The IMPORTANCE of Christian Growth | S4E4 - The Authentic Christian Podcast
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- Is it important for Christians to continue growing in their faith? Do we ever truly know enough of the Bible, or should we spend our entire lives studying the Word? How crucial is it for us to grow spiritually? Aaron and Scott dive into these questions in this episode of The Authentic Christian Podcast.
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Things that are alive grow.
A simple yet effective way to put it!
Always awesome talks and topics. love you guys so much. thank you
2 Peter 1:5-7
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.”
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As a life long believer who has sinned IMMENSELY, I always thought that denying myself meant working for the church, etc. It is not, it is letting the scripture dictate your life while you get your sinning assessed first. Then attacking and removing it systematically. I started with my mouth. I had to curb things I was saying that contradicted scripture. Once you let the Holy Spirit who is in you and has sealed you CONVICT you (and this takes time, God is long suffering) as you grow, our Lord starts to change you. I have been praying for a whole year to feel more conviction and it is being answered. There is a great reward in it. As Christ changes me and I yield my will, a great peace an inner joy are filling me up. It takes giving up your WILL to get those rewards. You also get more confidence in Christ. Scriptural ignorance is strangulating the church. Hosea 4:6 is so, so true. Let the church of Christ be the example to the world that we are different.
Looking Good Scott and Thank you Aaron. Keep teaching. Even as a graduate of preaching school, I need these podcasts to keep me sharp. CJR
Thank you for that explanation. Again, all I can say is 'Wow' to your comment, also. It really opened my eyes & gives me hope as I endeavor to do the same as you. Thank you!
Thank you for your comment! I see myself in it. Your words have given me hope and confidence that I am growing in the right path and I will stop questioning whether or not I am still in Christ every time I sin. God is long suffering as you say and I cling to that. Thank you again for your comment!
The Holy Spirit does not automatically get in you or dwell in you. He enters you (in a figurative sense) when you study His word and obey it. Only then does He manifest Himself in you, become written on your heart and you begin to produce fruit.
I praise God that you recognize the Holy Spirt in you is the key. He has sealed you and does convict you. Yes, it takes time. Well spoken. Surrendering your WILL is the key, and when you surrender your WILL, the Holy Spirit takes over and changes your heart supernaturally into what He wants you to be.
So happy to hear you have abandoned the Jezebel spirit of self-denial and good works, embracing the power of the Holy Spirit within you to convict and change you.
I rejoice in your growth! @thedynamicsolo4232 May God fill you with His Holy Spirit to empower, convict, produce His fruit, and transform you into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ. So thrilled you found the power of the real gospel.
I am thrilled that you stopped questioning whether or not you are still in Christ. The Holy Spirit dwelling in you, pouring God's love into your heart, and transforming you into Christ's image. The Holy Spirit has sealed. You can't lose Him by sinning. I rejoice for you!@@VickieV1333
Wow! Wow! This video is life-changing! Thank you!!!
A Total Commitment!
“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”
2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV
Amen, great convo! We MUST be born again which is more than our physical baptism in water. We have to deny ourselves and immerse ourselves in the teachings of Christ. We won’t be perfect, but we have to continually practice righteousness instead of practicing sin.
“Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.””
John 3:3 ESV
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,”
Hebrews 10:26 NKJV
“to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV
“Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”
Galatians 5:24-25 NASB1995
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
Romans 6:1-4 NKJV
“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.”
1 John 3:4-6 ESV
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.”
Hebrews 12:1-3 ESV
Thank you for the scriptures.
Where do I find the book Know Your Bible? I tried both of the links and can't find it. 🤔
Neither can I
There is a video about this person on a channel called "Act of Mercy". There may be something to it.
It worked for me by going to the gbn website and clicking on menu, then resourses, authentic christian podcast, episode 4, then scrolled down until i found the book. 😊
2 Tim 2:15 and maybe 1John chapter 2 might be what you are looking for.
Great lesson!
Here is a question. Lets say you encounter someone who claims to be a Christian who actually does have fruit and yet upon further investigation you find out they havent really obeyed the gospel by having been baptized into Christ by immersion in water for remission of sins. They clearly are not Christians but yet have 'fruit'. How do we convince them they are not yet a Christian??
People who don't have the Holy Spirit don't have fruit. If they don't have the Holy Spirit producing fruit, they aren't Christians. If they do have fruit then the Holy Spirit in them is producing it and they are Christians.
no such thing as someone who has fruit but isn't a Christian.
@@HeLivesForever25 I'm sorry but I see people daily who are not Christians display what are considered "fruit of the spirit"
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
I have seen Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims alike display these characteristics. And yes even atheists.
So by merely having these characteristics and behaviors can not mean one has the Holy Spirit. What sets a Christian apart is their faith in Christ and union with Him in their immersion into Him and His body ie baptism. Having their sins washed away at that point by Christs saving blood then rising a new creature born of water and spirit to walk in newness of life.
What sets a Christian apart is the Holy Spirit indwelling them and producing the fruit of the Spirit in their lives. Just because someone behaves in a particular way is irrelevant to the fruit of the Spirit.
I have seen people display kindness and mercy as well. That does not mean they display the fruit of the Spirit.
You are evaluating based on a secular humanist standard. If one does not have the Holy Spirit, one does not produce the fruit of the Spirit.
Your understanding of these issues does not line up with mainstream Christianity. No condemnation for that. My point is that you and I are approaching these issues with different standards.
Those evidences are called the fruit of the SPIRIT for a reason. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself produces them, they are not displayed.@@dsvet
@@HeLivesForever25 I just gave you the scripture listing those fruits. I'm approaching this from a biblical perspective you are approaching this from a feeling.
Mainstream "Christianity" does not concern me. Only what the Bible says.
I have seen non Christians display all of these traits:
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
By your logic, anyone who display these fruits are Christians which can't be the case.
I will quote you "no such thing as someone who has fruit but isn't a Christian." THEN you say "I have seen people display kindness and mercy as well. That does not mean they display the fruit of the Spirit." If the fruit of the Spirit is kindness and mercy then they ARE fruit of the Spirit.
Actually if you have the literal indwelling of the Spirit in you the evidence would be the miracles you could perform.
What miracles can you perform Ray? Raise the dead?, Heal a missing appendage?
the bottom line: the scriptures call those qualities FRUIT of the SPIRIT. If you are saying a person can have those qualities without the Holy Spirit, then you are rejecting scripture.
Your worldview is secular humanist whatever your theology may be.
If you don't care what mainstream Christianity says you are up the creek without a paddle.
Your sarcastic COC accusations and demands for a miracle are off topic.
I've never mentioned feelings once. @@dsvet
Baptism is not a silver bullet.
I don't think the hosts would say that is what they were trying to import to the listeners. If you listen to Aaron and Don Blackwell on answering the error would maybe give some clarification on this.
It's practically the only topic that they teach.
@@arcticfox2639 Can you elaborate? I think that Mr. Gallagher does teach that repentance, belief, confessing Christ and walking anew are just as important. I think they may mention it more as it is attacked by evangelicals and reformers and catholics as unnecessary.
@@thedynamicsolo4232 It's the topic that is the most challenged, so they have to respond to it constantly.
All denominations water baptism as it is a command, but they do not say it justifies a person.
Saying that other churches don't water baptize is a myth that CoCs tell their members, but it is not true.
@@arcticfox2639. I’ve never heard that from a Church Of Christ pulpit!
When you're in heaven you won't have to carry around this sinful body no more.
Offering definitions:
Everything PHYSICAL is literal. Physical things are part of the NATURAL WORLD.
Everything SPIRITUAL is also literal. Spiritual things are part of the SUPERNATURAL WORLD.
When the bible calls something spiritual, it means it is supernatural. The supernatural world is also literal and everything happens supernaturally.
Figurative language is neither physical nor spiritual. Figurative language is a way of using language to describe a person or event.
Figurative refers to the use of LANGUAGE.
Physical refers to the NATURAL WORLD.
Spiritual refers to the SUPERNATURAL WORLD.
Both PHYSICAL and SPIRITUAL are LITERAL. LITERAL does NOT mean physical.
These are definitions that we bring to the bible. We do not derive them FROM the bible, we bring them as part of our worldview and our human language. The bible USES these concepts. It does not DEEFINE THEM.
The bald brother. Should listen more. Study more. It would do him good. It seems like he is trying to prove he belongs..