WEEK #5 DETAILED NOTES
Opened with reading of Galatians 4:30-31
Read part of John Wimber’s quote from week #1 on our
adoption and our new identity.
Then, we moved into a Q and A on the Orphan/Sonship chart.
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ORPHAN
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SONS
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 See
God as Master |
IMAGE OF
GOD
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See God as a loving Father
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Independent / Self-reliant
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DEPENDENCY
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Interdependent /
Acknowledges Need
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Live by the Love of Law
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THEOLOGY
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Live by the Law of Love
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Insecure / Lack peace
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SECURITY
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Rest and Peace
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Strive for the praise,
approval, and acceptance of man
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NEED FOR
APPROVAL
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Totally accepted in God’s
love and justified by grace
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A need for personal
achievement as you seek to impress God and others, or no
motivation to serve
at all
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MOTIVE FOR
SERVICE
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Service that is motivated
by a deep gratitude for being unconditionally loved and accepted by God
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Duty and earning God’s
favor or no motivation at all
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MOTIVE
BEHIND CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINES
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Pleasure and delight
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“Must” be holy to have
God’s favor, thus increasing a sense of shame and guilt
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MOTIVE FOR
PURITY
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“Want to” be holy; do not
want anything to hinder intimate relationship with God
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Self-rejection from
comparing yourself to others
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SELF-IMAGE
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Positive and affirmed
because you know you have such value to God
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Seek comfort in counterfeit
affections: addictions, compulsions, escapism,
busyness, hyper-religious
activity
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SOURCE OF
COMFORT
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Seek times of quietness and
solitude to rest in the Father’s presence and love
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Competition, rivalry, and
jealousy toward others’ success and position
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PEER
RELATIONSHIPS
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Humility and unity as you
value others and are able to rejoice in their blessings and success
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Accusation and exposure in
order to make yourself look good by
making others look bad
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HANDLING
OTHERS’ FAULTS
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Love covers as you seek to
restore others in a spirit of love and gentleness
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See authority as a source
of pain; distrustful toward them and lack a heart attitude of submission
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VIEW OF
AUTHORITY
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Respectful, honoring; you
see them as ministers of God for good in your life
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Difficulty receiving
admonition; you must be right so you easily get your feelings hurt and close
your spirit to discipline
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VIEW OF
ADMONITION
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See the receiving of
admonition as a blessing and need in your life so that your faults and
weaknesses are exposed and put to death
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Guarded and conditional;
based upon others’ performance as you seek
to get your own needs met
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EXPRESSION
OF LOVE
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Open, patient, and
affectionate as you lay your life and agendas down in order to meet the needs
of others
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Conditional & Distant
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SENSE OF
GOD’S PRESENSE
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Close & Intimate
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Bondage
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CONDITION
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Liberty
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Feel like a Servant/Slave
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POSITION
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Feel like a Son/Daughter
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Spiritual ambition; the
earnest desire for some spiritual achievement and distinction and the
willingness to strive for it; a desire to be seen
and counted among the
mature.
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VISION
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To daily experience the
Father’s unconditional love and acceptance and then be sent as a
representative of His love to family and others.
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Fight for what you can get!
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FUTURE
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Sonship releases your
inheritance!
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Jack and Trisha Frost - Shiloh Place
Ministries - www.shilohplace.org
Galatians 5
YOUR NATURE: Freedom v. Slavery
Are we walking in the freedom of God’s grace? Liberty does
not mean license, rather, it means the freedom in Christ to enjoy Him and to
become what He has determined for us to become. It is not only “freedom to do”
but also “freedom not to do.” We are no longer in bondage to the law. As Paul
explains, we obey God because of love and not because of law. Christians enjoy
a wonderful freedom in Christ.
Read Pages 115-116 in BE FREE
DEFINITIONS
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Freedom – released from captivity, ease of
movement, confidence, free will.
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Slavery – bondage, oppression, suppression,
repression, hard work, the state of being dominated.
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Wimber “So complete is our death in Christ that
we are now a new creation: Romans 6:5-11. This is what being “born again”
means: we have new natures,
new hearts, ones that now want to please and obey God.”
Walking in Freedom
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Galatians 2:4 Yet because of false brothers
secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in
Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—
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Read 5:1-15
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KEY VERSES
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5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand
firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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5:4 You are severed from Christ, you who would
be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the
Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
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5: 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers.
Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another.
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Freedom gives grace to produce new choices
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Living by grace means to depend on God’s abundant
supply of every need.
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When you live by grace, you depend on the power
of the Spirit, but under law you must depend on yourself and your own efforts.
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We don’t strive to produce and we don’t guard
against flesh stuff.
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Grace is not
a license to sin. Rather empowerment
to live differently!
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Romans 6
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1 Peter 2:16 “Live as people who are free, not
using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
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God’s grace is sufficient for every demand of
life.
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We are saved by grace (Ephesians 2).
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We serve by grace (1 Cor. 15).
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We can endure suffering by God’s grace (2 Cor.
12).
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Grace strengthens us (2 Tim 2).
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God is the God of all grace (1 Peter 5).
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We can come to the throne of grace and find
grace for every need (Hebrew 4).
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The Bible is the word of grace (Acts 20).
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The Spirit is grace (Hebrews 10).
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Grace is our completeness (John 1:16).
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(Mirror) 5:13 “Your redeemed identity defines
your freedom, my brothers! But freedom does not mean that you are now free to
again employ the law. On the contrary, your freedom finds its most complete
expression in a love that serves one another! As free as you are to the law, so
enslaved you are now to love!”
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You are at last free to live the life of your
original design.
Walking in the Spirit
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Read 5:16-26
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KEY VERSES
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5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will
not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are
against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for
these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to
do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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The Spirit empowers us to love.
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Freedom + love = serving others
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Freedom – love = license (slavery to sin)
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The Spirit empowers us over the flesh.
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Surrender not willpower.
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Power over the sensual.
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Power over the superstitious.
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Power over the social traps.
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The Spirit empowers us to produce fruit.
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Upward
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Outward
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Inward
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When the Spirit produces fruit, God gets the
glory and the Christian is not conscious of his spirituality.
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When the flesh is at work, the person is
inwardly proud of himself and is pleased when others compliment him.
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Putting to death the “sin nature” argument… we
are a new creation!
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5: 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires.
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Romans 8:1-11
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2 Corinthians 5 “16 From now on, therefore, we
regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ
according to the flesh, we regard Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new
has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation”
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2 Peter 1 “3 His divine power has granted to us
all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who
called us to His own glory and excellence, 4 by which He has granted to us His
precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world
because of sinful desire.”
Conclude
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I have been set free by Christ. I am no longer
under bondage to the law (5:1-12).
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But I need something—Someone—to control my life
from within. That Someone is the Holy Spirit (5:13-26).
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Through the Spirit’s love and power, I have the
desire to live for others and not for myself (6:1-10).
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This life of freedom is so wonderful that I want
to live it to the glory of God, for He is the One making it possible (6:11-18)
