Becoming what we already are
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be preaching from Colossians 3; “Becoming what we already are”.
It is one of those huge “therefore” chapters, after Paul has laid a rock solid foundation of Christ Jesus as the all in all over all.
It shows us HOW holiness should be preached. It shows us HOW we are sanctified without moral attempts and religion. It shows us HOW (and WHY) the gospel transforms our lives.
So, to the 3ci’ers, pray for tomorrow please and come with an expectation for great encouragement regarding God’s ways to get us free FOR our inheritance, not just free FROM our sins.
Only the free can overcome sin. It is not the overcoming of sin that leads to freedom. Christ is the basis unto holy living, living holy is not the basis unto Christ.
May the word of the Lord sound forth…
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Hi there, my name is Heinz Schrader and I live in Pretoria, South Africa.
I am very happy.
Married. Four children.
I love the gospel, reading, ideas, coffee, places, kids, white noise, oceans, music, finding themes that string complex things together, and I love the sound of my paradigms breaking, if it brings me closer to Jesus. I’m a member of a church called 3ci. (www.3ci.co.za)
My purpose with this blog is to indoctrinate you with my viewpoint, just like every other blogger. Either that, or you can find ammunition for your resistance against my point of view. I might have to confess that I’ve been wrong often, so maybe this blog will turn out to be an error log sheet. God have mercy…
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Dear Heinz,
I’m not sure if its this preach in particular or another, but I know you touched on the issue a bit here as well. It may be an issue of semantics..maybe not. I write with slight hesitation, imagining you reading this and shaking your head and thinking…”still she does not get it”
I guess I don’t not yet anyway. At this point you probably are like..”what on earth is she talking about?”
I’m talking about morality. From your sermons I detect a slight loathing for it. Once, you even said the apartheid government did so many atrocious things yet they were so moral.
The funny thing is all I hear in my lectures in law is how the great divorce of law from morality(positivism) was the reason for all the atrocities. In fact its was what Hitler himself relied on.
Morality in this instance is law and justice as it ought to be and not necessarily as dictated and commanded in statutes. Its the very thing that modernist build their philosophies against and use to take God out of the equation.
Now in a Christian context I get it…In a secular context, is morality just as detestable? Why?