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By Jeff Christianson
Jeff Christianson Ministries
Jeff is a grateful husband; applauding dad; indebted worshiper; online Bible teacher; and the blessed pastor of the remarkable folks at Calvary Chapel Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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Jeff Christianson ArchiveJul 18, 2018
Humility: The Prerequisite to Resolving Conflict God's Way
JAMES 4
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Resolving Conflict God's Way
Ephesians 4:1-4 New Living Translation (NLT)
Unity in the Body
4 Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. 2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. 3 Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. 4 For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.
The Issue of Medication in Biblical Counseling
A provocative and controversial subject.
The Lord is the Actual Counselor
A New Podcast on the topic of Biblical Counseling! Please make a comment below (and share this podcast with the world!)
The Rapture of the Church
The Apparent Paradox
A Word of Introduction: Sovereignty of God and the Responsibility of Man
Pastor-teachers as God’s primary leadership instrument
Functioning as a Theocracy as Illustrated by Moses
Elder, Overseer, Bishop and Pastor
The Form of Church Government
2. Episcopalian form of government
Church Governement
Topical Teaching and Conclusion
Seeking understanding from the Lord
The Example of Ezra, Bible Study Methods and Psalm 119
The Word of God is Alive!
John 17:17: “Sanctify them by Your truth, Your word is truth.”
Revive me according to Your Word!
God's Word is Able! 2 Timothy 3
Love: A Word of Conclusion
(Colossians 3:14 NKJV) (14) But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
(1 Peter 4:8 NKJV) (8) And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."
(John 13:34-35 NKJV) (34) "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (35) "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
(1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 NKJV) (9) But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; (10) and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
(1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 NKJV) (12) And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, (13) so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and F
Love: 1 John 4
(1 John 4:7-19 NKJV)
(7) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. (8) He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
(9) In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. (10) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (12) No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
(13) By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. (14) And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. (15) Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
(16) And we have known and believ
Love: Greater than Faith and Hope!
(1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV) (13) And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
FAITH
(Galatians 2:16 NKJV) (16) "knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
(Hebrews 11:6 NKJV) (6) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
(2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV) (7) For we walk by faith, not by sight.
(1 John 5:4-5 NKJV) (4) For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. (5) Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
(1 Peter 1:5 NKJV) (5) who are kept by the power of God through
Love: Correct Doctrine (Truth and Love)
(1 Corinthians 12:31 NKJV) (31) But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
(1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NKJV) (1) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. (2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
(Galatians 5:22 NKJV) (22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
(Matthew 7:22 NKJV) (22) "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
(John 15:8, 16 NKJV) (8) "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear
Teaching Expositionally - The Book of Acts
The Whole Counsel of God
Biblical Theology Podcast: A Recap and Reminder
A Concluding Word on Grace
(2 Peter 1:2-3 NKJV) (2) Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, (3) as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue...
Grace Needed to Forgive Others
Grace for Church Planting and Missions
(1 Corinthians 15:10 NKJV) (10) But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
(2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV) (8) And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
Grace for Bearing Fruit (Romans 7:4, Philippians 1:11)
[Rom 7:4 NKJV] 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
[Phl 1:11 NKJV] 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which [are] by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
[Act 4:33 NKJV] 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.
Holy Spirit
Grace for Bearing Fruit
Humility and Faith
(2 Corinthians 3:3-5 NKJV) (3) clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. (4) And we have such trust through Christ toward God. (5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
(Romans 5:2 NKJV) (2) through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
(Romans 1:17 NKJV) (17) For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
(Hebrews 12:2 NKJV) (2) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of
Sanctifying Grace (2 Timothy 2:1-7)
Sanctifying Grace
Justifying Grace
Ephesians 1:7, 2:7,8
Romans 5:1,2
An Introduction to the Grace of God
Grace 1
The Empowering Work of the Holy Spirit Conclusion
The Empowering Work of the Holy Spirit
• Acts 1:8
• Acts 2:1-4, 7-8, 11
• Acts 2:14+, 22-24
• Acts 4:8+
• Acts 4:31
• Acts 9:17-22
• Acts 10:44, 46
• Acts 19:5-6
The Empowering Work of the Holy Spirit
Synonymous Terms:
“with” and “in” (John 14:17) and “upon” (Acts 1:8)
Acts 1:5 and 1:8 and 2:4
Results of Being Filled with the Spirit in Acts:
Acts 1:8
Acts 2:1-4, 7-8, 11
3.3 The Transforming Work of the Spirit (Cont...)
• Romans 8:5-6
• Galatians 5:16
• Galatians 5:25
• Galatians 6:8
3.2 The Transforming Work of the Spirit
• 2 Corinthians 3:18
• Romans 8:4
3.1 The Holy Spirit and New Birth (Cont...)
• 2 Corinthians 5:17
The Indwelling of the Spirit
• John 14:16-17; John 20:22
• Ezekiel 36:27
• Romans 8:9
• John 15:26
John 16:13
• 1 Corinthians 3:16
• 1 Corinthians 2:12
3.0 Holy Spirit Intro - Conviction and New Birth by the Spirit
• John 16:8-11
• John 3:1-7
2.2 Jesus: The One to Receive All Glory
1 Corinthians 1:31
2.1 The Preeminence of Christ
Luke 10:38-42
John 5:39, 40
1 Corinthians 1:23,24
Galatians 2:20
Philippians 1:21
Philippians 4:13
Hebrews 12:2