The 7 Spiritual Supplements That Supercharge Your Faith | Tony Evans Sermon

you should live based on knowledge based on God you should not live from the facts you should live from the truth because you can have the facts but not know the truth and God is the truth and that's why he says: I want you to do it gain truth based on me word for you to expand the virtue that will develop

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that the new nature will devour Peter's concern is that believers maximize their experience with God in time and have an overwhelming entry into the eternity that he does not want us to wait for. heaven to experience some of that now and that is why he has told us in the first four verses of 2 Peter 1 that everything you need to be all that God wants you to be you already have, he has given you a Divine person, Jesus Christ, with that Divine person. the divine power comes the batteries are included the power of the person is connected to the person you possess not only has he given you a Divine person and a divine power he says he has given you a divine presence the divine nature verse four says the essence Reality of God resides in every true believer, if you are here today and you are a Christian, the nature of deity resides in

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soul.

God Himself resides there, but He resides there in the form of a seed, and like any seed, all that the seed has to offer can only be expressed as the seed grows, so a process of growth is necessary for the seed to reveal everything it has to offer. Many of us take vitamin or mineral

supplements

. Supplements are designed to do one of several things. One of the things we take vitamins for is to replenish something that is missing in our own nutritional makeup, we don't have enough vitamin A, B, C or D, so we take

supplements

to replace what is missing.

However, the problem is that nothing is missing in the new nature because it is God and God is complete. complete or as Colossians 2:10 says you are complete in him then the new nature does not need to be supplemented the divine nature is all of God in you so we do not need a supplement to help something that is missing in the god in "If Christ is really in you, which means that you possess the new nature and the power that belongs to it, but there is another reason why people take supplements and another reason why people take supplements is to extend and expand something that already exists, so It's not that you." You are not trying to replace something that is missing, you are trying to take something that is there and expand it so that every God that you will ever experience in

your

soul already resonates in your soul in seed form, but God has some supplements that He wants you to take and tells you that if you take these supplements The God who is there will expand your experience of Him in your soul He gives you seven supplements He wants you to take each supplement It is based on the previous supplement, it says in Verse five to your

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Provides Moral excellence so the first vitamin that we are going to take today is a vitamin called Moral Excellence so the question is what is Moral Excellence some versions say virtue the Greek term there is a term that refers to something that is fulfilling its purpose of existence, so the question is, what is my purpose?

Many times people go and say: I don't know my purpose. I wish God would show me my purpose. That's really a sub-question because what is he talking about. this belongs to every Christian 1 Corinthians 31 says whether you eat or drink or do anything, do everything for the glory of God, your divinely ordained purpose is to glorify God Romans 11:36 says from him, through him and to him are all things. May he be the glory forever and ever. Matthew 5:116 says to see your good works and glorify your father in heaven, your primary purpose in life for which you have been saved and for which God has placed the divine nature in your soul is make it look good glory means advertise put on display highlight promote so guess why God saved you saved you to make it look good you are being virtuous living in moral excellence when you intentionally seek to announce the living and true God like this that when there is it is not an announcement of God as he has revealed himself in the word the seed is stagnant it cannot expand because it is hungry for something it is not being fed because God exists for God and you exist for the God who exists for himself when God looks at you he wants to see it because we are supposed to be mirrors of the Divine.

So important is this goal, this virtuous goal, this moral excellence that he says, I want it to completely involve your life 1 Corinthians 10:31 whether you eat, drink or whatever you do everything for the glory of God, so he does not only talk about big things but about the small things you do without even thinking, eat and drink whatever you do. I want to be on your mind and the more I am on your mind. the more as because now the new nature is being fed into the soul of the believer what it wants and needs to expand what already is we live in a world that wants to compete with the glory of God and the new nature does not expand, so it adds to your faith virtue your intended purpose, what next? and in your moral excellence, the end of verse five says: I want you to give me knowledge, oh, because wait a minute, if I'm supposed to be virtuous and glorifying God is my goal, then.

I need to know what he expects, so I need more information. I need knowledge to be able to be precise in my virtue. For my faith to grow, I need to live for his glory, but to live for his glory I need information about what he expects. that looks like and how it works so I need knowledge. I love Colossians chapter 1 Colossians chapter 1 put it this way when he talks to the believers in that church, he says Paul says in verse nine for this reason also from the day we found out about it. We have not stopped praying for you and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of His will and with all

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wisdom and understanding so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord to please Him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God says I want you to know his will and I want you to please him in every area of ​​your life and to have the knowledge of God God tells us to love him with our mind love the Lord your God with your heart soul and your mind he wants impart to you his truth when it is united with Glory of you based on his truth for you there is the expansion that you are to live based on knowledge based on God that is why it says John 7:17 God will teach anyone who is willing to do his will , so the second vitam is knowledge, our third supplement, it says and in your knowledge, verse six, self-control, self-control in your knowledge, so I want to glorify God.

I have made that decision. I'm going to church or I'm reading my Bible. Am I having devotions or am I having all the means. Now I am gaining knowledge once I get the information that is now attached to the virtue that is now attached to faith. Now I'm going to add self-control self-control is the absence of self-indulgence self-control means no longer being enslaved to an appetite now that appetite can come in many different ways being enslaved to food being enslaved to sex being enslaved to play lack of self-control means desire controls you you do not control it you can say no to evil and yes to good even though the flesh still wants to say yes to evil and no to good why because Self-control can be added to the information that has been added to the virtue that has been added to faith because now everything is expanding in the soul, that's why it says to add self-control, it's basically strength under control, there are three areas where we all need this.

We all need it at different levels, but we all need it with our mouth, with our mind and with our morals, he says, he says, if the new nature eats faith, it eats virtue and virtue eats knowledge, then. You will begin to devour control, self-control. See, and that's when you know that's when God becomes real, when the things you couldn't control you now control, suddenly God has become real, whether the desire is changed or not, said self-control. meet legitimate needs IL legitimate ways reject the illegitimate and then comes to supplement number four says add to your self-control I want I want you to add to that perseverance okay here it is look at this now perseverance perseverance means you can't give up until God legitimately releases you perseverance It usually appears in the Scriptures when there are difficulties you are facing, but Colossians 1 verse 1 says that God strengthens us for the purpose of patience James 5: 10 and 11 says do you not remember Job and his patience?

Leave too soon because God has to start over. Why can I be patient? How can I add patience? Because now you just had self-control. Look, if I can control things now, I can wait on things that I couldn't wait before. because my patience I am adding something that I can now control and I can control it because now I have my correct information and I have my correct information because now I have my correct virtue and purpose, which means my faith has grown, which means the new. nature is going crazy inside my soul add to your persevering experience godliness that is what he seeks godliness is a lifestyle that consistently reflects the character of God is where pleasing God is a lifestyle, not a event okay, let me say this, when you are adding godliness in the context of perseverance why does he want you to add godliness attached to perseverance because perseverance tempts you to be ungodly?

Look when you wait and you don't want to wait and you can say I don't care, I'm not going to do my thing you know perseverance tempts us all to be ungodly he says no when God has you like this in this weight and has not freed you I want him to Add more mercy when you were born inside your soul it was a sinful nature come on call it a sin producing factory everyone is born with a factory in their soul. In the Scriptures it is called the sinful nature. The job of this sinful nature is to display sin.

That's all he does when Jesus Christ came into your life and shut down the factory. Stay with me here the factory was closed by Romans 6 says that we our nature was crucified with him to crucify is to kill so God closed the factory and put a new Factory the divine nature there is only one thing the new Factory produces justice because it is God is perfect , so there is nothing bad that can arise from the new nature because it is God, so that raised a question, didn't it? If God closed the old factory, why do I still struggle with sin?

That's a question, because you just said that. The entire Factory has been closed but don't look at me Clos when General Motors closes the cars that were already produced by General Motors or still on the road when the sinful nature was open the sin that Produced was taken off the lot and now walks on the flesh the flesh is the highway system that your Humanity has where the vehicles of sin that were produced when the factory was open travel. In fact, they are not only the cars of sin that were produced when the factory was open.

On the road, cars were produced that They had not yet left the lot and are simply waiting for the opportunity to hit the road, so the problem with sin in the Bible when talking about Christians is never a factory, new problem. Nature is a problem of the flesh. The highway system and highway system can get very crowded. Look at this now, especially when the new factory is not allowed to operate, so when the new nature is prevented from eating what it needs to grow, then the old things. produced by the old factory still dominates even in the life of a Christian because the new factory has not been allowed to produce that which produces godliness, that which is divine, just, that pleases God and that grows during times of waiting in God, oh the new one. nature is just going crazy he's eating he's eating he's eating he's eating he's eating he's growing he's growing he's growing he's growing he gets to the number six and he adds it to your piety brotherly goodness brotherly goodness he calls it f so he has the idea of ​​being kind to someone who is a member of the family, kindness should arise from our piety, he says: I want your divine relationship with me, which is the horizontal in the vertical, to be kindness towards the other members of my family because you are not only son.

Father in heaven, not my dad in heaven, look at this, that's why God wants every Christian to be a vibrant part of a local church. He wants to give you family practice. Many children were fine as long as they were only children soon. When the second child arrived, I had problems because there was a brother, there was a sister who was invading their space because in a family with several children it is not just about you, that is why it is wrong to want the benefit of the family, but do not invest. in the family, that is one of the reasons why God puts irregular people in your life, people you don't like and whom you can't get rid of either to teach you brotherly kindness.

Now we don't mean not telling the truth in love. he even when you tell the truth he says do it with love do it you don't have to be bad to be honest and then he tops it off from brotherly kindness with the epic declaration of him and adds to the brotherly kindnesslove that's a different Greek word that's a gape, brotherly kindness is for Leo, so let me define agape, yes, agape is the decision to meet with compassion, righteousness and sacrifice the needs of another, let me tell you that again love Agape is the decision, why do I say that again?

Because it's not simply the emotion. I want to get divorced because we're not in love anymore we're not in love anymore what they say is I don't feel what I used to feel that's what they say the excitement is gone but when the new nature is operating and it's pumping because all these things are They are adding and love becomes a decision even when emotions do not cooperate for God. He loved the world who gave his only begotten son Romans 5'8 because God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were still sinners we were not on his side Christ died for us his compassion without compromising his righteous standard made him willing to sacrifice, that is why the Bible even tells us to love our enemies to bless those who curse you and curse them back, it does not take much strength not to to curse someone who curses you, that requires a lot of strength, that requires new strength of nature. so guess what God is not trying to send you here on a love program, he is trying to get the new nature so pregnant inside you that you are reacting like Christ would if he were in the same situation, leave me, leave me. tell you why loving this love is so important this is this is a big problem big problem because God defines himself that's why he says God is love okay it doesn't say that love is God says God is love he is those other words It is defined by this definition of love the decision to seek with compassion, justice and sacrifice the well-being of another he says that is what I am well how is that so God has never existed outside of a love relationship number one he has never been alone because the true God is the The god of the Bible is a Triune being.

A God is composed of three co-equal persons who are distinct in personality but one in essence. The father is not the Sun. The son is not the spirit, but they form this one family and they love each other. death they love each other perfectly this is perfect love because he is a perfect being so when Jesus was on Earth he says work because my father works my father gives life so I give life whatever I see my father doing that is what I do Jesus God the Father looks at the son and says: This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, so when we develop this epic definition of Love, notice this now, when we get to this stage.

Stage seven and seven is the number of perfection when we arrive. Up to this point, I guess something's up. God invites us into his Trinitarian intimacy. He says son Spirit, we have one, we have one that is becoming very much like us in the new nature, why don't we invite them in? Maybe you'll see it. next week or the week after not everyone is invited to watch, just because you saved doesn't mean he's going to say many are called but few are chosen because not everyone is invited to this, not everyone is invited to come in when the Trinity tells the one who was the The new Nature has been expanding and expanding and expanding and expanding and the father says that because you have now connected with who we are, we are now going to give you the deepest experience of our reality in time and finally in eternity, yes, oh.