Step 4: Keys to Power for Living
From the following verses, write what PROVES obedience:
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Deuteronomy 8:2-3 ___________________________________________________________________
1 John 2:3 _______________________________________________________________________________
John 15:14 ______________________________________________________________________________
Condition #4: PURITY
The disobedient believer grieves and quenches the Holy Spirit, and causes his Christian life to lose its joy, becomes discouraged or even bored. Even the Holy Spirit has no authority or power to change a disobedient rebellious person. He only empowers obedience, but will not stop disobedience when He is quenched. When a believer sins, he must react immediately or he will form destructive habits that become increasingly harder to break. From these verses write how he should respond: Rom 6:19 _______________________________________________________________________________
1 John 1:9_______________________________________________________________________________ The word “confess” comes from a Greek word that means “to say the same thing.” God wants us to confess to Him according to what He says about our sins. He wants us to be in agreement with Him; however, this is not a quick escape for our conscience. We must see just how horrible our sinning is to God, and understand what Christ had to pay for those sins, then learn to feel the same hatred toward sins as God feels.
The word “repentance” means “a change of mind” about our actions in order to be in agreement with God. Confession is the expression to God of our change of mind, especially toward sin. If we had to choose between our favorite sin and God, which would win? _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Deut 8:2-3, And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. 1 John 2:3, Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. John 15:14, You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. Rom 6:19, I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.