, and that our hearts are sinful and corrupted beyond our own understanding.

·         i would like to especially emphasize this point #5: an essential part to accessing God’s power to live the Christian life is to be renewed in the attitude and spirit of our minds, to form the mind of Christ in a believer

·         Did Jesus doubt His identity as a God’s Son, was Jesus confident in His identity as God’s Son? Undoubtedly He was confident.

·         At the temptation in the wilderness it was His identity as a Son which was most contested by the evil one and so it will be with us also. The most challenging thing would be to have people adopt a new identity by faith in the gospel of Sons and Daughters of God. 

·         The facilitating point I think that helps us to access more of grace to live that Christian life which is to love God and love people fully with an internal Change that only God can effect is the mind. The facilitating point is the attitude of mind that is able to be renewed to the truth that we are His Sons, and be secure in that identity. I believe that the more we are able to hold to this grace given identity, the more of grace the Christian should be able to access.