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Having Godly Character

HAVING godly character
Let’s face it, we are all human, we are all flesh and with that being said we all have and will make mistakes in our life. Even the Bible clearly says that we are not perfect. “For we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory” . With that being said that doesn’t give us a license to sin. My point today is how to achieve and maintain Godly character, the person who we really are even behind closed doors when no one is looking. Are we fake, or genuine?
Meanings of Character

1. The way someone thinks, feels and behaves. 

2. One of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual. 

3. A set of qualities that make a place or thing different from other places or things.

The moment we said yes to Jesus, all of our past was erased, washed away by His blood! We are saved, sanctified, redeemed in the blood of Jesus! We are set apart from this World, Don’t act like it live it!

1. Achieving Godly Character

Character cannot be bought, produced by man or having good moral qualities. It is fabricated from the heart of God.

“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” – Charles Spurgeon

Are you best known by being a Godly person who shows the compassion and love of Christ no matter what circumstance you’re in? Or is it just on Sunday’s? Charles says it best when he puts ” A good character is the best tombstone.” Meaning that Godly character is solid, it’s a foundation in which a person builds on. “Carve your name on hearts…” I believe as Christians as we continue our walk with God, Godly character will be worked into our personality, and before you know it, you will do something that shows the love of God without even knowing it, without wanting your own praise or acknowledgment!

2. Maintaining Godly Character

 Our actions do speak louder than words. And that’s why it is important to maintain Godly character, but how?

As I ask my junior high-class, who is your focus, who are you pursuing? The same question I ask to you.

Ephesians 2:10 ” For we are his workmanship, created in Jesus Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

If we have our focus on Jesus, and to do His will we can and will maintain Godly character.

1 Kings 9:4 God instructs Solomon to walk with “integrity of heart and uprightness” as his father did. David says in 1 Chronicles 29:17, “I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity.”

 

Is God pleased with your character?

 

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Why does God hate sin?

Preaching Notes

So what’s so bad about sin?

1. Not of God – Psalm 97:10 

“O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.”

a. God has a plan for your life and a purpose

preserving def: maintaining something in its original state.

Gen 2:15-17 

 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

SIN=DEATH

Romans 6:23

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

2. Stops His work in us – Romans 6:12-14

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

WHEN YOU COMMIT a sin it creates a wall between you and God.

imagine every time you commit this one sin that you cant get victory over it and you don’t repent its life adding a stone on your foundation until it piles up and you don’t hear the voice of God, you cant get no where in life its like their is someone holding you down and you cant get back up. HAS NOW BECAME A STRONGHOLD.

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what events take place before committing a sin?

A thought takes place

(bitterness,lust,anger, and other strongholds come in)

Gen 3:1-7

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

verse 6 = THOUGHT – IMAGINATION = STRONGHOLD

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, /THOUGHT and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, /IMAGINATION she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. /STRONGHOLD 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden.

PET SINS

 Sometimes we cling to something that was part of us before we became God’s followers.

no big deal.
it won’t affect my relationship with God.

we try to hide it like Adam and his wife hid from the presence of God.

Proverbs 28:13 

“People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.”

We read in Acts 10:34 “So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality…” (ESV) or more plainly in GOD’S WORD ” Then Peter said, “Now I understand that God doesn’t play favorites…”

He is not interested in our talents, our abilities, our possessions.

ALL HE WANTS IS US!

The Hope

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.”

Romans 8:11

“If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”

We Christians have no excuse to allow pet sins to interfere with our walk with God. Let’s do away with ungodly acts and turn wholeheartedly towards the Cross.